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Sweden rules Finland according to the BBC

Posted: 2003-06-11 12:52pm
by Faram
Image

Sure to tick off some of out eastern neighbors ;)

Posted: 2003-06-11 12:59pm
by Col. Crackpot
LMFAO!
Denmark and Norway better watch out, cuz those crazy Sweedes are on the roll!

Posted: 2003-06-11 01:06pm
by Vympel
Idiots. Where's Edi?

Posted: 2003-06-11 01:59pm
by DPDarkPrimus
Niiice one, BBC. :lol:

Posted: 2003-06-11 03:26pm
by Pablo Sanchez
In their defense, it was true three hundred years ago :)

Posted: 2003-06-11 05:25pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Reminds me of another media screw-up when they got a couple of nations the wrong way or something. Think it was Fox.

Posted: 2003-06-11 05:25pm
by Yuri Prime
Reminds me of when CNN moved Switzerland.

Posted: 2003-06-11 05:26pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Yuri Prime wrote:Reminds me of when CNN moved Switzerland.
THAT'S IT!

That's what I thought of.

Posted: 2003-06-11 05:27pm
by Smurf v2.0
*hisssssssss* the red X of death.

Posted: 2003-06-11 06:36pm
by Dalton
I remember the time CNN misspelled the last name of a man. His last name was "Niger". :D

Posted: 2003-06-11 06:41pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Dalton wrote:I remember the time CNN misspelled the last name of a man. His last name was "Niger". :D
Or their famous "18 times the speed of light" for Columbia.

Posted: 2003-06-13 09:39am
by Oberleutnant
Unfortunately the picture is not visible right now, but I seriously wonder if their geographic books are up to date? Perhaps they are using the year 1809 edition? :P

Posted: 2003-06-14 06:20pm
by fgalkin
Erm...what was on the picture?

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Posted: 2003-06-14 06:50pm
by Sea Skimmer
I wasn't aware Scandinavia looked like the red x of doom.

Posted: 2003-06-14 08:24pm
by Pablo Sanchez
Sea Skimmer wrote:I wasn't aware Scandinavia looked like the red x of doom.
When it was originally posted it was a functional picture of Northern Europe, wherein Sweden and Finland were marked as a single nation (and in fact, the writing that indicating the name of the country pointed at Finland.