Spyke
lemm.ee

Im not going to call it the Gulf of America. That's embarrassing.

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PunnyNamereply
lemmy.world

And you. Since you posted with that exact name. Telling on yourself?

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I would quote it or somehow explicitly indicate your sarcasm since it doesn't translate well over text. You can edit post titles.

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Allonzeereply
lemmy.world

I'll call it the Gulf of Carl's Jr

Because that's where we're at.

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reddthat.com

I’ll call it the Gulf of Carl's Jr Hardee's

Because that’s where we're it's at.

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Madison420reply
lemmy.world

The fact we're going to spend money to print new fucking maps is infuriating.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Seriously, did anyone check how much money Rand-McNally and Garmin donated to the "inauguration fund?"

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Madison420reply
lemmy.world

Somehow I imagine schools that are just now replacing maps that show the USSR with these products of ego. Like we as a nation are hilariously bad with geography but we don't need to throw in curve balls to make us look dumber.

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just now replacing maps that show the USSR with these products

"Let's not be hasty it might come back"

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mkhopperreply
lemmy.world

Hasn't happened yet, but I'm waiting to see how long it takes Google to make the change in Maps.

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M0oP0oreply
mander.xyz

Wonder what happens in google maps if viewed outside of the us? Since my country is not changing the name.

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I suspect it'll remain the gulf of Mexico. Google displays maps in local languages based on your IP, so I assume they'd use the name your country accepts. If you log in from Japan you see the sea of Japan to the west, but if you log in from Korea it's called the east sea

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usernamereply
lemm.ee

I'm gonna call it the Gulf of Chile, because Chile is the best country of chile fuck yeah 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🦅🦅

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Jaxreply
sh.itjust.works

Idk, I'd say it's accurate considering how much the U.S. has destroyed what was the Gulf of Mexico.

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discuss.online

I prefer "Gulf of Trump's an Infantile Imbecile" or "Gulfed only by Trump's Impotence and Ignorance".

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I will not upvote any post that says gulf of America, regardless of being a joke. Fuck you.

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Empricornreply
feddit.nl

I know you're joking, but for those who get "gotcha-d" with similar comments:

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P00ptartreply
lemmy.world

Nobody remembers "frisky dingo" and that disappoints me.

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Murderface, the villain, has a rocket that he plans to use to push the earth into the sun. But instead it only pushed earth a few feet further from the sun and he was credit with solving global warming and went on to run for president. It was basically the trial run for archer, lot of the same humor, similar characters, and most of the voice actors. Great show. It also spun off as a series called the x-ticles but only had a show or two before the company folded.

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Don’t even entertain the name with a joke. That’s lending it legitimacy.

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lemmy.ca

Gulf of Mexico, you mean. The gulf of America is something that doesn't exist

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The Gulf of America is the wealth gap between the poor and the ultra-rich.

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lemmy.wtf

Instead of Canada, we're going to rename it Canamerica. Instead of Mexico, we're going to name it Mexigoingtoamerica.

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mitchtyreply
lemmy.sdf.org

I’ve been using canadia for years, got a ring to it you know. Did I miss something about the gulf though, was this really a talking point to be freedom fried on day one?

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nepenthesreply
lemmy.world

Canada: comes from the Huron-Iroquois word “kanata,” meaning “village”.

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Reyalireply
lemm.ee

There was literally an executive order on it yesterday. Link

TL;DR: he’s ordered Denali to be renamed back to Mount McKinley and Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.

Sadly not The Onion.

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Wow that’s just… gonna be a long 4 years of facepalms. He’s aware executive orders aren’t kings edicts right? Any non gov official can be like cool story bra. I will need to buy more beer.

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Guild of Mexico.

Flippancy or sarcasm, or not, continuing to use his language only empowers it.

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Still think its weird he didn't start with changing new Mexico to something else but instead the gulf.

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Sooooooo back in 2008 when I lived in Houston, we got a solid inch of snow.. and the year before that when I was in California, it froze so bad the pipes burst…

I used to joke I brought the Midwest with me but it turns out it was just climate change :(

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mander.xyz

I know this is a joke, but snow along the Gulf Coast, while not common, is also not unprecedented in the dead of winter. It was actually more common a century ago

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lemm.ee

It snowed in the Gulf of Meh-hico? [using the Spanish pronunciation because fuck trump][eye dialect]

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New Orleans got hit with the biggest blizzard in the city's history.

Gonna need ah whole heapin pot ah Gumbo tah warm me through this heyah week.

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lemmy.ca

Pretty sure they have more snow then parts of Canada right now

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lemmy.world

I'm in Canada and I have only a tiny wisp of snow that is frozen to our very very cold ground.

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If you still have 2 feet, the frostbite isn't too bad yet.

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Confirm, that's probably more snow than I've seen in two years, given I live in the PNW but still

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lemmy.world

Can we piss everybody off by calling it The Gulf of the Americas?

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Nobody calls it that. Gulf of Mexico Florida man here. Republicans I know think that's dumb and no one plans to say that

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All this “””global warming””” bs is climate extremism! /s

It’s so bad that the temperature where I live (Edmonton, Alberta) barely gets below freezing during winter when it should be around -15 to -20C in December and January. Last winter, we barely had snows save a few snowstorms. Every summer, the city fills with smoke from yearly wildfires and it gets hard to breathe.

The climate was never like this in the last 10 years, yet people still say climate change isn’t human caused or doesn’t exist

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Nowhere is ideologically homogeneous. Stupidity is always a majority and the easiest to amplify.

The problems here are far more complex.

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lemm.ee

I don't think people believe that climate change doesn't exist. I think they just think it's either caused by natural factors or not as dangerous. I bet that 90% of the people are aware of the climate change.

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Weltreply
lazysoci.al

Ridicule is a tool. It's a pity you lack a sense of humour, it helps.

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If they officially changed the name, then that would probably affect a shitton of laws, contracts, treaties, government policies, and who knows what else that reference the "gulf of Mexico"

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lemmy.world

All the naysayers are saying, oh look global warming ha ha ha ha

They don't get that the earth attempts to achieve homeostasis temperature wise.

There is new speculation that the ice age didn't take hundreds of years or ten years. It happened in a matter of weeks.

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Grimyreply
lemmy.world

There is new speculation that the ice age didn't take hundreds of years or ten years. It happened in a matter of weeks.

Do you have a link? I'd love to read more about it and a quick Google didn't turn up anything.

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No, this is what happens when the jet stream goes coo coo thanks to climate change. Without even looking at weather news I’m taking bets northern Canada and Alaska are having a heat wave.

Just wait until the AMOC collapses, europes gonna get real fucking cold real fucking fast.

Oh and when the permafrost melts it’s gonna be go time for all sorts of novel pathogens humans haven’t seen in probably 100k years!

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