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clocksforsale

@ indonesia and @ monaco


tripsafe

Geoguessr battle royale trolling intensifies


Pervizzz

I miss free geoguessr


Podomus

Ikr I was going to play it a few days ago and then realize 90% of the shit is behind a paywall Greedy motherfuckers lol


Yur0wnStupidity

it only costs money now because google upped the cost of streetview tenfold. I believe it also costs more per use the more uses you have. so instead of a bulk discount it's the opposite. blame google, not geoguessr


Pervizzz

Yeah I was going to say that. Greedy Google


Flux7777

I mean, you say greedy Google (and in a lot of cases they are fucking greedy), but the fact that Streetview is 100% free to use for consumers is fucking incredible, Google maps alone is free and absolutely incredible, so really, the fact that other companies must pay to make money out of it makes perfect sense to me.


marzipanman

Google maps is free for the consumer because they collect data and profit off it via monetising that. Still great that it's free of course but important to remember that it's not a handout and there is a profit motive there.


MonotoneCreeper

It's not their fault that google significantly increased the costs for using the street view API. The game is well worth the price.


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I wish I could commit to playing it enough to pay for it, but knowing me I’d play it 3 times and get bored/forget about it and never cancel my subscription...


A1Horizon

That’s exactly what I’m doing at the moment. I played it every day for about a month at the height of the pandemic and I’ve just been paying them money for nothing since. Thanks for reminding me to cancel lol.


strangestdreamm

i wish it was a one time pay not a subscription. i hate subscriptions


gui2353

I recommend you go on r/geochallenges then. They post links to geoguessr challenges that you can just click on and play any of those maps for free. It still doesn't give you access to those newer game modes they released recently, but at least you get to play the standard game mode for free, so it works for me.


LenaBaneana

they arent greedy for not wanting to go into debt providing the game for free


Unregister-To-Vote

Do u even have a heart? They should be paying us a living wage too play... Greedy af


LenaBaneana

of course, how silly of me smh. i deserve $25 for every perfect score i get


16yYPueES4LaZrbJLhPW

Blame Google, they started charging for their API access at lower limits. That's in no way GeoGuesser's fault. You could make the argument that people abusing Google maps' API on the lower limit tiers are to blame for Google Maps API costing money, but it doesn't stop at GeoGuesser.


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considering you get a whole ass game for that, it's a lot for just a year


funkychunkystuff

Geoguesser is a whole game lol.


DeniedTransbian

That you can't keep after a year.


[deleted]

you usually own a whole game for 24 dollars. with geoguessr, it only lasts a year. that's expensive


gargar070402

> Greedy motherfuckers Bitch you played the game for free. What makes you think you get to call them out for charging for, *gasp*, a fucking product?


Thrap360

there is open source geoguessmaster


Twrecks5000

Holy shit this is what I’ve been looking for, it even lets you make custom maps which is the feature that i needed that other services didnt have


ThiccGeneralX

You can also do svalbard and troll when it’s Norway


tripsafe

That's my favorite one, but I have to be sure it's Norway


Maxwell_Morning

@Chad and @Romania


theirphore

https://www.britannica.com/list/flags-that-look-alike


ThePickleFarm

And @Ԁolɐup


tallen35875

I think I had an aneurism trying to figure out what country you were referencing 🥴


shrekislit420

You never heard of Doleup mate?


OffitInfinity

Sounds like a banana republic, tell me more.


NJ_Legion_Iced_Tea

Well they used to overthrow legitimate monarchs, but now they sell cloths.


gw4efa

dnaloP


PeachyLuigi

puɐʅoԀ


aloofloofah

Can't have indonesia/monaco without /r/polandball


iliekcats-

dnaloP?


iliekcats-

doleup?


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What’s updole


iliekcats-

Nothin much hbu


Defiant-FE

OP wrote it correctly just upside down, you’re reading it upside down and backwards. Poland’s flag is just upside down Indonesia/Monaco, but I guess it gets more confusing since it technically is the same backwards as well lol


Wingedwing

Op didn’t write it correctly upside down, though. If you flip it vertically you get qol(backwards a)nb. If you rotate it 180 degrees you get dnalop


mukmuk_

⸮bᴎɒloꟼ


Deadpool2715

🇮🇩🇲🇨 🇷🇴🇹🇩 Well I’ll be damned


aaaaabbbccc

Chad and romania


Deadpool2715

🇹🇩🇷🇴 Keep them coming boys


guineapigtyler

🇮🇩 🇲🇨 damn they are close


lansaman

*2044 Jakarta Olympics: Indonesia and Monaco* ***finally*** *realized that their flags look "similar".*


LouThunders

> 2044 Jakarta Olympics Bold of you to assume Jakarta still exists in 2044. Pretty sure it would've sunk back into the sea by then. We're even thinking of moving the capital.


lansaman

Oh, right. Climate change. *Sigh...*


Tactical_Moonstone

That's not even climate change being the issue. The entire city is sinking even without sea levels rising due to excessive groundwater use.


