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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: waterloosunset on 01 Jun 2008, 12:16
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(http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonanamary/231354631/sizes/o/)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonanamary/231354631/sizes/o/
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God, I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.
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Oh, god, according to this I live in the sea.
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I think my favorite part is Fuzzy Wuzzy Land.
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I like the Singapore one.
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I think it's been mentioned that we're all pretty thankful for Singapore.
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Another world map:
(http://cassland.org/images/vakaworld.gif)
And one of the USA:
(http://cassland.org/images/us_of_ra.gif)
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I love how Portugal is in three different places in that Tory Atlas
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I like how Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Massachusetts are all absent from that map of the U.S..
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Rhode Island?
Eh, it's alright. Nobody really cares about Rhode Island.
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is Godzilla attacking the Capital building?
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It certainly appears that way.
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and in Quebec, too
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Dudes I hate to break it to you but that is not the Capitol, nor is it Canada's Capital building because as we all know that is a giant igloo (http://www.thestar.com/News/article/285862). However it is Godzilla, so you're both winners!
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oh man this is some of the best stuff I've seen all week, thank you!
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Welcome to the forums, Bob.
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(http://www.thepaincomics.com/Kashistan.JPG)
I need to scan in some of the disproportionate maps from The Atlas of Fantasy. 'America as viewed from the state of Texas' is particularly golden.
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i love how the north of englad was erased in the tory map, leaving just the M1 connecting to scotland
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You mean that isn't how the world is? Dammit my education lied to me.
Knowing a lot of Tories that is exactly how they think, it would be funny if they had no power of influence.
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I like how "darkies, cannibals, and HUNS" all live together in a country. Ah, racism is so amusing.
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georgia and azerbaijan are apparently populated by "dervishes, yellow hordes and people who'd shit in your airing cupboard if you let them"
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Rhode Island?
Eh, it's alright. Nobody really cares about Rhode Island.
Yeah, seriously. I dated a girl from Rhode Island once, and not even that made me care about Rhode Island.
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pssh South Georgia
I live there
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The racist aunt map is right about Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
I take it tories are basically the ultra-conservative pro-colonialism type?
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Not really so much anymore, British politics is very central nowadays, but stereotypically they're like your slightly racist granddad.
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The New Labour and Conservative parties are not central at all. They're both fairly right-wing authoritarian parties.
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I think schimmy meant that there isn't really a scale any more, everyone is basically all the same. Is it?
These days, I think people are more likely to vote based on whether they think the leader of the party is an idiot or not, rather than on issues, since they all have the same stance (ie they have no stance).
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Let's have someone put up some more amusing maps, eh?
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Not a map, but if your world includes serious web design....
(http://cassland.org/images/web_design_time_breakdown.png)
OK then, a map....
(http://cassland.org/images/worldaccordingtoamerica.gif)
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The New Labour and Conservative parties are not central at all. They're both fairly right-wing authoritarian parties.
We could have a big debate about this! It all depends, really. I mean, sure the parties are pretty right-wing by today's standards (and New Labour is ridiculously right-wing by it's own standards) if you compare them to how politics used to be, they're not that right wing. Remember, right-wing is NOT necessarily authoritarian. One of the main values of right-wing politics is giving the state as small a role, and thus as little power as possible. That's why they're all for privatisation. They don't believe any government should have that much say in the way people live their lives. Pretty hypocritical when that belief to most of their social policies, but that's politics for you.
AND authoritarian parties don't necessarily have to be right wing. The USSR was just as authoritarian as the Third Reich ever was.
So yeah, basically parties only really appear to be right-wing and authoritarian because modern values are much more left wing on the whole you dirty goddamn hippy.
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I said right-wing as in economically and authoritatian as in people that think everyone should have ID cards and be monitored everywhere.
(http://www.politicalcompass.org/images/enPartiesTime.gif)
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Ah, yes. But remember, the Tories are against ID cards and monitoring people. They're just not doing a very good job at being the opposition.
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surely Labour were further left in 1982 under michael foot than in the wilson days of 1972?
and economically they're hard to pin down, with privatization and PFI on one hand, and on the other hand the extension of welfare state, as well as things like the minimum wage, which as intervention is definitely not right wing
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Ah, yes. But remember, the Tories are against ID cards and monitoring people. They're just not doing a very good job at being the opposition.
Actually, I'm pretty sure they're just against the current ID scheme not the principle of it. And although I personally agree that they aren't doing a great job as opposition they are thrashing Labour in the polls and looking increasingly like they'll be the new government, so by their own terms they're doing great.
