Dubbo to The Dish

[den]

90km in 4 minutes 21 seconds.

Comments

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

Golly! They let you drive at up to 110? I gotta go there, around here they only let you drive 70!

(Why do they call miles "imperial units," anyway? Aren't those silly French things the accepted units of measure in the Empire these days? Oh, wait, it's the Commonwealth. Never mind.)

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

British Imperial Units... we did have an Empire once, biggest the world has ever seen actually both in terms of land mass [43%] and population [61%].

Also teh only one in recorded history which was voluntarily dismantled. [America doesn't count since technically it revolted before the empire was formed.]

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

...biggest the world has ever seen actually both in terms of land mass [43%] and population [61%]...

I have to respectfully disagree with that. The Hapsburgs controlled a much larger empire when they got the seat of the HRE. Charles I of Spain (and Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire) received titles in 1519 claiming over 2/3 of the world's landmass:

King of the Romans, Emperor-elect; semper Augustus; King of Spain, Sicily, Jerusalem, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, the Indies and the mainland on the far side of the Atlantic; Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Luxembourg, Limburg, Athens and Patras; Count of Habsburg, Flanders and Tyrol; Count Palatine of Burgundy, Hainault, Pfirt, Roussilon, Landgrave of Alsace; Count of Swabia; Lord of Asia and Africa.

-=TK

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Claim, yes. But did they actually rule it?

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

For varying definitions of "rule," yes. They controlled the trade with all of those locations, and had governmental systems on the ground in each one. When you add in their direct relations and tributary extended family (those who ruled in the family name), the Hapsburgs were the most powerful family in history.

Then the Brits defeated the Spanish Armada...

-=TK

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

110 kilometres per hour, not miles per hour. 100 km/hr = 61 mi/hr, give or take.

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

I would like to thank you for being the only person to realize that I really am that impossibly stupid, that I was actually completely serious and not, in any way, even CONSIDERING making a JOKE, and that I am completely unable to determine that they use the metric system in Oz and that 110 km/h is almost exactly the 70 mph I was comparing it to- well, it's actually 68.3508 miles per hour, but it's pretty close. Anyway, thanks.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

As someone who lives in another metric country, I don't assume that every American knows what the metric system is, let alone how to convert from American measure to metric. I don't think you're stupid -- I was just trying to be helpful. Now that I know how you react to that, I won't bother again.