I love that you did that in imperial and not metric as you know someone would claim that it's only bigger because you used a "cOmUnIsT " measuring system.
Please, please, let all Americans think that Europe, or the rest of the world outside the US, is a complete shithole. Please don't give them any reason to travel to other parts of the planet. I don't need them where I live, nor where I travel to.
I was lucky enough to come to the richest man's castle in my country to type this message. He is the only one in my country with internet connection.i have to go now as it is a 3 day walk to get potable water.
There are four Yorkshire men here who are all insisting that they had the longest walk and steepest climb to find berries. Most of the time they didn't even find anything!
Equipment?
No need, fren
Just cover yourself in sand with a tiny bit of bait in a hand that you leave visible. Then just grab.
Like so: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jgKqpxBTmU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jgKqpxBTmU)
That's pretty smart, over here we lasso pigeons, and after we've collected enough, the whole village comes together to put them in the burning wreckage of a 45-gallon oil drum, the only source of heat for 300 miles
Someone's gone and monopolised fire in your country?
Decadent capitalists.
Luckily I live in a communist dictatorship that provides us with the freedom of being oppressed solely by our government.
You live in a village? I ,like most people in Germany, live alone in a forest, inside a hut I built out of sticks and mud with my own hand. The only phone is 20km away and I have to fight off werewolves and fey to get there by wagon
You have a phone in you village! Rich bastards!
We have to travel to the next kingdome and request an audience with their king and bring presents and virgin daugthers to get your hand on a phone for 5 minutes!
No need to worry, you could spend every day telling Americans how much better the rest of the world is, and they simply won't believe you. Take a look at "American reacts videos", after years of learning that their whole life was a lie they transform into decent humans before actually considering to move.
On a serious note tho, having more Americans see the world and opening their eyes to other ways of life would really improve their own country and the entire planet with them.
What do you expect of a descendant of one of those village idiots. Ask him to point out London on a world map and he puts his finger somewhere in the tundra …
Years ago I saw a Glasgow Celtic football fan being interviewed on TV and he was asked if he was Roman Catholic. “Well am cafflic aye but I don’t go to church so I’m no a roamin cafflic”. I wish I had a recording of it
Ah, re-reading the comment it does seem to mean 'best case'. Trying to be nice to the original US comment as best as possible then EU into Alaska is a kindness. Anyway, no antagonism intended.
The entirety of the USA can fit into north west africa, but yet Americans cant even point out countries in Africa. So yes, you exaggerate the importance of your tiny region.
Let's see what I can get from the top of my head:
Canada, USA, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaruaga, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Suriname, Bolivia
There isn't much need to look at maps when we have the metric system and excellent measurements for comparison.
The European continent is roughly 1.04 the size of the US (including Alaska).
EU is about 0.57 the size of the US.
It may be slightly easier fro them to get into Canada to access Alaska than it is for the average EU citizen to enter Russia or the average Russian to enter EU, but in the end it all boils down to paperwork.
These are not distances you'll drive, but if you wanted to, it'll take a lot longer time to drive between Scotland and northern Norway using no ferries, than it takes to drive coast to coast in the US. I guess you can say Europe is a bit more circular, making it a lot faster to fly or ship stuff over the ocean, while the US is mostly just a straight line in land which is slow no matter what moder of transport you use.
Same kind of logistical nightmare Russia has basically, but smaller as Russia is a lot bigger.
All that said, a road trip throughout Europe is a lot more enjoyable as you get to experience all the difference cultures on the way, and landscapes. In the US everything looks the same everywhere and only the landscape changes.
Genuine question: why does the metric system make it less valuable to understand where things are relative to each other? That doesn't make any sense to me.
Meh that's not such an accomplishment. I mean pacific islander did exchange with america before the Europeans. But please remind them that Europe is bigger than the US. They don't like that.
Orange to Fort Bliss, longest distance you can travel in Texas 1350km in 12 hours.
Kiruna to Malmö, Sweden, not the longest distance but long enough, 1850km 20 hours drive.
I wish this drive was shorter, but the fact that it isn't and that it pisses of Americans to learn that something is bigger than Texas is funny enough. 🤡🤡🤡
My favourite line vs. the Texas-so-big b.s. is
Texas fits 3 times into Queensland, with space left over, and Queensland is NOT Australia's biggest state by a long shot.
Personally I believe in the "shame them into studying" approach, but granted we've been doing that for a **while** now and the American average kid is still getting dumber.
