Submitted by Ok_Copy5217 t3_11pynzl in todayilearned
"Assholes" - Borat
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Kazakhstan didn't even do it, it was Soviets who decided to turn Syrdarya and Amudarya rivers to irrigate and grow cotton in Uzbekistan.
great success!
can't read the article, pops up with a "sign up for a bcc account" that I can't close out of in any way. The X doesnt close it, neither does "remind me later." But the thought of someone building a 12km lesbian in the middle of the aral sea like that other dude in the comments mentioned is making me laugh super hard.
You just gotta try really hard a believe in yourself, you can do it!
lol I made that comment before going to bed, STILL can't read the article, but that got weirdly negative, votes wise. It was at like +4 before I passed out.
I'm just commenting about the spelling because of North Americans making dyke jokes whenever this spelling is encountered by them online:
In American and Canadian English, dike is the preferred spelling of the noun referring to (1) an embankment used to prevent floods, and (2) a low wall dividing lands. Dyke is the preferred spelling in all other main varieties of English.
Dyke is also a (historically [and often] derogatory) slang word referring to a lesbian. While this sense of dyke has been reappropriated and made positive by some, it is still generally considered offensive and should be shunned outside very specific contexts... which is another reason Americans eschew the spelling for the flood embankment protection method.
Mate there are so far a total of zero comments thinking that the Kazakhs built a 12km long lesbian in the Aral sea to preserve it, and a total of 117 words that you've spent quoting the dictionary, quit huffing your own farts.
Actually I was greatly bamboozled by this horrendous error, thanks to u/Lulwafahd who clarified and pointed at elephant in the room
Shut up nerd lol
Sorry, I thought this was the r/todayilearned sub
American here, I have never seen it spelled with an "i", only with the "y".
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You’re a dyke
TheProfessionalEjit t1_jc1ec3t wrote
The dyke actually cuts the north from the south, allowing the water from the river to be held instead of flowing south and evaporating.
That article is mad. The Kazakhs are back fishing freshwater fish whilst the Uzbeks are reluctant to do anything similar because of their success farming cotton. To stop the continued waste of water, which spills over the top of the dyke, the Kazakhs want to increase the height of the dyke by 4m.