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Title: EU vs US
Post by: Commander on 4 April 2004, 21:31: (http://www.adrianxw.dk/personalsite/oddsandsods/euro_vs_america.jpg)

[ April 04, 2004: Message edited by: Tux ]
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Post by: Xeen on 4 April 2004, 11:14: LOL. Put that pic in the post instead of linking to it.
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Post by: WMD on 4 April 2004, 11:37: Sad but true. :D
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Post by: Doogee on 4 April 2004, 16:43: BWAHAHAHA.
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Post by: Refalm on 4 April 2004, 19:41: i'm lovin it, how US television actors don't reflect the avarge weight of it's population (http://tongue.gif)
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Post by: Pissed_Macman on 5 April 2004, 01:22: Overweight doesn't mean obese. There aren't fat whales walking down the street every second, at least not where I live. I'm sure it's a different story down in Disney Land and places like that though.

[ April 04, 2004: Message edited by: Macman ]
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Post by: Commander on 5 April 2004, 01:58: it's a good thing i live in canada....
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Post by: Pissed_Macman on 5 April 2004, 05:50: Which may as well just be the 51st state (wouldn't change much really).

[ April 04, 2004: Message edited by: Macman ]
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Post by: Paladin9 on 5 April 2004, 07:33: quote:
Originally posted by Macman:
Which may as well just be the 51st state (wouldn't change much really).

[ April 04, 2004: Message edited by: Macman ]

Yeah, Where I live is a lot like Mexico. Spanish is being used more and more all the time. They should just have Mexico become a part of California.
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Post by: Commander on 5 April 2004, 08:11: quote:
Originally posted by Macman:
Which may as well just be the 51st state (wouldn't change much really).
i'll loose channel 26!!
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Post by: preacher on 6 April 2004, 05:15: Don't get me started on Europe, I would take this country any day over any of those countries.(No offense, hometown bias)
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Post by: preacher on 6 April 2004, 05:19: quote:
Originally posted by MindFlyer-Paladin9:

Yeah, Where I live is a lot like Mexico. Spanish is being used more and more all the time. They should just have Mexico become a part of California.

Take a look at this picture and guess which city its in.

(http://kansascity.cjb.net/westside.jpg)
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Post by: Paladin9 on 6 April 2004, 08:17: quote:
Originally posted by ThePreacher:
Take a look at this picture and guess which city its in.

I don't know. Whitehorse, YK? Hahaha!
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Post by: Laukev7 on 6 April 2004, 08:27: quote:
Originally posted by ThePreacher:

Take a look at this picture and guess which city its in.

Kansas.
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Post by: preacher on 7 April 2004, 03:30: quote:
Originally posted by Laukev7:

Kansas.

It isn't Kansas.
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Post by: WMD on 7 April 2004, 05:02: Los Angeles?
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Post by: insomnia on 7 April 2004, 06:16: quote:
Originally posted by ThePreacher:

Take a look at this picture and guess which city its in.

(http://kansascity.cjb.net/westside.jpg)

Disney Land ?
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Post by: Stilly on 7 April 2004, 07:19: it looks southwestern

ill guess El Paso
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Post by: Paladin9 on 7 April 2004, 08:35: San Diego? Los Angeles? Dallas? El Paso? Tucon? Miami? Seattle? Manhattan? San Fransisco? Fresno? Calgary? Salt Lake City? Denver? Portland? Atlanta? Chicago? Boston? Jacksonville? Richmond? Fairbanks? Houston? Little Rock? Toronto? Pheonix? C'mon, its got to be one of these?
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Post by: solarismka on 7 April 2004, 12:14: Hahahaha....

Thats so true!
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Post by: preacher on 7 April 2004, 22:57: quote:
Originally posted by MindFlyer-Paladin9:
San Diego? Los Angeles? Dallas? El Paso? Tucon? Miami? Seattle? Manhattan? San Fransisco? Fresno? Calgary? Salt Lake City? Denver? Portland? Atlanta? Chicago? Boston? Jacksonville? Richmond? Fairbanks? Houston? Little Rock? Toronto? Pheonix? C'mon, its got to be one of these?

Sorry, they are all wrong. The truth is that this picture is Kansas City, Missouri.

