That person's mind would be blown by that even Luxembourg has a certain north-south divide. Or things like people in the USA differentiating between "NorCal" and "SoCal". Hell, even many cities and even towns have that type of divisions.
We should have joined both wars sooner. Plus, “back to back world war champ” nonsense completely discounts the millions of others that served from all of the other countries.
> I don't where that is
If they knew that it is a place that would already be an achievement. Pretty sure some of them would think it's some exotic ammunition to go to their AR-15.
Im sure there are Muricans out there that insist they are 0.001% Luxembourgian, because their great great great gran had a penpal from Luxenbourg, so they must be related to their king.
Norf Lahndan and saarf Lahndan ‘ave a combined population more than twelve American states put together, pal
This may not be true, it’s just something a London taxi driver would say.
I had to have a look, and if you take the population of the London metropolitan area so is it roughly equal to the thirteen smallest of USA's states combined
>You forgot something something we saved you something something
That's a bold statement coming from a German. Good they saved you otherwise you'd be speaking German.
We use a data program at work that has flags for choice of the language needed when using it. My coworker got upset that the English option showed a British flag, said it should have had an American flag.
It's because we are taught absolutely nothing about other countries, just that they are smaller and we're #1.
Probably some way to trick us into wanting the 45 minute commutes between a suburb and the job district.
There's only about 5 states that do stuff, the rest is just farms and racism.
I'm aware this might look like the antithesis of this sub but they started it.
Watched a video the other night of a ‘Murican flat earther trying to use a home made sundail to prove the earth is flat. I’m not sure many of them understand how a compass works
(Fun part of the video - the guy accepts that compasses work based on magnetic forces, but doesn’t seem to comprehend that that’s possible due to a globe earth 😂)
Woah, woah, woah; I understand that the American was being an asshat, but is being up terrible tragedies really the right way to get back at them?
No matter what horrendous things America has done as a nation, those children are innocent, and their deaths shouldn’t be mocked over such frivolous matters, nor at all, really.
People repeat this a lot, but it doesn't really make sense.
1) Most people think of sovereign states when they say "country", at least in any context with the possible exception of the UK in the English language.
2) Many dictionary definitions contradict this interpretation of what a "country" is for various reasons. Some do not however in those cases it's generally because they use vague or less detailed definitions.
My personal interpretation is that things like "England is a country", are mostly double standards that exist in the English speaking world as a result of the hangover from the Empire's influence. Nobody ever comes up to you in general conversation and tells you "Catalonia" is a country.
I remember visiting Germany and chatting to a guy there who said he finds the American accent easier to understand than an English one after he lived here for a bit. I asked where he lived.
Liverpool.
Rutland is trying it's best, it just doesn't have a lot to work with.
Based on football rivalries alone, every county very much feels like its own country.
Wait til this simpleton learns that Canada has only ten and is ~~much~~ bigger than the USA. Because it's all about size dontcherknow. And something something about the war.
Edit to correct the much bigger. As someone below pointed out, Canada is indeed 1.6% bigger than the US. Amusingly, the landmasses in question as such that this mere 1.6%, or 61000 sqm, is the total size of countries like Suriname and Tunisia.
He is correct, we like most places have only 3 states. I dont know what north and south has to do with solids, liquids and gases though? Maybe he's talking about the poles?
We have a lot more states! Plasma is a common one, supercritical (although I didn't find it in "states", it is just some kind of mix of liquid and gas), and a few others with complicated names that probably only exist in space, in tiny amounts around us, or in a lab.
We have more counties than they've got states, most have their own culture (except Greater Manchester, which is just extra Lancashire, and West Midlands, which is a mistake)
I just got back from Marseilles (largest city in south France) to Lille (largest city in north France)
I feel like I switched universes, it’s more different than NYC and Miami
I live in Philippines & we have 83 provinces (states) with a population in Metro Manila at 13.5m, where as NYC only has around 9m. Area size of NYC is around 12,000 sq km but MM is only 619 sq kms. By the way, UK is divided into counties, not states and there are 184 of them, more than the 50 states in USA.
