politically-loaded maps: sputtering flemishly

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my girlfriend is Legos: Apr 24, 2013

Hey, a fellow Portuguese speaker from Sweden. I'm pretty sure I've experienced that weird fake rain, or at least something close to it, down in Torekov or �ngelholm.

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Redczar: Nov 9, 2011

Bad maps best maps

e: originally phone posted. timg now

Redczar fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Sep 22, 2016

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Count Roland: Oct 6, 2013

come on dude, use timg on that

# ? Sep 21, 2016 22:57

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

India is a floppy penis of the Eurasian dinosaur-like beast that is trying to hump Africa.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 23:01

Craptacular: Jul 11, 2004

# ? Sep 22, 2016 03:39

Spoeank: Jul 16, 2003; That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it

Felchville :stonk:

# ? Sep 22, 2016 03:58

ComradeCosmobot: Dec 4, 2004; USPOL July

Craptacular posted:

Texas is wrong, because the correct answer is Lolita.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 04:06

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD: Jul 7, 2012

Uhhhhhh

e: also Gay Head, which is called "Aquinnah" now to "honor the native American heritage," yeah ok.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 04:09

Teriyaki Hairpiece: Dec 29, 2006; I'm nae the voice o' the darkened thistle, but th' darkened thistle cannae bear the sight o' our Bonnie Prince Bernie nae mair.

Here, have a wiki hole to disappear down:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names

# ? Sep 22, 2016 05:52

Randarkman: Jul 18, 2011

Once drove past a village in southern England called "Black Boys" which is kind of a weird place name I think.

There's also the municipality in Norway where both of my parents grew up that's kind of locally infamous for having profanity-derived place names, for instance there's Kukktjern (Cock Lake) and Skitttjern (poo poo Lake), Rassballhaugene (rear end Cheek Hills), Lorts�la (Crap Mud), M�rrafitta (Mare/Bitch oval office), Kjerringskrevet (roughly Bitch Crotch), R�vva hass Bj�nn (the Bear's rear end), Fittentrillersletta (oval office Roller's Plain) and a whole bunch of others, some a bit harder to translate and many using the common Norwegian place name suffix -rud, roughly meaning g�r, but in eastern Norwegian it's also somewhat similar to "du" ("you") if it comes after a verb, so you have a stuff like Daskerud, Dritarrud ("are you spanking/slapping?" "are you making GBS threads?") and stuff like that.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1ckT7s6JiRx5VTTis8CUAyWFKgxc&hl=no

# ? Sep 22, 2016 06:22

Take the plunge! Okay!: Feb 24, 2007

Croatian locals used to mess around with Habsburg surveyors, so we now have islands named Kurba mala and Kurba vela (Lesser and Greater Whore), Pi�kera (Vagina Island) and Babina guzica (Grandma's Butt).

Take the plunge! Okay! fucked around with this message at 11:18 on Sep 22, 2016

# ? Sep 22, 2016 11:13

Ras Het: May 23, 2007; when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child - but now I am a man.

mcustic posted:

Croatian locals used to mess around with Hapsburg surveyors, so we now have islands named Kurba mala and Kurba vela (Lesser and Greater Whore), Pi�kera (Vagina Island) and Babina guzica (Grandma's Butt).

They tend to say that about the weird placenames in Finnish Lapland too, that they were just jokes played on surveyors, but I also read a thing where some linguist explained how rude names are just a way of signifying "this place isn't worth going through". Stay the gently caress away from Cuntswamp. Hairy Arse Mountain is a pain to climb. There's nae fish in poo poo Lake.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 11:21

Doc Hawkins: Jun 15, 2010; Dashing? But I'm not even moving!

Miccosukee is pronounced (perhaps unsurprisingly) "soo-kee", so I want to believe Florida has done better than that.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 11:27

Take the plunge! Okay!: Feb 24, 2007

Ras Het posted:

They tend to say that about the weird placenames in Finnish Lapland too, that they were just jokes played on surveyors, but I also read a thing where some linguist explained how rude names are just a way of signifying "this place isn't worth going through". Stay the gently caress away from Cuntswamp. Hairy Arse Mountain is a pain to climb. There's nae fish in poo poo Lake.

I'd go to Vagina Island :confused:

# ? Sep 22, 2016 11:33

Ras Het: May 23, 2007; when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child - but now I am a man.

mcustic posted:

I'd go to Vagina Island

Your mum needs a bigger pool

# ? Sep 22, 2016 11:36

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

I'm all the place names in Finland recorded as beginning with Villu because of prudish surveyors.

e: I wonder if ~~there actually are any~~villu actually meant something or if it's just a nice rustic myth.

3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 12:53 on Sep 22, 2016

# ? Sep 22, 2016 12:50

Vorpal Cat: Mar 19, 2009; Oh god what did I just post?

Redczar posted:

Bad maps best maps

e: originally phone posted. timg now

#mapswithnewzeelandbutnotjapan

# ? Sep 22, 2016 13:08

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos

Ras Het posted:

They tend to say that about the weird placenames in Finnish Lapland too, that they were just jokes played on surveyors, but I also read a thing where some linguist explained how rude names are just a way of signifying "this place isn't worth going through". Stay the gently caress away from Cuntswamp. Hairy Arse Mountain is a pain to climb. There's nae fish in poo poo Lake.

