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  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited July 18
    man I'm learning so much about the world today!

    also I know that somewhere between "a lot" to "all" of those Australia names are made up but there are way too many that could go either way for me

    Houk on
  • FCDFCD Registered User regular
    Is that puppleton or pippleton?

    Gridman! Baby DAN DAN! Baby DAN DAN!
  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 18
    It’s whichever you like really

    tynic on
  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    I am relatively confident that I can point to the following states on a map:

    Alaska
    Hawaii
    Texas
    California
    Nevada
    Washington
    Florida
    Georgia
    Mississippi
    Alabama
    North Carolina
    South Carolina
    Tennessee
    Maine

    I have a "general idea" about the rest.

    I feel like I should know where New York is, but all those little ones in the Northeast kind of blur together.

  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    If I have a full map in front of me I could confidently label all but a few odd pairs/sets (Vermont/New Hampshire and Alabama/Mississippi are always 50/50 and a lot of the rectangular ones in the middle take some fiddling)

    If you're showing me just the state borders without wider context, I'll probably drop a few more but not too many

  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    If I have a full map in front of me I could confidently label all but a few odd pairs/sets (Vermont/New Hampshire and Alabama/Mississippi are always 50/50 and a lot of the rectangular ones in the middle take some fiddling)

    If you're showing me just the state borders without wider context, I'll probably drop a few more but not too many

    Vermont is the one shaped like a V and Mississippi borders the Mississippi river so it has a really squiggly side. Now you'll never forget them (maybe).

  • discriderdiscrider Registered User regular
    edited July 18
    tynic wrote: »
    It’s a shame that the whole internet wants you to learn American geography but America has no interest in learning anyone else’s geography. I think those of us blessed enough to be from Not The Great Satan should help by tutoring them in our homelands also.

    To start, I’ve made a map of Australias states and territories, and some of our most important towns and regions. (I know people get confused about Australian state names so I’ve put those in boxes)

    Also I’ve probably left off some of our other Aussie forumers hometowns and favorite spots, they should feel free to add to this map, or make a new and improved version
    wlasckxjs5bz.jpeg

    I was going to say that leaving our closest neighbours off made the map inaccurate.
    But apparently the Principality of Hutt River no longer exists, as the property was sold back to the tax office during Covid in 2020.
    So seems about right.

    discrider on
  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    edited July 18
    I definitely know Kentucky because it plus a bunch of other states look like a chef holding a tray, and Kentucky is on the tray, and I always think of it as a tray of KFC. But I struggle to remember any of the other states in the chef.

    smof on
  • TefTef Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    It’s a shame that the whole internet wants you to learn American geography but America has no interest in learning anyone else’s geography. I think those of us blessed enough to be from Not The Great Satan should help by tutoring them in our homelands also.

    To start, I’ve made a map of Australias states and territories, and some of our most important towns and regions. (I know people get confused about Australian state names so I’ve put those in boxes)

    Also I’ve probably left off some of our other Aussie forumers hometowns and favorite spots, they should feel free to add to this map, or make a new and improved version

    wlasckxjs5bz.jpeg

    You forgot the big hot rock and the even bigger, even hotter rock

    Also the giant prawn

    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    oh dang yeah I forgot all the giant stuff
    someone add the giant mango plz
    also the giant sheep
    also the Big Banana

  • Dizzy DDizzy D NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    Odin wrote: »
    Whoa! Slow down there, maestro

    There's a New Mexico?

    It's just regular Mexico, but they rebranded it for marketing reasons.

    Alternative bad joke:
    It's regular Mexico, but they added Wolverine to the population.

    For a map of Europe I'd probably go England, France, Germany and places where England, France and Germany fought their wars.

