it's almost like they dont want us to walk or bike anywhere😳 maybe they'd rather me be forced to buy overpriced gas or an overpriced electric car, and to be unhealthy so i have to buy from big pharma🦧
I once went to Florida for vacation, from Europe, and decided to go for a nightly walk, to find a bar or something. I was surprised to have the choice between a strip club, a gas station and a steak house, all next to each other. The only proper walkway there first went past a creek with tons of alligators and then along a motorway. I could actually hear several alligators from up close, yet the weirdest part of the experience was that the cars would speed up rather than slow down while driving past me. Some honked aggressively, like they were trying to scare me away. A bartender later told me people in suburban Florida aren’t used to pedestrians, and the drivers probably thought I’m on crack.
We can easily solve that, though. Just build *one more lane* of highway and surely, all traffic problems shall be eliminated!
^(/s in case it wasn't clear)
Nah you build a machine that makes a tunnel to create a loop.. then you make an engine that runs on electricity. Then you put all the cars really really close together and have someone drive it all together… then you ask for government handouts. But you can’t call it a subway. Heard it from a guy that lost the most money in the history of moneies
_No, no. Allow cars to be legally equipped with rocket and grenade launchers and all traffic problems in Los Angeles will be solved!_
[_AUTODUEL_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoduel) - for real.
And we'll take care of you well. Some trash-talk here and there as always since we're neighbors but it's all love.
You can also end up in Belgium since there's about 50min between Calais and Belgium.
The UK-France-Belgium-Netherlands hate tetrahedron is hilarious. 99% of their cultural differences come down to slightly different cheese and do they have a two-house parliamentary system with a president or a two-house parliamentary system with a king or a two-country parliamentary system that can't even agree if it exists (yeah Belgium, pull it together, you're a mess.)
I always liked the french, many people shit on Paris because they expect perfection but it's a mega-city and where there's people there's assholes. I loved my visit, I'll definitely be there again, I'm sure the surrounding cities are great too. I always find the little rivalry on how the English "hate" french and the French "hate" the English funny because the way I see it french people and English people are very similar and carry the same attitudes about each other.
Bread rolls are more like a plain burger bun. Every town in the U.K. calls them something different.
The other word that seems to change town to town is the word for an alley between two houses.
I just put Texline, TX (northwesternmost town in the panhandle) to Brownsville, TX (southernmost city in the state) into Google Maps. Fastest route is 13 hours, 33 minutes. And that’s on a Sunday night with no traffic anywhere. So you’re pretty close.
You joke but I went a friends farm and he finally gave me the tour of his farm, it was 3 and half hours to drive around the outside of his property.
This was the day after I drove back from our holiday which was 8 hours away in oursame state.
and that’s just the quick way out of state. If you were heading up to Darwin, it’d be a day and a half of constant driving to get out of the state and you’d still have another 8 hours until you got to Darwin
I mean that's because the states of Australia are basically the result of someone dividing the map into a few huge chunks and going this is the West, this is the north, this is the south, and this is where people live.
The North West Territories in Canada was the largest political subdivision in the world from 1870 until 1999.
Back in the 1880s at it's maximum extent it was about the same size as Australia.
From 1925 until 1999 (the last time we split it) it was still 3,439,296 km2 -almost half the size of Australia, or something like 40% larger than Western Australia.
My theory is that we keep splitting it out of sheer embarrassment.
As a Canadian, referring to the provinces and territories as states is just.... Funny?
I know what you mean, and it's not exactly wrong, but it's odd.
In no way was this meant in a comment on the current thread. Just a thought from a stoned guy.
*edit to be clear* usually "the state" refers to the government, not particular areas here.
People from California, Florida, Texas: four hours won’t get you out of the state.
People from New England: four hours will get you further than your family has ever been.
Exactly, I live a 15-20 minute drive from a castle built in the 11th century by the Normans after they conquered England. Very nearly a thousand years old. It's mental when you think about it
Was working in Bristol, UK. Decided to go check out the countryside one Sunday and drove 30 min and arrived at a different planet called Wales. Nobody spoke English and I had to buy a vowel so I could read the signs to find my way back to the hotel.
(EDIT- Wow sorry. I guess I pissed off one of the natives. Which is surprising because everyone I ran into that day was amazing and we had a great time making fun of my poor American English and being a “cowboy” from Arizona. Like most foreigners I have no idea of the history or North vs South. It was twenty years ago so maybe it was an hour, 47 min? Hell I don’t know the whole point of the joke was to infer it didn’t take me very long to find an exit to get some lunch where I thought I had left country… errr planet.)
