amazing, common netherlands biking W

As a Belgian I can confirm that I have fallen victim to this exact thing more than once

That gutter tip helped me just a few minutes ago! Nice one.

As another Belgian, I can confirm this is a load of bull. You can't get your tires stuck in the gutter unless you mangle your wheel.

@@lLenn2 I meant if you don’t cross the gutter perpendicularly enough, you will definitely nothave a good time

No tenia idea que se llamaba así 🤣

Rhubarb pie with custard sauce

We eat those raw, with salt and chili flakes 😍

In Latin America Coca-Cola does the same thing

@@Mobium Coca-cola and Pepsi did the same in poland in the 90s and 00s

Dude, the amount of chaos we have with just sweet tea is enormous. Can't imagine if alcohol is widespread 💀

Another exception is the Philippines, SIM Card (Globe, Smart) and Soft drink (Coca Cola, Royal, Sprite) signs are much more common than alcohol (Red Horse, San Miguel) and cigarette (Marlboro) signs :D but all four can be seen

I suppose that does explain the higher rates of smoking there, thanks for the explanation c:

The size is 442x118mm in Finland compared to 520x110mm in Swedes is 7.8cm narrower and 8mm taller. 7.8cm is 15% of the width of the Swedish plate

Probably because there arent that much cars and so you dont need that much number-letter combinations as for example in France or Germany.

@@dieterdietert7232 hmm maybe, but here in Canada we use the same ABC-123 configuration as Finland and it looks like we have roughly the same number of registered vehicles as France (35mil as of 2019 vs 38 mil as of last year)

@@limerslimer Interesting, because there are about 30 million more people in France.

@@dieterdietert7232 I'd assume it's because of better public transit in France, here Toronto and Montreal are really the only places you can get by without a car. Lotta empty space with low population density probably also means tons of people own multiple vehicles.

Or holding the camera by himself. Nowadays there are Google Streetmap pictures with Bikes and somtimes they look as whe taken by foot.

There are lots of countries that have outlawed or restricted advertisement for cigarettes and alcohol, especially in Europe - with some exceptions. I think this could make up for quite some meta around the world.

@@hanswoast7 it happens in Europe too? Wow

@@josuaerick9670 In England where I live, all cigarettes are behind the counter with no advertising. They are behind a shutter - the shutter used to display the products inside. Now the shutter is 100% black. If you don't know what cigarette or tobacco you're asking for specifically, you won't get it, because it's not on display nor can you ask to check. Tobacco companies can't add any marketing to their product's packaging. Every pack of cigs or pouch of tobacco is covered in the "You and your children will all die suffering" imagery and slogans. They are all the same colour; a sort of brown-green.

@@AdamOwenBrowning for retail chains, it's illegal in Indonesia to display outdoor ads for cigs. The ads are indoors (to notify customer what's available) and the products behind counter. Your usual mom & pops shop is unregulated, however. Children often buys cigarettes and the shopkeepers just assume they're on an errand from their dads to but it (most of the times, yes)

Well I wouldn't want a bridge to collapse but at least a road has the ground too... that's pretty cool!

wow, you have now left a graffiti of female genitalia in a KZfaq comment section. And I appreciate that.

haha, I just googled it and we have a similar thing in the czech republic excpet the sides arent round but straight. it represents the same thing tho, usually its called picasso’s sun

Good! We have penises everywhere, we need representation for pussies too!

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If there is cows, it's Uruguay. If it is completely flat, it's Poland (except when it's France)

@@TrolledBy Lithuania always works for me on the flat rounds

@@tusk_ The only way I ever get a Lithuanian guess correct is when I see the language. It looks like someone tried to write Latin with Polish alphabet.

@@TrolledBy Another good baltic tip is if you see very steep rooves, it's Estonia. I am known by my friends for being great at Estonia even though I've told them the tip lol

@@timgehrsitz3267 Good to know. I usually get Estonia from gut feeling. The roads aren't as good as in Finland, but still far better than Russia. It also helps that I vividly remember my road trip from Tallinn to Riga.

It's fun! I promise even if you aren't good at it you'll have a blast (especially if you choose some of the super specific custom maps).

