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icantfindaname posted:LOL if you think Germans and Italians are white. They are among the swarthy, southern races Only us southern Germans though! Even Benjamin Franklin knew that the noble Protestants of what is today Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein are in full possession of that most sought after quality - not Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg though, way too Slavic/Baltic already.
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A German woman in Hong Kong refused to believe I was Finnish because I have light brown hair and blue eyes and "people get darker the more up North they live and Finland is way up North". I was so dismayed I just got on my Адуу and rode back to my гэр.
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My skin is so white, people constantly ask me If I am ill. My secret is I am never Outside. I heard theres a huge fireball in the sky that burns people.
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Tei posted:My skin is so white, people constantly ask me If I am ill. My secret is I am never Outside. I heard theres a huge fireball in the sky that burns people. *speaking Russianly* Just lower your visor, comrade.
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icantfindaname posted:LOL if you think Germans and Italians are white. They are among the swarthy, southern races From 1896: 
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shipping map porn: https://twitter.com/APHClarkson/status/992377456148602881
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Cat Mattress posted:From 1896: Iceland: So white it blends into the surrounding ocean.
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double nine posted:shipping map porn:
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Iceland: So white it blends into the surrounding ocean. & New Zealand
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Guavanaut posted:I'm the one ship still rounding Cape Horn. To go through the Suez canal, a ship needs to fit within a given bounding box, taking into account the height above water (there's a bridge you need to pass under), the depth below water, and of course the width of the passageway. This gives a bounding box that is called Suezmax. There are similar bounding boxes for other canals or narrow straits, like Panamax or Malaccamax. Those that are too big to go through the canals and thus have to go round the capes are called Capesize, which is a really poor name for a ship category I think.
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Cat Mattress posted:Malaccamax I was surprised this is a thing, given that the Strait of Malacca is a natural body of water, but apparently it's only 25 m deep at its shallowest and that is a limiting factor for really large crude oil tankers.
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Kennel posted:& New Zealand Yeah but New Zealand is left off of like, every world map. I mean it's such a big deal that it's even a major topic of international relations for their prime minister. There was even a NYTimes article about it yesterday: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/world/asia/new-zealand-video.html Also if anyone hasn't clicked the link in that twitter video and watched the link, the video is incredible. One of the cool stills was of all the 2012 shipping routes overlaid. (Notably, New Zealand is substantially cropped out of the image.) The Somali gap is also very noticeable. Also drat you really get a sense of how long some of those Siberian rivers are, and holy Christ they're shipping it to some iceland waste ocean? It's also interesting how the Nile is not used for cargo at all. I am always surprised that even in Cairo there are only like 6 boats in the water at an average moment, and 5 of them are feluccas and the other is a restaurant boat. OTOH the Mississippi is not on that map at all, and the Mississippi is used for cargo so that's a weird glaring omission. Also the Rhine is missing despite it being used for cargo as far south as Basel. So... I don't know why whoever made this map only shows the Amazon, Rio Uruguay, and rivers in Russia and part of China.  VVVV I love the Wikipedia article on Capesize. Top of the article: "Not to be confused with Capsize." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capesize I'd also never heard that term but I'm not like a shipping expert or anything either. Saladman fucked around with this message at 18:20 on May 4, 2018 |
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Cat Mattress posted:Those that are too big to go through the canals and thus have to go round the capes are called Capesize, which is a really poor name for a ship category I think.
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Cat Mattress posted:To go through the Suez canal, a ship needs to fit within a given bounding box, taking into account the height above water (there's a bridge you need to pass under), the depth below water, and of course the width of the passageway. This gives a bounding box that is called Suezmax. There are similar bounding boxes for other canals or narrow straits, like Panamax or Malaccamax. Those that are too big to go through the canals and thus have to go round the capes are called Capesize, which is a really poor name for a ship category I think. TIL that ship bounding boxes sound suspiciously like condom sizes
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One if the reasons those Russian rivers look so long is the map projection.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:One if the reasons those Russian rivers look so long is the map projection. Yeah, I guess that probably doubles the visual length vs the Nile or Amazon. Apparently the Lena is ±4500 km (east Siberia) while the Mississippi and Volga are ± 3500 km and the Rhine a measly 1200km. There still must be something fishy going on with the shipping in that map, as if they have lines going from Tierra del Fuego to the Antarctic peninsula, it's clear you don't need all that much traffic to get a visible line. Maybe there's something about the way traffic is reported in rivers that makes them not show up in whatever database that map is scraped from except for a few random rivers here and there? I couldn't find a similar map that includes the rivers which is a shame because that would be amazing to see the 'arteries' of the continents. E: But man are those beautiful graphs Saladman fucked around with this message at 20:50 on May 4, 2018 |
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Everything is bigger in Benelux. This also answers Archer's question about the Alabama of Europe.
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Guavanaut posted:I'm the one ship still rounding Cape Horn. I'm the ship crossing the Sahara
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frankenfreak posted:Everything is bigger in Benelux. Before I even got to your post I saw that and thought "ugh, I've spent nearly all of my adult life living in Alabama."
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According to the map I live in the European equivalent of *checks wikipedia*  e: Checked the map and Roscoe seems to be the better equivalent even if the population numbers are off e2: Goddamn, finding the best fit is harder than it looks System Metternich fucked around with this message at 12:06 on May 5, 2018 |
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 Kazakhstan was the last Republic to leave the Soviet Union, even after Russia left. which means that for 4 days, this was the de facto USSR.
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Should have kept the name and the permanent seat in the UN Security Council.
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That's Wales' long term plan for the UK.
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what happens to all the grey areas
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I want to see the result of the Swiss frankenstein there irl, the fusion of Connecticut and Alabama.
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Kurtofan posted:what happens to all the grey areas I assume they all become Western Sahara.
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Kurtofan posted:what happens to all the grey areas Sent to Mars.
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Kurtofan posted:what happens to all the grey areas Give em to africa
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Kurtofan posted:what happens to all the grey areas Mexican and Canadian provinces
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vyelkin posted:Mexican and Canadian provinces mexico doesn't have provinces
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Grape posted:I want to see the result of the Swiss frankenstein there irl, the fusion of Connecticut and Alabama. Hmm describes Switzerland pretty well actually
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Peanut President posted:mexico doesn't have provinces States, whatever
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Missed a perfect opportunity to compare Georgia to Georgia.
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The only food map ever where Germany somehow is at least in the top 3.
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Grape posted:I want to see the result of the Swiss frankenstein there irl, the fusion of Connecticut and Alabama. It’s called Appenzell. Women’s right to vote in 1991? Check. Children still have the right to smoke tobacco? Check. http://m.20min.ch/ro/news/suisse/story/18574293 (Actually children could still buy cigarettes in many parts of Switzerland until 2015). Fifty other less memorable things? Check. Consistently and overwhelmingly vote for the far right party? Check.
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HookShot posted:The only food map ever where Germany somehow is at least in the top 3.  Döner, Gyros, Kapsalon and fish and chips are all a lot better than Curry wurst
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good burek reigns supreme as the drunk-food of the world
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