Weird. In English we're more to the point like with the Badwater Basin in Death Valley or the Great Dismal Swamp.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 14:51

Tei: Feb 19, 2011

Spanish names:

Oceano Pacifico, Florida, Tejas, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, .. these are good things names. The best names.
California ... name taken from a fantasi/sci story*, but check out. Amazonia... name taken from a fantasy/sci story*, is cool. I guest the other option would have been calling the region Valkiriania. Names from sci-fi stories are somewhat cheesy, but can be cool.
Names like San Francisco or Los Angeles are religious themed, but are tolerable.

Coahuila de Zaragoza... uh...

Edit:
*Apparently, in 1490 it was popular to read cheese fantasy stories, with dragons, heroes, fantasy countries, magic, princess, .... So they had these "pop culture" reference names in their head when naming things in the americas. Naming "amazonia" after the amazons, is somewhat like using a Harry Potter name for a new habitable planet... Planet Valdemort, with the valdemortians.

Tei fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Sep 22, 2016

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Pakled: Aug 6, 2011; WE ARE SMART

# ? Sep 22, 2016 16:13

ComradeCosmobot: Dec 4, 2004; USPOL July

Pakled posted:

Why not just have a list at this point?

# ? Sep 22, 2016 16:51

Mind_Taker: May 7, 2007

This ain't the lists thread, this is the maps thread.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 17:27

Tei: Feb 19, 2011

We need a maps map, a map with all the locations of all maps.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 17:34

tough stains: May 23, 2007; Desire gets the upper hand over insight and foresight and the results are often needless entanglement.

Politically loaded, cocked and fired

# ? Sep 22, 2016 18:02

Honj Steak: May 31, 2013; Hi there.

And how many people has AT&T shot and killed since Ferguson?

# ? Sep 22, 2016 18:13

Elukka: Feb 18, 2011; For All Mankind

Tei posted:

California ... name taken from a fantasi/sci story*

Specifically a story about a magical land populated solely by hot black women.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 21:03

Kurtofan: Feb 16, 2011; hon hon hon

ComradeCosmobot posted:

Why not just have a list at this point?

if you think about it, maps are just oddly shaped lists

# ? Sep 22, 2016 21:06

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Kurtofan posted:

if you think about it, maps are just oddly shaped lists

1) Dude
2) Cockroach fart diarrhoea
4) Crone face
5) Treason?

# ? Sep 22, 2016 21:09

Doc Hawkins: Jun 15, 2010; Dashing? But I'm not even moving!

Those are boats, Johnny!

eta: "bum-boats," apparently.

eta2: OH GOD FRANCE'S MOUTH IS OPEN

# ? Sep 22, 2016 21:14

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

I'm the Somerset that got replaced by ~~Hampshire~~Hnmpshirp for some reason.

I'm glad that actual Hampshire is represented by a making GBS threads butthole though. There's probably a town around there called making GBS threads Butthole too.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 21:17

root beer: Nov 13, 2005

Jerry Cotton posted:

1) Dude
2) Cockroach fart diarrhoea
4) Crone face
5) Treason?

This the same cartoonist who did TREASON?

# ? Sep 22, 2016 23:52

Lord Hydronium: Sep 25, 2007; Non, je ne regrette rien

Titus Sardonicus posted:

This the same cartoonist who did TREASON?

I don't know if it is or not, but farting has a long history in political cartoons. A while back I found a woodcut of Martin Luther farting in the Pope's face.

# ? Sep 22, 2016 23:57

Jedi Knight Luigi: Jul 13, 2009

Lord Hydronium posted:

I don't know if it is or not, but farting has a long history in political cartoons. A while back I found a woodcut of Martin Luther farting in the Pope's face.

I think that's just a German thing.

# ? Sep 23, 2016 00:00

root beer: Nov 13, 2005

Lord Hydronium posted:

I don't know if it is or not, but farting has a long history in political cartoons. A while back I found a woodcut of Martin Luther farting in the Pope's face.

The style, especially the lettering, just looks very familiar. But that might have been pretty common too. Classy poo poo though.

# ? Sep 23, 2016 00:10

Jaramin: Oct 20, 2010

Nah, I don't think they're by the same artist. The Johnny Treason one is by a R. Newton while that one's by H. Humphrey. The main caricature is named Bull in both though.

For reference.

# ? Sep 23, 2016 00:23

Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Honj Steak posted:

And how many people has AT&T shot and killed since Ferguson?

Probably only twenty or thirty.

# ? Sep 23, 2016 00:27

root beer: Nov 13, 2005

Jaramin posted:

Nah, I don't think they're by the same artist. The Johnny Treason one is by a R. Newton while that one's by H. Humphrey. The main caricature is named Bull in both though.

For reference.

Welp, my memory failed me. Oh well.

# ? Sep 23, 2016 00:37