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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 977 Views
Mine's Belgium Isaac - 15/09/2011 03:39:37 PM 634 Views
How can that be true Sareitha Sedai - 15/09/2011 03:57:23 PM 624 Views
Exactly! Darth_Katie - 15/09/2011 10:17:50 PM 627 Views
OH, I love OH, but mostly because it's boring Isaac - 15/09/2011 11:06:36 PM 581 Views
Well then Texas as Brazil makes perfect sense random thoughts - 15/09/2011 04:40:43 PM 680 Views
Which just goes to show... Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:23:27 PM 656 Views
That's pretty awesome. Nate - 15/09/2011 04:09:38 PM 630 Views
neat! *NM* Avendesora - 15/09/2011 04:40:15 PM 373 Views
um... is Austria doing well? *NM* Hieshyn - 15/09/2011 05:10:20 PM 334 Views
I think they're pretty solid. Stephen - 15/09/2011 05:25:05 PM 679 Views
*NM* Hieshyn - 15/09/2011 09:15:25 PM 340 Views
Ah no, I'm Greece. *NM* nossy - 15/09/2011 07:11:41 PM 311 Views
Austria? ßelals Girl - 15/09/2011 07:26:23 PM 634 Views
Made in Taiwan, Baby! Kel - 15/09/2011 08:02:23 PM 595 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 628 Views
They mean their GDP in absolute numbers is close to the same size? Legolas - 15/09/2011 08:10:00 PM 657 Views
Re: They mean their GDP in absolute numbers is close to the same size? Vivien - 15/09/2011 11:33:56 PM 609 Views
Puts TX in pretty good shape though. Joel - 16/09/2011 03:47:19 PM 682 Views
it would if the map was accurate random thoughts - 16/09/2011 05:08:03 PM 656 Views
So no more than a gimmick then; too bad. Joel - 16/09/2011 07:56:06 PM 607 Views
I got Turkey. *NM* LordPerrin - 15/09/2011 08:17:11 PM 291 Views
The misspelling of Ecuador bothers me. Spriteling - 15/09/2011 08:53:49 PM 802 Views
The mispelling of mispelling bothers me. *NM* Jasha - 27/09/2011 04:20:27 AM 362 Views
Why does Sweden always have to be the place with a crumbling car industry? *NM* jh - 15/09/2011 09:02:45 PM 264 Views
Delaware = Bangladesh?! Praziquantel - 15/09/2011 09:11:42 PM 533 Views
Aren't there about 150 times as many people in bangladesh as in delaware? jh - 15/09/2011 09:19:01 PM 659 Views
that, and how do banks affect GDP? LadyLorraine - 15/09/2011 09:37:49 PM 541 Views
The services banks provide stimulate economic growth. Ghavrel - 15/09/2011 09:40:11 PM 530 Views
Not the money that belongs to others, but Praziquantel - 15/09/2011 09:53:05 PM 624 Views
Closer to 190 times as many, actually. Ghavrel - 15/09/2011 09:37:53 PM 583 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 667 Views
Erm. Nate - 15/09/2011 09:55:08 PM 617 Views
Yeah, I don't see how those two figures are even similar tbh. *NM* Praziquantel - 15/09/2011 10:00:30 PM 214 Views
Still a huge enough difference to make you wonder about that map, though... Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:00:40 PM 610 Views
yeah I was looking at the PPP number which is 259B random thoughts - 15/09/2011 10:08:24 PM 624 Views
That's exactly what it is, yes. *NM* Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:20:56 PM 300 Views
Sudan would definitely be closer. Nate - 15/09/2011 10:21:00 PM 705 Views
math smath *NM* random thoughts - 16/09/2011 12:29:57 AM 372 Views
Re: yeah I was looking at the PPP number which is 259B Isaac - 15/09/2011 10:22:27 PM 545 Views
There's a flip side to that, too, though. Joel - 16/09/2011 04:31:06 PM 653 Views
I'd rather not have a political debate on the subject Isaac - 16/09/2011 05:51:50 PM 626 Views
I wasn't trying to make it political, honest. Joel - 16/09/2011 08:00:34 PM 594 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 825 Views
That's not all that similar! Vivien - 16/09/2011 12:43:10 AM 613 Views
Erm, nevermind. Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:05:13 PM 589 Views
Hmm. Nate - 15/09/2011 10:10:55 PM 673 Views
Yeah, I started out by confusing Delaware with Rhode Island and it went from there. Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:20:09 PM 686 Views
I noticed the edit thing a while back Stephen - 15/09/2011 10:57:01 PM 482 Views
Yeah, think it's pretty much always been that way. Joel - 16/09/2011 08:55:03 PM 554 Views
I have been known to call DE "the Black Hole of Calcutta for incorporation." Joel - 16/09/2011 03:40:39 PM 621 Views
The united Arab Emirates... and Brazil...eh *NM* Aisha - 16/09/2011 01:00:09 AM 301 Views
Connecticut being the UAE seems pretty appropriate in my mind for some reason ... The_Muted_Grimaud - 16/09/2011 03:08:23 AM 599 Views
Florida?! But that's America's wang! *NM* Colonel Logain - 16/09/2011 01:42:41 PM 306 Views
They prefer "The Sunshine State." Joel - 16/09/2011 07:09:21 PM 594 Views
only because it fits better on their license plates *NM* random thoughts - 16/09/2011 08:15:00 PM 285 Views
Yeah, THAT'S why they don't like being called "Americas wang." Joel - 16/09/2011 09:57:44 PM 640 Views
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