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SpecialK2 posted:Poking around the OkTrends blog, which does "research" based on OkCupid's users and data and found this map.  Clearly gay curiosity is the driving force of a high human development index, and the development of the South could be improved via sponsored hot gay sex commercials. There's probably a correlation:causation fallacy in there somewhere, but it couldn't hurt to try it anyway.
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HighClassSwankyTime posted:How is the Academie Francaise anti-immigration?
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:He definitely had some... interesting ideas about what's China and what isn't. I don't remember all the details from the time he decided to give us a "history" lesson though.  That must be some kind of record for claimed:controlled territory ratio.
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TheImmigrant posted:No one considers Montreal a Latin American city though.
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Kopijeger posted:The term was not used prior to the 1800s:
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Pyromancer posted:Some things soviet block did right - sodium vapor lamps of the east are superior to mercury lamps of the west There's an ongoing plan to get them replaced with more efficient lighting, like LEDs specifically designed to mirror the color of the old gas lamps. http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/26/16017872-warm-glow-of-berlins-beautiful-gas-streetlights-set-to-fade
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duodenum posted:He's not talking about sodium vapor in the air, he's referring to the gas used in the lamp. Yellow street lights are almost always high pressure sodium lamps, old school low pressure sodium lamps are yellower and larger. The white-ish light is produced by mercury vapor lamps or newer metal halide lamps that you might see lighting parking lots in the US. HPS lamps are brighter per watt than metal halide or mercury vapor because they don't try to put out a full(er) spectrum of light.
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Apr 22, 2013 18:23
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Teddybear posted:I assume that they implicitly include "consenting adults" in the restriction list for green countries. Kinda goes without saying, otherwise it'd just be yellow and red all over the place.
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Jerry Cotton posted:When you think about it for a while I'm sure you'll come up with a lot more than just that, not necessarily the same in all countries (animal porn is legal in some countries I think). My point was that it would be kind of nice to know what kinds of restrictions the maker of the map meant with the yellow countries because I'm assuming they meant a specific kind of restriction (distribution? content? something else?). South Africa requires distribution from a specifically licensed and regulated premises, similar to alcohol. Australia bans sale or rental in all but a couple of areas. India bans selling it at all but nobody listens. edit: Nobody knows what Russia does 
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Vegetable posted:What do the stars mean?
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If it's just the various distilled liquors of each country, wouldn't it be under the spirits map instead of 'others'?
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Jun 18, 2013 00:30
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computer parts posted:I'm assuming monarchs don't count or else the UK would be purple. Also Japan, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal would be pink. Also a lot of other places depending on how far you want to go back.
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Trench_Rat posted:metric system by adoptiopn year  . They just didn't do anything with it.
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Phlegmish posted:Norway, notable banana republic.
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HookShot posted:Also in Canada the drinking age in 11 of the 13 provinces and territories is 19, but they've put 18 there as the entirety of the country. edit: New page, so new politically loaded maps, related to the language/linguistics/force english on everyone from the last few pages.   The regression of rhotic accents within England over the last 50 years. The non-rhotic accent appears to have been something created by the educated upper classes in the late 18th century, and spread to coastal North American cities such as Boston, in addition to the upper class southern plantation owners of the 19th century. Over the past few decades rhotic accents have been slowly dying across Britain, being replaced with variants of the non-rhotic 'received pronunciation'. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Jul 6, 2013 |
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Ras Het posted:Eh? It was born in the Southeast, where the English upper classes largely hail from, sure, but to say it was "created by" them is fundamentally silly. They probably didn't create non-rhoticism out of whole cloth themselves, but the association between upper-classness (or at least being educated) and being unable to pronounce a tremulant R sound seems to have ingrained itself at some point.
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I think we can all agree that they got at least one right. Kenneth Pinyan truly was the Worst at Bestiality.
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Kalos posted:If it's any consolation, I'm pretty sure most of the US thinks England, the United Kingdom, and Great Britain are all completely interchangeable terms that mean the exact same thing.  Phlegmish posted:The confusing part is that England doesn't have a parliament of its own, but Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales do. What kind of federal system is that? In a true federal system the central government would have powers delegated to it by the constituent states (even though it's debatable to what extent this happens in many federal countries). The only way to do that with the UK without disproportionate power would be to split England up into it's 8 regions, then make London part of the UK, not England, ACT/DC style.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Huh...I'm surprised at how little traffic (relatively) Australia gets compared to a lot of other places. 
