Where are you? page 1

oblivion

7th February 2012, 12:21 AM

What country do you live in? Something borealis said in a science thread made me wonder about that demographic here. Poll to come. If I miss listing your country, please add it. The poll will accept write-ins.

Jerome

7th February 2012, 12:37 AM

Shouldn't most of those just be 'Europe' now that it is a nation unto itself?

PermanentlyEphemeral

7th February 2012, 01:05 AM

I think that there is a disproportionate number of Canadians and Australians here.

At least I don't there are 10 Americans for each Canadian here.

Fuzzy

7th February 2012, 01:26 AM

I'm from Canada!

Jerome

7th February 2012, 01:29 AM

I'm from Canada!

That is just soo sad, being that close to the USA. :p

Supernaut

7th February 2012, 02:33 AM

I am from God's country.

Gonzo

7th February 2012, 03:35 AM

USA USA USA
USA USA USA

Brother Daniel

7th February 2012, 03:52 AM

Denmark appears twice in the poll.

Brother Daniel

7th February 2012, 03:56 AM

I think that there is a disproportionate number of Canadians and Australians here.
I usually get along well with Australians.

Canada and Australia aren't much different, really.

Take Australia. Make it colder. (OK, much colder.) Remove the really dangerous critters. Add a few million French-speaking people. Put it next door to a superpower. And voilà! You have Canada, pretty much.

oblivion

7th February 2012, 03:57 AM

Denmark appears twice in the poll.

oops. will fix when I am not phoneposting.

Adenosine

7th February 2012, 04:01 AM

I think that there is a disproportionate number of Canadians and Australians here.
I usually get along well with Australians.

Canada and Australia aren't much different, really.

Take Australia. Make it colder. (OK, much colder.) Remove the really dangerous critters. Add a few million French-speaking people. Put it next door to a superpower. And voilà! You have Canada, pretty much.

So you're full of rednecks, beer, utes and dispossessed native people?

MSG

7th February 2012, 06:43 AM

I think that there is a disproportionate number of Canadians and Australians here.
I usually get along well with Australians.

Canada and Australia aren't much different, really.

Take Australia. Make it colder. (OK, much colder.) Remove the really dangerous critters. Add a few million French-speaking people. Put it next door to a superpower. And voilà! You have Canada, pretty much.
We don't got no grizzly bears, polar bears, wolves or mountain lions here, so I don't go along with that bolded bit. I don't feel threatened walking in the bush here the way I would in lots of Canada...

Mr. Mellow

7th February 2012, 06:58 AM

The thing I love about the U.S. is the variety of landscapes. I sometimes wish I had it all to myself, but there are good people here. Really... there are... really.... seriously...

maiforpeace

7th February 2012, 06:59 AM

Shouldn't most of those just be 'Europe' now that it is a nation unto itself?

I think we should make California a nation unto itself - we are the 8th largest economy in the world.

MSG

7th February 2012, 08:04 AM

perspective:
https://p.twimg.com/Ak72vexCMAAjeEA.jpg


n.b. this map must be pretty old given it still shows yugoslavia, but unless I'm much mistaken the geographic spread won't have changed :D

Hermit

7th February 2012, 09:38 AM

perspective:
https://p.twimg.com/Ak72vexCMAAjeEA.jpg

n.b. this map must be pretty old given it still shows yugoslavia, but unless I'm much mistaken the geographic spread won't have changed :D
It's old alright. The distance between Darwin and Perth by road is 4042 kilometres now. The distance as the crow flies is 2652 km. Perth to Sydney is 3938 by car and 3301 km by air.

Also, the map above says "Europe's area as shown." Geographically, Europe extends to the Urals. Also, except for Denmark all of Scandinavia got chopped off. Australia is the smallest continent on earth.

MSG

7th February 2012, 10:37 AM

Yeah whatever, it's a valid comparison of Europe minus the old Soviet Union

rudeigineile

7th February 2012, 10:50 AM

http://freeman-pedia.wikispaces.com/file/view/Roman_Empire_map.jpg/277438786/560x483/Roman_Empire_map.jpg


n.b. this map must be pretty old given it still shows Numidia, but unless I'm much mistaken the geographic spread won't have changed.

