Funny how they call it Africa’s third longest river instead of calling it by its name.
Total burn on West Africa!
Submitted 6 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Rusty@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
nilclass@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Honestly off the top of my head I wouldn’t know that the Niger is Africa’s third longest river, so I’m glad they call it that, since it makes the whole story more interesting than just an arbitrary river doing a weird thing.
Besides… it gives it that clickbatey touch of " oooh, i wonder what’s tge third longest river in africa! Better pause and check the article!"
roguetrick@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, I know the Nile and the Congo, but the Niger just ain’t got enough adventure books about traveling up it. Which makes sense, because as we can see you’ll just be disappointed when you find the source of the Niger.
Agent641@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They should name it “Africa’s second longest river” just for the lols.
And this is Africa’s second longest river, the third longest river in Africa.
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Maybe to avoid confusing it with the country.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
It’s name is probably caught be most automatic word filters, being one letter off from a racial slur.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
“I’m like 20 minutes away”
[ four months later ]
“I’m a three week boat ride away.”
Linktank@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Seems like Guinea could set up some sort of diversion to the sea within their own territory and then hold all the water hostage over the other countries.
You know, if they were run by Nestle or something.
Agent641@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s always wise to pick a fight with 6 guys at once, especially when one of those guys is 4 times your size.
Linktank@lemmy.today 6 months ago
6 dudes with no water for a week would be pretty easy to take on.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Cote D’Ivoire be like, “fuck you, we got a bunch of rivers and a bigass lake.”
Asetru@feddit.org 6 months ago
Maybe they already did just to screw with Sierra Leone?
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It really didn’t want to go to Sierra Leone.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They know what they did.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I don’t get it
lud@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It starts fairly close to the sea but takes an enormous detour to get there.
(Yeah I know that the geography probably doesn’t allow the river to go anywhere else. It’s a joke.)
IkarusHagen2@feddit.org 6 months ago
Better move there for the next 4 years, with tronald in the us and afd/bsw in germany we gotta get out of the western world
Agent641@lemmy.world 6 months ago
West Africa is widely celebrated for their stable, benevolent, progressive governments, and they are especially tolerant of LGBTQ people and refugees from different cultures.
IkarusHagen2@feddit.org 6 months ago
That can only mean one thing: invasion.
Let’s take land and make a new and better country
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 6 months ago
“I wanna go to the ocean but I really hate those fuckers in Sierra Leone, Libera, Côte D’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin.”
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Central African Republic is also not quite centered.