The Great Lakes are weird

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• Tachyon

  2016-10-03 21:26:06

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  British people do, ime.
  
• Odradek

  2016-10-03 21:29:54

  My dreams exceed my real life

  Going to Sleeping Bear Dunes on the coast of Lake Michigan is one of my fondest memories
• Klinotaxis

  2016-10-03 21:32:07

  kill living beings
  

  Living as i do way the hell away from them, i think i only realized when i heard about the... hms ontario or the like in history class.
• Odradek

  2016-10-03 21:33:34

  My dreams exceed my real life

  Lake Erie is also a semi-popular vacation destination around here
• Anonus

  2016-10-03 21:39:31

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  personally i find the scenery in the eastern part of the country highly underrated
• Anonus

  2016-10-03 21:40:12

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  I don't remember if I've ever been near any of the Great Lakes, but I have been to Chicago, southeast Michigan, and northwestern and central Ohio
• Princess Alice

  2016-10-03 21:57:45

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  My flights from Chicago O'Hare to John Glenn in Columbus take us over Lake Michigan.

  
  

  I think the first time I did that was the only time I really realized how huge the Great Lakes actually are.
• Salix Babylonika

  2016-10-03 21:58:51

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  Yeah I mean you see them on a map and you're like "those are pretty big" and then you fly over them and you're like "actually they're terrifyingly huge and I'm quite sure a monster lives at the bottom of each."
• Odradek

  2016-10-03 22:27:41

  My dreams exceed my real life

  Yuyuko Saigyouji said:

  Yeah I mean you see them on a map and you're like "those are pretty big" and then you fly over them and you're like "actually they're terrifyingly huge and I'm quite sure a monster lives at the bottom of each."

  The one in Lake Erie is named Bessie
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-10-03 22:28:50

  The Great Lakes are indeed very prominent in American understanding of American geography.  I don't see how they aren't.
  
  They just don't have the same "let's go take a vacation there" status as do the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone, that's all.
  
• MetaFour

  2016-10-03 23:06:07

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  The Great Lakes have Niagara Falls, which seemed a big deal to me when I was growing up. We even went on vacation there.
• LOAD Cherry

  2016-10-03 23:19:18

  Splat Charger Specialist

  Whenever I feel like pointing out how huge they are, I call them freshwater seas.
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-10-04 00:10:57

  Yuuka Kazami said:

  Whenever I feel like pointing out how huge they are, I call them freshwater seas.

  That's what they pretty much function like, hydrologically, far as I know.