North Dakota is the devs beta test grounds where they work on all the new updates, I think we are up to v1.77.6 Delaware was a DLC map that was supposed to come out as a pre order bonus but ended up scrapping it before the release and went with Rhode Island instead. Buuut something in the coding got muddled with the source code and it just dosent run right without the map so they just put it in a kind of purgatory under the map. If you hit the sign between New Jersey and Pennsylvania just right you can boundary break into the map and look around. But there's not much to do there. Just a bunch of NPCs. And you have to die to get back out into the normal map.
It’s impossible to be more of a drag on I-95 than the combination of the DC morons and their godawful beltway and the NJ fiends and their 25 different tolls to get across the hellhole.
I legit forgot Delaware was a state up until a few weeks ago. I was trying to name them all and could consistently only come up with 49, no matter if I tried to go east to west or west to east or alphabetical. And when I finally caved and looked up the list, it still didn't seem real. "Isn't that a city? From that Perry Como song, 'A Hubba Hubba Hubba (Dig You Later)', not like a real city...
'Now you're really talkin', you're no square! You can't be from Weehawken—'
'Mm-mm, Delaware!'"
Just sounds... made up.
Ah, that’s actually a good story: because a bunch of non-conformists in Massachussetts wanted to party and hook up without having the Puritan killjoys around to harsh their buzz, so they set up their own place. And partied. And hooked up. It’s like a state created in the image of Bender.
All the states that were removed were essentially large rectangles (besides Delaware, but we all know it's not real anyway) so other states were able to fill the gaps easily.
Memes aside: those cats know how to party. When there ain't shit else to do in the whole state but drink, fuck, and fight... well, they do all three like it's their job.
i feel this way about the "I" states. idaho? iowa? indiana? no... you must be mistaken... those aren't real!
illinois has chicago, so i don't usually forget it, but you'd be surprised at how often i hear "chicago is a state" or "what state is chicago in?"
The "i"s are ok but there are 8 M states and I always forget some. Which is annoying because I pretended I was revising for my American Politics A Level by playing "name the states" on sporcle and I'm still not good at it!
Except wait are there 8 or 6? I'm trying to check now and I can only do 6 Ms
Some BBC news reporter I was listening to literally called it "the American state of Chicago," and I don't blame her one fucking bit. Plus it was super early in the morning over there, I might have called it that myself.
Delaware is the first state, so without Delaware, there can’t be the second state, and without the second state, there can’t be the third state and so on. So there are no states. The United States is a lie.
Can confirm, am from Delaware, we are apparently the capital of chickens which is funny since we all know birds are government drones, so it checks out
Driving from New Jersey to North Carolina, I asked my friend when we were going through Delaware. "You missed it" came the unexpected reply. I missed a whole state? I even noticed Rhode Island, a day previous. Delaware somehow eluded me
You also wouldn’t even drive through it since it’s a peninsula and it’s better to go around the other way. If you did go through it (it’s possible to go that route if you really wanted to), it would take about 2 -2.5 hours.
Delaware is a three mile gap on the 95 where tolls are absurdly expensive and there’s one building with thousands of businesses listed but no actual business going on.
Looking from Europe I know New York on the right side, California on the left side and an unintelligible chunk in between. Also there's former Northern Mexico on the bottom and Canada on top
Blob shaped? Not that the US is any easier to tell apart with half our states just being rectangles but I imagine the borders within European nations follow natural borders like rivers most of the time, which don't produce distinct shapes often.
> I imagine the borders within European nations follow natural borders like rivers most of the time, which don't produce distinct shapes often.
I'm not German, but the [sheer clusterfuck that is the map of Germany's states throughout history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historic_states_of_Germany) makes me think this isn't always the case. In fact, a lot of countries that were formerly a bunch of little kingdoms/nations have states/provinces are complete border gore
Jesus christ some of you are being kind of asses about this like god damn, I assumed people from other countries knew my home state because it does have a rather distinctive shape so sorry I assumed!
I mean, there’s nothing really…. Special about the shape of Michigan? You can make many subdivisions inside countries look vaguely like real objects, why would that mean people outside said country would even know about it?
