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Me in the red balkan zone: "i am protected"
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Sep 2, 2023 05:37
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Czechia, I have questions.
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Sep 2, 2023 06:01
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Poland, you can’t say that.
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Sep 2, 2023 07:21
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For some odd reason I’ve heard it as „Habt ihr nur Pfannkuchen zuhause?“ ”Do you have only pancakes at home [instead of doors]?“
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Sep 2, 2023 07:30
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Platystemon posted:Poland, you can’t say that. Usually I hear stuff like 'were you born/raised in a barn'.
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Sep 2, 2023 07:40
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Czechia, I have questions. "Do you have a slave who will close the door behind you?" It came up itt some time ago with a different map that chose to use the other applicable saying - "Do you have a pole sticking out of your rear end?"
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Sep 2, 2023 07:48
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I guess the idea is to call the person an old timey rich person, which is a bad thing. So you're basically calling them a slave owning rear end in a top hat for being a non door closing rear end in a top hat. Also, at least in Copenhagen, the Danish is born in a train.
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Sep 2, 2023 08:09
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SlothfulCobra posted:
I’m dangerous Monaco. Might get bit by an F1 while crossing the road, I guess. I’m also the safe Fergana valley, but simultaneously the unsafe Spain. Travel advisories are dumb and country-level ones are worse-than-uselessly bad, is i guess what I am getting at.
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Sep 2, 2023 08:42
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BonHair posted:I guess the idea is to call the person an old timey rich person, which is a bad thing. So you're basically calling them a slave owning rear end in a top hat for being a non door closing rear end in a top hat. Platystemon posted:Why does China think that Brazil is safe?
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Sep 2, 2023 08:46
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A Buttery Pastry posted:"Were you born in a [Copenhagen-specific train]" is unsurprisingly not a pan-Danish saying. It's hardly Copenhagen specific, they go to Køge and Hillerød and such... Also I figured maybe other places just said "train" instead of S-train
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Sep 2, 2023 08:52
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BonHair posted:It's hardly Copenhagen specific, they go to Køge and Hillerød and such... Also I figured maybe other places just said "train" instead of S-train
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Sep 2, 2023 09:03
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Those are also Copenhagen. Anything above 2799 is Jylland, sorry. And a lot of that 26 is iffy. 
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Sep 2, 2023 09:10
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Born in a barn is a perfectly normal british saying as well...
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Sep 2, 2023 10:04
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OwlFancier posted:Born in a barn is a perfectly normal british saying as well... Thanks, NHS!
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Sep 2, 2023 10:31
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Platystemon posted:Why does China think that Brazil is safe? I checked the German website. And the map is lazy, as usual. Neither Sweden nor the US are on the travel warning list. Looking for the country directly gives me a specific travel warning for Stockholm due to unusual amount of Terrorism and for some parts of the US due to being on fire.
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Sep 2, 2023 10:47
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mmkay posted:Never heard that expression Never heard it either. For me it was "A drzwi to koza/krowa zjadła?" "Did a goat/cow eat the door?" depending on which grandmother said that, or "DOOR!" if it was the grandfather
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Sep 2, 2023 11:58
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Honj Steak posted:For some odd reason I’ve heard it as „Habt ihr nur Pfannkuchen zuhause?“ ”Do you have only pancakes at home [instead of doors]?“ This rules
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Sep 2, 2023 13:44
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… I should make some Pfannkuchen.
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Sep 2, 2023 14:03
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alnilam posted:The stereotypical new yorker accent is actually very dutch-influenced. Do you have any evidence? This is the first time I hear this, and the NY accent to me sounds more influenced by Yiddish and Italian.
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Sep 2, 2023 14:23
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Pope Hilarius II posted:Do you have any evidence? This is the first time I hear this, and the NY accent to me sounds more influenced by Yiddish and Italian. Yeah I did some reading on the linguistics of the NY accent and I don't think that's true.
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Sep 2, 2023 14:54
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Pope Hilarius II posted:Do you have any evidence? This is the first time I hear this, and the NY accent to me sounds more influenced by Yiddish and Italian. Polders are essentialy what happens when you say EY IM WALKIN ERE at the sea.
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Sep 2, 2023 15:01
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The Dutch say 'Were you born in a church?'
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Sep 2, 2023 15:05
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 Early 60s prediction of Africa in the year 2000. Very confident about the abilities of Portuguese colonial administration. (Not too bad a prediction of what ECOWAS was aiming towards until recent events though.)
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Sep 2, 2023 15:16
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SlothfulCobra posted:
I like to think that "countries that are not recommended" is just the government telling you their travel advisor rating.