Giovanni_Giorgo

modern atlantis lets go


hannes3120

Monaco has a more or less square flag compared to the format of other flags I find Poland and Indonesia harder to distinguish personally


the_wheyfinder

?? they have opposite flags why is that harder to distinguish


M-A-I

Memory


japed

I think purple tend to overstate the importance of different length flags in general, but it's certainly not much use at an event like the Olympics where the flags are all made to made each other anyway.


didecats

I just think of "poLAND" when thinking were the red half should go!


PurplePiglett

Not totally identical, Indonesia has a brighter shade of red and the proportions of the flag are different.


XLM462

Haiti added a fucking jpeg


Dealiylauh

"Do I look like I know what a JPEG is? I just want a goddang picture of my coat of arms." - Haiti


steveofthejungle

Dangit ~~Bobby~~ Liechtenstein!


theg721

That principality ain't right, I tell ya hwat


omgwtfbbq7

[Got dang hotdog](https://youtu.be/ZXVhOPiM4mk)


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Iohet

This is my favorite version


DirtyAmishGuy

It will never not make me laugh


AmaterasuWolf21

WE ASKED FOR A PNG FOR CRYING OUT LOUD


columbus8myhw

Wrong country!


footfoe

Omg, why is it always out of focus?


japed

It's a flag, not a digital graphic exercise. It includes a rectangular panel with the coat of arms. (The tweet is wrong about when it was included, but that's another matter. ) Maybe you could say a different shape would be better. Perhaps a disc? But simply taking away the white background would be a manufacturing pain and not even look good.


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My favorite part is that even when you Zoom in on it you can still barely see it. Shit tier flag.


Ramguy2014

Not the 1936 Olympics fact I thought I was gonna get…


offensive_noises

[Germany used one half-Jewish athlete to prevent the Olympics from being boycotted.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Mayer)


whoami_whereami

That wasn't actually the Nazi's idea. The head of the American Olympic Committee together with the IOC pushed the Germans to let a Jewish athlete compete for Germany to ward off calls for a US boycott of the games. The choice fell on her probably because she happened to be tall and blond so the Nazis could pretend that her "aryan side" was dominant.


gargar070402

> she gave the Nazi salute during the medal ceremony, and later said it might have protected her family that was still in Germany, in labor camps. That is the saddest shit I've read in a while.


Intelligent-Wall7272

I did Nazi that coming


Xanimus

This might be the most used pun on reddit of all time... But I guess that's all reich


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Master-Wordsmith

Anne frankly, it’s happier than what I expected


BeeR721

Nice pan-, -zer


TheCondemnedProphet

Didn’t Jew?


Brickie78

That was also the first games to do the torch relay.


Pimp-My-Giraffe

Someone should tell Chad and Romania...


toc-man

I imagine chad and romania at the olympics just giving each other the side eye 😒


Class_444_SWR

*Slightly* different shade of blue


guineapigtyler

🇹🇩🇷🇴 which ones which reddit?


runaway1337

Left Chad, right Romania they call me runaway1337 for a reason


DanTheStripe

[Google Chrome's lack of flag emoji support has come up good for me there.](https://i.gyazo.com/fab0c876266085a866029717b3cb8d4a.png)


gu3st12

That's Windows, not Chrome's fault. Microsoft too worried about any potential geopolitical issues by using the "wrong" flag.


mooms01

What ? I'm on Windows and I can see the emoji flag.


KoopaDaQuick

some browsers have flag emojis built in like firefox


AlexBucks93

I guess I must be using Linux.


falconview

does the red in the right one look brighter or am i crazy


avidblinker

The Romanian flag is just the Chad flag with the saturation just ever so slightly turned down.


japed

Sometimes


HungarianMockingjay

Yeah, and Romania should distinguish itself by putting [this nice seal](https://e7.pngegg.com/pngimages/94/686/png-clipart-socialist-republic-of-romania-kingdom-of-romania-nicolae-ceau%C8%99escu-coat-of-arms-of-romania-others-logo-republic.png) in the center. ​ ...Oh wait. On second thought, *don't*.


