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Started by Scipio, January 12, 2017, 09:03:51 PM

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Scipio

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."

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Syt

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.
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Syt

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He probably meant San Zanzibar.
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Duque de Bragança

Quote from: Syt on January 13, 2017, 07:36:26 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Escobar



Populr (sic) gives a Polish vibe like Ciudad Polaca. :)
Quasi-arabic flag though, despite the star.

garbon

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.

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Quote from: Scipio on January 12, 2017, 09:03:51 PMThere is no country called San Escobar

:huh:

wikipedia says otherwise

Syt

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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
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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.




Not the patterns, but the colours  :secret:



Jordan



Palestine



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:


celedhring

It's Poles trying to be funny/clever. Given the experience we have on that regard, I wouldn't ask too much.

garbon

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.




Not the patterns, but the colours  :secret:



Jordan



Palestine



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:



Ah black and blue, one color with 2 different names.
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