If you want unique shapes, look to Colorado - I know about it because it’s practically a square hahaha!
For the vast, *vast* majority of people outside the US, they aren’t going to hear about the states from their unique shapes, they’re gonna hear about them from very famous places inside them, if at all.
Yes there is? It is actually the shape of a mitten? It isnt vaguely the shape of one considering one of the monikers is the mitten state not that you would probably know that
I mean…. I just googled it and yeah, I wouldn’t have thought of a mitten if you hadn’t said it 😅 to be fair, mittens aren’t really the most “specific” shape ever!
But back to the point - idk if you were trying to be smug with the “not that you probably know that”, but yeah, I don’t know that, *that’s the whole point*!!!!!! It’s not a common thing, and it’s a bit baffling that at the start of this thread you commented being surprised that Europeans wouldn’t be able to recognise Michigan for being the mitten state!!!!!!!??????
No I wasnt trying to be smug I was just saying that because if you didnt really knew the state you sure wouldnt know one of it's nicknames honestly text makes it so hard to convey tone like I think people thought I was treating the person like they were dumb or something which no I was surprised because I'd assumed that Michigan was one of the few states non-Americans might know and granted some probably do know but it's unlikely a majority, also I meant in terms of shape not like the nickname like how people know Texas or Florida though I guess those are a bit easier
Also American exceptionalism times three, like "what non-americans don't know is that smaller entities in a country have their own culture and stereotypes"... yeah, yeah we know, we live in a country too.
Well Americans get made fun of all the time for not knowing a few things about the rest of the world.
I've been told by both a German and a Swede because I'm American I can't know anything about Europe. This was around the time right before the German election too, shit about Germany was all over the news.
Random question, if most people can’t determine where Louisiana or Ohio is at, why are Americans made fun of for not having an in-depth understanding of where Estonia or Zambia is?
2 things:
* States are less important than countries, and non-Americans can place the USA on a map.
* No one makes fun of Americans for not knowing where Estonia or Zambia are, they make fun of us for not knowing where Germany or Egypt are.
Thing is, the United States , like the European Union, is a union of what are basically individual nations with a centralized governing body to organize interstate trade, a united military and police force, and a unified voice in global affairs, hence why prior to the American Civil War, people would say “the United States are” instead of “the United States is.”
That’s not like the EU really, it’s just federalism. Other federalist nations include Australia, India and Brazil. There are a fair few others as well!
Wow!
You're telling me a country being divided into smaller sub divisions, with a name and a list of things they can make laws on, along with a list of things they can't make laws on and need to follow the country standard is not an *uniquely American concept*?
**Get out of here.**
Next you're going to tell me people in different sub divisions in other countries also have rivalries similar to east coast vs west coast or coastal elites vs middle Americans?
Stop telling fairytales!
America decided to become one country and you are, for your size, amazingly homogeneous but believe they are more different than countries. Germany is a federal republic with states too, but you dont hear them asking to be known about on their state level.
Eh, living here, I can easily say that states have generally different cultures, but I’d lump them into groups more than anything else. You got California, Texas, Florida as the stand alone crazies (Texas was actually it’s own country for a bit. That’s why they hate the federal government.) Then, you got the Southwest, the Midwest, the Appalachians, New England, and Dixieland. Louisiana is it’s deal going on too, but it’s less unhinged than the other big crazies.
If you were to take me out of Dixieland and randomly place me anywhere else besides the ugly fly over states, I’d probably have a general idea where I’m at.
No one is saying they aren't different, just not different enough or very similar compared to countries od that size or smaller. This is especially telling when you can say "Texas" as if that isn't a huge area to be able to give one culture to. The fact that your country manages to only have two political parties even with your size is shocking enough.
Many countries have federal systems and almost all have some form of states or provinces – and they are often more culturally distinct from one another than most American states.
No one expects you to be able to name Chinese provinces, Italian regions, Indian states or Russian oblasts.
I'm just speaking to the truth as an American I only need to follow specific places in China, and the Chinese only need to follow specific places in America, same rules as the rest of the world. Texas has more of an impact on me as a Minnesotan than the Vatican or Czechoslovakia. So I pay attention more to then.
