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Pope Hilarius II posted:US sports are quite pathetic, since most of the popular sports are self-invented and impopular everywhere else, so that Americans can claim that they're really good at sportsing, whereas they blow rear end at sports with an actual global reach (except basketball I guess), like football, F1 or hockey The part of this that's a factual assertion seems to be demonstrably incorrect? The US is one of the main hockey countries in the world, and has the third highest ranking in terms of Olympic medals. And in terms of soccer, admittedly the MNT is usually mediocre-to-bad, but the women's team is consistently the best in the world. I also think that "except basketball" is a pretty big exception, and for that matter baseball is at least semi-global (not just North America, but East Asia and most of Latin America and the Caribbean). This is also leaving out tennis. (Is tennis globally popular? Or is it just in OECD colonizer countries?) Admittedly I don't know much about F1, but does it really have a global reach? I thought it was more of a semi-global "Europe and a few token other rich countries" thing, in the same way that baseball or hockey are only popular in some places. Basically I know this is low-effort anti-American trolling, but it's not supported by the facts. You would do much better to dunk on our collapsing system of governance or the fact that we massively subsidize fossil fuel companies while we let climate change-driven wildfires and hurricanes ravage poor areas. Something where there's some meat to the criticism.
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Honestly I prefer the idea of every sport being some weird local thing that people outside the area just don't get instead of some weird thing that everybody in the world agrees to go wild about. We should all aspire to Buzkashi. Vivian Darkbloom posted:¡Chile no es un país flaco! "Adm. by GBR" "Not successfully conquered"
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Ponsonby Britt posted:The part of this that's a factual assertion seems to be demonstrably incorrect? The US is one of the main hockey countries in the world, and has the third highest ranking in terms of Olympic medals. Uhmm, actually the US is 14th at hockey, because of a single bronze medal all the way back in 1932. But I get the confusion, Americans seem to think that hockey is something you do on ice. It's not, that's ice hockey.
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Ponsonby Britt posted:The part of this that's a factual assertion seems to be demonstrably incorrect? The US is one of the main hockey countries in the world, and has the third highest ranking in terms of Olympic medals. And in terms of soccer, admittedly the MNT is usually mediocre-to-bad, but the women's team is consistently the best in the world. I also think that "except basketball" is a pretty big exception, and for that matter baseball is at least semi-global (not just North America, but East Asia and most of Latin America and the Caribbean). This is also leaving out tennis. (Is tennis globally popular? Or is it just in OECD colonizer countries?) Admittedly I don't know much about F1, but does it really have a global reach? I thought it was more of a semi-global "Europe and a few token other rich countries" thing, in the same way that baseball or hockey are only popular in some places. Yeah, but come on, you've got to admit that the arrogance of calling an essentially North American baseball competition the "World Series" is peak American jingoism, as is referring to actual football by a daft name. The US WNT football team is ace though, yes.
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I’m all for making fun of Americans but the English started calling it soccer. They just switched to the generic „football“ because they don’t care about rugby.
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cebrail posted:I’m all for making fun of Americans but the English started calling it soccer. They just switched to the generic „football“ because they don’t care about rugby. "Soccer" is the most English possible contraction for "association football."
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Jul 20, 2020 11:19
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:¡Chile no es un país flaco! It was smart to min-max like that, coastal land is usually the most valuable land anyway, and you get to claim all the islands, too. Chile is my favorite Latin American country for reasons I can't fully explain. Maybe it's because they're kind of like Argentina, except not bitching and moaning constantly about how their economy used to be great and it's time to Make Argentina Great Again except never actually do it ¡Arriba los rotos!
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Jul 20, 2020 13:55
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Pope Hilarius II posted:Yeah, but come on, you've got to admit that the arrogance of calling an essentially North American baseball competition the "World Series" is peak American jingoism, as is referring to actual football by a daft name. World champion baseball team the Toronto Blue Jays would like a word.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:World champion baseball team the Toronto Blue Jays would like a word.
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My favorite part is that Cuba has moved to the Haiti/Dominican Republic island, which is good cuz the Island of Cuba itself is now Spain.
