@CycloneStormz @fmeetsdata Because there are not a lot of competitive international matches to make a meaningful ranking. And they acknowledge that they are less meaningful because the tournament games are worth a lot more points.
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thomas belt
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🔝 Top 10 in live FIFA ranking (as of 27 Mar):
1⃣ 🇪🇸 1879 (➕1.94)
2⃣ 🇫🇷 1874
3⃣ 🇦🇷 1873
4⃣ 🏴 1833 (➖1.50)
5⃣ 🇵🇹 1760
6⃣ 🇳🇱 1759 📈 (➕3.14)
7⃣ 🇧🇷 1756 📉
8⃣ 🇲🇦 1753 (➖1.51)
9⃣ 🇧🇪 1731
🔟 🇩🇪 1728 (➕4.34)
▪️🇳🇱 NED overtakes 🇧🇷 BRA and jumps to 6th!
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@peterawolf That's like the car advertisements claiming A/C as feature. Might as well advertise 4 wheels.
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Had to explain to somebody that “free coffee” was not a workplace benefit/enticement given that it’s been a workplace since the 1800s.
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@Nassreddin2002 They are to humble, most can speak some, but they don't try. My German is very bad but of I try with cousin in laws we always have a nice conversation. I am more shocked how bad their English is, especially cause they are from NRW
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You’ll be surprised how little German Dutch people know
It’s just Dutch and English
Aristocratic Fury@LandsknechtPike
I'm surprised by the low number in the Netherlands. I was always under impression that most Dutch people speak German (and of course English). For example I was not at all surprised when I saw Dutch driver Max Verstappen speaking German.
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@DelgadilloShari @KellyScaletta That's the common style of those kind of medals, same for the German blue peter and knights cross
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@KellyScaletta Why are the ribbons on the medals so short? Is it because they're meant to be displayed, not actually placed around a neck? Because the ribbons are really *uncomfortably* short. The short length is actually a distraction. Maybe the ribbons could be lengthened just a couple inches
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The amount of outfield players who are 30 years old + and still WC is actually shocking
• Kane 🏴
• Bruno 🇵🇹
• Kimmich 🇩🇪
• Van Dijk 🇳🇱
That’s it probably
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@charlescerb @PoseCrust @shemsifcb Van der Sar was 34 when he moved to united(to illustrate your point).
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@PoseCrust @shemsifcb Goalkeepers are a little different because they peak later.
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@harszowidz @GansoConABomba True, for underwater to underwater. Underwater to surface was more common. Although nowadays a sub sinkings anything is unique
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@GansoConABomba Hasn’t there only been one confirmed case of an underwater sub-on-sub kill? Like ever?
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IF the claims of an American SSN sinking an Iranian Kilo class sub are true (MASSIVE if) in the past calendar year we’ve had:
Naval shore bombardment via cannon fire in Thailand Cambodia border disputes
Russian cavalry charges in a trench ware riddled war in Ukraine…
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@ASFleischman After the battle of Trafalgar, Lord Nelson's corpse was shipped home in a barrel of rum. The sailors surreptitiously drank all the rum on the trip home - their daily ration is now called "Nelson's Blood". Still better than that coffee.
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Today I learned that there used to be hundreds of coffee shops in London in the 17th century but the coffee was pre-made, stored in a barrel, and boiled before serving.
It must have been the worst fucking coffee imaginable.
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@by_elisabet_ @snomeemo Wouldn't an army doctor be O-3 at the minimum? Since he did his residency with paper charts so presumably pre-GWOT he wasn't a medic using the GI Bill
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@snomeemo I wanna guess hes def 100 percent disabled according to the VA so depending on his rank when he got out is a pretty penny (i wanna say E-7)
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An attending ER physician can make like $300,000 a year on the low end. Curious what percentage he’s been deemed disabled and what his corresponding VA check is… $$$
tarzella is 👌🏽OK at drawing@tarzelladraws
great news everyone
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@DSP4150 @jbillinson It's even worse, N°14 is a spinoff of a show that ended 20 years ago (JAG-> NCIS).
