Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Rainbolt never misses

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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 😂
- 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™
  
  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.
  
  Yes, countries are generally too big.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
  
  I lived in Bristol, Tennessee. That's close enough.
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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  Ah! LOL!

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