are you gonna plug her sea wall
Warning! New Country Approaching
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In the next two days I'll be driving through the state known only as "South Carolina", and let me just say I'm going to literally be covering the Obama stickers my sister put on my car for fear of my life.
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Imma do it with a tulip.
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Can't really blame it for being out of date. But yeah, I can't really defend it listing the Caribbean, Transylvania, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Palestine, Crete (wow, they did make a lot mistkes) as countries.
Catchy as hell though.
Spent ages trying to memorise that one - managed it once in public :happy:
But can always manage Monty Python sketches I haven't seen in years.
So Sudan seperating in two amicable as it is - you said they had resources do you know if the resources are a fair distance away from the preposed boarders? I would hate for them to achieve independence only to spiral into a war over who owns what under a boarder.
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Actually Atlanta is quite the up and coming island of progressive thinking, I hear. Where in Georgia are you headed?
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colonell gaddafi was correct,, looks like they took his word :D
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Can't really blame it for being out of date. But yeah, I can't really defend it listing the Caribbean, Transylvania, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Palestine, Crete (wow, they did make a lot mistkes) as countries.
Catchy as hell though.
The funny thing is everyone on that show knew how many inaccuracies there were and made little jokes highlighting some of those mistakes (in one episode, Yakko is having a dream where he's singing it leaves out Panama then mutters "You left one out, You left one out!")
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The best was when Yakko sang all the words in the English language.
I was upset when I learned that catchy song to impress my geography teacher… only to later learn that, yes, it was missing things and made a couple up. For the sake of rhyme scheme, I guess.
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@RobbyBevard:
The best was when Yakko sang all the words in the English language.
I was upset when I learned that catchy song to impress my geography teacher… only to later learn that, yes, it was missing things and made a couple up. For the sake of rhyme scheme, I guess.
Think you mean all the countries in the world lol
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This is expected and there isn't much to add to it.
What is left is to see the reaction of Khartum. Due to Sudan's location it might undertake quite extreme measures. Either way, if Central African Republic wasn't enough, the region gets another territory set aflame.
But, honestly, I am more interested to see the further development of Somaliland and other nations rising on the ruins of Somalia for the last 20 years on the other side of Ethiopia. Especially the northern Somaliland, which already has international ties despite being an unrecognized state.
@JERK:
The last new country we got was Kosovo (no matter what any Serb and Greek users might want to say to the contrary lol). And that was 2008. This new country is pretty similar in more then a few ways.
Kosovo was followed by South Osetia and Abkhazia, wasn't it.
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@JERK:
The new country to be? Southern Sudan, or at least that's what they intend on calling it I guess. Kind of uncreative I dunno. And I don't know if Sudan normal will keep calling itself "Sudan" or now "Northern Sudan".
We did that with Ireland and Northern Ireland; I agree it's uncreative and if they really want to break free maybe should've called it something else cus with Northern Ireland I know I still get a lot of people (even from the UK itself) which is slightly worrying, who geographically still think Northern Ireland 'is in Ireland' and just 'the north of it' as opposed to a different country, and under a monarch as opposed to Ireland's republic.
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@Thousand:
Think you mean all the countries in the world lol
No, there's another one where he sings (almost) all the words in the English language:
Seriously, Animaniacs was awesome, I especially love their song parodies. Shame we don't get those nowadays.
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Kosovo was followed by South Osetia and Abkhazia, wasn't it.
Only a few nations recognize those two.
Unlike Kosovo (and Taiwan) who tons recognize.
Here's a rundown of controversial states recognition.
Kosovo: 73
Taiwan: 22
South Ossetia: 4
Abkhazia: 4
Nagorno Khabrakh: 0
Somaliland: 0 (fucking stupid ass crap)
North Cyprus: 1 (guess who!)
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Cool new feature BBC put up.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12115013
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JD have you seen this sort of ad? What do you think? Where does this sort of thinking fit into your very interesting analysis of the US's place as a world leader and it's over-developed sense of itself as the world's hero?
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Here is the direct link to the website with info on what they want to do and what they think we, as average folks, can do. http://www.sudanactionnow.com/node/72
And here is the Facebook page for the same: http://www.facebook.com/SudanActionNow?v=info
Do you think there is something that can be done to stop the coming war?
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You have to remember that the fighting between south and north already happened. There was a tremendously long civil war. This is he aftermath of that very conflict.
I really don't think Bashir will do anything anymore, but I do think there's issues over several regions. Abyei is a region between the south and north that is considered kind of neutral right now in terms of claims. There's a ton of oil there, and fighting over that could still happened.
If they did… if there's anything to do, pulling a Belgrade and missile striking the North seems an option just to show Bashir that he can't just do things like that. All out war isn't an option of course. That's life.
Frankly all out war shouldn't have been an option in Iraq or Afghanistan either.I wonder if we would have gotten better results from the Taliban if we'd threatened them rather then actually removed them from power.
