FreudianSlippers posted:

Americans all drive their massive tanks 5 hours to work on the 80000 lane gigafreeway to their 30 hour shift at the WMD factory and only get vacations whenever Haley's Comet shows up. If they'd drive 15 more hours they'd still be in the same postal code. They retire when they die, probably from being shot.


Europeans all walk 2 minutes to their job as underwater basket weavers where they don't actually weave or get wet because of EU regulations. If they'd walk 10 more minutes they'd pass through 3 other countries, all of whom they hate because the people there speak a slightly different dialect and used to be the same country until 1539 when Duke Sigismund the Defenestrater rebelled against his brother/cousin/uncle King Wulfgang Pierre Magnus Xavier Maria Gabriel XVIII. They get 350 days vacation per year and retire at 45. When the government tried to raise the retirement age to 47 several cities burned.

FreudianSlippers posted:

Americans all drive their massive tanks 5 hours to work on the 80000 lane gigafreeway to their 30 hour shift at the WMD factory and only get vacations whenever Haley's Comet shows up. If they'd drive 15 more hours they'd still be in the same postal code. They retire when they die, probably from being shot.


Europeans all walk 2 minutes to their job as underwater basket weavers where they don't actually weave or get wet because of EU regulations. If they'd walk 10 more minutes they'd pass through 3 other countries, all of whom they hate because the people there speak a slightly different dialect and used to be the same country until 1539 when Duke Sigismund the Defenestrater rebelled against his brother/cousin/uncle King Wulfgang Pierre Magnus Xavier Maria Gabriel XVIII. They get 350 days vacation per year and retire at 45. When the government tried to raise the retirement age to 47 several cities burned.

Perestroika posted:

Man, my first job's commute way about 35 miles (from one city to a neighbouring one) and that poo poo was so intolerable I moved over there just to not have to deal with it anymore.

FreudianSlippers posted:

Americans all drive their massive tanks 5 hours to work on the 80000 lane gigafreeway to their 30 hour shift at the WMD factory and only get vacations whenever Haley's Comet shows up. If they'd drive 15 more hours they'd still be in the same postal code. They retire when they die, probably from being shot.


Europeans all walk 2 minutes to their job as underwater basket weavers where they don't actually weave or get wet because of EU regulations. If they'd walk 10 more minutes they'd pass through 3 other countries, all of whom they hate because the people there speak a slightly different dialect and used to be the same country until 1539 when Duke Sigismund the Defenestrater rebelled against his brother/cousin/uncle King Wulfgang Pierre Magnus Xavier Maria Gabriel XVIII. They get 350 days vacation per year and retire at 45. When the government tried to raise the retirement age to 47 several cities burned.

FreudianSlippers posted:

Americans all drive their massive tanks 5 hours to work on the 80000 lane gigafreeway to their 30 hour shift at the WMD factory and only get vacations whenever Haley's Comet shows up. If they'd drive 15 more hours they'd still be in the same postal code. They retire when they die, probably from being shot.


Europeans all walk 2 minutes to their job as underwater basket weavers where they don't actually weave or get wet because of EU regulations. If they'd walk 10 more minutes they'd pass through 3 other countries, all of whom they hate because the people there speak a slightly different dialect and used to be the same country until 1539 when Duke Sigismund the Defenestrater rebelled against his brother/cousin/uncle King Wulfgang Pierre Magnus Xavier Maria Gabriel XVIII. They get 350 days vacation per year and retire at 45. When the government tried to raise the retirement age to 47 several cities burned.

boofhead posted:

Karate Bastard posted:

You know what to do.

Bar Ran Dun posted:

That’s a people that commute in large cities by car vs everybody else thing. Rural Americans tend to talk about distance too.

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

What about Tasmania

kdrudy posted:

Just knowing this is written on a whiteboard somewhere is making me angry.

CainFortea posted:

I mean, it's also a size difference. Japan is a bit smaller than California.

When you live most of your life in a country where you've visited places 3 time zones away it's going to color your expectations of how far is "really far away". Kyoto to Osaka is 34 miles. I've driven that to go find a weird specialty knob at the weird specialty electronics store that's on the other side of town.

Android Apocalypse posted:

Considering Australia formed as an English penal colony after America won its independence & couldn't send its prisoners there anymore, Australia is more like New Georgia.

Phlegmish posted:

Amphigory posted:

I was going to jump in with lots to say about perception of distance and travel and poo poo but I remembered this was the meme thread can you loving not

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

What about Tasmania

Mr. Sunshine posted:

Mr. Sunshine posted:

Phlegmish posted:

I wish to know more about the separatist cat

Lobok posted:

It just basques in the sun all day

Phlegmish posted:

Cat...alan

I got nothin'

ZixTheYeti posted:

It’s a land that’s way under down under. The sky’s always yellow in rain or shine.

Android Apocalypse posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezdGHbcyixE

Large Testicles posted:

i made it like a minute into the video before turning it off due to all the alliterative puns, jfc

3D Megadoodoo posted:

entertain't.