Altered Maps XVI: Gerardus Mercator Must Die

[Arakhor]

Huh. I keep thinking that Oslo is in the middle of Norway, given that it's roughly equidistant from the North Sea and the Baltic coast, but of course the bit on the right is Sweden.

 

[Kyriakos]

At least Oslo isn't a village, like Helsinki

 

[Lohrenswald]

Bergen

never heard of it

 

[Takhisis]

Huh. I keep thinking that Oslo is in the middle of Norway, given that it's roughly equidistant from the North Sea and the Baltic coast, but of course the bit on the right is Sweden.

everything in that map was sweden until about a century ago

 

[Lohrenswald]

Thanks for being an asshat

 

[Arakhor]

That could perhaps have been expected when they elected a Napoleonic general to become king of Sweden.

 

[Lohrenswald]

don't dig into his stupid exclamations

 

[danjuno]

Autocomplete map of Europe:

Why do I feel like Ireland and the UK spammed Google search over and over to rig eachother's results? And why is Romania trying to remind me of that story arc from Black Lagoon?

"Why are Belarus?"

"Why are the Turkish rioting now?"

 

[Takhisis]

Thanks for being an asshat

need i remind u that it was all denmark b4 that m8?

 

[Kyriakos]

Autocomplete map of Europe:

Why do I feel like Ireland and the UK spammed Google search over and over to rig eachother's results? And why is Romania trying to remind me of that story arc from Black Lagoon?

"Why are Belarus?"

"Why are the Turkish rioting now?"

"Why are turkish even on this map?"
"Where are the russians"?
^_^

 

[Arakhor]

Well, you could also ask where Norway, Finland, Malta, Slovenia, Bosnia, Albania, Montenegro, Moldova, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Andorra, San Marino, Monaco or the Vatican City are, but you might just come across as missing the point.

 

[Kyriakos]

Well, you could also ask where Norway, Finland, Malta, Slovenia, Bosnia, Albania, Montenegro, Moldova, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Andorra, San Marino, Monaco or the Vatican City are, but you might just come across as missing the point.

Including stuff from group x into group y isn't the same as not including some of ys in group y. You should appreciate my Cantor.

 

[Arakhor]

I might if I could remember even a single number of the Pure Maths I did in Sixth Form.

 

[Yeekim]

Autocomplete map of Europe:

Tested like a dozen or so of these. Got only one match.
People really do wonder about cruelty of Greek gods.

 

[Kyriakos]

Mortals should know their place
Though it can be easily argued that it is less cruel to have gods destroy you at will, when nothing better was ever promissed; while in the old testament the god endlessly blames you before destroying you anyway

 

[Silurian]

Well, you could also ask where Norway, Finland, Malta, Slovenia, Bosnia, Albania, Montenegro, Moldova, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Andorra, San Marino, Monaco or the Vatican City are, but you might just come across as missing the point.

and Macedonia.

 

[Arakhor]

Damn it! I thought I got everyone (from memory alone).

 

[Kyriakos]

Damn it! I thought I got everyone (from memory alone).

Seems like you have a selective memory, so repressed fictional countries. Kosovo being another of those

"Why are croatians so good?"
morelike "why are croatians so ustase?" ^_^

 

[warpus]

We're not that beautiful, it's just that everybody else is a bit ugly

 

[Lohrenswald]

need i remind u that it was all denmark b4 that m8?

shut the fudge up with your dumb game