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Sometimes when I wake up, I wonder if somebody stuffed me into a trash compactor while I was asleep and then tried to un-squish me.
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I was just comparing the political map of USA and India. I noticed one thing - the states in USA have straight-line borders. Have you seen the borders of the Indian states?
Here's a comparison of both the countries' political maps. Do you notice that the Indian state borders are never straight?
P.S. Now I know why I can never draw straight lines!
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our borders are a bit more complicated then it looks. some states do have a river for a border. some states the line isn't strait. a couple states have strange oddities. couple states have parts that are totally cut off from the state. (KY has a part where you have to go though TN to get to) and (MN has a part where you have to go though Canada to get to)
Also some cities are cut in half. Union City IN/OH is split between the states also a town in Vermont is split via the US/CAN border. AND some states got the shape they got due to MONEY.
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Susanna
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MissCris
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And some states put all their money towards only half of the state....which makes me think borders might ought to be rearranged.
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Siberian_Khatru
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I can't stop engorging on these peanut butter filled pretzel bites.
Somebody save me from myself!
Somebody save me from myself!
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kenthomas27
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Yeah, where i live probably 2/3 of our county is national forest. So my property taxes are as high or higher than a lot of metro counties because of fewer people and property, only we don't have water, fire dept (it's volunteer), ems (they come from the next county over) and a very small police force. But the hunters from wherever can come shoot up the county, park on the road so you can't get by, and set fires for free. Along with the constant drone of 4 wheelers. Plus the schools are awful - there's two of them - and the poor grammar school kids ride the same bus as the teenagers in high school do and they get beat up all the time.
Thank you for explaining it to me.
In India, I can say that we don't have cities cut in half. I'm not sure whether any states have parts that are cut off from the home state. In other news...
Today I tried out the shower gel which I bought a few weeks back. It is a mix of orange and coconut milk. Now I smell like a fruit pudding.
My predictions on some important business trends are coming true. I should probably find some work as a "corporate soothsayer". If I can have a pet bird, my ensemble will be complete. Should I have a parrot or a raven?
India has other quirks - like states sharing capital cities - Haryana and Punjab, with Chandigarh that is a Union Territory, and the newly formed Telangana and Andhra Pradesh with Hyderabad.
States in India have long disputed each other over territories and dams. Not to mention cultural issues. India has such a plethora of languages and so much diversity that many states fear losing some of their unique cultural heritage.
Most metropolitan cities like Mumbai etc, have tensions with outsiders and locals.
Emigration of people from different parts of the country brings with it displacement of culture and also possibilities of abuse with settlement, that can be seen, especially towards people from the north eastern states of India.
So yeah. India has it's quirks.
Er....... State borders in our country are NOT based on rivers. They are just drawn on dry land. The border between two states may run through a forest (poor animals!), a mountain range or even across a river (like a river flowing between 2 or 3 states). Thanks to the wavy border, you wouldn't know if you are on this state or that state because there is no fencing to demarcate state borders. The only clues you get are from the local population, your GPS navigator, your cellphone reception tower (you will get an SMS welcoming you into the other state the moment you cross the border), and checkpoints/tolls/signboards on inter-state highways.
So, you see, it is more complicated here.
Impressive that you get an SMS right when you cross that really jagged border. Think how complicated it must have been for the programmers to set up the geographic parameters for those cell signal boundaries.
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MissCris
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That stuff really stinks :/ How frustrating that would be, when a little money thrown your county's way from time to time could help.
Well, maybe not though, because the people in charge of allocating money would (or probably do?) have other uses for it in mind. At least, that's how it seems to go around here, as far as I can tell. In my county, it seems like the money gets spent on a handful of things that the folks in charge find important, while things that actually ARE important get ignored. I'm sure every state/county/city has similar complaints, but I wonder if it's worse in rural areas (the neglect, I mean), simply because the head hanchos forget we exist out here in the middle of nowhere.
Now that I think about it, I don't really know a whole lot about the whole state/county financial breakdowns and whatnot...I know enough to be annoyed, but not enough to know who specifically to be annoyed at. Think I should go poke around and see.
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kenthomas27
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You know, actually Colorado is becoming something of national unrest. I've read too many times that there's Colorado, and then there's Denver. Then there's Vail in the winter and then there's Vail en el verano. There's the in-state voter, and there's the outta-state voter. It's actually a bright red state with an ultra blue Boulder.
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MissCris
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That pretty much sums it up, I think. There's definitely an "Us vs. Them" attitude here on the Western Slope...but I don't know that the folks in the Denver area feel that way about us because I honestly don't think they ever consider that we exist over here, for the most part.
It's kind of funny, to me...there's a few cities in CO that most people in the country have at least heard of- Denver, Aspen, Vail. And then there's the few cities that at least most Coloradans know of- Colorado Springs, Steamboat Springs, Grand Junction, Pueblo...and then there are the towns that exist less than an hour away from these cities that a huge number people swear they've never heard of. How do you live someplace and have no clue what the next town over is?
So with that type of mind-set, I'm not at all surprised that politicians and voters on the other side of the mountains don't realize there's a whole, huge portion of the state that they're representing pretty poorly.
A lot of people in this area seriously want to become part of Wyoming; a lot of people think we should split the state down the middle and be East/West Colorado. A lot of people think we should split off at the Rocky Mountains and push the "other side" over to Kansas and send legalized marijuana with them.
It occurs to me this could just be a new thread.
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kenthomas27
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Our county is always harping on getting roads paved. You can kind of tell someone from my county from the way their vehicle looks. There was this road that the county had promised promised promised to pave for years that never got work. I had to use that road a lot and after a rain or a snow, the wash outs and washboarding effect was miserable. Some places were really very hard to navigate. Anyhow, this state senator had a lot of land there and suddenly one day a road that led to his place was paved. Beautifully paved too. Even had road signs and divider paint. It DEAD ENDED to his driveway. Not too obvious. Well - I never knew exactly how many people lived up and down that dirt road, but they seriously came out of the wood work after that happened. In a way, I'm glad it did because there was so much yelling and screaming that the county paved that road. There's still a portion with a wood bridge that's not paved and people are still yelling about it and the senator lost his election and MOVED.
The moral of this story is that this senator was just not very good at being a politician. You may think i'm talking about being a good leader for his constituents, but no - I'm talking about being good at hiding the ultimate self centered benefit at the tax payer's expense. That's a good politician.
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Siberian_Khatru
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No kale?
lol, maybe that, too. Dunno yet. I don't feel up for eating much...
Today at school/work we made gingerbread men. The teacher I work with was on one end of the room asking the kids what they thought came next, I was on the other side of the room getting another station together, anyhow I hear this, OK first the, all the kids say the ingredients, water, then the, butter, then the, I hear a container open, cucumbers! The teacher remembered in the car that she forgot the eggs, she had put them in a container and grabbed the wrong one. The kids have no idea what goes in gingerbread. I went to the store and bought eggs, it was funny.
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What a day. Might make it an early night.
Turning twenty-one doesn't sound too bad, knowing it'll be celebrated with wine.
Turning twenty-one doesn't sound too bad, knowing it'll be celebrated with wine.