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Shadowfury333
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada314 Posts
December 18 2008 04:32 GMT
#1
Here we are at the height of the Christmas Season. Snow is falling (if you're in the northern hemisphere, anyway), school's out (if you're in university), and finals are done (unless you are tragically scheduled). In my European history final, I had an interesting question. I had to know out of Britain, Germany, Italy, and Russia which wasn't in the EU. The answer, of course, is Russia. How did I know this? BRAT_OK. As most TL lurkers and posters probably know, BRAT_OK is an awesome Russian Terran player who was denied entry to the WCG Finals in Germany.

Now considering that all EU member states allow free passage between eachother, and BRAT_OK couldn't get into Germany because of passport/visa issues, it wasn't hard to figure out that was the country not in the EU. So as asinine as the WCG issue seemed, there was something to be learned, and an extra mark on a test to be gotten. Hopefully next WCG, or any foreign scene tournament won't see those problems.

****
Darkness called...but I was on the phone, so I missed him. I tried to *69 darkness, but his machine picked up. I yelled "Pick up the phone, Darkness", but he ignored me. Darkness must have been screening his calls.
BanZu
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3329 Posts
December 18 2008 04:35 GMT
#2
Haha, SC helped in school!

That's a good sign to continue playing SC
Sun Tzu once said, "Defiler becomes useless at the presences of a vessel."
NotSupporting
Profile Joined February 2008
Sweden1998 Posts
December 18 2008 04:37 GMT
#3
Hehe, and people say gaming is bad for you . Still though, everyone should know Russia isn't in EU.
LeperKahn
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Romania1850 Posts
December 18 2008 04:39 GMT
#4
On December 18 2008 13:37 NotSupporting wrote:Still though, everyone should know Russia isn't in EU.


This.

Although, puzzling it out from starcraft is pretty sweet none-the-less.
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ilistis
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States828 Posts
December 18 2008 04:40 GMT
#5
Nice, wish it could help me on my math test though.
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Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
December 18 2008 04:45 GMT
#6
That's a pretty easy question anyways. Obviously Germany, Italy, and Britain are in the EU. The question could of at least thrown in some obscure countries to make it not so obvious.
Xeofreestyler
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
Belgium6776 Posts
December 18 2008 04:47 GMT
#7
you shouldve known that without the help of sc hahah

but yeah anything positive coming from it is usually awesome
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Shadowfury333
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada314 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-18 05:22:02
December 18 2008 05:21 GMT
#8
On December 18 2008 13:45 Mastermind wrote:
That's a pretty easy question anyways. Obviously Germany, Italy, and Britain are in the EU. The question could of at least thrown in some obscure countries to make it not so obvious.


I think Britain was the obscure country, as it isn't in the common market. Also, we learned about the EU through its various stages, such as the ECSC and the EEC, either of which may not have included all potential answers. Also, I could be wrong about Germany and Italy. I don't remember if those were potentials or if it was a different, more obscure country, but it was central Europe for certain. I'm only absolutely certain of Russia and Britain.
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Xeofreestyler
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
Belgium6776 Posts
December 18 2008 05:24 GMT
#9
Yeah but either way you should derive out of historical context that Russia would NEVER take part in a thing such as the EU
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Shadowfury333
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada314 Posts
December 18 2008 05:51 GMT
#10
On December 18 2008 14:24 Xeofreestyler wrote:
Yeah but either way you should derive out of historical context that Russia would NEVER take part in a thing such as the EU


I did think of that, and was pretty sure it was Russia to begin with, but the BRAT_OK thing made me 100% certain.
Darkness called...but I was on the phone, so I missed him. I tried to *69 darkness, but his machine picked up. I yelled "Pick up the phone, Darkness", but he ignored me. Darkness must have been screening his calls.
Ilvy
Profile Joined September 2002
Germany2445 Posts
December 18 2008 06:20 GMT
#11
you would fail in european finals, because we don´t use multiple choice
inReacH
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Sweden1612 Posts
December 18 2008 06:34 GMT
#12
On December 18 2008 15:20 Ilvy wrote:
you would fail in european finals, because we don´t use multiple choice

