First time visiting, i arrived in Sāo Paulo in a Bus, when i saw the sign "Welcome to Sāo Paulo i stood up and started to get my things... When we got to the São Paulo Bus Station, 5 hours later, i understood why the other passengers were very amused by my behavior.
I know so many people who choose to drive. It blows my mind. Like, yeah, the subways can be frustrating, but nowhere near as frustrating as driving in the city.
I can drive for like 2 minutes in my mind and still be in my mind. Beyond that I'm more limited by my attention span than the amount of space I can imagine.
Dunno, but 13 hours is not that much really. I can drive for more than 13 hours straight, in Italy, without going in circles, staying on the highway, traveling between two region capitals and not counting the islands. And it's Italy, not exactly the biggest country in the world. Or even in Europe.
Normally the good jokes are also somewhat smart, even though they are not "serious". A joke about Texas being big is not very smart, IMHO. Is also not very original, as it's not the first one I've seen in this vein. And above all, it's specially stupid to end it with a remark about "The European mind cannot comprehend this", because Europeans know a lot more about the US than the US people know about Europe.
IOW, it's not that it's struck a nerve, it's that it was legit bad.
PS: Oh, and, the fact that it appeals to Europeans, it seems like it appeals on Europe as a whole, which makes it doubly stupid, because then individual members of the EU/continent are like USA states, and then each member/state has routes as long as the one in the original meme.
I never said it was a good joke... smh. Looks like its easy to trigger the Europeans nowadays. I'm assuming you're European; could be wrong here. Please correct me if so.
I was in Texas for the eclipse. It messed me up driving on little two lane country roads with a 75mph speed limit. Back home only the big highways get close to that
Yeah, I-10 goes straight across the western most to Eastern most part of Texas and is almost 900 miles long. The average US state is larger than the average European country if you only count Russia west of the Urals. Europeans think of the US as a country similar to the UK or Germany when theu really need to think of it more like the EU and each state it's own country. New York City to Los Angeles is almost exactly the same distance as Moscow to Portugal. Seattle to Miami is like London to Bagdad.
Europeans understand the concept of states, lots of european countries are subdivided into states. The USA is one country, a large one but still only one.
It doesn't change the fact that the US is more analogous to a super nation organization like the EU than any particular European state. Texas and California aren't conducting their own foreign diplomacy like the Spain or France are, but their internal laws, taxation, bureaucracies are wildly different, with each state essentially out for itself with the federal government intervening in extreme cases. Ohio and Michigan have GDP's that are equivalent to Austria and Switzerland. Comparing Texas to Bavaria is as ridiculous as comparing New York City to Singapore.
I want that here. I feel like so much less of a dying lazy ass when I bike places. I also don't zonk out and suddenly realize I'm at the destination with no recollection of anything leading up to it since getting into the car.
I have actually encountered this phenomenon, and it involves neither Americans nor Europeans. I live in Korea, and I'm from Canada. I've had to explain that no, I have never been to Vancouver because it's something like 8000 km from where I lived on the opposite coast in Canada. At least a couple weeks of driving. In Korea, the furthest you can be from anywhere is about a four-hour drive.
Apparently it only takes 9hrs to drive around Moscow. US guys, your time to shine! I bet you'd have a city that would take more time to drive around than Netherlands
Not sure how you'd drive around NY (on a boat?), but I was pretty sure that DFW is at least just as big - must be, given how it's population is only 2x smaller, but consists mostly of suburbs that consume vastly more space per person compared to Moscow's commieblocks. There's no neat circle roads there, though, but taking even the most encompassing route (which is fair game given how Moscow's ring road also wraps around a lot of area not under Moscow jurisdiction) it still takes less time, even though the distance is higher.
If you drive the border of Texas it is a trip more than 40 hours long. Two straight days of non-stop driving. The US is stupid big and has an insane amount of roadways, you could drive your whole life and have roads you have never been on.
