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[Mad Man]

It would like people from Maryland hating Americans...

only the Viginians and West Virginians

 

[Red Door]

only the Viginians and West Virginians

We've got good reason to hate you Marylanders.

 

[Traitorfish]

no, but the scots hate the scots, because those bloody scots have ruined scotland.

Actually, Wullie wasn't wrong about that, as such, just about two or three hundred years too late...

 

[Mad Man]

We've got good reason to hate you Marylanders.

Such as???

 

[Red Door]

Such as???

1. All Marylanders suck at driving.
2. "Crab Cakes and Football! That's what Maryland does." Give me a break, we're better than you at both.
3. Bethesda sucks.
4. Baltimore is dirty.
5. I'd rather die a painful, slow death than go to Eastern Shore.
6. The Bay Bridge, psh.
7. UVA > UMD-CP

Need I continue?

 

[Annex]

Why does Bethesda suck?

 

[Mad Man]

SEVEN ONLY SEVEN!!!!! You must be from Virginia if that is as far you can count (pore kid he probobly lost his other three fingers while playing with fireworks at the age of three)

 

[Dachs]

Yeah, the white stuff in Africa that isn't native empires is 'Disorganized'.

SEVEN ONLY SEVEN!!!!! You must be from Virginia if that is as far you can count (pore kid he probobly lost his other three fingers while playing with fireworks at the age of three)

If Marylanders' spelling is that terrible all over, then Virginia wins.

 

[Mad Man]

Did any one else notice the just kidding title over only Virginians

 

[Mad Man]

Did any one else notice the just kidding title over only Virginians

 

[Mad Man]

My bad i did not mean to post that twice

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

1. All Marylanders suck at driving.

You've clearly never been to Richmond.

2. "Crab Cakes and Football! That's what Maryland does." Give me a break, we're better than you at both.

Two things.

First, Christopher Walken does not making failing statements. He is infalliable.

Second, crab cakes are to Maryland as fried haggis are to Scotland. Do Virginians even know what seafood is?

3. Bethesda sucks.

We try to ignore those parts.

4. Baltimore is dirty.

This is the subject of my next map. Stay tuned.

5. I'd rather die a painful, slow death than go to Eastern Shore.

Well we didn't have our state split in half because some people couldn't stand to be in the same state as us, and our namesake isn't derived from the sexual impotency of some soddish limey tea-drinker.

6. The Bay Bridge, psh.

Okay, I'll give you that one.

7. UVA > UMD-CP

Right, that's why we stomp you in EVERYTHING.

Need I continue?

Nah, you lost when you reminded me of UVA. Any school that mandates the wearing of dinner jackets to football games automatically loses every contest. They brought the rest of the state down with them, even VT can't hold up that massive loss.

The presence of Big Brother University aka Liberty pretty much seals the deal. Let's face it, Chancellorsville and Lynchburg are the dual suns of the solar system of suck.

 

[Mad Man]

oh well i guess i started ANOTHER WAR deeeear me

 

[Rashiminos]

1. All Marylanders suck at driving.
2. "Crab Cakes and Football! That's what Maryland does." Give me a break, we're better than you at both.
3. Bethesda sucks.
4. Baltimore is dirty.
5. I'd rather die a painful, slow death than go to Eastern Shore.
6. The Bay Bridge, psh.
7. UVA > UMD-CP

Need I continue?

1?

Heh, after seeing the typical Virginia v Maryland car damage, I beg to differ.

3? Morrowind, Oblivion...

4? Orioles, Ravens

5? Stop going to OC, go to Assateague

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The areas of Greater Baltimore that are reasonably tamed. I only included areas within the beltway, since a map with Owings Mills, White Marsh, Timonium and other areas would be too big.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Not altered but interesting none the less:

Population map of China with countries instead: (like the american states one)

For a full list:
1. Guangdong (113 million) Germany plus Uganda (3)
2. Henan (99 million) Mexico
3. Shandong (92 million) Philippines
4. Sichuan (87 million) Vietnam
5. Jiangsu (75 million) Egypt
6. Hebei (68 million) Iran
7. Hunan (67 million) France
8. Anhui (65 million) Thailand
9. Hubei (60 million) U.K.
10. Guangxi (49 million) Burma/Myanmar
11. Zhejiang (47 million) South Africa
12. Yunnan (44 million) Colombia
13. Jiangxi (43 million) Tanzania
14. Liaoning (42 million) Argentina
15. Guizhou (39 million) Sudan
16. Heilongjiang (38 million) Poland
17. Shaanxi (37 million) Kenya
18. Fujian (35 million) Algeria
19. Shanxi (33 million) Canada
20. Chongqing (31 million) Morocco
21. Jilin (27 million) Afghanistan
22. Gansu (26 million) Saudi Arabia
23. Inner Mongolia (24 million) North Korea
24. Taiwan (23 million) Yemen
25. Xinjiang (20 million) Madagascar
26. Shanghai (18 million) Cameroon
27. Beijing (16 million) Angola
28. Tianjin (12 million) Cuba
29. Hainan (8 million) Austria
30. Hong Kong (7 million) El Salvador
31. Ningxia (6 million) Sierra Leone
32. Qinghai (5 million) Slovakia
33. Tibet (3 million) Jamaica
34. Macau (0,5 million) Cape Verde

