I can't speak for them (too well), but imagine that up until 30 years ago the US was one country with Canada under the name of... I don't know, the United Canastates, and as you're watching your favourite olympic sport rooting for your favourite player, someone introduces them as someone from the United Cana... Can... United States.
To be fair, even after typing this out I wouldn't be outraged, just slightly irked, but we're all different.
This reminds me of the time someone asked me at this restaurant about where the Soviets were. It took me a good 2 seconds of processing to realise they were talking about serviettes.
My guess is that if you put up a camera and see what happens when you're not at home to say 'AFGHANISTAN, NO!' then you realise that there's not much you can do to prevent it.
In the first second I was taken aback by such a silly decision from the designers' part, but then I realised it was actually a cool idea; you don't have to wake up your computer. You just start typing immediately. How cool is that?
... Also, why the heck do you need to start with shift then? : )
I'd understand (not agree with but understand) why they would rather have more seats per row instead of more arm rest space in a constantly busy, close-to-full theatre. Maybe I'm just not visiting the "right ones" but it's been a while since I saw one above 70-80% capacity.
It says Algida on my country (correctly), but back when I was a kid it was Eskimo. It might be a false memory but I also remember Langnese for a short time, but it could have been the foreign TV channels (Pro7, RTL, Sat1).
My problem is not that there exists ONE guy like him. It rather worries me that he's been doing shit like that for the past fourteen years, people have been watching it and every four years since then, more than half of them were like "yeah, that's what I want for the next four years, too."
Obviously it would still be unjust to judge the other half, but the fact that half of the county supports this thing is worrying at the very least.
I remember some old movie that was on TV ~30 years ago. A terrorist group broke into some computer room to destroy the data. They shot the monitors to smithereens and ran away.
Some bosses want to make sure you can hear the music at a decent volume at the back tables. Meanwhile the front tables: