• FuglyDuckEnglish
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    It won’t.

    Even if they do, some other bullshit will be afoot.

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      Because its Alabama, the Alabama of the United States

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        Is there any other alabama?

        If there is it must suck getting confused for 'Bama all the time.

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            apparently there’s an Alabama, Romania; Alabama Ghana; and an Alabama Hill, Queensland, Australia.

            now I’m curious what those places are like.

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              Google maps sent me to a park, for Alabama in Romania. It’s effectively a city park, but in a village. Feels like the kind of thing that gets built for fraud purposes. A couple sports (football, basketball, whatever) would’ve served the village kids much better than park benches.

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                I dunno. I just looked at it on street view it seems a decent playground at least.

                It’s empty, so, maybe you’re right, but its not straight up awful like some of the places I’ve seen.

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                  When I was a kid at least, the kind of play you do in a park, we’d do in the yard. Playing tag, playing with toys, swings, etc. Maybe that’s not the case anymore, and maybe the kids are using it. I would’ve preferred a football field back then, because the school had its gates locked over the weekend.

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                    A lot of places in Europe don’t have yards like that, though I’m not sure what Romania’s housing is like.

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                    the problem with football fields- or any kind of sport’s pitch, for that matter- is that they tend to be dominated and “reserved” for leagues and stuff. which, maybe, is important. but it’s unlikely the people next door get to use it. At least, here. ( I remember the last time I tried to play tennis. the courts were reserved by private instructors until they turned the lights off. there was literally no time from friday night through sunday evening that wasn’t booked solid. and there was zero way to get your name on the reservation cycle without being a coach.)

                    without knowing the circumstances behind it, I’m going to shrug and move on.

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          ‘The Florida Panhandle’ is a common nickname for ‘Lower Alabama’ so I can understand why it might be forgotten as another Alabama