Post Race!

[Peter Porter]

I'm sure we can talk Gaouser into going!

[Peter Porter]

A trip like that is equal to tens of thousands of posts, which would make him leapfrog past jmcilhinney's level...

[Peter Porter]

...reaching "God of Nuts" status!

[Shaggy Hiker]

He's doing that without the post count.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm a bit surprised we haven't seen more of him in the Post Race.

[Shaggy Hiker]

He'd fit right in.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Anyways, here we are on yet another post. What strange graphics will it have on it?

[Peter Porter]

Anyways, here we are on yet another post. What strange graphics will it have on it?

[Peter Porter]

[Peter Porter]

[Peter Porter]

[Delaney]

I'm sure we can talk Gaouser into going!

I didn't dare to do that joke. you are more courageous than me

[Shaggy Hiker]

Those are certainly some strange graphics.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Well, the first one is, anyways. Stan and Ollie aren't so strange, nor is the guy walking off the wharf. As for the gal getting hit by the fish...that happens all the time.

[dday9]

Bruh, Shaggy what do y’all got going on in Idaho?

[dday9]

https://mobile.twitter.com/idahotrib...a64Q1dgcOUEtTg

[Peter Porter]

Know someone who would like this hat?

[Peter Porter]

I hope he didn't hit a grounder.

[Peter Porter]

Movie night after a parade.

[Peter Porter]

He didn't have the weight, so he took belly flopping to a new height!

[Peter Porter]

Let me know when it's too much.

[dday9]

Never

[Shaggy Hiker]

I liked the reply from NoelCaslerComedy: "20 Fascists in the back of a truck is called a U-Heil"

[Shaggy Hiker]

North Idaho is a beautiful place...except for the people in it. The Aryan Nations had their compound up there, until they were sued into bankruptcy. There are plenty of other white separatists groups up there. It might have to do with all the lead.

[dday9]

I didn’t realize that any other city existed in Idaho expect for Boise.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm not sure what constitutes a city. I suppose I could look it up...but why bother.

We have a few cities. We have even more places that call themselves cities, but aren't all that big, so other states might not call them cities. Then we have places that have 'city' in their names, but NOBODY would call them a city (Idaho City, Elk City, etc.) if they didn't have it in the name.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I just got a second offer to buy my house in Detroit. I wonder how much I could get for it? Considering I have never even BEEN to Detroit, and don't THINK I have a house there, any offer would be pretty good.

[szlamany]

Cities get "incorporated" in CT - not sure that works in each state government the same way.

Most of the time, "counties" contain "cities" - in the case of New York City, is contains "five counties" (Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island and Kings County, commonly known as the Brooklyn) also called"boroughs".

I was born in the College Point, the borough of Queens County, New York City...

There are more "official" county names - I think Staten Island is actually Rockland County, or some such things as that,

[Shaggy Hiker]

Cities get "incorporated" in CT - not sure that works in each state government the same way.

It does not. The New England states have a rather different system than most of the rest of the country, but it may be that NH (where I grew up) is different from CT, as well.

In NH, you are always in a town and there are cities. In Idaho, you are always in a county, but you are not always in a town. Since you were always in a town in NH, they tended to be sprawling things, since they covered all the ground. In Idaho, towns can be really small in geographic area, so they can appear much larger than NH towns because the people are packed more tightly together. If you are outside of the town, you can be out of luck if you need fire, police, and so forth.

There are also other, semi-formal, entities in Idaho. There can be spots on the map that have names. There might be a house, or two, or perhaps there had once been a town there. Frankly, I still don't understand it all, out here.

[dday9]

Louisiana is more along the lines of Idaho, expect we call counties parishes.

Fun fact, Louisiana had counties at one point, but residents didn’t respect them. So the government redistricted them to reflect the Catholic parishes and residents were like “ok, this is cool”

[dilettante]

Reminds me of the place I live, which was once a village but that was dissolved decades age and got folded back into township government. The village name lives on as a school district and post office.

I still have some old photos that show a cattle drive down the main drag to a stockyard next to the railroad platform (both long gone now too). Until just a few years ago you could stand in that street and hold the photos up and still recognize the old church, homes, and storefronts crowding in the cattle.

Since then most of the old buildings were razed to make room for creeping gentrification. Earlier residents have long been priced out of the old "downtown" by developers. People who had come here in the 1980s or before now feel like unwelcome guests in their own home town. Several churches, a mosque, a Hindu temple, and even an ashram/monastery have all moved several miles out into the countryside.

[FunkyDexter]

Cities are a woolly concept in the UK. Historically it needed to have a cathedral but the queen can also just declare a city. Cardiff is particularly weird. It's a city but it contains Llandaf... which is a city. It's like a Russian Doll of Cities.

[dday9]

I still can't get over the fact that brits call cookies biscuits. So the fact that y'all have a city inside a city does not surprise me.

[dilettante]

"Biscuits" and Gravy? Perhaps the equivalent there is something like Scones in Curry?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Cities are a woolly concept in the UK.

Sheep are a woolly concept in Idaho.

About a week ago, well over 100 sheep were killed when they fled a pair of wolves and ended up trampling one another to death (none managed to trample themselves to death, as far as I know). Of course, the wolves got blamed when it should have been the stupidity of sheep that was to blame.

I would imagine that the wolves were either laughing like hyenas, or were aghast.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Cities might be an aspirational thing, in Idaho. Some of the places with the name 'city' were VERY temporary, such as Silver City in Owyhee County. Technically, it wasn't so temporary, as some buildings still stand. It might even have had a pretty large population, but it was all miners. They were allowed to drink, in those days.

Then somebody started a rumor that rubies had been found, and everybody moved. I don't think there was ever much silver near Silver City, but there certainly weren't any rubies wherever they ran off to.

There are some nice quartz crystals in the mine tailings from the speculative digs around the area.

[NeedSomeAnswers]

I still can't get over the fact that brits call cookies biscuits. So the fact that y'all have a city inside a city does not surprise me.

Well it's not so simple as that, we call particular types of Biscuits, Cookies i.e. these




Where as these are all Biscuits





And these are Cakes..... at least for Tax purposes

[Delaney]

Same names for the same items in France : cookie, biscuit and gateau. Biscuit can be also called "gateau sec" ie dry cake. We use the word cookie in french. it came in use in France with the first box of cookies who arrived.
by the way, biscuit is a french word.

[Peter Porter]

We call these Keks in Germany.

Well it's not so simple as that, we call particular types of Biscuits, Cookies i.e. these




Where as these are all Biscuits





And these are Cakes..... at least for Tax purposes

[Shaggy Hiker]

We call them dinner, in the US.