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Baron Corbyn posted:Taiwan has cities named Taipei, Taitung, Tainan and Taichung which translates as North, East, South and Central Taiwan respectively. They've always annoyed me for being a) very generic names for cities and b) not having a West Taiwan. In Vancouver we have the West Side, West End, and West Vancouver. All are distinct and very different neighbourhoods that are rather spread out.
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Boston has South End, North End, and West End, but no East End. There's also a South Boston and East Boston, and for completeness sake a South Shore and North Shore (which aren't in Boston, but surrounding it).
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Aug 18, 2016 04:05
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There's also no South Detroit, but Journey went with it anyway.
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Aug 18, 2016 04:12
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Eskaton posted:There's also no South Detroit, but Journey went with it anyway. Similarly, in the song The Night Chicago Died, "Daddy was a cop on the east side of Chicago". So we can only assume he was some in some kind of elite underwater law enforcement unit.
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Aug 18, 2016 04:31
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Look, maybe Journey and Paper Lace just like singing about mermen, I won't judge.
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Aug 18, 2016 04:42
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MaxNV posted:In Vancouver we have the West Side, West End, and West Vancouver. All are distinct and very different neighbourhoods that are rather spread out. West Vancouver is in fact a completely different city. Unless you're talking about the UBC-area known as West Vancouver. 
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Powered Descent posted:Similarly, in the song The Night Chicago Died, "Daddy was a cop on the east side of Chicago". So we can only assume he was some in some kind of elite underwater law enforcement unit. There is actually an east side of Chicago. It's a community area directly bordering Indiana. Here is a map of the community areas of Chicago, East Side is 52. Politically loaded because notice how they're numbered? 77 seems a bit out of place yeah? Edgewater seceded from Uptown (#3) because they didn't want to be associated with it anymore. (Uptown has the highest concentration of mental health centers in the city and is also home to a shitton of poor people, although it is slowly gentrifying.) Community areas were defined by the University of Chicago back in the 1920's and they don't change so as to allow comparisons over time. Neighborhoods are much more fluid and the borders are not set which results in a great deal of cherry picking as to where you actually say you live in the city. edit: 76 is O'Hare airport which the city annexed from neighboring towns back in the 50s by bribing them with water from Lake Michigan. edit2: I only did this because I'm a tour guide in Chicago and sperging about poo poo like this is how I make money. Benagain fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Aug 18, 2016 |
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Aug 18, 2016 05:34
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Baron Corbyn posted:Taiwan has cities named Taipei, Taitung, Tainan and Taichung which translates as North, East, South and Central Taiwan respectively. They've always annoyed me for being a) very generic names for cities and b) not having a West Taiwan. Baron Corbyn posted:Well, that's one less thing to be irrationally irritated in my life. Relax, I've got you covered. There's Beijing and Nanjing on the mainland, and Tokyo is read as Dongjing, but there's no such place as Xijing.
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Aug 18, 2016 05:36
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House Louse posted:Relax, I've got you covered. There's Beijing and Nanjing on the mainland, and Tokyo is read as Dongjing, but there's no such place as Xijing.
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Aug 18, 2016 05:44
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Xijing will be what we know today as San Francisco.
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Aug 18, 2016 06:34
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Wessex, Sussex, Essex, Middlesex but nae Nossex
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Aug 18, 2016 06:38
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House Louse posted:Relax, I've got you covered. There's Beijing and Nanjing on the mainland, and Tokyo is read as Dongjing, but there's no such place as Xijing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xijing 
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Aug 18, 2016 07:44
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the jizz taxi posted:Or that South Sudan came up with nothing more original as a name. Should've gone with Upper Sudan imo. Guavanaut posted:They should have gone with Upper Sudan. Motherfucker. Only in the map thread can you get beaten to this. I bring shame to my family.
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Aug 18, 2016 07:47
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Sudan isn't named after a river, so it would be wrong 
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Aug 18, 2016 07:55
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Noted African river: Egypt.
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Aug 18, 2016 11:43
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It is named after the upper section of the river that defines it  See also: Upper and Lower Germania, the former being UP the stream of the Rhine from the latter.
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Aug 18, 2016 11:52
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steinrokkan posted:Sudan isn't named after a river, so it would be wrong The Sudanese republic of the upper Nile.
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Aug 18, 2016 11:53
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steinrokkan posted:It is named after the upper section of the river that defines it Yes I understand this... You might notice how the Nile also flows through Sudan and South Sudan. Hence the suggestion.  
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Aug 18, 2016 11:59
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Orange Devil posted:Yes I understand this... Sudan is a geographical region independent of the countries that take their names from it, and this region would naturally have its own naming scheme based on cardinal directions, passing it on to the countries. 
