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  • #16
    Quoth purple View Post
    arrogant worms?
    Originally by "Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie" actually, though "Arrogant Worms" often gets the credit for it. Close enough.
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    • #17
      The Arrogant Worms, one of the best Canadian bands ever.
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      • #18
        And here is the other:

        http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/a...-on-a-map?bffb

        Americans try to place Europe on a Map.

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        • #19
          Back in 7th grade, we had to memorize every country in the world, plus all the states in the US, and all the provinces/territories in Canada. The latter two were easy.

          Europe was by far the hardest. And now when I look at the map, it's even pretty different from when I learned it. (This was back in 2000/2001).
          "I've found that when you want to know the truth about someone, that someone is probably the last person you should ask." - House

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          • #20
            Awww, it doesn't always rain in Hampshire...

            The boundary systems - plural - in the UK are the stuff of nightmares. You'd think that it would be sensible to have parlimentary boundaries follow parish and district/county/unitary authority boundaries, but nooooo...
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            • #21
              Quoth Amina516 View Post
              And here is the other:

              http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/a...-on-a-map?bffb

              Americans try to place Europe on a Map.
              I love the one where the respondent has decided that Germany should be de-unified & has divided it into east/west again!
              A PSA, if I may, as well as another.

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              • #22
                Quoth Greenday View Post
                Back in 7th grade, we had to memorize every country in the world, plus all the states in the US, and all the provinces/territories in Canada. The latter two were easy.

                Europe was by far the hardest. And now when I look at the map, it's even pretty different from when I learned it. (This was back in 2000/2001).
                This is where Yakko's World comes in handy.
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                • #23
                  Quoth Greenday View Post
                  Europe was by far the hardest. And now when I look at the map, it's even pretty different from when I learned it. (This was back in 2000/2001).
                  Try adding a few decades onto that time. 7th grade for me was 1973. NOW when I look at a map of Europe SOOOO much has changed.
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                  • #24
                    Let's see. East & West Germany reunited. Czechoslovakia split into Czech Rep. and Slovakia. Yugoslavia split up as well. USSR collapsed and disintegrated into its component parts, leaving behind Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia itself. Russia in turn has an isolated fragment called Kaliningrad which neatly brackets the Baltic states.

                    That doesn't leave all that many countries that have stayed the same, to be honest.

                    Russia is a particularly odd country. It has its capital on one continent (Europe), but the great majority of its territory on another (Asia). I'm not sure if there's any other country with that distinction.
                    Last edited by Chromatix; 11-28-2013, 12:54 PM.

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                    • #25
                      Can I just go from when my Great Aunt left? Color most of it in as Prusia

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                      • #26
                        Our paper once published a cartoon right after the USSR broke up...it was a map of the region and it was labeled "Smithereens." If I'd had to fill in one of those blank maps, that's probably what I'd have written...I'd never remember all the real names...
                        When you start at zero, everything's progress.

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                        • #27
                          Quoth bhskittykatt View Post
                          Oh! Oh! Me! Me! I can do it!



                          How'd I do?
                          I'm very impressed by the fact that you understand that Scotland is a separate country to England. XD Seriously, I've encountered Americans online who think that Britain = England, that there's such thing as a British accent and that Scots = English. That's gonna earn them a punch in the eye if they ever visit Scotland.
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                          • #28
                            Quoth bhskittykatt View Post
                            Nova Scotia's dumb 'cause it's the name of a bank.
                            I guess the songwriter must think that the U.S. (under the colloquial name of America) is dumb, too, along with the cities of Toronto and Montreal. Of course, they're ignoring the fact that the banks in all of these cases took their names from the city/province/country.
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                            • #29
                              Quoth bhskittykatt View Post
                              Nova Scotia's dumb 'cause it's the name of a bank.
                              That line's hilarious considering that every province has (or at least had) a bank tied to it. Comes from a time when banks in Canada were publicly owned and under provincial jurisdiction. HSBC for example was BC's bank, ATB was Alberta's, TC was Ontario's, etc.
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                              • #30
                                Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
                                One of them confused Wisconsin for Ohio. Two respondents thought we were Michigan. Still another called us Idaho, and somebody else labeled us Wyoming.

                                Never knew my state was that forgettable.
                                So's mine. In one of those maps, North Carolina was renamed New York (WTF peeps???)

                                Overall, I think they did better than the average American. And that probably isn't saying much at all.
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