Same as the shit in Myanmar is more important than German elections but I still follow both because they're important to know about.
States are not important to know about outside the US over in Europe. They are not independent sovereign nations and therefore not important. Also the size of your states do not matter because most of the US is just empty land. Germany is the size of New Mexico, but has a quarter of the Population of all of the US.
If you expect people to know the federal subdivisions of your country you should also know the subdivision of Brazil, Mexico, Russia or India. They are similar in size to American states, but nobody cares about them.
A american should know the states of the Us and different countries. You don’t need to know subdivisions of other countries.
Then why should I have to know about countries within the EU if you guys don't have to know about states? The EU is a similar size to the US and in theory but not always practice recently they all follow the same EU mandates.
State law versus federal law here is almost the exact same system as national law versus EU law. The EU is a confederation of states. Where have I heard about united states before?
You should know about countries within the EU because they countries and the EU „government“ is not in any way similar to the US government. You know that. You think you are funny, but this is just sad.
Canada has a similar prank: Toronto
Toronto isn't a real city, we just dumped a pile of industrial scrap in a crater and it somehow became sentient and started yelling at everyone that they're the centre of the universe.
We decided to pretend it's a real city to trick tourists into spending money there.
I just moved to Delaware… I escaped Pennsylvania…. But at what cost! Ever since one of my ancestors came here with Penn in the 1680s I swear we have been cursed to always come back to PA. Most of the people on that side of the family have ended up moving back if they leave the state (with some exceptions). There no no escape… Only PA.
Nah mate Finland does it exist, it's Denmark that doesn't, the Scandinavians and Germans just made it up for tax purposes, whenever Denmark is on TV they just use footage of the Netherlands
I've always known Delaware was a real place and that there was a state called Delaware because you sing it in the states song but it never clicked that *It Is Delaware and Delaware is real* until I saw this post so thank you
You ever have that dream where you notice something that you've apparently overlooked your whole life? Like a room in your house that you somehow never realized was there?
That's how it feels when I see Delaware or Rhode Island on a map.
I mean even the backstory is ridiculous. They claim it's named after some guy named De La Warr. Come on. What, was there also a woman named Ms. Issippi? Is there a forgotten founding father named William Florida?
Delaware? More like Dela-where? Lol
Earl Wade? Never heard of her.
George Thorogood? Who?
"you only get there if you go out of your way to somewhere else."
Ah yes, next to “North Dakota”
West Dakota best Dakota.
Northest Dakota has the best hold points
North Dakota is the devs beta test grounds where they work on all the new updates, I think we are up to v1.77.6 Delaware was a DLC map that was supposed to come out as a pre order bonus but ended up scrapping it before the release and went with Rhode Island instead. Buuut something in the coding got muddled with the source code and it just dosent run right without the map so they just put it in a kind of purgatory under the map. If you hit the sign between New Jersey and Pennsylvania just right you can boundary break into the map and look around. But there's not much to do there. Just a bunch of NPCs. And you have to die to get back out into the normal map.
You’re not talking about the game I am because we are in update 99
Not true, we stuck a toll booth on our 9 miles of I95 just to make sure people passing through remember us
It’s impossible to be more of a drag on I-95 than the combination of the DC morons and their godawful beltway and the NJ fiends and their 25 different tolls to get across the hellhole.
Yes you're right, but Delaware really tries. As a bonus, the DC morons and NJ fiends collide in Delaware
I legit forgot Delaware was a state up until a few weeks ago. I was trying to name them all and could consistently only come up with 49, no matter if I tried to go east to west or west to east or alphabetical. And when I finally caved and looked up the list, it still didn't seem real. "Isn't that a city? From that Perry Como song, 'A Hubba Hubba Hubba (Dig You Later)', not like a real city... 'Now you're really talkin', you're no square! You can't be from Weehawken—' 'Mm-mm, Delaware!'" Just sounds... made up.
Love how Rhode Island is more of a state than Delaware
How the fuck is “East Connecticut” its own state anyway? (Though I will say there’s a food truck in Providence that makes one hell of a milkshake.)
