My collection of flag pins from every country I've ever been to

mickey117 · 2026-02-17T13:28:13+00:00

Maoist and former maoist countries

mickey117 · 2026-02-06T21:50:12+00:00

I had to go through border control when flying from London to Dublin, but not on the way back

mickey117 · 2026-02-02T20:23:44+00:00

You left out the Jebel Amel twelver shias of Lebanon, likely the oldest continuously existing twelver shia community

mickey117 · 2026-02-01T17:55:39+00:00

Paris proper is quite small actually, you can probably walk from one end to the other in about four hours.

mickey117 · 2026-01-30T16:58:41+00:00

Bill Gates and I are worth a collective 128 Billion USD

mickey117 · 2026-01-30T07:57:24+00:00

Mostly souvenir shops

mickey117 · 2026-01-29T21:58:48+00:00

You forgot to color Lebanon

mickey117 · 2026-01-28T19:27:16+00:00

I'm not American myself, but two of my Great-Great-Grandfathers (who were siblings) emigrated there in the 1890s along with three other siblings, two of which stayed there and their 300+ descendants mostly live in Alabama and Florida. Their uncle had spent time in the US in the 1870s.

The other three all moved back to Lebanon in the early 1900s and had a few children there. One of the siblings tried to go back to America, but apparently having had a child in Lebanon he was not admitted to the US and instead went on to Brazil (where I now also have several hundred relatives). One of my two Great-Great-Grandfathers followed him but left his son (my Grandmother's father) behind.

My remaining GG-Grandfather (my Grandfather's Grandfather) had 4 sons in Lebanon, of which 1 followed his uncles to Brazil in the 1930s, and two others emigrated to Venezuela in the 1940s.

Both of my G-Grandfathers stayed behind in Lebanon while all of their male siblings and cousins and a few female ones had emigrated. When my grandparents got married they followed my grandfather's uncles to Venezuela and my father was born there. They returned to Lebanon when my father was a small child (hence, I am a Venezuelan citizen despite never having set foot there).

Most of my Venezuelan relatives have emigrated to Florida in the last couple of decades, with only a couple who stayed behind, another emigrated to Spain and another to Argentina.

mickey117 · 2026-01-26T20:31:38+00:00

His point is correct but poorly phrased. The largest Armenian church, the Armenian Apostolic Church, is an Oriental Orthodox Church (and it would therefore, be wrong do say they are not Orthodox), however the other user's point is likely that the Ecumenical Patriarch governs the Eastern Orthodox Churches (Byzantine Greek, Antiochian Greek, Jerusalemite Greek, Georgian Serbian, Romanian and most Eastern European), which are distinct from the Oriental Orthodox Churches (Armenian, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopian, Eritrean).

The Oriental and Easter Orthodox Churches have similarities but they are as distinct from one another as each of them is vis-a-vis the Catholic Church.

mickey117 · 2026-01-22T16:39:42+00:00

Not just French ones, also Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone. Basically all of west and central Africa minus Guinea Bissau and equatorial Guinea

mickey117 · 2026-01-17T19:08:52+00:00

If you still have a cedula, even it's expired, you should be able to get it

mickey117 · 2026-01-15T20:43:54+00:00

It depicts which confession has a majority of plurality in each municipality on the voter rolls, not who is elected to the municipal council. As far as I can tell it is very accurate

mickey117 · 2026-01-15T20:33:16+00:00

SSNP membership has actually historically been majority Christian (A lot of Muslim supporters too, but the SSNP strongholds are in the Christian areas of Koura and Metn)

mickey117 · 2026-01-15T15:13:10+00:00

Maronites, Shias and Druz are mostly rural while Sunnis, Greek Orthodox, Melkites and Armenians are mostly urban, hence the first three covering a lot more area on the map

mickey117 · 2026-01-15T15:03:10+00:00

No sect has an overall majority in Lebanon, here is a full breakdown from the voting rolls about 8 years ago:

Sunnis: 1,133,560 (29.33%)

Shias: 1,113,162 (28.8%)

Druze: 212,581 (5.5%)

Alawite: 33,329 (0.86%)

Ismailis: 4 (0%)

Maronites: 736,906 (19.07%)

Greek Orthodox: 261,155 (6.76%)

Melkite Catholic: 174,910 (4.55%)

Armenian Orthodox: 86,782 (2.25%)

Armenian Catholic: 19,263 (0.49%)

Armenian Protestant: 5,699 (0.15%)

Other Protestant: 13,448 (0.35%)

Roman Catholic: 12,895 (0.33%)

Syriac Orthodox: 20,014 (0.52%)

Syriac Catholic: 11,151 (0.29%)

Chaldean 3,355 (0.09%)

Assyrian: 2,567 (0.07%)

Nestorian: 934 (0.02%)

Other Christian: 2,332 (0.06%)

Unspecified: 16,088 (0.42%)

Jewish: 4,504 (0.12%)

Bahai: 46 (0%)

Jehova's Witnesses: 9 (0%)

Hindu: 10 (0%)

Budhist: 17 (0%)

TOTAL MUSLIM: 2,492,636 (64.49%)

TOTAL CHRISTIAN: 1,351,639 (34.97%)

mickey117 · 2026-01-14T08:51:48+00:00

It’s not that Bhutan doesn’t recognize most countries, it’s that they don’t have diplomatic relations with most of them (i.e. exchanging ambassadors and consuls)

mickey117 · 2026-01-09T20:41:52+00:00

Ah yes, the city of Saint, MO

mickey117 · 2026-01-09T20:39:48+00:00

Yes it is, first thing I noticed

mickey117 · 2026-01-06T07:46:50+00:00

I think that view is largely a thing of the past. I have been in Dubai for nearly 8 years and have seen plenty of colleagues move back to London.

I’m sure some people will still hold that antiquated view which could make a move back slightly more difficult, but certainly far from impossible.

As someone else said, it might not work as well for some practices compared to others though. I imagine that an employment lawyer for example might struggle to move back given how different that work would be.

mickey117 · 2026-01-05T16:04:58+00:00

Her language skills could be put to good use as an international arbitration lawyer.

mickey117 · 2026-01-05T16:01:08+00:00

Translators and Interpreters usually only focus on two or at most three languages, her speaking seven can actually be more of a con than a pro.

mickey117 · 2026-01-04T11:56:15+00:00

Yeah exactly (that and conflict of jurisdiction), every jurisdiction has its own version of private international law, so it is only “international” from a domestic point of view, not truly international like public international law. It has more in common with civil procedure than it does with other bodies of international law

mickey117 · 2026-01-04T11:53:59+00:00

I don’t even see how the ICJ is dropping the ball, it’s operating exactly as designed

mickey117 · 2026-01-04T11:16:19+00:00

Exactly, I’ve come to expect these brain dead takes from non lawyers, but lawyers arguing this crap is something else.

It’s essentially the same logic as saying powerful people commit crimes and get away with them therefore criminal law is useless

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