• Cyborganism
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    551 year ago

    Europeans thinking a 2h trip is a long ass trip. Then they come visit North America thinking they can visit from coast to coast by car in two weeks.

    North Americans going to Europe thinking it’ll take 4 hours to go from one city to the next when they can actually cross three whole countries in that time frame.

    • @[email protected]
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      731 year ago

      The most culture shock I’ve ever experienced was being in southern France, craving some Italian, and realizing I can literally just go to Italy for dinner.

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        Hahahahaha right??? Ain’t that crazy?

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        Same happened to me. Was in South West of France. Saw a board on the highway that said Barcelona was 3h away. Like what???

        So we went to Barcelona for a weekend because why the fuck not.

    • @BluesF
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      191 year ago

      Honestly I blame American TV for this. Especially anything involving the FBI! In Hannibal they zip between states non stop like it’s nothing. I assume it’s all supposed to be happening over many days, but it just seems like they’re going to and from work in Minnesota and home in Virginia lol

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        61 year ago

        The thing about TV is they have a tendency to broadcast a lot of “fiction.”

        Also you can do that, especially if you have the FBI paying for your flights, and rental cars, and TSA Clear (if FBI agents even need that). It’s only 2 1/2 hr by plane from VA-MN, though without TSA Clear or the “I’m a goddamn FBI agent on duty” equivalent the airport will be a bitch, and hopefully it’s a direct flight.

        • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please
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          It’s also much easier to do on the east coast, where you’re always within farting distance of at least two other states. The northeast is so tiny that you can absolutely just “pop over” to another state. This is especially true in the DC area, where lots of political/FBI dramas tend to be focused.

    • @candybrie
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      101 year ago

      I’ve done LA to DC in a week. You just don’t pass through many cool places along the way.

  • @[email protected]
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    541 year ago

    “Texas needs to shut up before we split in half and make Texas the 3rd biggest state”

    • Alaska probably
      • Maco1969
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        191 year ago

        The Mercator scale on maps makes everything equatorial look tiny compared to northern and southern latitudes.

  • @clearedtoland
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    331 year ago

    So you’re saying they should secede from the Union and be an independent world superpower because they don’t need the rest of us, right? Right?

  • @hactar42
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    191 year ago

    I grew up in Texas and moved to England. I remember my first weekend there looking at a map thinking of going to visit Cambridge. It was a couple of inches away on the map and I thought, should be an hour maybe an hour and half drive. Imagine my surprise when I arrived in Cambridge in 20 minutes. I forgot to take into consideration scale.

    Yes it was a paper map, I know I’m old.

  • ares35
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    141 year ago

    “that’s not where paris is.”

    --any texan.

  • @BigWumbo
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    111 year ago

    That’s not where Paris, TX is….

  • @captainlezbian
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    91 year ago

    This is just a piece of the land we stole from a country that spain stole once

  • @Mr_Blott
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    61 year ago

    France and Texas are around the same size, yous insecure cunts 😂

  • 𝚝𝚛𝚔
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    51 year ago

    I expected Texas to be a lot bigger, given the memes.

    Fun fact: the largest cattle station in Australia is 8x larger than the largest cattle station in the US (which is in Texas).