Australia v USA

[erilyn]

I watched the most recent VM ep last night. I love this show SO MUCH.

I was looking up travel info the other day, and came across these cool map overlays comparing the relative size and distances between places for Australia v USA and Australia v Europe. I've seen things like them before, but I'm gonna post them here so I've got them for reference. We often joke about tourists asking questions like "Can I drive from Sydney to Perth in a day?"[1], but it also helps me visualise the US and Europe better.





I was talking to trumpeterofdoom, and I commented that the silly interviews like the VIVA thing I posted this morning and Cup My Ballots are so much better than the straightforward ones where they get asked all the same questions everytime (sobriety! what have you been doing since the last album! being a father!) that we can recite their answers along with them. Not that this was a groundbreaking discovery by me, but I had to explain why she then killed me with this interview (oh, the money I'd pay to see it).

JM: Interviewer: what's being sober like?
JM: AJ: throws hands in air HOMOSEXUAL!
JM: Nick: ...
JM: Kevin:...AJ, we talked about this.
Me: Howie: Did I mention I have a girlfriend?
JM: AJ: HOMOSEXUAL!
Me: Brian humps Howie's leg
JM: AJ jumps on Howie

AJ should answer every question by yelling HOMOSEXUAL at his bandmates for not apparent reason (see VIVA clip if you haven't already).

[1] The answer is HELL NO!

Comments

[kikiduck.livejournal.com]

Okay, something like Brisbane to Sydney I could see people wondering, but Perth? ARE YOU A MORON? Come on, yes maps are exactly truly to scale, but they're not THAT far off.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

I think the problem is that they don't see maps like this, and just don't realise that how big we are. Cause the middle is pretty unpopulated (we've only got 20 million all up, and 90% of them are within 100km of the coast).

But yes, there are many many jokes made about people's complete unfamiliarity with Australia *g*.