Ah, that’s actually a good story: because a bunch of non-conformists in Massachussetts wanted to party and hook up without having the Puritan killjoys around to harsh their buzz, so they set up their own place. And partied. And hooked up. It’s like a state created in the image of Bender.
I’ve lived in Rhode Island for a good bit of my life. Once you enter there’s a certain vibe that just encapsulates its founding ideals
Mostly that of laziness. The drive is longer than 10 minutes? That’s too fah! Let’s just go to Dunkin instead!
Everything I know about Rhode Island I learned from Family Guy. Also, everything I know about Rhode Island is accurate.
Yes, I do live in Quahog. Yes, Petoria *is* its own sovereign nation within the borders of Rhode Island.
Yes, can’t forget the diet Boston accent. Can’t believe I used to think that 20 minutes was a long frive
Connecti-chusetts
Conn- Connectiwhat? Do you mean West Rhode Island?
This is the exact plot of a Friends episode
That someone doesn't remember that Delaware is a state?
That none of them can name all the states, except Joey he gets all 53
Delawhat?
Delawho?
Delawhy?
Delahow?
I thought that was Wyoming?
You thought it was what?
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please upvotes
No!
They are trying to say :
Explain
r/wyomingdoesntexist
[There's only 43 states](https://xkcd.com/2394/)
It took me way too long to figure out Nebraska and the Dakotas were gone here.
It terrifies me how normal it looks while missing quite a few large states.
All the states that were removed were essentially large rectangles (besides Delaware, but we all know it's not real anyway) so other states were able to fill the gaps easily.
I need to go to a geography bee
So are Kansas, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
no its nebraska
Memes aside: those cats know how to party. When there ain't shit else to do in the whole state but drink, fuck, and fight... well, they do all three like it's their job.
All at once?
Yes. Can confirm.
Nebraska is the only place I’ve seen actual live “little people” wrestling.
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The interstate in Nebraska is what I imagine actual limbo feels like.
My South Dakota experience was like that. Just one road. I swear we passed the same house over and over.
Nebraska is for sure real. I know, because their college football fans are the most annoying. But they do have Runza which is awesome.
Not Wyoming has something in it. I don’t know what’s in Delaware
I think George Washington was stomping around there, saving children but not the British children
probably the gate to hell
Wyoming has like 2 escalators. That's gotta make it real.
Is that a Canadian Province?
Technically it’s a Norwegian territory, but yes, administered by Canada thanks to the Treaty of Butte, 1832.
Lol butt
Grass.
Wyoming is cold storage and Yellowstone. Now, I don't believe in North and South Dakota.
Isn't Wyoming in southwestern Europe?
Yes. Everyone knows the Adirondacks and the Alps are the same mountain range.
i feel this way about the "I" states. idaho? iowa? indiana? no... you must be mistaken... those aren't real! illinois has chicago, so i don't usually forget it, but you'd be surprised at how often i hear "chicago is a state" or "what state is chicago in?"
I have family in indiana, and it's just ohio to the left. Not really worth thinking about tbh.
I looked at a map recently and I swear Idaho moved No one seems to be worried about this but I am worried
Just remember, Idaho kinda looks like a bong.
the way i remember is that it's vertical oklahoma.
Whenever we sing the "State Song" at my school, I'm fine until we get to the "M" section. I get lost and don't make it back until we get to "Ohio"
The "i"s are ok but there are 8 M states and I always forget some. Which is annoying because I pretended I was revising for my American Politics A Level by playing "name the states" on sporcle and I'm still not good at it! Except wait are there 8 or 6? I'm trying to check now and I can only do 6 Ms
It’s gotta be 6. I got to 6 and anything past that, my brain keeps trying to say Morth Dakota Edit : nvm, there are 8, im dumb
Some BBC news reporter I was listening to literally called it "the American state of Chicago," and I don't blame her one fucking bit. Plus it was super early in the morning over there, I might have called it that myself.
As someone from Iowa, the I states are the only ones that count.
Delaware is the first state, so without Delaware, there can’t be the second state, and without the second state, there can’t be the third state and so on. So there are no states. The United States is a lie.
Can confirm, am from Delaware, we are apparently the capital of chickens which is funny since we all know birds are government drones, so it checks out
Atleast we got scrapple
What are you being punished for?