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/9891/countrieseuropemap.jpg

Hermit

7th February 2012, 12:19 PM

Yeah whatever, it's a valid comparison of Europe minus the old Soviet UnionIt would be if your graphic said "Area size comparison of Australia and Europe minus Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and a fifth of Russia" instead of "Area size comparison of Australia and Europe as displayed". Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad and Volgograd (Stalingrad) are as much a part of Europe as Paris, Frankfurt and Glasgow, and those four cities alone account for more people than are alive in Australia today.

I hate the twisting of facts. The real "Area size comparison of Australia and Europe" reads like this:

Area of Australia: 7,617,930 km2
Area of Europe: 10,180,000 km2

Now superimpose the green areas of the graphics below on each other,

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Australia_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg/541px-Australia_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg.png

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Europe_orthographic_Caucasus_Urals_boundary.svg/541px-Europe_orthographic_Caucasus_Urals_boundary.svg.pn g

and spare me your pathetic ocker parochialism, thanks.

MSG

7th February 2012, 12:21 PM

kiss my hairy blue arse

Facetious

7th February 2012, 12:30 PM

I'm from the UK. We have very very old buildings.

Adenosine

7th February 2012, 12:30 PM

Australia is still bigger than Luxembourg.

Adenosine

7th February 2012, 12:32 PM

I'm from the UK. We have very very old buildings.

I like to say, pretentious fucker that I am, that Europe has lots of history but Australia has lots of geography. As statements go it's about as wanky and wrong as you can get, but I still use it. Usually when I'm drunk.

Facetious

7th February 2012, 01:04 PM

yeah, I'm pretty sure we studied holes in the ozone layer in science, not geography. :hehe:

borealis

7th February 2012, 01:22 PM

Canada has more area to get fatally lost in than anywhere else in the world.

http://alldownunder.com/australian-facts/compare-size.htm

Hermit

7th February 2012, 01:22 PM

Australia is still bigger than Luxembourg.
And the Australian Alps are higher than the European Alps as shown.

borealis

7th February 2012, 01:28 PM

6 Canadians have voted but the poll is only showing 5, for me anyway.

Hermit

7th February 2012, 01:40 PM

6 Canadians have voted but the poll is only showing 5, for me anyway.Maybe one of them is actually an illegal migrant and the forum software is smarter than we think.

Facetious

7th February 2012, 01:40 PM

In the UK you're never more then 10 miles from a pub.

Hermit

7th February 2012, 01:46 PM

In Australia you are never more than an arm's length from a beer.

Adenosine

7th February 2012, 01:49 PM

In the UK you're never more then 10 miles from a pub.

I can see how that would be useful, what with all the Pommies around.

Adenosine

7th February 2012, 01:50 PM

In Australia you are never more than an arm's length from a beer.

This too.

borealis

7th February 2012, 05:09 PM

6 Canadians have voted but the poll is only showing 5, for me anyway.Maybe one of them is actually an illegal migrant and the forum software is smarter than we think.

It's the Americans trying to undermine Canada's importance again. I accidentally went to a CIA website while looking for the areas of different countries. Why the CIA has a public page listing countries by size I have no idea.

oblivion

7th February 2012, 05:18 PM

I wonder if someone was voting at the same time I was editing the extra denmark poll option. That could have resulted in a vote not making it into the database. I've always suspected it could happen given how databases work, but have never actually seen it.

I'm going to fix that count to match the list of folks who have voted for Canada.

borealis

7th February 2012, 05:37 PM

Interesting spread so far. I hope more people plug in their location.

National origins on forums can be interesting. I know of an American music forum originally designed to share bluegrass and Appalachian music which morphed over ten years into a forum dominated by UK folk musicians concentrating on UK folk and ballads with a subgroup of Eastern European folk musicians, a few Canadians and a a peppering of Icelanders and Finns.

FedUpWithFaith

7th February 2012, 05:38 PM

6 Canadians have voted but the poll is only showing 5, for me anyway.Maybe one of them is actually an illegal migrant and the forum software is smarter than we think.

It's the Americans trying to undermine Canada's importance again. I accidentally went to a CIA website while looking for the areas of different countries. Why the CIA has a public page listing countries by size I have no idea.


Canada is simply the largest, most liberal and reasonable US state. They talk funny and some seem too French. But New Yorkers can be a pain too.

