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Poll Results

OptionVotes
nile 6
euphrates & tigris 6
ganges 5
yangtze/chang jiang 3
indus 2
mekong 2
yellow 1
niger 0


ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:51 (fifteen years ago)

yellow

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Yellow_River%2C_Qing_Dynasty.jpg

ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:51 (fifteen years ago)

indus

http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Images_Indus/indus_boat.jpg

ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:52 (fifteen years ago)

nile

http://egyptsitesblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/img_3727.jpg?w=480&h=321

ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:53 (fifteen years ago)

mekong

http://www.angkorguide.de/pictures/Myth%202%20041.jpg

ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:54 (fifteen years ago)

niger

http://www.rupestre.net/tracce/shipmali.jpg

ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:55 (fifteen years ago)

ganges

http://0.tqn.com/d/hinduism/1/5/t/Y/ganga_aarti.jpg

ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:55 (fifteen years ago)

yangtze/chiang jang

http://history.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/images/arbigimages/ef6e092457d81039ac73bfd16f024e98.jpg

ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:56 (fifteen years ago)

euphrates

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm215/openmediaboston/Art%20and%20Empire%20exhibit/15_Escapeacrossariver.jpg

ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:58 (fifteen years ago)

naga in yamuna, ganges tributary

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Indischer_Maler_um_1640_001.jpg/370px-Indischer_Maler_um_1640_001.jpg

ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:59 (fifteen years ago)

niger

http://www.raremaps.com/maps/medium/0055em.jpg

ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:59 (fifteen years ago)

STYX

i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:00 (fifteen years ago)

and in green

ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:00 (fifteen years ago)

indus

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qTDAEasFLtU/RhVs5HPLYpI/AAAAAAAACoE/6Mcsylud-lQ/s400/Indus%2Bmap.jpg

ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:01 (fifteen years ago)

mekong

http://ipsnews.net/mekong/images/naga2.jpg

ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:01 (fifteen years ago)

nile

http://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/images/ancient-map-of-the-nile-river-valley.jpg

ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:11 (fifteen years ago)

scroll yr way down the yangtze

ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:20 (fifteen years ago)

the yangtze & yellow were surely the most effective society builders. w/ the rivers going coast to coast, with no severely restrictive landscape between the north & south of china, they figured out one solid boss of a writing system extremely early on post-sedentarism & kind of managed a 'unified' population.
will probably vote for euphrates & tigris because i am a man of the occident & i love weetabix

boss margins, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 15:29 (fifteen years ago)

OMG, how did I miss this thread? (oh yeah coz I was at a Guardian/Cambridge lecture on Gender (ILX collective heads explode)) but OOOOOOOHHHH they're all so wonderful, in different ways. How do I choose?

Nile is the mother of Geometry and all sorts of things I hold sacred.
Ganges is, actually, literally sacred.
Tigris/Euphrates cradle of civilisation etc. etc.
Yellow for just amazing massiveness (and also I was looking at some amazing oxbows on it on google the other week)

Wheal Dream, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 15:35 (fifteen years ago)

Actually I am mistaken, it was the Songhua River I was looking at oxbows on

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songhua_River

(look at those fucken oxbows etc.)

Wheal Dream, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 15:38 (fifteen years ago)

thread of missing congo

BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 15:45 (fifteen years ago)

I voted mekong for some reason even though I wanted to vote Yellow. I guess I am racist against my own people eg we all look alike. Also, very srs history question born of ignorance re: Congo river: what civilization came out of it?

JIMMY MOD THE SACK MASTER (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 16:06 (fifteen years ago)

Not sure, but WOW, even though I've been to Kinshasa, I had no idea it looked like THIS from above.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Kinshasa_%26_Brazzaville_-_ISS007-E-6305_lrg.jpg

(typically, my brother had the window seat on that flight.)

Wheal Dream, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 16:12 (fifteen years ago)

No Amu Darya, no credibility.

Tommy Duckworth (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 16:13 (fifteen years ago)

^^

also danube, volga, heilonjiang

nakhchivan, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 21:27 (fifteen years ago)

'congo' was named for the kongo who moved there but as far as I know it was never this kind of river

ganges is the celebrity river

http://pilgrimageindia.org/img/pkg-itinery/haridwar-big.jpg

ogmor, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 22:24 (fifteen years ago)

Yes, but if you want to talk about quintessential geographical-typographical features, the Nile has the ur-Delta

http://neonized.net/blog/wp-content/files/2009/09/nile_delta_2000.jpg

(that said, the Euphrates had the, erm, ur-Ur...

http://www.crystalinks.com/ur.jpg
http://www.atlastours.net/iraq/ur_ziggurat.jpg

also one for the ruins thread, I think...

