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[–] rc_buggy@sh.itjust.works 87 points 7 months ago (7 children)

You can drive 13 hours from NYC and still be in NYC. A sane mind cannot comprehend this.

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 20 points 7 months ago

Especially if you take the tunnel

[–] vrek@programming.dev 7 points 7 months ago

The truelly scary part is you only be a mile away if your lucky :)

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

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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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 76 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Entropywins@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

13 hours from now I'll still be on the couch...

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[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 66 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 64 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well that trip has maybe 1 hour in Holland. The rest is other provinces.

[–] heartpatcher@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago (4 children)
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[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

This is who I expected to be delivering that line

[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago

Gru when he sees one of his adopted daughters:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4f5e7936-a1e3-45e4-acce-71ff7d023096.jpeg

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Damn, that meme really struck a nerve with the Europeans, huh?

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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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[–] Rinox@feddit.it 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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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[–] uis@lemm.ee 24 points 7 months ago (4 children)

You can drive in Russia for 161 hours and still be in Russia:

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 7 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but plenty of the land contributed to Russia doesn't belong to them, so its fake

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[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

New friend: "hey, we live close, why don't you come over?"

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

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It’s like that one time in Australia when the road was closed

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[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 7 months ago

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

[–] John@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Holland is only the western part of the netherlands.

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[–] Kyatto@leminal.space 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

63 hours? Pffft. Driving in Russia for 161 hours:

[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago

161 hours is a very optimistic estimation... given the extreme weather conditions and the awful roads at the far east.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)

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

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

[–] Dagamant@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

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

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 14 points 7 months ago

TIL in Texas and Holland you can only drive on a road once.

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

After seeing the other post a minute ago. This is the shit posting that I love to see.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Best of all, you can likely make that same lap on bicycle as well as the cycling infrastructure is beyond awesome.

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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 months ago (5 children)

In Europe you can drive around a roundabout for 13 hours the American mind can not comprehend this.

[–] amio@kbin.social 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In Europe you can drive around a roundabout ~~for 13 hours~~ the American mind can not comprehend this.

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[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can drive for an unlimited amount of time as long as you circle around the streets of your city

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[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Apparently it only takes 9hrs to drive around Moscow. US guys, your time to shine! I bet you'd have a city that would take more time to drive around than Netherlands

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[–] Phoonzang@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Is Lemiers really Holland, though?

[–] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I can drive 12 hours across BC and just barely hit the border. The short way.

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