Interesting Maps

ohnonotgmail · 18-02-2021 5:16pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

But don't some Welsh clubs (Cardiff, Swansea) play in the English divisions, and as such would compete in Europe under the English FA?

They do but the Welsh FA submit their own clubs to EUFA competitions including the champions league. One of their teams even played at anfield against liverpool in the champions league qualifying rounds a few months after Liverpool won the champions league in Istanbul against AC Milan. Stevie G scored a hat-trick in the game.

IAMAMORON · 18-02-2021 6:14pm

Can we keep this to maps please?

I genuinely hate soccer and the debate is still ongoing as to why a map of europe with 20 odd soccer club badges on it was ever interesting?

Gregor Samsa · 18-02-2021 6:31pm

In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks (brand name "Friendly Floatees") were lost from a container ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. This is when and where they made landfall.

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BonnieSituation · 18-02-2021 7:17pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks (brand name "Friendly Floatees") were lost from a container ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. This is when and where they made landfall.

It famously taught us more about the world's ocean currents than we had already known to that point or confirmed theories that were out there!

JupiterKid · 18-02-2021 7:26pm

Detailed map of the landing site of the NASA Mars Perseverance Rover mission, which, all going well, will be landing at this site on Mars in just over two hours.

The map is based on images taken by the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, and the map is approximately 10 kilometers in diameter.

The Perseverance Mars river will land by a sky crane system that will allow a landing location accurate to 1 kilometre in diameter.

IAMAMORON · 18-02-2021 7:29pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Great. Now instead of doing work, I'm listening to Yemeni talk shows, Alaskan Christian stations and Japanese country music. And I don't ever listen to the radio.

The Ivory Coast is where it is at.

There is a guy at lunchtime who goes around to interview people at the local market about food prices... you haven't lived.

Gregor Samsa · 18-02-2021 7:33pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

The Ivory Coast is where it is at.

There is a guy at lunchtime who goes around to interview people at the local market about food prices... you haven't lived.

I'm just ecstatic that the first Japanese station I clicked on, the very first word I heard was "Konnichiwa”. I was like "OMG, I can understand this!".

Of course I hadn't a clue what was being said from the second word.

Listening to the two lads in Yemen talking in Arabic for half an hour was not the most productive part of my day, but I actually forgot I had my headphones on.

IAMAMORON · 18-02-2021 7:38pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

I'm just ecstatic that the first Japanese station I clicked on, the very first word I heard was "Konnichiwa”. I was like "OMG, I can understand this!".

Of course I hadn't a clue what was being said from the second word.

Listening to the two lads in Yemen talking in Arabic for half an hour was not the most productive part of my day, but I actually forgot I had my headphones on.

Listening to a Samba Blues show from Utopia Radio in Higúey in the Dominican Republic. It is borderline Flamenco... with a twist.

I haven't a word of Spanish, cracking open the dark rum in an hour.

Tell me how · 18-02-2021 7:47pm

I listened to a particular show in Ireland a few days ago on that garden radio site. Open your mind Radio. They were discussing Covid and how it was a step in the government take over of all individual rights. My immediate thought was what would other nationalities think if they clicked on it.

If people aren't distracted enough by listening to radio stations from around the world, doing that while virtually driving through different cities will definitely help to ensure you get no work done.

https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/

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ohnonotgmail · 18-02-2021 7:56pm

Tell me how wrote: »

I listened to a particular show in Ireland a few days ago on that garden radio site. Open your mind Radio. They were discussing Covid and how it was a step in the government take over of all individual rights. My immediate thought was what would other nationalities think if they clicked on it.

If people aren't distracted enough by listening to radio stations from around the world, doing that while virtually driving through different cities will definitely help to ensure you get no work done.

https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/

so basically a real life version of Grand Theft Auto?

AndyBoBandy · 18-02-2021 9:17pm

^^ They picked a lovely day to drive through Dublin!!!

ohnonotgmail · 18-02-2021 9:34pm

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

^^ They picked a lovely day to drive through Dublin!!!

and they picked a terrible day to drive through Rio.

Stihl waters · 18-02-2021 9:36pm

More shìte talk than interesting maps going on a lot recently

ohnonotgmail · 18-02-2021 9:38pm

Stihl waters wrote: »

More shìte talk than interesting maps going on a lot recently

feel free to post one.

Stihl waters · 18-02-2021 9:42pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

feel free to post one.

My ability ends with posting I'm afraid :pac:

New Home · 19-02-2021 12:38am

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

I'm just ecstatic that the first Japanese station I clicked on, the very first word I heard was "Konnichiwa”. I was like "OMG, I can understand this!".

Of course I hadn't a clue what was being said from the second word.

Listening to the two lads in Yemen talking in Arabic for half an hour was not the most productive part of my day, but I actually forgot I had my headphones on.

