politically-loaded maps: sputtering flemishly

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Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
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Pakled posted:

Americans just aren't good at driving on the left while drunk and with a dozen people in the back of their truck. :vuvu:

steinrokkan posted:

Oh, the terrible tyranny of the EU.

Yes. Don't give up your printing press to Germany unless you are Germany or have the common agricultural policy and a dozen former colonies to sponge off of.

# ? Jul 28, 2015 20:23

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# ? Jun 2, 2024 10:44

Nintendo Kid: Aug 4, 2011; by Smythe

Guavanaut posted:

I hope for your sake that they turn around and tell the EU to get hosed when it comes to the Eurozone. How many years have they got left?

Uh, infinite? You have to meet some weird standards for inflation etc for a number of years straight or get large banks to say you're totally ok anyway in order to get on the Euro.

It is very easy to never meet the criteria if you don't really want to.

# ? Jul 28, 2015 20:28

pik_d: Feb 24, 2006; follow the white dove

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Pakled posted:

Nope, it's drug-related.

It's pretty clearly diagonal lines of accident and drug related

# ? Jul 28, 2015 20:29

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
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Nintendo Kid posted:

or get large banks to say you're totally ok anyway

I hope they don't make that mistake twice.

# ? Jul 28, 2015 20:29

HookShot: Dec 26, 2005

Air accident in Bangladesh :stare:

# ? Jul 28, 2015 20:32

Ghost of Mussolini: Jun 26, 2011

I'm the guy who drowned in Mali.

# ? Jul 28, 2015 20:34

Pakled: Aug 6, 2011; WE ARE SMART

HookShot posted:

Air accident in Bangladesh

That's Nepal. Bangladesh is drowning.

# ? Jul 28, 2015 20:34

Kurtofan: Feb 16, 2011; hon hon hon

Wasn't there an airplane who crashed in Nepal recently?

Edit: oh no, that was an earthquake.

# ? Jul 28, 2015 20:37

Torrannor: Apr 27, 2013; ---FAGNER---
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Pakled posted:

That's Nepal. Bangladesh is drowning.

That reminds me, I wonder if they have the same jokes about the sea swallowing Bangladesh as we have here in Europe about the sea swallowing the Netherlands?

# ? Jul 28, 2015 20:42

icantfindaname: Jul 1, 2008

Well, unlike in the Netherlands where they'll just build a giant wall at ridiculous cost, shitloads of people will be displaced in Bangladesh, so it's less funny

# ? Jul 28, 2015 20:46

Kurtofan: Feb 16, 2011; hon hon hon

I never heard such jokes for the netherlands to be honest, it's probably a German thing.

# ? Jul 28, 2015 20:48

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
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Torrannor posted:

That reminds me, I wonder if they have the same jokes about the sea swallowing Bangladesh as we have here in Europe about the sea swallowing the Netherlands?

Yes, they're hilarious. :stare:

# ? Jul 28, 2015 20:52

Carbon dioxide: Oct 9, 2012

Pakled posted:

I think I read about some case a while ago where a tourist took unfamiliar drugs, started acting very weird, then jumped off a bridge and died in the water.

Would that be in the 'drug-related' 'drowning' or 'suicide' category?

E:
This is almost a map:

Carbon dioxide fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Jul 28, 2015

# ? Jul 28, 2015 21:30

Ras Het: May 23, 2007; when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child - but now I am a man.

Pakled posted:

That's Nepal. Bangladesh is drowning.

Air travel in Nepal, man. If you look at a list of fatal plane crashes, it's like half Nepal.

# ? Jul 28, 2015 21:45

Sheng-Ji Yang: Mar 5, 2014

Laos and Cambodia being drug deaths is the least surprising of them all.

# ? Jul 28, 2015 22:07

Koramei: Nov 11, 2011; I have three regrets
The first is to be born in Joseon.

Ras Het posted:

Air travel in Nepal, man. If you look at a list of fatal plane crashes, it's like half Nepal.

I'm guessing it's like Alaska where half the country has to fly to go to the grocery store, except without western safety standards.

# ? Jul 28, 2015 22:10

Kurtofan: Feb 16, 2011; hon hon hon

Is old timey opium still smoked?

# ? Jul 28, 2015 22:11

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

Kurtofan posted:

Is old timey opium still smoked?

according to that guy who started it again, it's not really

iirc the main reason was that it's harder to smuggle and the profit marginal wouldn't be as great as in heroin

# ? Jul 28, 2015 22:16

Pope Hilarius II: Nov 10, 2008

icantfindaname posted:

Well, unlike in the Netherlands where they'll just build a giant wall at ridiculous cost, shitloads of people will be displaced in Bangladesh, so it's less funny

I own the Onion's atlas, and I recall the entry for Bangladesh was dubbed "God's practical joke".

I can recommend the atlas to this thread. Most entries are pretty funny and some are edgy in the proper (non-GBS/shitlord/reddit) sense. My favourite one is a map of the DR Congo with numerous arrows indicating some stuff, including "This gorilla has seen enough".

# ? Jul 28, 2015 22:23

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:

Laos and Cambodia being drug deaths is the least surprising of them all.

I wonder how many is tourists going there to do opiates, and how many is caused by malaria medication.

I have known people to be very badly affected by lariam, and a suicide or fatal accident after some of the side effects wouldn't be something I'd rule out.

# ? Jul 28, 2015 22:24

Sheng-Ji Yang: Mar 5, 2014

Laos (and Cambodia) is where you go if you want to stretch out 5 grand into two years of laying in a hammock staring at a river/beach smoking weed all day.

There used to be bars with menus like this in Vang Vieng but they were shut down a couple of years ago:

50,000 Kip is about 6 bucks.

# ? Jul 28, 2015 22:26

majormonotone: Jan 25, 2013

the jizz taxi posted:

I own the Onion's atlas, and I recall the entry for Bangladesh was dubbed "God's practical joke".

I can recommend the atlas to this thread. Most entries are pretty funny and some are edgy in the proper (non-GBS/shitlord/reddit) sense. My favourite one is a map of the DR Congo with numerous arrows indicating some stuff, including "This gorilla has seen enough".

Yeah the Onion atlas is pretty decent. Not all of the jokes land but it's still pretty solid.

# ? Jul 28, 2015 22:45

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos

Ghost of Mussolini posted:

I'm the guy who drowned in Mali.

I was curious about this so I looked it up at the source:

code:

MALI
09-04-2014	Bamako					Drowning
01-24-2010	Bamako					Other Accident
12-02-2008	Bandiagara				Other Accident
12-21-2007	Djema					Veh. Accid-Auto
09-03-2006	Niger River				Drowning
09-03-2006	Polyclinique Pasteur			Drowning

Niger River is a dangerous place, who knew?

# ? Jul 28, 2015 23:39

HookShot: Dec 26, 2005

Pakled posted:

That's Nepal. Bangladesh is drowning.

You know, as I was typing that at 6am here in New Zealand I thought "man that doesn't seem right maybe I should look at the map again" and then my brain went "nahhhhhh it's fine" and now here I am, embarrassed about my geography skills on the internet.

# ? Jul 29, 2015 01:45

XMNN: Apr 26, 2008; I am incredibly stupid

Koramei posted:

I'm guessing it's like Alaska where half the country has to fly to go to the grocery store, except without western safety standards.

I'd guess mountains, bad weather and difficult airstrips on top of general third world air safety problems.

# ? Jul 29, 2015 02:07

Jaramin: Oct 20, 2010

Leading disabilities.

Individual States' credit ratings.

Number of Thunderstorms per year.

Vaccine exemption law in the States.