This has me curious about the extremes of the relationship between perimeter length and area of various states. Time to go down a YouTube rabbithole I think, stand up maths probably has something on it.
I'm reasonably sure that that route neither begins nor ends in Holland. I think Holland is the western area of the Netherlands, not the northernmost bit.
There are still people alive calling Iran Persia. It will take a while until Holland rebranding to Netherlands will take over, whole generations learned about Holland in school and will continue to use that name until the day they die.
In about a century it'll be quite a bit smaller than it is now, meaning that 13 hours it takes to drive the Nether- I mean Holland would become... I'm guessing 10 hours (I have no idea how to calculate stuff like this myself, so please downvote this comment if I'm too far away from the correct answer)
If I managed to get Belgian citizenship right before that happens, will it get immediately invalidated and replaced with a Dutch citizenship? Or will I get to have both at the same time?
You can drive 13 hours from NYC and still be in NYC. A sane mind cannot comprehend this.
Especially if you take the tunnel
The truelly scary part is you only be a mile away if your lucky :)
First time visiting, i arrived in Sāo Paulo in a Bus, when i saw the sign "Welcome to Sāo Paulo i stood up and started to get my things... When we got to the São Paulo Bus Station, 5 hours later, i understood why the other passengers were very amused by my behavior.
A fitting punishment for choosing to drive in NYC
I know so many people who choose to drive. It blows my mind. Like, yeah, the subways can be frustrating, but nowhere near as frustrating as driving in the city.
Bikes are the best way to get around the city.
What kind of crazy person drives in NYC?
Some of us have no choice. I drive for work sometimes and jesus it’s so frustrating. Can turn a 12hr work day into a 16hr one.
If you drove circles around my neighborhood for 13 hours, you'd still be in my neighborhood. The non-local area'n mind cannot comprehend this.
If you sit in the car and make engine noises for 13 hours you'd still be in my driveway! The adult mind cannot comprehend this.
13 hours from now I'll still be on the couch...
🤯
If I sat in my car and made engine noises for 13 hours, I'd die from carbon monoxide poisoning. My adult mind cannot comprehend this.
> get in car
> drive for 13 hours
> still at home
> wtf how?
It's called sim racing addiction.
Don't worry, they just competed in Le Mans Virtual.
Mind. Circled.
I can drive for like 2 minutes in my mind and still be in my mind. Beyond that I'm more limited by my attention span than the amount of space I can imagine.
I can walk 13 hours in my bedroom and still be in my bedroom. An insane mind cannot comprehend this.
Doesn't make sense. Can you prove it?
Well that trip has maybe 1 hour in Holland. The rest is other provinces.
🤫 They don't know that
Are nether lands anything like nether regions?
yes, in the sense that they have negative elevation ;)
Speak for yourself
Is this a euphamism for fellatio? Because I believe Amsterdam has that.
Everyone knows Holland = Netherlands = Holland
You can cycle for 13 hours anywhere in the country and still be alive, usa'nean mind can't comprehend this
This is who I expected to be delivering that line
Gru when he sees one of his adopted daughters:
You can walk 13 hours towards Mordor and still not be in Mordor. One does not simply walk into Mordor.
It's funny how Google Maps has a reference to this if you tell it to give you walking directions to "Mordor".
Although I don't think it works with every starting location.
Damn, that meme really struck a nerve with the Europeans, huh?
As someone from neither place - I'm guessing it didn't strike a nerve, so much as it struck a funny bone.
There's just something ludicrous about the phrasing.
I just liked the meme
Dunno, but 13 hours is not that much really. I can drive for more than 13 hours straight, in Italy, without going in circles, staying on the highway, traveling between two region capitals and not counting the islands. And it's Italy, not exactly the biggest country in the world. Or even in Europe.
PS: in August that's 24hrs
It may not be the biggest by area, but it sure is a long boy.
It is more like a ridiculous argument that we are now ridiculing.
Show me one person who brags about driving in a single location for so many hours, outside of the memes.
It didn't really seem like an argument to me... more like a joke that some people took way too seriously.
