• kamenLady.
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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

  • Fat Tony
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    I can walk 13 hours in my bedroom and still be in my bedroom. An insane mind cannot comprehend this.

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    You can cycle for 13 hours anywhere in the country and still be alive, usa’nean mind can’t comprehend this

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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.

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      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.

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        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.

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            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.

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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

            Yeah this is literally Europeans clowning on the dumb “joke” with our own version of the dumb joke.

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      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

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    You can walk 13 hours towards Mordor and still not be in Mordor. One does not simply walk into Mordor.

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      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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      And that’s not even a lap like the OP’s picture (if Russia even has such roads to approximate driving the perimeter)

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        Best joke of the day! You wouldn’t even consider the road across a road, lmao, perimeter.

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      You can drive 30minutes into Russia and end up in Ukraine! No matter where you start from

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        If you are male russian citizen between age of 18 and 30, that is not currently a student, then yes. Or doctor of any age.

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    New friend: “hey, we live close, why don’t you come over?”

    You: go full circle through the whole country to get there

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      Muricans trying to make euromemes. Notlikethis.png

      Or at least that’s what it feels like

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    That’s just cause y’all’s roads are slow.

    Texas has many roads with 80/85mph limits. (128/136kph)

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    You can drive 13 hours from R’lyeh and still be in R’lyeh, the euclidean mind cannot comprehend this.

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    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.