A cloud shaped like Britain

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/06/15/a-cloud-shaped-like-britain.html

A blessing! A blessing form the Lord!

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Where’s Dumfries and Galloway?

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Wow. When they Brexit, they really Brexit.

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There’s a metaphor for the transience of nation-states, landmasses and all things right there.

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I see Queen Victoria seated on a chamber pot.

So, basically the same thing, more or less.

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Won’t the DUP complain about their non-inclusion?

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Well, they could try, but they’d be wrong.

‘Britain’ (or Great Britain’) is the main island, occupied by England, Wales and (mainland) Scotland; Ireland is a separate island.
The DUP’s from ‘the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’, but not ‘Britain’.

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Strong and stable, just as Mrs May promised.

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Cloudy Brexit?

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It’s not a bad approximation

And if you enjoy looking at things that approximate landmasses, the District of Columbia and the state of South Australia are doppelgängers, excluding the difference in scale:

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“That cloud, that cloud, looks like Ireland! Blow it a kiss now.”

Now lets all watch it break up and disolve into nothingness.

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It’s a warning about global warming. Those are the future coastlines.

Nicely done on the shoop.

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Of course it’s a good idea.

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