It all makes sense now.

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LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Pronunciation of places would be impossible, but everyone's geography would improve greatly if the entire world was like that. A logical person would say just use GPS coordinates, nope. I'm going to Ghdftpw

Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org · 32 pts · 1y

Ghdftpw

that's just welsh

flandish@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y (3 replies)

what3words.com

I use it all the time in rural first responder work.

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Ah, I wanted to move to couch.yards.honest, but I couldn't put the money together at the time to take the position I was offered out there.

Impound4017@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Moving to Manitoba for my exotic.skirt.venture

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y

That should really be at the forefront of their tourism marketing.

aow@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y

Sounds like an Irish postal code

mod_pp@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y

I'm mad I have never thought about this

Siegfried@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

Ikealand is a little farther

BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y (5 replies)

What's up with the 'u'? I get that the second character advances one position in the alphabet, that pattern holds until 'q' which is "qu"

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 1y (2 replies)

That's because u is q's emotional support letter. They don't like to go anywhere without her.

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1y

Except when q really focuses its mind and can support itself solely on its inner qi.

A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

You may be joking but that's basically it yeah

A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It's a rule in English that "q" is followed by a "u". Always. Really. That's why people like Lovecraft ignored that rule to seem exotic

So someone decided to follow the rule, probably didn't even think about it. "Q" alone just seemed wrong.

clunkplunk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Q

A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Oh THANK GOD SOMEONE FINALLY DREW IT I've been lazily waiting for this joke for so long

drmoose@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

IPELAND at home: 127.0.0.1

ceenote@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Ah, shit, we dropped our skier back in igeland.

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Was in IQeland once, full with twats obsessed with IQ and race...