I don't know how you guys walk around with those things.
Edit: As an owner/operator, I *do* know how we walk around with these things, I was just continuing the Seinfeld quote.
As an Alaskan, youād be amazed how many times throughout my life Iāve been asked why Alaska is so cold even though itās right next to Hawaii. A lot. Iāve been asked this a lot.
I had gotten asked what the elevation was out on the docks when I was living in Juneau. I would reply 10 ft. They would say they thought it would be much higher like thousands.
Ok, I have been this idiot. For whatever reason north = elevation to me for too long. Despite living on the coast in the North, including when I lived on the Arctic coast. Once I finally questioned it, I was likeā¦. How am I this dumb. I am literally at sea level.
In my defence, Iād never said it to anyone else and had only vaguely thought about it while making bread. Making sourdough in 2020 was what made me finally realize I had this stupid false connection in my brain.
Historically speaking it was. The mainland was called Providence Plantations. The full name was, until very recently, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Sadly yes, I'm a Social Studies teacher and several kids every year think that Hawaii and Alaska are right next to each other, somewhere Southwest of Mexico. It's what all the maps show and they just never questioned it.
OMG I never even thought about that. Like the maps that have them in essentially the zoom boxes?? Now I wonder just how many people have that missing knowledge.
I just don't get it. Canadian here, we had to learn all of the states and their capital cities the same as we had to learn all of our provinces and territories in school. To not even know your own country is so strange and sad to me.
Yes, we do too.
All I hear these days is āomg why didnāt we learn XYZ in school?ā
We did. Or at least the teachers taught it. Some people donāt care to learn as kids or as adults and this is the outcome.
Most of the items people talk about ānot learningā are something I learned in a Cleveland area public school before age 12.
I like the continuous beach south of Mexico that wraps around to the west on the Oregon coast just north of Alaska in the Atlantic/Pacific.
I wonder how distorted this person gets on road trips and if Central/South America blows their mind.
Edit: Mexica
I honestly donāt even know how she put the pacific on the right side of the map and yet pacific/Atlantic is underneath Mexicoā¦
#AND WHY IS ALASKA BELOW MEXICO?!?!
There are some people who think Alaska and Hawaii are in that location because of the way they're included on maps even though they're there because of space limitations.
Those people are often children though.
>Those people are often children though.
Those children become adults. If they never cared to notice that fact through 12+ years of education, they won't magically absorb that nugget of truth in adulthood. There are likely a shocking number of adults who don't realize where Alaska is (and have likely never bothered to think about it enough to care).
LOL AT first I was thinking it's really not that bad. Mostly looking at the basic shape and being Canadian, I don't know where all the states are.
But ya, even I know New Mexico isn't below Texas...
And then I noticed Canada in the top right... lol
Every second spent lookin at this I notice something more egregious than the last thing. Admittedly, my own map wouldnāt be great, but ho-ly, this is so dumb
I'll help you with the Midwest, if I can get a hand with the central states.
Edit: I just realized we probably talking about the same area. We're going to need a LOT of help.
My thoughts exactly, at first I was thinking I couldn't do better, then it was "apart from Alaska... And Canada... And where is the entire continent of South America... And.. '
Correction: MexicA. She uses the Spanish female lexical gender Mexica with an A. Itās where Mexicans come from, not to be confused with Mexicons. Which, using her geography, come from somewhere near Siberia.
She also thinks that the shape of the continental US is a whole continent.. she thinks Texas is Mexico and Maine is Canada. I doubt she could find the US on a world map.
Sheās almost 30, she has, itās just been 25 years.
It was a poster on Miss Phillipās wall in Kindergarten. She doesnāt remember much of it, but she damn well knows Alaska is one of the Hawaii islands.
Could be worse. I now live in `Main` according to this, which is right next to `Wash St.` (You know, the patron street saint of clean clothing) and `NY`.