Kansas City has a large and quickly growing hispanic population. It really reminded me to say we have a little Mexico here in the midwest too.
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Post by: Laukev7 on 8 April 2004, 03:14: I guess I should have been more specific. I actually meant Kansas City, not State of Kansas.

Since we are now discussing geographical matters, why is it that at least TWO cities in the US that are named after ANOTHER state than the one they're in? I mean, Washington DC is in Maryland, Kansas City in Missouri, and New York City is located in a state called New York, which bears the name of its largest city, but whose capital is Albany???
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Post by: Commander on 8 April 2004, 05:33: quote:
Originally posted by Laukev7:
I guess I should have been more specific. I actually meant Kansas City, not State of Kansas.

Since we are now discussing geographical matters, why is it that at least TWO cities in the US that are named after ANOTHER state than the one they're in? I mean, Washington DC is in Maryland, Kansas City in Missouri, and New York City is located in a state called New York, which bears the name of its largest city, but whose capital is Albany???
american geography! glad i dont(didnt) have to go through that! imagine learning the names of 50 states! i have trouble remembering the things listed here (http://canada.gc.ca/othergov/prov_e.html). which is nothing compared to the 100 state and capitals.
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Post by: M51DPS on 8 April 2004, 05:54: quote:
Originally posted by Commander - useSuse:
american geography! glad i dont(didnt) have to go through that! imagine learning the names of 50 states! i have trouble remembering the things listed here (http://canada.gc.ca/othergov/prov_e.html). which is nothing compared to the 100 state and capitals.

I remember when in Geography we had to learn the names of all the states and we took some tests over them. I failed every single test, but i wound up with an A in the class. You're not truly an American unless you don't know your own geography and history.
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Post by: Paladin9 on 8 April 2004, 06:30: My bitch of a teacher I had for 8th grade history made us learn all of the state names, while the other 8th grade history teachers did not make their kids do that. At least I never had to remember the capitols, or I would probably still be in high school now. Other then that, I never had to learn states or capitols.
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Post by: WMD on 8 April 2004, 06:51: quote:
Originally posted by Laukev7:
why is it that at least TWO cities in the US that are named after ANOTHER state than the one they're in? I mean, Washington DC is in Maryland

Washington D.C. is named after the person, not the state. ;)
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Post by: Laukev7 on 8 April 2004, 07:51: Well, yeah, I know that; it's not like Quebec City has been named after the province, either.
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Post by: Paladin9 on 8 April 2004, 10:22: It is really funny to hear Arnold Schwarzenegger try to pronounce all of the names of towns and county's in california, since they are all spanish names.
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Post by: preacher on 8 April 2004, 18:36: quote:
Originally posted by Laukev7:
I guess I should have been more specific. I actually meant Kansas City, not State of Kansas.

Since we are now discussing geographical matters, why is it that at least TWO cities in the US that are named after ANOTHER state than the one they're in? I mean, Washington DC is in Maryland, Kansas City in Missouri, and New York City is located in a state called New York, which bears the name of its largest city, but whose capital is Albany???

I don't know about the others, but I can explain Kansas City. Back when Lewis and Clark first came through the area where Kansas City is now located, they named the area the Kanza territory after the Kanza Indians who resided here, and they named the
river the Kanza river, which became the Kansas River. Anyway, as settlers moved into the area, they founded the town of Kansas, but I believe this was before Missouri and Kansas were states. Anyway town of Kansas became Kansas City and the Missouri River and Kansas River were made the official borders between Kansas and Missouri. Around 1869, four towns on the west side of the border combined to form Kansas City, Kansas.

The fact that there are two cities named Kansas City, that are right next to each other has confused many people for years, and those who didn't know better have always assumed Kansas City was in Kansas because Kansas is in the name, and they were half right.

The Kansas City that people talk about is the one in Missouri. It has 450,000 residents, while the Kansas City in Kansas has 150,000 residents.
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Post by: KernelPanic on 9 April 2004, 02:43: Did ya follow that kids? :D
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Post by: Stilly on 9 April 2004, 07:00: washington dc is not in a state, its a seperate district. that way the state government couldn't fuck with them. and DC was around before the state.

but dc is also named after columbus