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credburn posted:Guam is in between Japan and Australia. I don't think it's weird that people don't know Guam is part of the United States. There's another Pacific territory that has it worse: the people of American Samoa are Americans, but not American citizens. They're "non-citizen nationals". No one really seems to know why this is so, and no one outside of American Samoa gives enough of a poo poo to fix it. Wikipedia posted:Despite changes in local ordinances, American Samoans do not have full protection of their constitutional rights, though they may reside in the United States and gain entry without a visa.[5] They cannot serve as officers in the US military or in many federal jobs, are unable to bear arms, cannot vote in federal or local elections outside of their territory, or hold public office or civil-service positions even when residing in a US state.[6][7]
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redshirt posted:How could Maine be so high and Mass so low? Makes no sense. Your guess doesn't count unless you spell it correctly.
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Probably England. A lot of people still think it's its own country, including the English, and do not realize it's just another dumb old state with bad teeth/.
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kntfkr posted:Probably England. A lot of people still think it's its own country, including the English, and do not realize it's just another dumb old state with bad teeth/. Thanks Brexit!
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kntfkr posted:Probably England. A lot of people still think it's its own country, including the English, and do not realize it's just another dumb old state with bad teeth/. lol goddammit this is a way better post to probe you for
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StoryTime posted:Rhode Island Rhode Island has coffee milk, and way too many rich jagoffs living in their beach-side mansions.
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Rhode Island will if nothing else be famous for being so tiny.
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Maryland is an interesting case. Baltimore is a big huge city with an appreciable presence in pop culture. Yet nobody ever talks about the state.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Maryland is an interesting case. Baltimore is a big huge city with an appreciable presence in pop culture. Yet nobody ever talks about the state. That's the thing. Baltimore IS Maryland in the national consciousness.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Maryland is an interesting case. Baltimore is a big huge city with an appreciable presence in pop culture. Yet nobody ever talks about the state. The biggest municipalities in Maryland outside of the Baltimore and DC metro areas are Hagerstown, Frederick and Cumberland. After that you're looking at small rural towns.
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all the ppl mentioning how massachusetts is not least famous are correct but not as to why its not the least famous because it has the tiny penis jutting into the water in the north east and thats really all there is to it
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:That's the thing. Baltimore IS Maryland in the national consciousness. I also think of crab cakes and Annapolis.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:we hav a burlington here too and its either "across the bridge from hamilton" or its "almost toronto". i cant think of any good reasons to go there, only through it I can't decide the least-famous Canadian Province: Saskatchewan or New Brunswick. For the same reason.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:I can't decide the least-famous Canadian Province: Saskatchewan or New Brunswick. For the same reason. One of narrow rectangle ones in the middle.
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Maryland has a cool shape, though. Looks like ooze coming from Pensylvania, dripping all over Virginia
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:I can't decide the least-famous Canadian Province: Saskatchewan or New Brunswick. For the same reason. as an outsider i at least was aware saskatchewan was probably a province in canada, if somebody asked me what new brunswick was id say probably a lovely ale
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:I can't decide the least-famous Canadian Province: Saskatchewan or New Brunswick. For the same reason. for me its definitely nb. there's basically no reason to remember it exists. the other 3 maritime provinces have some pretty notable features otherwise. sask has a wacky name so its easy to remember it exists. manitoba is probably runner up to nb
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Budzilla posted:For me it's sobriety. LOL 
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You Are A Werewolf posted:What’s the deal with the Carolinas? I sometimes hear about South Carolina in the news and almost immediately forget what it was about, but North Carolina is a mysterious state you never hear of. north carolina was first in flight. south carolina was first to fight (for the right to own other people)
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Sex Farm posted:West Virginia I was in WV visiting extended family a little after Christmas. They went to WVU and we watched the Northrop Grumman Raytheon Bowl or whatever the gently caress that happened to be on that weekend, which had WVU's football team playing some other state. WVU won and the crowd exploded into singing John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads, which famously includes him belting out "WEST VIRGINIAAAA". I guess it's an official state song, and he played it at the opening of the stadium in 1980 and immediately flew away in a helicopter. The kicker, they explained to me, is that he is not referring to the state of West Virginia but western Virginia, where the Shenandoah River and Blue Ridge Mountains actually pass through. tl;dr you might be right e: This redditor compiled data on how many TV shows are primarily set in any state, which is a little helpful. fart barterer fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Feb 8, 2024 |