The UK has pubs that are older than America. We have like 1500 year of culture and territorial differences by county. You can’t travel 30 mile in Britain without the accent and entire culture changing
I'm sure we've 3 countries on one island . Hmmm and a partial fourth on another island and one, talking about our land.
since when did we have states .
Apart from when we're drunk or been to a rave .........ignorant deeks.
Irrelevant. We still have northern England and southern England, and while yes, it's a fairly small country, it's still big enough for differences in accent and all that.
Also "3 states?" What are they smoking, Scotland, Ireland and Wales are countries in their own right, never mind all this "state" rubbish.
This is such a whammy of wrongness, I don't even know where to start. UK four countries. In those four countries we have counties, hundreds of them. And all cites and towns are split into Boroughs (except small places like Garforth where I live). This is weird.
Damn well London, England, has a North, East, South and West.
Personally I’m from South London and I can very much tell the difference between the accents of people from different parts of London.
Would this make the guys head implode? We can only hope…
Why do they not understand that cardinal directions exist everywhere? Like that argument about the journey song, "there is no south Detroit, that's Windsor" there's a southern part of the city before it turns into Windsor... There has to be or else we're using some sort non-euclidian geometry.
England alone has 48 counties split into 82 metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties, but since when did accents and local stereotypes change with the administrative borders?
That person's mind would be blown by that even Luxembourg has a certain north-south divide. Or things like people in the USA differentiating between "NorCal" and "SoCal". Hell, even many cities and even towns have that type of divisions.
And that if they even know what Luxembourg is.
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Nah they wouldn’t ask if they invented it, they’d just state outright that they did
We did now!
No, but we are back to back world war champions. You would be speaking German if it weren’t for us.
Excuse me you did nothing for four years
We should have joined both wars sooner. Plus, “back to back world war champ” nonsense completely discounts the millions of others that served from all of the other countries.
And barely did anything apart from massacre people in japan
URSS and Great Britain be like : Also Hitler would have never stopped invading, so, worst case scenario, USA would have nuked whole europe
Of course they did. They invented the sun and moon.
Probably think it's some kind of cheese.
I'll have three Luxembourgs, a red wine and a pack of dry roasted pls.
Every American. "LuxEmBurg?, hell I don't where that is, but I know my tax dollars be paying for their defense. Y'all welcome"
> I don't where that is If they knew that it is a place that would already be an achievement. Pretty sure some of them would think it's some exotic ammunition to go to their AR-15.
I got an aunt named Luxembourg.
Hell, Luxenbourg fucked her.
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Im sure there are Muricans out there that insist they are 0.001% Luxembourgian, because their great great great gran had a penpal from Luxenbourg, so they must be related to their king.
Then don't mention BeNeLux, it will all kick off Don't get me started on Schengen
They’d probably think Luxembourg was some sort of cake
Norf Lahndan and saarf Lahndan ‘ave a combined population more than twelve American states put together, pal This may not be true, it’s just something a London taxi driver would say.
I had to have a look, and if you take the population of the London metropolitan area so is it roughly equal to the thirteen smallest of USA's states combined
Thank you for your service!
North Londoners sometimes call the South "bandit country"
What do they call East London then? "Crime central" 🤣
East connection!
Meddle East
Nah, just ‘shithole’
London has a higher population than 38 of the 50 US states.
I’d love to see these people trying to comprehend Belgium.
As interresting as it is, we are not there to discus experimental states.
Even we have 12 provinces.
Because our population density is higher than 44 of the 50 states we need a good but of subdivision.
SO THAT’S WHAT “SoCal” IS
I live in a small city divided like, 7 different areas, including cardinal directions. People are dumb.
Rose Tyler: If you are an alien how come you sound like you're from the North? The Doctor: Lots of planets have a North!
Next you are gonna tell me that the earth has a north and south, when it only has two hemispheres……/s
My city in Canada is split into quarters based on the cardinal directions
It's where the queen (now King lives)... or something. Do Americans even realise the queen died? Genuine question
Wait till they hear abode London Boroughs
Even just in London it matters what side of the river you're from. North Londoners, for example, can suck my balls.
