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colonel_korn posted:
Most Finns at some time or another, probably. (A simplified version used to be somewhat popular as a T-shirt at some point.)
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Feb 6, 2013 07:45
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What's the context of this one? Someone just really hates Sweden?
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Crameltonian posted:The Middle East and North Africa count as White? I want to see European countries introduce this classification, our racists would have the most amazing fits. Civilized countries don't use racial classifications at all  Related (map showing countries where the ethnicity or race of people was enumerated at least in one census since 1991.):  Obviously "not enumerating ethnicity or race in a census" is not the same thing as "not using racial classifications". 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 11:38 on Feb 18, 2013 |
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Feb 18, 2013 11:33
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cheerfullydrab posted:Isn't GDP a little 20th century? The last time I've seen GDP used as a standalone figure by anyone other than Americans was some time in the mid-eighties when I was a kid. It's used quite a bit as a comparison figure (for instance, to show how GDP per capita has risen massively while household income has sunk or stayed the same).
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Mar 21, 2013 12:52
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System Metternich posted:
I want to go there to see the sea elephants.
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Mar 31, 2013 21:54
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How many foreigners has North Korea arrested for no good reason and put in buttfuck detention centres/how many foreigners has the US arrested for no good reason and put in buttfuck detention centres?
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Apr 3, 2013 20:27
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Dr. Tough posted:haha the minute that that map was posted I just knew that someone would bust out with something like this and try to argue that the US is worse than North Korea or Iran or someplace Does that make it a less legitimate question? (Also we were talking about safety.)
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Apr 3, 2013 23:08
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Vegetable posted:Why doesn't Canada get a colour? I thought it's a Canadian map? I mean you can't visit Canada if you're Canadian.
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Apr 4, 2013 07:56
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Lycus posted:French is a Latin language. Romance language is the preferred term I believe. And even if it isn't anymore it should be since it's such a nice phrase!
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Apr 5, 2013 07:59
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I'd rather be looking at politically loaded maps. Finland has two "main" official languages (there's more than two but I won't get into that now), Finnish and Swedish. Swedish is mandatory for every Finnish-speaking Finn at school and a lot of people are pissed off about that. Here's a map where red means a municipality with more Russian-speakers than Swedish-speakers and green means more Swedish-Speakers than Russian-speakers. White means "no information". Russian isn't an official language in Finland, by the way. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Apr 6, 2013 |
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Apr 6, 2013 23:52
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Ras Het posted:Gonna take a wild guess that the green/brown (weird colour) area has a larger population. Well only about 100% of the population or something like that. It's a politically loaded map from a blog post against mandatory Swedish.
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Apr 7, 2013 00:04
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Looks green to me, then again my VDU is an Asus.
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Apr 7, 2013 00:15
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It's so distorted I can't really make out the countries at all 
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Apr 7, 2013 20:16
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a pipe smoking dog posted:But yeah I hate those super distorted maps. Well the distortion is kind of the point, it would just help a lot if the names of countries were on the map.
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Apr 7, 2013 20:29
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I guess we could just call up Benjamin Hennig and ask for one.
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Apr 7, 2013 21:59
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Riso posted:I am sure it's very interesting but most of us cannot read it. I don't read Russian/Ukrainian and I can't see all the text very well but jesus it's not like it's moon runes:  I'm assuming the arrows mean flow of capital to tax havens? (Virgin Islands, not actual virgins.)
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Apr 19, 2013 08:33
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Riso posted:There's a headline, what does it say? Pan-Ukraine. The subtitle is (probably) Map of the Ukrainian Empire.
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Apr 19, 2013 10:37
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Skeleton Jelly posted:Yup, though for some reason Ukraine is just actual English "Ukraine". I thought it was just a joke like all those "Stupid Americans don't know anything about geography" maps with just Europe, Poland, Oil, Dirty Immigrants, and Here be Black People on them. Also, maybe they used software that doesn't do soft italics and they didn't have an italic cyrillic version of the font?
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Apr 19, 2013 12:49
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Skeleton Jelly posted:It doesn't really have any kind of jokes in any part of it so it would be fairly boring. It's just different countries sized up differently, with lots of kind of weird countries like Seychelles, Bahamas and Panama completely out of proportion. It's also called "Pan-Ukraine", so I don't really see any other option but something like a projection based on Ukrainian immigration. Maybe you just have no sense of humour?
