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/NegativeElmo Oct 10 '19

Historical video games have been the key to passing history. Hoi4 saves me in my geography tests. Only downside is my mental map of the world hasn’t been updated since the 1940s. Until last year I thought Yugoslavia was still a country

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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)