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@jbillinson And number 16 is a spin off of a spin off of a show that must have ended over 10 years ago, correct?
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11.09M Americans watched something called SHERIFF COUNTRY. Netflix only has four shows that can outperform SHERIFF COUNTRY. There are whole other worlds out there.
Matthew Belloni@MattBelloni
Funny to see CBS promote Nielsen ratings showing robust competition for U.S. TV audiences that contradict its parent company’s antitrust narrative that Netflix is too dominant…
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@DSedson13 @rvdwalle Absolute cijfers tegen over verhoudingen zetten is an sich al een belgenmop waardig.
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@rvdwalle NL 6 miljoen inwoners meer.
Wederom. Nederland zet in op bepaalde soorten die het heel goed doen en waar er veel medailles te rapen vallen. Zwemmen en roeien. Plus traditioneel goed in hockey en (baan)wielrennen.
Qua atletiek. Hassan was 20 toen ze voor NL koos. Bol fenomeen
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NED: 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉🥉
BEL: 🥉
Ambitie. Branie. Focus. Samenbrengen van expertise, middelen en talent. Versus veel te weinig van dat.
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@emebdh @KBAndersen Nell could also be Cornelia (My grandmother was one of those)
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@KBAndersen Some of these are nicknames. Virgie is Virginia, Flossie is Florence, Nannie is a nickname for Anne, Nell is Eleanor. Not saying the real names are in better shape, but maybe not quite as dire.
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Of the 900 living Mauds in the United States, my wife and I know 4 of them.
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@18aidanme @_alex_joshua Would have been an interesting Post except for the " allegedly" part
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@_alex_joshua And then held in prison for 46 years for crimes that were allegedly committed after he'd defected.
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@TomasCernik @RebeccaTucker85 @GoodAmericanMan Yes, I am familiar with Czech history. Just never saw a German name with Slavic matronym.
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@tlebsamoht @RebeccaTucker85 @GoodAmericanMan German names are pretty common here, no one even thinks about it being something different.
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Latvians change their surname based on their sex?
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@RebeccaTucker85 @GoodAmericanMan Funny that it also happens on non-slavic names( the first name is of German origin).
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@uncledoomer This is crazy. I think a Spanish soccer team tried something like this once
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wait a second, is the country of india sending their normal olympic athletes to the special olympics to pretend to be handicapped in order to win medals?
pagliacci the hated 🌝@Slatzism
counterpoint
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the winter olympics will always be more niche as a global specatator sport BUT it also has multiple events where the athletes could die
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@JackPosobiec @JohnMcCloy Aegons conquest would be boring as hell, just a bunch of dudes being burned. There's not a lot happening just Aegon cruising to the Iron throne.
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@JohnMcCloy Yeah but then you'd need younger / recast actors which gets all dicey
Aegon's Conquest would be...phenomenal
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The Blackfyre Rebellion is a million times more interesting than Dance of the Dragons. HBO really messed up adapting the wrong Targaryen war
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@aspdbenrey @carl_widlund @Hatrcantread Yeah I read it, didn't mean it didn't happen, and there is also a big case to be made for the grand duchy being its own monarchy under a personal union.
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Fake Scandi Royal family scandals:
Norway: "Our crown princess is in the Epstein files" 🤢🤢🤮👎👎
Denmark: "Ough, inter familial feud, I need to disinherit my chud children..." 🙄🙄🤷🤷
REAL SCANDI ROYAL FAMILY SCANDALS:
"THE SWEDISH KING FUCKS TOO HARD AND CANT SPELL"💪💪🔥
Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🇬🇱 🐧@GrahamSmith_
Monarchy is a terrible idea.
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@carl_widlund @Hatrcantread yes, finland never had its own monarchy. it has been under the swedish and russian monarchies, but it itself has never had a finnish monarch.
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