Washingtonian, also left out. Which is good, because both our neighboring states and the pacific coast seem to have been relocated or deleted, so who knows where weād end up.
Edit: NVM I found us, weāre landlocked in the middle of that northeastern blob. I donāt like this turn of events *at all*
Out of all the times people forget about South Carolina how is this the one time where someone gets our state right but then puts Oregon where Nevada should be.
You'd be surprised...
I lived in NC for 7 years and once actually argued with a woman, who was born and raised there, about the location of Georgia in relation to NC.
Homegirl vehemently believed that Georgia was sandwiched in between NC and SC because "the Carolinas are like the bread of a sandwich"...
Worst part about it was that her home town (in which we were residing) was about 7-10 minutes from the SC border.
Now I'm in SC and things don't seem to have improved with the relocation...
It's not even a high priority if she thinks the Pacific Ocean is on the East Coast.
The difference between the Atlantic and Pacific is pretty striking. A blind person can tell the difference between them just by what the water tastes like.
You know I have never thought about this but you're absolutely right, I grew up.in CT but moved to CA as an adult; i thought I was maybe just misremembering what salt water tasted like cuz of being a kid, but it feels different.
It's a common misconception that Delaware is a state. Kinda like Pluto. Beach is actually the 50th US state. It's also the largest with roughly 1 million square miles of territory across 100,000 miles of coastline.
Dunno what they're teaching kids in school nowadays
Everything about this is awful but if I had to pick a favorite part it'd have to be the unnamed, lawless badlands that apparently separate California (and... Illinois?) from everything else.
Better than I could do. I can name all 50 states in alphabetical order thanks to my 3rd grade teacher, but I might run into an issue trying to hand draw a map of the US.
You basically just missed the column of the old man with the hat! If you had gotten that in then everything wouldāve fit together
- Minnesota - hat
- Iowa - head
- Missouri - shirt
- Arkansas - pants
- Louisiana - boots
Bonus points for the Tennessee frying pan making Kentucky fried chicken
I met a woman working at Western Union in Walmart.. nuff said.. who believed Canada was part of the US but couldnāt find it in the list of states.. half an hour of trying to convince her that Canada is a totally separate country she called her manager on the phone to help find it.
When I went to Disney world when I was 12 a nice older cashier asked where I was from. I said Canada. She asked what state it's in because she's never heard of it.
That's when I knew for certain that there are 12 year olds who know more about what's going on in the world than adults
I know some very smart people that are bad at geography, but this is unforgivable. This is what you get when someone "Don't know, don't cares" their way through school.
Canadian here. Thereās a few free sites that time you as you try to fill in all of the states names on a map. It still takes me well over a minute to do it. Itās all their damn little states that mess me up.
Ugh. A girl I went to college with, who went to Catholic high school, was shocked when I said the sun is the closest star to us. āHow is the sun a star? Itās so much bigger than real starsā
I like the position of Alaska. To be fair to her, my daughter, who has an MA from a good UK university and went to a good secondary school, when asked by her husband where Alaska was, replied, "it's somewhere in that Spain" (sic)
Canadian here. Itās a bit bigger than what is shown..
Itās the coldā¦makes things shrink up
I WAS IN THE POOL!
^Do ^girls ^know ^about ^shrinkage?
What, like laundry?
Noā¦ Like when a man goes swimming, afterwards?
.. it shrinks?
Like a frightened turtle!
Why does it shrink?
I don't know how you guys walk around with those things. Edit: As an owner/operator, I *do* know how we walk around with these things, I was just continuing the Seinfeld quote.
It shrinks?
Like a frightened turtle
Same excuse I use too. š
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Do they know about shrinkage in Canada?
You mean Canadaās not in Vermont??
It's worse the longer I look
Oh man I just found Hawaii off the coast of girthy Florida.
Wait til you see tropical Alaska
That part at least kind of makes sense, since many maps show Alaska (and Hawai) somewhere around where she drew it.
