Thought this was a cool concept. I bet we could come up with better assignments for the countries than the average twitter users.
This might take me all night, but this is what I have so far https://t.co/cFJckRV59q pic.twitter.com/W9bvgL5or4— Bordeaux (@bordeauxyoutube) June 13, 2024
Ones I have so far:
ECU - Somalia
Virginia Tech - Turkey 🦃
UNC - Jordan
Wisconsin - Switzerland
UAB - China 🐲
Interested to see what we can come up with
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Australia is just all the punters.
Stanford = Vatican City
Columbia = Palestine (is that being too political)
Hawaii = Samoa
Minnesota = Canada (hey, they're close enough)
But wouldn't Columbia just be Columbia?
Only if football is football.
Colombia?
TIL... I knew it was Colombia in native spelling but for some reason I thought the "u" was acceptable in American English at least.
Oregon State as Canada? Beavers are their national symbol.
Hey...nice Beaver!
Why, thank you, I just had it stuffed.
2 beavers are better than one!
They're twice the fun, ask anyone
Uva is Russia for sure
UVa is France
I mean come on
Seriously. Shame on the author of this Twitter post and shame on everyone before this post for not calling out this extreme oversight.
Bunch of cheese eating, surrender monkeys
Yeah except uva would want to be associated with France. France has redeeming qualities. Great food. Good wine. Beautiful language. Scenic countryside. "Culture", one might say.
Russia is a poor excuse for a country that thinks it's a lot bigger and badder than it actually is. Russia is a much better analog for uva than France with the added bonus that uva people would hate to be associated with Russia. They would relish the French association, though.
But you have to admit, attitude wise, France is the perfect match.
So are the Ivies. And uva loves to think of themselves as such. Why give them the gratification? France fits in some ways but it's not nearly insulting enough. Perhaps North Korea could be another option instead of Russia. A country that desparately wishes to be among the big dogs but never will be taken seriously by anyone.
Na, more like Poland, nobody gives a fuck about Poland.
Poland led the revolution against the Soviets.
It is coming from me. 60wasp aside, you'll never catch me saying a kind word about the French.
The Ivies also remind me much more of England.
This is fair. One thing I appreciate about the English that I think doesn't translate well to the culture of the Ivies is that they don't take themselves too seriously. In that regard, Ivies are kinda French-ish. I also don't have many nice things to say about the French but we have to admit that the US wouldn't exist were it not for the help from France in the beginning. As much as I hate the French, they have redeeming qualities. Uva doesn't. That is why I struggle with the analogy. Plus, I don't want to give them the gratification. Russia, north Korea, Poland. All fine associations to uva that would be offensive to them more than France.
Poland? Seriously man. Lumping Poland in with Russia is like lumping Churchill with Stalin.
Admittedly, I know very little about Poland. Just using another submission from King James.
Actually, I've got the good one for UVa - Belarus. I mean, for all practical purposes, it is part of Russia. A lousy place to be, but does not have the power or the nukes to frighten anyone.
Actually, ever watch the World According to Briggs YouTube videos? He has some pretty funny ones. One was on the countries people most often regret moving to. At the start, he says something like, no, I have not left off several countries. This is based upon surveys of people who say they regretted moving to somewhere. Most people aren't stupid enough to move to Somalia, Afghanistan or Zimbabwe in the first place.
Somehow, Belarus was real high on the list. Think it was #2. He (and I) were surprised as we would not have thought that many people would move there to begin with.
EDIT - here is the link to that video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5INTDyh900
I can get on board with uva = Belarus
The only Belarussian I have knowingly met was a beautiful statuesque woman so I have nothing bad to say lol...
That's been my experience as well.
I was today year's old when I realized how much mail order brides were utilized on TKP /s
LOL! I met the one I met in a club while dancing. Played some pool on the bar table. Alas- not someone I've seen again...at least not yet..
Back in grad school, I had this running joke that I had a mail order bride named Minglu. My research advisor was Taiwanese and much of the lab was ethnically Chinese, so I decided to make her from Laos and not China.
Fast forward many years later, and I stumble across this LinkedIn profile for a person named Minglu. And she looked exactly like I would have imagined my ex-fiancé would have looked in her early-to-mid 20s if I had met her earlier.
Thinking Cuse Netherlands for the Orange. Liberty has to be a theocracy. BYU maybe Nepal for the mountains..
Liberty = Iran
Turkey just changed the official spelling of it's name to Türkiye just to disassociate it's name from that of the American Turkey.
True story.
So I'm pretty sure they're not going to be down with this.
I went to Turkey
attempted to find some turkey to eat
no luck
Terrible country for VT
If you want to find Turkey to eat, you need to go to Hungary.
If I wasn't hungry, I wouldn't want turkey.
VT = Turkey
ND = Vatican City
Syracuse = Netherlands
UVa = France
Liberty = N Korea
Russia = the original Southern Conference
UNC = Austria
Rutgers = Italy
Florida State = India
Clemson = China
Alabama = England
Georgia = Georgia
UCLA = Greece
Does anybody really want to claim uVa or France for that matter?
Why should the cheese eaters get access to good wine?
They already have plenty of whine.
Growing up in Northern NJ, I can totally see Rutgers as Italy.
As someone who loves visiting Austria I kind of hate the UNC comparison. Maybe Russia because they cheat in the olympics?
Well, UNC produced John Swofford, who was the worst thing to ever happen to the ACC, and Austria produced a failed artist who was the worst thing to ever happen to the Earth
Not sure I like that analogy.
Austria is awesome.
the scene of one of my favorite gifs.....
I still go with Stalin as being worse than Hitler. But when you are getting down to those levels, what difference does it really make? Half serious/half darkness, remember an old documentary where they had a line something like:
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin: by 1937 (or some year in the 1930s) he had already killed so many innocent people that not even Hitler could catch up.
Friend of mine replied to that line, but he sure did try.
VT = Scotland
Because we go commando?
No, go commando for the Commanders
Ok the guy doing this put Rice as China. That's pretty good
It originated there
The food or the university?
A lotta shit originated in China
Fireworks, which would probably be more associated with the USA these days, originated in China.
They do like to start a lot of shit.
A lotta shit originated in China
Must resist......must resist....must resist completely violating the CG's....
Damn you!
I would say UAB should be UAE...
uva should be the great pacific floating garbage heap
Hmm, I wonder what country would work best for University of South Alabama?
Argentina comes to mind. Or just florida. They think they are their own country anyway.
I vote Belize for South Alabama. Small, insignificant, on the Gulf of Mexico, living in the shadow of giants like Mexico and the USA just like South Alabama has Auburn, Bama and UGA nearby.
Yes but Belize is a great spot for vacation, Alabama is not.
I guess it would only make sense for Notre Dame to be the Vatican 🇻🇦
Everyone loves a good non-hertitary democratic monarchy!