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Aug 18, 2016 12:02
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steinrokkan posted:Sudan is a geographical region independent of the countries that take their names from it, and this region would naturally have its own naming scheme based on cardinal directions, passing it on to the countries.  
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Aug 18, 2016 12:10
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HookShot posted:West Vancouver is in fact a completely different city. Similarly, there's an "East Pittsburgh" that is a totally separate town, about three towns from the eastern city limits in fact. Distinct from the East End, which refers to a swath of neighborhoods on the eastern edge of the city. At least we have a West End to balance it out 
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Aug 18, 2016 12:17
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steinrokkan posted:Sudan is a geographical region independent of the countries that take their names from it, and this region would naturally have its own naming scheme based on cardinal directions, passing it on to the countries. We're not naming the region, we're naming countries based on a defining river flowing through them. If anything, we should callously disregard the opinions and ideas of the people living in these countries while doing it and preferably also geographic realities, as is our European tradition. So South-Sudan should clearly be named North Congo. Alternatively African Central Republic or Central Republic of Africa. Orange Devil fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Aug 18, 2016 |
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Aug 18, 2016 12:18
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More like Eastern Central African Republic.
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Aug 18, 2016 12:25
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If we're going for patronizing semi-aware colonial style names, British Dinkaland.
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Aug 18, 2016 12:30
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Guavanaut posted:If we're going for patronizing semi-aware colonial style names, British Dinkaland. Dafakyoosaeh, Dohntundahstaandawurd, Hoodahelahyoo, Whachayammarinaboot, Paelfella-Ahryoosichorsomefin
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Aug 18, 2016 12:33
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East New York is in Brooklyn and is one of the last preserved dangerous neighborhoods we have remaining
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Aug 18, 2016 12:34
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Actually South Sudan should be just Sudan and Sudan should have to change it's name to either Nudan or Sudan Classic.
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Aug 18, 2016 13:04
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Eskaton posted:There's also no South Detroit, but Journey went with it anyway. Windsor 
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Aug 18, 2016 13:13
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Aug 18, 2016 13:14
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mcustic posted:Colonialism.jpg British Antipodes just wanted to be special. 
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Aug 18, 2016 13:25
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mcustic posted:Colonialism.jpg In China they had those light blue ones everywhere as well, I guess because of Aussies.
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Aug 18, 2016 13:57
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mcustic posted:Colonialism.jpg China's inaccurate. It's a combination of the European and American styles with a smattering of the weird Australian ones here and there. At least that's what it's been everywhere I've been. The European ones seem to be the most common.
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Aug 18, 2016 14:33
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stereobreadsticks posted:China's inaccurate. It's a combination of the European and American styles with a smattering of the weird Australian ones here and there. At least that's what it's been everywhere I've been. The European ones seem to be the most common.
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Peanut President posted:Actually South Sudan should be just Sudan and Sudan should have to change it's name to either Nudan or Sudan Classic. Nudan sounds very cyberpunk. I'm convinced.
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Aug 18, 2016 15:00
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Ras Het posted:Wessex, Sussex, Essex, Middlesex but nae Nossex There's Nossex anywhere you look on SomethingAwful.com. mcustic posted:Colonialism.jpg This doesn't really look like colonialism.jpg to me, more like Americas vs Europe/Asia/most of Africa, and some other countries on the side.
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House Louse posted:There's Nossex anywhere you look on SomethingAwful.com.
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Albino Squirrel posted:Only if you take the long way 'round.
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Aug 18, 2016 15:50
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Where I am most Chinese sockets are these sort of universal things that fit the round ones, the American ones, and the angled ones. Most of the Chinese electrical things I have use the bottom triple plug. I've never seen those square ones.
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Aug 18, 2016 16:34
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Benagain posted:There is actually an east side of Chicago. It's a community area directly bordering Indiana. Here is a map of the community areas of Chicago, East Side is 52. Politically loaded because notice how they're numbered? 77 seems a bit out of place yeah? Edgewater seceded from Uptown (#3) because they didn't want to be associated with it anymore. (Uptown has the highest concentration of mental health centers in the city and is also home to a shitton of poor people, although it is slowly gentrifying.) Community areas were defined by the University of Chicago back in the 1920's and they don't change so as to allow comparisons over time. Neighborhoods are much more fluid and the borders are not set which results in a great deal of cherry picking as to where you actually say you live in the city. Bummer about you blowing it with Jennifer Anniston bro. You'll find another good one someday.
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They should change them all to universal outlets imo. e: imgur being terrible for more than the usual reasons, but here: 
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