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The Iczhkerian Respublik of Chechneristanohemia-Slovakingshetiague. Done.
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chairface posted:Yeah I was gonna bring that up. Czech Republic had to occasionally deny being Chechnya already because Americans are stupid. Changing it to Czechia, that's just making it sound MORE like Chechnya! So I guess this is now Czechia Cheese?  Does it come with Skee-ball and prize tickets?
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Apr 16, 2016 15:46
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Deteriorata posted:Czechia Cheese? Jesus nice
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Apr 16, 2016 17:24
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Deteriorata posted:So I guess this is now Czechia Cheese?
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Apr 16, 2016 17:45
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As shameful as our world geography tends to be, I don't think Ive ever met an American that didn't know there was a distinction between cz and Chechnya. granted it doesn't come up in conversation often
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never trust an elf posted:As shameful as our world geography tends to be, I don't think Ive ever met an American that didn't know there was a distinction between cz and Chechnya. granted it doesn't come up in conversation often kalstrams posted:http://www.mzv.cz/washington/en/czech_u_s_relations/news/statement_of_the_ambassador_of_the_czech.html
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mobby_6kl posted:Latvia/Lithuania too. CNN maps are an endless source of beauty and joy.
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anilEhilated posted:It should come with a gas mask. This poo poo is positively toxic. Actually it's delicious. A cheese that doesn't offend at least one sense is no cheese at all.
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Apr 16, 2016 22:22
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never trust an elf posted:As shameful as our world geography tends to be, I don't think Ive ever met an American that didn't know there was a distinction between cz and Chechnya. granted it doesn't come up in conversation often I assume that if the subject comes up, it's precisely because they know the difference. SOmebody who doesn't know what Chechnya is is not going to start a conversation on Chechnyan politics.
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Most Americans are only exposed to geography and history up through high school, and their exposure is terrible I don't think we ever even talked about the 20th century in my elementary and high school education. Our textbooks and maps still had the GDR in them like it was newish country, so maybe that was for the best. Keep in mind I finished in the early 2000s. We only ever seemed to talk about the revolutionary war and the civil war and bits of romanticized settler history in between. We also had an entire year of state history which in my case was just more romanticized settler history that never breached beyond at most the first decade of the 20th century. Social studies just broke down into students hating other cultures. I think civics was the only area that wasn't a total failure.
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lancemantis posted:Most Americans are only exposed to geography and history up through high school, and their exposure is terrible I graduated in 2009 and had the exact same experience, complete with the bad maps.
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Hey, my favorite songwriter, PJ Harvey, has released a new album, with songs devoted to the Balkans and the humanitarian crises of Kosovo as well as the current refugee influx. I just thought it could be relevant to the thread, since the idea of Eastern European affairs making a way into mainstream Western art for once is kinda fascinating, imo, even though the message of the songs may be kinda condescending to the political compexities of the Balkans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ReW0jJkag8
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lancemantis posted:Most Americans are only exposed to geography and history up through high school, and their exposure is terrible Same, except my american history teacher was a lazy know-nothing who substituted actual teaching with films like Apocalypse Now and just assumed we learned poo poo.
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Daaaaamn. I went to a public school in INDIANA (graduated 2006) and had an award winning teacher for US history who covered things up until the modern day, had a 20th century world history class (admittedly it was an elective), had other world culture classes, etc. Of course if you wanted to you could not take any of those electives and be ignorant to all those things, but there was at least a choice.
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Yeah, I went to public school in middle of nowhere North Carolina and inner city VA Beach and had a lot of time devoted to geography and world history. Most people just don't care. It doesn't impact their daily lives. Which isn't a uniquely American thing.
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So the newstatesman had an article about the plane crash fear mongering going on in Poland now. In it it talked about the idiots calling for Tusk to be tried. Is there any chance of PiS actually going through with this?
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Crowsbeak posted:So the newstatesman had an article about the plane crash fear mongering going on in Poland now. In it it talked about the idiots calling for Tusk to be tried. Is there any chance of PiS actually going through with this?
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https://twitter.com/GrahamWP_UK/status/721820580320841728 Because none of that dereliction happened during the Soviet period or even before. Or since.
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Yes, those horrible Ukrainians and their criminal neglect of things!