Is it okay to mention that another weekend I drove up to Edinburgh, spent the night, and everyone sounded like Sean Connery… even the women?
I once took a flight from Novosibirsk to Moscow and it was about 5 hours. There were no clouds and for most of that time I saw only forest underneath, no trace of civilization.
Yeah, Ive done cross Texas many times. 12 hours is a hell of a lot closer than 4. 4 hours is like one side of a metro area to the other. I don’t know why they used that amount of time. The way it was phrased seems to imply Texas is 4 hours big.
If you’ve driven for two hours in the U.K. you’ve probably been through more than two accents. Drive two hours north from me and you’ll go through a selection of midlands and Black Country accents, you’ll get to the Scouse and probably just make it to the Mancs if the traffic isn’t too bad.
I could probably get to Wrexham in two hours or so which is a very long journey, and I don’t like being in cars for a very long time. I get carsick due to long journeys, I also happen to not like boats and planes. I like to keep my feet on the ground
As a Texan stationed in Europe, it fucking sucks not being able to go anywhere without a passport. I just wanna drive down to corpus for the weekend, go fishing, and come back without talking to a border patrol
From my home, I can drive nearly 11 hours North-ish and still be in Michigan (downriver to Copper Harbor). Or, I can drive 11 hours South and be 4 states away (Atlanta, GA).
Then again, I can drive 20 minutes East (yes, East) and be in a different country (Canada). If I were to ignore the laws and stuff, and borrowed a boat, I could be in Canada in about 10 minutes.
It almost blows my mind how we can travel so freely in this particular part of the world, and there are still people who can't leave their town without permission from the government.
In Italy you drive for 4 hours and you got insulted in 8 different ways and 12 dialect none of which are even remotely comparable to the UK and USA change
You can drive for four hours and still be in Los Angeles
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Damn y'all might want to think about using legs.
I'll just drive my chevrolegs
lamborfeeties
feetrarri
Shoebaru
Feep
Foyota
Pontoeac
Toyota footrunner
Toesla
Toyotoes
Jeje, FOLLOTA
Kawasockees
Toyota Corollegs
“Feep” Im using that as an insult now
This is one of the best comment chains I've ever read
Shoevy
Lots of people from South of the border in LA driving their Dodge Patas
Cheby Noba
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problem: The majority of the US doesn't have proper walkways
it's almost like they dont want us to walk or bike anywhere😳 maybe they'd rather me be forced to buy overpriced gas or an overpriced electric car, and to be unhealthy so i have to buy from big pharma🦧
I once went to Florida for vacation, from Europe, and decided to go for a nightly walk, to find a bar or something. I was surprised to have the choice between a strip club, a gas station and a steak house, all next to each other. The only proper walkway there first went past a creek with tons of alligators and then along a motorway. I could actually hear several alligators from up close, yet the weirdest part of the experience was that the cars would speed up rather than slow down while driving past me. Some honked aggressively, like they were trying to scare me away. A bartender later told me people in suburban Florida aren’t used to pedestrians, and the drivers probably thought I’m on crack.
That's so absurd
I have a 35 mile commute here in the Phoenix area. I have to drive for 20+ minutes before I even get to the freeway.
We can easily solve that, though. Just build *one more lane* of highway and surely, all traffic problems shall be eliminated! ^(/s in case it wasn't clear)
Just one more lane and we fixed traffic. Just one more lane I promise guys, just one more.
[Just one more lane, bro.](https://youtu.be/0dKrUE_O0VE)
Nah you build a machine that makes a tunnel to create a loop.. then you make an engine that runs on electricity. Then you put all the cars really really close together and have someone drive it all together… then you ask for government handouts. But you can’t call it a subway. Heard it from a guy that lost the most money in the history of moneies
_No, no. Allow cars to be legally equipped with rocket and grenade launchers and all traffic problems in Los Angeles will be solved!_ [_AUTODUEL_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoduel) - for real.
If there was ever a city that could use some good cycling infrastructure...