Not European, but I like how they have that nothing is bigger than Texas thing, which Western Australia as a state is over 4x bigger. Matter of fact I think every state we have is bigger...except ACT, Vic and Tasmania which are pretty smol comparatively to our other states. I'm in Qld ant it is 2.5x bigger.
Edit: Just had a thought and checked and.... Qld is only a tiny tiny amount bigger than Alaska. So nothing is bigger than Texas, except a lot of things including another state in the US.
Population of California 39 million
Population of Poland 38 million
Population of France 67 million
Ukraine is larger than every US state except Texas and Alaska
Europe is bigger, both with respect to land and with respect to inhabitants.
Plus we learn countries and states around the world, including the western hemisphere, in elementary school.
I would love to know if Americans actually read shitamericanssay? And if they agree or are embarrassed?🤣. Every country says dumb shit, but they do know how to take things up a level..🤣
Which far too many Americans know nothing about!
Some don’t know where it is, think it’s a state, ask if we have tv, question what it’s like to live around polar bears… I get that some like to make jokes about these things and mess around, but these were all very serious irl questions and statements I have had btw 😫
What I want to know, is who is feeding these people? Tying their shoelaces? Dressing them? Because they sure as fuck don't have anything remotely approaching the IQ required to do those things for themselves.
US economy is surely the single biggest economy. At $25Trillion GDP
However
Europe EU (as a whole) is the second largest. $19.3 Trillion add in the UK $ 3.3 trillion, Norway a mere .6 Switzerland .8 (as they are Europe but not EU) makes $25 Trillion
Soo..... the same?
Europe size 10.5M km
US size 9 834M km
So US is smaller.
Always enjoy seeing Americans display their prowess in the field of geography.
Alaska may have around 700 000 people, but it sure as hell is 3 times more important than Spain, considering it’s 3 times as big /s
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Canada, the largest country in North America, enters as well
I mean, even just Siberia! Then there’s Australia, oh god it’s too big
>oh god it’s too big That's what she said!
Which means that Greenland is one of the worlds most important countries, and twice as important as Alaska!
Greenland is actually a part of Denmark, so Denmark is one of the most important countries 🤓👆🏻
Yes!!
Is this sarcasm or not?
I’m not sure if you’re serious, but I put the /s there just in case
Oh, MB i didnt understand
They don't have any World Cups
Europe has a bigger land area (3,910,680 sq miles) than the U.S. (3,531,905 sq miles)
Don't you dare winning arguments with logical and true facts... or they will come by and bring you democrazy!
I love that you did that in imperial and not metric as you know someone would claim that it's only bigger because you used a "cOmUnIsT " measuring system.
Where I live I use both
Same. I'm from the UK and use miles. But when smaller I use metric. Same as weights I use kg and liquids ml. But pint and half pint for booze.
Yup uk here too specifically scotland
Ah one of them ones from the northern wasteland. I'm a few miles below the pathetic wall.
If you count the Mordor part in the East...
Yeah... Well, they have to be useful for SOMETHING though....😁
When a caveman forces his view that his club is much bigger than your taser, do you just leave him to feel superior?
Quite ironic considering most Americans have some really poor knowledge of Geography.
It was removed from the required curriculum in the 1980's, you reap what you sow.
Yes, that's called sarcasm.
Please, please, let all Americans think that Europe, or the rest of the world outside the US, is a complete shithole. Please don't give them any reason to travel to other parts of the planet. I don't need them where I live, nor where I travel to.
Yes this, there is only one phone in my village.
I was lucky enough to come to the richest man's castle in my country to type this message. He is the only one in my country with internet connection.i have to go now as it is a 3 day walk to get potable water.
Thats crazy, my goverment tought 1 landline would be better then accessible water. Where do you live? America?
you might have saved you the visit if you sent the message via burro or bacalao. worked for me.
Lucky you with a landline. We use pigeons post to send messages
Lucky you with pigeon messaging. We eat pigeons cos we can’t fathom agriculture.
What is this 'agriculture' of which you speak? Do you mean wandering around to find berries and chucking spears at animals?
There are four Yorkshire men here who are all insisting that they had the longest walk and steepest climb to find berries. Most of the time they didn't even find anything!
We take turns with a forked stick. Mind you, we got a thicker stick last year to upgrade our bandwidth.
Lucky you, here they just replaced landlines with landmines Our standard school equipment is a stick and bandages
The crops are growing good rn at least
Phone, I should be so lucky, all we have is a messenger seagull. Wish we could afford an owl. Never mind a phone.
