• lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    37
    ·
    edit-2
    24 days ago

    Having that tattoo 100 years ago and over decades must have sucked…

    Yeah, it’s me again, please remove the border and re-color Poland, Austria, …

    Nevermind, German lost, change the color back and add borders…

    • ditty@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      20
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      24 days ago

      I’m guessing the person with this tattoo gets them colored in once they’ve visited that country, which if so I think that’s pretty cool

      • superkret@feddit.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        arrow-down
        31
        ·
        24 days ago

        It’s just bragging with your privilege.
        There’s nothing really exciting about having visited lots of countries anymore. Just means you have a couple grand to burn each year on flights, and don’t care about the climate.

        • bergie@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          6
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          24 days ago

          There’s plenty of ways to visit countries that won’t involve flying. Some of those quite CO2 neutral.

          • BluesF@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            23 days ago

            Unless you are a pretty serious sailor you’ll struggle with crossing the Atlantic or Pacific though.

            • bergie@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              23 days ago

              It’s possible to crew for others. When we sailed across the Atlantic ten years ago (on a sail training ship), one of the people on board was for the first time on a sailboat.

              • BluesF@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                23 days ago

                That’s great! What an experience for them. Quite impractical for most, though, I assume. How long did it take you?

        • umbrella@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          24 days ago

          i cant even dream about having that much money to fly around and get hotels and stuff all over the planet

    • Thunderbird4@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      24 days ago

      It’s already out of date because it’s missing the 2011 border between Sudan and South Sudan.

      The map is also kind of a blobby mess in the Middle East, with a few countries missing, and they forgot the border between Algeria and Mauritania.

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    34
    ·
    24 days ago

    Projecting a Mercator projection onto a curved surface… Greenland doesn’t deserve that kind of treatment.

    At least the map includes New Zealand

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      24 days ago

      You think the treatment of GREENLAND is bad? See if you can find the tiny spike that the peninsula and hundreds of islands that is Denmark has been reduced to on this 😄

  • sachamato@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    24 days ago

    As soon as I saw the map, I thought how countries are not represented on a real size basis in the world map. A quick Internet search brought me to truesizeofcountries , a very cool project for anyone interested.

  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    24 days ago

    (Proceeds to scratches his Ass)

    I thought you were a Geography Major?

    (whispers sensually in his ear) I am.

    • Bob@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      24 days ago

      They might’ve got the tattoo before South Sudan split from Sudan.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      24 days ago

      Luckily, he hasn’t gotten Sudan colored in yet so there’s still time to draw the new border.

      But that’s the problem with a tattoo like this: imagine having to get a cover-up because some inconsiderate separatist jerks won their “freedom and right of self-determination,” SMH!

  • kemsat@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    24 days ago

    Lol I wanna see on a dudes big fat hard belly. You know the type. None of that floppy belly shit.

  • Fontasia@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    23 days ago

    Do you mean the Democratic Republic of Congo or Congo?

    Also, fuck the mercator projection