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    323 months ago

    The “nearly” is the interesting part. Is there a dispute over border lines? Is there a conflict zone in between? Why is it nearly and not exactly, i must know.

      • Ephera
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        63 months ago

        In that case, we’d also have to count Hawaii and Florida and such…

        • Jo Miran
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          103 months ago

          The word “border” in the example implies “border with another country”.

    • stankmut
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      83 months ago

      The nearly part is just there for the joke. Most of the time people are comparing two different things which are nearly the same, so it’s supposed to be funny when the two things named turn out to be the same thing.

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        I knooow, i was just trying to be funny and pretend like there was a deeper meaning :)

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      There’s water at one point where

      If you ask the US or Mexico the border is where the land ends but if you ask Texas it’s wherever their floating barrier is