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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Well what else do you hold in your hand that is veiny and shaped liked a slot machine handle with a knob at the end???? But.. that's not... ...ok, sure. It's your wanking song. Who am I to take that away from you?
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This conversation made me imagine a porn studio called FakeCasino where guys with weird dicks that look like one-arm-bandit levers stick them through a gloryhole and get cranked off by unsuspecting* gamblers (* The gamblers in question would of course be professional sexhavers playing a role, as clarified upfront in the legal disclaimer). Other possible studio name: MechanicalJerk
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# ? Apr 20, 2021 12:19 |
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"Slut machine" was right there
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# ? Apr 20, 2021 13:56 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Well what else do you hold in your hand that is veiny and shaped liked a slot machine handle with a knob at the end???? A wizards staff?
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Shai-Hulud posted:A wizards staff? Oh poo poo that'd be a much better music video than the Rod Stewart poo poo about a WW2 soldier
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flakeloaf posted:"Slut machine" was right there I stand by my remarks
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I went to school in the 70s and 80s and the giant world maps in the classrooms grew increasingly outdated and incorrect every year as countries kept changing their names but the school refused to spend money replacing them I went to school in the early 90s. The singular world map predated World War II and our social studies books went into great detail explaining what a taco is and called them "a type of small pie". This same school that couldn't buy books spent ~$300k anually on football equipment despite not having a football team and got caught about 10 years later buying PCs and throwing them away to blow their budget.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I went to school in the 70s and 80s and the giant world maps in the classrooms grew increasingly outdated and incorrect every year as countries kept changing their names but the school refused to spend money replacing them When I was growing up I had this theory that you could pretty accurately gauge the social status/richness of an area by looking at how long the world maps at school has the Soviet Union on them. I had this idea in about 2004, as both my current and previous school at the time did. I brought this up last year or something and my wife thought it was absurd that any school would have an incorrect map for so long, having grown up in a rich fancy suburb rather than a dying industrial town. Last week she realized the maps at the school she works now still has the Soviet Union on them, and had to concede that maybe my school in 2004 did as well.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 07:01 |
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There's a whole undercurrent of millennials buying globes and maps with the Soviet Union on them for nostalgia sake (I reply millenially sitting next to 2 of the same edition of globes I grew up with). Going to school with a dissolved USSR yet the maps showed it was a small cultural phenomenon.
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Phosphine posted:When I was growing up I had this theory that you could pretty accurately gauge the social status/richness of an area by looking at how long the world maps at school has the Soviet Union on them. I had this idea in about 2004, as both my current and previous school at the time did. I brought this up last year or something and my wife thought it was absurd that any school would have an incorrect map for so long, having grown up in a rich fancy suburb rather than a dying industrial town. In the early 90s my middle school geography class was playing a game that involved naming countries that started with different letters of the alphabet. When we got to 'D' I called Djibouti - which nobody in my class, including the teacher, belived was real. To prove it, the teacher got out a globe and showed me the country I though was named Djibouti was actually French Somalialand. Which it was. Fron 1883 to 1967.
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Phosphine posted:When I was growing up I had this theory that you could pretty accurately gauge the social status/richness of an area by looking at how long the world maps at school has the Soviet Union on them. I had this idea in about 2004, as both my current and previous school at the time did. I brought this up last year or something and my wife thought it was absurd that any school would have an incorrect map for so long, having grown up in a rich fancy suburb rather than a dying industrial town. Hell, it could even vary within the same school. The high school I went to from 2004-2008 was originally built in like 1964, but added new buildings over time. The classrooms in the oldest building still had chalk boards, old school overhead slide projectors, and maps with USSR and whatnot. The newest building, which at that point was maybe just a year or two old when I started, had updated maps, white boards, projectors that could link to the computers, and in a few rooms, smart boards as well.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 15:09 |
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We should probably offer a prize to the first goon who finds a school map or globe with Eswatini on it.
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Rascar Capac posted:We should probably offer a prize to the first goon who finds a school map or globe with Eswatini on it. They'll likely be in the most up-to-date districts - the name changed back from "Kingdom of Swaziland" to "Kingdom of Eswatini" three years ago.