But last time I checked Alaska had slightly blockier and more distinct shape than "Fat snake stuck inside a sock trying to crawl over and eat Hawaii."
*Flordia
The part that really hit me is the beach that just frames the edge.
I'm quite fond of Hawaii and Alaska being placed like the insets on normal maps, but not framed as insets.
As an Alaskan, youād be amazed how many times throughout my life Iāve been asked why Alaska is so cold even though itās right next to Hawaii. A lot. Iāve been asked this a lot.
I had gotten asked what the elevation was out on the docks when I was living in Juneau. I would reply 10 ft. They would say they thought it would be much higher like thousands.
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Idiots. Idiots everywhere.
Yes... thousands of feet above sea level... at the docks. What did they think was docking there, airships?
Hindenburg, Goodyear Blimp.
Ok, I have been this idiot. For whatever reason north = elevation to me for too long. Despite living on the coast in the North, including when I lived on the Arctic coast. Once I finally questioned it, I was likeā¦. How am I this dumb. I am literally at sea level. In my defence, Iād never said it to anyone else and had only vaguely thought about it while making bread. Making sourdough in 2020 was what made me finally realize I had this stupid false connection in my brain.
Rhode Island being an actual island is awesome
Yep! Right after the penis head ofthe Americas, Canada. š¤£š¤£š¤£
Historically speaking it was. The mainland was called Providence Plantations. The full name was, until very recently, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Oh they finally got around to changing it? Wow! I didnāt think Iād ever see the day!
Yep. Last year I think. Was too long.
I like the pacific/Atlantic ocean mix!
And then she committed to the Pacific Ocean on the east coast.
I love the thought of taking a quick boat ride from Florida to Hawaii
Donāt you mean āFlordiaā?
There are shockingly many Americans who think Alaska is an island.
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Sadly yes, I'm a Social Studies teacher and several kids every year think that Hawaii and Alaska are right next to each other, somewhere Southwest of Mexico. It's what all the maps show and they just never questioned it.
OMG I never even thought about that. Like the maps that have them in essentially the zoom boxes?? Now I wonder just how many people have that missing knowledge.
What hit me was Canada. So small eh!
I just don't get it. Canadian here, we had to learn all of the states and their capital cities the same as we had to learn all of our provinces and territories in school. To not even know your own country is so strange and sad to me.
I could fucking do a better map of the states and I am a Candian high school drop out for fucks sakes.
We did/do in America as well. It's just poorly done and only the people that care seem to remember.
Yes, we do too. All I hear these days is āomg why didnāt we learn XYZ in school?ā We did. Or at least the teachers taught it. Some people donāt care to learn as kids or as adults and this is the outcome. Most of the items people talk about ānot learningā are something I learned in a Cleveland area public school before age 12.
I like the continuous beach south of Mexico that wraps around to the west on the Oregon coast just north of Alaska in the Atlantic/Pacific. I wonder how distorted this person gets on road trips and if Central/South America blows their mind. Edit: Mexica
Well at least she got the oceans on the correct sides.. oh wait, never-mind
at least she got north carolina above south carolina
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You mean "Flordia"
I honestly donāt even know how she put the pacific on the right side of the map and yet pacific/Atlantic is underneath Mexicoā¦ #AND WHY IS ALASKA BELOW MEXICO?!?!
There are some people who think Alaska and Hawaii are in that location because of the way they're included on maps even though they're there because of space limitations. Those people are often children though.
>Those people are often children though. Those children become adults. If they never cared to notice that fact through 12+ years of education, they won't magically absorb that nugget of truth in adulthood. There are likely a shocking number of adults who don't realize where Alaska is (and have likely never bothered to think about it enough to care).
East coast out here lookin like bacon.
LOL AT first I was thinking it's really not that bad. Mostly looking at the basic shape and being Canadian, I don't know where all the states are. But ya, even I know New Mexico isn't below Texas... And then I noticed Canada in the top right... lol
I thought that the Mexica was some sort of Tex-Mex joke and chuckled. Then I noticed it wasn't....and it just got worse and worse....
