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Phlegmish posted:poo poo. Of course I live in the blue part. Well, at least I'm not in Iceland.  That ain't a map though, so I'll post a pic of my favourite marginally functioning democracy:  A Buttery Pastry posted:Outside Northern Norway and Iceland, the Gulf Stream is not actually that important for the temperature in Europe, most of it is due to having a major ocean to the west.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:At least we'll always have geothermal heating~
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Well, I doubt an average drop of 5 degrees Celsius would be the end of the world.
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Peruser posted:Well the French are weird. Honestly, I prefer the grey, dark and relatively snowless winters here in Brittany to having the constant, retina-burning glare of the sun off the snow back in Michigan. e: Map is days of snowfall per place in France, even if it's just a few flakes  HookShot posted:Maybe it's because I don't really talk to any young people in France (it's all my family) but yeah, we always talk in 24 hour time, even with my mom who's lived in Canada for almost 30 years now. Most people I knew use 24h time in French but a few use 12h time sometimes. In Breton I've never heard anyone use 24h time and it would sound weird if they did. That said, having the 24h clock as second nature is one of the few good things I got from the Army. Deceitful Penguin posted:As the old saying goes; there's no such thing as cold weather, only not enough clothes. We always said "I never spent a winter as cold as the one I spent in Florida". Soviet Commubot fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Oct 18, 2013 |
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Well, I doubt an average drop of 5 degrees Celsius would be the end of the world. Wait, you're not serious are you? Because a 5C drop is about the severity of the last glacial maximum. You know, that time when Europe was covered by a big ice sheet.
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DrSunshine posted:Wait, you're not serious are you? Because a 5C drop is about the severity of the last glacial maximum. You know, that time when Europe was covered by a big ice sheet.
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Budzilla posted:This should have been posted in the OP. PNAC redrawing of the ME. Was this map used seriously somewhere? The whole thing looks like a joke. "Afghanistan needs to be bigger, guys"
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Budzilla posted:This should have been posted in the OP. PNAC redrawing of the ME. I wonder what made them decide on that particular allocation of the Kashmir Region.
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Count Roland posted:Was this map used seriously somewhere? The whole thing looks like a joke. It was drawn by Ralph Peters, noted rear end in a top hat and NY Post writer, so yeah. Saudi Homelands Independent Territories? Arab Shia State? 
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Dusseldorf posted:Here's why California can support a large population. This map just underlines why I'm so mad the South Bay doesn't get any of that sweet, sweet Hetch Hetchy deliciousness. We get our water out of aquifers like some sort of bullshit. It's so drat close.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:It was drawn by Ralph Peters, noted rear end in a top hat and NY Post writer, so yeah. Names aside, it's kinda hard to follow the Iraqi news recently and not think that the country might be on the verge of breaking up. And the hatred between Sunnis and Shias is very vitrolic in Saudi Arabia so it's not crazy to think that they might step up their resistance if Iraq breaks up. I don't know why hell he would want to break up Western Saudi Arabia though. Rosscifer fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Oct 18, 2013 |
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Rosscifer posted:Names aside, it's kinda hard to follow the Iraqi news recently and not think that the country might be on the verge of breaking up. And the hatred between Sunnis and Shias is very vitrolic in Saudi Arabia so it's not crazy to think that they might step up their resistance if Iraq breaks up. I don't know why hell he would want to break up Western Saudi Arabia though. There is sort of an interesting discussion to be had about redrawing the map in countries that were invented for the convenience of imperialists. It's no longer raving lunatic territory to suggest that Syria might be better off split up, and I can understand the Iraq version getting some discussion in 2006. Unfortunately this turns from exotic policy proposal The NYT published another stupid map, with this editorial justifying it:  That's more like 17 countries out of 5 if you consider "city-states" to be a plausible thing! To me, though, it's a little weird that Tom Clancy Presents: The Middle East does not suggest that the Gulf states, Kuwait, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, or Jordan might be subject to avoidable conflict due to arbitrary imperialist decisions. The basic problem here is that you have to believe that "North Arabia" and all these other regions would actually be improved by splitting up, and setting up their own states, economies, institutions, etc. You think Americans will ever learn that nation-building is hard?
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LP97S posted:It's really useful how Israel never has to change it's borders in any of these maps. Also, Turkey with regards to Kurdistan.
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I believe 2/3 of the world's Kurdish population would still reside in Turkey and Iran, rather than "Kurdistan".LP97S posted:It's really useful how Israel never has to change it's borders in any of these maps. It'd be pretty presumptuous for a Western scholar to try and solve such a complex conflict with a map change!
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:There is sort of an interesting discussion to be had about redrawing the map in countries that were invented for the convenience of imperialists. It's no longer raving lunatic territory to suggest that Syria might be better off split up, and I can understand the Iraq version getting some discussion in 2006. Unfortunately this turns from exotic policy proposal The NYT published another stupid map, with this editorial justifying it: Quick, someone poll Wahhabis how they would feel about losing Mecca.
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Those names are terrible. How could you not name the middle state in that broken-up Arabia "Najd?" It's what that region has been called forever. Also, what's with the tripartite division of the Hedjaz, including that one "North Arabia" state that's just random stretches of desert? The "-stan" convention is lazy-as-hell for "Sunnistan" and "Shiitestan" and shows a total lack of understanding of those areas, and while I understand that the Alawites wouldn't want to revert to État des Alaouites as the name for their country, they, too, could do better. "Shiitestan," if it were assembled, would probably be called Basra, both in reference to its capital and in reference to the fact that the Ottoman province that contained most of that land was simply named Basra. The middle state there, "Sunnistan," incorporates Damascus and Baghdad, the capitals of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates. It's the land that was the beating heart of the Islamic world at its highest peak. Honestly, the word "Syria" wouldn't be bad for such a country, as the historical region does extend pretty far east. It's a very stupid map, for a number of reasons. (Independent Fezzan for no reason comes to mind...Is that supposed to be a Tuareg homeland or something?)
