What made you smile or laugh today? Part IV

[seela]

I just spent the last 10 minutes staring at this and laughing. I think I could live quite happily in Bringmeham, UK.

GOSCINNY!

But I don't see Uderzo anywhere.
Hm. It seems there's a brand new body of water in Russia. The Gray Sea... halfway between the Black Sea and the White Sea.

It's a great map! Lots of funny little gems, but also thorns that poke straight into the heart of deepest national irritants and insecurities of many countries.

Mixing the Nordic, Baltic and Balkan countries as well as Slovakia and Czechia (although I would have mixed Slovenia and Slovakia as well), Making Macedonia big and Romania lose the coast line, South Ireland... Just irritating and some downright mean stuff!

Gotta love that Czechia has both Brno and Mrs.

 

[gracie920101]

I think a lot of Australians would suddenly find themselves freezing if they would even all fit in the allotted borders.

 

[Bramblethorn]

It's a great map! Lots of funny little gems, but also thorns that poke straight into the heart of deepest national irritants and insecurities of many countries.

Mixing the Nordic, Baltic and Balkan countries as well as Slovakia and Czechia (although I would have mixed Slovenia and Slovakia as well), Making Macedonia big and Romania lose the coast line, South Ireland... Just irritating and some downright mean stuff!

Gotta love that Czechia has both Brno and Mrs.

I think they also shrunk Ireland, and Iceland is upside down...

One of the frequent complaints at this end of the world is maps that omit Tasmania and/or New Zealand.

 

[twister947]

I think they also shrunk Ireland, and Iceland is upside down...

One of the frequent complaints at this end of the world is maps that omit Tasmania and/or New Zealand.

The Arctic Circle was moved south.

 

[Primalex]

A delightful little map, so mean to so many!

https://twitter.com/jacktindale/status/1415677994237001732?s=21

Something for everyone.

Even Game of Thrones references.

 

[Primalex]

I think they also shrunk Ireland

South Ireland, please.

 

[seela]

Something for everyone.

Even Game of Thrones references.

Yes! The more I look at it, the more things I notice. Always something new.

 

[Bramblethorn]

One of the best bits of trolling on that map is that "Mousehole", which looks like an obvious joke name, is absolutely real.

 

[seela]

One of the best bits of trolling on that map is that "Mousehole", which looks like an obvious joke name, is absolutely real.

But in the wrong location.

I wonder who has made it and where they're from. It's so good and has such a wide range of subtle pokes that I can notice and likely so many more that I don't even recognize.

 

[Anastasia1999]

A delightful little map, so mean to so many!

https://twitter.com/jacktindale/status/1415677994237001732?s=21

Oooooh that map!

South Ireland is something i am used to hearing especially from our neighbours.

I don’t think Ireland has shrunk but it has been moved north,

Sülzeckia in Germany they all eat jellied pigs head up there in the North!

 

[2021Noobie]

Oooooh that map!

South Ireland is something i am used to hearing especially from our neighbours.

I don’t think Ireland has shrunk but it has been moved north,

Sülzeckia in Germany they all eat jellied pigs head up there in the North!

I don’t quite get the point.

 

[Anastasia1999]

I don’t quite get the point.

Ever heard of satire?

They’ve put Belfast in the Republic of Ireland and described the Rhine Ruhr Area of Western Germany as „Öde“ which translates as dead or boring

 

[Bramblethorn]

I wonder who has made it and where they're from. It's so good and has such a wide range of subtle pokes that I can notice and likely so many more that I don't even recognize.

One of them is a fairly obscure Australian reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molvanîa

 

[IrisAlthea]

I think a lot of Australians would suddenly find themselves freezing if they would even all fit in the allotted borders.

They would need to flatten it all out, to have room.

I still keep finding new things each time I look at the map. Turambur for Turin…

 

[Anastasia1999]

They would need to flatten it all out, to have room.

I still keep finding new things each time I look at the map. Turambur for Turin…

Me too! Marsupial for Marseille

And Slovenia moved closer to the Eurozone? Their geographic location meant they were not as badly affected by the war that raged in Yugoslavia in the 90ies and they are doing well these days.

 

[seela]

Tolose for Toulouse is great, too. Bosnia's capital is Belcurve, genius.

 

[twister947]

And Greenland. WTF?

 

[seela]

And Greenland. WTF?

Isn't Greenland okay except that muktuk is food and not a city? Or is this about something else than the map?

 

[twister947]

Isn't Greenland okay except that muktuk is food and not a city? Or is this about something else than the map?

I'm just confused...it happens often.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Handwritten sign by the road: ”Bigass Elk”

 

[seela]

Bean talk.

 

[ToPleaseHim]

Fara

This.

 

[LadyGreyFortress]

nevermind.

 

[MeekMe]

I tried on a pair of opaque tights today with the idea that it may help with my cold body temperature problem. Decidedly, this layered look is favored but impossible in the hot humid place I live. I guess it’s more of an option now? Weird silver linings…

 

[Acktion]

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