# ? Jul 29, 2015 07:35

icantfindaname: Jul 1, 2008

Jaramin posted:

Vaccine exemption law in the States.

That's a politically loaded color key if I've ever seen one

# ? Jul 29, 2015 07:38

ComradeCosmobot: Dec 4, 2004; USPOL July

Jaramin posted:

Individual States' credit ratings.

Must be from a while back. Fitch bumped California to A+ in February and S&P bumped California to AA- this month.

# ? Jul 29, 2015 07:48

Frostwerks: Sep 24, 2007; by Lowtax

Jaramin posted:

Vaccine exemption law in the States.

This one is surprising

# ? Jul 29, 2015 08:08

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009

ComradeCosmobot posted:

Must be from a while back. Fitch bumped California to A+ in February and S&P bumped California to AA- this month.

What happened to gently caress up the credit rating so bad in the first place?

# ? Jul 29, 2015 08:10

computer parts: Nov 18, 2010; PLEASE CLAP

Frostwerks posted:

This one is surprising

California is extremely recent too.

# ? Jul 29, 2015 08:18

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
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Jaramin posted:

Vaccine exemption law in the States.

How do they tell the difference between a religion and a philosophy?

# ? Jul 29, 2015 09:29

sweek0: May 22, 2006; Let me fall out the window
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How are people drowning in the Netherlands? Not exactly a beach holiday destination, unless they're including the Caribbean islands?

# ? Jul 29, 2015 10:10

a pipe smoking dog: Jan 25, 2010; "haha, dogs can't smoke!"

Guavanaut posted:

How do they tell the difference between a religion and a philosophy?

Belief in a deity or universal power? I know thats the test in the UK.

# ? Jul 29, 2015 10:12

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

sweek0 posted:

How are people drowning in the Netherlands? Not exactly a beach holiday destination, unless they're including the Caribbean islands?

The canals + being drunk, I'd guess.

^{(random example, this is Delft, but there are plenty of similar examples in, say, Amsterdam. No barriers!)}

# ? Jul 29, 2015 10:36

Frostwerks: Sep 24, 2007; by Lowtax

Flipperwaldt posted:

The canals + being drunk, I'd guess.

^{(random example, this is Delft, but there are plenty of similar examples in, say, Amsterdam. No barriers!)}

That's actually kinda sad. I mean I know it's cost prohibitive to line the canal walls with ladders or recesses but loving hell that has got to be terrible to drown with what looks like just slightly more than arm's reach of salvation.

# ? Jul 29, 2015 11:29

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Not many Americans died in the Netherlands (or most of the other countries) so random causes are more likely to show up.

# ? Jul 29, 2015 11:37

Lycus: Aug 5, 2008; Half the posters in this forum have been made up. This website is a goddamn ghost town.

Kavak posted:

What happened to gently caress up the credit rating so bad in the first place?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9312_California_budget_crisis

# ? Jul 29, 2015 11:54

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Frostwerks posted:

That's actually kinda sad. I mean I know it's cost prohibitive to line the canal walls with ladders or recesses but loving hell that has got to be terrible to drown with what looks like just slightly more than arm's reach of salvation.

We have these along canals and waterways where people are likely to walk:

I get that they might be a bit gauche for Amsterdam, but they're better than drowning (and I thought the Dutch liked orange).

e:

a pipe smoking dog posted:

Belief in a deity or universal power? I know thats the test in the UK.

It's the 'universal power' where things get weird though, like with Taoism, which considers itself both a religion and philosophy, and would get confused about the deity requirement. Or UU.

Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 12:01 on Jul 29, 2015

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Knitting Beetles: Feb 4, 2006; Fallen Rib

Guavanaut posted:

We have these along canals and waterways where people are likely to walk:

I get that they might be a bit gauche for Amsterdam, but they're better than drowning (and I thought the Dutch liked orange).

They would get stolen/destroyed the same afternoon they're put up.

# ? Jul 29, 2015 12:07

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