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  • TripletDaddy
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    Hawaiian food is disproportionately popular in Utah?? Disproportionate to what?

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  • Uncle Ted
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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_6457252.html


    LOL @ Colorado...

    Science Proves Gluten Sensitivity Isn’t Real, People Are Just Whiners

    That may be a snarky way of saying it, but it’s true in some cases. Scientific studies have concluded that sensitivity to gluten for people who do not have Celiac disease may be completely psychological.
    [...]
    http://www.buzzworthy.com/science-pr...-just-whiners/

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  • wuapinmon
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    This map is bunk. Utah should clearly be, "moisture."

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  • Clark Addison
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    Where in the US do you find the houses with the most bedrooms? The map below is probably not as big a surprise to folks here as it would be most places:

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  • San Juan Sun
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    Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post
    I was thinking Dakota looked pretty good until I got to Lust.

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  • wuapinmon
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    Originally posted by Moliere View Post
    I have no idea why you would wonder this. Alabama is more consequential to the world economy that Slovenia. His response was great.
    My wondering is independent of the incident. I too think he handled himself well in that moment. I'm just wondering, because I'm curious and love maps, how many I could locate by name on a map, not knowing the country they were in. I think I'd do pretty well, but there's so much that I don't know about the world.

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  • Moliere
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    Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post
    I wonder how well I would do on a map quiz of state-level political divisions in countries larger than an average state east of the Mississippi.
    I have no idea why you would wonder this. Alabama is more consequential to the world economy that Slovenia. His response was great.

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  • Commando
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    I think that affluence map is pretty interesting. I've never heard of Hidden Spring, Idaho, but based on relative land value alone, there is a chance that a 100k house in Idaho is about a million dollar house in a place like Southern California.

    Similarly, Paradise Valley has some of the most obscenely amazing houses I've ever seen. If you don't mind living in the desert, your accommodations are very well subsidized.

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  • HuskyFreeNorthwest
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    Originally posted by Jacob View Post
    Speaking of Geography, Demarcus Cousins is playing for the USA in the FIBA championships right now.

    Reporter: Do you know where Slovenia is?

    Cousins: Do you know where Alabama is?

    Cousins wins.

    I honestly don't know exactly where Slovenia is. I could probably get pretty close if given an unlabeled map. But Slovenia is inconsequential. I thought it would be interesting to compare it to Alabama:

    Population
    Slovenia = 2 miillion
    Alabama = 4.8 million
    I heard that and thought it was awesome. I love when smarmy reporters trying to make people look stupid get beat at their own game.

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  • Clark Addison
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    I don't want to brag, but I live in one of those. OK, actually an unincorporated area a mile or two away from the border of the town, but my kids go to school with them and there has been talk of our neighborhood becoming incorporated into the town.

    Plus I grew up right next to one of the others, and was in the same high school. I've pretty much been riding the privilege train my whole life.

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  • smokymountainrain
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    The most affluent towns in each state:



    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/most-a...163428020.html

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  • wuapinmon
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    Originally posted by Jacob View Post
    Speaking of Geography, Demarcus Cousins is playing for the USA in the FIBA championships right now.

    Reporter: Do you know where Slovenia is?

    Cousins: Do you know where Alabama is?

    Cousins wins.

    I honestly don't know exactly where Slovenia is. I could probably get pretty close if given an unlabeled map. But Slovenia is inconsequential. I thought it would be interesting to compare it to Alabama:

    Population
    Slovenia = 2 miillion
    Alabama = 4.8 million
    I wonder how well I would do on a map quiz of state-level political divisions in countries larger than an average state east of the Mississippi.

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  • Jacob
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    Speaking of Geography, Demarcus Cousins is playing for the USA in the FIBA championships right now.

    Reporter: Do you know where Slovenia is?

    Cousins: Do you know where Alabama is?

    Cousins wins.

    I honestly don't know exactly where Slovenia is. I could probably get pretty close if given an unlabeled map. But Slovenia is inconsequential. I thought it would be interesting to compare it to Alabama:

    Population
    Slovenia = 2 miillion
    Alabama = 4.8 million

    Leave a comment:

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