Daily conversation: What is the worst possible answer?

[Mav94]

10/7/2025

Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?

Because if it said Manly/Fertile people would get the wrong idea.

[TheCatalyst31]

10/7/2025

Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?

Because the proposal to route I-35 through Austin got caught in the spam filter.

[freebrickproductions]

10-8-25:

Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?

[kkt]

10-8-25:

Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?

Because chaos is the normal state of the world and anything else requires more work.

[Roadgeekteen]

10-8-25:

Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?

To protect their sovereignty. If they used the same system, it would just be one step towards a one-world government run by the Illuminati.

[kphoger]

10-8-25:

Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?

They don't.  There's only one worldwide system.  It's just a very robust and complex system, and any given country only utilizes a few parts of it.

It's like asking why Loving County (TX), which has State Routes but no US Routes, uses a different system for organizing and classifying its highways than Lynn County, which has US Routes but no State Routes.  No, they use the same system, just different parts of that system.  Similarly, South Korea and Mexico use the same system, just different parts of that system.

[Max Rockatansky]

10-8-25:

Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?

Under the dominion of FritzOwl they won't.  I think this is needed.

[1995hoo]

10-8-25:

Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?

Because Poiponen13 thinks everyone should do things the way they are done in his country and everyone else wanted to show him that he's wrong.

(Wait, is that the best possible answer?)

[JayhawkCO]

10-8-25:

Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?

Because Illinois is flat.

[kphoger]

(Wait, is that the best possible answer?)

No, it's the worst, for bringing up Poiponen13. 

[kphoger]

Because Illinois is flat.

It's a bad answer because only 50% of Illinois is flat.

[Dirt Roads]

10-8-25:

Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?

So that all roads can be classified as Federal Highways (sung to the tune of Little Green Shrub).

[Scott5114]

10-8-25:

Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?

To confuse invading armies.

[MikeTheActuary]

10-8-25:

Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?

Because their system is better than the others.

[MikeTheActuary]

Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?

Because they refused my offer to incorporate their system into my global numbering system.

[Henry]

10-8-25:

Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?

So they can argue over whose system is the best in the world.

[freebrickproductions]

10-8-25:

Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?

So they can argue over whose system is the best in the world.

10-9-25:

Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?

[Scott5114]

10-8-25:

Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?

So they can argue over whose system is the best in the world.

10-9-25:

Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?

The District of Columbia.

[pderocco]

10-8-25:

Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?

So they can argue over whose system is the best in the world.

10-9-25:

Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?

The District of Columbia.

No, Antarctica.

[MikeTheActuary]

Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?

It's a three-way tie among Nunavut, Greenland, and Svalbard.