Comments on: Places you can see from Alaska

By: mhm

mhm — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:19:17 +0000

That’s Vancouver, love.

By: itwasadarkandstormynight

itwasadarkandstormynight — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:00:19 +0000

No, you’re not. Read the previous comments and use proper capitalization.

By: STFU

STFU — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:24:17 +0000

That is the smartest thing I’ve read so far.

By: phate

phate — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:15:27 +0000

dumbass what about canada?

By: your mom

your mom — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:05:42 +0000

I saw russia from alaska too, on google earth.

By: jules

jules — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:44:24 +0000

Apparently her husband has though. The wikipedia page for the islands links to his travel page. I still think the woman is a walking punchline.

By: Natedog4838

Natedog4838 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:53:24 +0000

u cant see Alaska from alaska?

By: kopaka

kopaka — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:46:23 +0000

am i the only one who noticed that Alaska is not colored?

By: j

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:03:03 +0000

Alcari’s not running for VP. Logic fail.

By: Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:48:55 +0000

Why does everyone fail to notice that this is a two way street? I can see Alaska from my Russian dacha…

By: PloCoon

PloCoon — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:24:13 +0000

Geography fail. At least include Alaska, Canada, and Washington.

I find it funny that Alaska’s legitimacy as a state is being questioned nowadays since Palin’s candidacy.

And look on the bright side… at least she’s not infanticidal. *glares at Obama*

By: ill dottore

ill dottore — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:43:25 +0000

WHAT??!!??!? seriously dude, that is ridiculous!! may i have the number of your dealer please, he must offer some good stuff. i know my hand-example wasn’t the best one, but i guess u missed the point a bit… i mean dude… seriously…

By: Eeyore

Eeyore — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:44:28 +0000

You don’t need to mention Sarah Palin since most people will know it’s a Sarah Palin reference. The current title doesn’t take away any humour unless you absolutely need the obvious pointed out, although you seem to already clearly understand the obvious inwhich for you the title “Places Sarah Palin can see from Alaska” should seem redundant to you. (It would for me anyway.)

Ofcourse humour is cultural, so, maybe this kind of humour is just not in your culture.

By: Chucky

Chucky — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:12:28 +0000

In Soviet Russia, Alaska sees you!

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:10:20 +0000

Soooo… To further that thought, if you were IN your hand you would then fail to be able to see it anymore?

By: skinflaps

skinflaps — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:26:48 +0000

Wot about mars? Everyone forgets mars. Where would you put that on a map like this?

By: The L

The L — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:04:22 +0000

It’s a lot more time-consuming to do so if one only has MSPaint to work with. Unlike Photoshop and its imitators, MSPaint’s fill tool does not allow you to color in “everything that’s this exact color AND shades very close to it.” It only fills a patch that is coded as exactly the same color. While the differences between the shades of gray on a map are difficult for the human eye to detect, they are totally different colors to a computer.

I’ve used both, and for cases like this, Photoshop is definitely better. I did the “Global Relevance” chart in MSPaint, and it took me at least 3 hours just to shade everything without leaving gray outlines everywhere. And it takes a lot more precision and skill than just having Photoshop fill in all the gray at once for you.

By: The L

The L — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:58:46 +0000

That’s why it’s hilarious that Palin makes such a big deal out of the fact that she can see the frozen, sparsely-inhabited wastes of Siberia from her Alaska home. Who cares if you can see some islands that happen to be in Russia? That doesn’t mean you know anything about Russian politics. My dog can see the TV, but that doesn’t mean he understands the news on CNN. A baby can see the backyard, but that doesn’t mean she understands lawn care.

By: The L

The L — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:56:28 +0000

Agreed.

It might be better if it said, “Places Sarah Palin can see from Alaska,” but not by all that much.

By: Aporia

Aporia — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:41:04 +0000

Would have been marginally funny if the OP had managed to colour in ALL of Russia…

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:24:05 +0000

That’s so true – when not laughing the rest of the world is watching her in horror. (I’m in Yurrup.)

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:22:18 +0000

LOL. And I thought the map was funny too.

By: ill dottore

ill dottore — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:38:53 +0000

saying you can see alaska from alaska is absurdly & preposterously stupid. of course you can, because it displays that YOU ARE IN ALASKA at that moment, so what else should there be to see? botswana? it’s like saying ‘i can see my hand when i hold in front of my eyes’…

By: Bloobeard

Bloobeard — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:03:02 +0000

respoce?
TYPING FAIL WIN!

