Sigh...Americans and their piss poor knowledge of geography.
Replace the US with Trinidad and Tobago and it should be an equal match.
50 countries in a trench coat.
Only for people in the US who had reasonable history or world geography education.
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.
Also funny: Bosnia and Herzegovina has almost exactly a 100th of the population of the USA.
3,412,000 vs. 341,784,857
That's almost the same population ratio as Cape Verde (526,000) and Argentina (46 million).
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).
I prefer my DT466e. And weed.
Mega Juuls
Mediveal kings declaring war against Austria-Hungary and Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth be like:
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.
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.
Every time I recall hearing that country referenced it's been called Bosnia.
You'd be amazed at the number of Americans that think that New Mexico is in Mexico.
Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed about if you're willing to learn
Which is also quite interesting that you haven't heard of that country. The american military has been bombing it in the 90s.
We remember blowing up Bosnia, vaguely, but they never said the "and" on the news.
Not gonna have a pleasant read
Wars have been fought over that 'and'
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.
UN Peacekeeper forces, respect
It would be so fucking funny if B&H could play with 22 players because of some airbud like loophole in the rulebook.
There’s nothing in the rulebook against … 22 dogs on the team.
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.
Why do 50 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and some unincorporated islands play against a country.
That sounds very unfair...
Wait until you learn about France! 1,300 islands!
And a chunk of Brazil!
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?"
And the UK plays as four separate teams.
More, if you include Isle of Man, Gibraltar, etc...
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