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Do they think foreign countries have a ZIP+4 AND a +1 country code?
If they can't remember the names of 50 states, I wouldn't expect them to understand ZIP Codes.
And +1 covers at least one foreign country.
A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
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I wonder if someone already converted his beer consumption into American beer units, or whether he really drank 17 German beers. Because at 0,5l a beer, that wouldn’t leave much else to do all day.
A can of normal American beer is 12oz. A 0.5l beer is equal to about 16oz so he actually drank more than 17 American beers. I assume the newspapers asked him how much he drank and the reply was 17 beers a day. Highly doubtful they did some kind of conversation.
I dunno... 17 is kind of an odd number to say in response to a question (unless he always drank exactly 17 beers a day, which would seem equally odd).
But 17 x 12oz = 204 oz = 6033 ml, which is almost exactly 12 x 0.5 liter beers. Which seems more like the sort of thing you'd say, i.e. Q: "How many beers do you drink a day?" A: "About a dozen"
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#73I used to work in a State Capitol, and would occasionally run into confused tourists in strange places, or very much lost. They were always Chinese or German and I’d run into them two or three times a year. One couple thought they were in Niagara Falls. Another somehow found themselves stuck in a secured employee parking garage. The strangest one was a person on a self guided tour who took a wrong turn and ended up w…
Back when I still worked in the office, one day I found a lost Chinese couple wandering around campus. The tourism app they got in China told them it was a shopping mall. This was right after Siri became able to do verbal translations, so that's how we communicated. I was very surprised and impressed how well it worked.
I went on a date with a Mexican girl who spoke no English. Google translate app worked incredibly well for two-way translation. I mean it was perfect. She had been dependent on it her whole time in the US.
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#74There was a time where I use to fly internationally very frequently. Very use to having the manager sort out the car/flight/hotel with our travel agent - so for the most part I just grabbed the tickets and go. Manager asked me - can you go to London? It was pretty cold in Minnesota, and London sounded nice. Turned brain off, got on the flight, and landed way too early. London, Canada... ffs, and it was even colder th…
Just be glad they didn't send you to Paris TX or Rome, GA. Edit: I forgot Memphis, TN.
As a Georgia resident...we have Rome, Ga AND Athens Ga so you can take a nice trip through European cities a few hours apart.
And a Gainesville, Ga not to be confused with a Gainesville, Florida.
We also have a Houston County...which is not pronounced the same as Houston, Texas (it is pronounced like house-ten)
Also a Decatur, GA not to be confused with Decatur, Alabama.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
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#75I have heard that Americans are terrible at geography (no offense), but this is really quite extreme... Edit: ok, some people got offended.
Are you suggesting we should have put Bangor somewhere else? As a New England resident, I am open to this idea.
I'm ashamed to say that i didn't bother reading the article. I thought it was current. I deserve those downvotes. As to your idea, in Old England you don't have to even put up with Bangor. Maybe you should consider moving? I might be open to that suggestion:)
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just be glad they didn't send you to Paris TX or Rome, GA. Edit: I forgot Memphis, TN.
As a Georgia resident...we have Rome, Ga AND Athens Ga so you can take a nice trip through European cities a few hours apart. And a Gainesville, Ga not to be confused with a Gainesville, Florida. We also have a Houston County...which is not pronounced the same as Houston, Texas (it is pronounced like house-ten) Also a Decatur, GA not to be confused with Decatur, Alabama. That's all I can think of off the top of my he…
We're also home to not one, but two Buckheads:
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#78There was a time where I use to fly internationally very frequently. Very use to having the manager sort out the car/flight/hotel with our travel agent - so for the most part I just grabbed the tickets and go. Manager asked me - can you go to London? It was pretty cold in Minnesota, and London sounded nice. Turned brain off, got on the flight, and landed way too early. London, Canada... ffs, and it was even colder th…
Just be glad they didn't send you to Paris TX or Rome, GA. Edit: I forgot Memphis, TN.
You laugh, but I had an interview with some airforce people for some scholarship money. Living in Paris France they scheduled me for a phone interview with someone in Paris Texas. Needless to say we missed each other with the timezone difference.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just be glad they didn't send you to Paris TX or Rome, GA. Edit: I forgot Memphis, TN.
As a Georgia resident...we have Rome, Ga AND Athens Ga so you can take a nice trip through European cities a few hours apart. And a Gainesville, Ga not to be confused with a Gainesville, Florida. We also have a Houston County...which is not pronounced the same as Houston, Texas (it is pronounced like house-ten) Also a Decatur, GA not to be confused with Decatur, Alabama. That's all I can think of off the top of my he…
There's also Cairo, not to be confused with Illinois or Egypt, as well as Albany (not to be confused with NY).
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#80On my first trip to New York City, I immediately turned my iPhone on upon landing (it was night outside) and had a very brief moment of panic that I had somehow boarded the wrong flight when the iPhone weather app said I was in "Jamaica".