 

[TheLastOne36]

Genetic map of Europe:

Spoiler explanation :

Genetically speaking, Finns and Italians are the most atypical Europeans. There is a large degree of overlap between other European ethnicities, but not up to the point where they would be indistinguishable from each other. Which means that forensic scientists now can use DNA to predict the region of origin of otherwise unknown persons (provided they are of European heritage).

These are among the conclusions to be drawn from a genetic map of Europe, produced by the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam (the Netherlands), published in Current Biology’s August 7 issue. In its Science section, the New York Times devotes an article to the study, and reproduces the genetic map.

The discovery that autosomal (i.e. non-gender-related) aspects of DNA may be used to predict regional European provenance of unkown individuals was made by prof. dr. Manfred Kayser’s team of forensic molecular biologists. In a press release, the Erasmus UMC stated that this might potentially be helpful in resolving so-called ‘cold cases’.

The genetic map of Europe was compiled by comparing DNA samples from 23 populations in Europe (pictured on the right-hand side map). Those populations were then placed on the ‘genetic’ map according to their similarity, with the vertical axis denoting differences from south to north, and the horizontal one from west to east. The larger the area assigned to a population, the larger the genetic variation within that population.

When compared to the actual map, the populations kinda sorta maintain their relative position to each other. Two observations spring to mind immediately: the fact that most populations overlap so intimately with their neighbours. And that Finland doesn’t. Some other observations:

* The extent of genetic variation is greater north to south than east to west. This may be a result of the way Europe was colonized by modern humans, i.e. from the south, in three successive waves of migration (45,000 years ago, where before there had only been Neanderthals; 17,000 years ago, after the last Ice Age; and 10,000 years ago, with the advent of farming techniques from the Middle East).
* The isolation of Finnish genetics can be explained by the fact that they were at one time a very small population, preserving its genetic idiosyncrasies as it expanded.
* The relative isolation of Italian genetics is probably due to the Alps, providing a geographic barrier to the free and unhindered flow of population to and from Italy… Although Hannibal, the Celtic and Germanic influence in Italy’s north and of course the expansion of the Roman Empire would seem to contradict this.
* Yugoslav genetic variation is quite large (hence the big pink blob), and overlaps with the Greek, Romanian, Hungarian, Czech and even the Italian ones.
* There is surprisingly little overlap between the northern and southern German populations, each of which has more in common with their other neighbours (Danish/Dutch/Swedish in the northern case, Austrian/Swiss/French in the other one).
* The Polish population is quite eccentric as well, only significantly overlapping with the Czech one (and only minimally with the northern German one).
* The Swiss population is entirely subsumed by the French one, similarly, the Irish population almost doesn’t show any characteristics that would distinguish it from the British one.
* British and Irish insularity probably explains why so much of their genetic area is not shared with their closest European cousins, i.c. the Norwegian/Danish/Dutch cluster.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Netherlands now warmer then before?

Global warming is a complex phenomenon – so much so that some scientists still dispute it’s even happening. One indication of this complexity is the fact that its consequences are distributed quite unevenly, sometimes counter to the global trend, in other instances ahead of it.

A recent report by the Royal Dutch Weather Institute KNMI, quoted in the NRC Handelsblad (dd. 31 July), shows that average temperature in the Netherlands has risen twice as fast as the average global temperature.

As a consequence, average temperatures in some Dutch cities now resemble those of French cities of the previous decade. (No word on how much hotter those have become, though). The cities pair up thus:

* Maastricht = Poitiers
* Utrecht = Lyon
* Flushing (Vlissingen) = Nantes
* Den Helder = Rennes
* Groningen = Paris

 

[TheLastOne36]

And bringing back a favorite! "The World as seen from ___" series latest map,

The world as seen from Paris:

 

[Steph]

And bringing back a favorite! "The World as seen from ___" series latest map,

The world as seen from Paris:

This map is completly BS. If it's the world seen from Paris, Paris is much to small, and the rest much to big.