You can drive for an unlimited amount of time as long as you circle around the streets of your city
Doesn’t count
TIL in Texas and Holland you can only drive on a road once.
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
You can drive 13 hours from R’lyeh and still be in R’lyeh, the euclidean mind cannot comprehend this.
Yes, but then you have to see fields of tulips instead of glorious pine trees!
As an American, I’d probably die if I had to see all of those tulips.
The Netherlands is just tulips and stroopwafels, change my mind.
That’s just cause y’all’s roads are slow.
Texas has many roads with 80/85mph limits. (128/136kph)
Is that scale real?
Yes! Check out https://www.thetruesize.com/
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.
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.
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.
I didn’t see no banana!
And you can still drive 13 hours and stay in Texas.
Laughs in no speed limit
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
In about a century it’ll be quite a bit smaller than it is now, meaning that 13 hours it takes to drive the Nether- I mean Holland would become… I’m guessing 10 hours (I have no idea how to calculate stuff like this myself, so please downvote this comment if I’m too far away from the correct answer)
Smaller? We’ll just have to re-annex some stubborn province to the south then. We don’t do smaller.
So… Flanders becomes Dutch then?
If I managed to get Belgian citizenship right before that happens, will it get immediately invalidated and replaced with a Dutch citizenship? Or will I get to have both at the same time?
Damn, that meme really struck a nerve with the Europeans, huh?
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.
I’m just glad yall found a new joke
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.
Well that trip has maybe 1 hour in Holland. The rest is other provinces.
Everyone knows Holland = Netherlands = Holland
🤫 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.
and yet people are homeless
And no room for immigrants
Haha. Two days. Tiny. Itty bitty state. Not even as big as New South Wales.
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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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.
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.
63 hours? Pffft. Driving in Russia for 161 hours:
161 hours is a very optimistic estimation… given the extreme weather conditions and the awful roads at the far east.
New friend: “hey, we live close, why don’t you come over?”
You: go full circle through the whole country to get there
Better to book a flight to circumnavigate the globe first.
It’s like that one time in Australia when the road was closed
Is Lemiers really Holland, though?
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?
13 hour drive that’s like Kansas pfff lol. At least it feels like 14 hours every time I drive across it
