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Map naming the Atlantic Ocean the Eurafrican Sea with the caption: "Since we are at renaming bodies of water: just a proposition"

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[–] 62 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Full utilitarianism. Pacific Ocean is now "Ocean 1". Atlantic is "Ocean 2". So on, and so forth.

And we're serializing the countries while we're at it (random number assignment, no major economy gets to have #1 for ego reasons). I can already see the signs: "Country 4 is #1!".

Every flag is a solid pantone color. Every anthem is a localization of Riding Nerdy by Weird Al.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Don't use numbers as they indicate a priority.

    Use random 32 bit base64 strings instead. You can technically order them but not in a useful sense.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Actually, let's order the countries based on their citizen happiness ranking. If being #1 is a point of ego, let's make that the metric they're all striving to be on top of.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Every anthem is a localization of Riding Nerdy by Weird Al.

    Oooh!

    • Australia could be "Hot and Deadly"
    • Most of the Southern US could be "Poor and Backward-y"
    • Lots of locations in South America could be "Lush and Birdy".
    • The border between Russia and Ukraine could be "War Incurred-y"
    • Washington DC could be "Trump's Diaper Filled with Turdies"
    • An alternative for Auatralia is "Cunt isnt a swear word-y"
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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    All the continents should be renamed, "Landia" and the oceans should just be rolled into, "Oceania".

    Why makes things complicated?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Landia and oceania imply there are multiple imo. I'd say long landia and wide langdia are separated by the big oceania, where as little landia and micro landia are separated by the small oceania.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    But it's not a sea, it's an ocean. There is a difference!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    The rest of the world should just rename America, itself.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    I would rename the dead sea to death sea and the red sea to blood sea. The mediterranian sea shall be named realm of souls.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It touches the US so you call it American sea. This follows the same rule as bacterial contamination.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Fuck it, no more names. We just call it "The Ocean".

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    It's clearly the donnyjeffy ocean.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    But like... do You know origin of current name?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I've been saying that Canada should rename Lake Michigan to Lake Canada.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I propose naming USA "Shitholeistan". Since Trump is so fond of shithole countries.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    He would stroke out, and we'd be reading the Big Beautiful Obituary by the end of the day.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    If you want to make Trump apocalyptically angry, start naming stuff after Obama. I truly believe if California renamed itself Obamafornia he would declare all-out war against them.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    water

    more water

    water 2.0

    I can't believe it's water (alt: I can't believe it's not land)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Ok, so soon, when the president declares to own the straits of hormuz, we rename it the Epstein Honeypots Strait, or something. Still workshopping the name.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    no YOU'RE a frickin' C

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Straight of Hormuz -> Epstein-Trump Straight

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Epstein Ocean

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You aren’t supposed to end sentences on a proposition…

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    Change Lake Erie to Moist Ohio

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Terran planet earth.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Strongly Worded Ocean

    Unelectable Sea

    Bring Back Better Lake

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