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[–] 86 points 9 months ago

It’s not two bad.

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  • [–] 64 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    I used to live on the 2's Sharpie Cove, right as the two seas would smash together into one. The storms were immense, but it was the only point on the entire damn island free of seagulls

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Just because its shape vaguely resembles a 2, that doesn't mean that the country is called "2". It's actually called 3.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It’s nice and quiet, with little pollution.

    In 1952 we passed a constitutional amendment banning traffic from our air space, resulting in all transatlantic flights crossing the northern routes you fly today.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago

    It's a big country, lots of cultural differences. Unfortunately the education system is pretty bad here.

    The only country name we've learnt to spell is Portugal. We're pretty bad at all the others.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Why do euros, mexican pesos and peruvian soles have the same design? Grey/silver outer ring with a gold center

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    Bi-metallic design is mainly used to make the coins harder to counterfeit, to make it more expensive to counterfeit than the coin's value

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    To elaborate, it's really easy to forge "regular" coins and really attractive to forge high value coins.

    For example, the 1 British Pound coin was, before the redesign, widely forged:

    As of March 2014 there were an estimated 1,553 million of the original nickel-brass coins in circulation,[6] of which the Royal Mint estimated in 2014 that just over 3% were counterfeit.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_pound_coin

    (Note for any languages that use the comma as a decimal separator: 1,553 million is referring to 1.5 billion)

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago*

    Fits Plato's description of Atlantis pretty well tbh. be better if it was more south

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Better than living in Br*tain

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Or Spa*n.

    Why can’t we use the letter * here?

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    You're right! They misspelled Br*ta*n!

    edit: Should have considered that we're rendering markdown before I used asterisks so wantonly.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I th*nk something broke for you. Usually it only messes with a single letter for us.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    In the spirit of heeding your username, I shall engage.

    In markdown, if you use a single asterisk it doesn't mean much unless it's part of a list. However, if you use two, it will italicize the text between them. Britain, for example, would bring Brtan because the T and A (yes, I'm aware of the abbreviation) would be between them.

    edit: Seven days later, I saw this post again. I realize now you weren't talking about the formatting but how many instances of the offending character to replace, like non global stream editing or sort of like ƒ.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    Looks expensive to live in, it's all costal.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Forget about 2, have you tried hiking the "EURO" mountain range? It goes up into space!

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I prefer the pre 2007 design where Sweden and Finland can't be unseen.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Well you know in 2 we have a nice weather... we intercept all the Gulf of America Stream

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    We try harder

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I had a chance to visit once, but decided against it, the weather there sucks. I ended up going to denmark in February instead

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Shitty roads

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    Can a brother get on lot 2?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Aw, they redraw it to include non-EU countries. :(

    The old one had Sweden and Finland dangling in at the top right like a cock and balls.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    3 confirmed

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Can be as bad as one.

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