Meme Thread... no politics

In reply to Keith Tanner :

Yet 50% of the population huddles close to Detroit for warmth. 

A crazy statistic that I was thrown at in a video about demographics: The Tokyo metropolitan area has a larger population than Canada.  One city.  Yikes.

Granted, Tokyo is a big sprawl, and something like 20% of Japan's population lives there, because a lot of companies are based there because everyone lives there because...  But still, mind blowing.

thatsnowinnebago said:

Oh so you guys must both surf right?

Yeah, in a manner of speaking, in that I surfed right on out of Redding and never looked back.

Meme, such as it is, totally unrelated.

In reply to DarkMonohue :

I did NOT install those lights.  I don't even know where that mall is.  And no one saw me anyway.

Keith Tanner said:

"Big state". So cute. 

Let me tell you about land mass...

California is practically infinite in comparison to an island nation the size of Kentucky, most of which is uninhabitable (the island nation, not Kentucky).  Nobody said a durned thing about it being bigger or snowier than anyplace featured in a Tim Hus song, of which I listened to several today. So don't get your ketchup chips in a tangle.

Meme related this time.

In reply to DarkMonohue :

Ha, same. Surfed on out in 2011, also to the PNW (after a pit stop in the central valley).

Keith Tanner said:

"Big state". So cute. 

Let me tell you about land mass...if California was in Canada, it would be 7th out of 11 provinces. And that doesn't count the three territories, one of which we cut in half 20-odd years ago and the smaller chunk is still twice as big as Texas.

But some things are pretty much consistent across that land mass. Except for Vancouver, we don't talk about Vancouver.

The thing about CA isn't the pure size of it, it's the *variety* in that size. I've driven the length of CA. I've driven the length of Texas. I've driven across the Great Plains. The pure variety of CA is what makes it insane.

When I lived in Sacramento, it was like, "What are you into? At least one of the best places in the world for that is within a 4 hour drive."

Meme unrelated...

DarkMonohue said:

Beer Baron said:

LOL

Y'all got nothing on California...

My favorite situation with that was when I lived in Germany. "Where are you from?" California. "*Just* California?" California is bigger than Germany. "...What?"

Thank you.

I expected thashane to post something like this but you beat him to the punch. There were many times I had to explain to Yurpeans that I was from California, but somehow not LA or San Francisco, did not live near the beach, did not know any celebrities, and was in fact very familiar with this "snow" they were excited to introduce me to. 

It's a big state...

Meme unrelated. 

Ha! I had to double check to make sure all those cars weren't in my driveway. I've learned not to get excited when something is posted as "Norcal" but it's actually in the Bay

Keith Tanner said:

Let me tell you about land mass...if California was in Canada, it would be 7th out of 11 provinces. And that doesn't count the three territories, one of which we cut in half 20-odd years ago and the smaller chunk is still twice as big as Texas.

But some things are pretty much consistent across that land mass. Except for Vancouver, we don't talk about Vancouver.

 

I was reading those thinking... and you tell people you're from Canada and they automatically think you live in the freezing cold and snow year round.

And you post that pic.

I was telling Mrs. P I might get the dune buggy running so we could take it out Christmas day when everybody's over. But now I hear it's going to rain

Appleseed said:

I heard this song today, and was reminded again that Paul was certainly the least talented of all the Beatles.

Please forgive me if this is a repost. I love it. 
 

thashane said:

Ha! I had to double check to make sure all those cars weren't in my driveway. I've learned not to get excited when something is posted as "Norcal" but it's actually in the Bay.

You ain't kidding. I grew up four hours north of the Bay Area.  Anything south of Cottonwood was foreign territory. 

I tried to find some more specific NorCal or Emerald Triangle memes, but they were all either political or dark. Or both.

Appleseed said:

I hate that berking song with every fiber of my berking corporeal existence.

In reply to DarkMonohue :

Need more explosives this time 

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

In reply to Keith Tanner :

Yet 50% of the population huddles close to Detroit for warmth. 

A crazy statistic that I was thrown at in a video about demographics: The Tokyo metropolitan area has a larger population than Canada.  One city.  Yikes.

Granted, Tokyo is a big sprawl, and something like 20% of Japan's population lives there, because a lot of companies are based there because everyone lives there because...  But still, mind blowing.

Even better - that huge territory of Nunavut? The one that's larger than Mexico? It has a population that's smaller than my little Colorado town. Under 40k people.

I've lived in Southern Ontario, which is the other spot where you're more likely to get rain than snow at Christmas unless I've missed a secret hot spot. You still get snow. Toronto famously called out the army to help dig out the city in the late 90s.

(note, meme is a couple of years old but still funny)