• kamenLady.@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 个月前

      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.

      • TheFriar@lemm.ee
        2·
        7 个月前

        I know so many people who choose to drive. It blows my mind. Like, yeah, the subways can be frustrating, but nowhere near as frustrating as driving in the city.

        Bikes are the best way to get around the city.

      • TheFriar@lemm.ee
        2·
        7 个月前

        Some of us have no choice. I drive for work sometimes and jesus it’s so frustrating. Can turn a 12hr work day into a 16hr one.

  • Fat Tony@lemmy.world
    66·
    7 个月前

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

  • Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    562·
    7 个月前

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

  • Klear@lemmy.world
    291·
    7 个月前

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

    • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 个月前

      It’s funny how Google Maps has a reference to this if you tell it to give you walking directions to “Mordor”.

      Although I don’t think it works with every starting location.

    • liv@lemmy.nzEnglish
      14·
      7 个月前

      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.

    • Rinox@feddit.it
      7·
      7 个月前

      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

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
      82·
      7 个月前

      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.

      • KrankyKong@lemmy.world
        72·
        7 个月前

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

        • suy@programming.dev
          35·
          7 个月前

          Normally the good jokes are also somewhat smart, even though they are not “serious”. A joke about Texas being big is not very smart, IMHO. Is also not very original, as it’s not the first one I’ve seen in this vein. And above all, it’s specially stupid to end it with a remark about “The European mind cannot comprehend this”, because Europeans know a lot more about the US than the US people know about Europe.

          IOW, it’s not that it’s struck a nerve, it’s that it was legit bad.

          PS: Oh, and, the fact that it appeals to Europeans, it seems like it appeals on Europe as a whole, which makes it doubly stupid, because then individual members of the EU/continent are like USA states, and then each member/state has routes as long as the one in the original meme.

          • KrankyKong@lemmy.world
            62·
            7 个月前

            I never said it was a good joke… smh. Looks like its easy to trigger the Europeans nowadays. I’m assuming you’re European; could be wrong here. Please correct me if so.

          • Sylvartas@lemmy.world
            12·
            7 个月前

            Normally the good jokes are also somewhat smart, even though they are not “serious”. A joke about Texas being big is not very smart, IMHO

            Yeah this is literally Europeans clowning on the dumb “joke” with our own version of the dumb joke.

  • uis@lemm.ee
    24·
    7 个月前

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

    • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      7 个月前

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

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
      92·
      7 个月前

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

      • uis@lemm.ee
        2·
        4 个月前

        If you are male russian citizen between age of 18 and 30, that is not currently a student, then yes. Or doctor of any age.

  • Danquebec@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    7 个月前

    New friend: “hey, we live close, why don’t you come over?”

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

    • nyctre@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 个月前

      Muricans trying to make euromemes. Notlikethis.png

      Or at least that’s what it feels like

  • Kaity@leminal.spaceEnglish
    17·
    7 个月前

    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.

      • drathvedro@lemm.ee
        10·
        7 个月前

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

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
    194·
    7 个月前

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

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

    • Dagamant@lemmy.world
      13·
      7 个月前

      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

      • BakerBagel@midwest.social
        114·
        7 个月前

        Yeah, I-10 goes straight across the western most to Eastern most part of Texas and is almost 900 miles long. The average US state is larger than the average European country if you only count Russia west of the Urals. Europeans think of the US as a country similar to the UK or Germany when theu really need to think of it more like the EU and each state it’s own country. New York City to Los Angeles is almost exactly the same distance as Moscow to Portugal. Seattle to Miami is like London to Bagdad.

        • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
          41·
          7 个月前

          Europeans understand the concept of states, lots of european countries are subdivided into states. The USA is one country, a large one but still only one.

          • BakerBagel@midwest.social
            23·
            7 个月前

            It doesn’t change the fact that the US is more analogous to a super nation organization like the EU than any particular European state. Texas and California aren’t conducting their own foreign diplomacy like the Spain or France are, but their internal laws, taxation, bureaucracies are wildly different, with each state essentially out for itself with the federal government intervening in extreme cases. Ohio and Michigan have GDP’s that are equivalent to Austria and Switzerland. Comparing Texas to Bavaria is as ridiculous as comparing New York City to Singapore.