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OK I'll bite; what's the really loving stupid and lame reason for "Wingland?"
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Jerry Cotton posted:OK I'll bite; what's the really loving stupid and lame reason for "Wingland?" W[ales] + England if I had to guess, and there's an i because the E in England is pronounced like the i in wing.
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Apr 29, 2017 14:45
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Carbon dioxide posted:W[ales] + England if I had to guess, and there's an i because the E in England is pronounced like the i in wing. Should have called it Eels.
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Apr 29, 2017 14:48
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I'm the republic of London not including London.
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Apr 29, 2017 14:56
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It's intentionally dumb and arbitrary to imitate how Europe's split up the rest of the world. 
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Apr 29, 2017 17:15
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Kurtofan posted:i'm brussol Pretty sure that's an e, but it's true that it's hard to tell vowels on this map.
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Apr 29, 2017 17:32
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I'm the people being trolled by the joke map that imitates how europans divided the places they colonized.
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Apr 29, 2017 17:50
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Virtually every European country started out as arbitrarily and they've either been successful in assimilating non-dominant cultures or are in the process of falling apart.
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Apr 29, 2017 17:57
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Or both!
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Apr 29, 2017 18:02
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Do they also call it Duck, duck, grey duck?
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Apr 29, 2017 18:26
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Broken Cog posted:Anyone have that map with Russia split between the various Baltic countries, Turkey being pushed out of Anatolia, and like three separate Macedonias lying around? I remember that map being a work of art. 
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Apr 29, 2017 21:15
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I'm cool with turning Russia into a giant pride flag.
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Apr 29, 2017 21:21
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Frionnel posted:I'm the people being trolled by the joke map that imitates how europans divided the places they colonized.
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Apr 30, 2017 00:26
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Estonia and Latvia on that wacky map remind me of Greater Connecticut: Connecticut was theoretically supposed to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. They lost their territory that is now in New York state first. Then they fought two wars with Pennsylvania over the land to the West. The Royal government upheld their claims but the Revolution happened and Pennsylvania was big and strong. For a while Connecticut authority existed unchecked in what is now NE Ohio, settlers from Connecticut are the ones who founded Cleveland, but the state gave everything up to the federal government at the turn of the 19th century.
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Apr 30, 2017 01:24
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Estonia and Latvia on that wacky map remind me of Greater Connecticut: It used to connect, but now it's cut.
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Apr 30, 2017 01:40
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May 1, 2017 10:58
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The makers of that map should probably have contemplated making the colors that denoted some of the mixed systems somewhat more distinguishable from the color for civil law. Just a suggestion.
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May 1, 2017 11:03
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Randarkman posted:The makers of that map should probably have contemplated making the colors that denoted some of the mixed systems somewhat more distinguishable from the color for civil law. Just a suggestion. Also needs a separate color for "law"
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May 1, 2017 11:07
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OddObserver posted:Also needs a separate color for "law" That's what the yellow and green is. I'm not even being ironic.
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May 1, 2017 13:41
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What customary law exists in Japan, Korea and China? I assume in India it's a Hindu equivalent of Sharia personal law
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May 1, 2017 17:26
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icantfindaname posted:What customary law exists in Japan, Korea and China? I assume in India it's a Hindu equivalent of Sharia personal law Japan adopted a system based on Germany's legal system after the Meiji Restoration in 1868, moving away from a Confucian-inspired idea of mutual conciliation. After WW2, US law was heavily overlaid on the Japanese system, so the mixed entry reflects mostly common law with some civil law (specifically German-based). http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1151&context=njilb
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May 1, 2017 18:09
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ulmont posted:Japan adopted a system based on Germany's legal system after the Meiji Restoration in 1868, moving away from a Confucian-inspired idea of mutual conciliation. There's a separate color for mixed civil-common though. I guess they just decided the US influence on Japanese law is idiosyncratic enough to stick it in the customary box?
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May 1, 2017 18:22
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King Hong Kong posted:
I don't know if it was public knowledge at the time, but I saw a fairly similar version of that map about 10-12 years ago when I was in the Navy.
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May 1, 2017 18:35
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I don't know if it was public knowledge at the time, but I saw a fairly similar version of that map about 10-12 years ago when I was in the Navy.  Lowtax.
