I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this but I wanted to ask anyway.
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Do your globes and world maps show the 50 states or is the US just one big, undivided country?
I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this but I wanted to ask anyway.
I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this but I wanted to ask anyway.
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That giant mass of CANADA I grew up with still renders me confused whenever I'm thinking about which time zone the hockey game is going to be in.
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depends on the scale, function and target audience
most standard issue physical projections do not feature any intrastate administrative demarcations
most political projections beyond the smallest and most basic feature US states
at my high school we had a 25" extreme raised relief globe which had states, prefectures, counties, landers, okrugs etc. - it was a thing of beauty
most standard issue physical projections do not feature any intrastate administrative demarcations
most political projections beyond the smallest and most basic feature US states
at my high school we had a 25" extreme raised relief globe which had states, prefectures, counties, landers, okrugs etc. - it was a thing of beauty
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Did you delete my post due to misinformation, Bruegel.
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I used to know the names and capitals of thousands of administrative entities - I'm sure most of them are still knocking about up there somewhere
it was like a sickness for me - luckily I hit puberty just as I was getting balls deep in the raion subdivisions of Russian oblasts.
it was like a sickness for me - luckily I hit puberty just as I was getting balls deep in the raion subdivisions of Russian oblasts.
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No sir. Didn't see your post. What did you say?Someh wrote:Did you delete my post due to misinformation, Bruegel.
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Finally someone made this thread
Really specific question here: Do you know the song that gets played in the grounds before a Norwich City match at Carrow Road? I hear it whenever MOTD is showing the lineups. I'm not talking about the goal music - that's Samba de Janeiro - but the music from the pre-game warmups.
Really specific question here: Do you know the song that gets played in the grounds before a Norwich City match at Carrow Road? I hear it whenever MOTD is showing the lineups. I'm not talking about the goal music - that's Samba de Janeiro - but the music from the pre-game warmups.
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What kind of tune is it? I know they come out to On the Ball, City but I doubt you mean that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Ball,_City
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Ball,_City
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yeah, it's not one of the traditional songs they sing in the ground. it's something that gets played over the PA. i think it has some bells ringing in it? it sounds very 90s, just some soaring chords and bells.
i was just about to say i've been searching for it on youtube forever and can't find it, but it's at 0:10 in this video:
i was just about to say i've been searching for it on youtube forever and can't find it, but it's at 0:10 in this video:
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That's Fatboy Slim's Right Here, Right Now
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ahahahaha, thank you!
fun song
fun song
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Bruegel wrote:That's Fatboy Slim's Right Here, Right Now
lol
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this is why i can't be afraid to ask silly questions, thanks British people
the way he flipped the sample in that is transcendent and apparently i slept through 1999
the way he flipped the sample in that is transcendent and apparently i slept through 1999
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aaand they're literally playing "Right Here Right Now" during the end of this Kings v Rockets game
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Does it bother anyone else when cities like Rockford,Illinois or Billings,GGWC&NIABD are shown on world maps while so many cities in China (and elsewhere) with much greater populations are not?
Not really a question exclusively posed for Brits but this thread seemed like the best place to pose it.
Not really a question exclusively posed for Brits but this thread seemed like the best place to pose it.
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Bruegel wrote:That's Fatboy Slim's Right Here, Right Now
http://www.lotsofpeopleposting.net/t338-songs-that-make-what-u-are-doing-seem-really-important-when-u-play-them-with-the-volume-way-up
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undo wrote:Does it bother anyone else when cities like Rockford,Illinois or Billings,GGWC&NIABD are shown on world maps while so many cities in China (and elsewhere) with much greater populations are not?
What kind of maps are we talking about? I think a schoolroom map in the US could be forgiven for this kind of thing, Chinese city populations are changing so rapidly and the principal metro area of a US state is arguably more important for a kid to know about.
But today doesn't everyone just use online maps anyway? Which obviously show all the important cities, although they raise their own mapmaking questions (e.g. Arunachal Pradesh).
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I sort of like the way our maps, intentionally or otherwise, foster the notion of China as one big, confusing mass of red, presumably because not even geography experts can fully grasp the (evil) terrain.
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i have a giant, old Randy McNally topographic map on the wall of my room and i like the way it makes Earth look like it only has like five mountain ranges from far away. Alaska to Tierra del Fuego looks like one continuous ridge.
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undo wrote:Bruegel wrote:That's Fatboy Slim's Right Here, Right Now
http://www.lotsofpeopleposting.net/t338-songs-that-make-what-u-are-doing-seem-really-important-when-u-play-them-with-the-volume-way-up
precisely how i feel
your ability to dig these threads up so consistently is remarkable
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these guys are still doing stuff?
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That was kind of a rhetorical question. I guess the followup is Why?
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Also, do Hibernians fans get made fun of a lot?
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as a lifelong jambo sympathiser i'm not averse to a bit of hibee baiting
no info on the current activities of the cabbage twins, sorry
no info on the current activities of the cabbage twins, sorry
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what prompted these enquiries?
haven't watched either of the vids btw
haven't watched either of the vids btw
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