Have all globes & world maps depict East at the top
Posted by limbodog@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 31 comments
- Eliminates [North = Up, Up = better] superiority complex
- Stops Australians and South Americans from having to wear magnet boots to keep from falling off
- Globes will now be a horizontal axis and can be installed on toilet paper holders
- Anywhere on Earth can now be the top of the map because there's no East Pole
- Top = future, bottom = past means the maps now depict time travel as superior
- Making everyone buy new world maps helps spur the economy
- Flat Earthers will lose their damn minds again
- There is no number 8
- Everyone gets to spend time at the top or bottom of the map
- Earth is now a giant treadmill
Jeremy-Hillary-Boob@reddit
Check out The Map Guys on YT
North at the top is relatively new thing.
yes_oui_si_ja@reddit
Did you mean MapMen? Map map map men men?
GlobalWarminIsComing@reddit
Map men map men map map map men men
limbodog@reddit (OP)
Yeah. It used to just be "important feature in center"
Not too late to change
Bowshewicz@reddit
Optimal-Hunt-3269@reddit
I'm for it.
Torelq@reddit
In the same way crashing all windows in London and hiring glassworkers to fix them would spur London's economy :P
limbodog@reddit (OP)
Exactly! But make a separate post for that idea
Doc_Zed_42@reddit
issue, you can keep going east. where would you put the demarcation line?
limbodog@reddit (OP)
Wherever you want
SeanFromQueens@reddit
How very Indian of you. Maps of medieval India were always drawn with the sun at the top and so the east was where the west put the north.
limbodog@reddit (OP)
Did not know that
DoookieMaxx@reddit
By moral law I cannot disagree with you …it’s also the law that makes me also have to hate you.
Damnit. We could have been friends man.
limbodog@reddit (OP)
What, you live at the North Pole or something?
DoookieMaxx@reddit
Well … I mean …I’d be on the East pole, right? West pole?
I dunno. I’d say a “pole”.
limbodog@reddit (OP)
There is, but someone has to keep racing eastward with it at high speed to keep it on top
DoookieMaxx@reddit
“There’s no number 8”
That shit got me. That’s purty funny.
AdditionalTip865@reddit
Because the Garden of Eden and the kingdom of Prester John are up there, or so I have heard from 100% trustworthy travelers
limbodog@reddit (OP)
I had to look mappamundi up. New word to me!
I have it on good authority that the garden of Eden is Göbekli Tepe
AdditionalTip865@reddit
Watch out for giant ants and headless dudes with faces on their chests
shponglespore@reddit
Upvoted for number 3.
fender8421@reddit
I disagree. South Americans pride themselves on the impressive leg muscles they keep by refraining from falling off, and I also just don't think the far West people in Kiribati can handle that responsibility
limbodog@reddit (OP)
They can just rotate the map along the axis and put themselves at hte very top
Ben-Goldberg@reddit
Why not just rotate the earth instead of changing the maps.
limbodog@reddit (OP)
The Earth? Rotating?!? get a load of this guy! He wants the whole Earth to start rotating!
Mackheath1@reddit
I'm particularly pleased at this post.
The only thing I want further addressed as a Bi/M is the top/bottom situation for men and women.
FunnyDislike@reddit
We should have no standard for what is up. Seeing the different continents in different angles gives one a way better feel of how it's all shaped.
limbodog@reddit (OP)
Ok, I like where your head's at. But I think a degree of conformity makes for easier navigation
Physical_Floor_8006@reddit
You can take it out of my cold, northerner hands
limbodog@reddit (OP)
Soon...
ArrieNightWhisper@reddit
aussies finally not being upside down propagandaa victims fr