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[–] TotallynotJessica 163 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] SidewaysHighways 25 points 6 months ago

Big if true

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

It's all Texases, all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Who knew, Texas is bigger than Luxembourg

[–] Ledivin 52 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's probably just a perspective trick, there's no way

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I see you're joking but for anyone curious

Luxemburg: Total Area 2,586.4 km^2^

Texas: Total Area 695,662 km^2^

[–] bushvin 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Which is crazy since Luxemburg has its own language while Texas is speaking the same as Ireland which is already bigger than Luxemburg

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Crazy how nature do that

[–] hidden_splendor 60 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Hey, has that state no one cares about seen this joke?"

"I don't know, I'll ask 'er.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

What would happen if you divide Alaska in two equally-sized states? Texas becomes the third largest state.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago (6 children)

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] 73 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Hahahahaha right??? Ain't that crazy?

Edit:

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.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

2h is a long ass trip we've just been gaslit

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

If only we had a high speed rail system like in Japan...

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Am European. I drove from sfo to nyc in 4.5 days. Would I do that again? No.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Same, took 5. Still brutal as hell

[–] BluesF 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

No we don't think 2 hours is a long ass trip. We think 2 hours is a long ass commute.

[–] candybrie 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But man, can you look at some fucking corn.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

  • Alaska probably
[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"That's an impressively well-typed threat for a moose."

  • Texas probably
[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"Come up here and fight us then, last time you had show you got your ass handed to you."

  • Alaska probably
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[–] Maco1969 48 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

even Russia is smoll compared to Africa

[–] Maco1969 19 points 5 months ago

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

[–] clearedtoland 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

No, that's ludicrous.

Give them back to Mexico.

[–] captainlezbian 3 points 6 months ago

They’re welcome to attempt again. Though we were a bit too gentle last time

[–] hactar42 19 points 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

"that's not where paris is."

--any texan.

[–] BigWumbo 11 points 6 months ago

That’s not where Paris, TX is….

[–] captainlezbian 9 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Overcompensate much?

[–] Mr_Blott 6 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months 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).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Now do Indonesia.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Except the population size

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Texas is less than a quarter of the size of Alaska.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

yeah thats totally correct, love that

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