Wheal Dream, Thursday, 18 November 2010 14:35 (fifteen years ago)

Only one I've been on is the Nile.

Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Thursday, 18 November 2010 14:58 (fifteen years ago)

ganges, nigga

Onigaga (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:41 (fifteen years ago)

Have been on Indus, Ganges, Mekong and Niger. Voted for Ganges because of things like the pic ogmor posted yesterday.

Jibe, Thursday, 18 November 2010 16:26 (fifteen years ago)

I've only been on the Mekong, took a vid 4 y'all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIk4IdT5Y1M

i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 November 2010 18:02 (fifteen years ago)

(actually that may have been the jungle cruise at Disneyland, I can't remember, both are really similar)

i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 November 2010 18:03 (fifteen years ago)

that looks amazing, plus the way you whipped out that camera so that everyone on this thread could enjoy it shows admirable quick thinking.

people have been giving ur the thumbs up for at least 4600 years and i would like to join them.

i agree w/ boss margins about weetabix & the yangtze, which has drama & would doubtless be good to sail up, but the yellow river is quite badly behaved in real life. the first pic in the thread is my favourite but also wishful thinking. i think the award for best society builder should go to the nile, which is located in a desert stuck in an awkward continental crossroads & still managed to be reliable enough to inspire the idea of eternal life. but that is only one aspect of the issue imo.

ogmor, Thursday, 18 November 2010 20:50 (fifteen years ago)

Close between Yellow, which iirc was the river in a primitive 'bandits' game that came with my BBC micro; and Yangtze, which I read a splendid book about. Went Yangtze.

Ismael Klata, Thursday, 18 November 2010 20:58 (fifteen years ago)

i was looking for books along these thread lines but that yangtze one looks baller

ogmor, Thursday, 18 November 2010 21:10 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

Gotta be the Nile. I like my rivers exotic and erratic.

Bull fighting, Paris, hunting, suicide (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 00:12 (fifteen years ago)

primitive 'bandits' game

Yellow River Kingdom

Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 00:14 (fifteen years ago)

Is it too much to ask to spell "rivers" correctly in the title of the thread? This thread will never be found again once it falls off the new answers page, because it's totally unsearchable.

Bull fighting, Paris, hunting, suicide (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 00:25 (fifteen years ago)

search old world

BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 00:25 (fifteen years ago)

It's not TOPIC searchable. It's a thread about rivers, and the title is about being all special and clever instead of being about rivers. Bad form.

Bull fighting, Paris, hunting, suicide (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 00:26 (fifteen years ago)

rivrrrun, past gbx and kenan, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth, Castle and Environs.

calpolaris (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 00:34 (fifteen years ago)

there's no comma after howth u disgusting savage

zvookster, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 00:49 (fifteen years ago)

zvookstocking

calpolaris (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 00:51 (fifteen years ago)

the river bends, you know what i mean

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Mali.A2001291.1045.250m.jpg/800px-Mali.A2001291.1045.250m.jpg

nearly voted for the niger, i like desert rivers & this one seems the best, but if it can't even retain the interest of the dogon ahead of sirius b then maybe it's not all that when you're there.

to elucidate on the congo; it's a bastard river surrounded by v difficult to clear forest & quite isolated from other river ppl (unlike fellow bastard river the mekong), which afforded a degree of security to its varied inhabitants, but made the sort of social networks that wld allow agriculture, trade & cities v difficult. also these -

http://www.microbiologybytes.com/introduction/graphics/Tsetse.jpg

which results in me not being able to find any sweet jpegs of native depictions of the congo. the danube, volga &c. weren't so central to europe as the mediterranean which is what got ppl busy. if i had to pick a river fucked by latitude i wld go for the ob, but the most appropriate sort of rivers i have missed here are the zambezi&limpopo.

ogmor, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 22:38 (fifteen years ago)

yenisei imo

calpolaris (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 23:17 (fifteen years ago)

danube didn't support so much as delimit a great culture from the hyperborean wastes beyond

volga pretty damn important, insofar as russia is important

calpolaris (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 23:24 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Thursday, 25 November 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/D8sVH.jpg

calpolaris (nakhchivan), Thursday, 25 November 2010 00:04 (fifteen years ago)

voted indus on the basis it bore the society i'd probably most enjoy living in, but perhaps should have registered appreciation of the niger

ogmor, Thursday, 25 November 2010 19:42 (fifteen years ago)

four years pass...

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