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Re: Middle East maps, yeah, they're terribly lazy. Also, does anyone seriously think breaking up countries is going to solve anything? As if Iran and Turkey would be cool with an independent Kurdistan? And something tells me that multiple small and unstable Shi'a-majority states, as well as the break-up of Saudi Arabia, would play into the hand of Iran, something that I thought was pretty much against the US's vested interests in the region. I'm simultaneously in awe and angry at how clearly incompetent and stupid people along the likes of those who make maps like that, get to keep their jobs and are often even rewarded for their incompetence. I mean, a dedicated Victoria II player could probably produce a better map that was more in line with current geopolitical realism. Deceitful Penguin posted:That ain't a map though, so I'll post a pic of my favourite marginally functioning democracy: This map is baffling me on several levels: - It lists most major cities in Flanders, but only one in Wallonia - Namur is pretty small compared to Charleroi and Liège, neither of which are shown - Mechelen and Kortrijk have dots, but apparently no names - The map is apparently labeled in English, but uses Dutch names for the Flemish cities - An attempt is made to label the German cities in German, but the map maker had no umlauts left or something (it's 'Köln')
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Badger of Basra posted:"Shiitestan" Why yes, I did read that as Shitstain the first time. How did you guess? Those are some horrible, horrible names.
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the jizz taxi posted:Re: Middle East maps, yeah, they're terribly lazy. Also, does anyone seriously think breaking up countries is going to solve anything? As if Iran and Turkey would be cool with an independent Kurdistan? And something tells me that multiple small and unstable Shi'a-majority states, as well as the break-up of Saudi Arabia, would play into the hand of Iran, something that I thought was pretty much against the US's vested interests in the region. Not saying it's not a terrible map and all of your other points are right, but it's using the local language for city names. And by calling Brussels Brussel, and not giving it its own colour, it seems to be claiming Brussels to Flanders. I think it's also kind of acceptable to disregard umlauts on capital letters, but you should be adding an E instead. So it's KOELN and DUESSELDORF. But why Liege, Charleroi etc. aren't there I don't know.
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He just googled for 'map of Flanders' and ended up on notorious right-wing blog The Brussels Journal. Mystery solved. By the way, we helped shape freedom in America, so a little more respect please.
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Phlegmish posted:He just googled for 'map of Flanders' and ended up on notorious right-wing blog The Brussels Journal. Mystery solved. We... we did? But... how? Also no true right-wing fantasy map of Flanders is complete without this bit: 
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The blue part is Romance Flanders. This, of course, also rightfully belongs to us. We just need to cure them of their nasty habit of always having spoken a form of French.
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Rajssejn Freijheijt. Flemish always looks like German with a lot of "j"s thrown in. And demons sodomizing people. Does that make me a racist?
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In the case of a lot of cognates, the German 'ei' becomes 'ij' in Dutch. That's probably why you have that impression. And yes, you are a horrible racist, albeit a highly specific type of racist. Aztec Empire right before the arrival of Cortés:  Looking at the extent of the tributary states versus the core area, it doesn't surprise me that he was able to find so many native allies.
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What makes those -stan names even worse, to me, is the fact that westernized names like Alawia or Wahhabia would actually make more sense, since that actually resembles a word that would be part of their names in Arabic.
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made of bees posted:What makes those -stan names even worse, to me, is the fact that westernized names like Alawia or Wahhabia would actually make more sense, since that actually resembles a word that would be part of their names in Arabic. The other problem is that -stan is apparently a Persian surname, which would go over well in the former Saudi Arabia of course.
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Phlegmish posted:What does the Académie française have to say about this grave matter? Heretics will be relentlessly mocked. quebec.jpg Speaking of,  One of the proposed ways Quebec would be sectioned off from Canada if they decided to separate.
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I support the renaming of Canada to "Canuckistan".  Population map of Canada, from the 2006 census. http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/population.html 
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Phlegmish posted:He just googled for 'map of Flanders' and ended up on notorious right-wing blog The Brussels Journal. Mystery solved. And that ain't nothing to be proud of son, not when you have Hergé and uh, I guess still having a functional state even if it is hopelessly split along ethnic lines?
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univbee posted:One of the proposed ways Quebec would be sectioned off from Canada if they decided to separate. What's the little red enclave in the south? Part of Montreal?
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AlexG posted:What's the little red enclave in the south? Part of Montreal? The tiny fleck is Montreal, yes.
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Phlegmish posted:In the case of a lot of cognates, the German 'ei' becomes 'ij' in Dutch. That's probably why you have that impression. And yes, you are a horrible racist, albeit a highly specific type of racist. This reminded me of a  moment I had recently; my girlfriend bought some Trader Joe's "sipping chocolate"; basically a very dark, low-sugar hot chocolate. The tin says "Inspired by European Tradition". It should say "Inspired by Aztec tradition"!
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univbee posted:quebec.jpg What? I love the little Canadian exclave in South Qebec and the ridiculously flat-bordered Quebec exclave in Canada. e:f,b
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univbee posted:The tiny fleck is Montreal, yes. Why does Montreal get to "stay" Canadian when the rest of the province becomes independent? As a Vermonter who likes taking trips to Montreal, you know how annoying it would be if I had to add in another country/border crossing to do so?
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