Normally the good jokes are also somewhat smart, even though they are not "serious". A joke about Texas being big is not very smart, IMHO. Is also not very original, as it's not the first one I've seen in this vein. And above all, it's specially stupid to end it with a remark about "The European mind cannot comprehend this", because Europeans know a lot more about the US than the US people know about Europe.
IOW, it's not that it's struck a nerve, it's that it was legit bad.
PS: Oh, and, the fact that it appeals to Europeans, it seems like it appeals on Europe as a whole, which makes it doubly stupid, because then individual members of the EU/continent are like USA states, and then each member/state has routes as long as the one in the original meme.
I never said it was a good joke... smh. Looks like its easy to trigger the Europeans nowadays. I'm assuming you're European; could be wrong here. Please correct me if so.
Yeah this is literally Europeans clowning on the dumb "joke" with our own version of the dumb joke.
I'm just glad yall found a new joke
You can drive in Russia for 161 hours and still be in Russia:
And that's not even a lap like the OP's picture (if Russia even has such roads to approximate driving the perimeter)
Best joke of the day! You wouldn't even consider the road across a road, lmao, perimeter.
Yeah, but plenty of the land contributed to Russia doesn't belong to them, so its fake
To Magadan!
You can drive 30minutes into Russia and end up in Ukraine! No matter where you start from
If you are male russian citizen between age of 18 and 30, that is not currently a student, then yes. Or doctor of any age.
New friend: "hey, we live close, why don't you come over?"
You: go full circle through the whole country to get there
It’s like that one time in Australia when the road was closed
Better to book a flight to circumnavigate the globe first.
You can drive 13 hours from R'lyeh and still be in R'lyeh, the euclidean mind cannot comprehend this.
Holland is only the western part of the netherlands.
Muricans trying to make euromemes. Notlikethis.png
Or at least that's what it feels like
I mean, if we wanna be silly about it
Bonus, here's my travels from my home-state from my current home to my girlfriend's home-state, back and to where we are planning on moving next year.
63 hours? Pffft. Driving in Russia for 161 hours:
161 hours is a very optimistic estimation... given the extreme weather conditions and the awful roads at the far east.
That's just cause y'all's roads are slow.
Texas has many roads with 80/85mph limits. (128/136kph)
I was in Texas for the eclipse. It messed me up driving on little two lane country roads with a 75mph speed limit. Back home only the big highways get close to that
Is that scale real?
Yes! Check out https://www.thetruesize.com/
Yeah, I-10 goes straight across the western most to Eastern most part of Texas and is almost 900 miles long. The average US state is larger than the average European country if you only count Russia west of the Urals. Europeans think of the US as a country similar to the UK or Germany when theu really need to think of it more like the EU and each state it's own country. New York City to Los Angeles is almost exactly the same distance as Moscow to Portugal. Seattle to Miami is like London to Bagdad.
Europeans understand the concept of states, lots of european countries are subdivided into states. The USA is one country, a large one but still only one.
It doesn't change the fact that the US is more analogous to a super nation organization like the EU than any particular European state. Texas and California aren't conducting their own foreign diplomacy like the Spain or France are, but their internal laws, taxation, bureaucracies are wildly different, with each state essentially out for itself with the federal government intervening in extreme cases. Ohio and Michigan have GDP's that are equivalent to Austria and Switzerland. Comparing Texas to Bavaria is as ridiculous as comparing New York City to Singapore.
I didn’t see no banana!
And you can still drive 13 hours and stay in Texas.
Laughs in no speed limit
TIL in Texas and Holland you can only drive on a road once.
After seeing the other post a minute ago. This is the shit posting that I love to see.
Best of all, you can likely make that same lap on bicycle as well as the cycling infrastructure is beyond awesome.
I want that here. I feel like so much less of a dying lazy ass when I bike places. I also don't zonk out and suddenly realize I'm at the destination with no recollection of anything leading up to it since getting into the car.
