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Xander posted an imgur album of vintage propaganda cartoons about the Opium Wars and the Russo-Japanese War. When I saw this one, I knew it was for the map thread:
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What the christ is that. I'm... not any of that insanity.
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Cat Mattress posted:Xander posted an imgur album of vintage propaganda cartoons about the Opium Wars and the Russo-Japanese War. When I saw this one, I knew it was for the map thread: dunno what i like better, cuba being larger than china or canada and india sharing a land border
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Jan 24, 2018 17:22
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bagual posted:dunno what i like better, cuba being larger than china or canada and india sharing a land border I'm particular to China forming one of the pillars of hercules, myself
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Jan 24, 2018 17:27
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I'm the Philippines That or the ongoing 16-year hellwar the US has, much to my surprise, been fighting in the mountains of tribal Canada
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Jan 24, 2018 18:06
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I'm Egypt just south of China in Morocco, which is also taking up what should be Spain
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Jan 24, 2018 18:31
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China fled to Portugal to escape the Canadian invasion. Little do they know that Australia is sailing into the Atlantic to cut them off.
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Jan 24, 2018 18:49
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Cat Mattress posted:Xander posted an imgur album of vintage propaganda cartoons about the Opium Wars and the Russo-Japanese War. When I saw this one, I knew it was for the map thread: teacher told me I was crazy when I pointed out that Australia and Egypt fit almost perfectly together
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Jan 25, 2018 02:55
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Looks like a perfectly normal Civilization game to me
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Jan 25, 2018 03:38
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System Metternich posted:Well, not everything Cornwall was actually correct on this one, leaving the EU will allow Cornwall to revitalize its most profitable industry: piracy.
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Jan 25, 2018 07:55
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Wait, how is the Lancashire accent a "potential imminent violence" accent?
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Jan 25, 2018 08:01
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Arglebargle III posted:Cornwall was actually correct on this one, leaving the EU will allow Cornwall to revitalize its most profitable industry: piracy. Actually, without the EU to protect them, they'll be easy pickings for Barbary pirates.
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Paul.Power posted:Wait, how is the Lancashire accent a "potential imminent violence" accent? 
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Jan 25, 2018 10:59
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Actually, Canada contains three-fifths of the world’s lakes.
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Jan 25, 2018 11:52
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 Map showing how the game "rock-paper-scissors" is called among Flemish speakers. In brown it's "scissors-stone-paper" and in green it's "leaf-stone-scissors". Incidentally you can see that brown follows the most important economic axis of Flanders (Flemish Brabant and Antwerp) which incidentally also corresponds to the medieval Duchy of Brabant (with some cities lost to the Dutch in what they call "Northern Brabant" and which has no border with contemporary Brabant as part of the old Brabant got renamed Antwerp instead)
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Here's one that's definitely politically loaded: For context: this map is from the United Arab Emirates.
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Deltasquid posted:
That's interesting, in Germany (or at least the part of Bavaria where I grew up, dunno if there's any significant regional variation) it's "scissors-stone-paper" like in old Brabant. In map news, German weekly Zeit Online has built a database with all streetnames in Germany, with some interesting results:  Streets named after regions/peoples in Eastern Europe that were formerly part of Germany/settled by German speakers, e.g. Eastern Prussia or the Sudeten Germans. As you can see, there are hardly none of them in those areas that used to be part of the GDR, because over there the people expulsed from those areas weren't officially seen as "refugees", but instead as people "liberated" by the Red Army  A similar divide becomes visible in those streets named after Karl Marx; with only a few exceptions in the west (like the areas Marx used to live in before he emigrated to England) most of them are to be found in the east.  Streets named after Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of West Germany. Hardly any in the east (unsurprisingly), but there are also markedly fewer Adenauer streets in the Protestant areas of West Germany (Adenauer was a staunch Catholic, and the religious divide still ran deep in Germany until the 60s) and in Bavaria, which was/is mostly Catholic, but also fiercely federalist/separatist, especially in the years immediately after the war.  Streets named by the Nazis after Erwin Rommel, famed general. What the gently caress?  Most of them are in Württemberg, where he grew up. Streets named after the Limes. I wonder where that is coming from?  It's a pretty cool feature, you can search for yourself here (only in German, though).
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Cat Mattress posted:Here's one that's definitely politically loaded: Reminds me of this (since fixed) map from the Pyeongchang Olympics website: 
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Whiz Palace posted:Reminds me of this (since fixed) map from the Pyeongchang Olympics website: Starts off strong with the absent Japan, but it's the absent New Zealand that finishes it. EDIt: I guess it actually just falls off the map, you can see a tiny bit peeking next to the Ozzies. Still!
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System Metternich posted:
Rommel is popularly considered the "good Nazi" or simply not a Nazi at all, although he was Hitler's personal friend. Hell, the current German Army still pays homage to him to this day. 
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Jan 25, 2018 16:44
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The Bundeswehr honours every Nazi unless explicitly ordered to not honour that specific person.
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Jan 25, 2018 19:25
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I once heard that Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, has a major street named Göring, but it was okay, it wasn't named after THAT Göring, but rather his father, who had history in German South West Africa. I can't find it on a map, so I think they may have caved to pressure and changed it. But I did find a couple of other politically loaded street names: 
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Yeah a lot of street names changed after 1990 when governance of Namibia changed from Pretoria to SWAPO. Fidel Castro Street is almost certainly a Border War reference, MiGs in Angola and all that.
