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    UK Politics V - Have We Got News For You

    And so is all of West Africa and much of Asia. You clearly missed the point of the second half of the sentence.
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    UK Politics V - Have We Got News For You

    I've never heard "the global north" being defined before, but it's going to be places north of the Equator and I'd hazard a guess that it's the new version of "non-Third World" countries, so Europe, the Anglosphere, Japan etc.
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    UK Politics V - Have We Got News For You

    About the only time that I can think of that we had anywhere close to "uncontrolled" immigration was in 2005 when the EU expanded east and Blair's government chose not impose the temporary immigration limits on new EU citizens, leading to a lot of Poles coming over to stay.
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    Guess the map 16: No need for that latitude!

    So, most of North America, half of Europe, Russia, Japan and then Israel and Saudi Arabia. Spot the nation that seems out of place.
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    UK Politics V - Have We Got News For You

    He has no ideas left and is grasping wildly at anything that could be presented as a win, however slim. Just let's ignore that it's completely contrary to international law, our own laws and that withdrawing from the ECHR would put us in the same exclusive boat as Russia and Belarus. Of...
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    The Llamast Jokes Thread... 3

    I’m trying to eat more kale because it’s good for me, but when I see it on my plate, I keep asking myself if the ends justify the greens.
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    Altered maps IZ: gib clay!

    So, basically just Estonia, Hungary (!) and countries that speak Germanic languages.
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    General Politics Three: But what is left/right?

    I still don't get  why they're doing this. This is just dicking over the common man for no apparent reason.
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    [RD] LGBTQ news

    Absolutely no one should applaud that "judgement", because nobody is a member of every in-crowd.
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    What Video Games Have You Been Playing? #23: Lost in Shalebridge Cradle

    Gorogoa has a beautiful art style and an interesting narrative, told without a single word of text. I'd certainly give that a go.
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    General Politics Three: But what is left/right?

    I struggle to see why. It doesn't appear to be about "owning the libs", or drumming up votes amongst racists and the like.
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    Cool Pictures 14: no , it wasn't me who painted Mona Lisa

    I don't know the details involved in home ownership issues, but houses that are in imminent risk of subsidence due to cliff erosion are stripped down as much as possible and the inhabitants put up elsewhere.
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    Cool Pictures 14: no , it wasn't me who painted Mona Lisa

    The east coast is particularly prone to coastal erosion, though the size of the country doesn't actually change that much, as much of the eroded soil ends up being washed up on the west coast (if I remember my geography lessons correctly).
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    Altered maps IZ: gib clay!

    That's a very similar map to that presented in Mark Lawrence's Empire of Thorns series, where the world experienced (amongst other calamities) 100 metres of sea level rise.
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    When Jesus born?

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