FedUpWithFaith

7th February 2012, 05:44 PM

BTW, I'm sort of pissed that the US isn't at the top of the check box list (the UK???, come-on, that shithole barely deserves to be called a country)

Anybody who has installed software knows the US is always at the top of the list, even when everybody else is in alphabetical order.

oblivion

7th February 2012, 05:58 PM

I started at the Prime Meridian and kinda sorta went east. Then west.

Don't have any idea why, or why I switched to west once I finished western Asia.

Probably some unrecognized unfinished business with a world civilization class or something.

ksen

7th February 2012, 06:04 PM

Where are you?

I'm in your kitchen . . . you need to bring home some milk.

borealis

7th February 2012, 06:18 PM

In Australia you are never more than an arm's length from a beer.

In the UK you're never more then 10 miles from a pub.

6 Canadians have voted but the poll is only showing 5, for me anyway.Maybe one of them is actually an illegal migrant and the forum software is smarter than we think.

It's the Americans trying to undermine Canada's importance again. I accidentally went to a CIA website while looking for the areas of different countries. Why the CIA has a public page listing countries by size I have no idea.


Canada is simply the largest, most liberal and reasonable US state. They talk funny and some seem too French. But New Yorkers can be a pain too.

That's it, you're going on the border watch list. :colbert:

Brother Daniel

7th February 2012, 06:32 PM

Take Australia. Make it colder. (OK, much colder.) Remove the really dangerous critters. Add a few million French-speaking people. Put it next door to a superpower. And voilà! You have Canada, pretty much.
We don't got no grizzly bears, polar bears, wolves or mountain lions here, so I don't go along with that bolded bit. I don't feel threatened walking in the bush here the way I would in lots of Canada...
I suppose I ought to have said "Remove the really dangerous critters, and add some different ones".

But if we're making the comparison:

Your saltwater crocs, alone, kill nearly as many people annually as our bears do. (Bears can easily kill you if they feel like it, but more often they just ignore you.) Fatal attacks by Mountain lions are rare. Attacks by wolves (fatal or otherwise) are very rare.

Plus, you guys have scary poisonous snakes.

And scary poisonous arthropods.

And sharks. And jellyfish.

Australia looks a lot scarier to me.

Brother Daniel

7th February 2012, 06:45 PM

I like to say, pretentious fucker that I am, that Europe has lots of history but Australia has lots of geography. As statements go it's about as wanky and wrong as you can get, but I still use it. Usually when I'm drunk.
"Too much geography and not enough history" is a common Canadian complaint about Canada.
So you're full of rednecks, beer, utes and dispossessed native people?
:sadyes:

FedUpWithFaith

7th February 2012, 06:54 PM

Take Australia. Make it colder. (OK, much colder.) Remove the really dangerous critters. Add a few million French-speaking people. Put it next door to a superpower. And voilà! You have Canada, pretty much.
We don't got no grizzly bears, polar bears, wolves or mountain lions here, so I don't go along with that bolded bit. I don't feel threatened walking in the bush here the way I would in lots of Canada...
I suppose I ought to have said "Remove the really dangerous critters, and add some different ones".

But if we're making the comparison:

Your saltwater crocs, alone, kill nearly as many people annually as our bears do. (Bears can easily kill you if they feel like it, but more often they just ignore you.) Fatal attacks by Mountain lions are rare. Attacks by wolves (fatal or otherwise) are very rare.

Plus, you guys have scary poisonous snakes.

And scary poisonous arthropods.

And sharks. And jellyfish.

Australia looks a lot scarier to me.

I would have agreed, but for the French Canadians. They kill more than all the jellys, grizzlies, etc. combined.

Brother Daniel

7th February 2012, 08:22 PM

They don't kill you if you learn their secret handshake.

Unless, of course, you then teach someone else the secret handshake without authorization.

borealis

7th February 2012, 08:29 PM

Besides, our education system finally wised up and has been producing hordes of genuinely bilingual offspring of anglophones for the past twenty years. Of my three nephews and five neices, five chose immersion French schooling and are fluently bilingual as a result. Those sneaky Quebecois can no longer say mean things we don't understand to our faces. :smug:

borealis

7th February 2012, 08:35 PM

This is so awesomely stereotypically Canadian:

Kids are out playing hockey on the lake in front of my house this very minute. I heard the shrieks and clattering sticks and went out on the deck to see and wave my approval. :yes:

MSG

7th February 2012, 09:47 PM

Take Australia. Make it colder. (OK, much colder.) Remove the really dangerous critters. Add a few million French-speaking people. Put it next door to a superpower. And voilà! You have Canada, pretty much.
We don't got no grizzly bears, polar bears, wolves or mountain lions here, so I don't go along with that bolded bit. I don't feel threatened walking in the bush here the way I would in lots of Canada...
I suppose I ought to have said "Remove the really dangerous critters, and add some different ones".