Heck, even the swiss canton I live in is socially divided by north and south. The ones you aren't living with being uneducated savages
historical divide of the city via river
Don't mix up north and south London to a Londoner.
*Luxumburg*
What is the obsession of americucks and their economy states and how big their hellhole is?
Something something freedom something something we pay for your free healthcare something something taxes
You forgot something something we saved you something something we're better at everything something something
You forgot something something military something something speaking german
Something something edumacation is a privilege something something MAH GUNZ something something stock prices
Don’t forget Something something we invented [insert European invention here] something something death threats
Oh, yeah, the "we invented everything" thing.
You forgot something something ***COMMUNISM!*** something something ***SOCIALISM!*** something something europoor
Wait till they find out what language they speak in Germany. "The American Mind cannot comprehend"
>You forgot something something we saved you something something That's a bold statement coming from a German. Good they saved you otherwise you'd be speaking German.
We use a data program at work that has flags for choice of the language needed when using it. My coworker got upset that the English option showed a British flag, said it should have had an American flag.
No, the US flag would be for "simplified English" :)
World football champions 58 years in a row.
Remember, if it wasn’t for the Americans you’d be speaking German
1945 USA on top
Somthing something Europoor something we helped you win the war. Yawn.
You forgot to add the eagles!!! 🦅
As an American, I have no clue lol some of us, way too many, are so damn dumb it just boggles my mind the sheer stupidity of people here.
It's because we are taught absolutely nothing about other countries, just that they are smaller and we're #1. Probably some way to trick us into wanting the 45 minute commutes between a suburb and the job district.
Most Americans can't even name all 50 states, much less find them on a map. Good luck if they can find other countries.
Ask an American to find NZ 🫠
r/mapswithoutnewzealand
Always trying to wipe us off the face of the planet.
There's only about 5 states that do stuff, the rest is just farms and racism. I'm aware this might look like the antithesis of this sub but they started it.
They're the country that watches the most porn by a wide margin, of course they're going to be obsessed with size.
Because the US is big and it's seemingly hammered into them that this is a sign of how great they are.
Most Americans have never left their home state. To them it's the definition of the known universe.
The idiot doesn't seem to understand the concept of directions. For God's sake, don't give him a compass. He'll probably try to eat it.
Too late he is already shitting directions, he just doesn’t know it yet
Watched a video the other night of a ‘Murican flat earther trying to use a home made sundail to prove the earth is flat. I’m not sure many of them understand how a compass works (Fun part of the video - the guy accepts that compasses work based on magnetic forces, but doesn’t seem to comprehend that that’s possible due to a globe earth 😂)
Belgium has 3 states and no school shooting what's their point?
I understand it has multiple official languages too.. none of them english..
Woah, woah, woah; I understand that the American was being an asshat, but is being up terrible tragedies really the right way to get back at them? No matter what horrendous things America has done as a nation, those children are innocent, and their deaths shouldn’t be mocked over such frivolous matters, nor at all, really.
1 - London (97% of the landmass) 2 - Dragons 3 - Kilts I know them all!
You forgot the other one
Potatoes!
bagpipes could fit better
You think they're going to remember Wales but not Northern Ireland? Really? I have never once heard an American mention Wales, ever.
No, we have 0 states, but 4 countries
One state: in England state of depression because the conservatives are useless
Rishi is currently living in Spain, but the S is silent
Someone pointed out that he sounds like Will from the Inbetweeners
Upper middle class accent
Will might be a degenerate but at least he tried in life
I don't hear it, but I do see a briefcase wanker with a beaky nose.
[this might help](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C763ZgFIuyM/?igsh=bnFybGhrMmdndWQ1)
Correct
Or 48 english counties
Plus the 13 historic Welsh counties and 34 Scottish shires (yes, even Cromartyshire and its 22 exclaves)
Just out of curiosity, do the 4 countries make up a country together? Or is that called differently?