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:They'll likely be in the most up-to-date districts - the name changed back from "Kingdom of Swaziland" to "Kingdom of Eswatini" Yes, that's what I was saying.
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Rascar Capac posted:We should probably offer a prize to the first goon who finds a school map or globe with Eswatini on it. Why? They've probably got money to spare
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Milo and POTUS posted:Why? They've probably got money to spare lol the prize is a Ban + 30
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Rascar Capac posted:Yes, that's what I was saying. Ah, I thought you were implying that any maps with Eswatini would date back to the turn of the 20th century.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 21:02 |
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I don't even associate with people who have maps that don't list Nur-Sultan as the capital of Kazakhstan
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# ? Apr 22, 2021 02:33 |
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When the USSR dissolved, my dad tried to correct my globe by colouring in the various now-independent nations. I appreciate the idea now, but at the time I was upset that he'd defaced my globe. He probably should have discussed it with me before and not after.
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# ? Apr 22, 2021 04:03 |
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I got into a big argument with the substitute in sixth grade when the workbook told us to count the number of landlocked countries in Europe. It had only been like five years at that point, but Czechoslovakia was still two countries goddamnit.
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# ? Apr 22, 2021 04:39 |
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Didn't we just have this exact discussion - that these days we can look things up on the internet instead of relying on books - and the consensus was that no, looking things up in books was just fine?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Another beloved favourite Blast. I have been spied.
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Hyperlynx posted:Didn't we just have this exact discussion - that these days we can look things up on the internet instead of relying on books - and the consensus was that no, looking things up in books was just fine? In theory, yes. In practice, lol.
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# ? Apr 22, 2021 07:52 |
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“Why does google always give me American measurements” I ask with a shelf full of cookery books.
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# ? Apr 22, 2021 07:57 |
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learnincurve posted:“Why does google always give me American measurements” I ask with a shelf full of cookery books. It's about time that we adopted a true standardized global unit of measurement
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RoboRodent posted:When the USSR dissolved, my dad tried to correct my globe by colouring in the various now-independent nations. There’s a huge globe sculpture/installation outside the London School of Economics and every so often they have to hire the original artist to literally ‘colour in the democracy’ in the way you’ve described. To make matters worse, the globe is installed upside down, because art.
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# ? Apr 22, 2021 08:05 |
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knife_of_justice posted:To make matters worse, the globe is installed upside down, because art. Sounds pretty NATO-member-centric of you
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# ? Apr 22, 2021 08:41 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Sounds pretty NATO-member-centric of you Warsaw pact countries don't have a flipped globe. Unless Egypt was part of the warsaw pact, with their whole Nile-centric view.
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MariusLecter posted:Warsaw pact countries don't have a flipped globe. I just don't like saying First World because the whole concept is dumb, whatever
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Failed Imagineer posted:I just don't like saying First World because the whole concept is dumb, whatever Northern-hemisphere-centric, then.
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# ? Apr 22, 2021 09:35 |
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Hyperlynx posted:Northern-hemisphere-centric, then. Sure whatever, although I guess the point (inasmuch as there is one) is that this is a visual which plays to the biases of Western "developed" countries. But now the Sorkin-level joke which was never funny is thoroughly kill
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# ? Apr 22, 2021 09:41 |
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The globes they sell here in Australia look like this:
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# ? Apr 22, 2021 10:16 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The globes they sell here in Australia look like this: Does it properly display the land of Rand McNally tho
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Failed Imagineer posted:Sure whatever, although I guess the point (inasmuch as there is one) is that this is a visual which plays to the biases of Western "developed" countries. But now the Sorkin-level joke which was never funny is thoroughly kill you have advanced cspam brain
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The globes they sell here in Australia look like this:
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Regarde Aduck posted:you have advanced cspam brain Probably true, maybe I should start posting there
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Hyperlynx posted:Didn't we just have this exact discussion - that these days we can look things up on the internet instead of relying on books - and the consensus was that no, looking things up in books was just fine?
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# ? Apr 22, 2021 13:58 |
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Do Australians just think of north as down?
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# ? Apr 22, 2021 14:58 |
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That’s why they refer to Australia as the land “up-over”
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