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Sep 2, 2023 15:38
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The use of the word ‘boss’ is a Dutch thing and is used extensively in NYC. ‘Stoop’ for the stairs in front of a building. Isn’t Dollar from Dutch too? It’s probably really old but I can def see a Dutch influence. Maybe our vowels come from Dutch too?
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Sep 2, 2023 18:40
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Dollar's Czech, actually, and came to America by way of Spain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar posted:In the 16th century, Count Hieronymus Schlick of Bohemia began minting a silver coin known as a Joachimsthaler (from German thal, modern spelling Tal, "valley", cognate with "dale" in English), named for Joachimsthal, the valley in the Ore Mountains where the silver was mined.[7] Joachimsthaler was later shortened to thaler or taler, a word that eventually found its way into many European languages including the Spanish tálero and English as dollar.[7]
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Sep 2, 2023 18:55
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SlothfulCobra posted:
The American tourist who decides to follow the state department's advice and goes on holiday to Angola instead of Denmark is probably going to be surprised.
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Sep 2, 2023 19:32
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Blut posted:The American tourist who decides to follow the state department's advice and goes on holiday to Angola instead of Denmark is probably going to be surprised. To be fair, we did have a gang member who was shot in the street the other day. Certainly not something an American could handle being close to.
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Sep 2, 2023 19:41
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Guavanaut posted:
I guess predictions are hard, although it’s not when very good for ECOWAS, it looks more like it is just predicting that Nigeria gets drawn into Francafrique for some reason, and Gambia and the other tiny non-Francophone countries getting absorbed. They missed so many things that happened immediately after with massive presaging like Sidi Ifni that I’m also guessing the map wasn’t drawn by a team of experts on each. Is there anything it did get notably correct besides Algerian independence, which would not have taken a genius to guess by 1961? Saladman fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Sep 2, 2023 |
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Sep 2, 2023 22:32
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Guavanaut posted:
lol Spanish Sahara lol South Africa Want to see what’s united with Egypt.
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Sep 2, 2023 22:38
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Syria, which was one of the things they got right for the time (but not for long).
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Sep 2, 2023 22:46
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Youremother posted:Dollar's Czech, actually, and came to America by way of Spain. It's German, not Slave.
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Sep 2, 2023 22:52
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Platystemon posted:Want to see what’s united with Egypt. Syria, in this case, although the name outlasted the actual union (which died... about when this map was made, I think?)
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Sep 2, 2023 23:05
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Guavanaut posted:
On the one hand, who could've ever predicted Mozambique joining the Commonwealth? (Did Angola join too, or was it another former Portuguese colony that did that?) On the other, predicting that Ruanda-Urundi, Bophuthatswana, Lesotho, eSwatini and Namibia might be problematic should've already been known in 1960... Biafra? Eritrea? Djibouti? Somaliland? Zanzibar? Dinka? Ifni? Sahrawi?way too many to mention Ah, well 
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Sep 2, 2023 23:50
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Jerkhammer posted:On the one hand, who could've ever predicted Mozambique joining the Commonwealth? (Did Angola join too, or was it another former Portuguese colony that did that?) Mozambique, Rwanda, Gabon and Togo are the four nations with no full or partial (Cameroon) colonization by Britain to be members
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Thanks. I was thinking at least one more country that was outside the UK sphere of influence stepped in. And yes, I was thinking of Rwanda, which in the map I originally replied to, was part of "Uganda rep.".
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Mid 19th century Ottoman map of the Americas?Jerkhammer posted:On the other, predicting that Ruanda-Urundi, Bophuthatswana, Lesotho, eSwatini and Namibia might be problematic should've already been known in 1960 The other Bop (Botswana) has had no interest at all in joining in on that poo poo since 1966.
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It makes sense for smaller, less powerful nations to band together into larger units to have more power and resources on the international stage. From the vantage point of 1960, it seems even more like a reasonable assumption. Czechoslovakia is still a thing. The Balkans haven't really gotten to balkanizing yet. Looking back at the last century, there were other big examples of smaller states uniting into something bigger to become more influential like Germany and Italy. Europe is creating the European Economic Community to join up into an even bigger unit. The Soviet Union and Warsaw pact looms large as allegedly some kind of federation of cooperating nations, and the whole world is organizing itself into power blocs. Why shouldn't Africa go through its own agglomeration as it rises up from the burden of colonialism? Except it turns out that a lot of cultural groups aren't quite so politically compatible, and it's actually pretty hard to set up prosperous democracies, and maybe with modern international economies and military alliances, there's not as much reason to band together.
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