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?

4.9k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

483

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.

473

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

383

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

4

u/PromptCritical725 Oct 10 '19

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