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My Friend and I go MT Biking alot, he is real paranoid about Ticks and Lime disease. Is his fear THAT warranted? or should I be THAT worried too?
 
He doesn't have to be paranoid. They are dangerous IF they are infected and stick there head in your flesh. If you remove it the first 12 hours, even an infected tick can't infect you. And If you're infected and you see a red infected circle around the place were it bit, go to the doctor, he/she will give you antibiotica and this will cure the infection.

But be warned, don't temped faith and stay out of long grass etc...
 
Touring Mars
Notice also that most maps have Britain right in the middle, and that the gaps between the latitude lines (which are supposedly equidistant) are much further apart around the UK..
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Most British maps have Britain in the middle.

Maps in Spain have mainland Europe in the middle. Maps in the US have America in the middle. Japanese maps have Japan in the middle... no joke.
 
High-Test
Is it normal to have a recurring headache in the same spot? As in, it happens at one point or another almost every day over at least a week?
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It's probably just a brain tumor or cerebral embolism. I wouldn't worry about it (it'll likely just make things worse)
 
-Diego-
Most British maps have Britain in the middle.

Maps in Spain have mainland Europe in the middle. Maps in the US have America in the middle. Japanese maps have Japan in the middle... no joke.
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And they are all wrong, since technically all maps should be centered upon wherever Chuck Norris is.. (or so I've heard)
 
Touring Mars
And they are all wrong, since technically all maps should be centered upon wherever Chuck Norris is.. (or so I've heard)
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The best answer here is the same given by The Dude when asked if he must use so many cuss words.
 
Touring Mars
Probably alot to do with Britain...

Notice also that most maps have Britain right in the middle, and that the gaps between the latitude lines (which are supposedly equidistant) are much further apart around the UK.. the reasons for that are probably historical or have something to do with allowing more detail in these regions, but it also has the curious effect of making the UK look alot bigger than it actually is...

Also, it depends on what maps you are looking at - at which way round you decide to look at them!
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The distortion you speak of comes from the projection method used to put a spherical landscape onto a flat surface. A world map using the Mercator projection is more and more distorted the further you get from the equator. It ain't just England that's big. Compare, say, Alaska, Greenland, the Scandinavian countries as they appear on a map vs. a globe.

Nevertheless, since the Prime Meridian runs through some unknown hamlet in England, world maps used by most of us have England's longitude in the center of the map. It's nice to (have tried to) rule the world at the time maps got to be good.
 
wfooshee
Nevertheless, since the Prime Meridian runs through some unknown hamlet in England, world maps used by most of us have England's longitude in the center of the map. It's nice to (have tried to) rule the world at the time maps got to be good.
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:rolleyes: I don't think there have been any hamlets in England since the 16th Century. The Prime Meridian doesn't just happen to pass through Greenwich, it's where it was established.
 
Touring Mars
And they are all wrong, since technically all maps should be centered upon wherever Chuck Norris is.. (or so I've heard)
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Crap, when Jack Bauer hears that all hell will break lose... :scared:

TheCracker
The Prime Meridian doesn't just happen to pass through Greenwich, it's where it was established.
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You're quite right.
 
None of this answers why North is "up" and South is "down" though. If the Brits did have a huge influence in mapping the world, why would they make North up? Did they want to be on "up" side of the planet? And all the savages and evil creatures in South America, Africa and Australia on the "down" side? :lol: ("There's an up and down side to every Schwartz")

So what's the deal? Did they acknowledge that the Scandinavian countries were better then they were because they were MORE up?
 
Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Canada and Russia are better countries than the UK, because we're farther North? Sweet! :lol:
 
Grand Prix
Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Canada and Russia are better countries than the UK, because we're farther North? Sweet! :lol:
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I'm in the UK, and I'm further north than you. :p

I think. I don't really understand latitude....
 
So Australians are the worst of the worst? makes sense... I know a few who would fit the description
 
They were descendants of British criminal masterminds, and the Brits banished them there too... (or at least the locals have that connection) I'm really not surprised either.
 
Sureshot
Greenwich is a London borough.
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TheCracker
:rolleyes: I don't think there have been any hamlets in England since the 16th Century. The Prime Meridian doesn't just happen to pass through Greenwich, it's where it was established.
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Geez, I have the longest crummiest day at work in the history of the Universe and I come back to find a bunch of Limeys all offended at my sarcasm!!

Grow a thicker skin!! :p

(BTW, this is more sarcasm. I am perfectly aware that the Prime Meridian running through Greenwich is not some strange coincidence.)

As for why North is up, I think it's a good question. I have no idea, other than the possibility that the earliest cartographers knew they were closer to the North Pole than the South. Just guessing.

East or West up doesn't make any sense; all our globes would be rolling around the libraries everywhere, getting in the way.
 
Wasn't it the Egyptians who had the poles backwards to what they are now?

They are/were(?), upper Egypt is below lower Egypt.

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Upper Egypt is "upper" because it's in the upper (upstream) region of the Nile river.
 
wfooshee
Upper Egypt is "upper" because it's in the upper (upstream) region of the Nile river.
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That also applies to the early days of Canada, when Quebec was labeled Lower Canada and Ontario was labeled Upper Canada, because Ontario was further up the St. Lawrence river.
 
V1P3R
Yea, have you seen some of the "crap" those goobers have been turning out?
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Yep... over in the photoshopped cars thread? But nothing compared to the crap coming from Ireland... Ireland is it?
 
Diego, that's nothing. You just wait until the people over at the Canary Islands have internet installed and start posting their work...




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Why do we find passing wind funny?

:D
 
Alex.
Why do we find passing wind funny?

:D
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Because it contains ammonia (which is the same chemical for laughing gas) so go figure! :sly:
Another good question. How do you remove chewing gum from your clothes? :D
 
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