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Please dont link your shitey band here, a bad link.
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Windows 98 posted:How can the island function at all with 90% unemployment? The Australian government pays Nauru a ton of money to warehouse refugees. It's also a developing nation, so the whole "jobs" thing isn't really comparable to first world economies. As mentioned upthread, there are a lot of tiny Pacific Islands with small populations and no real infrastructure or central economy where people survive at subsistence level. Indonesia alone has 13,000 islands. Lolie fucked around with this message at 23:26 on May 9, 2016 |
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Lolie posted:It's also a developing nation, so the whole "jobs" thing isn't really comparable to first world economies.
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Prettz posted:You really can't call an island that will be underwater in 10 or 15 years a "developing nation". It's more like undeveloping. Being a sunken island will probably at least attract divers and make it a more desirable location to visit than it is now.
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May 9, 2016 23:28
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Thanks for the rare Pepe.
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 Here is Grytviken, on South Georgia Island. While it is not further south than larger places on Tierra del Fuego, it is colder and more isolated due to the conditions in the "Roaring Forties" of the Southern Ocean. glowing-fish fucked around with this message at 03:36 on May 10, 2016 |
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May 10, 2016 03:31
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thanks op i learned about a island and also some other islands
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May 10, 2016 03:44
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They are the good energy aliens from warcraft. Also she is one of the godesses from zelda. HTH.
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glowing-fish posted:
I want to take over one of the mountainous islands, and carve a network of tunnels into those mountains to make a fortress. Drill down and set up some underwater entrances. It would be super rad.
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Johnny Aztec posted:I want to take over one of the mountainous islands, and carve a network of tunnels into those mountains to make a fortress. Drill down and set up some underwater entrances. It would be super rad. That sounds like a ton of work. where are you gonna get all the workers for a project that big on such a tiny island?
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May 10, 2016 04:15
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this place is literally a shithole. and theyre running out of poo poo.
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boom boom boom posted:That sounds like a ton of work. where are you gonna get all the workers for a project that big on such a tiny island? Go to a post-apocalyptic city in the US of 20XX and find the thugs hanging out holding metal pipes to help construct and guard your island fortress.
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zakharov posted:The Nauruan economy was based on bird poo poo and now that all the phosphates are gone the economy is Totally hosed. You forgot to mention that the Boeing 737-300 they later got, cost them 30% of their GDP.
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I think they invested in a whole lot of ridiculous poo poo. I think a decade or so ago they were the highest GDP per capita in the world.
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Isaac posted:I think they invested in a whole lot of ridiculous poo poo. I think a decade or so ago they were the highest GDP per capita in the world. It was 40-50 years ago, back when superphosphate bounties were a thing.
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boom boom boom posted:That sounds like a ton of work. where are you gonna get all the workers for a project that big on such a tiny island? Dwarves, of course
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Why don't they just buy loads of birds and feed them taco bell so they poo poo everywhere? Also where the gently caress is that AMA guy who said he lived there? I want answers, and I want them now.
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It's dgsw obv.
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Can you make phosphate out of human poo poo? Could be a lead there.
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0dB posted:Can you make phosphate out of human poo poo? Could be a lead there. Human poo poo does contain phosphates you'd still need to process it and the problem is there are billions of humans everywhere else
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spud posted:Why were you there? Working to help the refugees and asylum seekers. They do, and they did after that girl was killed, but they keep coming back because they hide in the forests and multiply quickly. Malinois posted:How was the surf? I got caught in a rip one time and nearly died, but a fishing boat came by and picked me up. Some asylum seekers and nauruans died by drowning from fighting the rip. Because there is a huge drop after about 100 metres outside the island "reef" the rip is insanely powerful and it's in the middle of the pacific ocean with nothing around. The surfs terrible but some people go out and do some surfing, snorkeling or scuba diving. There are lots of tuna if you go out a km and they are massive and easy to catch. Jerry Mumphrey posted:counterpoint: the president is dgsw's av True. but there are no 5 guys burger and fries on island. only lots of chinese food (there is a big chinese population in one of the 12 sections) WatermelonGun posted:Does Nauru love meth just as much as any other pacific island? Nope, no meth. just alcohol and Kava which numbs your mouth and gives you a kind of drinking high/drunkenness. Yes, the Baron does sit on a throne and he's a fat piece of poo poo that does nothing. Yes, spam in a can is a thing often bought and shoveled into their pie holes.
