The Appalachians have been mountains longer than North America has been a continent
Those moutains are so quaint
Submitted 10 hours ago by negativenull@piefed.world to [deleted]
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platypode@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
To the extent that a portion of the mountain chain that formed the Appalachian Mountains is in Europe. The Appalachians were a part of the Central Pangean mountain system, which makes them older than the Atlantic Ocean.
They’ve seen some shit.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
That’s kind of awesome to think about.
I’m picturing myself on Pangea. The mountains in front of me are taller than the Himalayas today. These are the Appalachians. Oh no, a dinosaur! Look out, duck! Huh, that’s not a duck that’s a QUETZALCOATLUS! Everybody run! How can we outrun a QUETZALCOATLUS?!?!?! AAAHHHHHH.
Isn’t it beautiful?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
And through it all, the mountains can all agree…trump is the biggest piece of shit they’ve ever heard of.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
And as old as that is, sharks are older than the mountains.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They’re the bones of the world dawg. It’s why there’s so much spooky scary shit here (I live in Appalachia.)
Spitefire@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Not just the bones of the world, they’re older than bones.
g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They’re older than Saturn’s rings
garth@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Western trails: Ascend on nicely-graded switchbacks.
Eastern trails: Ascend straight up a seasonal creek bed.
mbp@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
That’s actually incredibly real
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 34 minutes ago
Hehe, butt knob
Hikermick@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
This guy hikes
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Its not the height, it’s the age. Thar be eldritch monsters in the Appalachians. Rockies is just aliens and (Gay) Bigfoot
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The Appalachians are older than trees and bones and exist across three continents.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Shit. Sierra Nevadas are straight up on fire.
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Hey now, do you really think all the eldritch monsters just stayed in the appalachians? No.
Thats why there are skinwalkers in the rockies; they’re just wendigo that heard there were taller mountains forming in the west and decided to migrate over.
/s
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 7 hours ago
You shouldn’t talk about those things.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 3 hours ago
Gringos and their flatland they call a country
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
As someone from the west coast and now living on the east coast, the number one thing I can say is… the food sucks. All of it.
East coast food culture sucks.
Its either bland or some unholy pairing of bullshit (that also sucks). And I also think they go out of their way to make things wrong.
Try to order a “California Burrito” (if you dont know, Google it, pretty common), so what does Virginia think goes in it? Chicken, steak and shrimp and beans… thats not “choice of meat”, that all 3 together. None of which is what is a California Burrito is…
Here in Viriginia they just fuck up everything. Order a Philly Cheesesteak… what do they put in it? Fucking lettuce and tomatoes… what’s not in it, fucking cheese. You get more authentic subs from big chains like Subway. Like these people dont have the internet to search.
Oh, and sit down at a Mexican restaurant, theyll bring you chips with white sauce. Everyone else is thinking “oh cool queso”. No, not queso… its mayo with some onion powder… these mf serve tortilla chips with mayonnaise…
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Are you ok?
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
There no way they are. That sounds awful.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
No man.
Just grabbed some dinner with the kid at a Mexican restaurant in town… all I wanted was a burrito and they wouldn’t give it to me. Just one Cali burrito and they wouldn’t give it to me…
VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
East coast food culture sucks
Order a Philly Cheesesteak
So, um, just curious, but which coast do you think those are from?
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Listen, I know Philly is more east than west… but Ive had a Philly cheesesteak on the west coast. It was awesome… now… explain this shit being served here on the east coast…
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
California Burrito
Carne asada, guacomole salsa, pico de gallo, french fries, a bit of cheese. A BIT like a tiny bit.
Its not a fucking delicacy, its a drunken fools only hope at 4 AM. Its not meant for a plate. Burritos are not meant for church. Its not high fucking art. Its fucking food and its meant to be a way.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
My man, my fucking man, let me show you this shit.
Restuarant 1 Image
WITH fries. Like, as a side. Not in the burrito, neverminding everything else wrong.
Heres a different restaurant also nearby
Fucking google that shit… its like everyone out here heard that California burritos are popular and did literally NO further looking into it. Just made some shit up.
And look at this shit… you see that white “dipping sauce” there? Thats not queso…
fireweed@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
… How did we get here from mountains?
Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
please keep the convo on track. we’re talking about burritos
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
We talking about burritos now.
mbp@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
People are clowning on ya but I get it.
I grew up in Florida and moved to Oregon, the food culture was shit back home. People here will like watch you take that first bite and gauge your reaction; it kinda freaked me out at first lol. People are passionate as fuck about food here.
That being said, New Orleans still had some of the best food I’ve ever had in my life and it is on the East. Consider it the exception that proves the rule.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Does New Orleans really count as the east?
valar@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
As someone from the southeast I had the opposite reaction when visiting Cali. No soul in that food at all!
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
If youre visiting, get away from the tourist shops. This is true when you’re visiting anywhere. Don’t eat the food made for tourists.
Ask a local, find some place that has a dude selling burritos out of an unmarked doorway counter. If you see an old mexican lady wandering around with a ice chest behind her, shes selling homemade tamales, get that shit.
Food near tourist areas is made bland af to appeal the widest visiting audience.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You need to hit up the south. Amazing food. Sure the weather is hot af, the politics are fucking terrible, and you’ll probably get some odd looks of you’re not white.
But boy…that food. Put some pounds on you quick but you’ll leave fat and sassy
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Correct, barbeque from the south, dessert from the Amish, Italian from New York and nearby Italian grandmother’s. If you get a burrito from some place that’s bad that doesn’t mean there isn’t top tier food there.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Your spoon may be too big though.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Counterpoint: fresh lobster. Ordering lobster in a restaurant is crazy expensive for no reason. Cheap and delicious during peak season (nb it may not be cheap anymore since I left the area 10 years ago)
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
how do they fuck that up lol the main thing that separates a cali burrito and a burrito is the french fries being IN the burrito. thats like one of the lowest hanging fruits to fuck up.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Right? And it would be one thing if just one restaurant fucked it up. You’d be like “well that restaurant is just dumb”… but its like…ALL of them. All of them fuck it up in different ways.
Its baffling…
gothic_lemons@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
What part of Virginia? cuz some parts are better than others
RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Oh I feel this so much, grew up primarily on the west coast (with some time on the east coast and in the south) and now that I’m living on the east coast again the general quality of food here is abysmal compared to average places I could find anywhere in places like Arizona, California, or Washington.
almost1337@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
What part of Virginia? Hampton Roads is basically only good for seafood, but they are good at it. Northern Virginia has diverse and interesting ethnic food options, but you have to look for them. Richmond I assume is the same. Western Virginia is kind of rural sprawl but the southern food is great.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Where are you ordering your food from, the dumpster?
Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
if “my mountains can beat up your mountains” is some element of the conversation, i’m not talking at all, i’m walking the other direction
bizarroland@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
What if it’s a titty fight, but nobody wants to say the word titty?
Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
my moobs can beat up your mountains
atomicorange@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Let the titties do the talkin
toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online 8 hours ago
I found out that pierced nipples give you an edge in titty fighting
The_v@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
South America looks at both and snorts… “You call those mountains!!” These babies are started with the breakup of Pangea and are still growing.
First time I was flying into Santiago, I was amazed when we hit 3,000m and looked way up at the mountains out the window.
tresspass@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Can we get a map of mountain deaths? Mt Washington would run up the scoreboard.
Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 1 hour ago
Do murders on mountains count? Then there are definitely mountains with way higher kill counts than anything in the Rockies.
Zink@programming.dev 6 hours ago
Sometimes it’s not the moutains that get you, it’s the smaller hills and valleys surrounding them because there are actually people and roads there.
Sometimes if you make a wrong turn in Pittsburgh, you are not just going the wrong direction but are also at the wrong elevation or on the wrong layer, and there’s no looping around the block to get back to where you started.
Disclaimer: This thread led me to read the Wikipedia article about Appalachia. Some definitions of the region do not include Pittsburgh or even parts of Pennsylvania, but at the same time there’s a photo of downtown Pittsburgh at the top of the article, so I went with it.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
the west coast was formed by an acient change of massive volcanic activities, thats why its also very fertile soil.
content_educator_94@thelemmy.club 9 hours ago
We get it, people from the west coast, you’re better than us, we fucking get it.
Y’all can find something else to jack off about now.
Dr_Fetus_Jackson@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Nah, this is more fun to jack off to. Speaking of, have y’all heard how terrible the Cali Burritos are out east?
UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Hey I get this reference. Sick meta.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’ve never even heard of a Cali Burrito. Is it made of acid rain and somehow simultaneously water shortages?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Hey, while you might not win on education, healthcare, quality of life or cultural attitudes towards racism, you can always come at the west coast over this BS:
“It’S tHe IcE tHaTs ThE pRoBlEm” sure, and the fact there’s eight whole plows in the entire state and nobody even understands the concept of winter tires is just totally unrelated…
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
In general, ICE is always the problem. Even in Las Vegas.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
You’d think if it were true they wouldn’t spend so much time trying to prove it. They doth protest too much
content_educator_94@thelemmy.club 3 hours ago
Right?
Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth until 1996 was on Mt. Washington, NH. That’s gotta count for some cool points.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Siethron@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You see that little bump in the middle, those are the Ozark Mountains. The East coast’s seem perfectly fine from here
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Talk about some more really old old mountains.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Those are some nice rolling hills.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Those mountains to the east have endured much more bullshit than those young whippersnapper ranges in the west. They’re story begins as part of the African continental plate.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
I constantly hear people calling that tiny little blip just right of center “mountains” and its fucking ridiculous.
Bahnd@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The east coast has some teeth, Mt. Washington will absolutely ruin your day.
Unleaded8163@fedia.io 9 hours ago
I will never forget the day I fell coming down a run and it was snowing so fast I lost both my skis under a foot of snow before I could get back up hill to them. Good times :)
trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Huh, is that also why the western half is relatively unpopulated? It’s not quite the inverse of the population density, but not too far off either…
notsure@fedia.io 9 hours ago
...don't like quaint...soon leads to little shops selling jars of jam for one-half side of toast
pseudo@jlai.lu 17 minutes ago
I don’t know a single thing about USA elevation. Is this map real?