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)
Just a great example of non-Americans getting a taste of “what, you don’t know what state this shape is? What are you, stupid?” That they like to give us for not recognizing the shape of Lichtenstein on a map
Okay but like, how could you miss Lichtenstein? As long as it’s in scale, you should be able to know it’s the smallest country on the continent and go from there.
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.
I’m sure all those old European royal families are going, “Yeah, yeah, it’s those tiny middle of nowhere American towns where the inbreeding happens. Not here. Never here.”
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
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)
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
alabama’s rep so bad there are more people that know they fuck their cousins there than there are people who know where alabama even is.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Never been to America, no idea where Alabama is, but it’s a well known that they… love family very much.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I don’t think that’s all that surprising, really
Just a great example of non-Americans getting a taste of “what, you don’t know what state this shape is? What are you, stupid?” That they like to give us for not recognizing the shape of Lichtenstein on a map
djsoren19@yiffit.net 4 months ago
Okay but like, how could you miss Lichtenstein? As long as it’s in scale, you should be able to know it’s the smallest country on the continent and go from there.
krippix@feddit.org 4 months ago
Can confirm, I actually checked if thats Alabama before going to the comments.
Votes@lemm.ee 4 months ago
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.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Eh i dont think there is any value in remembering stuff like that, especially if you are not from the US. But thanks for the explainer :)
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The only reason we americans need to know this stuff is to make sure we never accidentally end up going there.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Valuable tip for me, thanks.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m sure all those old European royal families are going, “Yeah, yeah, it’s those tiny middle of nowhere American towns where the inbreeding happens. Not here. Never here.”
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Hahahahha, yeah they were straight up open about it.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 months ago
It’s also why there exist no laws on marrying your cousin.
Because that was keeping the gene pool fresh enough I guess
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Some places don’t allow your first cousin. But that’s actually okay science wise. The probability for issues after the first cousin rapidly declines.
sith@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Ah! LOL!