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@JERK:
In case you haven't memorized your African geography yet I have bad news, because there's a new country on the way. That's right, Africa's long painful experience with figuring out why the fuck Europe made their borders randomly cut out shapes has resulted in some more sorting out of the whole damn mess with the splitting of Africa's biggest country, Sudan, into two!
The last new country we got was Kosovo (no matter what any Serb and Greek users might want to say to the contrary lol). And that was 2008. This new country is pretty similar in more then a few ways.
The new country to be? Southern Sudan, or at least that's what they intend on calling it I guess. Kind of uncreative I dunno. And I don't know if Sudan normal will keep calling itself "Sudan" or now "Northern Sudan".
Anyway it's all gonna be voted on (independence) this coming Sunday, and all observers including the bitter North are pretty much in agreement that independence will be voted for.
Some Facts too kno aboot are new friend:
[qimg]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v340/Demescus/200px-Flag_of_the_SPLAMsvg.png[/qimg]
Capital: Juba
Infrastructure: Shit!
Oil: Plenty!
People: Various tribes, namely Dinka.
Why they Leave: Because the big mean North and them have nothing in common except a gross imbalance of influence in the government and infrastructure, and the North wants to keep the region under it's thumb for resources and all that (oil and water). North and South are culturally and religously different too which always makes things cool. So no this is nothing like Korea.here's what it should look like, so update yer books! and get ready for some future conflicts
http://media.economist.com/images/images-magazine/2010/09/25/ma/20100925_mam983.gifAre you gonna yell at me if I say I suport it ? :ninja:
Stil , you guys probably mention the president is very homophobic , which I kind of understand given the cirumstances , but I just hope it doesn't end up on the road Uganda seems to be on.
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You don't really understand anything if you think it's a out of line to support this country.
And lol at singling out the South Sudanese president as homophobic when the North already has a fucking death penalty for being gay. -
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I don't think it's out of line , but I was afraid you were gonna enemise me if I speak my mind :ninja:
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Gods, Africa. I'm gonna have a hard time keeping the geography strieght.
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@joekido:
Gods, Africa. I'm gonna have a hard time keeping the geography strieght.
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All depends on how Zephos likes you. :wassat:
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Fun fact: oil fields lie on both sides of the presumed inter Sudan border, but all the refineries are located strictly in the Northern part of the couintry.
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@No:
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All depends on how Zephos likes you. :wassat:
Joekiddo is among the best posters ever on AP.
He's also not a monarchist which always helps.
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@No:
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All depends on how Zephos likes you. :wassat:
What? It's not about how Zephos likes me. I'm just saying that it's gonna be hard to keep track on Africa.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12201063
Early results from Southern Sudan's referendum indicate the region has voted overwhelmingly to split from the north and form a new country.
Full results of the poll are not due until next month, but the region is widely expected to choose to secede.
Southern Sudanese people living in Europe have already voted 97% in favour of a new state.
The historic referendum was part of a peace agreement signed with north Sudan in 2005, ending decades of war.
Polling stations opened on 9 January and were officially closed on Saturday evening.
A minimum 60% turnout was required for the vote to be considered valid, a target which had easily been passed by the middle of the week.
The chairman of the Southern Sudanese Referendum Commission, Mohamed Ibrahim Khalil, has said more than 80% of eligible voters in the south had cast their ballots, along with 53% in the north and 91% of voters living in the eight other countries hosting polling stations.
He said the referendum would be considered "a good result by any international standard".
The Associated Press reported a 95% turnout at 10 sites in Juba, which would be the capital of a future Southern Sudan. A sample suggested that 96% had voted in favour of secession.
Southern Sudanese people living in Australia have been given extra time to cast their votes where severe flooding has hampered the process.
Looks like it will go ahead then.
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It's going to take until February or so for things to really be enacted though.
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I can't believe its going to be this easy…
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It hasn't been.
Ya'll keep talking like we aren't coming off a long ass civil war that lead to this.
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Yup, this has not been an easy birth, but the fact that it's probably going to happen is fantastic!
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And here it is! South Sudan is independent!
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That is pretty great news.
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I like how the border between them looks exactly like a tear line.
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@JERK:
uhh… egypt? they skillfully dodged the worst excesses of colonialism (and even almost took over the Ottoman Empire from within) and then when britian tried to bring the hammer in the 50's over the Suez canal egypt fought them, lost, but made britain look reaaalllly bad and essentially provided the death knell for the British Empire for good.
And since then they've been a corrupt poor dictatorship pretty much all on their own :)
nahahahahahahaha eat it zephos from five months ago
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@Monkey:
And here it is! South Sudan is independent!
Correct your maps, be really obnoxious to your teachers with old maps before the chance disappears!That reminds me, I need to buy an up to date world atlas.
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That's a nice flag. Hope they can do something great with their country and not build their economy solely on their rich oil reserves.
Because when that stuff runs out they better have something to ease down onto.
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