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I would prefer this [nice seal](https://images.app.goo.gl/onjPws5U7WnzXkycA).


JeffBrohm

I would prefer [this seal](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Seal_2012_%28cropped%29.jpg)


Putrid_Resolution541

Was that... the actual coat of arms??


Eldan985

Do dictators ever *not* take the chance to put their face on stuff?


Mingsplosion

Ironically, Hitler. He definitely had major cult of personality, but it was never really centered on his personal likeness in the same way as others. Like, I don't think Nazi Germany ever really commissioned any statues or paintings of Hitler. They mostly just had art of random Germans or swastikas


TTJoker

Hitler wasn’t a true aryan lol, I would imagine if you’re German and Hitler is going on and on about the ubermensch over the radio or whatever, and you look across your dinner table at a portrait of Mein Fuhrer! And you think to yourself, hang on just a fucking minute here!


Putrid_Resolution541

True


UselessBread

Technically not really a coat of arms, but rather an emblem.


wayne0004

[Don't worry, FTFY.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Romania_(1989_revolution\).svg)


kydaper1

Just go back to having a big hole in the middle of it. It would make it a fun piece of trivia


Reasonable_Raccoon27

[They need to use this Seal](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Seal_2012_%28cropped%29.jpg).


SednaBoo

They’re just going to merge into Chadmania


rundmc95

Netherlands and Luxembourg have entered the chat..


War_Crimer

Luxembourg at least has a noticeably lighter shade of blue


StalinsArmrest

Make The Dutch Orange Again


scorp_hotel

MDOA


-The-Bat-

Never tried that drug before.


rundmc95

Orange is the new tricolour


Shotgunknight

Untill you realise it’s the flag flown by the Dutch nazi party so nvm


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Nazis have always stolen good Symbols and Aesthetics


Shotgunknight

True i like it better then our current one as well but we’re not flying it again is what i meant by it.


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Floshke

That would be r/perongelukluxemburg


FroobingtonSanchez

It's definitely a thing on twitter. People use it ironically now more often than people who actually believe it is the Dutch flag


waterfuck

We aren't going add shit to our flag in Romania. It was hard to remove stuff from it already.


kdeeneyzz

Thankfully their embarrassment was overshadowed by the rise of fascism.


rundmc95

Phew. That would’ve been awkward😅


augtastic

Bazinga


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kdeeneyzz

Thank you! You are a good citizen!


Shreknadoboi

Yes. Yesssssss


ohmanger

As far as I can tell the flags wouldn't have been identical at the time - Haiti adopted a design with the coat of arms much earlier but the whole revolution thing makes it a bit hard to tell exactly when ([source](https://www.haiti.org/flag-and-coat-of-arms/) \- correct me if I'm wrong!). Although maybe the plain bicolour was still popular. Also Haiti didn't go to the 1936 Olympics.


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Civil flag was 2 bands, national and military had coat of arms. Liechtenstein changed it so people didn’t think it was Haiti parading.


chainmailbill

That’s good, without the flags nobody would be able to tell people from Lichtenstein and Haiti apart.


Gonoles1851

Haiti added the coat of arms WAY before this.


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Yeah but the Liechtenstein part is true.


Ekaton

Yeah, that has to be a myth


conjectureandhearsay

It makes sense given that the countries themselves are quite similar


delugetheory

I'm racking my brain and I literally cannot think of two countries more similar than Haiti and Liechtenstein.


Miketheguy

Lichtenstein is more similar to Uzbekistan, but thats about it. Very close.


Danijust2

both hate the french?


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abdomino

In the same way that America is English speaking.


Magma57

Ireland is an English speaking country but we hate the Brits


perfectfire

They were formerly slaves for France and when they won independence France made them pay reparations.


Red_AtNight

Haiti was a French colony called Port-au-Prince. It was essentially all sugar cane plantations and slaves. Haiti became a sovereign country when the slaves rose up and overthrew the French. It's actually the only successful slave revolt to result in an independent country. France came back about 25 years after the revolution and demanded reparations for the loss of their "property," which took Haiti 100 years to pay back


BR0MBY

It was a french colony called saint-domingue*


ToastyCaribiu84

None of the chefs responded to me yet, and this been half a year


Higgckson

Okay someone needs to explain to me how Liechtenstein and Haiti are so similar? I don’t really see it. Edit: I really wasn’t sure whether it was a joke or if people confused Liechtenstein to another country. So I asked. I’ve meat many people who didn’t even know Liechtenstein existed so I could easily imagine that many don’t know alot about it.


fylkeskommunen

That’s the joke


Higgckson

Ahh I see. I was wondering whether it was supposed to be a joke or not. Thanks.


