Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2036 - 2040, Oct 17th - 21st 2011
Tova:
All of that applies to Australia as well.
http://maps.howstuffworks.com/australia-us-comparison-map.htm
Except that if you wanted to drive from, say, Sydney to Perth, it's not only days of driving, it's days of driving through the Nullabor.
I have relatives on the other side of the continent, but I fly. Even though it's kind of expensive. But apparently traveling through the Nullabor when it's flowering is pretty amazing.
rje:
I just realized we never really used the phrase 'the city' where i lived in the Midwest
Back home was way out in the country and people usually said 'I'm going to town' if you were going anywhere but a neighbor's -- which, 'to town' meant going to the nearest place that sold milk. Usually a gas station. There may or may not be a stoplight involved too.
If you were in fact going to a city (which usually meant a place that had public transportation - anything else was 'a town') you'd say the name so people would know which one. Since they were all so far away they practically felt like another state anyway.
Now I actually live in a city (Indianapolis) but it's so spread out I still don't use the phrase, I just say 'downtown' and that means the places where the biggest buildings are. Anything else is 'northside', 'southside', etc. Or y'know, the actual names of the places like Speedway or Castleton.
Huh! I wonder if that's a Midwestern thing, because I just tried to say it and it does feel weird xD
Akima:
--- Quote from: Tova on 19 Oct 2011, 17:10 ---Except that if you wanted to drive from, say, Sydney to Perth, it's not only days of driving, it's days of driving through the Nullabor.
--- End quote ---
The actual Nullabor Plain is only a small part of the nearly 4400 kilometres from Brisbane-Perth (Easternmost major city to westernmost), but the route is pretty rugged from Port Augusta onwards, and the roads along the whole route can best be described as "ordinary". Google Maps hilariously suggests you could drive it in under 48 hours, but you'd need a good vehicle and multiple drivers to achieve that, and it would be hard going. Just for giggles, I asked Google Maps to plot me a route from Tongjiang, in Heilongjiang the Easternmost province of China, to Kashgar, in Xinjiang in the far West. It's just under 6200 kilometres, and Google thinks you could drive it in just under four days... :laugh:
Is it cold in here?:
At one point there was an Easter Egg in Google Maps which, if you asked for directions from the US to Europe, gave you directions to the shore and then said "swim across the Atlantic".
Paranoid:
FYI, for those of you looking for the latest in DJ Squeak news, Jeph has updated his tumblr to include his latest track. :P
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