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May 10, 2016 11:12
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Haha Nauru loving suuucks
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Lascivious Sloth posted:Working to help the refugees and asylum seekers. Wow.... An island truly worse than living in Britain. I need some time to process this.
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May 10, 2016 11:49
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So many islands, too little time
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i will move there and start some bitcoin farms
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One of my lecturers told our class that Nauru is covered in discarded KFC wrappers. The nearest KFC is in Auckland, New Zealand. When Nauruvians travel home, they buy up large at KFC to share with their friends and family and the aeroplane stinks of it. Disclaimer, was told this 10 years or so ago, maybe there's no KFC now that their one Boeing has been repossessed. Hey Goons, let's post KFC to Nauru! To cheer them up about the no more bird poo poo thing.
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I learned that I will forget about Naru in about 24 hours and never remember it until this thread gets innevitably bumped.
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One time a dog wandered on to the airport runway as a jet was landing and they had to make an emergency take off until someone had cleared the dog off. The fences are all broken and no one manages the runway safety, so you can wander on there whenever you like.  Nauru was a strategic point in WWII in the pacific campaign and was controlled by the Japanese at one point who worked the locals to death in creating the (current) airport and setting up defensive batteries and (current) harbor. Japan gives development money to Nauru as reparations.  I don't know how the pigs and chickens survive with the roaming dog death packs, but they love to eat the rubbish (which is everywhere because no one cares about their shity dead island.)  This is when I realised I had been sucked out to sea and the rip was too strong to get back into shore (even with scuba flippers on) and I was like drat, I better take some photos before I die.   Good point!  Everyone drink drives. there's literally just one long road on the island yet people seem to die every week from road related death.   dog dead. so what  Thanks for reading my photo journal. namaste Hoplosternum posted:One of my lecturers told our class that Nauru is covered in discarded KFC wrappers. The nearest KFC is in Auckland, New Zealand. When Nauruvians travel home, they buy up large at KFC to share with their friends and family and the aeroplane stinks of it. This is 100% true, and is still is an ongoing cultural practice, no joke. edit: except the nearest KFC is Brisbane, where their flights connect to, not Auckland. Lascivious Sloth fucked around with this message at 13:48 on May 10, 2016 |
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Real interesting reads , thanks and I mean it 
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anyone in here know about Kerguelen except for the fact it has its own cool lookin cabbage
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Lascivious Sloth posted:Interesting stuff Do you have any pictures of the 'downtown' with grocery stores and bars or anything 'commercial'?
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AKA Pseudonym posted:The President of Nauru is Baron Waqa. He's not a Baron, that's just his name. More like Baron Harkonnen
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One of my old college profs did his Peace Corps time between all these tiny Pacific islands and Nauru sounded like one of the more hosed up ones. Back then the turd mining was still turning out pretty good money, but they blew through that poo poo like a redneck that just won the lottery. He said for some reason, they were obsessed with Twinkies and couldn't import enough of them. Nauru also had their own airline which flew regular routes out of there so empty planes go go back and forth to civilization
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Why don't they just export dogs to China ?
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Are we allowed to post about other isolated islands ITT? Because I have to cover the Andamans and Hans Island and Svalbard and Parsley Island.
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Also, the one island where Tasmania and Victoria share a land border.
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Lord of Pie posted:One of my old college profs did his Peace Corps time between all these tiny Pacific islands and Nauru sounded like one of the more hosed up ones. A lot of Pacific islands have a worse junk food problem than the US.
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"I'm gonna go fill my 737 with Five Guys burgers and fries. Suck my drat balls, UN."
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The only reason Tuvalu has an economy at all is because they sold all the .tv domain names to American tv shows in the 90s. They didn't even have a guano mine to ruin. They'd all be dead if not for Hercules: the Legendary Journeys and Cleopatra 2525.
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So is there any plan for rebounding? Is there any way to grow anything to make the island's middle less hellish or is the ground/soil too hosed? Is there anything there to support or attract tourism? Any plans for rising sea levels ?
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