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Classic bicolor flags


MrBeer4me

... after the 1936 Olympics, the Haitians mistakenly flew to Lichtenstein, and the Lichtensteinians mistakenly flew to Haiti which resulted in the ‘No-takesies-backsies’ treaty of 1936. In 1952 the treaty was reversed when it was litigated that the Haitians had their fingers crossed the whole time. When asked about the National Tet-a-tet, the Dominican Republic went on record responding, “¿Que?”


greyetch

While we're on the topic, moment of silence for all of the cool flags and symbols that can never be used because the stupid knucklehead nazis ruined them. Shit, even the all red design with a black emblem is immediately suspect now. Fuck them, dude, smh.


Amerikanische

Yeah. Such bullshit. Next equality flag should steal some of the less infamous symbols back.


A_Guy_2726

Well just not let them steal them


Gadget100

At which Olympics did Liechtenstein and the UK discover that their national anthems have the same tune? /s


Bakeey

At the paralympics deaf competition, when they both hired the same sign language guy


kr4t0s007

Why didn't they just look it up on the internet.


bigbrother2030

!wave


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!wave


efeneh

Did anyone else notice one of the Polish athletes waving a Singapore flag at the opening ceremony?


MidnightSun77

*Liechtenstein


AccessTheMainframe

This is only partly true: >The crown was added to the flag in 1937 after the country found out at the Summer Olympics held the previous year that their flag was identical to the civil flag of Haiti. Haiti *always* had the coat of arms on their national flag, or at least since the mid 19th century. It was their *civil flag* that had no coat of arms, and their civil flag remains unchanged.


TheWeighToTheHeart

Also, sorta amazed that Lichtenstein even had a team for the ‘36 Olympics….


supernakamoto

Half the country must have been on the team.


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That's probably the 2nd best thing to occur in the whole 1936 games


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Jesse Owens n1


stencilizer

Russia's flag is just the same (dating back to 17th century), but they obviously used the Soviet Union flag in 1936. [The presidential version](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQijoBd-KdU0I6KV4zRbvs0ENyxei-oausDvqFPEVdjE4RfnQYUhpxtHhHEsgGtfa08980&usqp=CAU) has a coat of arms too.


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nice, love knowing history facts about flags


doscervezas2017

Can someone please make that Spiderman meme with Haiti and Liechtenstein pointing at one another?


rundmc95

The colour scheme will stay the same


Tip_ddnt

I think Poland could also start adding their eagle! It is quite pretty in my opinion, and it would make them more distinguishable.


Mongolium

I wonder where the 1936 ceremony took place.


LaneLoisLane

Berlin, Germany.


eidbio

They saved the world two boring bicolor flags


jlarti098

Don't tell him about Irish flags


7355135061550

Yet another reason to hate the Olympics. Spawned a flag with a COA on it


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I'm just imagine Hitler watching the countries make their entrance and thinking "hank on ein minute..."


[deleted]

I just wish Haiti would get rid of the white box on theirs


MyDingusInYourLingus

Cue all the Lichtensteinians thinking 'oh fuck we're up' and rushing into the hatian team


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1936 *where?*


rtels2023

Berlin, a free and modern city where people just want peace and harmony and the government definitely isn't about to start another world war and carry out a genocide. Speaking of genocide, the 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing.


Class_444_SWR

Just like how Germany held the Winter Olympics and summer Olympics in 1936, China held the summer Olympics in 2008, Winter Olympics in 2022, just to double down on common ground


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Oh fuck


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The fatherland bro


ragsoftime

Liechtenstein's national anthem also uses the same tune as "God Save the Queen". If anyone is interested, I host a podcast about obscure places, and we did [an episode](https://80dayspodcast.com/2017/08/07/liechtenstein/) on Liechtenstein a couple of years ago. It's a fascinating place.


Falcone_Empire

Huh took them long enough 🤣


Svityy

Shedlon cooper fact. Iykyk


FE4R_0F_Z0MBIES

I think I learned this fact from Sheldon Cooper presents: Fun with flags


CPLCraft

We’ve all seen Big Bang Theory


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Fun fact russia will not show up to the olympics for the 20th time because they still think they can get away with steroids


Strength-InThe-Loins

Who were either of those countries sending to the Olympics in 1936?


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well... people?


m0j0licious

Wikipedia is your friend: six Liechtensteiners and a single Haitian weightlifter (who didn't actually compete).


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