But if we're making the comparison:

Your saltwater crocs, alone, kill nearly as many people annually as our bears do. (Bears can easily kill you if they feel like it, but more often they just ignore you.) Fatal attacks by Mountain lions are rare. Attacks by wolves (fatal or otherwise) are very rare.

Plus, you guys have scary poisonous snakes.

And scary poisonous arthropods.

And sharks. And jellyfish.

Australia looks a lot scarier to me.

It's in the mind. I'm further from any saltwater croc than you are from a Florida alligator. And the snakes are all right. They stay out of your way if you stay out of theirs. Grizzly bears would have the wind up me a lot more...

ericv00

7th February 2012, 09:47 PM

This thread gets better and better!

Hermit

7th February 2012, 11:16 PM

Take Australia. Make it colder. (OK, much colder.) Remove the really dangerous critters. Add a few million French-speaking people. Put it next door to a superpower. And voilà! You have Canada, pretty much.
We don't got no grizzly bears, polar bears, wolves or mountain lions here, so I don't go along with that bolded bit. I don't feel threatened walking in the bush here the way I would in lots of Canada...
I suppose I ought to have said "Remove the really dangerous critters, and add some different ones".

But if we're making the comparison:

Your saltwater crocs, alone, kill nearly as many people annually as our bears do. (Bears can easily kill you if they feel like it, but more often they just ignore you.) Fatal attacks by Mountain lions are rare. Attacks by wolves (fatal or otherwise) are very rare.

Plus, you guys have scary poisonous snakes.

And scary poisonous arthropods.

And sharks. And jellyfish.

Australia looks a lot scarier to me.Drop bears! You forgot the drop bears!

FedUpWithFaith

7th February 2012, 11:20 PM

Besides, our education system finally wised up and has been producing hordes of genuinely bilingual offspring of anglophones for the past twenty years. Of my three nephews and five neices, five chose immersion French schooling and are fluently bilingual as a result. Those sneaky Quebecois can no longer say mean things we don't understand to our faces. :smug:

Would have been better to force the Frogs to just speak English. All the bilingual signs area waste of money too.

MSG

7th February 2012, 11:20 PM

Drop bears! You forgot the drop bears!

this is true! it never occurs to me to worry about them because they only attack the foreigners...

PermanentlyEphemeral

7th February 2012, 11:43 PM

I like to say, pretentious fucker that I am, that Europe has lots of history but Australia has lots of geography. As statements go it's about as wanky and wrong as you can get, but I still use it. Usually when I'm drunk.
"Too much geography and not enough history" is a common Canadian complaint about Canada.
So you're full of rednecks, beer, utes and dispossessed native people?
:sadyes:

Canada has tons of great history.
here is some.
The War of 1812 Canadian Edition - YouTube

Watch at the very least the first minute.

And look up the battle of Detroit.

borealis

7th February 2012, 11:57 PM

Besides, our education system finally wised up and has been producing hordes of genuinely bilingual offspring of anglophones for the past twenty years. Of my three nephews and five neices, five chose immersion French schooling and are fluently bilingual as a result. Those sneaky Quebecois can no longer say mean things we don't understand to our faces. :smug:

Would have been better to force the Frogs to just speak English. All the bilingual signs area waste of money too.

You'll defund my Gaelidghe-English road signs over my dead body! :whyyou:

PermanentlyEphemeral

8th February 2012, 12:03 AM

Besides, our education system finally wised up and has been producing hordes of genuinely bilingual offspring of anglophones for the past twenty years. Of my three nephews and five neices, five chose immersion French schooling and are fluently bilingual as a result. Those sneaky Quebecois can no longer say mean things we don't understand to our faces. :smug:

Would have been better to force the Frogs to just speak English. All the bilingual signs area waste of money too.

You'll defund my Gaelidghe-English road signs over my dead body! :whyyou:

I wonder how many different types of bilingual signs we have here in The Big Smoke.

Jerome

8th February 2012, 12:12 AM

:cheer::cheer::cheer:
THREAD WINNER !!!

