https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/11/san-escobar-how-polands-foreign-minister-helped-create-a-fake-country/?utm_term=.c3e05191d672
QuoteThis week, Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski was in New York to lobby for a seat on the U.N. Security Council from 2018 to 2019. His efforts were going well, Waszczykowski told reporters Tuesday. He had met with officials from nearly 20 countries, he said, including some Caribbean nations for the first time in Poland's diplomatic history.
"For example, with countries such as Belize or San Escobar," Poland's senior diplomat added.
There is no country called San Escobar. And on social media, Waszczykowski's flub was soon mocked. Many users suggested that he was thinking of Pablo Escobar, the late Colombian drug lord and subject of the Netflix show "Narcos."
He scored one hell of a goal in the 1994 World Cup.
Witold
LOL.
Quote from: Valmy on January 12, 2017, 09:29:33 PM
He scored one hell of a goal in the 1994 World Cup.
And got shot for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Escobar
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/San_Escobar.png)
He probably meant San Zanzibar.
Quote from: Syt on January 13, 2017, 07:36:26 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Escobar
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/San_Escobar.png)
Populr (sic) gives a Polish vibe like Ciudad Polaca. :)
Quasi-arabic flag though, despite the star.
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on January 13, 2017, 08:41:29 AM
Populr (sic) gives a Polish vibe like Ciudad Polaca. :)
Quasi-arabic flag though, despite the star.
That's really just all you.
Cuba:
(https://hablemos1poco.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/bandera-de-cuba.jpg)
Puerto Rico:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg/255px-Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg.png)
Quote from: Scipio on January 12, 2017, 09:03:51 PMThere is no country called San Escobar
:huh:
wikipedia says otherwise
Quote from: LaCroix on January 13, 2017, 09:41:19 AM
Quote from: Scipio on January 12, 2017, 09:03:51 PMThere is no country called San Escobar
:huh:
wikipedia says otherwise
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi0.kym-cdn.com%2Fphotos%2Fimages%2Fnewsfeed%2F000%2F131%2F351%2Feb6.jpg&hash=c21ccd03de2fa691c45d0838c4527a2e8b649fad)
The one place my wife's parents haven't been.
Quote from: LaCroix on January 13, 2017, 09:41:19 AM
Quote from: Scipio on January 12, 2017, 09:03:51 PMThere is no country called San Escobar
:huh:
wikipedia says otherwise
Don't know if you're serious...
San Escobar is a non-existent country, a blunder of Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Witold Waszczykowski.[1][2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Escobar
Quote from: garbon on January 13, 2017, 08:49:28 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on January 13, 2017, 08:41:29 AM
Populr (sic) gives a Polish vibe like Ciudad Polaca. :)
Quasi-arabic flag though, despite the star.
That's really just all you.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/San_Escobar.png)
Not the patterns, but the colours :secret:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Flag_of_Jordan.svg/840px-Flag_of_Jordan.svg.png)
Jordan
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg)
Palestine
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg/255px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png)
Sudan
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_Sudan.svg/255px-Flag_of_Sudan.svg.png
Though looking a bit more, it's close to South Sudan too :hmm:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Flag_of_South_Sudan.svg/2000px-Flag_of_South_Sudan.svg.png)
It's Poles trying to be funny/clever. Given the experience we have on that regard, I wouldn't ask too much.
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on January 13, 2017, 11:29:51 AM
Quote from: garbon on January 13, 2017, 08:49:28 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on January 13, 2017, 08:41:29 AM
Populr (sic) gives a Polish vibe like Ciudad Polaca. :)
Quasi-arabic flag though, despite the star.
That's really just all you.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/San_Escobar.png)
Not the patterns, but the colours :secret:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Flag_of_Jordan.svg/840px-Flag_of_Jordan.svg.png)
Jordan
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg)
Palestine
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg/255px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png)
Sudan
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_Sudan.svg/255px-Flag_of_Sudan.svg.png
Though looking a bit more, it's close to South Sudan too :hmm:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Flag_of_South_Sudan.svg/2000px-Flag_of_South_Sudan.svg.png)
Ah black and blue, one color with 2 different names.
Quote from: garbon on January 13, 2017, 01:41:53 PM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on January 13, 2017, 11:29:51 AM
Quote from: garbon on January 13, 2017, 08:49:28 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on January 13, 2017, 08:41:29 AM
Populr (sic) gives a Polish vibe like Ciudad Polaca. :)
Quasi-arabic flag though, despite the star.
That's really just all you.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/San_Escobar.png)
Not the patterns, but the colours :secret:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Flag_of_Jordan.svg/840px-Flag_of_Jordan.svg.png)
Jordan
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg)
Palestine
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg/255px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png)
Sudan
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_Sudan.svg/255px-Flag_of_Sudan.svg.png
Though looking a bit more, it's close to South Sudan too :hmm:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Flag_of_South_Sudan.svg/2000px-Flag_of_South_Sudan.svg.png)
Ah black and Navy/dark blue, two close colours ;).
Fixed for garbonites/bitching queens! :)
Maybe we can pull a Gregor MacGregor scam with this.
I just liked Polack City.