Yeah but Puffins
What blue board has meme flags?
Wait, did Iceland actually fall for our prank? They believe snakes exist! Next they’ll start believing in Australia!
bro imagine actually thinking legless lizards could ever exist, makes no sense
I’m blind
Flat braille: the most useful thing since InAudible, my startup producing audiobooks for deaf people.
This is a joke but blind people have special braille keyboards to read the net. Someone could probably cook up some software ai to scan/identify images including text. Flat braille would just become readable braille
That’s really cool!
will see: volcano
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Then steal it all and row it back to your homeland
They said Iceland, not Britain
[picture of depressed man looking away from the sky exploding in ribbons of ethereal color]
they got the little ponies and the northern lights tho that’s pretty cool
no train ?
There’s like 370k people in all of Iceland.
Why don’t they all live on a train? Are they stupid?
They should all just live on a train that goes round the island on circles and people get off when they need to
A train barreling through a snowy wasteland? I’ve seen a documentary about this
Not enough people outside the capital to make it worth it. They have had rail systems built but were later decommissioned. One was built for the building if a harbor but after construction it didn’t get much use.
Iceland is very small. It takes about 25 hours to drive around the entire circumference of the country. That, coupled with there being a very small population in general, any train would be empty most of its running hours.
Reykjavik, Iceland biggest city, is super easy to walk. The entire thing. It takes almost no time. You don’t need a train if you can get everywhere by foot.
We rented a car while there and experienced zero traffic.
Also sections of the country routinely get closed off because the ground is exploding with molten rock, it’s much easier to reroute road traffic and maintain infrastructure especially in such complex topography.
I learned that hummingbirds are native to North America and they don’t have them in Europe. That made me sad for all of them over there.
Europe doesn’t have Sunbirds either.
Quickly, I must think of a bird endemic to Europe to not feel left out
There you go: blue tit
Magpies absolutely beat mockingbirds, though. Dull brown mimics versus two-tone corvids.
You can see those anywhere you have a woman and a tourniquet.
Birds in the rest of the world actually bother to learn the lyrics.
Best we can do is hummingbird moths.
hummingbirds can be found in south america too, not just north.
comes with living on a place that is still being birthed out of the planet’s interior
Come to Florida and I will show you beautiful things!
Meanwhile, you live in the land of the most beautiful homo sapiens on Earth. So you got that going for you.
Trade experiences and learn?
(Pssst… don’t go to Florida. It’s almost certainly a trap)
Confirmed. OP is a gator in a trench coat
Iguanas! Which are invasive. Anoles! Which are invasive. Cuban tree frogs! Which are invasive.
All the fuckin’ rodents are good, though.
TIL that Icelandic people are never allowed to leave.
No no, they are. But they’re not allowed to ever come back.
That’s it your going to Iceland
I’d love to! It seems a gorgeous country with lots of great people! I’ll just steer clear of a couple of the national “delicacies” on my way to the penis museum 😁
Not everyone can afford to leave their country
I know. I was making a joke.
Poverty isn’t anywhere near as bad in Iceland as in the US, though, so I’d guess that the vast majority could afford a trip abroad at least a couple of times during their lifetime 🤷
It’s because if they go slightly South, they melt.
Do zoos not exist there?
It’s cruel to keep trains in the zoo, they need a lot of space to roam
Ironically every zoo I have been too does actually have a train 😅
Yeah but only a captive one that’s had its iron wheels replaced with tyres
You can go to a museum and see a taxidermied train there
Their zoo is actually really funny, it has like a donkey and a cow in it.
They don’t have trains in Iceland?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Iceland
they used to, for certain construction projects (harbor, hydro dam). but none currently, although a passenger light rail has been proposed around their capital
Low population, heavily concentrated in one city, with little heavy industrial activity, coupled with very unforgiving terrain (steep volcanic grades) and even more unforgiving weather (severe frost heaves/thermal fluctuation, huge snow load).
there’s just no economic reason to build difficult railways when your entire country is like 300mi across and never moves enough stuff in bulk to need it. including people.
The only real use case would be for Keflavik to Reykjavik. But even that is handled just fine by a fleet of coaches.
So, you just ask your coach while training “can you take me to Reykjavik?”
