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They all look suitably mythical apart from that moose fella in the top right who just looks cute.
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Aw man, I read that as "Techno-slovakia," but the reality is far less interesting.
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Speaking of Japan is there a reason why in Japan the Hopkinsville Goblins became the "default" for Space Aliens while in America they're almost completely forgotten
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Speaking of Japan is there a reason why in Japan the Hopkinsville Goblins became the "default" for Space Aliens while in America they're almost completely forgotten They know something we don't 
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pennsylvania's monster is a depressed sack of warts, what the gently caress
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The enfield horror should be the nickname for a boxer from north london.
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Jippa posted:They all look suitably mythical apart from that moose fella in the top right who just looks cute. Ah but you see it's a ghost.
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Is this an inferiority complex map from Portugal which ignores the fact that all the other European countries had empires too?
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Speaking of Japan is there a reason why in Japan the Hopkinsville Goblins became the "default" for Space Aliens while in America they're almost completely forgotten In the US, Whitley Strieber's Communion, describing his alleged alien abduction, became really popular, and that pretty much set the default image of "greys" as the designated aliens in the US.
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lol, I googled "Oklahoma octopus" and it's literally supposed to be just octopi living in a couple of lakes in Oklahoma. Not some kind of prehistoric, supernatural octopus, just a normal octopus, albeit one large enough to kill people. Also, the Michigan Dogman was made up basically whole cloth by a DJ in Traverse City in the late 80s for a song he made for April Fool's Day. People have since merged it with existing werewolf, shapeshifter, etc. sorts of myths on the lower peninsula. I remember hearing this song on the radio in the late 80s late at night when I was cleaning up the milking parlor and, being a small child, being absolutely terrified of it and sprinting from the barn to the house before the dogman got me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvlQp5f7ZwU
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So far as I know, not even the biggest species of octopus have ever been known to kill people (smaller, poisonous octopusses maybe, but that's different), so it'd have to be a pretty drat big octopus. One of the things about cryptid enthusiasts is that they don't particularly care if something was a hoax or even if it wasn't even meant to be a true story in the first place. If they can gin up the premise of a mystery, they'll be satisfied.
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Jackelopes are the most adorable cryptid
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SlothfulCobra posted:So far as I know, not even the biggest species of octopus have ever been known to kill people (smaller, poisonous octopusses maybe, but that's different), so it'd have to be a pretty drat big octopus. To be fair, stories are fun. One of my guilty pleasures is Coast to Coast AM level alien conspiracy theories and poo poo. I don't believe any of it, I treat it as some sort of gonzo sci-fi where nobody breaks kayfabe and it's fun.
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Delthalaz posted:
They gave Champy to New York????? Politically loaded for sure.
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Lord Wexia posted:They gave Champy to New York????? and the snallygaster to virgina 
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Also they gave thunderbirds to North Dakota instead of Hohoq.
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Delthalaz posted:Jackelopes are the most adorable cryptid
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freebooter posted:Is this an inferiority complex map from Portugal which ignores the fact that all the other European countries had empires too? I'm guessing it's from the latter half of the 20th century, when it was starting to become unfashionable to have an empire. Salazer tried to hold on to the remnants of the Portuguese empire.
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freebooter posted:Is this an inferiority complex map from Portugal which ignores the fact that all the other European countries had empires too? Angola and Mozambique are integral parts of the Portuguese nation!
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Every cryptid should have a proper name like the Squonk, instead of the lame [location] + [category] stuff.
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The_Other posted:I'm guessing it's from the latter half of the 20th century, when it was starting to become unfashionable to have an empire. Salazer tried to hold on to the remnants of the Portuguese empire. Nope, it's actually from 1934, so only a year after Salazar had established his Estado Novo. If I had to guess I'd say that the map served the purpose of strenghtening Salazar's reign by way of distracting from the bad economic and political situation Portugal was in at the time as well as increasing morale by remembering the supposedly glorious colonial past (and present) of the country.
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I'm the baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and East Prussia
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Delthalaz posted:Jackelopes are the most adorable cryptid Nah, the esquilax is. Flipperwaldt posted:Every cryptid should have a proper name like the Squonk, instead of the lame [location] + [category] stuff. Like Scuzzlebutt.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Nah, it's opossums. I don’t like their creepy white faces and nasty teeth
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Delthalaz posted:I don’t like their creepy white faces and nasty teeth https://twitter.com/PossumEveryHour/status/1261144313431494656/photo/1
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Delthalaz posted:I don’t like their creepy white faces and nasty teeth but enough about the British.
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Aaaaaah! They’re so startling Platystemon posted:but enough about the British. them too
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The forbidden fingerbox.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The forbidden fingerbox. the gom-jabbar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A54yfyi00dI
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This might be outside the scope of this thread, but does anyone know a good online shop for good looking maps to hang on the wall? Preferably EU-based or with reasonable shipping costs.
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Platystemon posted:but enough about the British. lol I've actually started noticing this too, especially in older British productions. Not so much the color (a slight yellow tinge is normal, and unnatural teeth whitening isn't necessary in most cases), but how crooked they often are. I think it's just that orthodontics wasn't really a thing in the UK in the past? I guess it's true that many of these corrections are just aesthetical, anyway. Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 17:39 on May 18, 2020 |
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Phlegmish posted:lol In my experience that's one of those stereotypes that's low key absolutely real. Soviet Commubot posted:I didn't know Cornwall was in Montana. Late as hell but a ton of cornish miners moved for work to the US intermountain west, and they brought their meat pies with them. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 19:52 on May 18, 2020 |
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i've always heard that you can identify americans abroad because they tend to have freakishly white, perfect teeth
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luxury handset posted:i've always heard that you can identify americans abroad because they tend to have freakishly white, perfect teeth I have teeth that are gross by american standards and normal by french standards so can confirm
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Teeth stuff varies a lot around the world. In parts of Asia braces are actually fashionable, so much so that some people will actually wear janky imitation braces just for the aesthetics, which can actually mess up teeth. Of course this is probably because if you can afford orthodontia, you probably have money, so it becomes a symbol of wealth
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:In my experience that's one of those stereotypes that's low key absolutely real. Soviet Commubot's originally from Michigan so I think hes just salty they gave it to Montana instead of da UP.
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Phlegmish posted:lol The comedy answer to English people being ugly is that the Vikings stole all the hot women (and killed/enslaved the strong men), leaving the worst specimens to become the British empire somehow.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Korea probably has pretty good Korean food though They've america-fied their cuisine to an impressive extent. The best Korean food comes from America and Pyongyang, in that order. e:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fz9aU3qnD0 This looks delicious in an overbearing, life destroying way. But keep in mind that one of the things they're dumping on it is a sugar glaze, and many of the ingredients throughout already have copious amounts of sugar mixed in. Zedhe Khoja fucked around with this message at 21:15 on May 18, 2020 |
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Since American dentistry is run for a profit, they always are trying to upsell you on new services to just make your teeth slightly better, sometimes even at the cost of some tooth health. Joke's on them though, when I got braces I just learned how to never show my teeth and now I don't care that they're a little off looking. BonHair posted:The comedy answer to English people being ugly is that the Vikings stole all the hot women (and killed/enslaved the strong men), leaving the worst specimens to become the British empire somehow. Except a lot of vikings settled and never left. Depending on whether you'd define Normans or Saxons as vikings, they may have been the foundational people of England.
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