dudesme and my gurl got one o them "the world" shower curtains and damn if it don't help with learning geography. if you have never seen one of these it is a clear shower curtain with a map of the world on it. most country's capitol cities are shown as well as other cities of some significance. and there are thoughts i think in reference to looking at this shower curtain that i will share with y'all. here goes:
1. holy shit there is a city named after me way the hell up in manitoba!
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago)
how big is your shower???????
― Lamp, Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:43 (fifteen years ago)
hari want one of these! and i even need a new shower curtain!
― paragon of incalescence (rrrobyn), Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:00 (fifteen years ago)
what countries have you peed on
be honest
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:01 (fifteen years ago)
lolz ^^
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:28 (fifteen years ago)
2. there is a place called flin flon manitoba but i thought it was saskatchewan because that is funner to say: flin flon, saskatchewan.
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:30 (fifteen years ago)
ur real name is flin flon?
― cozwn, Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:31 (fifteen years ago)
wut??
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago)
"things i think of b/c i have a strangely detailed map of the canadian prairies shower curtain"
― Lamp, Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago)
apols crossed wires, half asleep here
― cozwn, Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:36 (fifteen years ago)
there was a 90s band called flin flon! never heard em.
― goole, Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.amazon.com/Periodic-Table-Shower-Curtain-vinyl/dp/B00176V42O/ref=pd_sim_k_2
― that is a whole discussion within itself that is worth debating (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:50 (fifteen years ago)
it's just that canada is right at eye level. pissed on south america, and australia fr shizzul
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago)
southern hemis-pee-er
― Lamp, Thursday, 10 December 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago)
i used to have one of these it was awesome
― harbl, Thursday, 10 December 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago)
3. does "zemlya" mean island in russian? cuz there's a bunch of islands around russia that are named something_zemlya. like novayazemlya
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:32 (fifteen years ago)
4. utah is much funner to say backwards and sounds like a sneezing noise: HATU!
this is b/c from the inside of the shower everything on the world map is backwards to me
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:33 (fifteen years ago)
I think zemlya means archipelago, no?
― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:35 (fifteen years ago)
haha wait you have it hung so everything is backwards?? is that for extra credit or something?
― paragon of incalescence (rrrobyn), Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:40 (fifteen years ago)
it would be funny if you had a little kid and he or she grew up knowing all the names of all the countries and their capitals, but completely backwards
― paragon of incalescence (rrrobyn), Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago)
you got your coordinate system all screwed up there buddy, that's a mighty sucky way to learn yourself some geographies
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:42 (fifteen years ago)
it looks fine from the outside of the shower . . .
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago)
you can be clean or you can be worldly but you can't be both
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago)
i gettin pretty good at reading backwardz
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:46 (fifteen years ago)
?won, uoy erA
― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago)
haha! or i mean !ahah
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago)
I'd like one of those curtains!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGmdN_VsIuc
― MaresNest, Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:54 (fifteen years ago)
whoa michael white how did you get the question mark backwards?is that some wicked text format command?
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Friday, 11 December 2009 00:09 (fifteen years ago)
i think u just played urself
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Friday, 11 December 2009 00:11 (fifteen years ago)
how did you know?
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Friday, 11 December 2009 00:14 (fifteen years ago)
either that or u have been looking at the world map from the wrong side of the curtain and ur brain is relearning language
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Friday, 11 December 2009 00:15 (fifteen years ago)
[bdo dir="rtl"] how did you know?[/bdo]
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Friday, 11 December 2009 00:17 (fifteen years ago)
oh right that question mark is not backwardsand there is a problem parsing the bbcode to make shit look backwards ^^
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Friday, 11 December 2009 00:18 (fifteen years ago)
5. let's Gdansk! that is the name of a city in poland
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Monday, 14 December 2009 20:23 (fifteen years ago)
aka danzig, indeed
― ogmor, Monday, 14 December 2009 20:28 (fifteen years ago)
i love gdansk
― paragon of incalescence (rrrobyn), Monday, 14 December 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago)
yeah i learned about all the russian peninsulas from my world shower curtain. like kamchatka & chukchi. whenever i see kamchatka vodka in a store i think about that thing.
― harbl, Monday, 14 December 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago)
6. and as well the zoolander riff: Murmansk! ahoo ahoo . . . Murmansk! it's a city in russia near finland.
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Monday, 14 December 2009 23:29 (fifteen years ago)
7. Andorra is a country! and it makes that yo la tengo song decora begin to play in my head.
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 23:54 (fifteen years ago)
8. Godthab, kinda sounds like "goddamn!" and it's the capital of Greenland
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Thursday, 17 December 2009 19:34 (fifteen years ago)
i learned about svalbard
― harbl, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago)
that's kinda near greenland
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago)
9. in alaska there is a place called unalaska, which i would think should be in, like, florida. cuz that's like the opposite of alaksa
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago)
What is he talking about؟؟
― Without Curves, I would feel deflated. I like Curves. They are best. (Stevie D), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago)
TS: Flin Flon, Manitoba v. Medicine Hat, Alberta
― everyone stop (dan m), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago)
like the opposite of alaksashould be like the opposite of alaska
dude stevie d how'd you do the question marks like that??awesome
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 20:30 (fifteen years ago)
I'm sure I don't know what you mean??
