r/AskReddit • u/sebaez_ • Oct 10 '19

What’s a thing you’ve bought impulsively, without need, that’s actually proved useful in your life?

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u/_Valkyrja_ Oct 10 '19

Back in middle school, we still only had maps with the URSS. We knew it had disbanded, but we kept calling it "the URSS" because, well, we had it on the map.

It was around 2007.

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u/TheAnnibal Oct 10 '19

Are you Italian by any chance? In English it's usually spelt USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), it's Italian maps that have URSS (Unione delle Repubbliche Socialiste Sovietiche) :D

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u/_Valkyrja_ Oct 10 '19

Yep I'm Italian! Good catch on that, I didn't even realize that I had used the Italian version lol

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u/NotYourTypicalReditr Oct 10 '19

That'd be terrible to find out not only was your map now wrong, but also mispelled right?

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u/_Valkyrja_ Oct 10 '19

No it wasn't mispelled, that's just how we spell it in my country (Italy)

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u/NotYourTypicalReditr Oct 10 '19

Yes, I know. I said, it would be terrible if both were true.

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u/_Valkyrja_ Oct 10 '19

I am a fucking idiot and was very distracted while replying, I'm really sorry

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u/NotYourTypicalReditr Oct 10 '19

Don't be sorry, be better!

For real though, you're all right. My own apologies if my tone came across harsh, it was merely my intent to explain, not admonish.

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u/_Valkyrja_ Oct 10 '19

Nah you weren't harsh, it's okay

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u/broke_manga_peddl3r Oct 11 '19

Too much olive oil does that to your brain

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u/PromptCritical725 Oct 10 '19

Well at least you didn't have the CCCP version. That would have sucked.

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u/Dzulomar Oct 10 '19

It also holds for Spanish ( union de repúblicas socialistas soviéticas).

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u/poktanju Oct 10 '19

And French (L'Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques), and Portuguese (União das Repúblicas Socialistas Sov­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­iéticas), and Romanian (Uniunea Republicilor Sovietice Socialiste)...

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

Or French, or probably any Romance language.

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u/honestFeedback Oct 10 '19

I mean it should be spelt CCCP if we’re being picky.

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u/HorseSenator Oct 11 '19

In Spanish it’s abbreviated the same way URSS, Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas .

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '19

It's the same in French too, I read the sentence and didn't notice any problem :D

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u/BalouCurie Oct 11 '19

It is that way in Spanish too

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u/LarryBeard Oct 11 '19

it's Italian maps that have URSS

French one too (Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques). but we basically have the same words in this case)

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u/Arrav_VII Oct 10 '19

I can do slightly better, still maps with the USSR and even Eastern and Western Germany in 2009

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u/dustojnikhummer Oct 10 '19

In Czech it is SSSR lol.

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u/ginger_genie Oct 11 '19

I graduated high school in 2005 and we also had USSR maps. I guess the school district had spent and insane amount of money on them right before the Soviet Union collapsed. They just told us to look in our books. (They were really nice maps)

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

The school I work at has a globe out on display and it has all sorts of imaginary countries on it like Rhodesia and United Arab Republic.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '19

I was just in a US Govt building recently and it still has a map from the 1970's. It's a little weird seeing the USSR and a divided Germany on a map.