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Jerry Manderbilt posted:What's with Latvia and Finland? Latvia and Finland had their fair share of Nazis.
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^^ The Finnish Air Force adopted the Swastika 1918, long before Hitler wrote Mein Kampf.Jerry Manderbilt posted:What's with Latvia and Finland? The Nazis did not invent the Swastika and it wasn't a "tainted" symbol at that time?
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Apr 9, 2015 22:12
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:What's with Latvia and Finland? 
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Apr 9, 2015 22:13
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Swastikas were a big folk/pagan symbol way before the Nazis and had various meanings, but in this case the Finns just seemed to use it because a Swedish count who used the symbol gave their air force one of its first airplanes (he would turn out to be a Nazi later on though, so go figure).
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Apr 9, 2015 22:14
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Yeah, they used it for the same reason the Nazis did. Namely weird neo-pagan nonsense.
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Apr 9, 2015 22:17
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Necessary link: Swastika laundry (1912) Or: Swatika, Ont. est. 1907 "The hell with Hitler. We came up with our name first!" ecureuilmatrix fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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Apr 9, 2015 22:18
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:What's with Latvia and Finland? Before the war I don't think the swastika motif was any different then the roundel on a lot of western european planes.
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Apr 9, 2015 22:21
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Finnish Air Force still uses it in their flags, but it has been removed from the roundels and from tanks. Kor posted:Swastikas were a big folk/pagan symbol way before the Nazis and had various meanings, but in this case the Finns just seemed to use it because a Swedish count who used the symbol gave their air force one of its first airplanes (he would turn out to be a Nazi later on though, so go figure). Jaramin posted:Yeah, they used it for the same reason the Nazis did. Namely weird neo-pagan nonsense. It was picked for a symbol because it was a Swedish count's lucky symbol and he had painted it on a plane he gifted to the Finnish White Army. And that plane was the first plane in the Finnish Armed Forces. Also swastika as a symbol wasn't new in Finland, it had been used since the Iron Age.
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Apr 9, 2015 22:27
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Perhaps the best known use of the Swastika in the west was the Dublin Swastika Laundry Co., which ceased operation in the 80s, i think, and which painted a huge swastika on its building that remained fully visible, and a local landmark, until the end of the 80s.
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Apr 9, 2015 22:37
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Nintendo Kid posted:Well in the case of Carl's Jr vs. Hardee's, it's literally the same company. The Hardees near me carried both Thickburgers and Six Dollar Burgers but dropped the latter, probably because it was creeping up towards six dollars in price and defeating the marketing gimmick. That or because one brand tested better than the other seeing as how they seemed to be almost exactly the same product.
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Apr 10, 2015 04:18
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HookShot posted:Estonia and Turkey have the best insignias Only among the European countries. Commonwealth represent.     South Africa's at the very least is an anachronistic post-war design, but it fits the theme better.
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Apr 10, 2015 06:33
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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I'm afraid to ask what the apartheid-era insignia was that they had to change it. Unless it's the ANC being petty.
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Apr 10, 2015 07:20
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PittTheElder posted:Only among the European countries. Commonwealth represent. 
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Apr 10, 2015 07:22
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 European Community population density 1987. quote:Slovvenija ass struggle fucked around with this message at 07:49 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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Apr 10, 2015 07:47
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They were very wrong with the projected population of Germany in 2010.
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Apr 10, 2015 07:54
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Phlegmish posted:I'm afraid to ask what the apartheid-era insignia was that they had to change it. Unless it's the ANC being petty. Looks like they changed it to a bird in the 80s.
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Apr 10, 2015 08:22
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Torrannor posted:They were very wrong with the projected population of Germany in 2010. Can't fault them for not taking into account the possibility of Germany getting reunited, to be fair. Their estimates for France and the UK are also almost 10 million short, that's more puzzling.
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Apr 10, 2015 08:59
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PittTheElder posted:Only among the European countries. Commonwealth represent.
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Apr 10, 2015 09:45
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sparatuvs posted:European Community population density 1987. Ah! To be young and carefree again!
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Apr 10, 2015 11:27
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PittTheElder posted:Only among the European countries. Commonwealth represent. I wish Canada's was a beaver. They could hang out with New Zealand as having the least intimidating animals representing them.