― Without Curves, I would feel deflated. I like Curves. They are best. (Stevie D), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago)
؟?
― Without Curves, I would feel deflated. I like Curves. They are best. (Stevie D), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago)
stevie d fuckin with megah!
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago)
Godthab is now Nuuk.
― kate78, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago)
it is a mark of irony
― Without Curves, I would feel deflated. I like Curves. They are best. (Stevie D), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago)
yes but how do you make it, stevie d?
thanks kate i will update my shower curtain!
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― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago)
I don't know I just copied it from somewhere.
― Without Curves, I would feel deflated. I like Curves. They are best. (Stevie D), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago)
10. there's a group of islands in the south west pacific called new caledonia, but there is no caledonia.
i guess it's latin for scotland or something
― Meteor Crater (jdchurchill), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 19:02 (fifteen years ago)
I had one of these shower curtains! Good times.
No curtain in my current bathroom, solid plastic screen instead. Boo.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 19:05 (fifteen years ago)
I just discovered a friend of mine has a map-of-the-world shower curtain where all the type is in the Matt Groening font for no discernible reason.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 19:07 (fifteen years ago)
11. holy shit dudes south africa has 3 fuckin capitol cities! for real
― i should rectify that (jdchurchill), Friday, 15 January 2010 21:22 (fifteen years ago)
12. holy shit dudes bolivia has 2 fuckin capitol cities! kinda like south africa one is administrative (La Paz) and the other is constitutional (Sucre)
― i should rectify that (jdchurchill), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 19:38 (fifteen years ago)
part one is a sub-series of this thread: STRATEGIC CORNERS OF THE WORLD13. Gibraltar: i was surprised to find that this is a british territory as i thought it was going to be another in the series of countries with more than one capitol city. but when i look at the map i think, "damn that is a very strategic location."
― thatwillultimatelyresultingalaxy-galaxymergersonacosmictimescale (jdchurchill), Monday, 25 January 2010 20:13 (fifteen years ago)
another in the series of countries with more than one capitol city.
that being morrocco . . .
Huh? What does your shower curtain say the capital of Morocco is besides Rabat?
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Monday, 25 January 2010 20:27 (fifteen years ago)
well you know gibraltar is like right by morrocco
― thatwillultimatelyresultingalaxy-galaxymergersonacosmictimescale (jdchurchill), Monday, 25 January 2010 21:07 (fifteen years ago)
There are several royal cities in Morooca, right? Fez? Rabat? ...
― Mit der Kattzheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens (Michael White), Monday, 25 January 2010 21:13 (fifteen years ago)
14. i laugh when i look at Belcher Islands.
hahahaha: belch-er! but after reading wiki, they seem quite fascinating in addition to they funny name.
― Anton Levain (jdchurchill), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 20:45 (fifteen years ago)
weird green & red lakes? near Flin Flon
― StanM, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 21:02 (fifteen years ago)
whoa dudes i was looking at the world map shower curtain this morning and thinking holy cow look how much lake chad looks like a heart, and it's like right smack dab in the middle of the map.
― (Laughs) (jdchurchill), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:57 (fifteen years ago)
Just got one of those but it was made by idiots. They use six colours but still manage to have adjacent countries of the same colour, most confusingly for Russia and Belarus, so you can't tell who the extra bit of territory below Lithuania belongs to. And they make it look like there's four countries at the tip of South America, instead of two.
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 08:30 (fifteen years ago)
wangs of the world: norway and swedenhttp://www.topnews.in/files/norway-sweden-map.gif
― a failed junkie who reinvented himself by eating a thesaurus (jdchurchill), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:10 (fifteen years ago)
cock n balls rather
also ven diagrams!http://boingboing.net/images/norway-vs-sweden.gif
― a failed junkie who reinvented himself by eating a thesaurus (jdchurchill), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:12 (fifteen years ago)
i was looking at botswana and wondering if there are nuns of gabarone
― er like duh (jdchurchill), Thursday, 20 January 2011 07:25 (fourteen years ago)
I think it's probably time to replace your shower curtain.
― sex cells (S-), Thursday, 20 January 2011 08:01 (fourteen years ago)
whoa i'm sorry it took me so long to respond to this. i so love my 'the world' shower curtain i have gotten another clear plastic shower curtain to put on the wet side of this so that i can keep it, y'know like forever. i just have to buy another cheap clear plastic one and enjoy the world.
― Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (jdchurchill), Saturday, 15 October 2011 02:49 (thirteen years ago)
i refer to it all the time. in fact my wife just was saying 'oh i would have to go look at my shower curtain to tell you that.' these things are so useful esp if u don't have a globe or even if you do just to know the countries and they borders and where in the world are they at
― Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (jdchurchill), Saturday, 15 October 2011 02:51 (thirteen years ago)
I love this thread! I'm so glad you came back to answer.
― Je55e, Saturday, 15 October 2011 02:53 (thirteen years ago)
i have been like the sleepy head extraordinaire rip van winkle. so with the bit of soapbox i have here i would say dudes try a negroni. they are fuckin awesome and have a lagunitas. it almost doesn't matter but i am fond of the little sumpin. and have you had pizza with banana peppers and peperoni? pretty tasty
― Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (jdchurchill), Saturday, 15 October 2011 03:07 (thirteen years ago)