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2025-08-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Africa's plan to redraw 'skewed' world map: 55-nation African Union calls for 'Equal Earth' map to replace those that 'misrepresent continent's true scale'

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-26 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1787 views ] Top

1 When cats behave this way, it's funny.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-08-26 02:26|| 2025-08-26 02:26|| Front Page Top

2 New Grift tastes 50% better than old Grift.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-08-26 06:51|| 2025-08-26 06:51|| Front Page Top

3 I see you think you've solved all your real problems.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-08-26 07:51|| 2025-08-26 07:51|| Front Page Top

4 The Sahara, Arabian, and Central Asian desert area are much greater than I thought.

Wikipedia map

I'm sure that's significant, somehow...

Posted by Bobby 2025-08-26 08:06|| 2025-08-26 08:06|| Front Page Top

5 I wonder why the Antarctic ice mass is so much larger than the Arctic ice mass?

Less land mass in the southern hemisphere?

"Cause it's colder?"

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-26 09:27|| 2025-08-26 09:27|| Front Page Top

6 No comment from the Greenlanders?

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-08-26 09:30|| 2025-08-26 09:30|| Front Page Top

7 I don't care what kind of map they use. I just wish them luck with their navigation.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-08-26 11:59|| 2025-08-26 11:59|| Front Page Top

8 I wonder why the Antarctic ice mass is so much larger than the Arctic ice mass?Less land mass in the southern hemisphere?

cold flows downhill...

Posted by 746 2025-08-26 14:50|| 2025-08-26 14:50|| Front Page Top

9 Cute, 746. :-D

Skidmark, I thought the Arctic ice mass is over water while the Antarctic is ice over a continent, i.e. a landmass.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-08-26 15:35|| 2025-08-26 15:35|| Front Page Top

10 Only MacArthurs Universal Corrective Map of the World addresses the real issue here.

Posted by Knuckles Grundy1702 2025-08-26 18:49|| 2025-08-26 18:49|| Front Page Top

11 If Africa is so yuuge (which it is) why do they need to flood tiny Europe with their surplus populace, which shouldn't be surplus because of Africa's yuuge space?

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-08-26 19:15|| 2025-08-26 19:15|| Front Page Top

12 Maybe they could help out the USA audience; how many Coca-Cola bottles across is Africa at it's widest point?

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-08-26 20:00|| 2025-08-26 20:00|| Front Page Top

13 The Gods Must be Crazy

One bottle led to insurrection

Posted by Beavis 2025-08-26 20:13|| 2025-08-26 20:13|| Front Page Top

14 "Is that an American Coca-Cola bottle, or a European Coca-Cola bottle?"

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-08-26 20:16|| 2025-08-26 20:16|| Front Page Top

15 All this crap from a peoples that never figured out the wheel?

Posted by Woodrow 2025-08-26 23:01|| 2025-08-26 23:01|| Front Page Top

16 Skidmark, I thought the Arctic ice mass is over water while the Antarctic is ice over a continent, i.e. a landmass.

ERGO, warmer?

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-26 23:58|| 2025-08-26 23:58|| Front Page Top

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