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How To Irritate Europeans In Just One Sentence

March 3, 2023 34 Comments

How To Irrtate Europeans In Just One Sentence

Map created by sigmagfx, based on this reddit thread.

The map above shows how you can easily irritate various Europeans in just one sentence. These include:

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Filed Under: Europe Tagged With: humour

21 Of The Saddest Places On Earth From Instagram’s sadtopographies

March 3, 2023 7 Comments

Cape Disappointment Lighthouse, Washington

Cape Disappointment Lighthouse, Washington

If you’re not following @sadtopographies on Instagram, you should. The account shows the places with saddest and most depressing names on earth.

Examples include everything from Cape Disappointment to Point No Point to Sad Road. And while Americans and Australians are usually thought to have sunny dispositions they also have a lot of unfortunate place names.

21 of our favourites are included below:

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Filed Under: Other Tagged With: humour

How New Yorkers See The World: View of the World from 9th Avenue

March 3, 2023 3 Comments

View of the world from 9th ave

Map created by Saul Steinberg on behalf of the The New Yorker

View of the World from 9th Avenue is a classic map/illustration showing how New Yorkers see the rest of the world. Designed by Saul Steinberg, it was first published as the cover for the March 29, 1976, edition of The New Yorker.

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Filed Under: Fictional Tagged With: humour

Scotland, Are You Even Trying?

March 3, 2023 21 Comments

Loch Lochy

Loch Lochy, Lochaber via Google Maps

As unoriginal place names go, Loch Lochy (in Lochaber) has to be at the top of the list. I imagine whoever named it was at the end of a long day of loch naming and said to himself, “fuck it, I’m off to the pub.”

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Filed Under: Scotland Tagged With: humour

The Obesity Epidemic in America Summed Up In One Map

March 3, 2023 Leave a Comment

Obesity epidemic in America

Map by Ricky Linn

Why is America so fat? Well as this faux Time magazine cover created by Ricky Linn shows, it may be because the country looks like a man gorging himself on an Alaskan-sized burger.

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Filed Under: United States Tagged With: humour


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