[ SECRET POST #2220 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2220 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Sherlock, The Hobbit, Doctor Who]


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[Hotel Transylvania]


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[Skyfall]


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[Love Actually]


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[The Walking Dead]


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[Small Wonder]


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[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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[Downton Abbey]


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[Magi]


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[Homestuck]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

...I know you're being sarcastic and I'm probably being stupid, but do people overseas really get something like that impression of USA geography from our tv shows and movies?

[(Anonymous)]

Tourists apparently sometimes tend to think they can travel from, say, Philadelphia to the Grand Canyon (in Arizona) for a nice little daytrip. Check notalwaysright.com or any online discussion about American geography and you'll find loads of examples.

[drakontion]

To be fair that's not limited to the US, and some things over there are closer than what you'd expect. When I was over there, I was surprised when I found it was only an hour or so's travel by car from Washington DC to a friend's place in PA, and then the same from that same place to New York city (in a totally opposite direction), plus it was almost completely urbanised the entire way (except for where the Amish were). Totally amazing. I'm used to driving for 4+ hours to see the next town.

On the flip side there are still tourists who think they can drive from Sydney to Perth in a smart car with a 600ml bottle of water.... *shakes head*.

So you know. It happens everywhere.

[(Anonymous)]

On the flip side there are still tourists who think they can drive from Sydney to Perth in a smart car with a 600ml bottle of water.... *shakes head*.


/Fellow Aussie WINCE

[(Anonymous)]

True, the opposite can happen in certain countries. When my sister went to Scotland with a choir she's in, she was floored how everything was an hour or an hour and half away (just in Scotland; she didn't go down into England), whereas here in Missouri (the Midwest), it takes five hours to get from St. Louis to either Kansas City or Chicago (nearly seven if you're traveling in snow). And on the east coast, things are closer together because the states are smaller, so you can travel through more states in a smaller amount of time.

Uh, I would never assume that about Australia.

[stormy1x2]

Canada is famous for this. We get thousands of American tourists asking at the Niagara Falls border in July how far it is to the snow so they can ski in summer. Niagara Falls being a lower latitude(longitude? I always mix these two up..) then most of the Western USA, I never understand this mentality. Have they never looked at a map of North America??

*says this noting Canadian tourists can be just as silly when going abroad*

[kamino_neko]

Latitude. Longitude runs north-south.

An easy way to remember is longitude lines are all the same length, whereas lines of latitude get shorter the further you go from the equator. (Also, that lines of latitude are called parallels, and are parallel to each other, whereas all meridians (lines of longitude) meet at the poles.)

[(Anonymous)]

I live in NS and have had people ask me if they can drive to Alberta for supper.