Re: How Good Is Your Geographic? [5]
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Originally Posted by D-Type
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Originally Posted by steveaki13
I don't think they like asking questions and are not around much. Someone else got a question who had a go at answering the last?
In fairness, if someone isn't prepared to play the game fully and ask a question then see it through, they shouldn't be answering should they?
I agree.
Twice he has answer and left the new question part. :dozey:
Re: How Good Is Your Geographic? [5]
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Originally Posted by anfield5
this rings a vague bell is the Owen falls dam in Central/East Africa? Something is relating it to the top reaches of the White Nile near lake Victoria? It may have been mentioned on Top Gears finding the source of the Nile. As to the name of the falls it obliterated/replaced, I have no idea :)
Without saying too much (I've looked it up now that I have posted an answer) and you are
way closer then me, thats for sure.
Re: How Good Is Your Geographic? [5]
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Originally Posted by steveaki13
I don't think they like asking questions and are not around much. Someone else got a question who had a go at answering the last?
Hey I don't live on this Chit chat forum and quite frankly there are some real bossy types who get all bitter when they can't have their way, D Type. Last visit 23 Feb 2014 22:14 . Time currently 22.29 one day later almost exactly...
Maybe you should learn to play by the rules and quit butting in ahead--and complaining...
See I work--and work long days taking care of kids and manufacturing motorsport parts... I don't live at a desk or work at a desk--except work correspondence...
We are in different time zones many of us and don't all have the chance to fock off at work playing games...
But whatever, I guess you Dtype and Steveaki run this game and just decide to run it any way you want.
jeezuz.
Re: How Good Is Your Geographic? [5]
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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
But I concede the right to ask the next question. Last time I won and posed an easy question all the Americans complained....both of them.
I assume based on this, that you wouldn't be asking the next question. Sorry Janvavurpa :)
Re: How Good Is Your Geographic? [5]
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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
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Originally Posted by steveaki13
I don't think they like asking questions and are not around much. Someone else got a question who had a go at answering the last?
Hey I don't live on this Chit chat forum and quite frankly there are some real bossy types who get all bitter when they can't have their way, D Type. Last visit 23 Feb 2014 22:14 . Time currently 22.29 one day later almost exactly...
Maybe you should learn to play by the rules and quit butting in ahead--and complaining...
See I work--and work long days taking care of kids and manufacturing motorsport parts... I don't live at a desk or work at a desk--except work correspondence...
We are in different time zones many of us and don't all have the chance to fock off at work playing games...
But whatever, I guess you Dtype and Steveaki run this game and just decide to run it any way you want.
jeezuz.
I don't claim to run the game. I simply remind people of the rules occasionally.
The game is
(1) Someone finds a geographical question and posts it.
(2) Others then answer it, without looking up the answer.
(3) The person who posted the question then tells people if their answer is correct, maybe gives hints and if necessary liftsthe ban on Googling. In short administers it.
(2) is the fun part. (1) and (3) are the price you pay to play the game. So, if you are not prepared to go to the trouble of researching a question, asking it and fielding the responses then the answer is simple - don't answer.
Re: How Good Is Your Geographic? [5]
On the Owen Falls question.
It's not in North America or in Britain (we do have some waterfalls but they are small ones with little hydro potential). The Owen falls hydro-electric scheme is in a country where English is not a native language but is one of the official languages.
Re: How Good Is Your Geographic? [5]
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Originally Posted by D-Type
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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
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Originally Posted by steveaki13
I don't think they like asking questions and are not around much. Someone else got a question who had a go at answering the last?
Hey I don't live on this Chit chat forum and quite frankly there are some real bossy types who get all bitter when they can't have their way, D Type. Last visit 23 Feb 2014 22:14 . Time currently 22.29 one day later almost exactly...
Maybe you should learn to play by the rules and quit butting in ahead--and complaining...
See I work--and work long days taking care of kids and manufacturing motorsport parts... I don't live at a desk or work at a desk--except work correspondence...
We are in different time zones many of us and don't all have the chance to fock off at work playing games...
But whatever, I guess you Dtype and Steveaki run this game and just decide to run it any way you want.
jeezuz.
I don't claim to run the game. I simply remind people of the rules occasionally.
The game is
(1) Someone finds a geographical question and posts it.
(2) Others then answer it, without looking up the answer.
(3) The person who posted the question then tells people if their answer is correct, maybe gives hints and if necessary liftsthe ban on Googling. In short administers it.
(2) is the fun part. (1) and (3) are the price you pay to play the game. So, if you are not prepared to go to the trouble of researching a question, asking it and fielding the responses then the answer is simple - don't answer.
I signed up on this forum way back in the early 00ies, have always like geography, traveled all around the world---racing---as a way to see what what I had read about since i was a kid with my nose stuck in maps...and i developed a good memory...
The game has lain dormant to dead for weeks at a time several times in the time interval since the early 00ies.
I have seen numerous people, NUMEROUS, including some i consider good guys, answer questions and for whatever reason, not pose a question...
NONE were ever lecture, scolded and told, in essence to leave.
NONE were lectured and scolding in your step by step way, when they won, and knowing they didn't have a question graciously passed the baton on...
Prior to you and whassis name complaining and breaking the rules because i didn't instantly pose a question..
You may--or may not---notice that I tend to look in LATE at night--when I'm tired, or early in the morning when peeking in while fixing brekkie and getting my girls off to school...
Those aren't exactly times I can concentrate on posing a question.....but I know what I know..
Whatever...
Obviously you want to run this game and you only want 2-3 people playing..Have at it, boss.
(ever wonder why it lays dormant for months and years at a time? :stareup: )
Re: How Good Is Your Geographic? [5]
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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
I signed up on this forum way back in the early 00ies, have always like geography, traveled all around the world---racing---as a way to see what what I had read about since i was a kid with my nose stuck in maps...and i developed a good memory...
The game has lain dormant to dead for weeks at a time several times in the time interval since the early 00ies.
I have seen numerous people, NUMEROUS, including some i consider good guys, answer questions and for whatever reason, not pose a question...
NONE were ever lecture, scolded and told, in essence to leave.
NONE were lectured and scolding in your step by step way, when they won, and knowing they didn't have a question graciously passed the baton on...
Prior to you and whassis name complaining and breaking the rules because i didn't instantly pose a question..
You may--or may not---notice that I tend to look in LATE at night--when I'm tired, or early in the morning when peeking in while fixing brekkie and getting my girls off to school...
Those aren't exactly times I can concentrate on posing a question.....but I know what I know..
Whatever...
Obviously you want to run this game and you only want 2-3 people playing..Have at it, boss.
(ever wonder why it lays dormant for months and years at a time? :stareup: )
Already said sorry Janvanvurpa :( Didn't mean to jump in. I saw you post earlier about not wanting to post questions. :)
Re: How Good Is Your Geographic? [5]
J-V Grow up!
Nobody has asked you to leave the forum. All we have asked is that you (and others) don't answer questions if you are not prepared to go to the trouble of posting the next one. (Have you not noticed how the game stalls when someone does that)
(And I am fully aware that when pointing a finger at someone you are pointing three at yourself - I accept I have also ducked out of posing a question)
Re: How Good Is Your Geographic? [5]
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Originally Posted by anfield5
this rings a vague bell is the Owen falls dam in Central/East Africa? Something is relating it to the top reaches of the White Nile near lake Victoria? It may have been mentioned on Top Gears finding the source of the Nile. As to the name of the falls it obliterated/replaced, I have no idea :)
Ahem! :)