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i dont like remembering west virginia exists
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what happened to you west virginia? ya’ll used to be cool as hell
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arkansas is the state i have thought about the least, i think
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Southern Cassowary posted:arkansas is the state i have thought about the least, i think I'd vote for Arkansas. Idaho I think of potatoes, Wyoming and Montana I can at least picture and Cheyenne is an absolutely baller name for a city. Nebraska has a great Springsteen album named after it. Oklahoma has a famous play named after it, with an exclamation point even. I know literaly nothing about Arkansas.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:I can't decide the least-famous Canadian Province: Saskatchewan or New Brunswick. For the same reason. Saskatchewan is in the weird position where it has become famous for being a big flat rectangle with nothing in it and is now shorthand for "middle of nowhere" whereas new brunswick is genuinely completely ignored
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redshirt posted:No one's said Utah yet. wonder why
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Maryland is an interesting case. Baltimore is a big huge city with an appreciable presence in pop culture. Yet nobody ever talks about the state. that is a lot more going for it than man other states. nobody talks about south dakota or any of the towns in south dakota, except for arguably deadwood, but only in the context of a tv show which took place before south dakota even existed iowa is only famous because its a swing state during presidential elections, so there's some inevitable scene every four years where candidates go there and show up at at a dennys to pander to "the average american". outside of that no one gives a gently caress what goes on in des moines or iowa city. same with a lot of the rest of the midwest outside of big cities like chicago, minneapolis, detroit, etc personally i have been to every state in the country except for alaska and wyoming and the least memorable or interesting are definitely iowa and the dakotas.
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New Hampshire seems to be filled with boring white liberals. Easily forgettable.
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TrashMammal posted:labrador has those dogs. solid if somewhat sloppy companions those dogs are from newfoundland and are named labradors because a guy in the UK got them confused
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Yvershek posted:New Hampshire seems to be filled with boring while liberals. Easily forgettable. NH was once the target of some kind of libertarian project to take over the state and build a base there but i guess that fell apart sometime in the last decade Earwicker fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Feb 8, 2024 |
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cock hero flux posted:the only thing that can beat new brunswick is labrador if you're willing to consider it its own thing im not
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cock hero flux posted:those dogs are from newfoundland and are named labradors because a guy in the UK got them confused feeling misled and perhaps betrayed by the british yet again 
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Earwicker posted:NH was once the target of some kind of libertarian project to take over the state and build a base there but i guess that fell apart sometime in the last decade They managed to "take over" a single town and, predictably, it went to poo poo: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-project-new-hampshire-libertarians-matthew-hongoltz-hetling
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Yvershek posted:New Hampshire seems to be filled with boring white liberals. Easily forgettable. New Hampshire is not actually very liberal.
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cock hero flux posted:those dogs are from newfoundland and are named labradors because a guy in the UK got them confused Probably the Newfies got them confused first. Newfies are like that ya know.
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:New Hampshire is not actually very liberal. It is compared to Alabama or Florida.
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DrBouvenstein posted:They managed to "take over" a single town and, predictably, it went to poo poo: now that im reminded of the name of that project i remember them running ads here on SA lol
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Back in junior high we had a test to label a blank map with all the states and their capitals. It was actually very useful, but I'd be hard pressed to do it again without a bit of study. Idaho, though, where I currently live is so unrecognized it's astounding. I've been in the airport in Spokane, WA and chatted with people asking each other where we are from, etc. "Idaho, north end". "Oh where is Idaho? That's in the mid-west, right?" "Uh no, its about 40 miles that way." The person grew up in Spokane. Crazy part is that I've had that same conversation with two other grown adults. I also love that Idaho = potatoes. Fun fact: Idaho, in the southern part of the state does in fact grow poo poo-tons of potatoes, but most of them are sold commercially to McDonalds, Ore Ida, and other states. If I buy a potato in the supermarket there is a 90% chance it was grown in another state, most likely Washington. There's tremendous scenery; mountains, lakes, forests, etc. And the south part of the state is a lot of farm land, but most people have no clue that there is tons of hiking, camping, fishing, forests, mountains, etc I've ever seen. I'm okay with the lack of interest; more for me to enjoy without other people mucking it up.
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