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May 1, 2017 18:38
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I don't know if it was public knowledge at the time, but I saw a fairly similar version of that map about 10-12 years ago when I was in the Navy. It was, for a certain definition of public knowledge. The Economist printed something very similar about 15 years ago
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May 1, 2017 18:40
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I don't know if it was public knowledge at the time, but I saw a fairly similar version of that map about 10-12 years ago when I was in the Navy.
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May 1, 2017 18:40
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A Buttery Pastry posted:What we can conclude from this is that North Korea's nuclear might has a global reach now. In the last decade, they've gotten ten years closer to their goal.
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May 1, 2017 18:48
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:It was, for a certain definition of public knowledge. The Economist printed something very similar about 15 years ago the economist ... is bad?????? 
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May 1, 2017 19:19
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 Countries where May 1st is an official day off. Dark green: official holiday: Labour Day Light green: official holiday, something else than Labour Day Light orange: Not an official holiday, but Labour Day is celebrated on another date. Dark orange: Not an official holiday, no Labour Day.
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May 1, 2017 20:37
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Carbon dioxide posted:
This is a little misleading because it's basically the same holiday in Sweden, Estonia, Finland and Germany, but half of those are light green and the other half are dark green. Valborg/Walpurgisnacht/Vappu happens to land on the same day but modern 1st of May is celebrated as the day of the labour movement in all of them. Sweden and Finland have the quirk of having it be a day when university students celebrate as well.
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May 1, 2017 20:45
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It's not celebrated here in the Netherlands. It seems most people don't even know about it except for "that day when people in neighbouring countries have a day off". It is said that it's not celebrated here because we got worker's rights gradually, by reasonable negotiation with employers who were surprisingly decent people. Because of this reason, we have no worker's riots to commemmorate, so there's no holiday.
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May 1, 2017 21:28
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So Halakha is white. Does that mean all fish are Jewish? Also why is Halakha not closer to Muslim law on their little chart there when Sharia straight up copies Halakha half the time
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May 1, 2017 21:31
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Carbon dioxide posted:Light green: official holiday, something else than Labour Day I look forward to December 25 becoming Mid Winter Bank Holiday for the same reason and everybody blaming Muslims. Bloodnose posted:So Halakha is white. Does that mean all fish are Jewish?
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May 1, 2017 21:38
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Guavanaut posted:I look forward to December 25 becoming Mid Winter Bank Holiday for the same reason and everybody blaming Muslims. This would be silly because it’s only 2–4 days into winter.
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May 1, 2017 21:52
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Guavanaut posted:It used to be May Day in the UK, but is now officially called 'Early May Bank Holiday' along with such inspiring national holidays as Spring Bank Holiday and Late Summer Bank Holiday, because successive governments seem to have a pathological aversion to assigning symbolism to things. Holy poo poo this is the most modern UK thing I've ever heard. Was it the Tories or new labour what did it?
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Antti posted:This is a little misleading because it's basically the same holiday in Sweden, Estonia, Finland and Germany, but half of those are light green and the other half are dark green. Valborg/Walpurgisnacht/Vappu happens to land on the same day but modern 1st of May is celebrated as the day of the labour movement in all of them. As part of an 1918 attempt in warding off socialism, Finnish law calls 1st of May "the Day of Finnish Labour" instead of anything that sounds suspiciously international. So at least in that particular section of the map it seems to be about where Labour Day is one of the official designated names.
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May 2, 2017 01:52
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Bloodnose posted:Does that mean all fish are Jewish? There's actually a semi-plausible theory that the Sea Peoples of the Late Bronze Age Collapse were Israelites just recently Exodus''d. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcu-ysocX4
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May 2, 2017 01:55
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Duckbag posted:Holy poo poo this is the most modern UK thing I've ever heard. Was it the Tories or new labour what did it?
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The Exodus story in its present form was compiled after the Babylonian captivity and the parallels between the two stories are too numerous to ignore. It's likely that many details of Exodus were changed/invented in order to tie the new regime in Persian Judea to Moses. So, whether the Jews were really in Egypt and their role there is all rather ambiguous, with their status as "slaves" being particularly dubious.
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