Turkmenistan:
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7309/9108833722_9017b0a2b8_o.jpg
Of course every nation will have highlights... we have to take those into account
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
NV said "irredeemable" - so we are looking for the place with the least highlights, surely.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:24 (two years ago) link
Biggest area to highlights ratio imo
― imago, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link
The best thing about this thread is going to be the refutations though. Someone sell us Paraguay! And Bangladesh
― imago, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link
I think the natural world is generally pretty lovely, so man-made scars, pollution and rusting abandoned machinery will definitely work in the candidate's favor
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:29 (two years ago) link
The Micronesian country of Nauru might be a contender.. the entire island was brutally mined for phosphate:
https://images.theconversation.com/files/130519/original/image-20160714-12383-1iqzv3j.jpg
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/06/nauru-island-country-destroyed-by.html
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
is there any country in the world that can't fairly be described as beautiful
i think the answer to this is pretty obviously "no" tbh. in my aesthetic opinion the beauty exists to the extent that the land isn't overwhelmed by some kind of nationalist project, and i don't think any country-size piece of land exists that doesn't have land like this. by this definition somewhere very small and artificial like the vatican might be ugliest which idk. like, i find those photographs of big industrial projects, dams, that sort of thing, to be extremely ugly. i don't think any land exists that doesn't have its own character that somehow escapes what all of that does with and does to it.
xp definitely areas that have been scarred by mass extraction. atolls that have been nuclear testing sites. that sort of thing.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:39 (two years ago) link
capitalism is awesome at turning some of the most beautiful places in the world into the ugliest.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:43 (two years ago) link
Everyone needs a thneed.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
Everybody needs an atoll for to pilfer
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:52 (two years ago) link
clown me all you want but you know deep down in your soul i'm right ;)
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:55 (two years ago) link
Gibraltar isn’t the prettiest of Mediterranean towns but does has the Levante which is pretty spectacular.
Some classic Levante cloud action over the Rock of #Gibraltar this morning.When moist easterly winds (Levante) hit the Rock, the air is forced to rise and cool rapidly, forming this area of cloud. pic.twitter.com/WOcTSWKyn7— Met Office Gibraltar (@MetOGibraltar) April 29, 2022
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 22:32 (two years ago) link