By: LS

LS — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:31:17 +0000

Except Sarah Palin never said she could see Russia from her house. Tina Fey did. Palin just commented on being able to see Russia from parts of Alaska. Though that still doesn’t give her Foreign policy experience.

By: Owen

Owen — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:15:50 +0000

Not as lame as Sarah Palin’s candidacy!

By: Joey Y

Joey Y — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:04:57 +0000

Yeah, and if he (she?) runs for VP, I will not vote for him, either. Palin’s foreign policy experience only started mattering when she became the Republican VP candidate.

By: Ope N. Wyde

Ope N. Wyde — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:08:35 +0000

Anyways, Palin’s seeing Russia from her house is that she sits on the balcony in a gillie suit with a sniper rifle the size of my… ego… and from the super-scope* she can see Russia. She can’t see Canada because she, like everyone else in existence, could care less.
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*Don’t give me that “But, Ope! Snipers can only see two miles! You are fail!” And so on. I don’t care. No one does. It’s not funny. Go home, sit down, and shut up. Save your bullcrap for why you take so long in the shower.

By: Badonk

Badonk — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:03:37 +0000

No you can’t. I was in Alaska once. The moment you cross the border everything goes black. It was one of Einstein’s lesser known theories: “Time slows down as you approach the speed of light. And light totally bends around Alaska.”

By: Ope N. Wyde

Ope N. Wyde — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:01:27 +0000

Already answered. Apparently, on the Diomede Islands you can see the big sturgeon (Russia, for you stupids).

By: KiLlAlLcOpS

KiLlAlLcOpS — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:13:00 +0000

considering the Aleutian islands span so far there is much more you can see from alaska, that is if there was unlimit4ed visibility and you had a very powerful telescope

By: Viking

Viking — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:09:20 +0000

So… you criticize someone’s lack of foreign policy because your own is so immaculate that you are able to scoff? Pfft. You’re probably like every other retarded Demo-publican in America, and therefore not even worth my time…

By: snico

snico — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:41:25 +0000

who care’s if it fails, its stupid anyway, if it was correct i still would not understand why it is funny. who cares what Alaska can see.

btw, i’ll be nerdy and ask if anyone can actually see Russia from Alaska?

By: Alcari

Alcari — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:37:28 +0000

Agreed. That’s plenty of experience to found a foreign policy on

By: drew

drew — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:37:06 +0000

and canada yeah

By: podgirl

podgirl — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:33:25 +0000

I’m not an idiot. I got the joke. It just wasn’t funny.
And it should have been titled, “Places Sarah Palin can see from her house.” Then I wouldn’t have said anything.

By: Janice

Janice — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:24:03 +0000

Well, admittedly, some readers aren’t in America. Although worldwide, she’s been getting a lot of chuckles for that one. ;-P

By: Janice

Janice — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:12:57 +0000

I thought you had to be living under a rock to not have heard Palin’s comments about Alaska and Russia.

Apparently rocks are very popular as homes…

By: teachj

teachj — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:08:08 +0000

Uh, Canada? Duh!

By: Skif

Skif — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:43:22 +0000

Perhaps if one had some really good binoculars…

By: BC girl- Jen

BC girl- Jen — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:42:05 +0000

Pretty sure the is the worst respoce to any graph on GraphJam!

GRAPH FAIL WIN!

By: Skif

Skif — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:41:26 +0000

But she can see it. Isn’t that enough?

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:02:12 +0000

…Wow, I can’t believe the comments on this. This is hilarious if you’re following politics. I admit, it could have more clarification, but seriously. SERIOUSLY.

By: TreeCuddler

TreeCuddler — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:34:52 +0000

Epic Fail on multiple levels : Geography, politics, current events

Good news is, there’s a place at failblog for this

By: Kaptyn

Kaptyn — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:30:48 +0000

I couldn’t agree more.

By: Kaptyn

Kaptyn — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:30:02 +0000

You’re right. I didn’t have my own glasses on when I wrote that. For some reason, I thought some Canadian islands were a part of Alaska.

Self-FAIL

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:24:51 +0000

Ha ha! I like it.

By: First!

First! — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:56:35 +0000

You are full of POP CULTURE fail. so, FAIL.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:49:44 +0000

The interesting part is that it’s still pretty hard to see MOSCOW from Alaska, which is really the more important part of Russia than the Bearing Strait!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:39:54 +0000

facetious detection fail