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  1. Mr Bulldops

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    I think the real question here is who goes to pornhub and then types porn into the search? The site is called pornhub, it's a hub of porn, literally everthing on it is porn. Does that search just take you back to the front page?
     
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  2. dahldennsull

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    damn at that friends influence explosion with Emma blowing up in early 2000's.
     
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  3. TC

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    Jennifer sounds real 1970s to me
     
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  5. Tony Ray Bans

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    Man my grade had a ton of Brittany's. Checks out.
     
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  7. Shawn Hunter

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    What is this?
     
  8. Wicket

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    After the first 2 europe gets very bad very quickly
     
  9. Brewtus

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    My bad. Meant to post the intro...

    GaWC - World Cities List

    Although there is a general consensus on which are the leading world cities, there is no agreed upon roster covering world cities below the highest level. So an Inventory of World Cities was made up by a team called GaWC Globalization and World Cities - Study Group & Network - At Loughborough University in the UK. The inventory of world cities based upon their level of advanced producer services. Global service centres are identified and graded for accountancy, advertising, banking/finance and law. Aggregating these results produces a roster of 55 world cities at three levels: 10 Alpha world cities, 10 Beta world cities and 35 Gamma world cities. These are found to be largely geographically concentrated in three 'globalization arenas', northern America, western Europe and Pacific Asia.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city
     
  10. Sterling A

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    - Netflix monitors sites like BitTorrent, then acquires the shows and movies that people pirate the most.


    - Airplane food isn't very tasty because our sense of smell and taste decrease by 20% to 50% while flying.

    - When you are black-out drunk, your brain literally loses the ability to create new memories.

    - George Harrison lost his virginity while the other Beatles secretly watched. They cheered when he finished.

    - Bill Murray was once caught smuggling 4.5kg of cannabis after joking to the passenger next to him about smuggling cannabi

    - Less time separates us from Tyrannosaurus rex than separated Tyrannosaurus rex from Stegosaurus.
     
  11. beist

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    I can't map to this.
     
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  12. Duck70

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    This one
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  13. TC

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    There's more to it than this IMO
     
  14. Sterling A

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    go on......
     
  15. je ne suis pas ici

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    Would you rather have a nice succulent tv dinner on the ground or a random sandwich heated up in a 6 inch long tray on a airline?

    People could rightfully argue either tastes better
     
  16. Prospector

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    More of a til or last resort random thought post imo
     
  17. Gin Buckets

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    States with Most and Least unused vacation days.

    http://www.nationalgeographic.com/t...ff-americans-dont-take-vacation-time-rankings

    "Idaho tops the list of most unused vacation, with 78 percent of workers failing to use their time off. Over a third of Idahoan workers surveyed said they worried about showing “complete dedication to their job,” which discouraged them from taking time away. On the flip side, only 38 percent of Maine workers left vacation days unused, with over half of those surveyed saying their company encourages time off.



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    When it comes to cities, Washington, D.C. takes the workaholic cake: 64 percent of District workers had unused vacation. The high concentration of government workers (40 percent compared to only 13 percent nationwide) could be a factor, since government workers are less likely to take vacation compared to other industries. To the north, only 40 percent of workers in Pittsburg had unused time, and are less likely to feel anxious or guilty about being away from their jobs."
     
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  18. Gin Buckets

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    So your picture is really just mapping out the world, right? This (obviously) looks a bit different. However, how is Atlanta a Gamma city on yours and a Beta + on this? Sincere question, I'm just trying to understand the difference between the 2.

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  19. je ne suis pas ici

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    Birrminghammmm! (US)
     
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  20. WhiskeyDelta

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    Dublin is an "Alpha level" city? Pfffffffffft
     
  21. The Banks

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    Seems right for Alaska. A ton of jobs are heavily geared towards summer so companies give employees lots of time off but to be used in the wintertime only. Sometimes it's hard to use up 8 weeks of PTO
     
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  23. shawnoc

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    BRB, selling all of my Chevy stock.
     
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  24. chet fire

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  25. chet fire

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    Not vouching for accuracy, btw:

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  26. Shawn Hunter

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    Interesting how the vast majority of Australia has no indication of modern civilization
     
  27. dump

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    because humans die there
     
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  28. Nostradumass

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    Humans die everywhere.

    They get eaten in Australia.
     
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  31. chet fire

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    Looks like the election map, durr durr durrrrrr.
     
  32. Stagger Lee

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    That Baby Jessica (well) bump in the 80s
     
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  33. chet fire

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    Looks a lot like that GDP map up there:

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  34. Nostradumass

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    I wonder why the south east big cities all happened to line up in a row like that. In the north east it's coastal so that makes sense but not in the southeast.

    And in the heartland there's a strip of big cities running north to south. Intradesting.
     
  35. Shawn Hunter

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    Perhaps the southeast is a railroad thing?
     
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  36. GamecockInCbus

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    That strip in the southeast would continue up through Virginia to DC if not for the way independent cities work in Virginia.
     
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  37. VaxRule

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    Yeah, cities not being part of counties in Virginia always screws up maps like this.
     
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  38. chet fire

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    Railroads make sense. I know I look at that string of heartland cities and think "I-35."
     
  39. Shawn Hunter

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    Perhaps interstates too. Also, major rivers could be a factor, I know a majority of the biggest cities in the southern half of Virginia all grew up around the James River. Or at least it seems like a majority did.

    Charlotte/Mecklenberg Co. would be one notable exception to the river and train theory though, Charlotte didn't start taking off until the interstate system came about.
     
  40. rodmansrage

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    im like hella shocked that peeps in cali vacation to mexico. equally shocked that peeps in wyoming bounce to thailand to see chicks with dicks.


    hella.
     
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  41. Arrec Bardwin

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    A lot of that is people going back home
     
  42. TC

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    I'm assuming those destinations are after they control for stuff like "Myrtle Beach"
     
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  45. laxjoe

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    according to the article, utah just has a large population from Tonga.
     
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  46. Tony Ray Bans

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  47. steamengine

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  48. dahldennsull

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    obvious bust in the data, as all of the SE is actually going to Panama City Beach
     
  49. Nostradumass

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    Marshall Islands?

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