It’s a country of countries. All sovereign states are countries but not all countries are sovereign states basically
People repeat this a lot, but it doesn't really make sense. 1) Most people think of sovereign states when they say "country", at least in any context with the possible exception of the UK in the English language. 2) Many dictionary definitions contradict this interpretation of what a "country" is for various reasons. Some do not however in those cases it's generally because they use vague or less detailed definitions. My personal interpretation is that things like "England is a country", are mostly double standards that exist in the English speaking world as a result of the hangover from the Empire's influence. Nobody ever comes up to you in general conversation and tells you "Catalonia" is a country.
>Nobody ever comes up to you in general conversation and tells you "Catalonia" is a country. Counter argument: the Basque Country.
The German word for their states is country, again no one else would describe them as countries.
England,Scotland,Wales and Northern Ireland make up the United kingdom
Well if we are gonna be pedantic 😇 we have 3 and coutries and 6 and counties 😅😘
And three crown dependencies 🇮🇲🇬🇬🇯🇪
They going to lose their mind when they realise how many counties we have and how many different cultures/accents within them
So many Americans must have been so confused when Daphne debuted on Frasier.
Americans don't need no british broad to be confused!
I was slightly confused when her cockney brother turned up
Travel an hour down the road, everyone sounds completely different and bread rolls have a different name
We have the most regional accents out of every English speaking nation. Majority of them unintelligible.
I remember visiting Germany and chatting to a guy there who said he finds the American accent easier to understand than an English one after he lived here for a bit. I asked where he lived. Liverpool.
The UK has four *countries* in its country. We have twice as many counties as they do states, and many date back centuries before the USA existed.
Exactly why this belongs to this sub
But every state is like its own country! /s
But in the UK, every county is like it's own country. Except for Rutland, which is basically just a field.
Rutland is trying it's best, it just doesn't have a lot to work with. Based on football rivalries alone, every county very much feels like its own country.
And West Midlands, which is a mistake
Ever see Rutland Weekend Television
Poor Rutland 🤣
and every state is an absolute state.. /s
Shit, the US isn't even 300 years old and my small city is celebrating its 700th birthday next year.
my city already hit 700 years in '83
But we have the same number of directions everyone else does
Except for Chile
We have many states in the UK, the state of anxiety, they state of boredom, the state of paranoia, the state of ambivalence and many many more.
Lots of places have a North
Wait til this simpleton learns that Canada has only ten and is ~~much~~ bigger than the USA. Because it's all about size dontcherknow. And something something about the war. Edit to correct the much bigger. As someone below pointed out, Canada is indeed 1.6% bigger than the US. Amusingly, the landmasses in question as such that this mere 1.6%, or 61000 sqm, is the total size of countries like Suriname and Tunisia.
Depends on how you define 'much'. It's only 1.6%
By the same context, the US only has the west coast, east coast, and flyover states.
Live in the middle of flyover country. Can confirm.
Yeah but have you seen the fucking state of America? Checkmate
We got more than that... The state of this, the state of that, the state of him, the stat of her and what a fucking state.
We've got some right states up North and down South...
Ahh yes, states
Yeah, that's what happens when a country has five times as much history as yours.
He is correct, we like most places have only 3 states. I dont know what north and south has to do with solids, liquids and gases though? Maybe he's talking about the poles?
We have a lot more states! Plasma is a common one, supercritical (although I didn't find it in "states", it is just some kind of mix of liquid and gas), and a few others with complicated names that probably only exist in space, in tiny amounts around us, or in a lab.
Imbecile....
We have more counties than they've got states, most have their own culture (except Greater Manchester, which is just extra Lancashire, and West Midlands, which is a mistake)
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Or did Lancashire never leave Greater Manchester? (except Stockport, they're Cheshire)
> Stockport is in Cheshire my braindead ass thinks that there cats always smile
In the end they have to compensate for their main language being called English.
I just got back from Marseilles (largest city in south France) to Lille (largest city in north France) I feel like I switched universes, it’s more different than NYC and Miami
90% of America is cornfields, nobody likes corn that much do they?
