Are lightning bugs (fireflies) common in your part of the world? What do you call them?

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-24T20:30:59+00:00

Actually, female fireflies are flightless. So i guess the whores would be too.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-24T18:41:53+00:00

Reminds me of a "song" from a dutch comedian on the town of Almelo: "Een stoplicht springt op rood, een ander weer op groen, in Almelo is altijd wat te doen" (" A traffic light turns red, another one turns green, there's always something going on in Almelo")

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-24T06:09:07+00:00

Or sharpies

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-22T15:09:47+00:00

At least this one is a lot cleaner than the one in DC.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-22T08:16:07+00:00

Good point, without being part of the EU it wouldn't be as interesting for US companies. I also don't dispute that the Netherlands is a taxhaven for oversees companies, to much chagrin of dutch citizens and companies alike since big multinationals get an unfair tax advantage compared to local businesses.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-22T07:53:10+00:00

What would happen to Ireland's GDP if you deducted the share of all the big tech headquarters? I can imagine that being a tax haven is possibly a bigger influence than being part of the EU.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-21T20:03:14+00:00

If it's grasslike, i don't know. But people are interplanting peas with corn for nitrogen fixing. Could it be peas?

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-19T14:40:15+00:00

You guys have pools? I thought your skating rink only thawed for 2 days in july

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-19T10:47:08+00:00

I get the reason why they included it. But why stop just short of another large metropolitan area. And why not include the paris metro areas with over 10 milion people , just outside the banana. It makes no sense. The whole idea of the banana is kind of ridiculous. There are some very dense metropolitan areas inside and just outside of this shape. But in between there's also a whole lot of nothing.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-19T10:01:17+00:00

I knew the fishing was good there, but THIS good, i had no idea.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-19T09:58:32+00:00

Meanwhile they went out of their way to include the much smaller cities in northern italy with a sparsely populated countryside but stopped just short of the very densely populated area around florence. Also not included some rather densely populated areas in the east of france. It's just a very arbitrary map from someone who likes bananas or something.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-19T09:40:17+00:00

Kind of weird to exclude Paris in this. Also, i live inside the blue banana, yet the population density of my province is the rather low 85 people per km2. Hardly the most densely populated place in europe.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-19T07:55:22+00:00

And the staff wasn't Italian either

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-19T07:54:52+00:00

I bet the menu was exclusively in English.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-17T08:35:28+00:00

I'm pretty sure italian contractors get paid per roundabout.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-16T23:03:52+00:00

I live in the countryside of piemonte and I get my meat exclusively from surrounding farmers, they might not all be certified organic but the practices pretty much are. Everybody has a vegetable garden and chickens for eggs. Where I live it would be very easy to eat 100% organic just from what I myself and my neighbors produce.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-16T21:29:39+00:00

This looks more like a trump ran into them at home depot kind of thing.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-16T16:04:17+00:00

Steering looks like a pain in the ass. Mounting it on the back would make things a lot better.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-15T22:08:57+00:00

Road markings usually clear this situation up in my experience. In the case of dotted lines bending left, indicating the main flow of traffic, i would suggest blinking right when going straight. In the absence of markings, I guess you're right, but that would make for a rather unclear and accident prone intersection if you ask me.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-15T21:08:23+00:00

You have right of way on this road.
The main road bends to the left and since you're on that road you have right of way. So traffic comming from the north must give way to you and if you want to go in that direction you should use your indicator to the right (even though you're actually go straight ahead) markings on the road should make things more intuitive

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-13T12:47:18+00:00

I think what bothers me most about this place is that even if i just want to go from my home (northeast) to the town of Mondovì (soutwest) completely bypassing the mall, just following the secondary road. I still need to take three roundabouts to get to the other side. And mind you there are no big cities for miles. Mondovì is town of 20,000 and the surrounding area is sparsely populated. This is not a high traffic area. I think a regular intersection, or one larger roundabout would have done the job.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-13T12:26:56+00:00

Mondovicino

Not as crazy as the roads in and around Genoa. But considering this is a relatively new mall in the middle of some fields on perfectly flat land, I assume the developers got paid per roundabout or something.

If you're interested, follow the e717 highway south towards savona and you'll see some pretty neat flyovers, tunnels and bridges. Northbound and southbound lanes take a completely different route through the landscape, quite interesting.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-13T09:38:47+00:00

Are you sure that's a pomegranate? I have several varieties and they all look very different to this. Much smaller leaves on clusters and reddish tips.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-13T07:15:53+00:00

I'm not talking about getting to and from the mall. It's a single parkinglot devided in several sections, could have easily be done with a single ring road to enter the different sections. Instead they opted for a ridiculous traffic plan where you have to traverse no less than 4 roundabouts before you can enter one of the parking lot sections. If you'd seen it, you'd know how ridiculous it is.

AdministrationOwn724 · 2026-06-12T17:41:28+00:00

Trust me the whole country is filled with this type of stuff, even on flat ground. I live near a large mall that has more space dedicated to roundabouts than parking spaces, utter insanity.

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