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Um. Well shit you britons, how about that terrorist detention bill that passed parliament over there? 40-some days? That's a bit excessive, don't you think? (I know, this coming from a person who lives in a country that basically operates a gulag at Guantanamo, but still..)
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<bites lip>. <hard>.
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Yeah, 42 days without charge is more than slightly ridiculous. It's quite annoying knowing that the only two parties that currently have any chance of winning are both more or less awful for their own unique reasons.
Frankly, though, I'd still rather have Labour in (who we have now) than the Conservatives (Tories, the opposition) because at least a half-decent argument can be made for Labour policies that I oppose, but no such thing can be said for the Conservatives.
edit: I just read about the 42 day detention limit. Fucking hell. I assumed that if someone is detained under it, then they would eventually have to be charged. Apparently not! If the police release the person before the time limit, they don't have to charge them. What the fuck, guys, seriously? What the fuck?
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Um. Well shit you britons, how about that terrorist detention bill that passed parliament over there? 40-some days? That's a bit excessive, don't you think?
in b4 PATRIOT Act
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The World According to the United States
It's missing a few things, so I fixed it:
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa100/xholycrapitsmattx/worldaccordingtoamerica.jpg)
P.S. - DISCLAIMER! This map in no way represents my beliefs, but instead a bunch of stereotypes as I have observed here in the United States.
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You forgot to colour California purple and write "The Gays"
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This blog (http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/) has got a lot of pretty cool maps. So far I think my favorite is the March 9th one--"Area Codes in Which Ludacris Claims to Have Hos."
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That link is no good, Elizzybeth.
Here's one that amuses me:
(http://images.google.com/url?q=http://www.basetree.com/graphics/jesusland.jpg&usg=AFQjCNGBEvxAU3uU70QLwIBsjP_TTAZPew)
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Damn it, I am stuck in Jesusland. But if I cross the river I am in Canada.
Either way I cannot win.
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Oh god Luda has hoes in Phenix City, Alabama. I know who I should avoid if my "service engine" light is on.
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Come to Canada, we have bears and really nice looking trees
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(http://a222.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/42/l_d7cda51c3b4840633c759bfaf83c7a65.jpg)
Oh America, you are so silly.
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(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa100/xholycrapitsmattx/new-zealand-map_small.jpg)
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(http://cassland.org/images/USAworld.jpg)
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You have to know the London Underground to understand this one (http://cassland.org/images/untergrund.gif).
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Well, Canada is just moose and hockey.
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It's okay, Greenland is just "snow" and Iceland isn't even labeled.
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Well, Canada is just MOOSE END SKVIRREL
lololololololololololololol
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Speaking of the London Underground map . . .
http://www.animalsontheunderground.com/ (http://www.animalsontheunderground.com/)
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This blog (http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/)
That link is no good, Elizzybeth.
Whoops. Fixed.
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Well, Canada is just MOOSE END SKVIRREL
lololololololololololololol
MAYBE WE COULD USE OUR STRAGEDY TO DEFEAT THEM
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On the first Underground one, is there a joke I'm not getting or is it just the Underground....in German?
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The idea is gently amusing; and some of the translations are not what you'd expect, such as Vauxhall -> Opel, Mile End -> 2.4km Ende. But OK, it's no big deal.
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This blog (http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/)
That link is no good, Elizzybeth.
Whoops. Fixed.
That's a great site! I've just spent about 3 hours on it..it's really fascinating! Then again, I'm drawn to things like geography, politics, relations, culture, etc. Anyway, thanks much for the link.
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Another world map:
(http://cassland.org/images/vakaworld.gif)
Oh wow, I guess this means I live in France.
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Oh hey, this thread.
This thread is pretty old, Meg. Generally we don't bring up things that are over a couple of weeks old unless there's something new & significant to add to them.
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Korea is bigger than Africa.
Excellent.
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Holy shit, I thought Africa was India.
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the world's richest 1% = 66,800,000 people
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control 50% of the wealth, or something like that??
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I really like how Canada is squished in the Tory map. Why is it that no one takes us seriously? hehe
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I've always been a fan of the Kangnido Map (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangnido_map) made in Korea in 1402. It displays all of the Old World as reported by Asian explorers but grossly over-exaggerates the comparative size of China.
What the hell is in the middle of Africa?
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Sorry :-(
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What the hell is in the middle of Africa?
It's the giant lake that was thought by explorers to exist in the centre of Africa before its interior was explored by foreigners.
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It looks like when you start to handwrite a big-ass word on a piece of paper and you're too close to the margin, and you have to squish the letters really tiny to make it fit. And honestly, I can't help but wonder if that isn't exactly what happened.
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Japan apparently does not exist either. Or maybe it's that little island in the bottom-right.