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Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 29, 2012, 02:44:28 PM
Little confused by all the people looking up the US on wiki. :unsure:
They're probably looking up specific facts on the US and using the wiki as the starting point.
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Quote from: mongers on December 29, 2012, 03:49:33 PM
Why are the French so interested in a small evergreen bush.   :hmm:

I'm more curious why the germans are fascinated by cul-de-sac's
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Quote from: Viking on December 29, 2012, 07:08:32 PM
Quote from: mongers on December 29, 2012, 03:49:33 PM
Why are the French so interested in a small evergreen bush.   :hmm:

I'm more curious why the germans are fascinated by cul-de-sac's

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Quote from: Liep on December 29, 2012, 03:42:23 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 29, 2012, 02:44:28 PM
Little confused by all the people looking up the US on wiki. :unsure:

USA is what we hear most about in the news besides our own country, way more than EU for example. So I'm guessing that people look up US now and then when they hear about Sandy, Fiscal Cliffs, Presidential elections, Child shootings, etc.

Probably.  I mean, Wikipedia's article on the US has a map, I imagine.  "Oh, that's where New York is."
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I'm surprised nobody's commented on how all these lists seem to have One Direction on them.  That's kinda disturbing. :P
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Razgovory

Quote from: DontSayBanana on December 30, 2012, 12:07:56 AM
I'm surprised nobody's commented on how all these lists seem to have One Direction on them.  That's kinda disturbing. :P

I had to look up what the hell that means. 
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Syt

Quote from: Razgovory on December 30, 2012, 01:30:39 AM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on December 30, 2012, 12:07:56 AM
I'm surprised nobody's commented on how all these lists seem to have One Direction on them.  That's kinda disturbing. :P

I had to look up what the hell that means.

Yeah, me too. I wasn't aware of them so far.
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1. Brasil   3 664 094
2. Luiz Gonzaga   2 218 273
3. Orkut   2 213 289
4. Facebook   2 117 457
5. One Direction   1 851 486
6. Dia dos Namorados   1 776 702
7. Voleibol   1 771 414
8. Google   1 740 549
9. Jogos Olímpicos   1 653 379
10. Segunda Guerra Mundial   1 645 205

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5. Papierformaat - 763.629 views (Format of paper)
6. Nederlandstalige Wikipedia - 761.944 views (Dutch Wikipedia)
7. Titanic (schip) - 755.790 views
8. Lijst van afkortingen - 698.819 views (List of abbreviations)
9. België - 668.960 views (Belgium)
10. Verenigde Staten - 646.803 views (USA)

Razgovory

Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 29, 2012, 02:44:28 PM
Little confused by all the people looking up the US on wiki. :unsure:

Cause they envy us.  Also they can write whatever the fuck they want about us without know-it-all Americans correcting them.  I recall on EUOT, you'd always get some damn foreigner who would know more about the US then I did about their home country of Slovenia or whatever.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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Ed Anger

Quote from: Razgovory on December 30, 2012, 07:57:06 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 29, 2012, 02:44:28 PM
Little confused by all the people looking up the US on wiki. :unsure:

Cause they envy us.  Also they can write whatever the fuck they want about us without know-it-all Americans correcting them.  I recall on EUOT, you'd always get some damn foreigner who would know more about the US then I did about their home country of Slovenia or whatever.

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Razgovory

Which is always odd coming from Croats.  I remember this Indian guy going on about how the US was overreacting to 9-11.  I told him we weren't going to adopt the Indian model of just murdering a thousand of our citizens when something like that happened.  I suppose he assumed I didn't know about that train fire thingy and the riots afterwords.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017