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alcibiades
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posted October 08, 2013 11:57 PM |
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Ha ha love the gay map, except the got Sweden wrong. Obviously Sweden should have read ABBA.
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posted October 09, 2013 09:00 AM |
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That Silvio Berlusconi was something. Everywhere "pussy, pussy, pussy" and then.. The Queen. Roflmao.
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posted October 09, 2013 09:45 AM |
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Stevie said:
That Silvio Berlusconi was something. Everywhere "pussy, pussy, pussy" and then.. The Queen. Roflmao.
I didn't see that lol
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posted October 09, 2013 05:35 PM |
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I once told someone from the US I was from Romania and he jokingly asked : "Do you get hungary a lot?"
And when I told someone from the UK I was living in Bucharest, he said "See you later book arrest"
Not that funny but the Bucharest-book arrest one made me chuckle at the time.
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posted October 09, 2013 07:11 PM |
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I like this  I'm part of homophobic tribe in the uncharted lands known to US as Resident evil 
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posted October 09, 2013 07:23 PM |
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Yay caves!
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artu
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posted October 09, 2013 07:43 PM |
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For people interested, I discovered all of this exists as a published book.
Atlas of Prejudice: Mapping Stereotypes by Yanko Tsvetkov:
Amazon
It's 74 pages, you can check a little of the content, it also includes historical stuff like this:
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posted October 09, 2013 08:00 PM |
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@Artu
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artu
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posted October 09, 2013 08:16 PM |
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Oh, sorry. Well, an additional Amazon link wont hurt.
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posted October 09, 2013 09:31 PM |
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@Storm-Giant
Do you know why Scotland in the NW?
Windshields Here in the Midwest, Hedge is the popular windbreak.<L>
Related to this nonsense; There's a joke that goes like this; Q. Why do all the trees in western Missouri lean towards the West? A. Because Kansas sucks. (wind)
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posted October 09, 2013 09:54 PM |
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markkur said:
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Do you know why Scotland in the NW?
They have some common traits. Galicia was inhabited by Celtics prior to Romans, they have some independence movement (less than Cataluña or Pais Vasco, but still something), the landscape is very mountain focused....yes, I can see the reasoning there 
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posted October 09, 2013 10:06 PM |
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Edited by Stevie at 22:07, 09 Oct 2013.
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Storm-Giant said:
They have some common traits. Galicia was inhabited by Celtics prior to Romans, they have some independence movement (less than Cataluña or Pais Vasco, but still something), the landscape is very mountain focused....yes, I can see the reasoning there
I can't understand those people. They so eagerly rant about independence because of what.. being a bit different? I mean.. my country's history is filled with patriotism. We fought the World Wars for the sole purpose of liberating our lands from foreign occupation. Forfeiting that which was earned with blood for something so trivial seems just insane to me.
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posted October 09, 2013 10:31 PM |
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northern Spain seems like a really nice place to live with all the hills, caves and wine
but I don't approve of the bull fighting at all
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posted October 09, 2013 11:28 PM |
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xerox said:
northern Spain seems like a really nice place to live with all the hills, caves and wine
When it's not raining, it can be really cool. And the gastronomy is so great
xerox said:
but I don't approve of the bull fighting at all
Yes, I also find stupid the Bull fightings (and utterly absurd they call that culture )
But in the map it refers to San Fermin Bull Runs, which is quite different
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posted October 10, 2013 10:31 AM |
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artu said:
Why are Bulgarians especially interested in Kapaliçarshi?
(It's a historical market in Istanbul).
That's because everyone who goes to Istanbul thinks him/herself obliged to haggle for a bag of candies on Kapaliçarshi. At least everyone I know.
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posted October 10, 2013 11:45 AM |
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Stevie said:
Storm-Giant said:
They have some common traits. Galicia was inhabited by Celtics prior to Romans, they have some independence movement (less than Cataluña or Pais Vasco, but still something), the landscape is very mountain focused....yes, I can see the reasoning there
I can't understand those people. They so eagerly rant about independence because of what.. being a bit different? I mean.. my country's history is filled with patriotism. We fought the World Wars for the sole purpose of liberating our lands from foreign occupation. Forfeiting that which was earned with blood for something so trivial seems just insane to me.
Last night I spoke with a friend from Cataluña and he said "that's very 19th century-esque, they should get over that" but it happens that a lot of his Community (and others part of Spain as I mentioned before)
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