33 points

oh fuck they were going to france

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7 points

Hundred years war 2!

Hundred years war 2!

You liked the first so much have a sequel.

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Guerre de Cent Ans 2 ? Je pensais que nous étions alliés ?

That’s what we wanted you to think!

🎵 Rule_Britannica.mp3 🎶

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25 points

Am american. do not understand. live in a state that is 1000 miles wide.

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The size difference is getting to me too lol

I used to drive a 200 mile round trip weekly to visit home while I was in college.

Houston to East Texas is a fun drive.

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9 points

I had a german professor once remark to me about how different Americans are, like hundreds of miles is a day trip, hundreds of miles is a week long trip by car. Bet the trains are awesome though. Amtrak long distances seems way too expensive relative to my other options when factoring in time.

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15 points

“An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.”

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Your professor said it the best way possible. I’ll remember that saying to help explain it all in the future if needed to others.

I had a professor who loved Amtrak and would talk about his travels every month or so. He mentioned the price too as an issue. I definitely want to experience a train ride on Amtrak one day on an overnight trip.

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1 point

Houston isn’t East Texas?

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East Texas is more when it gets woody and Louisiana-lite. Houston is sorta on the edge.

Lufkin/Carthage/Nacogdoches/Tyler is more east Texas than Houston.

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A 1000 mile radius does cover a chunk of the US. Centered on Denver it covers basically everything west of Michigan (excl Alaska and Hawaii of course).

https://www.freemaptools.com/radius-around-point.htm?lat=39.739236&lng=-104.984862&r=1609340

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23 points

They never said that they were walking on a straight line

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Right. You need a proper isochrones map to visualize this based on walking routes.

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5 points

Thanks. Now I have a new hyper focus to work on.

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There are services that will generate isochrones of walk travel time for you, but they usually charge a small API fee for the calculations

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2 points

Also thought, I wanna see someone cross Switzerland in a laterally straight line

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2 points

This just in!

The Proclaimers are actually Jesuses with their amazing ability to walk on water

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21 points

This map made me realize how small Great Britain really is. I drive 550 miles to visit my mom in the US, Great Britain is only 600 miles long from north to south.

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9 points

I’m gonna say it.

Even though we’re fucking tiny. We were some proper nasty bastards.

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3 points

I’ve never read a comment with an English accent before

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8 points

This weekend I drove over 500 miles to get to the Oregon coast from a neighboring state of which I live close to the border. The total distance I traveled could have taken me from Spain into France then into to Italy and then end up in like Switzerland or Austria or Slovenia or something. Could see Barcelona, Marseille, Florence, Milan, Zurich, but instead I saw hundreds of miles of nothing and then the Pacific ocean lol.

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4 points

And other countries wonder why we drive everywhere lol. Everything is so far!!

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14 points

Is this a nuclear blast radius map?

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