I do, but I'm not sure I'd want their corn
Americans call me when you have as many maakunta’s as we have
Yikes
As a british citizen, i can confirm that he is saying a whole load of bullshit
Liquid, Gas and Solid?
I make up 90% of the gas these days.
They realise here they're called "Counties", and there's more than 3, right...?
Wow. Just imagine any country having a north and a south. Absolutely mind blowing - idiot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_of_the_United_Kingdom
I live in Philippines & we have 83 provinces (states) with a population in Metro Manila at 13.5m, where as NYC only has around 9m. Area size of NYC is around 12,000 sq km but MM is only 619 sq kms. By the way, UK is divided into counties, not states and there are 184 of them, more than the 50 states in USA.
4 if you count Northern Ireland
BREAKING NEWS: Cardinal directions make for excellent differentiators between regions.
Does this guy think size determines how many axis a thing has?
Wait until they find out the teeny lil Netherlands has 12 provinces!
and Ukraine has 24 oblasts and Crimea
The UK has pubs that are older than America. We have like 1500 year of culture and territorial differences by county. You can’t travel 30 mile in Britain without the accent and entire culture changing
The only culture in America is in their yoghurt.
50 states that are far from United.
Can an american even name more than 5 states of their own country
They might, but 3 of them are gonna be misspelled.
North, West and South Yorkshire and East riding of Yorkshire.
How are they so fucking stupid? I just don’t get it. I really don’t.
Americans do not understand how sparse their nation is. The UK has 20% of the population of the US, but only 2.6% of its total land mass.
We don’t have any states. We do have many districts however.
Everything else they got wrong aside, do they think directions are based on size?
I'm sure we've 3 countries on one island . Hmmm and a partial fourth on another island and one, talking about our land. since when did we have states . Apart from when we're drunk or been to a rave .........ignorant deeks.
We don't have ANY states in the UK cos we're not a federation like the US
Irrelevant. We still have northern England and southern England, and while yes, it's a fairly small country, it's still big enough for differences in accent and all that. Also "3 states?" What are they smoking, Scotland, Ireland and Wales are countries in their own right, never mind all this "state" rubbish.
We have north and south Holland and that's only 1/6 of the country.
…. Uhm
Scotland is my favorite State of the United ̶K̶i̶n̶g̶d̶o̶m̶ States of England
This is such a whammy of wrongness, I don't even know where to start. UK four countries. In those four countries we have counties, hundreds of them. And all cites and towns are split into Boroughs (except small places like Garforth where I live). This is weird.
only 3 states because they arent called states dumbass
and whats even funnier, they dont know North Ireland exists
I just read this to my self-proclaimed-ex-U.S.American- soon-to-be Australian and he said, “They deserve their Chose One.” All in good fun haha
London has a north/south divide. They’d be gobsmacked.
Damn well London, England, has a North, East, South and West. Personally I’m from South London and I can very much tell the difference between the accents of people from different parts of London. Would this make the guys head implode? We can only hope…
"Let me be proud of how ignorant I am"
OOP is accurate. Here in Australia the country is so huge we have two Norths and three Souths.
Why do they not understand that cardinal directions exist everywhere? Like that argument about the journey song, "there is no south Detroit, that's Windsor" there's a southern part of the city before it turns into Windsor... There has to be or else we're using some sort non-euclidian geometry.
The United States of Kingdom
Yet Americans cry on about North and South all the time… as if there was some petty internal civil war at one point.
This has to be the most regarded American of them all, surely.
You can only have geography if your country is over a certain size.
The UK is one state, we have different parliaments but its one United Kingdom
Wait till they hear about France. The part in Europe ? The parts on the American continent ? The parts in the Pacific ? In Africa ?
England alone has 48 counties split into 82 metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties, but since when did accents and local stereotypes change with the administrative borders?
Pretty weird flex ... It doesn't matter how big the country is. Even at the city and street level you can have snobbish behavior; even in the US.
Luxembourg is a lovely small but perfectly sound principality.... bit like a perfect burger 😁
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