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[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Wtf happened to the English Channel?

[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 1 year ago

English Channeln't

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago
[–] Idrunkenlysignedup@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

sacrifices had to be made when turning the country ~100º counter clockwise to get that sweet inland sea between them and Spain

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

They gave it to Spain apparently

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

that's brenter

[–] youRFate@feddit.de 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is France rotated like 90 degrees counter clockwise?

[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 year ago

French revolution

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Always has been...

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

So the French Revolution was literal.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How powerful are the communes that they were able to stop franco expansionism dead in its tracks?

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably not at all, but exist as a buffer state for the Germans that would be steamrolled.

[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

The germans actually protect Bavaria from France

[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The communes are militarily protected by Germany from France

Edit: I'm pretty sure in the dream I'm a german politician attempting to negotiate a ceasefire with France, since it's actively fighting the communes

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago

I want to see that cliff, where the summit of the Mont Blanc plunges directly into the Mediterranean.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not digging that Marseille lost the sea and now enjoys a german climate

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL that inland France has "German climate" 😂

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I am not familiar with Germany so I just went with german climate

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago

yess ≧◡≦

[–] AbsolutelyNotABot@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Italy finally got Corsica back?

[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe, it's just not french anymore. Might be independent?

[–] PokeFan28@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is bavaria on the left side of germany instead of the right?

[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago

Actually it's in france

[–] jonsnothere@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I always knew I'd die crushed by the Côte d'Azur.

[–] alertsleeper@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is Spain now part of Europe or Africa? Or a separate continent?

[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Iberia's still connected to france, so still a peninsula and therefore europe