We’ve been ignoring the Dakotas for too long, they are spreading at an alarming rate!
Incest often doesn’t provide viable offspring though.
Tell that to the British royal line
Any royal line for that matter
That’s what happens when the antidax narrative takes hold.
Damn that’s scary. I don’t think there’s many drag queens there but child abuse in those states are higher than most. /s
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This is cursed.
I only looked at this for ten seconds and I forgot how the real map looks.
The malignant Dak-ancer has spread to your Cancerlina. The illness stems from exposure to fascist gerrymandering. It’s a fatal prognosis.
I… I can’t even figure what’s wrong with it even though I know it’s so very, very wrong. My brain hurts.
As someone from Europe it looks fine to me.
I genuinely didn’t get the joke until I read the hover text and even then I just assumed he put extra lines in to troll the Americans.
That’s an awful lot of Dakotas. Also, Ohio really ought to be renamed Ohno.
And no Howoming, Whatoming, Wheroming, or Whooming, missed opportunities.
What really gets me is how you swapped Alabama and Mississippi just for kicks.
Ohno
That’s my favorite. Plus, the way it can be read as “Ohenno” or Oh hell no. Columbia on the West Coast is also a neat idea, considering that Columbia was the manufactured goddess designed to be an avatar for American greatness, before we got the Statue of Liberty. Columbia still has a big statue on top of the Capitol building in DC that never gets mentioned.
Did I have a stroke?
Yse
This magazine has been cracking me up for weeks now. Had to share:
https://sopuli.xyz/c/aneurysmpostinghttps://kbin.social/m/aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz
Hmm, trying to understand your username, are you both very intelligent/ talented AND have a lift kit on your vehicle?
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz
It’s a Typo: His name is Ted and he’s into GILFs.
This map freaks me out and I don’t know why.
Because everything you know is wrong, nothing is real, nothing matters, have a panic attack, you deserve it!
ok but where’s MASHINGTON
West of Wontanna
Fun fact, there are no US states that start with A.
The closest is Arkansas which starts with an “A”. Which is pronounced similar to an “A”.
Some ChatGPT fun facts
Likewise there are no states with a B in the name.
Isn’t Kentucky the only one that starts with a K?
I have an inkling that the two Arkansas are pronounced differently. “Are-Kansas” and “Are-Can-Saw”.
One is Akansas
I see that now. I did not see it then.
Are-ken-saw, A-kan-saw and a Kan-sahs
One has no R
I see that now. I did not see it then.
That’s because Arkansas (ARE-can-saw) retained the native language pronounciation, while Kansas (CAN-zuhs) was Anglicanized.
Today I learned the native language was French!
The word “Arkansas” came from the Quapaw Indians, by way of early French explorers. … The state’s name has been spelled several ways throughout history. In Marquette and Joliet’s Journal of 1673, the Indian name is spelled AKANSEA. In LaSalle’s map a few years later, it’s spelled ACANSA. A map based on the journey of La Harpe in 1718-1722 refers to the river as the ARKANSAS and to the Indians as LES AKANSAS. In about 1811, Captain Zebulon Pike, a noted explorer, spelled it ARKANSAW.
Ok, I don’t get it.
A recent XKCD was just the blank map with ~64 “states” and the direction to try and name them all.
Here it is: https://lemmy.world/post/9604451
Oh, missed this one that helps
Is this what having an aneurysm feels like?
I see Kansas, but where’s Kan’tsas?
Kansas, Akansas, Arkansas was clever my guy. How would you pronounce Akansas tho? A-kansahh? Akansahh? A-Kansas? Akansas? Ahkansas? Ah-kansahh?
Ahkansas, just to piss off the French
Ah-kansah, I would imagine.
It just occurred to me that there are no states named East Statename.
English settlers arrived in the east. So wherever they were when they named an area, that was the original, and as they spread west, north or south, they had to add those directions to keep them distinct.
Serious answer: we started at the eastern seaboard and expanded west. “East Statename” implies eastern expansion.
That’s because the expansion of the US across the continent was westward.
I know. It just seemed funny that the other three directions are represented.
If/when Puerto Rico becomes the 51st state, it should take the name East Puerto Rico, just to be fair.
Are there any ‘West _____’ states? I know there are north and south
Country roads take me home to the place I belong
spoiler
West Virginia
Huh, I always thought it was just called “Virginia”. TIL there are two Virginias Regards A Swede
Which, funny enough, actually refers to >!the western region of the state of Virginia, not the state of West Virginia!<
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