Every second spent lookin at this I notice something more egregious than the last thing. Admittedly, my own map wouldnāt be great, but ho-ly, this is so dumb
I want to try to free draw one just to see how I do. This is so atrocious, but I donāt have much confidence in my Midwest geography
I'll help you with the Midwest, if I can get a hand with the central states. Edit: I just realized we probably talking about the same area. We're going to need a LOT of help.
Yes, have you seen DC yet?
Yeah, you know, Washington DC with its shared border with Arizona.
This just proves how far removed DC lawmakers are from the good people of Oregon, who bravely defend our southern border with their Ohio neighbors.
Atlantic/pacific ocean. It's just fucking both of them
I get that remembering all 50 states location might be tricky, but you should probably get closer. Iām Canadian and could do a better job
At least she knows where some beaches are
My thoughts exactly, at first I was thinking I couldn't do better, then it was "apart from Alaska... And Canada... And where is the entire continent of South America... And.. '
Florida seems so thick and big, I like it
You mean Flordia not Florida
Yea dumbass, it sits in the atlantic/pacific ocean EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT
Actually, between the atlantic/pacific ocean and the Pacific ocean!
I STAND CORRECTED
Also has a Mexico nut sack.
Correction: MexicA. She uses the Spanish female lexical gender Mexica with an A. Itās where Mexicans come from, not to be confused with Mexicons. Which, using her geography, come from somewhere near Siberia.
Whereās the fucking Michigan Peninsula? Why is Canada where Maine should be? It hurts me
You mean "mishigan"
You mean Main? Gotta make room for Washington St.
Ohio here, I'm near the Mexico border??
Thatās right. Just west of Texas and north of Alaska.
I think she actually believes Alaska is an island near Hawaii because of the inset on so many maps
That was my thought too. Which is even weirder because it really doesn't look like she's ever seen a map...
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She also thinks that the shape of the continental US is a whole continent.. she thinks Texas is Mexico and Maine is Canada. I doubt she could find the US on a world map.
I like how Florida is bigger than Canada and Mexico possibly combined
you just made me realize how shallow her world view is
Sheās almost 30, she has, itās just been 25 years. It was a poster on Miss Phillipās wall in Kindergarten. She doesnāt remember much of it, but she damn well knows Alaska is one of the Hawaii islands.
Of course it's an island. How else do you expect it to be so close to Russia, smart guy?
Explains why so many people in Ohio are worried about border security.
I was going to say, according to GOP governors, all states share a border with Mexico
Ohio...the south of the north
From what I've heard Ohio's Congrescritters talk about, it would seem so
I'm wondering what those big patches of no-man's land are... I miss the 'here be dragons' tags lol
Flyover states no one cares about. Signed, A Nebraskan
I agree about that living in Wyoming...but Wyoming doesn't even exist so....
Lol sometimes I think I actually prefer the general populace doesnāt know we exist.
But Kansas is in the map. Justā¦. South of Texas.
That's the edge of the earth where you would fall off if you crossed over it.
Wisconsin here, glad we're not a part of this mess
me too. but I think, according to this map, I live in Oregon.
I do live in Oregon and I thought we drove south to get to California, but I guess I was confused š
There must be a wormhole on the Columbia river. How else are we getting all the way to the East Coast to Washington state?
Could be worse. I now live in `Main` according to this, which is right next to `Wash St.` (You know, the patron street saint of clean clothing) and `NY`.
I live in Washington State and now I'm really peeved I have to travel 3,000 miles to get to my favorite Pacific beach.
No, no, look again. The Pacific is right there on the east coast, clearly labeled. You can also tell because the Bahamas are there.
