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Yeah, I started out by confusing Delaware with Rhode Island and it went from there. Legolas Send a noteboard - 15/09/2011 10:20:09 PM
I saw what your post said before, and was going to tease you, but then you changed it. The funny part is that clicking on the edit link in your post doesn't show the original post. Isn't that what it's supposed to do? For me it just shows your edited version still. Weird.

That is a bug/strange functionality Ben decided to implement, which I handily exploited to not look quite so foolish. :P But yes, it shouldn't be that way - covering up a painful gaffe is one thing, covering up harsh insults or ban-worthy comments quite another.

It WOULD have made more sense if my momentary confusion had been true, though, in terms of the map being accurate...
P.S. I wouldn't be able to name any regional bordered districts in Belgium, so it wouldn't have even been very good teasing. Hell, I don't even know if you have regional bordered districts. Do you call them counties? Provinces? Regions?

Provinces and regions both (as in, the regions consist of provinces). The provinces are largely administrative, the regions are actually politically important (but there's only three of them). And then we have the communities, which partially overlap with the regions, and partially not. And it only gets more complicated after that, so I don't think you really want to know. ;)
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A map. Because maps rock. US states renamed to countries with similar GDPs. Rebekah - 15/09/2011 03:28:54 PM 1281 Views
Mine's Belgium Isaac - 15/09/2011 03:39:37 PM 889 Views
How can that be true Sareitha Sedai - 15/09/2011 03:57:23 PM 892 Views
Exactly! Darth_Katie - 15/09/2011 10:17:50 PM 885 Views
OH, I love OH, but mostly because it's boring Isaac - 15/09/2011 11:06:36 PM 830 Views
Well then Texas as Brazil makes perfect sense random thoughts - 15/09/2011 04:40:43 PM 946 Views
Which just goes to show... Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:23:27 PM 903 Views
That's pretty awesome. Nate - 15/09/2011 04:09:38 PM 864 Views
neat! *NM* Avendesora - 15/09/2011 04:40:15 PM 491 Views
um... is Austria doing well? *NM* Hieshyn - 15/09/2011 05:10:20 PM 447 Views
I think they're pretty solid. Stephen - 15/09/2011 05:25:05 PM 1016 Views
*NM* Hieshyn - 15/09/2011 09:15:25 PM 454 Views
Ah no, I'm Greece. *NM* nossy - 15/09/2011 07:11:41 PM 420 Views
Austria? ßelals Girl - 15/09/2011 07:26:23 PM 894 Views
Made in Taiwan, Baby! Kel - 15/09/2011 08:02:23 PM 842 Views
I'm back in Russia! This is really cool. Wouldn't have thought that Florida = = Australia. Vivien - 15/09/2011 08:06:06 PM 882 Views
They mean their GDP in absolute numbers is close to the same size? Legolas - 15/09/2011 08:10:00 PM 899 Views
Re: They mean their GDP in absolute numbers is close to the same size? Vivien - 15/09/2011 11:33:56 PM 863 Views
Puts TX in pretty good shape though. Joel - 16/09/2011 03:47:19 PM 944 Views
it would if the map was accurate random thoughts - 16/09/2011 05:08:03 PM 921 Views
So no more than a gimmick then; too bad. Joel - 16/09/2011 07:56:06 PM 847 Views
I got Turkey. *NM* LordPerrin - 15/09/2011 08:17:11 PM 403 Views
The misspelling of Ecuador bothers me. Spriteling - 15/09/2011 08:53:49 PM 1052 Views
The mispelling of mispelling bothers me. *NM* Jasha - 27/09/2011 04:20:27 AM 479 Views
Why does Sweden always have to be the place with a crumbling car industry? *NM* jh - 15/09/2011 09:02:45 PM 376 Views
Delaware = Bangladesh?! Praziquantel - 15/09/2011 09:11:42 PM 729 Views
Aren't there about 150 times as many people in bangladesh as in delaware? jh - 15/09/2011 09:19:01 PM 898 Views
that, and how do banks affect GDP? LadyLorraine - 15/09/2011 09:37:49 PM 802 Views
The services banks provide stimulate economic growth. Ghavrel - 15/09/2011 09:40:11 PM 767 Views
Not the money that belongs to others, but Praziquantel - 15/09/2011 09:53:05 PM 845 Views
Closer to 190 times as many, actually. Ghavrel - 15/09/2011 09:37:53 PM 828 Views
my backyard is bigger than Delaware and has more people in when I have a barbecue random thoughts - 15/09/2011 09:47:20 PM 924 Views
Erm. Nate - 15/09/2011 09:55:08 PM 865 Views
Yeah, I don't see how those two figures are even similar tbh. *NM* Praziquantel - 15/09/2011 10:00:30 PM 327 Views
Still a huge enough difference to make you wonder about that map, though... Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:00:40 PM 863 Views
yeah I was looking at the PPP number which is 259B random thoughts - 15/09/2011 10:08:24 PM 871 Views
That's exactly what it is, yes. *NM* Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:20:56 PM 409 Views
Sudan would definitely be closer. Nate - 15/09/2011 10:21:00 PM 999 Views
math smath *NM* random thoughts - 16/09/2011 12:29:57 AM 481 Views
Re: yeah I was looking at the PPP number which is 259B Isaac - 15/09/2011 10:22:27 PM 799 Views
There's a flip side to that, too, though. Joel - 16/09/2011 04:31:06 PM 900 Views
I'd rather not have a political debate on the subject Isaac - 16/09/2011 05:51:50 PM 865 Views
I wasn't trying to make it political, honest. Joel - 16/09/2011 08:00:34 PM 865 Views
As Legolas says, that is essentially what PPP GDP is, and why I and others prefer it. Joel - 16/09/2011 03:59:41 PM 1094 Views
That's not all that similar! Vivien - 16/09/2011 12:43:10 AM 861 Views
Erm, nevermind. Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:05:13 PM 830 Views
Hmm. Nate - 15/09/2011 10:10:55 PM 930 Views
Yeah, I started out by confusing Delaware with Rhode Island and it went from there. Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:20:09 PM 932 Views
I noticed the edit thing a while back Stephen - 15/09/2011 10:57:01 PM 721 Views
Yeah, think it's pretty much always been that way. Joel - 16/09/2011 08:55:03 PM 797 Views
I have been known to call DE "the Black Hole of Calcutta for incorporation." Joel - 16/09/2011 03:40:39 PM 870 Views
The united Arab Emirates... and Brazil...eh *NM* Aisha - 16/09/2011 01:00:09 AM 416 Views
Connecticut being the UAE seems pretty appropriate in my mind for some reason ... The_Muted_Grimaud - 16/09/2011 03:08:23 AM 848 Views
Florida?! But that's America's wang! *NM* Colonel Logain - 16/09/2011 01:42:41 PM 417 Views
They prefer "The Sunshine State." Joel - 16/09/2011 07:09:21 PM 857 Views
only because it fits better on their license plates *NM* random thoughts - 16/09/2011 08:15:00 PM 401 Views
Yeah, THAT'S why they don't like being called "Americas wang." Joel - 16/09/2011 09:57:44 PM 895 Views
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