@@Ianman258 Aww you're so nice 😊 Ngl, I went and signed up right after I commented, but the site wouldn't size right on mobile, so I installed the app but it wouldn't let me sign in right away and made me repeat a tutorial again instead, which was annoying but tolerable except then that part was driving me nuts (who tf can think and look around with a giant cartoon hand taking up 1/6 of the screen and moving constantly? I clicked on the map to make the stupid hand go away but then I couldn't close the map again to look around properly AAAÄÃÀÂÂÄÃÅ) so I gave up and uninstalled it again 😭 If I could just get to the actual playing part I think I'd have a lot of fun, but it was so cumbersome to navigate their site and then frustrating to try to use the app that I didn't really even get that far. Wahhh, kvetch, whine, et cetera. I don't mean to buzzkill your joy about it though, I'm just venting. I do appreciate your encouragement, your comment is very wholesome and it was super kind of you to write it! I love the vibe of the community it seems to attract. I hope maybe some dev will see this comment or my annoyed review of the app, and make it less obnoxious for newcomers to get started. Anytime any app uses big distracting animated pointing hands or arrows or glowing buttons etc that don't go away quickly on their own, it makes me want to frickin' scream, but maybe I'm just old and cranky lol. But with all that said, I'm sure I'll probably try it again on my laptop eventually once my life's logistics are a little different and I'm on laptop or desktop more often! Hopefully it's a very different experience in that format 😆

Yeah I was thinking the same thing as well.

those are normal wires here, slums here have clustered meter adjacent to major road to prevent theft, they're called 'jumpers' here tho

It might also be raindrops on the lense or something else entirely :)

Nice one. Thanks! There is a similar meta in Norway with granaries :)

i love indonesian kretek cigs, i got one of my first indonesian rounds once when i started playing because i saw an ad for djarum black which i've ordered before lol

Those have gotta be way more unhealthy than even regular cigarettes. Without looking at the stats, I’d guess it has a similar effect on average lifespan of Indonesian men (since I’ve heard women there smoke them way way less) as vodka does on the average lifespan of Russian men. i.e. making them way shorter than the women’s average lifespan in those places. What a plague to have on a society.

its just regular google maps, the coverage shows up when you click the little yellow guy in the bottom right corner!

@@proc7520 cool! Thanks for that. Not sure how I missed.

Sibiu houses already on the list, thanks for the others! Will check it out!

thats pretty much it--bhutan has a lot of phallic imagery painted on buildings. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_paintings_in_Bhutan

@@proc7520 lmao are they literally part of their culture

yep nice catch, its actually kind of a sneaky edit but it cuts to a real uruguay loc as im spinning around

they're good 95% rules to use with a combination of other signals. you'll identify that you're in either romania or hungary, by language, vibe, and the distinct power lines that can only be mistaken with poland then you'll want to differentiate which you're in. same for the gutters, i don't think it's very easy to mistake belgium for austria just on architecture

oh yeah, a green truck and shorter license plates, must be really awful to live there

I think you might be correct, though "meta" is being used here as in "metagame," rather than "metadata." While there is an argument to be made that knowing these things to deduce your location is the actual game of Geoguessr rather than being a meta aspect of it, I think one could still argue that the act of learning these things in this way counts as metagaming anyway, as it is knowledge purely for gaining a competitive edge in the game rather than being things that one would normally know about the locations.

@@LeeSpork "purely for gaining a competitive edge in the game" also known as getting better at the actual game :D I mean, if you get too good it stops being geo "guessr" and more geo "knower" but that doesn't ruin the game for me. Part of why this game is great is because you get to learn more about the world. (instead of getting to know more about how google gathered the data which is so pointless, I hate meta)

Like it was already said, this is about game meta, not about metadata. In gaming meta is considered as the "best go-to most efficient" way of playing in a game. Like in a trading card game it would be using a deck of cards that has the highest chance of winning and most consistenly beats other decks. In a fighting game with a variety cast of characters, it would be using the character with the best moveset or fastest or strongest attacks. In terms of geo guesser, the meta would be to know what to look for, which gives you the fastest hints about your location. If looking for street signs is the fastest way to determine a country, then street signs are meta. The metas shown in the video are just mostly for very specific circumstances, like if you already got the region but need more specifics. Instead of walking around and wasting time looking for stuff, if you use hints, it will be the fastest way to win that round.

@@LucyKosaki You're describing the regular game. The word "meta" would add nothing then. Therefore we shouldn't use it in this way.

Meta stands for "most efficient tactic available", it's a game theory term, has nothing do to in this case with metadata

It's a third definition referred to specifically in video games. It's just a word describing an effective and popular strategy.

@@klondike3112 yeah that was 1 of the definitions I was thinking about, this doesn’t meet that definition

@@muhilan8540 Who cares. Nobody likes a prescriptivist.