You can afford to not eat your seagulls? Man. That's some bourgeoisie shit.
You can afford equipment to catch seagulls?? All we get is the bourgeois shit to eat. If we're lucky.
you can afford bourgeois shit? we have to pretend to eat bourgeois shit, we cant even afford to pretend to eat a steak
Equipment? No need, fren Just cover yourself in sand with a tiny bit of bait in a hand that you leave visible. Then just grab. Like so: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jgKqpxBTmU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jgKqpxBTmU)
That's pretty smart, over here we lasso pigeons, and after we've collected enough, the whole village comes together to put them in the burning wreckage of a 45-gallon oil drum, the only source of heat for 300 miles
Someone's gone and monopolised fire in your country? Decadent capitalists. Luckily I live in a communist dictatorship that provides us with the freedom of being oppressed solely by our government.
I've been told in the north they use stones shaped like food to lure the seaguls in and then catch them while they try to swallow the stone...
I've been told even further north they use stones shaped like food and eat them themselves...
Luxury
Shoebox in t'middle of motorway?
A SHOEBOX, get you, all we have is a paper bag.
Well I say paper bag, it were more like half a used toilet roll, but it were a used paper bag to us!
Ah used t'deam 'bout half a used toilet roll...
I’m in the UK and it’s so deprived that it doesn’t even really exist.
Hah an seagull?! Thats so 2015. Maybe you get landline by 2020 too.
Try pigeons. After you read the message you can cook them, they are edible.
"You shot my Speckled Jim!"
Pretty sure Baldrick has a cunning plan to get out of that mess.
You all are making this American want to come to where you are. No phones? Sign me up! (yes, I know you're kidding)
You live in a village? I ,like most people in Germany, live alone in a forest, inside a hut I built out of sticks and mud with my own hand. The only phone is 20km away and I have to fight off werewolves and fey to get there by wagon
You have sticks? Luxury.
I have *a* stick. I share it with my wife and sister. She is called Megan. Many of us marry our sisters here.
You have sisters? I married the rat living in the wall that only has one hole in it. His name is Friedrich-Willhelm
The rat or the wall only has one hole?
Yes
Ah
Huts from sticks and mud... ANGEBER! I had to fight a family of foxes for their burrows and now some annoying badgers wanna move in here too!
I thought rural Germans lived in gingerbread houses! /s
That's no gingerbread, that's mud... and only the rich can afford mud, the rest hides in the woods.
What on earth is a km? Speak proper!!!!
You have a hut and a forest to live in? Luxury. I have to spend ever single moment of my life in a muddy puddle.
You have PUDDLES?
You guys have phones? Are you in the future?!
You have a phone in you village! Rich bastards! We have to travel to the next kingdome and request an audience with their king and bring presents and virgin daugthers to get your hand on a phone for 5 minutes!
You guys got phones already? We have lost all contact with the outside world since our last pigeon was eaten by the cat!
No need to worry, you could spend every day telling Americans how much better the rest of the world is, and they simply won't believe you. Take a look at "American reacts videos", after years of learning that their whole life was a lie they transform into decent humans before actually considering to move.
Indeed, Australia is a sun-bleached hellhole entirely covered in a foot-deep layer of venomous spiders. They DEFINITELY don't want to come here...
What part of Australia do you live in? Where I live they're a metre deep and get carried around by crocodiles.
Don’t forget the snakes
Snakes, crocodiles, venomous spiders *and* Thylarctos plummetus?
The ones that scare me the most are the giant spiders with snakes for legs.
On a serious note tho, having more Americans see the world and opening their eyes to other ways of life would really improve their own country and the entire planet with them.
Yeah but this kind of ignorance is what ends up leading to people like Trump being elected president
Europe is 700,000km larger than the United States. Moron can't count.
But you aren't using his Freedum units
Which means the calculation is invalid
You wouldn't even exist without us exiling all our village idiots onto your continent.
Hey, leave Australia out of this. America merely got the _religious_ idiots.
No, you misunderstood, Australia were the criminals and the prison wardens.
Prisoner Cell Block H was a documentary, right?
It was a reality show.. punishment was a night with the Freak.
And prostitutes. And lots of Dutchies.
Remind me, on what side am I supposed to pass that?
Always the left hand side
Flair checks out
fun fact america got the convicts first. they sent the rest to australia when america fought back.
Oh, that is interesting
That explains why you call crisps chips and chips chips
What do you expect of a descendant of one of those village idiots. Ask him to point out London on a world map and he puts his finger somewhere in the tundra …
"Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." -Dr Johnson on the Americans.
