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(yes OK new zealand is named after the dutch one but I'm technically right which is the best kind etc)
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May 11, 2018 10:52
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Jaded Burnout posted:(yes OK new zealand is named after the dutch one but I'm technically right which is the best kind etc) 
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May 11, 2018 10:58
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Jaded Burnout posted:(yes OK new zealand is named after the dutch one but I'm technically right which is the best kind etc) lol
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May 11, 2018 11:10
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May 11, 2018 11:16
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No I actually meant your post was funny and I literally laughed out loud 
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May 11, 2018 11:30
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May 11, 2018 11:31
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This is loads better than the usual terrible derails we get so here is some additional information:quote:Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sighted New Zealand in 1642 and named it Staten Land "in honour of the States General" (Dutch parliament). He wrote, "it is possible that this land joins to the Staten Land but it is uncertain", referring to a landmass of the same name at the southern tip of South America, discovered by Jacob Le Maire in 1616.
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May 11, 2018 11:40
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They were loving boring with the naming down under. New Zealand. New South Wales. Queensland. Victoria (named after a queen). Snooooooooooore. At least Tasmania was named after the explorer dude. And a buttload of suburbs and towns use the indigenous placenames which is cool.
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May 11, 2018 12:56
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I love that my passive aggressive whining about my internet has led to this. 
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May 11, 2018 13:08
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Canada and New England is the same (especially being called New England). New York. Birmingham. Southampton. Portsmouth. Manchester. Pick new names! Not just the major cities and ports of the place you left!
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May 11, 2018 13:09
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Naming towns and places after indigenous people is a pro move because it's really funny watching foreigners try to pronounce those places.
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May 11, 2018 13:34
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Jaded Burnout posted:Canada and New England is the same (especially being called New England). Even worse, they then pronounce them wrong.
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May 11, 2018 13:41
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Renegret posted:Naming towns and places after indigenous people is a pro move because it's really funny watching foreigners try to pronounce those places.
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May 11, 2018 14:23
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larchesdanrew posted:I have evolved. The last 8 tickets in a row have resolved themselves with my mere proximity to the affected devices.
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May 11, 2018 14:32
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Renegret posted:Naming towns and places after indigenous people is a pro move because it's really funny watching foreigners try to pronounce those places. That's actually how most Aussie suburbs and towns are named. You start off in Melbourne (once briefly known as 'Batmania'), have innermost suburbs/districts like Carlton and Hawthorn... then it's right to Werribee and Geelong. Or you do you fancy a trip up through Ballarat to Kooyoora? You could always take a drive to Dookie.
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May 11, 2018 14:55
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Melbourne needs to be changed back to Batmania right loving now.
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May 11, 2018 17:00
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Melbourne needs to be changed back to Batmania right loving now. Why would you slander Batman's good name by renaming Melbourne in his honor?
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May 11, 2018 17:10
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NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA MELBOURNE!
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May 11, 2018 17:11
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 
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May 11, 2018 17:19
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Jaded Burnout posted:Actually, Danish fibre speeds have been downgraded to VDSL2 speeds because "the Danes don't care about fiber optics" according to their BT-equivalent phone company. Also, speaking of Denmark, we have a town named Middelfart. And speaking of towns, there's an almost-insulting amount of them called Newcastle in various languages. BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 17:46 on May 11, 2018 |
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May 11, 2018 17:44
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Renegret posted:Naming towns and places after indigenous people is a pro move because it's really funny watching foreigners try to pronounce those places. In 2016 a town in my state renamed itself back to Utqiaġvik
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May 11, 2018 17:44
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D. Ebdrup posted:What company is lying this blatantly? TDC, apparently. D. Ebdrup posted:Also, speaking of Denmark, we have a town named Middelfart. I used to live near Nether Wallop.
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May 11, 2018 17:57
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2nd day of 0 tickets coming in due to people taking extended weekends off because of public holidays. Spent most of my day preparing for my Riverbed training and playing FIFA in the relax area of our office.
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May 11, 2018 18:04
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The Fool posted:In 2016 a town in my state renamed itself back to Utqiaġvik I am the foreigner who can't pronounce indigenous names.
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May 11, 2018 18:09
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ArcticZombie posted:Even worse, they then pronounce them wrong. Welcome to Versailles, Kentucky!
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May 11, 2018 19:07
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Aside from the fact that that wrongly paraphrases an at-best carefully-phrased claim by a PR person based on the fact that a survey they sent out didn't result in a directly-proportional number of new customers, it's plainly obvious that it's because they were too slow to roll out their own fiber such that all their potential customers had already gotten FTTH from their local and regional power companies. According to the 2016 numbers from the energy department in a PDF, there are almost half a million people with fiber, up from a quarter of a million in 2012 according to Wikipedias source for its dubious claims. Interestingly, I'm certain as can be that only a portion of that 1.1 million xDSL customers can actually get VDSL, because TDC has a lot of very very poor-quality copper in the ground - I remember how terrible my ADSL+2 AnnexM was before I got FTTH, my bandwidth would drop and latency would spike every single time it rained, and that was on a carefully-attentuated line only 650 meters from the DSLAM.
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May 11, 2018 19:14
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My house has FTTC, BT do provide an FTTP product, but I couldn't persuade them to even quote it. "It's really expensive" "Yeah I know" "We're talking thousands" "Yes. I know." Got nowhere.
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May 11, 2018 19:55
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Dude from att knocked on my door the other evening saying they were working on the building and asking if I wanted to switch. Asking 3 times what kinda of speeds they were getting and getting replies of TV stations got the door slammed on his face. Spectrum isn't much better though, the calls and flyers to add TV service is damned near every day. Fuckers.
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May 11, 2018 22:21
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ilkhan posted:Dude from att knocked on my door the other evening saying they were working on the building and asking if I wanted to switch. Asking 3 times what kinda of speeds they were getting and getting replies of TV stations got the door slammed on his face. Comcast. I have two accounts with Comcast: first is a business internet account with phone service. Second is Xfinity for tv channels ( because the business account only has “business-y” channels and news stuff). Ask me how many times I’ve called for problems with my internet and been told “you don’t have internet” because I’ve been transferred to the wrong side of the shop. Similarly “you don’t get [x channel]” because I’ve been routed to the business internet folks. Why is this so hard, people?
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May 11, 2018 23:26
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Also Hurricane, WV. Pronounced "hurrikun." I wish I were kidding.
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May 11, 2018 23:38
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Lebanon, Oregon always throws me for a loop when visiting my mother-in-law.
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May 11, 2018 23:40
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loving, Austria is always a lovely place. No, they won't change the name. Yes, they do know what it means in English.
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May 12, 2018 01:18
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Minnesota has Fertile, Climax, and Moorhead all within a hundred miles.
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May 12, 2018 01:29
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Volguus posted:loving, Austria is always a lovely place. No, they won't change the name. Yes, they do know what it means in English. I first heard about that place when the mayor put out a press release asking for the British tourists to please stop stealing the town sign.
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May 12, 2018 03:29
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ssrm-aLGNw
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May 12, 2018 05:23
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Volguus posted:loving, Austria is always a lovely place. No, they won't change the name. Yes, they do know what it means in English.
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May 12, 2018 13:34
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Kurieg posted:Minnesota has Fertile, Climax, and Moorhead all within a hundred miles. Those do sound like places Finnish settlers would name places. - written from "Whistling oval office swamp", Finland
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May 12, 2018 14:16
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My Grandma was born in Semen, Ohio.
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We have a Climax in Michigan, too.
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