I clicked on this one, and the first thing I heard was an ad for Bank of Ireland in an obvious Irish accent. The next ad was some other Irish ad, too. Are they replacing the ads from the country in question with ads from the country from which you're listening, or was it just a complete fluke?

Charles Babbage · 19-02-2021 12:38am

Gaelic Map of Scotland and Gaelic Place Names

Gregor Samsa · 19-02-2021 1:31am

New Home wrote: »

I clicked on this one, and the first thing I heard was an ad for Bank of Ireland in an obvious Irish accent. The next ad was some other Irish ad, too. Are they replacing the ads from the country in question with ads from the country from which you're listening, or was it just a complete fluke?

That station is anyway. I got an ad for Irish broadband rollout, and then it went straight into the middle of a Latin american song. I didn't come across that on any other station I listened to, so I assume it's the station doing it, not the site.

Biafranlivemat · 19-02-2021 1:38am

Biafranlivemat · 19-02-2021 1:40am

New Home · 19-02-2021 1:47am

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

That station is anyway. I got an ad for Irish broadband rollout, and then it went straight into the middle of a Latin american song. I didn't come across that on any other station I listened to, so I assume it's the station doing it, not the site.

It's happened with a few more since, so if it's not a glitch it's probably the equivalent of the 30 seconds ads on YouTube videos.

Anesthetize · 19-02-2021 8:42am

Biafranlivemat wrote: »

The Greenlandic spokespeople were too drunk to respond at the time.

retalivity · 19-02-2021 9:29am

Biafranlivemat wrote: »

Ethiopia and Bhutan, represent!

cnocbui · 19-02-2021 2:45pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Interactive map of radio stations around the world

http://radio.garden/

I have had the app on my phone for a year or so, but have moved over to using Replaio Radio as it had more stations and was so impressed I bought it. It has a better interface for using favourite stations and has the flexibiility to allow you to manually add stations not in the data base and to make suggestions for the developers to add stations. I also really liked that it displayed the song information and lets you save that so you can go look for it on youtube or buy it later. Some stations annoyingly don't display the track info, but if you fullscreen a station, it buffers the stream so you can rewind and replay it so you have time to put it on the speaker and then use Beatfind app to identify the track. Beatfind is much better than Soundhound.

cnocbui · 19-02-2021 2:49pm

Biafranlivemat wrote: »

I wonder if the high expenditure in Ireland might have something to do with tax? :rolleyes:

Ramasun · 19-02-2021 2:54pm

cnocbui wrote: »

I wonder if the high expenditure in Ireland might have something to do with tax? :rolleyes:

And craft beers.

mikhail · 19-02-2021 3:12pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Can we keep this to maps please?

I genuinely hate soccer and the debate is still ongoing as to why a map of europe with 20 odd soccer club badges on it was ever interesting?

There's some interesting economics questions around why certain cities are successful at football, much of it tied to social class and population movements during industrialisation. But yeah, let's move on.

Here's a map that popped up in another thread: places the smoky coal ban in in effect. (There's a move to extend it nationally.)
https://dcenr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=feee728a0ee1427d9a3973a090a9f292

Victor · 19-02-2021 4:50pm

Ramasun wrote: »

And craft beers.

And drinking in pubs instead of at home.

IAMAMORON · 19-02-2021 6:25pm

cnocbui wrote: »

I wonder if the high expenditure in Ireland might have something to do with tax? :rolleyes:

That is exactly what is going on.

We also pay excess transport costs. It can be pricey to distribute to Ireland also, we are off the beaten track of other supply chains - that gets masked often underneath customs and excise duty.

In Germany you can go down to your local supermarket and buy a crate ( 12 litres ) of sumptuous local beers for less than € 15. No joke. You need to bring the bottles back in one piece, but you catch my drift. We are annihilated over here on standard pricing - and it all gets smothered under the premise that they are thinking about our health - in its' bollocks it is, they are thinking about furnishing the state coffers - big time.

Capt'n Midnight · 19-02-2021 11:57pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

in its' bollocks it is, they are thinking about furnishing the state coffers - big time.

The minimum price won't bring any extra excise duty.

It might bring in extra VAT, but only if people reduce sending on lower rated VAT items like food. Or if they dip into their savings.

/RANT

Back to interesting maps

Capt'n Midnight · 20-02-2021 1:39am

Geuze · 20-02-2021 2:12am

cnocbui wrote: »

I wonder if the high expenditure in Ireland might have something to do with tax? :rolleyes:

Excise duty on beer here is fairly close to UK rates.

The reason for the high prices here is more to do with the supplier/wholesaler selling price.

Guinness made in Dublin is sold cheaper in NI, even though the tax is similar, due to more competition in NI.

The brewers and pubs blame the excise duty, to take the attention away from the high selling supplier/wholesale prices compared to the UK.

For example, Diageo will sell to JD WS in the UK, but they won't sell to them here.

Same goes for Heineken, remember the row with JDW here?

Geuze · 20-02-2021 2:13am

cnocbui wrote: »

I wonder if the high expenditure in Ireland might have something to do with tax? :rolleyes:

NO.

L1011 · 20-02-2021 2:17am

Ramasun wrote: »

And craft beers.

And Diageos profit margin more than anything else.

Pre-tax price of a keg of a Diageo product is dearer in Dublin - where its made and kegged - than virtually anywhere else. Ditto Heineken Ireland and Cork vs elsewhere.

Irish Whiskey is the only product without a ridiculous extra profit margin slapped on it here - plenty of bog standard Irish whiskeys (other than Jameson) are absolutely nuts prices abroad, but they need to be sold here at a price we'll pay; or else tourists won't buy them in airports. Bushmills White that's 18 quid in Aldi can be 30 quid in other, relatively low cost for drink countries and so on with Tullamore, Powers etc.

New Home · 20-02-2021 9:14am

IAMAMORON wrote: »

That is exactly what is going on.

We also pay excess transport costs. It can be pricey to distribute to Ireland also, we are off the beaten track of other supply chains - that gets masked often underneath customs and excise duty.

In Germany you can go down to your local supermarket and buy a crate ( 12 litres ) of sumptuous local beers for less than € 15. No joke. You need to bring the bottles back in one piece, but you catch my drift. We are annihilated over here on standard pricing - and it all gets smothered under the premise that they are thinking about our health - in its' bollocks it is, they are thinking about furnishing the state coffers - big time.

Shall we talk about the prices of drugs? I could give you one example: for one type of medication, I can get 28 days' worth for €148. A friend of mine, who's on the same medication but lives in the Continent, can get 6 month's worth for less than €25. A pack of 10 gauzes is nearly a fiver in Boots, she gets them for approx. 80c. Here you need a prescription for proper saline (not the one you get for lenses), there you can get it OTC for cents.

It's a cartel.

BRB with a map. (See my next post)

davetherave · 20-02-2021 2:09pm

The price of booze and paracetamol aside, which have **** all to do with interesting maps really.....

A map of land borders of the world

https://i.redd.it/jy9tfqywrle61.png

ohnonotgmail · 20-02-2021 2:43pm

Geuze wrote: »

Excise duty on beer here is fairly close to UK rates.

excise duty in ireland is €42.57 per litre of alcohol. in the uk it is the equivalent of €33 per litre. Not really that close at all.

New Home · 20-02-2021 3:54pm

davetherave wrote: »

The price of booze and paracetamol aside, which have **** all to do with interesting maps really.....

I beg to differ.

This maps shows how many beers minimum wage will get you in Europe.

IAMAMORON · 20-02-2021 4:01pm

They have really nice birds there too. Like proper stuff.

New Home · 20-02-2021 4:13pm

If US cities had kept their "original" names:

mzungu · 20-02-2021 4:59pm

Map of 1930s Chicago Gangland.

Click here for larger version

Geuze · 21-02-2021 2:09am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

excise duty in ireland is €42.57 per litre of alcohol. in the uk it is the equivalent of €33 per litre. Not really that close at all.

That is the duty on spirits.

I was referring to beer.

See here:

https://revenue.ie/en/companies-and-charities/excise-and-licences/excise-duty-rates/alcohol-products-tax.aspx

Excise on beer is 22.55 per hl per % alc.

UK excise duty on beer is 19.08 pence per litre per %.

22.55 cent is fairly close to 19 pence.

chooseusername · 21-02-2021 4:28pm

New Home wrote: »

If US cities had kept their "original" names:

Indeed, Buffalo had much more interesting "original" name.

magicbastarder · 21-02-2021 5:34pm

New Home wrote: »

If US cities had kept their "original" names:

the original name listed for LA caught my attention, but apparently it wasn't just 'Porciuncula', but 'El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula', or as commonly cited from what i can see, ''El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles'

Conchir · 21-02-2021 8:47pm

https://i.imgur.com/ePSirtF.jpg

Map of the environs of Dublin, allegedly from 1884. Click on the link for a giant version.

Capt'n Midnight · 22-02-2021 1:16am

Nqp15hhu · 22-02-2021 2:50am

England’s average elevation is 59 metres. It is relatively flat so don’t be fooled by that number.

highdef · 22-02-2021 4:08am

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

England’s average elevation is 59 metres. It is relatively flat so don’t be fooled by that number.

Why would that number fool me when it's clearly in relation to England, Scotland and Wales?

Nqp15hhu · 22-02-2021 4:12am

highdef wrote: »

Why would that number fool me when it's clearly in relation to England, Scotland and Wales?

It’s actually the United Kingdom.

I’m pointing this out to everyone, not you of course.

22-02-2021 9:14am

Finland is very flat, it must be Lapland in the North driving that figure up.

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