Блоги: заметки с тегом Denmark

Copenhagen airport in May 2023

Robert — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:55:18 +0500

Robert:

Flying in. Denmark is flat:

A plane. Notice the Scandinavian barcode:

Good-looking packaging:

Why do Danes treat animals so poorly?

Robert — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 19:27:24 +0500

Robert:

In 2014, Danish zookeepers killed a giraffe and fed it to a lion for a children’s show.

In 2020, the Danish government exterminated all mink because of coronavirus transmission, to later fess up.

Why do Danes treat animals so poorly? Or are these just two isolated incidents?

Europe diagram, Brexit edition

Robert — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 01:01:37 +0500

Robert:

As the UK is about to leave the EU, I have updated my European diagram to reflect the new situation. I also added the Council of Europe for good measure.

Oh, and there’s a version in French as well:

Updating CGP Grey’s Europe diagram

Robert — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 13:59:55 +0500

Robert:

I looked at CGP Grey’s Europe diagram yesterday and saw that it was outdated. Latvia and Lithuania are now in the Eurozone, and not just in the EU. I started with a blank sheet and worked my way through.

I also added the four countries that use the euro but aren’t in the EU: Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, and the Vatican. I did not add Montenegro and Kosovo to this zone: if I added them, I’d have to add Zimbabwe, as they all use the euro but aren’t approved by the Council to do so.

My diagram is rather simple, as it only shows what is useful to a person travelling or working in Europe. Nothing extraordinary like this one from Wikipedia: