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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world -2 points 4 hours ago

Sigh...Americans and their piss poor knowledge of geography.

[-] farmgineer@nord.pub 30 points 15 hours ago

Replace the US with Trinidad and Tobago and it should be an equal match.

[-] nullspace@lemmy.world 52 points 19 hours ago

50 countries in a trench coat.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Only for people in the US who had reasonable history or world geography education.

[-] loke@fedia.io 184 points 1 day ago

It's not even fair. Bosina and Herzegovina has to play against 50 states at the same time.

At least the "United" part is a scam.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 42 points 20 hours ago

Also funny: Bosnia and Herzegovina has almost exactly a 100th of the population of the USA.

3,412,000 vs. 341,784,857

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

That's almost the same population ratio as Cape Verde (526,000) and Argentina (46 million).

[-] ddplf@szmer.info 3 points 5 hours ago

Amazing. Here's more crazy statistics: that's almost exactly the ratio of the annual fuel energy consumption of a Cummins 6.7 (93,600 MJ) to your mom's yearly cig intake (88 MJ).

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I prefer my DT466e. And weed.

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[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 25 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Mediveal kings declaring war against Austria-Hungary and Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth be like:

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I really try to reach beyond my mediocre American education on international affairs. I'm ashamed to say this one will be a Google for me.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 hours ago

Don't take this the wrong way, I think it's great that you're willing to learn.

I'm just kind of at a loss for words that so many people have apparently never heard of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 points 4 hours ago

Every time I recall hearing that country referenced it's been called Bosnia.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 4 hours ago

You'd be amazed at the number of Americans that think that New Mexico is in Mexico.

[-] bless@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed about if you're willing to learn

[-] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 5 points 10 hours ago

Which is also quite interesting that you haven't heard of that country. The american military has been bombing it in the 90s.

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 5 points 5 hours ago

We remember blowing up Bosnia, vaguely, but they never said the "and" on the news.

[-] Gregers@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Not gonna have a pleasant read

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 24 points 20 hours ago

Wars have been fought over that 'and'

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 11 points 12 hours ago

As a Czech, you already know that but the brief democratic Czecho—Slovak Federation (1989-1992) also had a "Hyphen war" (actually just an argument) where Slovakia was not content with the longest hyphen available and wanted an "and" in the middle, breaking grammatical rules. Greater disagreements later resulted in the countries' peaceful dissolution on New Year's Eve 1992.

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago

UN Peacekeeper forces, respect

[-] Hond@piefed.social 112 points 1 day ago

It would be so fucking funny if B&H could play with 22 players because of some airbud like loophole in the rulebook.

[-] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 42 points 23 hours ago

There’s nothing in the rulebook against … 22 dogs on the team.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

That reminds me of this awesome video

Apparently Dortmund did their own version more recently, and they did it with a whole stadium full of Dortmund supporters present.

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[-] carrylex@lemmy.world 38 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Why do 50 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and some unincorporated islands play against a country.

That sounds very unfair...

[-] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Wait until you learn about France! 1,300 islands!

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

And a chunk of Brazil!

[-] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 67 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Two old men sitting on a bench. One asks: "Are you going to watch the football game tonight?"
"Who's playing," the other asks back.
"Austria-Hungary," the first man answers.
"And who will they play against?"

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[-] grozzle@lemmy.zip 21 points 22 hours ago

And the UK plays as four separate teams.

More, if you include Isle of Man, Gibraltar, etc...

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[-] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 44 points 1 day ago

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