    Steam/Origin: davydizzy
  • GarthorGarthor Registered User regular
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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 18
    In Year 9 Geography for some reason we spent a whole term on the geography and geology of New Zealand. (I think it's because it also let us learn about things like glaciers and such, or maybe someone in the department was kicking them a bone)
    For about ten years afterwards I could drop an incredibly accurate freehand map of New Zealand any time, anywhere, at zero notice

    Unfortunately this ability left me once I left the southern hemisphere and had to learn about things like Schengen zones and Milwaukee.

    tynic on
  • GarthorGarthor Registered User regular
    Wait I just remembered some American History:

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    Sorry tynic but I have a much better map of Australia than yours.

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    It's supposed to look like a mutated sunfish.

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I thought the cape was just doing a high kick

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited July 18
    Antrim
    Armagh
    (London)Derry
    Fermanagh
    Tyrone
    Down
    Donegal
    Moneghan
    Cavan
    Louth
    Meath
    Westmeath
    Dublin
    Wicklow
    Kikdare
    Laois
    Offaly
    Kildare
    Wexford
    Tipperary
    Carlow
    Roscommon
    Leitrim
    Longford
    Sligo
    Mayo
    Galway
    Kerry
    Cork
    Limerick
    Clare
    Waterford

    Easy!

    RMS Oceanic on
  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    New South South Wales is one of my favorite rap scenes

    Also if you can find North Carolina, Virginia is right above it

  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Tef wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    It’s a shame that the whole internet wants you to learn American geography but America has no interest in learning anyone else’s geography. I think those of us blessed enough to be from Not The Great Satan should help by tutoring them in our homelands also.

    To start, I’ve made a map of Australias states and territories, and some of our most important towns and regions. (I know people get confused about Australian state names so I’ve put those in boxes)

    Also I’ve probably left off some of our other Aussie forumers hometowns and favorite spots, they should feel free to add to this map, or make a new and improved version

    wlasckxjs5bz.jpeg

    You forgot the big hot rock and the even bigger, even hotter rock

    Also the giant prawn

    Wait wait, Australia has two big, hot rocks? Well now I have to visit.

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Uluru looks purdy. Would be cool to see IRL

  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    Antrim
    Armagh
    (London)Derry
    Fermanagh
    Tyrone
    Down
    Donegal
    Moneghan
    Cavan
    Louth
    Meath
    Westmeath
    Dublin
    Wicklow
    Kikdare
    Laois
    Offaly
    Kildare
    Wexford
    Tipperary
    Carlow
    Roscommon
    Leitrim
    Longford
    Sligo
    Mayo
    Galway
    Kerry
    Cork
    Limerick
    Clare
    Waterford

    Easy!

    This hardly looks like a map at all

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Antrim
    Armagh
    (London)Derry
    Fermanagh
    Tyrone
    Down
    Donegal
    Moneghan
    Cavan
    Louth
    Meath
    Westmeath
    Dublin
    Wicklow
    Kikdare
    Laois
    Offaly
    Kildare
    Wexford
    Tipperary
    Carlow
    Roscommon
    Leitrim
    Longford
    Sligo
    Mayo
    Galway
    Kerry
    Cork
    Limerick
    Clare
    Waterford

    Easy!

    This hardly looks like a map at all

    Why bother with a map, all roads lead to Rome anyhow

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    unfortunately the Italian state has violated their own aphorism, laughing in the face of Romulus by building Municipio XV, a road that explicitly leads neither to nor from Rome!
    this is the sort of thing that caused Pompeii.

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Man, somebody should sack them for that.

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    The Via Appia Antica is another place I'd like to visit

  • TefTef Registered User regular
    Juggernut wrote: »
    Man, somebody should sack them for that.

    I’ll get my Bauhaus CDs and let’s roll

    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

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  • scherbchenscherbchen Asgard (it is dead)Registered User regular
    I bet one could do fun youtube videos with map content.

    Alas, never going to happen....

