How are people supposed to tell these states apart when 99% of them look like a 3 year old's first attempt at drawing a square?
Pretty easy when you grow up learning a thing
Really? Have you learned about German states at school?
Edit:
USians downvoting, what a surprise 😂
Nope, but I think there may be Bavaria, Westfalia, Saxony? Can’t think of any others at the moment but I assume there are a couple more.
It’s a bit trickier, since Germany was still divided when I was in grade school.
It’s weird, Australian schools didn’t teach them either… does the rest of the world exist, perhaps?
How are you supposed to tell European countries apart when 99% of them look like amorphous blobs?
You don't have to, just know that we are united by our common hate for The French™
And we also don’t shorten all of our countries expecting people to know what we meant.
Italy looks like a boot. Finland is a woman waving. Sweden and Norway are a cock-
(but seriously, tbf, I get your point, context and learning to memorize the shapes and locations is a big part of it)
Most US states are the size of EU countries. We don’t know the “states” of EU countries because those are like counties in our states, and most people barely know all of their own state’s counties because there are too many.
Empty landmass isn't the only important thing.
I.e. Florida, the third most populous US state (21M), is about half the size of the whole of Germany.
But Germany's most populous state (North Rhine - Westphalia / NRW) has a pop of 18M.
It's waaaaay smaller, but the n of inhabitants is comparable.
To the point: I don't think , it's necessary to know the names of foreign states. But it's good to know roughly what's going on in the world. It is no secret, that US Americans are exceptionally caught in their own bubble.
Or, for another perspective: In terms of population, Ohio and Belgium are pretty much equal, but in terms of area, the former is 4x as large.
I could tell you that's Alabama but my problem is I would have no idea that face was supposed to mean something, it looks like a blank stare to me
It could also be a look of slight surprise, like "really? That's the excuse you're going with?" But in context it's definitely supposed to be sensual.
Her face reads as anything from listening to me explain the original 151 pokemon to sitting on a bus thinking about what to make for dinner
Context
to be fair to georgia, the bottom is shaped like that because of a river, I assume thats the case for AL as well
I was under the impression a lot of states use rivers or water ways as state lines. Guessing it was that way as it was easiest before gps.
Each state had to agree on the boundaries, and as with all of human history they were quite possessive and possibly greedy. Thats why in the middle of the Mojave Desert the lines are all clean and uniform: nobody was willing to fight over the middle of the Mojave Desert.
EDIT: Also it caused a lot of disputes when rivers were nobody's territory as they were a major mode of transportation and people on the river or crossing the river would end up being harassed by landowners on either side as if they owned the river.
I like how that one state has a thin slice that stops Texas from touching the two above it.
That's Oklahoma and everyone in Texas hates it. Anyone who says otherwise is an escaped Oklahoman and the authorities need to be alerted so they can be returned to their isolation
Really, that's just OK taking one for the team. We should encourage their policy of Texas Isolation until they are the only bordering state.
It's because if Texas claimed territory above where the northern border currently is, they wouldn't have been allowed to join the Union as a slave state.
Doesn’t matter. Just take the piss the same.
People in Alabama don’t look as refined as this. They look like you’d expect orange-man cultists would look. Sorry Alabamans.
Says the person who I'm assuming has never been to Alabama
Is this about a guy wanting to do his cousin?
Yes and the guy at the bottom is a famous "geo guesser" that tries to pinpoint the location of street view pics from minimal information. So he pinpointed the original poster to "Alabama" because they be fuckin their cousins a lot there i guess. (i assumed its Alabama without looking at a USA map)
alabama's rep so bad there are more people that know they fuck their cousins than there are people who know where alabama even is.
Never been to America, no idea where Alabama is, but it's a well known fact that they... love family very much.
Can confirm, I actually checked if thats Alabama before going to the comments.
You're correct, that is Alabama. A good method for differentiating it from Mississippi is that Alabama has mostly straight borders and Mississippi has a long wiggly border (the Mississippi river). Not sure if that's actually helpful but it's how I remember them.
Eh i dont think there is any value in remembering stuff like that, especially if you are not from the US. But thanks for the explainer :)
The only reason we americans need to know this is to make sure we never accidentally end up going there.
Yep. Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, and most of Georgia (Atlanta is pretty different, thus is better).
What about Missouri? The only thing I know about Missouri is that in Fairly Odd Parents, Tom Sawyer says "I ain't going back, it's Missouri in there."
It's generally not as bad as Mississippi, and it's forgotten more often. Similar with Louisiana, but more issues with weather and water there.
I imagine many Europeans (me included) do that for the USA as a whole, not just a single state. At least for as long as Trump is president.
The American Gulf States and the Appalachian Region that parallels the East Coast up to about Maryland/Pennsylvania has a reputation.
To be honest, historically I could see it. It was mostly tiny towns, stuck way out in the middle of nowhere, with teenagers that had very few options. As they've gotten more centralized though it doesn't happen nearly as often as it used to happen.
I'm sure all those old European royal families are going, "Yeah, yeah, it's those tiny middle of nowhere American towns where the inbreeding happens. Not here. Never here."
Hahahahha, yeah they were straight up open about it.
It's also why there exist no laws on marrying your cousin.
Because that was keeping the gene pool fresh enough I guess
Some places don't allow your first cousin. But that's actually okay science wise. The probability for issues after the first cousin rapidly declines.
Heheheheheh
That reminds me of a little story that I like to share. I always knew a person's sexuallity wasnt a choice. At the time I didn't even know there was such a thing as non- heterosexual relationships (because America). I can pinpoint the exact moment I knew I was straight because 11 year old me, my younger brother, my mom, and an older 2nd cousin (probably one of her parents or aunts/uncles) went to a river to swim and dig up crayfish.
Anyway, my second cousin wore her normal clothes down there, which I was sort of disappointed about and I didn't know why. We get to the river she drops her bag and what I watched her do after that dropped my jaw and I froze staring at her until she got in the lake. She stripped off her shorts and shirt had on a revealing (ok, well to an 11 year old who never noticed before) green and blue bikini. I had no idea I was frozen or that my entire family was snickering as I stared at a girl 4 or 5 years older than me gawking at something I was now noticing a lot. The story goes that after this, my mom had to "remind me I was still in the street" and I just sat on a rock at the River edge trying to talk to her. I then made it really important that I got to hang out with her the rest of that family reunion.
At one point my little brother broke one of his braces wires and she was all ready to help him - she ran to her room with the little wax balls you put on the ends to stop them from poking you. Thing is the wire was a bit further back in his mouth. So I switched back into bewildered staring and jealously watched her carefully craft this tiny ball of wax into his mouth with her immaculate hands. I apparently got really pissy with my brother after that for getting all the attention.
Anyway. Yeah. Seemed pretty obvious to me that I did not get to choose who I was attracted to.
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