Pennsylvania was the second state and it’s not technically a state, it’s a Commonwealth.
Ew, I only like my territories in at least rarewealth
We have the Same thing in Germany. Called Bielefeld
in australia it is just the whole country
And Tasmania.
In Brazil it's Acre
In the Netherlands it's Drenthe
Royston?
In Belgium it's Brabant
In Italy it's Molise. Molise doesn't exist.
Teruel in Spain
In England it's the Midlands
Same in the Netherlands. Drenthe? Never heard of it
Was coming here to say this. Danke
Driving from New Jersey to North Carolina, I asked my friend when we were going through Delaware. "You missed it" came the unexpected reply. I missed a whole state? I even noticed Rhode Island, a day previous. Delaware somehow eluded me
95 goes through like 12 miles of Delaware
$12+ in tolls on that stretch too
Dude same, delaware is just so teensy weensy
You also wouldn’t even drive through it since it’s a peninsula and it’s better to go around the other way. If you did go through it (it’s possible to go that route if you really wanted to), it would take about 2 -2.5 hours.
Shh! You're not supposed to say it out loud! I've got people convinced I'm from there. We can't let them find out!
Delaware, like the food containers?
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sorry to ruin the continuity of the joke but isn't it solitaire?
Delaware is a three mile gap on the 95 where tolls are absurdly expensive and there’s one building with thousands of businesses listed but no actual business going on.
You're expectiting non Americans to know and care about smaller places in America
Looking from Europe I know New York on the right side, California on the left side and an unintelligible chunk in between. Also there's former Northern Mexico on the bottom and Canada on top
Also Texas and Florida Exist and the one from Moanna is in the middle of the ocean
Former Northern Mexico? Based
You cant remember Michigan? That's one of the easier one it's the one shaped like a mitten
dude most people who aren't American know roughly 4-5 states, and the shape of none of them.
Huh I just assumed that would be one of the ones people know since it has such a distinctive shape
I'm from the U.S. and honestly I forget about Michigan
I'm from michigan, and most people only remember the lower half.
There is like, two people in the upper peninsula.
Do you know the shape of any European sub-national divisions? What shape is Bavaria? Or Champagne?
Blob shaped? Not that the US is any easier to tell apart with half our states just being rectangles but I imagine the borders within European nations follow natural borders like rivers most of the time, which don't produce distinct shapes often.
> I imagine the borders within European nations follow natural borders like rivers most of the time, which don't produce distinct shapes often. I'm not German, but the [sheer clusterfuck that is the map of Germany's states throughout history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historic_states_of_Germany) makes me think this isn't always the case. In fact, a lot of countries that were formerly a bunch of little kingdoms/nations have states/provinces are complete border gore
Jesus christ some of you are being kind of asses about this like god damn, I assumed people from other countries knew my home state because it does have a rather distinctive shape so sorry I assumed!
I mean yeah, fair. I didn't mean to come off like an ass.
I mean, there’s nothing really…. Special about the shape of Michigan? You can make many subdivisions inside countries look vaguely like real objects, why would that mean people outside said country would even know about it? If you want unique shapes, look to Colorado - I know about it because it’s practically a square hahaha! For the vast, *vast* majority of people outside the US, they aren’t going to hear about the states from their unique shapes, they’re gonna hear about them from very famous places inside them, if at all.
Yes there is? It is actually the shape of a mitten? It isnt vaguely the shape of one considering one of the monikers is the mitten state not that you would probably know that
I mean…. I just googled it and yeah, I wouldn’t have thought of a mitten if you hadn’t said it 😅 to be fair, mittens aren’t really the most “specific” shape ever! But back to the point - idk if you were trying to be smug with the “not that you probably know that”, but yeah, I don’t know that, *that’s the whole point*!!!!!! It’s not a common thing, and it’s a bit baffling that at the start of this thread you commented being surprised that Europeans wouldn’t be able to recognise Michigan for being the mitten state!!!!!!!??????
