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Subject: "off the top of my head, i wouldn't have thought it was even that close"
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BigJazz
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Wed Apr-20-16 11:01 AM
37. "off the top of my head, i wouldn't have thought it was even that close"
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Quirks of geography
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Wed Apr-20-16 09:07 AM
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why are those quirks? is it something you just didn't expect?
Cenario
Apr 20th 2016
1
it's weird to me that atlanta is west of detroit
BigJazz
Apr 20th 2016
2
Reno is west of LA and San Diego
Marbles
Apr 20th 2016
3
RE: Reno is west of LA and San Diego
LAbeathustla
Apr 20th 2016
11
RE: Reno is west of LA and San Diego
Government Name
Apr 20th 2016
21
The closeness of DC with Pittsburgh always gets me.
Teknontheou
Apr 20th 2016
4
^ this.
flipnile
Apr 20th 2016
5
wat? pittsburgh is closer to baltimore than philly?
BigJazz
Apr 20th 2016
8
Pittsburgh to Bmore is closer than Pittsburgh to Philly
flipnile
Apr 20th 2016
10
oh, my bad. misinterpreted what you were saying
BigJazz
Apr 20th 2016
14
huh?? it takes damn near 4 hours to get to Pittsburgh
ambient1
Apr 20th 2016
6
DC is 50 miles less distance to Pitt than Philly is.
Teknontheou
Apr 20th 2016
12
Pittsburgh is just as close to Toronto as it is to Philly
John Forte
Apr 20th 2016
9
that when i tell people i'm from BK, they assume i know their cousin
Cenario
Apr 20th 2016
7
i was surprised how big bk is...mofos acting like its mayberry nyc
LAbeathustla
Apr 20th 2016
13
Brooklyn has a higher population than Chicago
flipnile
Apr 20th 2016
27
BK - 2.5 million. Chi - 2.7 million.
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
34
i figured it's close.
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
40
Was a guesstimate. Thought BK had passed CHI by now.
flipnile
Apr 20th 2016
52
2.719 > 2.592, of course.
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
54
To cross the bridge into Canada from Detroit, you drive south.
Marbles
Apr 20th 2016
15
huh? lol...
legsdiamond
Apr 20th 2016
18
looked at the map that's pretty wild
T Reynolds
Apr 20th 2016
20
I swear someone mentioned this at the Detroit (RE) when...
Dstl1
Apr 20th 2016
66
If you fly directly south from Buffalo, you can hit the PACIFIC ocean
John Forte
Apr 20th 2016
16
Damn.
Marbles
Apr 20th 2016
17
Charlotte is only 3hrs and 45 min from Savannah, GA
legsdiamond
Apr 20th 2016
19
Vegas is west of which big CA city?
Buddy_Gilapagos
Apr 20th 2016
22
0.
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
29
The dist from El Paso to Houston is the same as from Texarkana to Chicag...
PimpTrickGangstaClik
Apr 20th 2016
23
El Paso is closer to San Diego than it is to Houston
John Forte
Apr 20th 2016
28
34.5 miles from the Texas state line to the Colorado state line...
placee_22
Apr 20th 2016
24
man, I read this like 6 times...then finally went to Google maps
Dstl1
Apr 20th 2016
30
yeah, Amarillo is almost 200 miles closer to Denver than it is to Housto...
placee_22
Apr 20th 2016
63
That's wild..
Marbles
Apr 20th 2016
32
I've always wondered if Texas was the south or the southwest
flipnile
Apr 20th 2016
35
East Texas is the South
PimpTrickGangstaClik
Apr 20th 2016
44
St. Louis is closer to Springfield, IL than to Springfield, MO
Dstl1
Apr 20th 2016
25
Iceland - mostly green; Greenland - mostly ice
placee_22
Apr 20th 2016
26
To fly from the east coast to china, you go through the North pole
PimpTrickGangstaClik
Apr 20th 2016
31
some of y'all need to get up on WNW, NNW, NNE, ENE, et al.
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
33
Ha! I thought about that but didn't want to complicate matters
Marbles
Apr 20th 2016
36
It's mostly that we tend to think of the coast is going straight up-and...
John Forte
Apr 20th 2016
39
y'all do, yes.
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
41
East Asia is west of us. we should stop referring to it as the Orient.
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
38
The easternmost and westernmost parts of America lie in Alaska
John Forte
Apr 20th 2016
42
no.
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
43
Yes. Longitude is a thing
John Forte
Apr 20th 2016
45
I don't know dawg I'm seeing a big ass dotted line in the ocean
T Reynolds
Apr 20th 2016
49
that's only one way we measure the easternmost point.
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
50
The usage of the term started in Europe
PimpTrickGangstaClik
Apr 20th 2016
46
yes, i know.
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
51
The word orient fell out of fashion when I was a kid.
Teknontheou
Apr 20th 2016
57
when used to refer to ppl, yes.
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
58
Michigan has more coastline than 48 other states.
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
47
The four largest US cities by land area are all in Alaska
flipnile
Apr 20th 2016
48
gotta be strictly for census purposes to designate a vast
T Reynolds
Apr 20th 2016
53
I thought Jacksonville was pretty close to the top....
Dstl1
Apr 20th 2016
55
Interstates 50 and 60 don't exist
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
56
I could do w/o 60, but not having 50 has always seemed silly to me
placee_22
Apr 20th 2016
61
Interstate numbering system isn't about the number of states.
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
64
yeah, I know that. I still think I-50(replacing 70) would have been pret...
placee_22
Apr 20th 2016
68
i agree totally.
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
70
Minneapolis is further north than Toronto.
Hitokiri
Apr 20th 2016
59
there's no Southern Ocean.
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
60
nonsense
placee_22
Apr 20th 2016
62
you know?
SoWhat
Apr 20th 2016
65
Man, the first time I've heard of this is your post!!!
Marbles
Apr 20th 2016
67
Morocco is North of Florida.
Buddy_Gilapagos
Apr 20th 2016
69
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