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Also Jamaica and Puerto Rico agreed to swap places and restart their governments.
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I've seen this map several times, and only now do I realize that Quebec has been completely erased.
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i had to suffer through the experience of this map so now I'm going to inflict it on the rest of you
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IBroughttheFunk posted:I've seen this map several times, and only now do I realize that Quebec has been completely erased. Actually, Québec is the cyan
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Long Chile is the kind of thing you make when you're trying to be an rear end in a top hat in a multi-player Civ game.
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Phlegmish posted:It was smart to min-max like that, coastal land is usually the most valuable land anyway, and you get to claim all the islands, too. Chile is my favorite Latin American country for reasons I can't fully explain. Maybe it's because they're kind of like Argentina, except not bitching and moaning constantly about how their economy used to be great and it's time to Make Argentina Great Again except never actually do it https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...l-idUSKCN24G3B4 hahahaha
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 I guess those who gave German as their first language are German expats? Also interesting to see how comparatively few people speak the country's official language in its capital as their native language.
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Very interesting maps. My dad used to work in Luxembourg City so I've been there a few times, and I'm not surprised at it being colored white in the first one. The natives are outnumbered in many places and tend to have a pragmatic attitude towards language, having no problem speaking (mainly) French, German, or English to the many foreigners who don't speak Luxembourgish. Once, at the Auchan, someone addressed me in French, and I started pointedly ignoring them, until I remembered I wasn't in Brussels and it wasn't my fight. I still replied in English, though. Go gently caress yourself. However, it doesn't mean they don't appreciate their language, and I don't think the country will ever become truly francophone. That window has passed, and French has lost much of its international prestige, anyway. I'm pretty sure that, at least, public elementary schools teach in Lëtzebuergesch, so it does get passed on even despite the massive demographic shift. e: lol I just realized I made this post on the 21st of July. Belgium, thank you so much for only partly exterminating the majority language and culture! It really fills me with pride to read about 'our' history. NOT!!! 
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Phlegmish posted:Very interesting maps. My dad used to work in Luxembourg City so I've been there a few times, and I'm not surprised at it being colored white in the first one. The natives are outnumbered in many places and tend to have a pragmatic attitude towards language, having no problem speaking (mainly) French, German, or English to the many foreigners who don't speak Luxembourgish. Once, at the Auchan, someone addressed me in French, and I started pointedly ignoring them, until I remembered I wasn't in Brussels and it wasn't my fight. I still replied in English, though. Go gently caress yourself. You invented the best way to eat fries. I gotta hand it to Belgium for that. Orange Devil posted:How many people would be left on this earth? about 1.6 billion if my spitballed math is correct. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Jul 21, 2020 |
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Orange Devil posted:How many people would be left on this earth? 3 billion, give or take.
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Phlegmish posted:Very interesting maps. My dad used to work in Luxembourg City so I've been there a few times, and I'm not surprised at it being colored white in the first one. The natives are outnumbered in many places and tend to have a pragmatic attitude towards language, having no problem speaking (mainly) French, German, or English to the many foreigners who don't speak Luxembourgish. Once, at the Auchan, someone addressed me in French, and I started pointedly ignoring them, until I remembered I wasn't in Brussels and it wasn't my fight. I still replied in English, though. Go gently caress yourself. it's just another bourgie holiday celebrating the current regime. Get drunk and plot the overthrow of capitalism, as god intended.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:about 1.6 billion if my spitballed math is correct. Boonoo posted:3 billion, give or take. 2 enter, only 1 can leave
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Haha, I went off this from wiki. 62.63% of the world's pop. I didn't check to see if they included more beyond Ethiopia, since it looked like Vietnam (number 15 on the list) was there. code:
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Isn't German an official language in the country, and used by some natives as the main language, in the east of the country? Just like French is for parts in the south and west?
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Wow never knew Ethiopia had that many people. I'd have figured it and SA would be reversed population wise.
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Boonoo posted:Haha, Yeah I went the opposite idiot way and added up, and now realize I left out SEA, which is almost certainly where the discrepancy comes from
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