Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Romania / Bulgaria while we're confessing geographical blindspots

I was going to say they don't have very much in common at all - language, culture, religion (Hungary is largely Catholic but nowhere to same extent as Poland) - but hush my mouth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_and_Hungarian_brothers_be

what i found amazing was how massive the Polish/Lithuanian commonwealth was at the peak of it's power. it was a huge territory.

And famously religious tolerant.

Religiously tolerant, thiat is. No worries though, the Catholic Church put a stop to that eventually.

cant be having people experimenting with soft power/secular tolerance when going on genocidal rampages is obv what jesus would have done.

Kid went to a birthday party a few weeks ago, and I wound up hanging out with the dad of the house for a couple of hours.

It wasn't until a half hour into the conversation that he told me No, he wasn't from Turkey, he was from Turkmenistan. I thought he gave me a funny look when I asked how far away his village was from Istanbul.

A little while later, he was telling me how the government is corrupt and is basically ruled like a dictatorship. I said, Ha yeah, reminds me of Uzbekistan where no one's allowed to drive a black car.

And he kinda goes Heh, no, um, that's in my country, Turkmenistan.

So I guess in my mind, Turkey and Uzbekistan are the same country, home to the Portal to Hell.

Romania / Bulgaria while we're confessing geographical blindspots

Heh, I was only familiar with the classic Budapest/Bucharest conflation, but I suppose this one should be expected as well. We both joined the EU in 2007, so that might be why.

I was going to post a ho-ho comment about confusing Moldova and Romania but, actually, I sometimes have to think twice about Moldova and Belarus.

That's kind of fair, though, since Moldova is also the name of a region in Romania. Not to mention the Republic of Moldova is basically a Russian colony.

In Romania you'll commonly see graffitis that say 'Bessarabia is Romania', Bessarabia being the name of the Republic of Moldova (minus Transnistria) prior to its indirect annexation by the USSR.

I'm aware that Moldova basically is Romanian and is nowhere near Belarus but, yes, ex-Soviet republics which are still bit too Soviet for comfort.

It's not an unfair comparison! All that's missing in the Republic of Moldova is a Lukashenko-style dictatorial figure.

Call of Duty
Line of Duty

Game of Thrones
House of Cards
House of Games

Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:39 PM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^

Oh yes.

yep

Yeah :/

Thus one's ridiculous but still...

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I know which is which but I keep forgetting @AOC's family name and calling her Oxlade-Chamberlain

Alexandria in NYC

Betsy Woodruff and Natasha Bertrand

Young reporters and recurring panelists on CNN or MSNBC RussiaGate shows. One writes for the Daily Beast, the other for the New Yorker, I think? Both are brunette and pretty cute, but I think it's Betsy who has kind of a crooked Brian Williams jaw I can't stop staring at.

(I'm sure I've done this before but) Patrick Hamilton / Patrick White

^good one

Peter O'Toole
Peter Steele

yahoo serious
yakov smirnoff

granulated sugar
confectioners sugar

I'll read a recipe that calls for granulated, and I'll think "not regular sugar" and reach for confectioners. Fuckers should stick to calling them either "sugar" or "powdered sugar".

Peter Barkworth / Tony Britton (appearance)
Peter Barkworth / Peter Butterworth (name)

Kevin Coyne
Kevin Ayers

Kevin Coyne even ended up inheriting Kevin Ayers' backing band, at one point.

Edmund Wilson
Edmund White

also

Angus Wilson
A. N. Wilson

last week's commemorations reminded me that for a long time the following was true:

Dunkirk
Normandy

(BBC2 unhelpfully showed Dunkirk on 6th June this year as well)

^So fortunate the Allies didn't have that same confusion. "Now remind me again. We're supposed to take as many as we can back to England, or establish a beachhead? Dunno why I can't keep that bit straight."

See, I've always been the guy who goes "Omaha Beach? I thought they landed at Normandy?"

4Hero
Four Tet

i mean lol ok i am old

4Hero
2 Bad Mice

Sylvia Miles
Sara Miles
Vera Miles

(Sarah)

Arthur Ransome
Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham
Alan Rickman

Wylie Watson/Wiley Wiggins

1970s Swedish psych-proggers Älgarnas Trädgård (aka Garden of the Elks)
1970s Swedish psych-proggers Trettioåriga Kriget (aka Thirty Years War)

Paul Theroux
Paul Auster

I always think "Golden Years" is a Frank Zappa song for the first few bars

Jessica Pratt
Natalie Prass

John Adams

John Luther Adams

^this one is classic

General Jackson
General Jackson

Harry Truman apparently used to exclaim, "Jesus Christ and General Jackson!" I don't know if he's referring to Andrew or Stonewall.

I also get Stonewall Jackson and General Sherman mixed up, which is completely mixed up in itself. (It's one of those that I can figure out after two seconds, but damn, why does it always take me two seconds?)

What about this guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWWCdadcM3c

Hang on Sloopy
Sloop John B