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Deltasquid posted:
What's up with that stuff written on the top right and is it used anywhere? Also, as far as I know, in the Netherlands we always call the game 'steen papier schaar'. Stone, paper, scissors, so like in English. And we call the province of 'Noord-Brabant' just Brabant except in official documents or when we're reminded that there's also some part of Belgium that's called Brabant - which I actually think lots of Dutch people aren't aware of. I always get the feeling lots of Dutch people have no clue what the provinces of Belgium are. Then again, certain hollanders can't even tell the difference between a Noord-Brabant accent and a Netherlands' Limburg accent, even though those are worlds apart and Brabant people will fight you to death if you dare call them Limburgers. Carbon dioxide fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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Carbon dioxide posted:What's up with that stuff written on the top right and is it used anywhere? No idea what's up with the top ones, I have never heard of them before and I have friends from every province at my university so it's not standard at all. Probably some sort of dialect they discovered in one or two towns? But they should have marked those with dots on the map if that's the case. I don't know how many Flemish people could name provinces in the Netherlands. We are generally aware that "Holland" is just the province in the Netherlands that everyone knows, but call Dutchmen "Hollanders" mostly to troll them if they're not from Amsterdam. Otherwise I know Zeeland, Noord-Brabant, Limburg and Friesland off the top of my head. fake edit: looking them up, I just learned there's a North and South Holland lol Actual Edit: I looked up the source of the map and it turns out it's from scouts Vlaanderen, who had a poll for their members about how they call the game. I assume the three top ones, especially vis-vis-vis, were teenagers being teenagers and picking the troll option Deltasquid fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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 "Which country would you like to live in?" E: Seems to be patched together from different surveys circa 2013. Jehde fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Jan 26, 2018 |
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Jan 26, 2018 07:08
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Jehde posted:
I'm shocked Canada wants to move to Australia so much
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fishmech posted:I'm shocked Canada wants to move to Australia so much I think it's basically the same reasons that made Spain top out for the aussies. ("Well if I had to move somewhere... _____ sounds nice enough I guess...")
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Jan 26, 2018 07:21
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Jehde posted:
There are some curious countries with no data on this map.
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I'm from Leuven and I've never heard anyone call it anything other than 'blad steen schaar'...which I guess is what the map says. What's interesting to me is that once again it shows the Aalst area as having a lot of Brabantian influence. Carbon dioxide posted:What's up with that stuff written on the top right and is it used anywhere? Don't worry, lots of people in Flanders apparently are unaware that Noord-Brabant exists, as evidenced by the embarrassing recent discussion about potentially renaming the province of Antwerp. To the man in the street, all Dutch people are 'ollanders. I actually know all of the Dutch provinces, but that's because I'm a nerd, and even then I sometimes get the German-y eastern ones confused, like Drenthe. What you say about the accent is interesting, I was in Breda recently and did not detect anything particularly Brabantian about it at all. I actually thought even random people spoke a nice Standard Dutch, better than actual Hollanders and certainly better than, say, someone from Antwerp right across the border. I was jealous.
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah a lot of street names changed after 1990 when governance of Namibia changed from Pretoria to SWAPO. The Independence Museum in Windhoek had a big section devoted to Cuba's role in the fight against apartheid and Namibia's eventual independence. Cuba and Namibia have very warm relations as a result of that history. The Independence Museum, btw, is on the former site of the big German memorial that honored the soldiers killed in the 'Hottentot Uprisings' - i.e. the Herero genocide. The memorial was the site of numerous protests against South African rule, and removing it after independence was a source of major controversy by the white minority. When I was there, I found the statue 'in storage', propped up against the wall of an old German fort - the government still hasn't worked out what to do with it.
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fishmech posted:I'm shocked Canada wants to move to Australia so much When you live in a frozen tundra you probably just say the hottest country you can think of
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cebrail posted:When you live in a frozen tundra you probably just say the hottest country you can think of
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Powered Descent posted:I once heard that Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, has a major street named Göring, but it was okay, it wasn't named after THAT Göring, but rather his father, who had history in German South West Africa. Not the same ballpark I found myself on a "rue des déportés" once in Grenoble, which is a pretty depressing street name "where do you live? "oh you know, Victims of the Holocaust Street" not that it's wrong to pay hommage to people who lost their lives this way, it's just so blunt. Apparently there are many such streets named this way, and also some rue des victimes du nazisme (which is a mouthful). Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Jan 26, 2018 |
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in my hometown, middle schools are named on the theme of the westward trails that are pretty much the whole reason that town exists they had two back in the 60s: Santa Fe Trail JHS and Oregon Trail JHS then they built three more through the 70s/80s, and uncreatively called them Pioneer Trail, Indian Trail, and Frontier Trail More got built while I was in junior high, so they did a naming contest where we'd vote on the best names- my friend submitted Trail of Tears Junior High but that got passed over for Chisholm Trail, a fine choice and a feather in the cap of whatever kid tricked the city into naming a school after jism
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Kurtofan posted:Not the same ballpark The street in the town my family comes from in Poland has "Ulica Żydowska", or "Jewish Street". I'm also pretty sure I saw that same name in other cities and towns there, but I can't remember.
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