Re:How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world
by smcl on Monday February 27, 2017 @03:46AM
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It's understandable - their names in their respective languages is "Slovenija" and "Slovensko" which is relatively similar. Tougher still is discerning Slovenia and Slovakia in spoken Czech or Slovak - "Slovinsko" vs "Slovensko" - though context tends to help here :)
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Re:How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world
by yoz-y on Monday February 27, 2017 @04:35AM
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Fun factoid. Staff of Slovak and Slovenian embassies meet each month to exchange wrongly addressed mail. http://www.slovak-republic.org/slovenia/#politicians
Re:How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world
by pingec on Monday February 27, 2017 @10:21AM
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Another fun thing I have heard multiple times is that ordering electronics from China to "Ljubljana, Slovakia" somehow makes it from China to Slovakia and then Slovenia without going through customs in any of those two countries.
Does anyone know why this would be? Or maybe is it just pure luck?
Re:How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world
by vidanay on Monday February 27, 2017 @09:55AM
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I have heard something similar about Austria and Australia
Re:How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world
by smcl on Monday February 27, 2017 @11:17AM
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There's a lot of t-shirts sold in Vienna tourist shops with kangaroos on it - they seem to have embraced it :)
Re:How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world
by smcl on Monday February 27, 2017 @04:39AM
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That is amazing!
Re:How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world
by jacobush on Monday February 27, 2017 @06:22AM
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I imagine that creates a special bond over time. :) In Sweden there are two municipalities who shared a website for a long time. Ironically? the HÅBO muni got to keep http://HABO.se while the HABO muni had to settle for http://HABOkommun.se