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merithyn

I learned a new word today, and I love it!

QuoteKummerspeck

German Etymology
Kummer ("grief, sorrow") +‎ Speck ("layer of fat, bacon, adipose")

Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈkʊmɐˌʃpɛk/
Hyphenation: Kum‧mer‧speck
Noun
Kummerspeck m (genitive singular Kummerspecks):  (uncountable) Excess weight or body fat gained due to emotional overeating.
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

Syt

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/5taqy3/areas_of_europe_as_us_states_of_equal_gdp_as_well/ddlet2k/



QuoteTo make this map, I calculated the GDP (nominal) of every subdivision of every European country, based on the most recent data. I then grouped these subdivisions together into areas with a GDP equal to a US state. Then, more for fun than anything else, I found the most populous/important few cities in each European area and replaced them with the names of large/important cities from the corresponding state. It took quite a while.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Eddie Teach

Damn, for a moment there I thought that Paris region was supposed to be Iceland.  :lol:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Savonarola

I was at the grocery store this weekend.  A woman, a complete stranger, walked up to me:

Woman:  You look like a young Woody Allen.
Savonarola:  Okay...  :unsure:
Woman:  You must get that all the time
Savonarola:  No not really :unsure:

I was feeling kind of down about that.   :(  Then I asked myself what Woody Allen does when he feels blue; so I went to the local high school and picked up a girl.   :)

;)
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

alfred russel

Greece just got insulted.  :lol:
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There's a fine line between salvation and drinking poison in the jungle.

I'm embarrassed. I've been making the mistake of associating with you. It won't happen again. :)
-garbon, February 23, 2014

Josquius

I've no idea what's going on in Paris and why it gets this treatment whilst London doesn't.
But interesting how Switzerland is divided cantonally.
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Tonitrus

Quote from: Tyr on July 29, 2019, 05:50:28 PM
I've no idea what's going on in Paris and why it gets this treatment whilst London doesn't.
But interesting how Switzerland is divided cantonally.

It was the only way to make Texas fit.  :alberta:

Tonitrus

Quote from: alfred russel on July 29, 2019, 04:35:33 PM
Greece just got insulted.  :lol:

I think Ukraine comes out the worst of all.

Admiral Yi

When the hell did DC become the size of Hungary?  They must be talking greater metropolitan area.  Washingtonland.

Tonitrus

Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 29, 2019, 06:41:15 PM
When the hell did DC become the size of Hungary?  They must be talking greater metropolitan area.  Washingtonland.

It's not about raw size...just equivalent GDP for the respective areas.

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Tonitrus on July 29, 2019, 06:43:51 PM
It's not about raw size...just equivalent GDP for the respective areas.

Ah, OK.  That makes a lot more sense.

katmai

Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 29, 2019, 06:41:15 PM
When the hell did DC become the size of Hungary?  They must be talking greater metropolitan area.  Washingtonland.
Learn to read ffs!  <_<
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Admiral Yi

Check out the spelling of Illinois/Sweden.

Admiral Yi