Popular Post The_Rev Posted November 6, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted November 6, 2014 A few weird borders to jumpstart the thread. Ellis Island The Caribbean island of St. Martin And of course, the world's only third order enclave, Dahala Khagrabari (that's India inside Bangladesh, Bangladesh inside India, and India inside Bangladesh one more time) There is a crazy border much closer to home in Baarle - Nassau where the Netherlands meets Belgium: The border is marked throughout the town like this: It splits buildings in half in several places: There are a few reports about people who live in buildings split by the border moving the front door of their property from one country to the other (this is how your address is determined in local law) to take advantages of tax breaks if it suited them. Apparently it was a real thing with shops because of the different levies imposed by the different governments and until the mid 1990s Sunday trading laws forbode shops in the Netherlands from opening but shops in Belgium were allowed. Fun. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 I like that, alot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houseoftomorrow Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 (edited) (Also a rather large image when you click it) Edited November 7, 2014 by Houseoftomorrow 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 I love this thread. I loved that huge map on the last page, I'd like a large print out of it and hang it on a wall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted November 7, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted November 7, 2014 I did that with one of the maps from this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 I also did that with one of the maps! What a sad bunch we are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 I also did that with one of the maps! What a sad bunch we are. Face it Welshman, you traced the map.. you don't have access to printers.. or computers... which leads me to my next question.. how on earth do you have 7,000 posts?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 I also did that with one of the maps! What a sad bunch we are. Face it Welshman, you traced the map.. you don't have access to printers.. or computers... which leads me to my next question.. how on earth do you have 7,000 posts?! I'll have you know, if I did trace a map it would be foofing awesome tracing - it's what I did for a few years back in the day, with my little Rotring pens and my scale stencils and my A0 oversized tilting drafting desk. But I now have access to a scanner that can scan and colour print 1.5 metres wide by 10 metres long. I could scan and print the mofo Bayeux Tapestry at 1:1 scale if so inclined. But I am a bit of a Luddite, I just sent somebody a drawing of a roof parapet gargoyle that I did on paper with pens and hand written notes - ha! try robbing that detail for your own cad library, mister large national construction company! I spend a lot of time in the golden triangle (Redditch / that London / Sittingbourne), and they have decent wifi in two of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 ...what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 He's got a can on a very long bit of string. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPower_14 Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 (Also a rather large image when you click it) Polish for England? Really? I wouldn't have picked that in 50 guesses, but i've never been to England in fairness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuck Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 But I now have access to a scanner that can scan and colour print 1.5 metres wide by 10 metres long. Soooooo jealous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 I print out pictures of people from the Rogues Gallery and hang them up. I've got a wall full. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 9, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted November 9, 2014 I print out pictures of people from the Rogues Gallery and hang them up. I've got a wall full. Do you draw a big cross through each one after you kill them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 Mercator maps make New England look really...sad, I guess is how I'd describe it? Well, at least the white men here aren't majority tea baggers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 (Also a rather large image when you click it) Polish for England? Really? I wouldn't have picked that in 50 guesses, but i've never been to England in fairness. Polish people migrated to the UK en masse when they joined the European Union in 2004, the 2011 census said there were 579,000 Polish born people in the country and the figure is probably quite a lot higher as 2014 ends when you include the people who have moved here since the census and the children they had who were born here but are growing up in Polish speaking households. There are four Polish grocery stores within a ten minute walk of where I live (including the wonderfully named Polish Shop Polish Price Emilia) which tells me that the community is continuing to thrive. I don't have much to do with them but I've spoken with a few who live in the area and they are generally a pleasant bunch. The reason why so many of them moved here instead of places where they have more in common culturally like, say, Germany is the exchange rate. The Polish Zloty to Pound Sterling exchange rate is much more favourable to Polish people than the Polish Zloty to Euro exchange rate. Presumably they are sending money back home or saving up enough while here in order to be able to afford property when they move back to Poland so how much money they are removing from the UK economy compared to what they are contributing to it while they are here. I'm guessing that a lot moved here with the intention of staying for five or ten years and then going back but have since decided to settle here on a more permanent basis, especially those who have had kids. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 The polish resettlement act after the war too, because they helped us out in the war and because of the ruskies we took in about 150k of them in the late 1940s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 The polish resettlement act after the war too, because they helped us out in the war and because of the ruskies we took in about 150k of them in the late 1940s They did a bit more than "help" tbh, and got royally **** over at Yalta and then by the Russians for their troubles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Stefan and his undoubtedly potent seed will readdress the balance no doubt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 The polish resettlement act after the war too, because they helped us out in the war and because of the ruskies we took in about 150k of them in the late 1940s They did a bit more than "help" tbh, and got royally **** over at Yalta and then by the Russians for their troubles. I didn't really want to go in to detail about what they did for us at monte cassino so just put helped... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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