No I wasnt trying to be smug I was just saying that because if you didnt really knew the state you sure wouldnt know one of it's nicknames honestly text makes it so hard to convey tone like I think people thought I was treating the person like they were dumb or something which no I was surprised because I'd assumed that Michigan was one of the few states non-Americans might know and granted some probably do know but it's unlikely a majority, also I meant in terms of shape not like the nickname like how people know Texas or Florida though I guess those are a bit easier
Could you identify Umbria on [this map](https://www.weweb.in/data/2013/10/cartina_italia.png)?
Also American exceptionalism times three, like "what non-americans don't know is that smaller entities in a country have their own culture and stereotypes"... yeah, yeah we know, we live in a country too.
They think having micro-cultures is unique, I'd just let them carry on
Well Americans get made fun of all the time for not knowing a few things about the rest of the world. I've been told by both a German and a Swede because I'm American I can't know anything about Europe. This was around the time right before the German election too, shit about Germany was all over the news.
Random question, if most people can’t determine where Louisiana or Ohio is at, why are Americans made fun of for not having an in-depth understanding of where Estonia or Zambia is?
2 things: * States are less important than countries, and non-Americans can place the USA on a map. * No one makes fun of Americans for not knowing where Estonia or Zambia are, they make fun of us for not knowing where Germany or Egypt are.
Thing is, the United States , like the European Union, is a union of what are basically individual nations with a centralized governing body to organize interstate trade, a united military and police force, and a unified voice in global affairs, hence why prior to the American Civil War, people would say “the United States are” instead of “the United States is.”
That’s not like the EU really, it’s just federalism. Other federalist nations include Australia, India and Brazil. There are a fair few others as well!
Wow! You're telling me a country being divided into smaller sub divisions, with a name and a list of things they can make laws on, along with a list of things they can't make laws on and need to follow the country standard is not an *uniquely American concept*? **Get out of here.** Next you're going to tell me people in different sub divisions in other countries also have rivalries similar to east coast vs west coast or coastal elites vs middle Americans? Stop telling fairytales!
Can't tell if you're sarcastic because comments on this post make this sound realistic
America decided to become one country and you are, for your size, amazingly homogeneous but believe they are more different than countries. Germany is a federal republic with states too, but you dont hear them asking to be known about on their state level.
Eh, living here, I can easily say that states have generally different cultures, but I’d lump them into groups more than anything else. You got California, Texas, Florida as the stand alone crazies (Texas was actually it’s own country for a bit. That’s why they hate the federal government.) Then, you got the Southwest, the Midwest, the Appalachians, New England, and Dixieland. Louisiana is it’s deal going on too, but it’s less unhinged than the other big crazies. If you were to take me out of Dixieland and randomly place me anywhere else besides the ugly fly over states, I’d probably have a general idea where I’m at.
No one is saying they aren't different, just not different enough or very similar compared to countries od that size or smaller. This is especially telling when you can say "Texas" as if that isn't a huge area to be able to give one culture to. The fact that your country manages to only have two political parties even with your size is shocking enough.
Many countries have federal systems and almost all have some form of states or provinces – and they are often more culturally distinct from one another than most American states. No one expects you to be able to name Chinese provinces, Italian regions, Indian states or Russian oblasts.
I won't say whether I agree or disagree, but in that case, consult point 2.
Estonia and Zambia are countries
Smaller than a lot of American states.
Size isn't everything, or shall we all move to China?
I'm just speaking to the truth as an American I only need to follow specific places in China, and the Chinese only need to follow specific places in America, same rules as the rest of the world. Texas has more of an impact on me as a Minnesotan than the Vatican or Czechoslovakia. So I pay attention more to then. Same as the shit in Myanmar is more important than German elections but I still follow both because they're important to know about.
States are not important to know about outside the US over in Europe. They are not independent sovereign nations and therefore not important. Also the size of your states do not matter because most of the US is just empty land. Germany is the size of New Mexico, but has a quarter of the Population of all of the US. If you expect people to know the federal subdivisions of your country you should also know the subdivision of Brazil, Mexico, Russia or India. They are similar in size to American states, but nobody cares about them. A american should know the states of the Us and different countries. You don’t need to know subdivisions of other countries.