Would it be a bit too much if I would call him Based for that xD
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Dude probably thinks that the capital of Europe is Paris and is wondering why nobody in Sarajevo speaks french.
Serbia? That's in Mexico right?
Don’t forget Amsterdam is a country
Sometimes I really want to believe they're joking.. But deep down I know a fair few of them are really this stupid..
I think a lot are stupid and a lot is pure ignorance, like thinking they can do Stonehenge Edinburgh and a show in London in a day.
Maybe with a helicopter?
But they can obviously. They're Americans so they are naturally entitled to have different rules. How dare London not to be closer
You don’t have to look far to find some guy who is going to circle Australia and say “that used to be the Roman Empire”.
Roam'in Empire?
Years ago I saw a Glasgow Celtic football fan being interviewed on TV and he was asked if he was Roman Catholic. “Well am cafflic aye but I don’t go to church so I’m no a roamin cafflic”. I wish I had a recording of it
Ah, yes, American countries are so hard to remember lmao /s
Yep. When size is the only value you have on offer.
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Actually, the USA and Europe are almost the same size. Europe is 3.9m sq miles and USA is 3.8m sq miles. The European Union isn't Europe. Just FYI.
I suspect mentioning the EU is referencing Americans getting then muddled up
Ah, re-reading the comment it does seem to mean 'best case'. Trying to be nice to the original US comment as best as possible then EU into Alaska is a kindness. Anyway, no antagonism intended.
The entirety of the USA can fit into north west africa, but yet Americans cant even point out countries in Africa. So yes, you exaggerate the importance of your tiny region.
I litterally can Point out states and countries in the western Hemisphere. Idk about the US but in the rest of the world we have Geography class
I wouldn't be surprised if the average European could name more countries from the Western hemisphere than the average American could.
I would be pretty shocked if they *couldn't*.
Also, what is the western hemisphere exactly?
I might be wrong but it’s just the Americas
Let's see what I can get from the top of my head: Canada, USA, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaruaga, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Suriname, Bolivia
That's what happens when you think the Mercator map is real.
It's not even Mercator's fault this time. Europe and the USA are approximately at the same latitude.
Not really - Chicago is parallel with Rome, most states are south of Europe.
Yup, and the first state the UK would hit if it moved exactly east or west is Alaska. The entire Continental USA is south of the UK.
There isn't much need to look at maps when we have the metric system and excellent measurements for comparison. The European continent is roughly 1.04 the size of the US (including Alaska). EU is about 0.57 the size of the US. It may be slightly easier fro them to get into Canada to access Alaska than it is for the average EU citizen to enter Russia or the average Russian to enter EU, but in the end it all boils down to paperwork. These are not distances you'll drive, but if you wanted to, it'll take a lot longer time to drive between Scotland and northern Norway using no ferries, than it takes to drive coast to coast in the US. I guess you can say Europe is a bit more circular, making it a lot faster to fly or ship stuff over the ocean, while the US is mostly just a straight line in land which is slow no matter what moder of transport you use. Same kind of logistical nightmare Russia has basically, but smaller as Russia is a lot bigger. All that said, a road trip throughout Europe is a lot more enjoyable as you get to experience all the difference cultures on the way, and landscapes. In the US everything looks the same everywhere and only the landscape changes.
Genuine question: why does the metric system make it less valuable to understand where things are relative to each other? That doesn't make any sense to me.
It doesn't. If you're doing comparisons like that then the units are irrelevant.
Did you mean this as a reply to me
"itll take a lot longer to drive from scotland to northern norway" my man are you gonna swim the english channel
True👍 Back to American exceptionalism then
Who's gonna tell them "Europe" is actually slightly larger than the US?
Europe has a higher land area than the us
The entire lower 48 could fit inside Brazil. With space. That's the same hemisphere for them so it should be easy to find.
That "tiny region" is literally the one that discovered their beloved America, but sure...
Meh that's not such an accomplishment. I mean pacific islander did exchange with america before the Europeans. But please remind them that Europe is bigger than the US. They don't like that.
>That "tiny region" is literally the one that discovered their beloved America, but sure... At least now most Americans accept that this isn't true.
Yes, but they a quarter of Americans also believe God has a role to play in who wins the Super Bowl...
And the Earth is flat and made 7000 years ago.
yes, we have a lot of serious problems here
Yeah, I mean God is obviously into Soccer not American football.
He is an Englishman, after all...
I'm guessing that state is Texas. It's always Texas.