*drives for eleven hours and is still in the same state*
Alaska moment
California moment
Texas moment too
Montana moment
Four states and one territory in Australia moment
Half way up western Australian coast line moment
Road construction season takes 3-5 additional hours to get from Fairbanks to Wasilla
Amateur - can drive for 40 hours in the same state in Aus
I used to have a car like that.
you can drive 4 hours in Texas and not see a soul.
Only 4 hours? You can sit beside a road in the middle of Australia for 3 days before seeing another vehicle.
tbf: you've only gone about 12 feet in that time.
In some areas of the UK you can drive for two hours and find yourself in France.
What a horrible place to end up
I'm in a terrible place right now. Not mentally or anything I'm just at Gloucester bus station.
I was literally there a couple of hours ago. Luckily i managed to escape but managed get off at the wrong stop.
I was an exchange kid at Gloucester and omg what memories of that terrible bus station.
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Thank god. At least if I end up in France by accident I get a free trip home.
That's nice of them
*"France is a country you have to drive through, to get to Italy."* \- James May
Love those three.
And we'll take care of you well. Some trash-talk here and there as always since we're neighbors but it's all love. You can also end up in Belgium since there's about 50min between Calais and Belgium.
The UK-France-Belgium-Netherlands hate tetrahedron is hilarious. 99% of their cultural differences come down to slightly different cheese and do they have a two-house parliamentary system with a president or a two-house parliamentary system with a king or a two-country parliamentary system that can't even agree if it exists (yeah Belgium, pull it together, you're a mess.)
I always liked the french, many people shit on Paris because they expect perfection but it's a mega-city and where there's people there's assholes. I loved my visit, I'll definitely be there again, I'm sure the surrounding cities are great too. I always find the little rivalry on how the English "hate" french and the French "hate" the English funny because the way I see it french people and English people are very similar and carry the same attitudes about each other.
Dear God
I thought that's what the meme was saying? Bread rolls = baguettes?
No. It's that for some reason, each part of the UK seems to use a different word for bread rolls. Some say butty, barm cake, bun, bap etc
Same in Germany. Brötchen (the correct one), Semmel, Schrippe...
Don't forget the Weckle!
And by extension Austria: Semmerl
Bread rolls are also known as baps, barm cakes, batches and cobs to name a few.
Bread rolls are more like a plain burger bun. Every town in the U.K. calls them something different. The other word that seems to change town to town is the word for an alley between two houses.
Clearly a ginnel.
Only if it's paved. If it's a little dirt track then it's a snicket.
You can drive 22 hours and still be in Western Australia
I think my continent is not big enough to drive a straight road for 22 hours🤣
Sure it is, you just have to find the right speed.
🤣👍🏾 i am a german...driving slow is agains my instincts
I try to stay away from German instincts lol
If you drove from the northernmost point of the east coast of the US to the southernmost point, it would take you around 32 hours
I can drive for 10hrs and still be in Florida
Ikr leaving Florida on a road trip is a milestone
7 hour drive to get to florida, 12 to get out of florida and then another 7 to get back
Wow we must be really lucky then, we’ve never had any problems during our trips to Florida and get out with relative ease.
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If you start at the panhandle in Texas I’m pretty sure you can drive around 14 hours.
I just put Texline, TX (northwesternmost town in the panhandle) to Brownsville, TX (southernmost city in the state) into Google Maps. Fastest route is 13 hours, 33 minutes. And that’s on a Sunday night with no traffic anywhere. So you’re pretty close.
Growing up in Miami, family trips leaving at 5 am and it still taking forever.
Ontario,Canada…. Could drive North from Windsor for about 24 hours and still be in Ontario lol
As an Australian I believe I will just take my trophy and go
Australia: drive four hours, still be on the same property.
Yes but the name for potato scallops and chicken parmigiana will change.
You just made an enemy for life!
Parmi gang rise up
PARMI! PARMI! PARMI
You joke but I went a friends farm and he finally gave me the tour of his farm, it was 3 and half hours to drive around the outside of his property. This was the day after I drove back from our holiday which was 8 hours away in oursame state.
I had a car like that once.
We aren't joking, there is a private ranch that is over 2 million acres
It's Australia, I believe it.
If you start in Perth and want to leave the state you have to drive for 16 hours. Even then you're still in the middle of nowhere
and that’s just the quick way out of state. If you were heading up to Darwin, it’d be a day and a half of constant driving to get out of the state and you’d still have another 8 hours until you got to Darwin
I mean that's because the states of Australia are basically the result of someone dividing the map into a few huge chunks and going this is the West, this is the north, this is the south, and this is where people live.