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Apr 19, 2013 19:00
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Skeleton Jelly posted:e: also neither Sweden or Finland are really part of the vodka belt proper with beer really being basically the most consumpted alcohol drink while in e.g. Russia it remains clearly the most popular choice. Russia is also one of the largest beer manufacturers in the world (probably even bigger a vodka manufacturer but still). EDIT: Third largest, it seems. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Apr 23, 2013 |
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Apr 23, 2013 13:44
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Ardennes posted:Looking at most corner markets in Russia, beer has really taken over This was probably entirely because of a huge, long-term marketing effort by certain foreign breweries.
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Apr 23, 2013 16:58
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I'm pretty sure there's quite a lot of restrictions in all of those green countries as well.
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Apr 23, 2013 18:01
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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. 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?).
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Apr 23, 2013 18:09
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I don't want no Vulcans or Minbari making GBS threads up my neighbourhood.
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May 16, 2013 09:35
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Sorry this isn't a map, I hope no-one minds terribly  I think it fits in this thread and I found it amusing anyway:
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May 16, 2013 13:12
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Skeleton Jelly posted:Considering the French people aren't a monolithic blob, it's almost as if these were different French people having different opinions. So they asked different questions from different people? EDIT: I don't know if it's based on surveys or some corpus of text. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 13:24 on May 16, 2013 |
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May 16, 2013 13:19
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Kurtofan posted:Farage commented on it: Read that as eurocats and I think I prefer it that way 
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May 16, 2013 14:39
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Plaguetalk lead me to looking up the plague in Finland and a Wikipedia article contained this nugget: "In Turku, townsfolk would throw out of windows onto the street the bodies of those who died of the plague and sometimes those who were not yet dead." Seems like a good idea though. (Unless you are on the street.) EDIT: This was in the 1700s.
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May 24, 2013 10:05
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Compressed Natural Gas stations for vehicle fuel. What are they doing in Oklahoma? Compressing natural gas.
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May 27, 2013 10:31
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Smirr posted:What's that long, dark stretch running north-south in eastern Kansas (assuming it's not just Kansas being Kansas)? Reptilians. No people there.
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Jun 2, 2013 19:23
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PrinceRandom posted:
Why is Sweden grey? It's had a few female monarchs.
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Jun 18, 2013 03:11
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prefect posted:Stealing this from the D&D pics thread, because I want to ask questions. Look up some pictures of East German female athletes from the era. Although the joke generally wasn't really about them being lesbos but them being technically men.
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Jun 20, 2013 13:43
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Phlegmish posted:Look at that bulge, it's nowhere near China. What's their justification? They have the biggest army.
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Jun 20, 2013 19:22
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E: I don't even know what. This is so vague.
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Jun 27, 2013 00:24
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icantfindaname posted:No, the blue cuts off at the Urals, which is the line between European Russia and Asian Russia. Yes but they still speak Russian?
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Jun 27, 2013 00:34
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Pyromancer posted:No, English is awful, spelling is too different from pronunciation(and all those th and ae sounds, ugh) and verbs have too many tenses for no reason. Esperanto tried, but it's not much more wide-spread than Klingon If someone really wanted to make English the Universal language the most difficult bit, as I see it, would be deciding which English.
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Jul 5, 2013 09:19
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eSports Chaebol posted:English does have fairly limited inflection (it's no Chinese though!) Inflection can be one of the easiest things to chop off though so this is a moot point.
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Jul 5, 2013 14:00
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Especially on coastal regions, certain types of military structures in 'old' countries may have been in place for 100-150 years easily. Not that you'd necessarily see them in any great detail on a non-military map.
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Jul 5, 2013 14:10
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PittTheElder posted:Well sure, but (random example) if everyone in China decided that they were going to speak German from now on. They begin massive education programs to get everyone speaking the new language. Would there really be much of a loss of culture from that shift? China might not be the best example of mass cultural changes not being destructive.
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Vegetable posted:It is impossible to translate between languages with the same meaning. At best you're doing a best-fit conversion and you're still losing a ton of nuance and indeed, culture. If you have any knowledge of another language, preferably one of a different family, you'll realise how obvious this point is. A ton of nuance will be lost eventually anyway. That's why modern editions of that Shakespeare dude's plays have more explanatory bits than lines of the actual plays. Same goes for any language that's been around long enough, of course. Change can be gradual or it can be rapid but it's inevitably drastic. (I'm not advocating one way or the other, death is certain etc. so why bother?)
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