in the french town of Eu

Wow, they were really ahead of their time.

Petition to move the EU institutions there?

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The tragic part is that the EU is called the “UE” in French…

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Luckily French isn’t a real language.

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I know, I know, I had french classes as well. (Still seeing my therapist because of that :P)

But I still found it funny :)

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Props to whoever made that bottle and stopper. That note is in fantastic condition.

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It probably helps, that the bottle was in salt in a clay pot in the ground and not in the ocean.

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It would seem that archeologists know how to preserve things.

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Every time I read news of people finding old messages in bottles I find it fascinating.

But then at the same time I wonder how many people it prompts to dump their own bottles into the sea (i.e. littering) anytime one of these headlines blow up

E: sorry I’m apprehensive about dumping plastic in our oceans. Damn. Didn’t realise this was a pro-pollution community…

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Glasbottles are fine and just fancy rocks.

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Well yeah, I’d hope the people who do this use glass bottles, but let’s be real, they’ll use whatever easily-sealable bottle is most convenient. So plastic bottles.

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but if i write my message on plastic it’ll last forever

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the plastic will last “forever” but your message will quickly crumble away like dust plastic in the wind

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I’ll send an S.O.S to the world

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