Planet Earth Rankdown (Round 7)
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149. The Philippines
You know.
I could talk about all the shit involving Duterte. About how there's a literal massacring of the poor in the Philippines right now. That the public largely supports. I could also talk about how their PM literally has admitted to murdering people and wishes he had been first to rape a women who was gang-raped and murdered. But, instead, I'll talk about something else.
Manila capped Uber (and Grab but fuck Grab) surge at 2.0x.
This. Is. Terrible. Like, this is regulators overstepping what is right and fair and just because they hate the future. The point of surge is to fucking self-correct the marketplace by using price increases to simultaneously reduce demand and increase supply. It also is something that drivers love because, shocker, drivers make more money when it surges. It makes it worth it for them to come out for things like big events where there'll be a lot of drunk assholes and it'll be sometimes a frustrating experience.
So fuck Manila. Fuck the Philippines.
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148. Cabo Verde
When I googled for information about this country, it showed me the above image of it's flag as a fingerprint, so I'm assuming that it's therefore of that much importance to everything else and needs cut here.
Also they left that evidence pointing to some crime or other.
Everything happens for a reason, except maybe football.
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Spreadsheet is now currently up to date if anyone else is following it.
So please insert a colour change hype between Grenada & Bahrain cuts!
So please insert a colour change hype between Grenada & Bahrain cuts!
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147. Laos
Its flag is Laosy, its country is Laosy, its politics are Laosy, everything about Laos is Laosy.
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145. Turkmenistan
I didn't really WANT to cut Turkmenistan here. But Rory has kind of forced my hand by cutting Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyzstan may have a weird spelling, but it plays an important role in quizzes on Sporcle. But now that it's gone, what other of the former SSR stans deserve to stay in the game?
Kazakhstan has a rich cultural history and a famous inaccurate documentary about it. Uzbekistan has the capital of Tashkent, which was the fourth-largest city in the USSR, a shit ton of cotton production, and the distinction of being doubly-landlocked. Tajikistan has the second-largest flagpole in the world. What does Turkmenistan have?
Not much. Mostly corruption and carpets. They built an Olympic Stadium in Ashgabat, but they not only will never host the Olympics, but have yet to even have a single athlete win a medal! Tajikistan has four medals! There was a nifty-looking monument, but they gave it the boring name of the "Arch of Neutrality". And that was too exciting for them so they took it down!
Anyway, when more interesting Soviet Socialist Republics like Kyrgyzstan are getting cut, it's time to say goodbye to Turkmenistan.
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I found that i had a copy of this and appear to have recently placed it in a CD player.
Sorry, I'm going to idol Turkmenistan there, that cut seems to be to do with it's neighboures and not about cutting a country of Earth.
This is the Planet Earth Rankdown and not the Former USSR Rankdown.
I'm not happy with someone looking like they've picked out a region to make a cut.
Also having an Olympic Stadium while not hosting the olympics certainly sounds like they need to stay longer to me.
Sorry, I'm going to idol Turkmenistan there, that cut seems to be to do with it's neighboures and not about cutting a country of Earth.
This is the Planet Earth Rankdown and not the Former USSR Rankdown.
I'm not happy with someone looking like they've picked out a region to make a cut.
Also having an Olympic Stadium while not hosting the olympics certainly sounds like they need to stay longer to me.
Everything happens for a reason, except maybe football.
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WHYIn post 183, Cheery Dog wrote:
Fickle, cold and harsh or caring and warm
Strongly opinionated or barely invested, but a constant
You know the wind will always come back.
Strongly opinionated or barely invested, but a constant
You know the wind will always come back.
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I have no idea. I never cared enough to vote, so idk why I would have given them money by buying the cd.
I'm assuming it was picked up second-hand for some dumb reason.
I'm assuming it was picked up second-hand for some dumb reason.
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It's been nine days where is my cut
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“And now the only piece of advice that continues to help / is anyone that's making anything new only breaks something else”
“And now the only piece of advice that continues to help / is anyone that's making anything new only breaks something else”