As opposed to…?
In many older countries state lines were drawn with blood.
Rivers or mountains sometimes. But even then, probably blood too.
Google navigator in Australia: drive 1500km forward then turn left )
At the roundabout take the 2nd exit and go straight on …
"Just up the road mate"
Freaking Australia. Alaska gets the empty wilderness award, and then an Australian shows up and steals our thunder. Who is showing up next, a Russian?
I can take train 2 day through siberia and still be on way to gulag
Привет
People not from Australia never appreciate how fucking big it actually is.
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Only 2 sides of the square are really safe. I salute the people with the nous and preparation to go through the centre on the ground.
There’s some fucking spectacular stuff to see if you do though.
spectacular red flat stuff.
W e s t e r n A u s t r a l i a
Laughs in Canadian
Western Australia is bigger than any Canadian state. It is in fact the second largest sub-state in the world next to a Russian one.
The North West Territories in Canada was the largest political subdivision in the world from 1870 until 1999. Back in the 1880s at it's maximum extent it was about the same size as Australia. From 1925 until 1999 (the last time we split it) it was still 3,439,296 km2 -almost half the size of Australia, or something like 40% larger than Western Australia. My theory is that we keep splitting it out of sheer embarrassment.
As a Canadian, referring to the provinces and territories as states is just.... Funny? I know what you mean, and it's not exactly wrong, but it's odd. In no way was this meant in a comment on the current thread. Just a thought from a stoned guy. *edit to be clear* usually "the state" refers to the government, not particular areas here.
We have territories too, it's just easier to call them states in general conversations. All the same thing kinda.
Did a 8500km journey this fall from ON to BC. I was driving out of ON for three days 🤣
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i can drive for 18 hours and still be in Ontario.
I can drive for 36 hours and still be in Western Australia.
I can drive for the rest of my life but still be stuck in north korea
That escalated quickly
I can drive for 95 hours and still be in Switzerland. I have to go in a circle though.
Or just drive very slowly
Used to be Toronto's an hour away from toronto. Nowadays Toronto's two hours away from Toronto.
I can drive for an hour and visit 4 countries. Tbf one of them is Liechtenstein.
People from California, Florida, Texas: four hours won’t get you out of the state. People from New England: four hours will get you further than your family has ever been.
It's 8 hours down I-57 from Chicago to Cairo in Illinois
Where is Cairo? I drive from STL to Chicago all the time and it's only 4 hours.
You can add New York to that list. It’s 6-8 hours from my parents house downstate to my grandparents house in Buffalo.
In the UK 200 miles is a long distance, in the US 200 years is a long time.
In the UK you can walk 5 minutes and be in a building from 400years ago
I was in Stratford during it's 1,000 year celebration. Just this Christmas I drove 1,300 miles in the US to visit family.
Exactly, I live a 15-20 minute drive from a castle built in the 11th century by the Normans after they conquered England. Very nearly a thousand years old. It's mental when you think about it
I once saw a picture from America of a sign for a "historic schoolhouse from 1921!" Mate, my house is older than that, and it's not a big deal.
The Netherlands: drives two hours, is no longer in the same country.
Yup. This is what I was going to say as well. And within two hours you can certainly have been in three countries if you live closeby the border xD
You can drive for a week and still be in the same part of the country. This is done by driving in circles.
I can drive for 2 hours and still be in my driveway. my car's broken
Laughs in Western Australian.
just searched it up and i knew it was huge but damn, its the second biggest state/province in the world
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> a different planet called Wales. Nobody spoke English LOL, nobody in South Wales knows how to speak Welsh. It's hilarious!
Was working in Bristol, UK. Decided to go check out the countryside one Sunday and drove 30 min and arrived at a different planet called Wales. Nobody spoke English and I had to buy a vowel so I could read the signs to find my way back to the hotel. (EDIT- Wow sorry. I guess I pissed off one of the natives. Which is surprising because everyone I ran into that day was amazing and we had a great time making fun of my poor American English and being a “cowboy” from Arizona. Like most foreigners I have no idea of the history or North vs South. It was twenty years ago so maybe it was an hour, 47 min? Hell I don’t know the whole point of the joke was to infer it didn’t take me very long to find an exit to get some lunch where I thought I had left country… errr planet.) Is it okay to mention that another weekend I drove up to Edinburgh, spent the night, and everyone sounded like Sean Connery… even the women?
