First time visiting, i arrived in Sāo Paulo in a Bus, when i saw the sign "Welcome to Sāo Paulo i stood up and started to get my things... When we got to the São Paulo Bus Station, 5 hours later, i understood why the other passengers were very amused by my behavior.
I know so many people who choose to drive. It blows my mind. Like, yeah, the subways can be frustrating, but nowhere near as frustrating as driving in the city.
Bikes are the best way to get around the city.
Some of us have no choice. I drive for work sometimes and jesus it’s so frustrating. Can turn a 12hr work day into a 16hr one.
If you drove circles around my neighborhood for 13 hours, you'd still be in my neighborhood. The non-local area'n mind cannot comprehend this.
If you sit in the car and make engine noises for 13 hours you'd still be in my driveway! The adult mind cannot comprehend this.
If I sat in my car and made engine noises for 13 hours, I'd die from carbon monoxide poisoning. My adult mind cannot comprehend this.
I can drive for like 2 minutes in my mind and still be in my mind. Beyond that I'm more limited by my attention span than the amount of space I can imagine.
I can walk 13 hours in my bedroom and still be in my bedroom. An insane mind cannot comprehend this.
You can cycle for 13 hours anywhere in the country and still be alive, usa'nean mind can't comprehend this
You can walk 13 hours towards Mordor and still not be in Mordor. One does not simply walk into Mordor.
It's funny how Google Maps has a reference to this if you tell it to give you walking directions to "Mordor".
Although I don't think it works with every starting location.
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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.
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 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.
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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.
And that's not even a lap like the OP's picture (if Russia even has such roads to approximate driving the perimeter)
New friend: "hey, we live close, why don't you come over?"
You: go full circle through the whole country to get there
You can drive 13 hours from R'lyeh and still be in R'lyeh, the euclidean mind cannot comprehend this.
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.
161 hours is a very optimistic estimation... given the extreme weather conditions and the awful roads at the far east.
That's just cause y'all's roads are slow.
Texas has many roads with 80/85mph limits. (128/136kph)
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
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.
Best of all, you can likely make that same lap on bicycle as well as the cycling infrastructure is beyond awesome.
I want that here. I feel like so much less of a dying lazy ass when I bike places. I also don't zonk out and suddenly realize I'm at the destination with no recollection of anything leading up to it since getting into the car.
In Europe you can drive around a roundabout for 13 hours the American mind can not comprehend this.
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In Europe you can drive around a roundabout
for 13 hoursthe American mind can not comprehend this.
That is actually not legal in Germany. It is forbidden to drive without a reason although this almost never actually gets controlled by anyone.
We have roundabouts. They're just rare and the drivers become temporarily retarded when going in/out of them.
I have actually encountered this phenomenon, and it involves neither Americans nor Europeans. I live in Korea, and I'm from Canada. I've had to explain that no, I have never been to Vancouver because it's something like 8000 km from where I lived on the opposite coast in Canada. At least a couple weeks of driving. In Korea, the furthest you can be from anywhere is about a four-hour drive.