or, you know, 185 spots

[gyzym]

So, amongst the shitstorm of craziness I'm dealing with at my job this week, I've been assigned a task that I don't want to talk about because:

a) It is asinine
b) It is asinine
c) It involved a conversation in which I said, "Hey, can you forward me the email chain with the information I'll need," and the person who assigned me this task said, "No, I have deleted it, but I have a hard copy," which lead to me being given A 120 PAGE PRINTOUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S EMAILS, WHAT DECADE IS THIS, WHO DOES THIS.

However. One of the things this task involves is me creating a world map marking off certain countries, and when I google image searched "world map labeled" for a reference, this is the first thing that came up. (To be fair, my work computer is running Internet Explorer Version Caveman; it was the second result to pop up when I ran the search on my Mac.)



DEAR WHOEVER MADE THIS MAP: I THINK YOU MISSED A SPOT

ETA: Apparently this map is actually about volcanoes, which kind of excuses the gaps, although it does not excuse Zaire or the fact that it is THE FIRST OR SECOND RESULT WHEN GOOGLING FOR A LABELED WORLD MAP.

But at least things make more sense now, y/y?

Comments

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

*laughing helplessly*

OMG, if I choke on my pizza and die, will you call my curling team to explain why I didn't show up tonight?

I think my favorite thing on that map is the careful labeling of Alaska. So the damn Canadians don't steal it?

Also, is it something in the water this week? I asked someone to forward me a missing schedule in a meeting yesterday, and they pulled a copy out of their binder and handed it to me. Mind you it was only one sheet but still...

OH! And that was before the anecdote about Pastor A.'s son making an appointment with Pastor B. to ask permission for his daughter's hand in marriage.

What fucking century are they living in??

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

I FEEL LIKE POSSIBLY WE HAVE GONE BACK IN TIME BY MISTAKE?!

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

I THINK I WOULD ACTUALLY CRY IF SOMEONE HANDED ME 120 PAGES OF EMAIL PRINTOFFS.

QUICK. LOOK AROUND FOR A BLUE PHONE BOX.

[foxxcub.livejournal.com]

Is it sad I noticed England wasn't labeled before I noticed Canada?

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

fhdgsdf my first thought was DUDE, THEY DIDN'T LABEL THE ENTIRE CONTINENT OF ANTARCTICA

ETA: Which, to be fair, was ridiculous, because they didn't actually label any of the continents as such. BUT STILL. THE OTHER CONTINENTS AT LEAST HAVE A LABEL IN THERE SOMEWHERE.

I'm having these terrible nightmares about children thinking this is actually accurate dshfdsjkfldsg

[sorrynotsorry.livejournal.com]

Why would they label America's Backyard?

[seeingrightly.livejournal.com]

WELL, THEY GOT ZAIRE, SO IT'S ALL GOOD!

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

fndnjdkfs I ALMOST SPAT OUT MY FUCKING COFFEE WHEN I SAW THAT, THEY ONLY LABELED 10 COUNTRIES AND ONE OF THEM IS WRONG

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

dsjkfhdsjf THIS IS WHY THERE ARE CHILDREN IN THIS COUNTRY WHO CAN'T FIND ANYTHING BUT THE US ON A MAP

[sorrynotsorry.livejournal.com]

Listen, I'm pretty sure you know as well as I do that America is perfect and no one ever leaves here anyway.

[eaconwell.livejournal.com]

lmao. well. this explains why no one knows geography any more :P

[seeingrightly.livejournal.com]

AND THEY CHOOSE THAT INSTEAD OF, LIKE, EUROPE AS A WHOLE

[illian.livejournal.com]

They got everything in North American except Canada? It wasn't like they RAN OUT OF ROOM!

[silverakira.livejournal.com]

I DESPERATELY want to know the backstory behind this map. I also love that Iceland needs an arrow.

[surreal-44.livejournal.com]

Dude, this looks like a map my sister did for school. I will die if it's actually hers.

This is the same girl who informed me she is the very most smartest person she knows.

Oh, public skools. How u hav educatided us.!,,,

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

THAT IS THE BEST MAP EVER. ...At least everything's labeled correctly? Although... isn't Zaire the Republic of Congo now? Or did it change back?

[lavender-basil.livejournal.com]

This map is *amazing*.

As is someone printing off an e-mail chain. OH MY GOD!

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

AND THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, I KNOW, WHAT THE HELL

ALSO I OWE YOU A BIRTHDAY FICLET I AM WORKING ON IT :D :D :D

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

I do not know the backstory, but I hope to god it is "SOMEONE WAS VERY DRUNK AND DOES ACTUALLY KNOW MORE ABOUT WORLD GEOGRAPHY THAN THIS"

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

Hey now, my public school education was top notch! That being said, OH MY GOD THIS MAP STRIKES FEAR INTO MY HEART

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

Zaire has been the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1997, a fact that was apparently NOT IMPORTANT to whoever made this map dsfjsdfh

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, he handed me the document and I was just like, wait, really!? This is a current project! All these emails had been exchanged in the last week! DOES HE PRINT OUT, DELETE, AND FILE ALL OF HIS EMAILS, I DON'T UNDERSTAND

[seeingrightly.livejournal.com]

AND THERE ARE ONLY THREE OCEANS

[surreal-44.livejournal.com]

Our public schools not so top notch, even with tons of money going towards them. My sister was taught with the "spell it how it sounds" method and if their geography was wrong the teacher still passed them for "trying really hard".

:/ :/ :/ :/