:cheer::cheer::cheer:




Canada has tons of great history.
here is some.
The War of 1812 Canadian Edition - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVC677-YmfM)

Watch at the very least the first minute.

And look up the battle of Detroit.

:cheer::cheer::cheer:







:toetap:

MSG

8th February 2012, 12:19 AM

You'll defund my Gaelidghe-English road signs over my dead body! :whyyou:

Nick! It's for you!

Brother Daniel

9th February 2012, 03:50 AM

Canada has tons of great history.
here is some.
Thanks for that. Good fun. :)

(Let's not mention that the Library of Congress also got burned, which is a pretty damn barbaric thing to do.)
And look up the battle of Detroit.
Yeah, I've read about that one before. :)

Canada isn't completely lacking in interesting history, but it can't compete with the Old World.

Brother Daniel

9th February 2012, 03:55 AM

It's in the mind. I'm further from any saltwater croc than you are from a Florida alligator.
Prolly true, but not by much, right? Doesn't really affect my point, anyway.
And the snakes are all right. They stay out of your way if you stay out of theirs. Grizzly bears would have the wind up me a lot more...
I don't think I've ever seen a bear outside of a zoo. Even though I've done some hiking in alleged bear country....

borealis

9th February 2012, 04:23 AM

I have seen bears. But they were just Nova Scotia Black Bears. They just run away, or at worst look menacing if you're near a cub.

Magicziggy

9th February 2012, 09:19 AM

I'd have expected more Brits

FedUpWithFaith

9th February 2012, 08:29 PM

I'd have expected more Brits

Already too many.

Stinkin' Limeys

ksen

9th February 2012, 08:34 PM

I'd have expected more Brits

Already too many.

Stinkin' Limeys

^^

Sugreeva

9th February 2012, 09:25 PM

The U.K. is a shithole.

rudeigineile

9th February 2012, 09:48 PM

I'd have expected more Brits

Already too many.

Stinkin' Limeys



The U.K. is a shithole.

I have never agreed with anything so completely in my life :p

gallstones2

16th February 2012, 08:59 PM

Good ole USA makes up almost half of those who voted

Hermit

16th February 2012, 09:36 PM

In Australia it's the flies that are ubiquitous.

Amok

26th February 2012, 05:23 AM

I have seen bears. But they were just Nova Scotia Black Bears. They just run away, or at worst look menacing if you're near a cub.

Me, too. I used to see them pretty regularly when I lived in Portuguese Cove, and that's only about 15 minutes outside the city. They would sit down and daintily eat all my blueberries.:p

Nova Scotia black bears are little, though. I've never seen a big bear.

Jerome

26th February 2012, 05:25 AM

Good ole USA makes up almost half of those who voted

That is deceptive because there is a higher population there.

Hermit

26th February 2012, 05:36 AM

Good ole USA makes up almost half of those who voted
That is deceptive because there is a higher population there.5% of the world's population. 50% of the members who voted in this poll.

Do you ever think things through before shooting off your mouth?

Jerome

26th February 2012, 05:38 AM

lol dummy, do the populations on the list.

Jerome

26th February 2012, 05:40 AM

How come South Africa is the only African nation on the list? Did we only choose societies that have an influence from greek gods?

FedUpWithFaith

26th February 2012, 05:51 AM

We need another catagory called "other" for all the crap countries nobody gives a shit about. And then to simplify the poll, we could put a lot of currently listed countries in there. As a proud American, as far as I'm concerned you could make this poll a lot simpler by just having two groups:

America
Other

Wait, I guess you don't really need "other" either.

Hermit

26th February 2012, 01:57 PM

lol dummy, do the populations on the list.
Why don't you read the poll question?

"What country do you live in? (add yours if it is not already on the list)"

Who exactly is the dummy again?

rudeigineile

26th February 2012, 02:00 PM

Maybe it would be neater if the unticked countries were removed.

oblivion

26th February 2012, 05:41 PM

Nah, can't remove them without messing up the results.

Also, I started with the countries I picked because on other forums where I have posted, we've had longterm members from all those countries.

rudeigineile

26th February 2012, 05:51 PM

It just looks so damned sad.

oblivion

26th February 2012, 06:15 PM

It is something to grow into.

Fuzzy

27th February 2012, 08:55 PM

Just make 14 socks and vote for the empty countries