  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    I learned more about Australian geography by watching Deadloch than I had ever known before just because it took place in somewhere that is never really shown in (exported) Australian media, and some characters kept being like "ugh we hate it here is so fucking far south and cold and the cell reception is terrible"

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Hi folks,

    A lot of people aren't familiar with American geography and I think that's a shame.

    This is a nation. With lots of places.

    Now, I'm not an American myself, but I do live pretty close by, so even though I've never studied the exact geography myself, I've absorbed a perfect mental map of the United States through cultural osmosis (did you know Louisiana is shaped like a boot?)

    So, come with me and learn a thing or two about the US of A. You might be surprised at what you don't know!

    Now, what I've done is painstakingly label the most accurate map of the US that's ever been created.
    How many states can you name? Hahaha, that was a good try.

    Now, compare your answers to the correct ones below! :)

    Happy learning friends!

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    That's right, everyone forget about Vermont, we're just gonna sit up here doing our own thing, quietly ignored while the rest goes to shit. It'll be fiiiiine.

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited July 18
    Oh and we can't forget the most important map of the US.
    8es1o8b3n28u.jpg

    Shadowfire on
  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Antrim
    Armagh
    (London)Derry
    Fermanagh
    Tyrone
    Down
    Donegal
    Moneghan
    Cavan
    Louth
    Meath
    Westmeath
    Dublin
    Wicklow
    Kikdare
    Laois
    Offaly
    Kildare
    Wexford
    Tipperary
    Carlow
    Roscommon
    Leitrim
    Longford
    Sligo
    Mayo
    Galway
    Kerry
    Cork
    Limerick
    Clare
    Waterford

    Easy!

    This hardly looks like a map at all

    Why bother with a map, all roads lead to Rome anyhow

    This is sort of actually true of ancient Roman maps

    Their map equivalents were kind of just lists of places that you would get to if you kept going down the same road

  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    I feel like I should know where New York is, but all those little ones in the Northeast kind of blur together.

    You've got the general location correct, now you just have to remember it's the big fat one with the penis island.

  • CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
    edited July 19
    Spent this week in the US, Detroit specifically and never once realized it was a small river away from Canada. Milwaukee is right there as well and I always assumed the Midwest was like, middle America and not top-America.

    Fuckin work on your naming conventions your shit is too wacky. Can’t stand this bullshit.

    Cristoval on
  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    A bunch of things were named in relation to New England and make no sense with the full size of the US.

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  • CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
    WELL FIGIR IT OUT

  • TefTef Registered User regular
    Straightzi wrote: »
    Antrim
    Armagh
    (London)Derry
    Fermanagh
    Tyrone
    Down
    Donegal
    Moneghan
    Cavan
    Louth
    Meath
    Westmeath
    Dublin
    Wicklow
    Kikdare
    Laois
    Offaly
    Kildare
    Wexford
    Tipperary
    Carlow
    Roscommon
    Leitrim
    Longford
    Sligo
    Mayo
    Galway
    Kerry
    Cork
    Limerick
    Clare
    Waterford

    Easy!

    This hardly looks like a map at all

    Why bother with a map, all roads lead to Rome anyhow

    This is sort of actually true of ancient Roman maps

    Their map equivalents were kind of just lists of places that you would get to if you kept going down the same road

    That’s really cool to learn!

    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

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  • archivistkitsunearchivistkitsune Registered User regular
    Used to be able to name all 50 states and their capitals on a map, while also being able to spell them correctly. I could probably do that again, but I see little point, that's time I could put into something that would be more useful to me.

    After all, I'm not an idiot, if I need to travel somewhere, I'd rather check a map to see what all the route takes me through to get to my destination, than risk trying to do it by memory and ending up lost in some random ass place. This country is full of crazy paranoid assholes, ending up trying to turn around in some driveway in buttfuck nowhere, is a recipe for getting shot by some murder loving asshole.

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    not going to lie

    I still have my certificate from 5th grade for knowing every state and capitol. it's laminated

    I had this book called 'Our 50 States' and probably read it 1,000 times

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