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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 1285 Views
Mine's Belgium Isaac - 15/09/2011 03:39:37 PM 892 Views
How can that be true Sareitha Sedai - 15/09/2011 03:57:23 PM 896 Views
Exactly! Darth_Katie - 15/09/2011 10:17:50 PM 888 Views
OH, I love OH, but mostly because it's boring Isaac - 15/09/2011 11:06:36 PM 833 Views
Well then Texas as Brazil makes perfect sense random thoughts - 15/09/2011 04:40:43 PM 953 Views
Which just goes to show... Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:23:27 PM 909 Views
That's pretty awesome. Nate - 15/09/2011 04:09:38 PM 869 Views
neat! *NM* Avendesora - 15/09/2011 04:40:15 PM 495 Views
um... is Austria doing well? *NM* Hieshyn - 15/09/2011 05:10:20 PM 450 Views
I think they're pretty solid. Stephen - 15/09/2011 05:25:05 PM 1021 Views
*NM* Hieshyn - 15/09/2011 09:15:25 PM 456 Views
Ah no, I'm Greece. *NM* nossy - 15/09/2011 07:11:41 PM 422 Views
Austria? ßelals Girl - 15/09/2011 07:26:23 PM 898 Views
Made in Taiwan, Baby! Kel - 15/09/2011 08:02:23 PM 851 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 885 Views
They mean their GDP in absolute numbers is close to the same size? Legolas - 15/09/2011 08:10:00 PM 905 Views
Re: They mean their GDP in absolute numbers is close to the same size? Vivien - 15/09/2011 11:33:56 PM 867 Views
Puts TX in pretty good shape though. Joel - 16/09/2011 03:47:19 PM 948 Views
it would if the map was accurate random thoughts - 16/09/2011 05:08:03 PM 928 Views
So no more than a gimmick then; too bad. Joel - 16/09/2011 07:56:06 PM 850 Views
I got Turkey. *NM* LordPerrin - 15/09/2011 08:17:11 PM 406 Views
The misspelling of Ecuador bothers me. Spriteling - 15/09/2011 08:53:49 PM 1056 Views
The mispelling of mispelling bothers me. *NM* Jasha - 27/09/2011 04:20:27 AM 482 Views
Why does Sweden always have to be the place with a crumbling car industry? *NM* jh - 15/09/2011 09:02:45 PM 378 Views
Delaware = Bangladesh?! Praziquantel - 15/09/2011 09:11:42 PM 733 Views
Aren't there about 150 times as many people in bangladesh as in delaware? jh - 15/09/2011 09:19:01 PM 903 Views
that, and how do banks affect GDP? LadyLorraine - 15/09/2011 09:37:49 PM 808 Views
The services banks provide stimulate economic growth. Ghavrel - 15/09/2011 09:40:11 PM 771 Views
Not the money that belongs to others, but Praziquantel - 15/09/2011 09:53:05 PM 850 Views
Closer to 190 times as many, actually. Ghavrel - 15/09/2011 09:37:53 PM 831 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 926 Views
Erm. Nate - 15/09/2011 09:55:08 PM 868 Views
Yeah, I don't see how those two figures are even similar tbh. *NM* Praziquantel - 15/09/2011 10:00:30 PM 330 Views
Still a huge enough difference to make you wonder about that map, though... Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:00:40 PM 866 Views
yeah I was looking at the PPP number which is 259B random thoughts - 15/09/2011 10:08:24 PM 875 Views
That's exactly what it is, yes. *NM* Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:20:56 PM 412 Views
Sudan would definitely be closer. Nate - 15/09/2011 10:21:00 PM 1003 Views
math smath *NM* random thoughts - 16/09/2011 12:29:57 AM 483 Views
Re: yeah I was looking at the PPP number which is 259B Isaac - 15/09/2011 10:22:27 PM 802 Views
There's a flip side to that, too, though. Joel - 16/09/2011 04:31:06 PM 905 Views
I'd rather not have a political debate on the subject Isaac - 16/09/2011 05:51:50 PM 868 Views
I wasn't trying to make it political, honest. Joel - 16/09/2011 08:00:34 PM 868 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 1098 Views
That's not all that similar! Vivien - 16/09/2011 12:43:10 AM 864 Views
Erm, nevermind. Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:05:13 PM 835 Views
Hmm. Nate - 15/09/2011 10:10:55 PM 934 Views
Yeah, I started out by confusing Delaware with Rhode Island and it went from there. Legolas - 15/09/2011 10:20:09 PM 936 Views
I noticed the edit thing a while back Stephen - 15/09/2011 10:57:01 PM 728 Views
Yeah, think it's pretty much always been that way. Joel - 16/09/2011 08:55:03 PM 801 Views
I have been known to call DE "the Black Hole of Calcutta for incorporation." Joel - 16/09/2011 03:40:39 PM 873 Views
The united Arab Emirates... and Brazil...eh *NM* Aisha - 16/09/2011 01:00:09 AM 419 Views
Connecticut being the UAE seems pretty appropriate in my mind for some reason ... The_Muted_Grimaud - 16/09/2011 03:08:23 AM 852 Views
Florida?! But that's America's wang! *NM* Colonel Logain - 16/09/2011 01:42:41 PM 420 Views
They prefer "The Sunshine State." Joel - 16/09/2011 07:09:21 PM 861 Views
only because it fits better on their license plates *NM* random thoughts - 16/09/2011 08:15:00 PM 404 Views
Yeah, THAT'S why they don't like being called "Americas wang." Joel - 16/09/2011 09:57:44 PM 900 Views
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