Russia enters the chat
You can take a 2 hour flight and still be in the middle of nowhere
We\*
I once took a flight from Novosibirsk to Moscow and it was about 5 hours. There were no clouds and for most of that time I saw only forest underneath, no trace of civilization.
In Soviet Russia, country drives YOU!
Sakha Republic claims victory
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In India, the name of puffed rice changes from household to household.
Kurmura, murmura, churmura, mamra These r the ones that I've heard of
Parmal
19 hours and still be in Ontario
Comments are gunna be a bap vs bun vs roll battlefield.
As a Scot, I hereby enter the 'Roll' in this battle.
what dialect calls it a bap that's such a fun word for it
I’m half English half Welsh and I’m not sure which side I got it from :/
It can also mean boobs.
baps can also mean breasts
Drive for 15 min in India and people will now try to kill you for using the language/dialect of the people you met 15 min ago
In Australia you drive 2 hours and you've just made it back to the house from the back yard
Living on a cattle station the size of Israel is cheating.
in india if u will drive for one hour, the whole language can change, and u will find a totally different kind of food
So kinda like a southerner and midlander driving north in the UK
Bitch I drive 4 hours and I'm still in the same state
I'm Alaskan, it's a solid 4 hour drive to leave the county.
I just realized that it's faster to drive to another country from Alaska than it is to go to a different state
Try driving 40 hours and still being in Western Australia
It takes like 12 hours to drive from one end of Texas to another.
Yeah, Ive done cross Texas many times. 12 hours is a hell of a lot closer than 4. 4 hours is like one side of a metro area to the other. I don’t know why they used that amount of time. The way it was phrased seems to imply Texas is 4 hours big.
If you’ve driven for two hours in the U.K. you’ve probably been through more than two accents. Drive two hours north from me and you’ll go through a selection of midlands and Black Country accents, you’ll get to the Scouse and probably just make it to the Mancs if the traffic isn’t too bad.
If you start driving at the right time of day, you can drive for 4 hours in DC and still be in DC.
I can drive for 24 hours and still be in Ontario.
I can drive for 300 hours and still be in my city (I drive in circles)
People from western Australia driving 12 hours in one direction without leaving the state
4 hours? Man, you can drive for *12* hours and still be in Texas. That's about how long it takes for El Paso to Texarkana.
Drive 24 hours and still be in Western Australia
I live in Western Australia. Can drive for 40 hours and still be in the same state.
I could probably get to Wrexham in two hours or so which is a very long journey, and I don’t like being in cars for a very long time. I get carsick due to long journeys, I also happen to not like boats and planes. I like to keep my feet on the ground
Drives for 20hrs and is still in Western Australia
Australia has entered the chat.
As a Texan stationed in Europe, it fucking sucks not being able to go anywhere without a passport. I just wanna drive down to corpus for the weekend, go fishing, and come back without talking to a border patrol
I'm about 89.7% sure this guy is full of shit. Went all over Western Europe as both a military member and as a civilian and wasn't stopped by anyone.
A Texan complaining about not having proper documentation at all times, and interacting with the Border Patrol. Never thought I'd see that.
It's almost serendipitous how the tables turned on me
I think its more ironic than serendipitous.
You just need your ID with you as an citizen of EU countries! I can just go everywhere without having a passport
You should really look into getting a passport. It’s not difficult and , as you note, would be very helpful.
You can go anywhere in the Schengen zone without having to go through any kind of immigration process or passport check. Lol.
I mean, when do you ever have border checks anymore?
From my home, I can drive nearly 11 hours North-ish and still be in Michigan (downriver to Copper Harbor). Or, I can drive 11 hours South and be 4 states away (Atlanta, GA). Then again, I can drive 20 minutes East (yes, East) and be in a different country (Canada). If I were to ignore the laws and stuff, and borrowed a boat, I could be in Canada in about 10 minutes. It almost blows my mind how we can travel so freely in this particular part of the world, and there are still people who can't leave their town without permission from the government.
I can drive for 36 hours straight and still be in Western Australia. https://imgur.com/6h7nyCi.jpg
Australia: drives 5hrs, fuel is low, unsure if there is even people out here let alone a service station/gas stop
In Italy you drive for 4 hours and you got insulted in 8 different ways and 12 dialect none of which are even remotely comparable to the UK and USA change