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The Old Bolsheviks did a lot of that kind of stuff, they were pretty badass in those days
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The Old Bolsheviks did a lot of that kind of stuff, they were pretty badass in those days
It would be more accurate to say they planned a bank robbery. They weren't actually present for the robbery itself.
That article was a good read though. I thought Lenin's flight from Finland was pretty cool. Walking across a 3 mile frozen lake to ensure he wasn't followed was awesome.
TIL that new houses in america are really cheap.
Todays XKCD compares the price of a new house with the cost of oil, by plotting the height you could fill the house with oil for the cost of that house. I thought it was a bit low, and the explain XKCD site says the "average price per square foot of floor space in new single-family houses in the United States was $118.91 in 2019." I just calculated it for a new development I am aware of, that was built on fields and is some of the cheapest new housing that I am aware of, and I make it £432/sq.ft. [1] or $539/sq.ft.
[1] (350000 / ((4750 * (3310 + 4604)) / 92903)) / 2 = 432.4921
(Cost / ((width * (lounge + kitchen)) / mm2 in 1 sq.ft)) / no. stories
Todays XKCD compares the price of a new house with the cost of oil, by plotting the height you could fill the house with oil for the cost of that house. I thought it was a bit low, and the explain XKCD site says the "average price per square foot of floor space in new single-family houses in the United States was $118.91 in 2019." I just calculated it for a new development I am aware of, that was built on fields and is some of the cheapest new housing that I am aware of, and I make it £432/sq.ft. [1] or $539/sq.ft.
[1] (350000 / ((4750 * (3310 + 4604)) / 92903)) / 2 = 432.4921
(Cost / ((width * (lounge + kitchen)) / mm2 in 1 sq.ft)) / no. stories
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I just do not know how that would or should affect the calculation. Do they count when the floor area of a property is quoted?
Crawl spaces don't count. Basements may or may not, depending on whether they are finished or unfinished.
They wouldn't affect the calculation, but they would affect how high up the oil would go in the house, if you actually filled them up, as Birdjaguar is joking about.
They wouldn't affect the calculation, but they would affect how high up the oil would go in the house, if you actually filled them up, as Birdjaguar is joking about.
That really depends on where in the US you are. Housing is stupid expensive in some areas, pretty cheap in others.
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Yeah, for the US any sort of average is pretty much useless due to how widely it varies.
Traitorfish
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Speaking as an outsider, it seems dangerous to make any generalisation about the United States, even things that we may have assumed to be basic physical constants. Sure, we know know that the sky is blue in New York, but who knows how they do things in, say, Arkansas.
Zardnaar
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Better for the American ear, maybe.
Apparently it's closer to proper English than the English the UK now uses.
Americans have diverged less than the UK.
Chukchi Husky
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Alan Rickman mentioned that when making Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves when one common complaint was Kevin Costner keeping his American accent.
Zardnaar
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They spell color we spell colour.
Their pronounciation seems better.
What's funny is Canada/NZ/Australia have all started doing their own thing lol. It's funny with tourist here espicially Germans. "In school we learned....".
So did Christian Slater. This issue is what inspired this line in Robin Hood: Men in Tights:
Canada's own thing is to take a mix of English, French, various native languages such as Iroquois, Cree, and others, add whatever American words we decide to keep after they sneak across the border (or were brought originally by the United Empire Loyalists), make up some of our own words, allow for regional dialects (yes, we have some; if you put Aimee, warpus, and I in the same room, it's unlikely that we would all have the exact same way of speaking)... and that's Canadian English.
What contrast?
Ogre.
Theatre.
No contrast there.
Considering that Zardnaar mentioned Canadians, I thought it might be permissible to post in this thread.
Do excuse me for being presumptuous.
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