Yeah I'm sure he wouldn't be able to answer "which country isn't in Europe?" if it wasn't multiple choice..
shavingcream66
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1219 Posts
December 18 2008 07:19 GMT
#13
haha learning life's lessons from games. This reminds me of a time I had to take some vocab test in middle school and the word was "vitality." Good thing I knew how to spell it since "vitality" was a stat in Diablo 2
:D
jimmybim
Profile Joined November 2008
Ethiopia28 Posts
December 18 2008 07:22 GMT
#14
I would have been between England and Russia. Since I know they both don't use the euro. At least would have guess Russia right since many ex. USSR country are trying to get in the EU and Russia isn't even in Europe. But hell I'm fine with letting starcraft take the credit for your success. I also passed my macroeconomics class cause I knew a 12 hatch is better then communism.
Tensai176
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Canada2061 Posts
December 18 2008 07:48 GMT
#15
We had a Bio test, and we had to name the protective shell that most insects have or another. My friend got it right when guessing Chitinous (or something like that) because the Ultralisk +2 upgrade is called Chitinous armor. Lulz
We see things they'll never see
ShadowDrgn
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States2497 Posts
December 18 2008 08:16 GMT
#16
On December 18 2008 16:19 shavingcream66 wrote:
haha learning life's lessons from games. This reminds me of a time I had to take some vocab test in middle school and the word was "vitality." Good thing I knew how to spell it since "vitality" was a stat in Diablo 2
:D


I knew what "avarice" meant on a vocab test because of Diablo 1. The word was used in one of the shrine messages.

And yeah, Russia isn't even in Europe.
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
hymn
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Bulgaria832 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-18 08:33:19
December 18 2008 08:28 GMT
#17
On December 18 2008 17:16 ShadowDrgn wrote:
And yeah, Russia isn't even in Europe.


1/3 of Russia IS in Europe, Jesus... Russia is both european and an asian country. In fact maybe around 1/3 of Europe belongs to Russia. Russia's got more european teritory than any other country in Europe. How is this not an european country?

Look here.

As for the question which country isn't in EU... Wow, can they make it more easier somehow? Only if they replaced Russia wits the US. You watch 5 minutes of news and you will hear about Russia and EU bitching about some gas issue or Georgia or whatever.

I mean... There are maybe 4 or 5 countries and organizatiions in the world for which you just have to know the basic stuff, US, EU, Russia, China I guess. Need to know where they are at least and some very basic knowledge about how they are governed. That shouldn't be in a university test, that's a question for... I don't know - 9 year olds maybe?

That's like asking me which is not a part of the United states - Texas, Florida, California or Mexico? Totally retarded... Wow...
azk he is the north american player but the titan he is the french stars
Klockan3
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Sweden2866 Posts
December 18 2008 10:03 GMT
#18
On December 18 2008 17:16 ShadowDrgn wrote:
And yeah, Russia isn't even in Europe.

No, its just that roughly all of their population lives in the European side of Russia!

The thing is that EU is not a coalition of all the states in Europe, for example Norway is not in the EU even though they are in Europe geograficaly.
Locke.
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Israel562 Posts
December 18 2008 10:37 GMT
#19
I'm not so sure you should be happy that you knew this through that context
Shadowfury333
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada314 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-18 18:23:29
December 18 2008 18:21 GMT
#20
On December 18 2008 17:28 hymn wrote:As for the question which country isn't in EU... Wow, can they make it more easier somehow? Only if they replaced Russia wits the US. You watch 5 minutes of news and you will hear about Russia and EU bitching about some gas issue or Georgia or whatever.


Excuse me for having an easy history final. Also, being in Canada means I get little news on goings on in Europe, and televised news wouldn't tell me anything anyway. Especially since I'm in BC (as far west as you can go) so there's far more news about East Asia(esp. China) than Europe.

I can understand why you might be annoyed, being that you are pretty close to Russia and were part of the USSR, now part of the EU.
Darkness called...but I was on the phone, so I missed him. I tried to *69 darkness, but his machine picked up. I yelled "Pick up the phone, Darkness", but he ignored me. Darkness must have been screening his calls.
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