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Slovakia Our Slovakia sounds like a patriotic song or anthem. Finland The Finns sounds more like a 70s band.
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It's because UKIP manage to avoid being nationalist by the technicality that the UK barely qualifies as a 'nation'. They could have put the English Democrats on there though. Or the SNP 
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I think that graph is mistaking populism for nationalism.
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Count Roland posted:I for one use an elborate bookmark system with many folders and subfolders. I hate typing poo poo, but when I do its in my firefox that is so heavily customized I can't even upgrade it to the current version anymore. I'd rather have my custom search bar than be able to view youtube. Source your quotes. Badger of Basra posted:Is UKIP not on this map because the UK isn't in Europe or because the BBC doesn't want to be accused of bias? The latter, I guess; the BBC have an instinctive pro-government (and pro-government ideology) bias because, even though they're officially independent from the government's ideology, they're scared to poo poo of having their funding cut the next time the Royal Charter comes around.
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The Finns are terrible but it's not really accurate to lump them in with Golden Dawn.
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doverhog posted:The Finns are terrible
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doverhog posted:The Finns are terrible but it's not really accurate to lump them in with Golden Dawn. Yeah, they should be lumped together with NSDAP.
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Guavanaut posted:Slovakia Our Slovakia sounds like a patriotic song or anthem. Jobbik sounds like a slang term from A Clockwork Orange. e: it is clearly supposed to be a map of Bad Parties, because only the far right can truly be nationalist, I guess. I'm surprised there's no Vlaams Belang. Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 16:51 on May 24, 2016 |
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duckmaster posted:In the 19th century the main powers surrounding Persia were the British, the Ottomans and the Russians. The language of diplomacy at the time was French; if the British communicated with the Russians they did it in French, if the Ottomans spoke to the Persians they did it in French, and so on. Since Persia managed to retain its independence (for the most part) they played a delicate game of trying to please everyone without upsetting anyone else, which meant a lot of diplomacy which was of course all in French. Thus, French became the language of the Persian aristocracy and upper classes. Persia founded its first university in the mid-19th century and since all the educated people spoke French already they just borrowed the new words they learnt and inserted them straight into Farsi. Many words in French are very similar in English, and remain similar in Farsi - décembre/December/desāmbr for example, but many are completely copied from French. 'Reinforced concrete' is béton armé in French and bétonārmé in Farsi, and they refer to Germany as ālmān, far more similar to the French Allemagne than the English. Can confirm, went to french school in the US with Pahlavi grandkids, even the former Libyan royal house sent their kid to french school.
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Tei posted:Is amazing how a european city map looks like a spider web on drugs Say hello to Atlanta.  
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D.N. Nation posted:Say hello to Atlanta. I only see two streets called "Peachtree" here, so I'm not 100% convinced this is Atlanta.
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CellBlock posted:I only see two streets called "Peachtree" here, so I'm not 100% convinced this is Atlanta. I also expected Atlanta to have more MLK Rd and Blvds.
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D.N. Nation posted:Say hello to Atlanta. Boston chuckles 
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Phlegmish posted:Jobbik sounds like a slang term from A Clockwork Orange. I am amused by the fact Orbans conservatives are not considered "bad", then.
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xilni posted:I also expected Atlanta to have more MLK Rd and Blvds. Reminder that Atlanta is still in Georgia. edit: 
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tehchekt posted:Boston chuckles But you just posted a map that's mostly Brookline... Peanut President posted:Reminder that Atlanta is still in Georgia. Meanwhile in Queens, it can get quite confusing when you say you're at the corner of 60th and 60th:
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fishmech posted:But you just posted a map that's mostly Brookline... I love this map because it's such a horrible case for "street name matching" algorithms. "Yeah, I live at the corner of 60th St and 60th Dr. To get here you'll want to turn down 60th Ln and take a left on 60th Dr. If you see a sign for 60th Rd or 60th Ave, you'll have to turn around because you've gone too far. Anyway, I'm on the left side of the street before the intersection. Be careful though, because you'll pass one street on your left, 60th Pl, before you get to my house."
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Peanut President posted:Reminder that Atlanta is still in Georgia. Well I assumed Atlanta was more Atlanta than Georgia.
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fishmech posted:But you just posted a map that's mostly Brookline... "I live on 60th Place, not 60th Street or Avenue or Road or Lane or Drive!" "...Which 60th Place?"
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Immediately outside of the uptown grid - which, mind you, is tilted a perfect 45 degrees - Charlotte devolves into a non-Euclidean horror worthy of Lovecraft.
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ekuNNN posted:
Missing the Norwegian Fremskrittspartiet, which is currently the junior member in our government coalition with 16.3%. I expect this number to go up as our Eastern neighbours continue on their current path.
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There are other places in Queens where the street numbering means you get a lot of repeated numbers right next to each other, but the 60th area has the most streets with the same number crossing with each other the most times. Most of the time it's just like, say, a single block with a 30th *whatever* on each side
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CellBlock posted:I only see two streets called "Peachtree" here, so I'm not 100% convinced this is Atlanta. The Yellow street running north-south (one way north) and meeting Peachtree St NE near the top of the map is actually "West Peachtree St" so there are three.
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xilni posted:I also expected Atlanta to have more MLK Rd and Blvds. Atlanta has a fairly long MLK Drive that goes from Oakland Cemetery, through Downtown, past a handful of HBCUs, and out to I-285 and beyond. It doesn't pass by his birth home or Ebenezer Baptist, interestingly.  MLK Drive is just above the E-W Interstate on this map – I-20, which largely separates Atlanta down racial lines in public consciousness.
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xilni posted:Well I assumed Atlanta was more Atlanta than Georgia. You'd be wrong.
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fishmech posted:But you just posted a map that's mostly Brookline... loving hell
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Kurtofan posted:loving hell If you're interested in why this happened, there's this http://stevemorse.org/census/changes/QueensFormat.htm and also this one, for a look at how people took the numbering scheme back when first implemented: http://www.junipercivic.com/historyArticle.asp?nid=74
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The BBC: Where Northern Cyprus is a separate country, but Montenegro and Kosovo aren't.
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fishmech posted:There are other places in Queens where the street numbering means you get a lot of repeated numbers right next to each other, but the 60th area has the most streets with the same number crossing with each other the most times. Most of the time it's just like, say, a single block with a 30th *whatever* on each side Most of these places are industrial wastelands, I drive through one of them all the time and it never gets less confusing
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D.N. Nation posted:Atlanta has a fairly long MLK Drive that goes from Oakland Cemetery, through Downtown, past a handful of HBCUs, and out to I-285 and beyond. It doesn't pass by his birth home or Ebenezer Baptist, interestingly.
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Kurtofan posted:loving hell at least they have a wendy's close by.
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Plinkey posted:at least they have a wendy's close by. A Wendy's you'll never be able to find once you get stuck in the vortex of "60th".
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Maybe this is a Europe/America thing but I don't know what I'm supposed to be seeing on those Google maps. Roads with similar names? Near where I live there's a Cleveden Road, a Cleveden Place, Cleveden Gdns, Cleveden Drive, Cleveden Lane, Cleveden Crescent, and Cleveden Crescent Lane.
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Reveilled posted:Maybe this is a Europe/America thing but I don't know what I'm supposed to be seeing on those Google maps. Roads with similar names? Yeah, a bunch of streets that are named nearly identically, all intersecting each other and running parallel to each other. It's confusing to anyone not familiar with the area, which kinda defeats the purpose of streets having names. Reveilled posted:Near where I live there's a Cleveden Road, a Cleveden Place, Cleveden Gdns, Cleveden Drive, Cleveden Lane, Cleveden Crescent, and Cleveden Crescent Lane.  poo poo, and i thought it was kind of confusing that my home city has a bunch of numbered streets on one side of town, and a bunch of numbered avenues on the other. Rah! fucked around with this message at 08:52 on May 25, 2016 |
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Rah! posted:Yeah, a bunch of streets that are named nearly identically, all intersecting each other and running parallel to each other. It's confusing to anyone not familiar with the area, which kinda defeats the purpose of streets having names.  EDIT: Cleveden Gardens is just south of Winton Drive, a little off the bottom of the map.
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kalstrams posted:loving hell. Burn it all down and start over, some 12 year old hosed up bad at SimCity.
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