Sir this is a circle
In Europe you can drive around a roundabout for 13 hours the American mind can not comprehend this.
We have roundabouts. They're just rare and the drivers become temporarily retarded when going in/out of them.
That is actually not legal in Germany. It is forbidden to drive without a reason although this almost never actually gets controlled by anyone.
Source? Or is it a famous quote from Georges Washington?
§ 30 (1) StVO, but it's rather limited.
I have actually encountered this phenomenon, and it involves neither Americans nor Europeans. I live in Korea, and I'm from Canada. I've had to explain that no, I have never been to Vancouver because it's something like 8000 km from where I lived on the opposite coast in Canada. At least a couple weeks of driving. In Korea, the furthest you can be from anywhere is about a four-hour drive.
You can drive for an unlimited amount of time as long as you circle around the streets of your city
Doesn't count
Apparently it only takes 9hrs to drive around Moscow. US guys, your time to shine! I bet you'd have a city that would take more time to drive around than Netherlands
Nope, even New York is smaller.
Russia 1 : US 0
Now try it with New York traffic.
I must assure you Moscow traffic ain't a joke either :D Been there
Not sure how you'd drive around NY (on a boat?), but I was pretty sure that DFW is at least just as big - must be, given how it's population is only 2x smaller, but consists mostly of suburbs that consume vastly more space per person compared to Moscow's commieblocks. There's no neat circle roads there, though, but taking even the most encompassing route (which is fair game given how Moscow's ring road also wraps around a lot of area not under Moscow jurisdiction) it still takes less time, even though the distance is higher.
Fair enough!
Is Lemiers really Holland, though?
I can drive 12 hours across BC and just barely hit the border. The short way.
Do it for no PST.
Or, you know, go down to washington state, which hasnt fucked over BC's envrionment and doesnt take 4 tanks of gas to get therr and back.
If you drive the border of Texas it is a trip more than 40 hours long. Two straight days of non-stop driving. The US is stupid big and has an insane amount of roadways, you could drive your whole life and have roads you have never been on.
This meme is a joke. Of course the Netherlands is absolutely tiny, of course you can drive further in pretty much every US state.
and yet people are homeless
And no room for immigrants
This has me curious about the extremes of the relationship between perimeter length and area of various states. Time to go down a YouTube rabbithole I think, stand up maths probably has something on it.
13 hour drive that’s like Kansas pfff lol. At least it feels like 14 hours every time I drive across it
I'm reasonably sure that that route neither begins nor ends in Holland. I think Holland is the western area of the Netherlands, not the northernmost bit.
There are still people alive calling Iran Persia. It will take a while until Holland rebranding to Netherlands will take over, whole generations learned about Holland in school and will continue to use that name until the day they die.
I'm 28 and it was usually called Holland in school... I'm Estonian, so maybe the news just got here later, we're supposedly pretty slow.
They formally changed the name in 2020, your school was up to date
>13hrs from Pensacola, FL to Key West, FL. 832 mi / 1340 km
Now I want to know how long it would take to circumnavigate other countries and states in a leaderboard
Starting with Russia.
It's about twice the size of New Jersey ...
I mean if you take your time and cherry pick it, you might be able to touch 5 or six states in the trip.
Using texas as scale was funny, but you could fit that entirely in most states pretty easily.
In about a century it'll be quite a bit smaller than it is now, meaning that 13 hours it takes to drive the Nether- I mean Holland would become... I'm guessing 10 hours (I have no idea how to calculate stuff like this myself, so please downvote this comment if I'm too far away from the correct answer)
Smaller? We'll just have to re-annex some stubborn province to the south then. We don't do smaller.
So... Flanders becomes Dutch then?
If I managed to get Belgian citizenship right before that happens, will it get immediately invalidated and replaced with a Dutch citizenship? Or will I get to have both at the same time?
A what mind? Are they trying to say American? Do people not know that word anymore?
J. O. K. E.
Its a meta meme refrencing a meme that hit front page earlier