Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen Superthread

[Axver]

So far, we've visited:

- Pop Survivor Round One
- Australia Discotheque style
- EBTTRT
- IAMJ
- TCATT
- POTDB
- EYKIW/Liechtenstein
- AIWIU2
- Australia
- Djibouti
- Te Urewera National Park
- Inaccessible Island
- Lodgepole, Nebraska
- Bangaluru, which was Bangin'
- Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenakitanatahu
- Territorial Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Ouagadougou
- Dominican Republic

Longyearbyen is, for all intents and purposes, the most northern town in the world. Sure, there's Alert in Nunavut, Canada, but it has only five people. Longyearbyen has over 2,000. It is located on Spitsbergen, an island in the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago. From mid-November through to the end of January, it is in complete darkness the entire day, and in early November and February, the sun is still below the horizon and daytime is merely indirect light. At the other extreme, April to September has no night. In a few days from now, on the 8th of March, the sun will rise over Longyearbyen for the first time in 2008 ...

 

[Cin]

yippee, new thread, hopefully I'll do better in this one than the last.

 

[Canadiens1131]

 

[The Sad Punk]

yeaaaaaah boooi

 

[Cin]

hmm, looks like a nice town. Lots of tall buildings, some small ones, it's juust right.

 

[coolian2]

The last thread was a very paltry effort on my behalf.

 

[Alisaura]

Nice one Canadiens

Thanks Ax

 

[coolian2]

Oh, by the way Ax. How about those Indians?

 

[Varitek]

now would be an appropriate time for this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcidD2HFK8M

 

[coolian2]

Nice.

 

[Varitek]

canadiens where'd you get the cool sign?

 

[Axver]

Oh, by the way Ax. How about those Indians?

Great win, awesome to see Australia fail.

I hope Australia wins tomorrow though, just so we get a third final.

YES I JUST SAID I HOPE AUSTRALIA WINS.

 

[Canadiens1131]

canadiens where'd you get the cool sign?

Made it in five minutes in Photoshop when I saw the next thread title

 

[Varitek]

Oh, by the way Ax. How about those Indians?

I totally thought you were talking about baseball til I saw ax's response

 

[mysterious_jen]

hey vazza, personally i think flirting over text/ msn is full of WIN .

 

[Cin]

I totally thought you were talking about baseball til I saw ax's response

I thought it was some kind of in joke about cowboys and indians.


i don't follow the cricket

 

[The Sad Punk]

Mm, Longyearbyen has an art museum too.

 

[coolian2]

Great win, awesome to see Australia fail.

I hope Australia wins tomorrow though, just so we get a third final.

YES I JUST SAID I HOPE AUSTRALIA WINS.

It feels weird to think that way, doesn't it

 

[Varitek]

hey vazza, personally i think flirting over text/ msn is full of WIN .

but what do you say? i am not talking saucy messages to ge tyour boyfriend hot while he's in a meeting, but messages to a guy you just met and have only seen once...

i am such a n00b

 

[mysterious_jen]

now would be an appropriate time for this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcidD2HFK8M

have some whiskey honey

 

[Cin]

Mm, Longyearbyen has an art museum too.

delightful, I shall go there and sip chardonnay

 

[Axver]

Hey, Melburnians, cool fact: we're the southernmost city in the world with a population above one million.

 

[Alisaura]

YES I JUST SAID I HOPE AUSTRALIA WINS.

It's a sign of the end times!!

(I love that gif!!)

 

[Cin]

Hey, Melburnians, cool fact: we're the southernmost city in the world with a population above one million.

we are the champions, my friend

 

[Axver]

It feels weird to think that way, doesn't it

It feels so hideously unnatural. But damnit, I want cricket on Friday!

 

[mysterious_jen]

text breakup for the phail.

 

[The Sad Punk]

Well, Adelaide is the southernmost city in the world with more churches than men.

 

[Axver]

It's a sign of the end times!!

(I love that gif!!)

That gif is made of many different kinds of awesome.

 

[Alisaura]

delightful, I shall go there and sip chardonnay

During U2's next benefit gig for Save the Seal Clubbers?

 

[Varitek]

ok i'm going back to reading for class. i learned nothing from google, nothing. except that i should always double check who i am sending a flirty message to. no shit.