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:https://twitter.com/GrahamWP_UK/status/721820580320841728 Well, when your goal is to focus attention on literally anything feasibly beneficial about the annexation aside from "Russia now owns the military port they wanted" sometimes you just throw ideas at the wall to see what sticks. Gotta be getting harder as things on the non-military-port side in Crimea continue to get shittier. Warbadger fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Apr 18, 2016 |
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:https://twitter.com/GrahamWP_UK/status/721820580320841728 [citation needed] on that place ever having been beautiful, let alone one of the most beautiful places in the world. Edit: Not Crimea as a whole, as you can find beauty anywhere, but that pictured place isn't exactly the best candiate for making the point
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Apr 18, 2016 01:57
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steinrokkan posted:Actually it's delicious. A cheese that doesn't offend at least one sense is no cheese at all. Smelly cheese, you say? I've been looking for new things to try since surströmming (which really wasn't disgusting to me) and I think I just found it. Now I just have to procure some.
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Very smelly cheese. It tastes like rot in your mouth.
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Apr 18, 2016 11:55
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Latvia's new 5 Euro collector coin. 
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BattleMaster posted:[citation needed] on that place ever having been beautiful, let alone one of the most beautiful places in the world. Crimea is genuinely actually beautiful, one of the few places in the former Soviet Union [politics aside] that has a Mediterranean[ish] climate. As for some random crumbling concrete building, who knows.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Latvia's new 5 Euro collector coin. Is that a hedgehog Pied Pipering a bunch of pigs? Is this some sort of cherished folktale?
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Latvia's new 5 Euro collector coin. Sonic Adventures 2016 looking good.
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Deteriorata posted:So I guess this is now Czechia Cheese? Never seen a cheese so mature you could tell its gender before...
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Latvia's new 5 Euro collector coin. Should he not be stealing potatoes from Estland?
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It's based on a folk tale about a hedgehog who herds pigs, marries a princess and is turned into a prince. http://en.news-4-u.ru/in-latvia-launched-into-circulation-oval-coin-with-a-hedgehog-and-a-princess-photos.html
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:It's based on a folk tale about a hedgehog who herds pigs, marries a princess and is turned into a prince. That's an amazing coin and as an amateur coin collector I want it.
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Apr 19, 2016 04:24
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Seems Savchenko is to be released in exchange for two Russian pilots. Wait, haven't we heard that one before?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-XV8Zsd9gg Goons in russia are a lot more militant about their SA membership.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Latvia's new 5 Euro collector coin. All I could think in my head was "March Of The Pigs."
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steinrokkan posted:Actually it's delicious. A cheese that doesn't offend at least one sense is no cheese at all. I have yet to meet a cheese that offends my hearing.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:I have yet to meet a cheese that offends my hearing. I've heard you can hear the worms in casu marzu if everything else is perfectly silent.
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slavatuvs posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-XV8Zsd9gg They are Limonov's comrades, i.e. national-bolshevicks. The grenade is a pun on Limonov's name, because in Russian grenades are sometimes called limonka.
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Paladinus posted:They are Limonov's comrades, i.e. national-bolshevicks. The grenade is a pun on Limonov's name, because in Russian grenades are sometimes called limonka. 
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Paladinus posted:They are Limonov's comrades, i.e. national-bolshevicks. The grenade is a pun on Limonov's name, because in Russian grenades are sometimes called limonka. You got your fascism in my communism! Poland's having its own nazi moment right now. On Saturday a known nationalist sympathizer priest who has been moved around the country because everywhere he goes he organizes fascist rallies held a special mass in the Bialystok catherdral to honor the anniversary of the foundation of ONR, one of Poland's preeminent far right groups. During his sermon he said that leftism is a cancer than has to be cut out of society by the uncompromising morality of Nationalist-Catholicism. Afterwards they had a lovely jaunt down the city streets while chanting lovely slogans about hanging zionists, communists, killing muslims and of course Poland only for Poles! They ended their evening at a university affiliated night club where they were treated to a concert by Neo-Nazi group Nordica. The University with which the club was affiliated sent out an email to its international students, advising them not to go out into the city, walk the campus or even leave their rooms between 11:00 AM on Saturday and 3:00 AM on Sunday so as to avoid "unfortunate incidents" and warned that ONR is a racist organization. Now even for Poland, this is a rather distressing level of collusion between church and extreme right wing organizations. The church was forced to react and gave the priest in question a complete ban on all public appearances, organizing of any events, leading of pilgrimages, or otherwise coming out of his room basically. That this is the third straight place he's done this was left without comment. Times are getting more interesting by the moment. Edit: Bonus Pictures Here's the mass.  And here's the young patriots in their natural state: 
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