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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (3 children)

As someone who lives in the Greater Toronto Area, a place with a city called Scarborough in it, I was extremely confused and extremely terrified for way longer than I needed to be.

No idea there was a shoal out there called Scarborough as well.

That being said, I can't say I'm surprised Chinas reaction here is to salt the earth they can't have.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I was similarly pretty confused here that it was referring to the little seaside town in Yorkshire, which I assume all these other Scarboroughs (that I too had never heard of) are named after.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Morning Joe Scarborough

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes, the similarities are striking

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I genuinely thought your first picture would be Scarborough, ON based on the thumbnail. Your second picture is not Scarborough, ON. This is Scarborough, ON:

Note: you can see the core from your second image in the distance on the left.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Scarborough on what? Toast? 😋

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the two explorers from That Mitchell & Webb Look (youtube link)

"Of course not! Not North Wales! That's ridiculous! It's nothing like North Wales. No, South Wales of course. The resemblance is uncanny"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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