Crimea has a mountain range up south, really close to the sea, so it has a bunch of really short rivers. Chile is the same.
That said the river from the “Crimea river” meme is the Salğır/Салгир:
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Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 day agoHow the fuck do you cram 257 rivers into a space that size? Like, we can’t even manage the Colorado (no, the other one … how we have one flowing through Austin escapes me).
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altphoto@lemmy.today 23 hours ago
Oh cry me a river! I get it! Ukrainian humor prevails! Take that putin!
Quexotic@beehaw.org 23 hours ago
…and major streams. Don’t forget major streams!
I don’t know shit though, I just pulled that from Wikipedia to support a really bad pun.🤣Powderhorn@beehaw.org 23 hours ago
I think “major streams” are more generally referred to as “rivers.”
Quexotic@beehaw.org 23 hours ago
Maybe it’s a translation issue, we have
- rivers
- streams
- creeks
- Brooks and
- runs
…
Maybe they just have the 2 words so there’s information lost in translation?
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 23 hours ago
That’s a wildly incomplete list. I guess if you’re out east, that might feel like a full list, but if you’ve ever lived somewhere with arroyos, you’ve never experienced brooks or runs. I mean, short of Mel Brooks and having diarrhea.
There’s an old joke about growing up in Phoenix: That one does not associate rivers or bridges with water.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I don’t know what counts as a major stream, but usually streams are smaller than creeks, and creeks can be pretty small. So if there are 255 water courses that are smaller than creeks… I can see it.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Why can’t we just make it an even 256?
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 day ago
It’s zero indexed
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Motherfuckers.