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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You can drive 13 hours from NYC and still be in NYC. A sane mind cannot comprehend this.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Especially if you take the tunnel

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The truelly scary part is you only be a mile away if your lucky :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

First time visiting, i arrived in Sāo Paulo in a Bus, when i saw the sign "Welcome to Sāo Paulo i stood up and started to get my things... When we got to the São Paulo Bus Station, 5 hours later, i understood why the other passengers were very amused by my behavior.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can walk 13 hours in my bedroom and still be in my bedroom. An insane mind cannot comprehend this.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well that trip has maybe 1 hour in Holland. The rest is other provinces.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can cycle for 13 hours anywhere in the country and still be alive, usa'nean mind can't comprehend this

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This is who I expected to be delivering that line

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Gru when he sees one of his adopted daughters:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4f5e7936-a1e3-45e4-acce-71ff7d023096.jpeg

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Damn, that meme really struck a nerve with the Europeans, huh?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As someone from neither place - I'm guessing it didn't strike a nerve, so much as it struck a funny bone.

There's just something ludicrous about the phrasing.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is more like a ridiculous argument that we are now ridiculing.

Show me one person who brags about driving in a single location for so many hours, outside of the memes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It didn't really seem like an argument to me... more like a joke that some people took way too seriously.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Dunno, but 13 hours is not that much really. I can drive for more than 13 hours straight, in Italy, without going in circles, staying on the highway, traveling between two region capitals and not counting the islands. And it's Italy, not exactly the biggest country in the world. Or even in Europe.

PS: in August that's 24hrs

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can walk 13 hours towards Mordor and still not be in Mordor. One does not simply walk into Mordor.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You can drive in Russia for 161 hours and still be in Russia:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that's not even a lap like the OP's picture (if Russia even has such roads to approximate driving the perimeter)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Best joke of the day! You wouldn't even consider the road across a road, lmao, perimeter.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but plenty of the land contributed to Russia doesn't belong to them, so its fake

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

New friend: "hey, we live close, why don't you come over?"

You: go full circle through the whole country to get there

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s like that one time in Australia when the road was closed

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Holland is only the western part of the netherlands.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Muricans trying to make euromemes. Notlikethis.png

Or at least that's what it feels like

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

That's just cause y'all's roads are slow.

Texas has many roads with 80/85mph limits. (128/136kph)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I was in Texas for the eclipse. It messed me up driving on little two lane country roads with a 75mph speed limit. Back home only the big highways get close to that

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

You can drive 13 hours from R'lyeh and still be in R'lyeh, the euclidean mind cannot comprehend this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean, if we wanna be silly about it

Bonus, here's my travels from my home-state from my current home to my girlfriend's home-state, back and to where we are planning on moving next year.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

63 hours? Pffft. Driving in Russia for 161 hours:

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

161 hours is a very optimistic estimation... given the extreme weather conditions and the awful roads at the far east.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

After seeing the other post a minute ago. This is the shit posting that I love to see.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

TIL in Texas and Holland you can only drive on a road once.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best of all, you can likely make that same lap on bicycle as well as the cycling infrastructure is beyond awesome.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

In Europe you can drive around a roundabout for 13 hours the American mind can not comprehend this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Europe you can drive around a roundabout ~~for 13 hours~~ the American mind can not comprehend this.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I have actually encountered this phenomenon, and it involves neither Americans nor Europeans. I live in Korea, and I'm from Canada. I've had to explain that no, I have never been to Vancouver because it's something like 8000 km from where I lived on the opposite coast in Canada. At least a couple weeks of driving. In Korea, the furthest you can be from anywhere is about a four-hour drive.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can drive for an unlimited amount of time as long as you circle around the streets of your city

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[–] Strocker89 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If you drive the border of Texas it is a trip more than 40 hours long. Two straight days of non-stop driving. The US is stupid big and has an insane amount of roadways, you could drive your whole life and have roads you have never been on.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This meme is a joke. Of course the Netherlands is absolutely tiny, of course you can drive further in pretty much every US state.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and yet people are homeless

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

And no room for immigrants

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Apparently it only takes 9hrs to drive around Moscow. US guys, your time to shine! I bet you'd have a city that would take more time to drive around than Netherlands

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Is Lemiers really Holland, though?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can drive 12 hours across BC and just barely hit the border. The short way.

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