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Apr 10, 2015 16:08
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sparatuvs posted:
How come it mostly uses the endonym but sometimes (like in France and Portugal) uses the English exonym?
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Apr 10, 2015 16:20
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Tree Goat posted:How come it mostly uses the endonym but sometimes (like in France and Portugal) uses the English exonym? The French word for France is "France" and the Portuguese word for Portugal is "Portugal."
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Apr 10, 2015 16:21
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WTF was I looking at? I guess I was expecting "reina de españa" and etc given ddr and uk and brd but I have no excuse otherwise. Tree Goat fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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Apr 10, 2015 16:25
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What about Huddle House
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Apr 10, 2015 18:51
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Tree Goat posted:WTF was I looking at? It's "reino" not "reina" and the map uses the common name rather than the official name except in cases like the Federal Republic of Germany for obvious reasons.
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Apr 10, 2015 19:00
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Westdeutschland would have been massively wrong anyway since it's what the DDR liked to call the BRD. e: though it was the same with just BRD in later years, so naming it in an even remotely politically correct manner could only have been done with 'Bundesrepublik Deutschland'. Koesj fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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Apr 10, 2015 19:23
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Count Roland posted:I wish Canada's was a beaver. They could hang out with New Zealand as having the least intimidating animals representing them. No beavers will loving kill you. Those teeth are for cutting through trees and they grow to more than 100 pounds. They tend to be territorial around their dams, especially on land where they feel threatened.
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Apr 11, 2015 07:58
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Never gonna get over NZ using a flightless bird on their Air Force roundels. They're pretty much taking the piss. point of return posted:Looks like they changed it to a bird in the 80s. The springbok was for whatever reason heavily associated with the apartheid regime and after the end of official state apartheid South Africa changed a lot of springboks to other symbols so people wouldn't be faced with the symbol of something they should be supporting being something they associated with the old regime. It's the same reason the name of every sports team, which has been The Springboks under apartheid, was changed (mostly to The Proteas, for the national plant) - with the exception of the rugby team, for complicated national pride and unity reasons.
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Apr 11, 2015 08:46
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 The local time has been the same within each region since 1970. Indiana, for instance, is balkanized because the time zones have moved across Indiana counties several time -- but note that the bit closest to Chicago is unified with the Midwest. From the tz database.
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Apr 11, 2015 09:36
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:
Indiana except for Gary went permanently Eastern in the mid 2000s as I recall. When I first moved there in '02 we just switched time zones at DST.
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Apr 11, 2015 15:47
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Why is Michigan a different color from the rest of the Eastern time zone? Is it because of those border counties that are on Central time?
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Apr 11, 2015 15:56
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Soviet Commubot posted:Why is Michigan a different color from the rest of the Eastern time zone? Is it because of those border counties that are on Central time? Apparently Michigan did not observe DST from 1968 to 1973.
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Apr 11, 2015 18:28
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 Percent of the state's population that's serviced by fluoridated water.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:
Southwestern Indiana is also Central. A bunch of counties ran their own time zone where they didn't observe daylight savings, switching them between eastern and central. The state eventually told them to cut it out and pick one or the other. They all went eastern. 
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Apr 11, 2015 19:35
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computer parts posted:
Something something precious bodily fluids! What's up with Louisiana? Did Katrina destroy the fluoridation plant?
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Apr 12, 2015 05:02
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Powered Descent posted:Something something precious bodily fluids! That or people were displaced and were no longer living in the NOLA area. I don't have exact numbers for 2006 but New Orleans lost ~100,000 people from 2000 to 2010 and Louisiana as a whole gained 100,000 in that same timeframe. Probably wouldn't be enough to shift that much unless they were right around the 50% mark anyway.
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computer parts posted:That or people were displaced and were no longer living in the NOLA area. New Orleans population 2005: 455,188 New Orleans population 2006: 208,548 It's back up to around 380,000 people now.
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Apr 12, 2015 06:19
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UFO Sightings since 1933. It covers the whole world, you just gotta zoom out. It's very much population_density.webm
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what is going on with the constant sighting near the west coast of the hudson bay?
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That's where they emerge from the hollow earth.
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