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    #962
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,290 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    KevRossi wrote: »
    God help us if someone sneezes though.

    That's nothing. Imagine the queue for the bathroom.


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    #963
    cnocbui
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    Likely to be the greatest single event death toll in human history, in the bay, there.


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    #964
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,160 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Victor wrote: »
    That's nothing. Imagine the queue for the bathroom.
    I dunno. Just piss on the person in front of you. Be just like being in the terrace at an English top flight game in the 80s.


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    #965
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,247 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    France's longest border is with Brazil...


    xo4p93tm7k251.jpg


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    #966
    dan1895
    Registered Users Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    https://twitter.com/HMorganThompson/status/1266471473612566529?s=19


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    #967
    Tokyo
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    Roundels used on European planes prior to WWII.

    dfsJqU7.png


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    #968
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,307 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    McDonald’s across the world.


    map-of-countries-with-mcdonalds.jpg?w=800&h=600


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    #969
    Tell me how
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    mike_ie wrote: »
    Roundels used on European planes prior to WWII.

    dfsJqU7.png

    The Finnish Airforce Board meeting to discuss it's logo happened fairly quickly after 1938 I'd imagine.


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    #970
    L1011
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    Tell me how wrote: »
    The Finnish Airforce Board meeting to discuss it's logo happened fairly quickly after 1938 I'd imagine.

    Finland was basically/unofficially Axis in WWII, and still uses the swastika for certain Air Force functions anyway; as the use predated the Nazi use. Roundel changed in '45 though.


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    #971
    Capt'n Midnight
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    L1011 wrote: »
    Finland was basically/unofficially Axis in WWII, and still uses the swastika for certain Air Force functions anyway; as the use predated the Nazi use. Roundel changed in '45 though.

    They used it from 1918 to 1945.

    https://www.ilmailumuseot.fi/tuotteet.html?id=20170/230683


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    #972
    Capt'n Midnight
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    jg0do25d.jpeg


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    #973
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,838 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    origin.jpg


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    #974
    greenttc
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭greenttc


    wow, would people still hitch hike much? i remember seeing it loads 30 years ago or so but now would very rarely see it.

    would people even pick up a hitch hiker? i wouldnt. unless i knew them but there are extremely slim chances of someone i know hitch hiking!

    I've only done it once in my life on a remote island in the pacific where it was one of the only ways to get around the island, remember thinking that my mum would be so cross with me if she knew! not in a million years would I have chanced it in Ireland!

    what are the blue lines on the map for i wonder?


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    #975
    L1011
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    Drove a hell of a lot in an old job until about 7 years ago - you would still see some; most are backpacking tourists these days. And in twos.

    The ban on them going on motorways/motorway slips probably means I saw less than there were as they'd be on the old roads.


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    #976
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,160 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    greenttc wrote: »
    what are the blue lines on the map for i wonder?
    The blue lines are the main shipping routes. Don't know why they're on the map though


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    #977
    greenttc
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭greenttc


    cdeb wrote: »
    The blue lines are the main shipping routes. Don't know why they're on the map though

    I wondered was it ferries but then thought about ones direct from ireland to france are missing. surely we have shipping routes straight to mainland europe, no?


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    #978
    [Deleted User]
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    cdeb wrote: »
    The blue lines are the main shipping routes. Don't know why they're on the map though

    Dunno about now but it used to be a thing to hitchike to/on ferries as a cheap way to get around.


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    #979
    L1011
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    greenttc wrote: »
    I wondered was it ferries but then thought about ones direct from ireland to france are missing. surely we have shipping routes straight to mainland europe, no?

    We do (loads - but not that many passenger carrying; however there are still a few), and we don't have a passenger carrying Cork-Wales anymore which is still on the map.


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    #980
    greenttc
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭greenttc


    L1011 wrote: »
    We do (loads - but not that many passenger carrying; however there are still a few), and we don't have a passenger carrying Cork-Wales anymore which is still on the map.

    maybe the blue lines are routes that were hitch hiked on so! interesting


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    #981
    cdeb
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Dunno about now but it used to be a thing to hitchike to/on ferries as a cheap way to get around.
    I was going to suggest that as a joke - but really? You'd just blag your way onto a commercial ferry who'd be charging everyone else?


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    #982
    L1011
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    cdeb wrote: »
    I was going to suggest that as a joke - but really? You'd just blag your way onto a commercial ferry who'd be charging everyone else?

    You would be able to pay a significantly lower fare than a walk-up passenger as a secondary driver on a truck; as well as going on ferrys that don't take walk-up passengers at all too.

    Plenty of the ferry routes in to Ireland are container though and don't take the actual trucks.


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    #983
    Quantum Erasure
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    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    France's longest border is with Brazil...

    also just noticed France has a 13 km border with the Netherlands, but its in the Caribbean...


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    #984
    Shedite27
    Registered Users Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭Shedite27


    cdeb wrote: »
    I was going to suggest that as a joke - but really? You'd just blag your way onto a commercial ferry who'd be charging everyone else?
    Commercial Freighters actually do take passengers. If they've spare cabins that aren;t being used, they'll offer them online. Very basic facilities obviously, you're basically treated as staff, eat with them, watch movies with them, etc
    https://www.freighterexpeditions.com.au/cargo-ship-travel-things-you-should-know


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    #985
    killbillvol2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭killbillvol2


    cdeb wrote: »
    I was going to suggest that as a joke - but really? You'd just blag your way onto a commercial ferry who'd be charging everyone else?

    I hitched home from France a few times in the 80s. Rock up to Le Havre/Calais and ask around. The Irish were a lot less likely to give you a lift. Usually ended up doing a landbridge through England and Wales.


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    #986
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,160 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Shedite27 wrote: »
    Commercial Freighters actually do take passengers. If they've spare cabins that aren;t being used, they'll offer them online. Very basic facilities obviously, you're basically treated as staff, eat with them, watch movies with them, etc
    https://www.freighterexpeditions.com.au/cargo-ship-travel-things-you-should-know

    Yeah, but you have to pay for that surely? Which isn't hitchhiking then


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    #987
    storker
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    Tell me how wrote: »
    The Finnish Airforce Board meeting to discuss it's logo happened fairly quickly after 1938 I'd imagine.

    They didn't. They had been using it long before the Nazis, and didn't see any need to get rid of it in a hurry as they were allied with Germany during the war anyway, following the invasion of Finland by Russia in 1939-40.


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    #988
    Cookie_Monster
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    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    France's longest border is with Brazil...


    xo4p93tm7k251.jpg

    This was on I fucking love maps the other day and someone pointed out its actually with Australia

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    #989
    marcbrophy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,432 ✭✭✭marcbrophy


    I don't get that at all... :eek:


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    #990
    [Deleted User]
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    I presume those countries own those sections of Antarctica but if they do it’s something that I never knew before.


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    #991
    marcbrophy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,432 ✭✭✭marcbrophy


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    I presume those countries own those sections of Antarctica but if they do it’s something that I never knew before.

    Antarctica eh! I thought it was Pangaea :pac:


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