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TrinityF t1_j746fas wrote

Reply to comment by dethblud in [OC] Three Latin American countries are among the 5 most unequal on Earth. More so than so-called Gulf states and even Russia with its oligarchs. by latinometrics

Honestly, I have no idea who lives in Uruguay, what they do, what the country does and how they live in such seemingly remote obscure area, from my comfy chair in Europe.

The only thing heard of it that intrigued me was people saying the country’s architecture is like Europe but in South America and the people living there look like people from Spain mixed with indigenous minorities.
... And TIL: Uruguay has a Florida. And their winter are warm, and their summers are cold, compared to the Northern Hemisphere. When Europe is having their summer in the middle of the year, Uruguayans are enjoying the coolest weather of the year.

This is all quite fascinating.

I had once planned to take time off and spent a year travelling in South America, but then I got married 😥 I wanted to go to the most southern point of South America.

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TrinityF t1_iyd0shr wrote

Reply to comment by Crazy__Donkey in [OC] Bangladesh vs Suriname by two_plus_two_is_zero

My Unles James and Kenneth were part of the partition committee.

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>oh dear heavens James, looks like we gave India too much land and Pakistan not enough.
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>Oh well, let’s just take this land at the other end of India and make that Pakistan as well.
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>Good Lord, Kenneth. that's can never work, how do you expect a nation to exist with another nation in between them?
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>Exactly James, Exactly... mwahahahahaha
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>Kenneth, you're a brilliant evil bastard, they will surely go to war over this.

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This may or may not be a transcript of one of those meetings.

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