In Europe, 200km is a long distance
In the US, 200 years is a long time
laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 weeks ago
I’ve been driving for years and I’m still in Spain.
Fribbtastic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At some point you need to actually leave the roundabout.
Janx@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Yeah, the police were very emphatic about that.
Tja@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Skill issue
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
And I would rather be in Germany than any of those states.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Idk I’d rather be in Chicago than certain parts of Germany. Like Berlin or Munich of course are better than anywhere in the US, but small town east Germany? Yeah, I’ll take the good pizza (Chicago bar style) and freshwater sea even if it comes with the drunkest drivers you ever did see
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’d rather eat Detroit pizza than anything served in Germany.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d rather have affordable healthcare
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s also possible to drive through about ten countries in 8 hours in Central Europe.
cattywampas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
starik@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
This is a shitpost because it’s an inversion of that common observation.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I think any definition of Central Europe that includes 10 countries is really stretching it. Anyway, Poland-Slovakia-Czechia-Austria-Hungary-Slovenia-Croatia-B&H (8) should be barely possible to visit in an 8-hour trip over much of one former big country.
Nastybutler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
nightlily@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Nastybutler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At least you have a road that reaches diagonally across WA. If Alaska did it would take a lot longer than that
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Windsor to Sioux Lookout is similar if you stay in Ontario.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s a beautiful resort name
Nastybutler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ladel@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
The question is, how many states will you visit during that drive through Germany?
Rothe@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Yeah, the creators of the meme kind of bungled the punchline by choosing another federation as the European example. Because you literally will drive through several German states as well.
They should have chosen France or Poland, or Sweden, I think most people underestimates how big Sweden is in an European perspective.
Gormadt@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I mean, it is a shitpost in the shitposting community
Bungling the meme, if anything, is right on brand lol
DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I count 7.
neidu4@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I only count one. Mostly because I only know of one and its location with certainty.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
The highlighted route is four states, therefore Deutschland is bigger than USAland.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
And at what speed (Autobahn!)
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Damage@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
This makes Italy smaller than I thought it was tbh
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
what’s the “highway speed” in Italy? Is it 90kph?
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
California is pretty similar if you’re going north to South… if you avoid commute hours. Then you’re looking at. 16 hour drive.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think you can also drive in California in a straight line for 16 hours. I mapped it once during a slow work day lol
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I5 will take you from Mexico to Canada. And that drive across CA is long as shit when you’re going north to South.
And CA has some world-famous high-traffic spots around places like LA, which makes it even worse during commute hours.
San Diego to Oregon is, IMHO, better done as a 2 day drive. And both of those days are still going to suck.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That’s the joke. Americans say Europeans can travel 8 hours and touch x number of states but in America you don’t leave any.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Hop a train, and you’re in another country quick though.
NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You didn’t really need to jog over to Marfa though.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Uh, you can drive for longer than that and still be in the same province here in Canada.
justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
You can drive for double that and be in the same province.
Texas is tiny.
AmyAye@nord.pub 2 weeks ago
I mean, just using this general location, if you started in Chicago and went south on 57 out of Chicago, you might still be in Illinois at the end of the trip.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I recently visited Saskatchewan for a friend’s wedding in a town nearish Saskatoon. Crossing the boarder in North Dakota it was another 8 hours of driving in SK before we reached our destination…which was still in the lowest 1/3 of the province!
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Oh yeah? Well where I live I can drive for a solid 24 hours and never leave my county.
Because I live on O’ahu and I’d be driving in circles (or sitting in rush hour traffic coming from Westside into town, yeah)
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Takes 2 days to drive from Thunder Bay to Toronto.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you appear to be “alternative” in any way, do not drive through Texas.
I have driven through Texas three times, and I have gotten pulled over and searched every time. The cops would love to have any excuse to seize your car and cash, they hate you.
If you absolutely must drive through Texas, at least remove your Darwin fish and any political stickers, get a hair cut, remove your face piercings, and wear a cowboy hat or baseball cap or something.
I’m not exaggerating and this is not a joke.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
You can fly a passenger plane at full speed in a straight line for 10 hours and still be in France.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Shoulda started on the southern Maine border. You can touch 10 states in about 8 hours. (ME NH MA RI CT NY NJ PA DE MD)
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They both never leave the country
Cerothen@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
A state is part of a country and comparing a state to a country in this context didn’t make sense. “Hey this subregion is smaller than your region”. In the same area you drive through at least 4 Germany states.
If you really want to play look at this.
22h without leaving a single Canadian province maps.app.goo.gl/2vWuVHRCt4F8ckSL8?g_st=ac
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Germany has the Autobahn system and thus relatively short travel times. I’m pretty sure even smaller countries like Latvia have two points separated by an 8+ hour drive!
🇱🇻 stronk!
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Do you know that European countries have “states”, too? And that this person crossed several of them (how many depends on the route taken) on the tour through Germany should be clear, too.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bullshit on the first panel, that’s driving through the narrow part of Michigan, slivers of the narrow parts of 2 states, and a sliver of Illinois. Which is only four states. Texas is an obvious example of a long drive, but also try going through Georgia, lengthwise. That’s at least a 7 hour drive.
Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Driving through Nebraska is literally hell.
Fermenade@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Well… as there is no speed limit on german highways, you could theoretically visit every part of germany within ten minutes including one trip to a doener-man, to get a doener.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And how many German “Länder” did that trip drive through? Drive for 8 hours, still in US; drive for 8 hours, still in Germany would be more correct.
DragonAce@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It takes 14 hours to drive all they way through Florida, north to south
lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Bavaria, Hessen, Niedersachsen and Hamburg
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Looks like Hamburg to Munich, the highlighted route goes through HH, NI, HE and BY, four states.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
When you drive though Montana lengthwise, it just never seems to end. And sometime youre driving for hours and the only part of the scenery that changes is the position of the sun.
hamsamrich@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The difference is measurable!
cattywampas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This reminds me that I really want to take a road trip through New England sometime.
bizzle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s my ganja smuggling route
y0kai@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
i constantly hear stories of Europeans who won’t visit family because the drive is too long. i ask how long and they’re like “20-30 minutes” lmao. it has taken me that long to get to the store in some places I have lived in the US lol
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Europeans were so insistant on getting freedom of movement in the EU just to not fucking use it.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Good for them dismantling an injustice on principle.
ajmaxwell@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s true freedom
Miaou@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
We just take the train
marcos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
On the other hand, they would need to learn 5 languages in case they need to ask for directions on that travel.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
That’s because you also have an American car.
Badum tss…
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
On a recent work trip to Atlanta we had an over an hour long Uber ride to go 8 miles…in the suburbs!
Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Rural south. I drive 27 minutes to get groceries.
LiarAmongAll@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Like, I’ve driven 7 hours to kick it with the homie for the weekend.
And I hate that for me, why the fuck don’t we have a nationwide high-speed rail?
lokalhorst@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-e46xdcUo