Washingtonian, also left out. Which is good, because both our neighboring states and the pacific coast seem to have been relocated or deleted, so who knows where weād end up. Edit: NVM I found us, weāre landlocked in the middle of that northeastern blob. I donāt like this turn of events *at all*
Washington isn't left out, it's up there in what is broadly New England. You now live in the Pacific Northeast.
Lol I like that you labeled the ocean correctly according to this map
Illinoisan here. Hi neighbor š
Super excited to be in the Atlantic northwest!
Lost it at Mish. E: on second thought, I'll accept it since we are so fucking far away from Ohio now.
Out of all the times people forget about South Carolina how is this the one time where someone gets our state right but then puts Oregon where Nevada should be.
Well Iād hope so since theyāre from North Carolina
You'd be surprised... I lived in NC for 7 years and once actually argued with a woman, who was born and raised there, about the location of Georgia in relation to NC. Homegirl vehemently believed that Georgia was sandwiched in between NC and SC because "the Carolinas are like the bread of a sandwich"... Worst part about it was that her home town (in which we were residing) was about 7-10 minutes from the SC border. Now I'm in SC and things don't seem to have improved with the relocation...
The importance of "Beach" might be a clue about her priorities.
It's not even a high priority if she thinks the Pacific Ocean is on the East Coast. The difference between the Atlantic and Pacific is pretty striking. A blind person can tell the difference between them just by what the water tastes like.
Wait what? They taste different???
The Atlantic is saltier than the Pacific at all latitudes.
You know I have never thought about this but you're absolutely right, I grew up.in CT but moved to CA as an adult; i thought I was maybe just misremembering what salt water tasted like cuz of being a kid, but it feels different.
Just noticed she wrote ābeachā along the shoreline š
It's a common misconception that Delaware is a state. Kinda like Pluto. Beach is actually the 50th US state. It's also the largest with roughly 1 million square miles of territory across 100,000 miles of coastline. Dunno what they're teaching kids in school nowadays
Someone did not watch enough āwhere in the world is Carmen Sandiegoā as a kid and it shows. Edit: thank you for the gold kind stranger!
I think itās illegal to show Hispanic people on TV in North Carolina. Iāve never heard anybody say that but it sounds right.
Not Hispanics - Mexicans! /s. Source: I live in NC
This is funny but entirely untrue. I saw a Mexican maid during one scene of Matlock Twenty seven years ago . Source...North Carolinian
Us Pennsylvanians do get along well with our northern neighbors in Washington State.
As a washingtonian I've always felt some kinship for Pennsylvania. I feel like you have the same ratio of cool cities to redneck backwoods as us.
As a fellow Washingtonian we no longer have to worry about East coast bias now being in the northeast
Everything about this is awful but if I had to pick a favorite part it'd have to be the unnamed, lawless badlands that apparently separate California (and... Illinois?) from everything else.
Uncharted territory
Fog of war
Rhode Island being an actual Island nearly killed me.
Have you been to Nevada? She's not *wrong* per se...
[I had to give it a try.](https://imgur.com/a/pANujbJ) Formal apologies to the states of Iowa, Missouri, and any other state I might have done wrong.
Better than I could do. I can name all 50 states in alphabetical order thanks to my 3rd grade teacher, but I might run into an issue trying to hand draw a map of the US.
You basically just missed the column of the old man with the hat! If you had gotten that in then everything wouldāve fit together - Minnesota - hat - Iowa - head - Missouri - shirt - Arkansas - pants - Louisiana - boots Bonus points for the Tennessee frying pan making Kentucky fried chicken
The shape of Texas is pretty good for how bad this is
But who doesn't know Texas borders Mexico? š
The Atlantic/Pacific Ocean is sneakily the funniest part.
Pacific ocean is everywhere except the pacific ocean. Also, the area marked as atlantic/pacific is neither. It's the gulf of mexico.
Or just, y'know, Mexico.
āMexicaā
What did it for me is that it looks like she almost forgot NC was above SC, which is the state she is from.
