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[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] nilclass@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 hours ago

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!"

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 hours ago

Maybe to avoid confusing it with the country.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours 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 8 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 12 points 11 hours ago (1 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 3 points 8 hours 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 1 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 26 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours 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 13 points 14 hours 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 13 hours ago (1 children)

Central African Republic is also not quite centered.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours 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 2 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 17 points 15 hours ago

"I'm like 20 minutes away"

[ four months later ]

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

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] lud@lemm.ee 16 points 15 hours 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 -2 points 9 hours 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 5 points 8 hours 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.

[–] IkarusHagen2@feddit.org -1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That can only mean one thing: invasion.

Let's take land and make a new and better country

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You already failed with your own country, why do you think you will succeed with a new one?

[–] IkarusHagen2@feddit.org 0 points 3 hours ago

We leave the idiots behind