Total burn on West Africa!

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• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Central African Republic is also not quite centered.

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• Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Funny how they call it Africa’s third longest river instead of calling it by its name.

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  • nilclass@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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!"

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    • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Maybe to avoid confusing it with the country.

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  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s name is probably caught be most automatic word filters, being one letter off from a racial slur.

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• sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  “I’m like 20 minutes away”

  [ four months later ]

  “I’m a three week boat ride away.”

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• Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      6 dudes with no water for a week would be pretty easy to take on.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Cote D’Ivoire be like, “fuck you, we got a bunch of rivers and a bigass lake.”

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  • Asetru@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Maybe they already did just to screw with Sierra Leone?

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• son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It really didn’t want to go to Sierra Leone.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They know what they did.

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t get it

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.)

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• IkarusHagen2@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • IkarusHagen2@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That can only mean one thing: invasion.

      Let’s take land and make a new and better country

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