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[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

"I wanna go to the ocean but I really hate those fuckers in Sierra Leone, Libera, Côte D'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, and Benin."

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm also slightly bothered that the Niger River only goes through a tiny sliver of Niger.

I kind of feel like they shouldn't claim the name. Maybe trade names with Nigeria. It will probably be some pretty easy paperwork alterations. You just take away their A.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Central African Republic is also not quite centered.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's not quite the same. But I live near a university called University of South , yet it is absolutely nowhere even remotely near the southern part of the state.

[–] nilclass@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's probably south of something though, unless you're at the north pole

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

How funny. I graduated with a BA in Elf Studies from the University of Northern North Pole!

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 weeks ago

"I'm like 20 minutes away"

[ four months later ]

"I'm a three week boat ride away."

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Funny how they call it Africa's third longest river instead of calling it by its name.

[–] nilclass@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly off the top of my head I wouldn't know that the Niger is Africa's third longest river, so I'm glad they call it that, since it makes the whole story more interesting than just an arbitrary river doing a weird thing.

Besides.. it gives it that clickbatey touch of " oooh, i wonder what's tge third longest river in africa! Better pause and check the article!"

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, I know the Nile and the Congo, but the Niger just ain't got enough colonialist adventure stories about traveling up it ala Stanley and Livingstone. Which makes sense, because as we can see you'll just be disappointed when you find the source of the Niger.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

They should name it "Africa's second longest river" just for the lols.

And this is Africa's second longest river, the third longest river in Africa.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago

It's name is probably caught be most automatic word filters, being one letter off from a racial slur.

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe to avoid confusing it with the country.

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Seems like Guinea could set up some sort of diversion to the sea within their own territory and then hold all the water hostage over the other countries.

You know, if they were run by Nestle or something.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's always wise to pick a fight with 6 guys at once, especially when one of those guys is 4 times your size.

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

6 dudes with no water for a week would be pretty easy to take on.

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe they already did just to screw with Sierra Leone?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Cote D'Ivoire be like, "fuck you, we got a bunch of rivers and a bigass lake."

But in French.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It really didn't want to go to Sierra Leone.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

They know what they did.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] lud@lemm.ee 18 points 2 weeks ago

It starts fairly close to the sea but takes an enormous detour to get there.

(Yeah I know that the geography probably doesn't allow the river to go anywhere else. It's a joke.)

[–] IkarusHagen2@feddit.org -5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Better move there for the next 4 years, with tronald in the us and afd/bsw in germany we gotta get out of the western world

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

West Africa is widely celebrated for their stable, benevolent, progressive governments, and they are especially tolerant of LGBTQ people and refugees from different cultures.