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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 1048 Views
Mine's Belgium Isaac - 15/09/2011 03:39:37 PM 702 Views
How can that be true Sareitha Sedai - 15/09/2011 03:57:23 PM 698 Views
Exactly! Darth_Katie - 15/09/2011 10:17:50 PM 691 Views
OH, I love OH, but mostly because it's boring Isaac - 15/09/2011 11:06:36 PM 651 Views
Well then Texas as Brazil makes perfect sense random thoughts - 15/09/2011 04:40:43 PM 748 Views
Which just goes to show... Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:23:27 PM 725 Views
That's pretty awesome. Nate - 15/09/2011 04:09:38 PM 688 Views
neat! *NM* Avendesora - 15/09/2011 04:40:15 PM 402 Views
um... is Austria doing well? *NM* Hieshyn - 15/09/2011 05:10:20 PM 361 Views
I think they're pretty solid. Stephen - 15/09/2011 05:25:05 PM 747 Views
*NM* Hieshyn - 15/09/2011 09:15:25 PM 366 Views
Ah no, I'm Greece. *NM* nossy - 15/09/2011 07:11:41 PM 338 Views
Austria? ßelals Girl - 15/09/2011 07:26:23 PM 704 Views
Made in Taiwan, Baby! Kel - 15/09/2011 08:02:23 PM 661 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 695 Views
They mean their GDP in absolute numbers is close to the same size? Legolas - 15/09/2011 08:10:00 PM 723 Views
Re: They mean their GDP in absolute numbers is close to the same size? Vivien - 15/09/2011 11:33:56 PM 671 Views
Puts TX in pretty good shape though. Joel - 16/09/2011 03:47:19 PM 719 Views
it would if the map was accurate random thoughts - 16/09/2011 05:08:03 PM 723 Views
So no more than a gimmick then; too bad. Joel - 16/09/2011 07:56:06 PM 664 Views
I got Turkey. *NM* LordPerrin - 15/09/2011 08:17:11 PM 318 Views
The misspelling of Ecuador bothers me. Spriteling - 15/09/2011 08:53:49 PM 862 Views
The mispelling of mispelling bothers me. *NM* Jasha - 27/09/2011 04:20:27 AM 390 Views
Why does Sweden always have to be the place with a crumbling car industry? *NM* jh - 15/09/2011 09:02:45 PM 291 Views
Delaware = Bangladesh?! Praziquantel - 15/09/2011 09:11:42 PM 564 Views
Aren't there about 150 times as many people in bangladesh as in delaware? jh - 15/09/2011 09:19:01 PM 719 Views
that, and how do banks affect GDP? LadyLorraine - 15/09/2011 09:37:49 PM 611 Views
The services banks provide stimulate economic growth. Ghavrel - 15/09/2011 09:40:11 PM 591 Views
Not the money that belongs to others, but Praziquantel - 15/09/2011 09:53:05 PM 657 Views
Closer to 190 times as many, actually. Ghavrel - 15/09/2011 09:37:53 PM 645 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 732 Views
Erm. Nate - 15/09/2011 09:55:08 PM 684 Views
Yeah, I don't see how those two figures are even similar tbh. *NM* Praziquantel - 15/09/2011 10:00:30 PM 244 Views
Still a huge enough difference to make you wonder about that map, though... Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:00:40 PM 684 Views
yeah I was looking at the PPP number which is 259B random thoughts - 15/09/2011 10:08:24 PM 695 Views
That's exactly what it is, yes. *NM* Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:20:56 PM 325 Views
Sudan would definitely be closer. Nate - 15/09/2011 10:21:00 PM 766 Views
math smath *NM* random thoughts - 16/09/2011 12:29:57 AM 398 Views
Re: yeah I was looking at the PPP number which is 259B Isaac - 15/09/2011 10:22:27 PM 610 Views
There's a flip side to that, too, though. Joel - 16/09/2011 04:31:06 PM 717 Views
I'd rather not have a political debate on the subject Isaac - 16/09/2011 05:51:50 PM 685 Views
I wasn't trying to make it political, honest. Joel - 16/09/2011 08:00:34 PM 655 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 893 Views
That's not all that similar! Vivien - 16/09/2011 12:43:10 AM 673 Views
Erm, nevermind. Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:05:13 PM 648 Views
Hmm. Nate - 15/09/2011 10:10:55 PM 739 Views
Yeah, I started out by confusing Delaware with Rhode Island and it went from there. Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:20:09 PM 745 Views
I noticed the edit thing a while back Stephen - 15/09/2011 10:57:01 PM 545 Views
Yeah, think it's pretty much always been that way. Joel - 16/09/2011 08:55:03 PM 613 Views
I have been known to call DE "the Black Hole of Calcutta for incorporation." Joel - 16/09/2011 03:40:39 PM 680 Views
The united Arab Emirates... and Brazil...eh *NM* Aisha - 16/09/2011 01:00:09 AM 328 Views
Connecticut being the UAE seems pretty appropriate in my mind for some reason ... The_Muted_Grimaud - 16/09/2011 03:08:23 AM 670 Views
Florida?! But that's America's wang! *NM* Colonel Logain - 16/09/2011 01:42:41 PM 333 Views
They prefer "The Sunshine State." Joel - 16/09/2011 07:09:21 PM 669 Views
only because it fits better on their license plates *NM* random thoughts - 16/09/2011 08:15:00 PM 307 Views
Yeah, THAT'S why they don't like being called "Americas wang." Joel - 16/09/2011 09:57:44 PM 707 Views
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