oh fuck they were going to france
32 0 ReplyHundred years war 2!
Hundred years war 2!
You liked the first so much have a sequel.
7 0 ReplyGuerre 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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Am american. do not understand. live in a state that is 1000 miles wide.
27 2 ReplyThe 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.
11 1 ReplyI 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.
9 0 ReplyHouston isn't East Texas?
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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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They never said that they were walking on a straight line
23 0 ReplyRight. You need a proper isochrones map to visualize this based on walking routes.
17 0 ReplyThanks. Now I have a new hyper focus to work on.
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Also thought, I wanna see someone cross Switzerland in a laterally straight line
2 0 ReplyThis just in!
The Proclaimers are actually Jesuses with their amazing ability to walk on water
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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.
23 2 ReplyI'm gonna say it.
Even though we're fucking tiny. We were some proper nasty bastards.
9 0 ReplyI've never read a comment with an English accent before
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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.
8 0 ReplyAnd other countries wonder why we drive everywhere lol. Everything is so far!!
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Is this a nuclear blast radius map?
14 0 ReplySo basically they just really wanted to go to Iceland. Cool!
13 0 ReplyTIL the proclaimers were both jesus somehow.
12 0 ReplyMan Europe is hilariously small! Don't get me wrong, it'd love to abandon the US and live there. It's just mind blowing the perspective this map gives.
15 6 ReplyWith around 10.5 Mio square Kilometer surface it is a bit larger than the USA with around 9.8 Mio square Kilometer area.
12 0 Reply11 2 ReplyYou're comparing continents and countries.
North America is over twice as large. So yes, from anyone on this side of the pond it's tiny.
15 2 ReplyYeah Europe is a bunch of counties and an entire continent. United States is just 1 country and half a continent
Not talking shit at all, I love how small Europe is. A few hours in a train and you're in a brand new culture with a brand new language
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Thank God. Gibraltar is safe.
6 0 ReplyIt's weird that they wrote miles instead of kilometers
7 2 ReplyI would walk 804.672 kilometres just doesn't have the same ring to it
10 0 ReplyThe UK uses miles. They mostly use the metric system, but there are a few cases where they use the imperial system (like distance)
3 0 ReplyAnd assume online that everyone else does.
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Other languages have words to describe lengths in a more "poetic" way.
In Spanish we have "leguas" which I'm sure was a unit of length, but gun to my head, can't tell how far one is.
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I'd like to see on Google Maps how far The Empire of The Proclaimers truly is when it's put on roads.
5 0 ReplyHmm, looks like France and Germany are each smaller than Texas. Didn’t realize that.
4 0 ReplyI don't believe any country in Europe is bigger than Texas. Better maybe, but not bigger.
10 0 ReplyWell said
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Visualising it, it's nowhere near as far as it sounds.
4 0 ReplyDoo Doo Doo dah
2 0 ReplyNow you're just havering.
2 0 ReplyJust to act like Jesus and walk 1000 miles on water like never before.
2 0 ReplyShouldn't the center be Ireland though?
3 1 ReplyWhy would it be Ireland? They're from Edinburgh.
2 0 ReplyThey drink in my local pub.
1 0 ReplyFor some reason I thought they were Irish. I guess I should have known, their accents are thick enough.
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And considering the song was released before the chunnel, he would've found difficulty achieving this feat
2 0 ReplyThey meant in a circle
2 0 ReplyWe use km here!
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