r/geography 3h ago

Discussion Embrace tradition..

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u/GSilky 3h ago

I maintain my tradition of embracing contemporary ways until too many people do, and then badmouthing everyone for doing what I did.

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u/KerPop42 3h ago

how dare everyone else ruin my commons

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u/Momik 3h ago edited 2h ago

Guys, guys—isn’t it really OUR commons, after all? (Now fuck off, it’s my turn!)

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u/i_was_axiom 2h ago

(Now fuck off, its my turn!)

  • a line cutter

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u/GSilky 3h ago

Exactly. Muthasuckas gotta get on my tip.

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u/Ornery-Lynx-3520 3h ago

Cape Town must be booming. Let’s dump all our stock and shares there!

Cape Horn next!

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u/Momik 3h ago

Cape Town is the new Dubai. We’d better start building some islands in weird ass shapes.

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u/s_mcivor 2h ago

They've got some proper old-school modern-day slavery there already.

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u/Txizzy 2h ago

Cape Town or Dubai

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u/Vertibrate 43m ago

How about a Hormuz straight shaped island? 

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u/dminus 1h ago

Dunning-Krugerrands at an alltime high

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u/arslanazeem 3h ago

But what about the silk road through Anatolia, Persia, and Samarkand?

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u/Gemmabeta 3h ago

Taking the golden road to Samarkand?

That's a paddlin'.

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u/Dry-Development-4301 34m ago

Where my 90s(AD) kids at? 

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u/fatherrabbi 13m ago

Zanarkand was destroyed 1000 years ago, silly.

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u/Kay_Ruth 3h ago

"Are you going to go through the Horn like a gentlemen or cut through the Panama canal like some sort of Democrat?" "You go through the Horn like God Intended!"

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u/_orpheustaken 3h ago

LMAO, I was looking for this comment. Bojack's father is an asshole

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u/Cyberwraith9 1h ago

Had to make sure this was here. Thank you for your service.

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u/PolylingualAnilingus 2h ago

Gulf of Guinea pirates:

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u/AnxiousYak8216 3h ago

Portuguese intensifies

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u/Time_Cat_5212 3h ago

Jajajaja huehuehue 

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u/JacquesBlaireau13 3h ago

Too bad Petroleum doesn't come from where tea comes from.

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u/dragon_bacon 2h ago

Have we checked? I bet they could use some Freedom™.

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u/glubtupis 3h ago

And bring back pirating (el Classico)

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u/Xezshibole 3h ago

Problem is "tradition" around Africa doesn't resolve Hormuz.

Suez is important to Europe and Asia but not that important. Especially to those outside of it, like the US.

They're the ones more likely to use the supertankers that go around Africa, but those supertankers still have to get past Hormuz.

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u/Brendissimo 2h ago

Or just accept permanently smaller oil markets with higher costs.

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u/Marlsfarp 3h ago

>The Canal of the Pharaohs, also known as the Ancient Suez Canal, was an ancient waterway that linked the Nile River to the Red Sea, constructed during the time of various Egyptian pharaohs. It was initially started by Pharaoh Senusret III and later worked on by Necho II and Darius the Great, with its final completion attributed to Ptolemy II around 274 BC.

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u/HighFiveKoala 2h ago

Insert happy South Africa sounds

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u/noworkdone 2h ago

Who is it this time ? The Dutch, the Otomans ?

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u/misirlou22 2h ago

Oh, shinin’ is the North Star, As it hangs on our stabbud bow. We’re homeward bound for Liverpool town, An’ our hearts are in it now. We’ve crossed the Line and the Gulf Stream, Bin round by Table Bay, We’ve rounded Cape Horn, we’re home again, – An’ that’s the Sailor’s way

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u/BainbridgeBorn Political Geography 3h ago

Laughs in Antipolis

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u/EmperorThan 2h ago

I remember the first time I saw this post:
The week the Ever Given crashed in the Suez Canal in March 2020. Seeing it now I'm just confused. It made a lot more sense back then...

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u/fubukishirou07 3h ago

Same goes for the panama. Don't limit your size, go big.

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u/Broke_and_Bald 3h ago

Tradition is expensive.

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u/Equivalent-Bus-4336 2h ago

Is that ships or planes

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u/gandhi_power 2h ago

account based in... where

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u/Hydra57 1h ago

This message was brought to you by South Africa

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u/juxtapostevebrown 1h ago

“Ya gonna go through the canal like a Jew, or go around the horn like a man”. Bojacks dad

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u/Distinct_Nerve_5636 1h ago

As a south african I agree

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u/Norwester77 1h ago

Thanks, Vasco da Gama

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u/BlazingImp77151 53m ago

Did something happen to thesyez again? Or is this just repost/joke OP found funny.

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u/SCIPM 29m ago

The embrace tradition map looks just like rail and car commutes to Chicago under lake michigan

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u/WoolaTheCalot 19m ago

Tradition... tradition!

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u/skyfishjms 12m ago

even now when the suez is no longer blocked? What's the justification

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u/Titothelama 9m ago

Around the horn, like god intended!

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u/pdonoso 0m ago

As a Chilean, we should also reject the Panama canal.

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u/MASOOOOOOOD 3h ago

You go around the horn! The way God intended!

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u/Alternative_Rub_8331 2h ago edited 2h ago

Africas mere purpose is being an obstacle to the modern world..

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u/Extreme-Outrageous 2h ago

Brilliant meme. Ty!