Friday, March 12, 2010

Burma

Burma, also known by the alias Myanmar (or Burmanmar, as I like to call it), is a nation of some 50 million (mostly Burmese) people located in southeast Asia, north of the Andaman Sea (which doesn't really appear to be a sea so much as a random chunk of the Bay of Bengal that someone arbitrarily decided to give a different name just to confuse everybody [Author's Note: Cartographers are dicks]). The national anthem is "Kaba Ma Kyei," which translates roughly to "Don't Cross Me or You Just Might Wake Up in the Middle of the Night with a Goddamn Tiger in Your Bed and We'll See Who's Laughing Then, You Asshole." This tends to create a really uncomfortable atmosphere at the start of Burmese baseball games.

The largest city, Rangoon, is such a shitty place that the Burmese decided to build a new capital, Naypyidaw, from scratch in 2005.

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