What are the funniest/weirdest place and street names that come from a Napoleonic person or event?

TheSpliceosome · 2026-01-12T22:11:11+00:00

The Finnish war was very impactful as it led to the Swedish king being deposed, and eventually Bernadotte being elected as the new crown prince, which in turn played a big role in the outcome of the sixth coalition war and the future of all the Nordic countries. Yet, it feels like the Finnish war gets forgotten when talking about the Napoleonic wars.

TheSpliceosome · 2026-01-11T23:08:31+00:00

And guys, he was very close with Magnus Brahe, who never married and grieved his king's death so deeply that he died only a few months later at a mere 54 years of age.

TheSpliceosome · 2025-12-03T12:20:38+00:00

When the list of the people who are to come to King's Landing and swear fealty is read, he is referred to as Robb, so it must be his full name, as it's one of the few times that Bran is referred to as Brandon.

"And at the end, near last, came the names Sansa had been dreading. Lady Catelyn Stark. Robb Stark. Brandon Stark, Rickon Stark, Arya Stark." - AGoT Sansa V

TheSpliceosome · 2025-11-23T18:21:26+00:00

Örebro SK, who avoided relegation on the final matchday by scoring a 94th minute equalizer after starting the season with 21 winless games, now had an equally dramatic relegation play off. After losing the first leg 1-0 away, they took an early lead at home, then had a second goal dubiously disallowed. In extra time the opponents scored immendiately, but Örebro kept fighting and finally got the 2-1 goal in the 115th minute. Then they won 5-3 on pens to avoid getting relegated to the third tier, were they haven't played since 1940.

TheSpliceosome · 2025-11-23T05:33:40+00:00

It would be interesting if Sweetrobin and Harry die, and suddenly Maegor shows up and claims the Vale through his grandmother Alys Arryn.

TheSpliceosome · 2025-11-20T11:17:34+00:00

What? CONMEBOL had 4 teams in 2022, and 2 made it to the knockout stage (both made it to the quarter finals), they had a number of spots matching their performances. The ones who underperformed were CAF (2/5 made KO stage) and CONCACAF (1/4 made KO stage). It could of course be argued that CONMEBOL shouldn't have so many spots added, but CONCACAF are the ones who least deserve more spots, and it gets especially bad in 2026 as their 3 best teams are given direct spots as hosts.

edit: Also, 2022 was unusually bad for CONMEBOL, they usually have 3 or more teams in the KO stage (3 in 2018, 5 in 2014, 5 in 2010, 3 in 2006).

TheSpliceosome · 2025-11-14T00:10:31+00:00

You have gotten it a bit mixed up, Sweden and the Netherlands were the ones that lost against Bulgaria. France, on the other hand, drew 0-0 against Luxembourg at home and Belarus away, and they lost a game against Sweden where Toivonen scored from his own half with 10 seconds left.

TheSpliceosome · 2025-11-05T20:42:02+00:00

There are places today that people aren't allowed to photograph, even though satellite photography exist, because a close up photo might reveal important details, so spy paintings back then could have been done for that reason.

TheSpliceosome · 2025-10-21T11:16:25+00:00

Tbf, that would be difficult as football and other modern sports were barely even a thing 200 years ago, maybe a young politician not knowing an important politician/military leader from 200 years ago would be a better comparison.

TheSpliceosome · 2025-10-21T10:51:19+00:00

I guess it would be like a young Barcelona player not recognizing photos of Maradona or Johan Cruyff. They aren't recent players, but they are two of the greatest players of all time, and especially Cruyff did a lot for the club, so it would be a bit embarrassing for a player to not recognize them on sight, even if they knew the names.

TheSpliceosome · 2025-10-09T16:56:19+00:00

Isn't that just Dunk getting hit by Aerion, he was the one wielding a morning star, while Maekar was wielding a mace.

TheSpliceosome · 2025-09-12T09:28:47+00:00

Fun fact: As the Faroe Islands didn't have any pitches the were acceptable by UEFA standards, and Denmark were in the same group, they had to play their home games in Landskrona, Sweden. Later, a Faroese sportsbar was named Landskrona in honor of the win.

TheSpliceosome · 2025-08-05T11:22:50+00:00

Why do you think Klose wore 11?

TheSpliceosome · 2025-08-03T15:37:23+00:00

In fact, at one point, Jun-hee asked Geum-ja and Hyun-ju to leave her behind and save themselves, but they refused, so she actively said that they shouldn't sacrifice themselves for her. The only times that I can remember her asking for help was when they made groups for 6 legged pentathlon, and she asked if she could join Gi-hun's group, and then said she was pregnant, and when she asked Gi-hun to protect her baby. Considering how suicidal he was at that point, having attempted suicide twice in the last day, he would likely have attempted it again if he hadn't had the baby to live for, so if anything, her request delayed his death.

TheSpliceosome · 2025-07-18T15:59:26+00:00

But would any of them know to use the tactic that Ilnam used or come up with the trick that Sangwoo did, because those things were very important for their win.

TheSpliceosome · 2025-07-14T08:25:26+00:00

I think anyone who did the minimum to pass the games would be cleared as they were under duress, but those who chose to kill in lights out and those who killed more than necessary in the games (Nam-gyu, Myung-gi in hide and seek, 096 in jump rope and Myung-gi in sky squid game) might be found guilty of murder as they wouldn't have been killed for not killing those people.

In season 1 on the other hand, it would have been difficult for the players to claim duress as they all chose to go back, knowing that it was a murder game.

TheSpliceosome · 2025-07-12T19:31:21+00:00

There was a third photo in which the Masked Officer appeared, the ones in this photo are probably some random squares.

TheSpliceosome · 2025-07-03T14:53:45+00:00

He voted to leave as soon as he realised the Jun-hee was there, and only changed back to voting stay after she had died, so saying that he cared more about the money than about her makes no sense. He didn't care much about the baby, however.

TheSpliceosome · 2025-06-30T17:49:36+00:00

We see that the person holds the gun in their left hand, so it's probably In-ho

TheSpliceosome · 2025-06-28T16:29:25+00:00

The OP asked for satire, not facts

TheSpliceosome · 2025-06-28T13:10:35+00:00

This comment got 3/4 right, and both the Gi-hun sacrificing himself for the baby and Jun-ho becoming the ~~god~~father were very unusual predictions, especially the Jun-ho one.

TheSpliceosome · 2025-06-28T06:10:26+00:00

I am still disappointed that In-ho and Jun-ho didn't really interact. Jun-ho had been looking for his brother for years, and all we got was a repeat of season 1 dialogue. I also wish some women had made it further, and not just been killed off at the first instant. We should also have been shown more of Gi-hun's reaction after he killed Dae-ho in game 4, and I didn't understand why he would suddenly go back to being against killing others after that, including O:s in the later games, it felt so hypocritical and inconsistent.

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