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| Midnyte (13.03.2008)
Anyone know how long it takes to get from Blå to John Dee on foot?? 
Not long! It's just a couple of minutes of quick walking. I've never been to Blå myself, but take a look at the map. You must have been to the central station the earlier years you've been here, and the distance between John Dee and Blå is almost the same as between John Dee and the central station. And I know the distances in my own city - Blå is not far away! |
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| | But of course Norwegians walk up and down their steep streets at a pace no normal mortal can ever follow... so a few minutes of norwegian quick walking might be a few more minutes for the rest of the world. |
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| skessa (15.03.2008)
But of course Norwegians walk up and down their steep streets at a pace no normal mortal can ever follow... so a few minutes of norwegian quick walking might be a few more minutes for the rest of the world.That's because you're all around eight feet tall and have giraffe necks for legs! 
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| Runespawn (15.03.2008)
That's because you're all around eight feet tall and have giraffe necks for legs!
"You're"? Not me for sure, I'm not norwegian, I just live here... (and have my share of experience with norwegian "few minutes walk"s) |
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| Those fuckin "few minute walks" piss me off! It's not that Norwegians are speedier, they just seem to always under-estimate the times taken to get places! Doesn't make help matters when it's friggin' cold.
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[quote] Midnyte (13.03.2008)
Anyone know how long it takes to get from Blå to John Dee on foot??
Not long! It's just a couple of minutes of quick walking. I've never been to Blå myself, but take a look at the map. You must have been to the central station the earlier years you've been here, and the distance between John Dee and Blå is almost the same as between John Dee and the central station. And I know the distances in my own city - Blå is not far away![/quote]
It´s a wee bit longer than a COUPLE of minutes - no matter how fast you walk... Walking at a reasonable speed, it should take you (unless you get lost) about 10-15 minutes. When sober. If you´re tipsy, add another 15 minutes for pissing and wrong turns. 
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| Groo (16.03.2008)
It´s a wee bit longer than a COUPLE of minutes - no matter how fast you walk... Walking at a reasonable speed, it should take you (unless you get lost) about 10-15 minutes. When sober. If you´re tipsy, add another 15 minutes for pissing and wrong turns.
When I write "a couple of minutes", I don't mean 120 seconds, and when I write "quick walking", I really mean it to be quick. I guess you've been to Blå since you're working with all this, but if the distance is 10-15 minutes of normal, sober walking, then there's gotta be something wrong with the map! The time I use to get from the central station to Rockefeller/John Dee is nowhere near 10 minutes, and that's with my normal speed (i.e. not a quick walk).
I have another comparison as well. Right next to the Garage venue needle on the map, you find the intersection between Grensen and Akersgata. And a few streets above the Scandic Edderkoppen hotel needle on the map, you find Frimanns gate, which forms a T-junction with Ullevålsveien. I walk the distance between said intersection and T-junction each day, five days a week. At fairly normal speed I use 5 minutes on that distance!!
The map shows that this distance is longer than the distance between Rockefeller/John Dee and Blå. So if the distance between Rockefeller/John Dee and Blå is 10-15 minutes of normal walking, there's got to be something wrong with the map!
But yes, you should add some minutes if you have a bad sense of directions and do not know the area. You should also add some minutes if you're tipsy, or if you're talking to people while walking. Yet I think people are smart enough to figure this out themselves.
So if the map is correct, I think you're exaggerating. If the map is not correct, however, you may very well be right. I'm not going to contradict you.
Alastair: Check the map and find the intersection and T-junction I was talking about. I do in fact walk that distance each day, five times a week, and I am never late!
And in any case, we're better than the French! The French neither know distance nor directions - at lest not the ones I've asked. Each time I go to France (I've actually been there quite some times) I have this problem. If I ask one person on the street, I get the answer "300 meters to your right" while the next person may answer "500 meters to your left". So the French are of no help when it comes to maps and directions. When I end up finding the place myself, I realise the correct answer would've been "400 meters straight ahead" or "200 meters behind you". So you should be grateful that this is not a French festival.
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| [quote]Knuð (16.03.2008)
But yes, you should add some minutes if you have a bad sense of directions and do not know the area. You should also add some minutes if you're tipsy, or if you're talking to people while walking. Yet I think people are smart enough to figure this out themselves.
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Yes, but what they can't take into account unless you tell them, is that maybe you can walk this distance that fast BECAUSE you walk it every day, and have probably been walking tours in the mountains sice you were a little kid. In Germany I was always counted as a quick walker, but here I have had the humiliating experience of walking up a hill as fast as I can, and being overtaken by someone pushing a stroller while talking on the phone. |
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| skessa (16.03.2008)
Yes, but what they can't take into account unless you tell them, is that maybe you can walk this distance that fast BECAUSE you walk it every day, and have probably been walking tours in the mountains sice you were a little kid. In Germany I was always counted as a quick walker, but here I have had the humiliating experience of walking up a hill as fast as I can, and being overtaken by someone pushing a stroller while talking on the phone.
Whoa, I had no idea there would be such big differences. From what you're saying, I guess one should add some minutes. But it makes little difference if you have walked the distance many times before, as long as you know where it is. If you don't know where it is, though, you should add several minutes - or walk the distance once before the festival starts, so you know where the place is. |
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Runespawn (15.03.2008)
That's because you're all around eight feet tall and have giraffe necks for legs! "You're"? Not me for sure, I'm not norwegian, I just live here... (and have my share of experience with norwegian "few minutes walk"s) Okay, typo! Jeez!!
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