That Moment...

I don't doubt you, but when I look at a good old-fashioned Mercator projection the concept just baffles me. I'm amazed that Sweden has summers.

 

sounds like your neighborhood needs an old, Italian mobster-type guy in a t-shirt

in all seriousness, though... thats so wild! honestly, when I think of RI, i think of light houses, mist, and crabs. not anything like "pit crews"

 

You've got to appreciate the professionalism though

 

Is that a fact?

 

Maps of the winter arrival date for the last three winters:

White = no winter (by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute's definition; mean temperatures below 0 C for 5 days straight)

So yeah, it seems like we're losing more of our winters every year...

(Might just be a temporary fluctuation, though. At least we can hope so.)

 

Osaka only gets below 0c a few times a year, at night, in February but we're at roughly the same latitude as Los Angeles in the USA and Fez in Morocco.

 

I feel really stupid but are those dates or depth measurements?

 

I think they're arrival dates, but Euro style: 2/12 is December 2nd and so on.

 

Yeah you're right. I love how I can understand the Swedish words; "efter" is so adorable it made me smile.

 

We get this here, too, in Germany (although it's getting rarer recently)... but we're at 51 deg latitude. That's like southern Canada... Montreal and Ottawa are ~45 deg... Gulf Stream FTW.

 

TMW you realize it is time to get off the train...

 

The map of Sweden is freakishly similar to the map of my home state in India.

 

@Wreybies knows what's going on, don't you?

Just an in-joke, no worries

 

That moment when you discover that Birkir Bjarnason can take penalties and wonder why the heck Iceland are still giving them Gylfi Sigurdsson.

 

That moment when you realize you're so American that the last post was total gibberish to you.

 

I read it like 5 times and I was pretty sure I was having a stroke.

 

You are not alone. My brother LOVES football. I fall asleep every time he makes me watch a game with him.

 

There must be some cultural knowledge that rubs off though? Living in the US, it's possible to insulate yourself from any mention of soccer at all; but I know about baseball and football, even though I'm not really into it.

 

TMW you were on your way to lunch, taking short cut walk through the park and decide to slow down oncoming traffic so a family of geese can cross the street..... said geese then follow you through the park and wait outside of the sandwich shop for you to come out.....

 

TMW you're looking at photos of when the twins were two and three years old, and you realize you'll never feel that important or that amazed or blessed ever again in this lifetime.

 

That moment when a 3D printing of a really buff Dugtrio being filmed very artfully to the Taylor Swift song Love Story makes you laugh hysterically at 2 in the morning because time is irrelevant and nothing matters.

 

Yeah, if I think about it, some of it does. Yeah. I have heard of American's apathy towards football. I never quite understood why.

 

Basically America's sports calendar is full. Basketball goes from October to April, baseball is from March to the end of September, American football is Sept-January, and hockey is in there in the winter too.

That's why I like sumo. Fifteen days every other month, and an individual match that goes over a minute is unusual. You can get as much or little as you want and see the whole championship match on the news if you missed it live.