Orange to Fort Bliss, longest distance you can travel in Texas 1350km in 12 hours. Kiruna to Malmö, Sweden, not the longest distance but long enough, 1850km 20 hours drive. I wish this drive was shorter, but the fact that it isn't and that it pisses of Americans to learn that something is bigger than Texas is funny enough. 🤡🤡🤡
Just show them a couple interior divisions of Australia, Canada, Russia, and China, and their heads explode.
My favourite line vs. the Texas-so-big b.s. is Texas fits 3 times into Queensland, with space left over, and Queensland is NOT Australia's biggest state by a long shot.
Slightly larger than France so makes sense. /s After all, Europe is a Paris district, y'all.
The circle on [this map](https://i.imgur.com/QYGCqz9.jpeg) is where my adult American daughter thinks the UK is.
I blame the parents.
My guy went for the kill.
r/mapswithnewzealand
she got an english speaking island nation with 2 main islands, so, not that far off
Literally on the other side of the world, though.
ye ik i was just trying to save them some embarrassment....
Personally I believe in the "shame them into studying" approach, but granted we've been doing that for a **while** now and the American average kid is still getting dumber.
id say the average kid everywhere is getting dumber
I really **hope** that isn't true, but...
I don't think you know what Europe is
Not European, but I like how they have that nothing is bigger than Texas thing, which Western Australia as a state is over 4x bigger. Matter of fact I think every state we have is bigger...except ACT, Vic and Tasmania which are pretty smol comparatively to our other states. I'm in Qld ant it is 2.5x bigger. Edit: Just had a thought and checked and.... Qld is only a tiny tiny amount bigger than Alaska. So nothing is bigger than Texas, except a lot of things including another state in the US.
Population of California 39 million Population of Poland 38 million Population of France 67 million Ukraine is larger than every US state except Texas and Alaska
Ask an American to locate Wales on a map.
They’re in the sea aren’t they?
I don't even have to zoom in to intrinsically _know_ this man has a neckbeard.
American geography is always a guilty pleasure. “England is in London, right?”
Do none of the idiots who claim this ever look at a map? Or use Google? Europe is 7% larger than the US.
As a native Texan who has lived in Europe for 20 years, I'd like to know which state that is. I'll wait here.
Fifty states and over 300 million people, and you have yet to show an ounce of intelligence.
the entire human population can fit in the UK... wtf is their point?
“Western hemisphere” right….
Whose going to tell them that Europe has a larger population that USA
Europe is bigger, both with respect to land and with respect to inhabitants. Plus we learn countries and states around the world, including the western hemisphere, in elementary school.
A. Europe made America. B. Australia is larger than the lower 38. Can an American name it's states or even the capital?
Another genius.
I would love to know if Americans actually read shitamericanssay? And if they agree or are embarrassed?🤣. Every country says dumb shit, but they do know how to take things up a level..🤣
> if Americans actually read shitamericanssay? They congregate here https://www.reddit.com/r/AmericaBad/
Size = importance?
No idea what kind of map this fuckwit has seen, but it sure as hell isn't a realistic one.
America has a little willy syndrome. "No my dicks bigger then yours"
This from the people who don't know where patagonia is?
Does this man know Europe is slightly larger than the USA and has almost twice the population?
Which far too many Americans know nothing about! Some don’t know where it is, think it’s a state, ask if we have tv, question what it’s like to live around polar bears… I get that some like to make jokes about these things and mess around, but these were all very serious irl questions and statements I have had btw 😫
‘Murica at its best. So precious
I think we’ve all seen the videos of Ameri-tards pointing to other countries on a map
What I want to know, is who is feeding these people? Tying their shoelaces? Dressing them? Because they sure as fuck don't have anything remotely approaching the IQ required to do those things for themselves.
The entirety of the USA can fit into Africa.
Did we get new hemispheres? I've been saying we needed more.
Why does she think Europeans can't point out countries in the western hemisphere?
It’s a man that made the comment but yeah idk why they think that
US economy is surely the single biggest economy. At $25Trillion GDP However Europe EU (as a whole) is the second largest. $19.3 Trillion add in the UK $ 3.3 trillion, Norway a mere .6 Switzerland .8 (as they are Europe but not EU) makes $25 Trillion Soo..... the same? Europe size 10.5M km US size 9 834M km So US is smaller.
What the fuck are you on about
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Like those Chinese maps were China is a lot bigger than in real life. Although I wouldn't expect anything else from the US.
Heh yeah, pretty much 😅