• MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    “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.”

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      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.

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

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      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!"

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        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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.)