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Technocrat posted:I wonder - it seems that European illness was absolutely catastrophic to the Americas, but if (for the sake of argument) the first sea trip had been the other way around, are there comparable afflictions that would have devastated Europe? e:f;b, but yeah, the exchange of diseases was a two-way thing from the time the first ships started returning.
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wikipe tama posted:Posted yet?  (Red: Krystal, Blue: White Castle, Green: Both)
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KernelSlanders posted:Also, I would have thought RSA would have been rugby, or did that change after Apartheid ended?
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Real hurthling! posted:Many went to Trinidad i think edit: Countries ranked by Hindu population (I realize not all Indians are Hindu, but it gives a good idea of Indian migration to South and Central America). 
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I think it's actually supposed to be top 25. Blue is 21-25: Canada, Jamaica, Kenya, South Africa, New Zealand. However I can only find 7 magenta ones: Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, United Kingdom and 9 red ones: India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Mauritius So maybe it's just a bad map, unless anybody can spot the missing ones? A better map illustrating the same point about South America: 
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Dr. Tough posted:Have any countries actually formed (and kept) the "greater" versions of themselves? The only one I can think of is the US with manifest destiny. (In which case the US hasn't either, because it doesn't have Canada, which it originally considered an issue.)
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Pakled posted:Isn't the whole point of these "greater" countries to claim every scrap of land that has the slightest ethnic or historical connection to that country's rule?
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Peanut President posted:Does the US claim Canada other than parts of Columbia? I thought the deal was that English Canada was "invited" to join if they wanted. That's the comparison I was making with Australia though, Australia has all of the territory that could be considered to be 'Greater Australia', unless you are willing to go to nonsensical lengths like just picking anywhere that is near you that was also British.
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VitalSigns posted:Gay people have had equal rights in South Africa since the new Constitution, and 70% say it shouldn't be tolerated?  about.Gay marriage got passed in South Africa as part of the commitment to equality under law, not because the majority supported it. It's a shame that many people people still haven't gotten over their hatred of LGBT people, but I don't think there would have been any feasible way of holding back on civil rights until the majority supported it without loving people over for the considerable future.
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Fandyien posted:I like flags and maps and stuff enough that it seems worth it to me.
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Lord Tywin posted:I read that it was a joke from some Swiss political party in response to Gaddafi saying that Switzerland should be split up.
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I think the one in Taiwan is the American Institute in Taiwan, a non-profit, private, totally-not-an-embassy that happens to be staffed entirely by retired state department people. Green has official diplomatic relations, blue has diplomatic relations but pretends not to in order to have trade and relations with the PRC e: or is the PRC itself.
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Torrannor posted:So it was a map how Africa might have looked without European colonialism, but with Arabian/Muslim colonialism? Ok, understood. What kind of religion were the Berber of North Africa following anyway, before the Muslim conquests? I know the Ethiopians were Miaphysite Christians, was Christianity the main religion in the rest of North Africa as well?
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Carbon dioxide posted:It seems that muslims scholars have 'decided' that a) the Kaaba is just a focal point for their prayers. It's not something they pray 'to', because they only pray to their God. And b) as one of them said while discussing the orbit thing "praying is not supposed to be a gymnastics exercise and God does not expect us to do the impossible".
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PittTheElder posted:I'm not sure exactly why, but tons of Indian people wound up in South Africa during the old Imperial days, and I wouldn't be overly surprised to learn that happened in Nigeria as well. I'm not sure about Nigeria, although obviously the Dutch part wouldn't apply, but there were a large number of Indians in other British possessions in Africa, notably Uganda. Mostly Sikhs, they were again on indentured contracts for building railroads, and remained afterwards until Idi Amin started a campaign of hate against them and many left for Britain.
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Torrannor posted:Well, alcohol is much cheaper here in Germany, you mean you want to impose Scandinavian alcohol taxes on the poor Baltics? Wonder what the Russian minorities will do once you apply that tax to Vodka. Poitín even has EU protected geographical status now.
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Torrannor posted:And it is striking how little support the Tories have outside of England. quote:And even though the USA is much younger, you can still see the legacy of the civil war, with most of the CSA in the hands of Republicans, and New England with the Democrats.
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kustomkarkommando posted:Ideas were occasionally floated to divide the city and make half of it an Irish enclave but this is pretty impractical.
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DrSunshine posted:What about non-European nations? Is it cool if, like, Mexico or Canada suddenly decided to change her flag to a double-headed eagle holding some kind of sword? e: Two snakes maybe, one for each head.
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Riso posted:Just proves "evangelicals" read gently caress all of the bible.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Australia, NZ, and Canada are cute together e: beaten
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