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I’m trying to settle an argument with someone here.
So I’m a person who always likes to know where they are in the world at any given time. If I’m a passenger in a car or bus travelling from place A to place B, I also like knowing where all the various places are that I’m passing through. So if I’m passing through a suburb that has a specific vibe, I want to know what that place is, so that I know for next time that I’ve previously driven through Cerritos or Gardena and I have an idea of what kind of places Cerritos or Gardena are, instead of them just being random, anonymous names on a map. This means that, if I’m a passenger, I’ll be checking Google Maps to see where I am every now and then just out of pure curiosity. And this is something that annoys me about being in the actual driving seat – because I’m being blindly guided by my GPS and I can’t just zoom out of my app while I’m driving to see more than just a close-up view of the road I’m on, I don’t really have a good idea of where I am at any given time, and so I don’t really have a sense of the various places I’m passing through.
A person I travel with a lot, however, seems to consider this extremely weird, unusual and unsettling behaviour that nobody else does except for me. Nobody else looks at Google Maps on a car journey just out of pure curiosity of where they are at any given moment. Apparently the thing to do if you discover an area en route that kind of has a cool vibe, is to pass a restaurant or something, and then look up the name of that restaurant online once you’ve already completed that journey. Why should you care about some random suburb that you’re just passing through?
Does nobody else do this?
Perfect morning for having a tea outside. Really doesn’t get much better than this.
I saw that r/Turkey has a “cultural exchange” with the Poland subreddit. So, there’s a thread on the Turkish subreddit where people can ask questions, and vice versa. So far, it’s not very interesting 😂 but okay.
If something like that took place here, which subreddit would you invite? Basically a thread where you could ask people from any country casual questions.
Also, how many wasp stings do you get every year? I don’t get that many but every so often a wasp and I find ourselves in a situation with a conflict of interest. Yesterday I was unfortunate to accidentally squeeze one as I bent my arm and got my first one this year. Usually I only get one per year.
Sorry, another question 😅 did anyone else see a massive orange full moon yesterday? It was so cool.
This weekend is Sarawak Independence Celebration.Though Sarawak is not really ‘independent’ at all…it became part of the Malaysian federation after decolonisation from the UK.
Anyway, there are lots of events going on in Kuching.Many people around wearing traditional clothes,dance performances and music in the streets etc.
Sarawak has a really interesting history actually, especially the ‘White Rajah ‘ period.When it really was independent!
I was watching Rally Latvia yesterday, listening to the commentators, and one of the commentators at one point said when trying to explain something to us spectators “it’s kinda like driving on gummy bears”.
How am I supposed to know what driving on gummy bears feels like??????