Damn, that meme really struck a nerve with the Europeans, huh?
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.
I just liked the meme
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
It may not be the biggest by area, but it sure is a long boy.
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.
It didn’t really seem like an argument to me… more like a joke that some people took way too seriously.
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.
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.
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.
Well that trip has maybe 1 hour in Holland. The rest is other provinces.
🤫 They don’t know that
Are nether lands anything like nether regions?
yes, in the sense that they have negative elevation ;)
Is this a euphamism for fellatio? Because I believe Amsterdam has that.
Speak for yourself
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.
This has me curious about the extremes of the relationship between perimeter length and area of various states. Time to go down a YouTube rabbithole I think, stand up maths probably has something on it.
Haha. Two days. Tiny. Itty bitty state. Not even as big as New South Wales.
and yet people are homeless
And no room for immigrants
This meme is a joke. Of course the Netherlands is absolutely tiny, of course you can drive further in pretty much every US state.
You can cycle for 13 hours anywhere in the country and still be alive, usa’nean mind can’t comprehend this
This is who I expected to be delivering that line
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
Nope, even New York is smaller.
Russia 1 : US 0
Now try it with New York traffic.
I must assure you Moscow traffic ain’t a joke either :D Been there
Not sure how you’d drive around NY (on a boat?), but I was pretty sure that DFW is at least just as big - must be, given how it’s population is only 2x smaller, but consists mostly of suburbs that consume vastly more space per person compared to Moscow’s commieblocks. There’s no neat circle roads there, though, but taking even the most encompassing route (which is fair game given how Moscow’s ring road also wraps around a lot of area not under Moscow jurisdiction) it still takes less time, even though the distance is higher.
You can drive for an unlimited amount of time as long as you circle around the streets of your city
Doesn’t count
Is Lemiers really Holland, though?
TIL in Texas and Holland you can only drive on a road once.
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.
You can drive in Russia for 161 hours and still be in Russia:
And that’s not even a lap like the OP’s picture (if Russia even has such roads to approximate driving the perimeter)
Best joke of the day! You wouldn’t even consider the road across a road, lmao, perimeter.
Yeah, but plenty of the land contributed to Russia doesn’t belong to them, so its fake
To Magadan!
Now I want to know how long it would take to circumnavigate other countries and states in a leaderboard
Starting with Russia.
A what mind? Are they trying to say American? Do people not know that word anymore?
Its a meta meme refrencing a meme that hit front page earlier
J. O. K. E.
Gru when he sees one of his adopted daughters:
13 hour drive that’s like Kansas pfff lol. At least it feels like 14 hours every time I drive across it
I can walk 13 hours in my bedroom and still be in my bedroom. An insane mind cannot comprehend this.
Doesn’t make sense. Can you prove it?
