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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:have you been to thailand yet? or egypt? I've been to Bangkok. I didn't see anything even close to China's level. But that could be the difference between a week vacation and living somewhere. Edgar Allen Ho posted:I like how if you YouTube traffic accident videos it’s 90% russian dash cams I have a great video collection from China. I love the ones that are just cartoonish, like it doesn't seem physically possible for what you're seeing to happen.
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I was in Italy last spring and I like how Italians seem to honk their horn for literally every imaginable traffic situation. In the Nordic Countries we only honk if a) The car in front of us isn't moving despite a green light b) we're seconds from crashing into someone. Italians just honky it seemingly at random all the time. I'm told that in Greece there's a lot of blind turns and hills where you can't see if someone is coming the other way until you´re about to hit them so people honk their horns every time they take such turns so if there is someone coming the other way they can hear it and take caution.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I was in Italy last spring and I like how Italians seem to honk their horn for literally every imaginable traffic situation. This happened when I took a cab in Turkey, we where going downhill on a curvy road and instead of slowing down to drive more safely the driver just started honking more.
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I have had my car for about 8 years and I haven't used the horn once. I should probably try it in case of emergencies.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Number one in deaths is Georgia (the country) apparently. Huh. Two is Russia. Duh. I initially thought this post was saying that the number 2 cause of death in Georgia (the country) is Russia
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I initially thought this post was saying that the number 2 cause of death in Georgia (the country) is Russia Probably not far off, to be honest.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I initially thought this post was saying that the number 2 cause of death in Georgia (the country) is Russia
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Datapoint for Denmark: I've never not been fed as a guest, and my parents have never not fed guests. Even unannounced.
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Whenever that map gets posted there's always Scandinavians coming out to argue with it. They're lying.
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As a Finn, if a guest is feeling hungry, I'm more than happy to supply them a phone number of a local Grill / Pizzeria. Now If you want a beer, I have extra to share.
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Guavanaut posted:It all falls on the disc equivalent of Wales. For those unfamiliar with the series: This isn't a joke. Well, it is, but it's a joke from the books. I read this post and immediately thought "Oh yeah, the place Imp was from." Soul Music posted:It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country’s main export. It had rain mines.
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I always prepare a plate of cheese and bread and meat. Do you guys not clean up for guests either?
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As a swede I can deal with the no-feeding-guests map [though they get fika] but PewDiePie loving hurts man.
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Shouldnt Mozart and Hitler literally switch countries there. e: no, misremembered probably
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David Suchet is British, though?  (Yes, I know he played Poirot, but the other people on the map are real.)
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He's British and Russian-Jewish on his mother's side, British and Lithuanian-Jewish on his father's side, that map is extremely taking the piss.
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SniHjen posted:I would have guessed David Attenborough for england He's certainly very famous but everyone knows the queen, even if they don't want to know her.
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Threadkiller Dog posted:Shouldnt Mozart and Hitler literally switch countries there. You can do what you want, assigning people to nation states that didn't exist at the time makes no sense anyway. Mozart was born in the (independent and formerly Bavarian) Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg, which wasn't annexed by the Austrian Empire until after his death. It was a member state of the Holy Roman Empire which some people regard as a precursor of the German nation state, so you can call him German if you want. But you can also just as well call him Austrian because Salzburg is part of modern day Austria. And Hitler was born in Braunau, which was Austrian at the time and is Austrian now, but he renounced his Austrian citizenship in 1925 and was naturalized in 1932.
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Who the heck is that for Sweden? I've never even heard that name before.Threadkiller Dog posted:As a swede I can deal with the no-feeding-guests map [though they get fika] but PewDiePie loving hurts man.  At least it's better than Germany, or Russia, or Spain. But still.
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Grevling posted:Whenever that map gets posted there's always Scandinavians coming out to argue with it. They're lying. drat, Hitler getting snubbed.
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Does the map maker know something about Russia and Ukraine that we don't or did they just not feel like adding another category?
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Ikasuhito posted:Does the map maker know something about Russia and Ukraine that we don't or did they just not feel like adding another category?
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Phlegmish posted:That's fair enough - I think at one point Pratchett straight up says that the world-building isn't supposed to be internally consistent. The turtle is very big and she probably emits a lot of water vapor via planetary scale biological processes I think she eats the occasional asteroid or comet for nutrition and hydration purposes, possibly because she just fancies a snack wait till you get more information on the elephants and how having a rotating planetary disk on the back of an elephant the size of continental plates results in quite a lot of friction.
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I'm guessing they're combining google searches for Mehmed I and Mehmed II or something for Turkey (if there's any methodology in the first place). I would have thought Erdogan, Ataturk, and Suleiman all would have beaten Mehmed I.
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Peggotty posted:You can do what you want, assigning people to nation states that didn't exist at the time makes no sense anyway. Mozart was born in the (independent and formerly Bavarian) Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg, which wasn't annexed by the Austrian Empire until after his death. It was a member state of the Holy Roman Empire which some people regard as a precursor of the German nation state, so you can call him German if you want. But you can also just as well call him Austrian because Salzburg is part of modern day Austria. And Hitler was born in Braunau, which was Austrian at the time and is Austrian now, but he renounced his Austrian citizenship in 1925 and was naturalized in 1932. Marie Curie was 27 when she married Pierre in 1895, got the French nationality and lived the next almost 40 years as a French citizen. Nikola Tesla was for 35 years of his live a Croatian (or rather Austrian) citizen and for 52 years an US citizen. Oskar Schindler was sudeten-german, he even got arrested for espionage for the Nazis by the Czech police when he was 30 and only released as part of the Munich agreement. He lived as a German citizen for the next 36 years. Christopher Columbus lived in Italy until he was 26, then a few years in Portugal and then for a bit more than 20 years in Spain, although a lot of that was spent in international waters. Hitler was 43 when he got naturalized and lived for 13 years as a German, only 6 of which (until 1938) Austria was not part of Germany. So the map is not going by birthplace, place of death, ethnicity, duration of citizenship or any other discernible criteria. 
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Broke: Hitler was from Germany. Woke: Alexander the Great was from North Macedonia.
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Alexander the Great lol Also calling Hitler an austrian not a german is big “passing the buck” energy, especially given the austro-german relationship for most of history.
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I am still pissed they chose Domantas over Arvydas. e: also, Mother Theresa was a Skopje born Albanian of Kosovar descent and never had anything to do with the actual country of Albania.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Alexander the Great lol
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Why are Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin former leaders, but Queen Elizabeth is a celebrity?
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SlothfulCobra posted:Why are Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin former leaders, but Queen Elizabeth is a celebrity?
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Technically, Putin is a former leader, he stopped being president last time his term ran out. But yeah, I would think Stalin still had him beat.
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