il_serpente Posted November 16, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted November 16, 2021 54 minutes ago, Brumstopdogs said: Macy's isn't really a fashion brand. It's a department store that sells national brands and also has a number of its own "store brands" of different names. As far as I know, there a few, if any, fashion items that actually have Macy's as the brand name on the tag. Even if this is accounting for all in house brands of Macy's, I have trouble believing it would be the top brand in the US. They don't even have stores throughout the country and, although it's certainly not a luxury store, i have trouble seeing them coming close to Trumpland's favorite outlet for all things godly and American, Walmart. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 Same with Zalando. It’s an online retailer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 16, 2021 Moderator Share Posted November 16, 2021 1 hour ago, El Zen said: Same with Zalando. It’s an online retailer. So is ASOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 As usual with maps like this, the data just seems completely implausible. There were more Google searches in America for Macy's than for eg Nike? *Really*? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 On 14/11/2021 at 23:28, HanoiVillan said: EDIT: from: https://twitter.com/neilrkaye/status/1459985853527244800 I can't find Själland Denmark on that. Surely an island even if it's connected with both Sweden and Jylland by bridges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 17, 2021 Moderator Share Posted November 17, 2021 29 minutes ago, NoelVilla said: I can't find Själland Denmark on that. Surely an island even if it's connected with both Sweden and Jylland by bridges. They possibly didn't bother because they included the Islands of the New version EDIT: joking aside it is there, bottom but one row above the space left after the last entry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 (edited) @NoelVilla It is listed in the penultimate row, under its English name 'Zealand', between Cornwallis and Latangai. Edited November 17, 2021 by HanoiVillan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 4 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: @NoelVilla It is listed in the penultimate row, under its English name 'Zealand', between Cornwallis and Latangai. Of course, didn't really connect the dots with Zealand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 17, 2021 Moderator Share Posted November 17, 2021 Just now, NoelVilla said: Of course, didn't really connect the dots with Zealand. I moonied on your Swedish spelling and found a lot of IKEA furniture 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 1 minute ago, NoelVilla said: Of course, didn't really connect the dots with Zealand. To be honest, I hadn't realised until looking it up just now that Zealand *wasn't* its Danish name. Having gone down a bit of a rabbit hole on this, I don't know where the chart makers got the information from, but it's not Wikipedia, who have 100th-placed Guadalcanal here as the 110th-largest island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_by_area There seem to be some classification disputes (such as 'do fluvial (river) islands count?') and also some difficulties deciding whether some land in Antarctica under the ice shelf is actually an island or not, as well as some disputes on area. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 17, 2021 Moderator Share Posted November 17, 2021 1 minute ago, HanoiVillan said: To be honest, I hadn't realised until looking it up just now that Zealand *wasn't* its Danish name. Having gone down a bit of a rabbit hole on this, I don't know where the chart makers got the information from, but it's not Wikipedia, who have 100th-placed Guadalcanal here as the 110th-largest island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_by_area There seem to be some classification disputes (such as 'do fluvial (river) islands count?') and also some difficulties deciding whether some land in Antarctica under the ice shelf is actually an island or not, as well as some disputes on area. Zealand was 96th in the Wiki List, The Wiki List also had what I can only imagine is incomplete data as some Island off Brazil had a much lower area listed than its place in the list waranted 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 1 minute ago, bickster said: Zealand was 96th in the Wiki List, The Wiki List also had what I can only imagine is incomplete data as some Island off Brazil had a much lower area listed than its place in the list waranted Yeah, definitely wouldn't take Wikipedia as gospel on this, eg the entry for 90th placed Roosevelt Island says 'status as an island is disputed', and then if you read the opening of the relevant article it says 'despite its name, it is not an island, since the bedrock below the ice at its highest part is below sea level', so it seems different Wiki writers have different views on the topic, and as you say some of the data just seems to be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted November 17, 2021 Moderator Share Posted November 17, 2021 On the mercator one, I'm always surprised how big Mexico is - if you overlay it on Europe it stretches from Edinburgh right through to the other side of Turkey. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted November 17, 2021 Moderator Share Posted November 17, 2021 14 hours ago, Brumstopdogs said: Whenever I see Lululemon I always think 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 https://www.windy.com/ Play with the bar on the right, click on more layers. Really impressive site. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 According to that map it was 27 here in Perth,it was actually around 32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 (edited) My apolagies,I was looking at that map at 7:30pm and at that time it was 27 here in Perth. Edited November 28, 2021 by PussEKatt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted November 28, 2021 Moderator Share Posted November 28, 2021 On 27/11/2021 at 11:03, Xann said: https://www.windy.com/ Play with the bar on the right, click on more layers. Really impressive site. yeah, been using it for a couple of years or more. I was put on to it by our Flight Test people, who reckon it's as good as the paid for stuff they get specific for the purpose. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 2 minutes ago, blandy said: yeah, been using it for a couple of years or more. I was put on to it by our Flight Test people, who reckon it's as good as the paid for stuff they get specific for the purpose. Used to really like the Universal Satellite Server during the Napster era. Windy seems like a proper milestone further down that development path. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 Chile 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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