Have her draw a clock next
Ask her to point at where Alaska is on the clock
As a Canadian, small Canada is really making me laugh!
I'm liking the new location of the pacific ocean.
And that Rhode Islanders are now, technically, Pacific Islanders? Way to use those context clues!!
TIL rhode island is an actual island š¤
That little RI in the ocean is legitimately funny.
Illinois āCanadaās Nippleā
According to this map New York is Canada's Nipple
Donāt reveal the dead zones between the state clusters. The other nations must not know.
Those are obviously the Great Lakes duh
Cool! Can you ask her to draw a picture of Europe, Africa, South America and Asia as well? I'm curious what she'll make of those!
> South America She'd be like I *already* drew the south america.
She adds a jungle under "Mexica" and that's it.
I want to see what she would draw for Antarctica.
It's all beach in the Atlanticpacific ocean.
Her head may explode
Probably for the best /s
I met a woman working at Western Union in Walmart.. nuff said.. who believed Canada was part of the US but couldnāt find it in the list of states.. half an hour of trying to convince her that Canada is a totally separate country she called her manager on the phone to help find it.
Met someone once who thought Canada was an American city.
When I went to Disney world when I was 12 a nice older cashier asked where I was from. I said Canada. She asked what state it's in because she's never heard of it. That's when I knew for certain that there are 12 year olds who know more about what's going on in the world than adults
Washington St is near the pacific ocean! She got one!
I know some very smart people that are bad at geography, but this is unforgivable. This is what you get when someone "Don't know, don't cares" their way through school.
I definitely can't fill in the location of all 50 states on the map, but c'mon, this is a little ridiculous
Iām from Ireland and I could do a fucking hell of a lot better than this.
It's nice that we're in the Pacific now though!
That might be the worst part about this renderingā¦ How do you not know what ocean *your own state* has coastline on?
Canadian here. Thereās a few free sites that time you as you try to fill in all of the states names on a map. It still takes me well over a minute to do it. Itās all their damn little states that mess me up.
And she votes āļø
Ugh. A girl I went to college with, who went to Catholic high school, was shocked when I said the sun is the closest star to us. āHow is the sun a star? Itās so much bigger than real starsā
>āHow is the sun a star? Itās so much bigger than real starsā That was my classmates when I was like 7...
Did she also think the professor was about 6 inches tall in the front of the lecture hall?
A girl in my college biology lab asked the professor, "So like, is a cell smaller than an atom?"
>college Bruh..
Wait is Hawaii next to Florida!?
I would guess they put it there because that's where the insets for Hawaii and Alaska are usually shown on maps
Hawaii is still in the Pacific though. She moved several states and an entire ocean.
50 percent of people are below average intelligence and about 35 percent are noticeably stupid
Yeah this is no longer the fault of her schooling, she's fucking 30, the whole internet is at her disposal, she just doesn't give a fuck
Mishigan and Mexica
I like the position of Alaska. To be fair to her, my daughter, who has an MA from a good UK university and went to a good secondary school, when asked by her husband where Alaska was, replied, "it's somewhere in that Spain" (sic)
And to be fully fair, alaska and hawaii are frequently insets so are understandably displaced if you're just pattern recognizing.
Although most people know Alaska is cold right?
Not gonna lie I wish North Dakota wasnāt real either, we have the worse people ever
I'm gonna go out on a limb and shift some blame on her. She should have some accountability for this hot mess.
and her vote counts just as much as mine! i love america.
If she lives in Wyoming, it counts for much more.
I live in California; her vote counts for MUCH more than mine.
That's a feature of democracy, not American politics
Its sad, but I chuckled a bit.
What state you live in? "Beach."
She is clearly over qualified to become a politician
I don't see this as a schooling issue. You can only fight complete disinterest so much.
Iāll be honesty, I know where everything is mostly geographically, but i canāt remember where some states are. So it has failed me too..