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Countries that fell through a wormhole?
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Apr 26, 2017 17:08
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Love how the quote about Poland being an "outpost" is from an actual Polish writer.
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Apr 26, 2017 17:12
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Mystery of Atlantis, solved at last.
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Apr 26, 2017 19:05
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E: Australia itself would be an interesting mix of European and American influence, and a huge hub for trade. God knows what the new ocean currents in the Atlantic would look like. Saladin Rising fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Apr 26, 2017 |
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Apr 26, 2017 19:25
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Saladin Rising posted:I'd actually be really curious how this version of the world developed. New Australia acts as a bridge between Europe and the Americas, so the Americas wouldn't be isolated from the rest of the world. Australian megafauna dominates the world.
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Apr 26, 2017 19:27
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Orange Devil posted:Australian megafauna dominates the world. that's a very rude way to talk about the citizens of australia
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Apr 26, 2017 19:33
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Saladin Rising posted:I'd actually be really curious how this version of the world developed. New Australia acts as a bridge between Europe and the Americas, so the Americas wouldn't be isolated from the rest of the world.
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Apr 26, 2017 19:56
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The presence of land in the erstwhile North Atlantic Ocean would stop the currents that make Europe temperate.
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Saladin Rising posted:I'd actually be really curious how this version of the world developed. New Australia acts as a bridge between Europe and the Americas, so the Americas wouldn't be isolated from the rest of the world. There'd probably be a hurricane constantly circling the north atlantic.
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Apr 26, 2017 21:14
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The sun never sets on the Tasmanian Empire
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Apr 26, 2017 21:18
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Australia would, of course, have to be renamed Borealia.
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Apr 26, 2017 21:29
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Guavanaut posted:
Heretic map 0/5 
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Apr 26, 2017 21:58
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Count Roland posted:Mystery of Atlantis, solved at last. 
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Apr 26, 2017 22:27
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Bugs slipped.
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Apr 26, 2017 22:31
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Guavanaut posted:
Gotta be related to Eurovision, I assume.
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Apr 26, 2017 23:15
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Saladin Rising posted:God knows what the new ocean currents in the Atlantic would look like. I'm certainly no oceanographer or climatologist, but I've picked up from playground rumor that the Gulf Stream current is the reason Europe is temperate despite being hilariously far north. (Rome and Chicago are latitude buddies. One of these has rather harsher winters than the other.) I think dropping a continent right in the way of that current might affect things just a tad. But I bet South Borealia would be downright pleasant.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:British people have no room to talk because they use stupid poo poo like stone all the time and they had the dumbest non decimal currency till 1971. Every time I see an American quote their weight purely in pounds I go "well at this point you might as well use metric". Also having to divide and multiply by 14 is hilarious and I love it. Paul.Power fucked around with this message at 07:01 on Apr 27, 2017 |
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Apr 27, 2017 06:51
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ITT: People have an irrational attachment to things they grew up with.
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Apr 27, 2017 07:15
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this derailment has gone on for one hectopost
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Apr 27, 2017 07:43
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Tree Goat posted:this derailment has gone on for one hectopost That is are post.
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Tree Goat posted:this derailment has gone on for one hectopost Please follow the imperial measurements system of 40 shitposts making one page.
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A true imperial thread would have a third, intermediate level of measurement based on the attention span of a biblical figure, so this thread is probably metric.  Shall we return to less divisive subjects?   
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Apr 27, 2017 10:33
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Finally a map where North Korea beats South Korea.
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Apr 27, 2017 10:39
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I like how India is in the "basically zero" category despite having some 200 million presumably circumcised Muslims
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Ras Het posted:I like how India is in the "basically zero" category despite having some 200 million presumably circumcised Muslims 
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Apr 27, 2017 10:57
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Tipping 10-15% in Germany seems a bit high, I was told 5-10%, is the map overestimating or have I met stingy Germans?
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Falukorv posted:Tipping 10-15% in Germany seems a bit high, I was told 5-10%, is the map overestimating or have I met stingy Germans? Your data is out‐of‐date. They murdered people with a reputation for being stingy about eighty years back.
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Apr 27, 2017 12:32
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Falukorv posted:Tipping 10-15% in Germany seems a bit high, I was told 5-10%, is the map overestimating or have I met stingy Germans? Nah, 5-10% seems to be the generally accepted amount here, with the percentage decreasing as the general amount paid for the service grows; so if I'm getting, say, pizzas for 27€ it wouldn't be amiss to give them 30€, but when eating out for 300€ giving more than 10-20€ seems a bit much Fun fact: the German word for tip is "Trinkgeld", which literally means "drinking money" 
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Apr 27, 2017 12:36
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System Metternich posted:Fun fact: the German word for tip is "Trinkgeld", which literally means "drinking money" French, too: pourboire.
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PC Brigadier posted:presented without comment "Scratch a Russian and you will wound a Tartar" is literally the best (for Russians are extremely thin-skinned you see).
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Apr 27, 2017 13:28
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Guavanaut posted:
Åland big.
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Apr 27, 2017 13:30
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Jerry Cotton posted:Åland big. 
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System Metternich posted:Nah, 5-10% seems to be the generally accepted amount here, with the percentage decreasing as the general amount paid for the service grows; so if I'm getting, say, pizzas for 27€ it wouldn't be amiss to give them 30€, but when eating out for 300€ giving more than 10-20€ seems a bit much Seems really regressive  It's called similarly in many other languages too, spropitné in Czech or чаевые in Russian, literally tea money.
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Apr 27, 2017 14:47
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mobby_6kl posted:Seems really regressive
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Apr 27, 2017 14:47
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mobby_6kl posted:Seems really regressive It tells you that in these countries, the staff is expected to be paid enough so that they can eat, lodge, and clothe themselves, but without enough extra for paying for social occasions. Whereas the term "tip" means "here's a hint, anybody else than your stingy miser of a boss would pay you more, why are you still there you dummy".
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mojo1701a posted:French, too: pourboire. im french and i never even realized i only give one euro at most when i tip, seems okay to me.
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Kurtofan posted:im french and i never even realized French is my third-ish language (I've studied it enough but don't get to practice it), and I can't not dissect words like that when I see them. Still don't know what the Polish word is.
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Napiwek, so also drinking money.
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