• MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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    18 days ago

    “I wanna go to the ocean but I really hate those fuckers in Sierra Leone, Libera, Côte D’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, and Benin.”

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      18 days ago

      I’m also slightly bothered that the Niger River only goes through a tiny sliver of Niger.

      I kind of feel like they shouldn’t claim the name. Maybe trade names with Nigeria. It will probably be some pretty easy paperwork alterations. You just take away their A.

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          17 days ago

          It’s not quite the same. But I live near a university called University of South <State Name>, yet it is absolutely nowhere even remotely near the southern part of the state.

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            It’s probably south of something though, unless you’re at the north pole