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What do you call driving on a frozen lake and spinning in circles with your car? (lemmy.world)

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[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It has been a long time since most of those places have been cold enough, long enough, to have a lake become that solidly frozen. It has been 30+ years since I have seen this happen in the mid atlantic.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The water's really deep there, too, so it's riskier. Isn't that were the Titanic sunk?

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think by "mid Atlantic" they mean a city in the US on the Atlantic coastline, but not the northern tip of the country, or the southern end. The mid part. But they're talking about lakes or rivers in those areas, not the ocean itself.

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[–] ArtieShaw@fedia.io 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I think there may have been a joke in there.

Or maybe not.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Nope, nobody jokes on the Internet. In fact, it's illegal.

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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 2 years ago

I think you missed the joke.

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[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago

That's the north atlantic ocean

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I’ve lived in the mid Atlantic my entire life and have never driven on a frozen lake.

I do my donuts in parking lots that haven’t been salted or plowed yet.

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[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

back in the 90s there was a couple times lakes in western PA/NY froze over enough people were out driving on them.

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