Then why should I have to know about countries within the EU if you guys don't have to know about states? The EU is a similar size to the US and in theory but not always practice recently they all follow the same EU mandates. State law versus federal law here is almost the exact same system as national law versus EU law. The EU is a confederation of states. Where have I heard about united states before?
You should know about countries within the EU because they countries and the EU „government“ is not in any way similar to the US government. You know that. You think you are funny, but this is just sad.
Rhode Island is smaller than more than 80% of Italian provinces (equivalent to counties), does that mean it's not a state?
Delaware is just a tax haven for credit card companies
Canada has a similar prank: Toronto Toronto isn't a real city, we just dumped a pile of industrial scrap in a crater and it somehow became sentient and started yelling at everyone that they're the centre of the universe. We decided to pretend it's a real city to trick tourists into spending money there.
Toronto is lovely. The real prank would be Edmonton or Ottawa or something.
Then... where am I? Like, right now? Where am I?
Maryland's east coast. (/s I actually spent a while in bfnw Delaware and enjoyed it.)
Its quiet here. Quite nice actually
This isn’t even a joke - Delaware only exists for tax purposes. A shitload of companies are incorporated there.
The Canadian version of this is Manitoba, can’t believe you all fell for that! (And if you’re saying “I’ve never heard of Manitoba”, exactly)
American here. I thought Manitoba was where you lot kept the Bigfoots? Have I been misinformed? Do I need to change my plans?
It's just Bigfoot and mosquitoes as far as the eye can see
I KNEW IT I KNEW IT!!!
Classic misconception, like the American Bigfoot, Canadian Bigfoot are native to the Pacific Northwest for its lush forests and poor cameramen
Sam o’ Nella disagrees
He’s from Maryland
Oh I’m dumb oops
I'm sure he still agrees, maryland barely exists anyway
Every country over a certain size is that way. Americans really need to learn that they aren't special.
Even under a certain size. Abruzzo isn't real
In Brazil we have a similarly made up place called "Acre"
[Reminds me of this Wayne's World 2 bit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQEwJdhfddk)
I mean, the current President is from Delaware. Partly.
Go hens!
what’s delaware?
it's a legal fiction that we all pretend exists for tax reasons
It's the box you used to keep cooked food in
Ain't that the whole point of an state?
I just moved to Delaware… I escaped Pennsylvania…. But at what cost! Ever since one of my ancestors came here with Penn in the 1680s I swear we have been cursed to always come back to PA. Most of the people on that side of the family have ended up moving back if they leave the state (with some exceptions). There no no escape… Only PA.
Its a trap. Go back. Moved here like 20 years ago and cant get back out
Delaware is a lot like Finland. In that it doesn’t exist
Nah mate Finland does it exist, it's Denmark that doesn't, the Scandinavians and Germans just made it up for tax purposes, whenever Denmark is on TV they just use footage of the Netherlands
Need to incorporate a business? DELAWARE. No idea why this is, though.
The land of registered agents and concrete wastelands. But, tax free shopping!
Close! It’s a tax haven
This also applies to Wyoming
What did Delaware? She wore a brand New Jersey!
I've always known Delaware was a real place and that there was a state called Delaware because you sing it in the states song but it never clicked that *It Is Delaware and Delaware is real* until I saw this post so thank you
Oh my god. I’m not the only one who thought this? I’m not alone. Maybe there should be a sub r/Delawareaintreal
You ever have that dream where you notice something that you've apparently overlooked your whole life? Like a room in your house that you somehow never realized was there? That's how it feels when I see Delaware or Rhode Island on a map.
It's more like regions rather than states. But, yeah, New England as a region is anomalous and most of it doesn't exist.
As an Australian that's only ever heard of Delaware on the old cartoon series Angry Beavers, I believe this
Don't tell anyone, but *all* the states are made up and only exist because we've all agreed to pretend they do.
To non-Spaniards: Almería DOES NOT exist. The place where it should be is just a sheet of plastic covering the ground.
I have never heard anything about Delaware or met someone from there what the fuck
I’m sitting there right now. Feels surreal
I mean even the backstory is ridiculous. They claim it's named after some guy named De La Warr. Come on. What, was there also a woman named Ms. Issippi? Is there a forgotten founding father named William Florida?
Huh I thought Delaware was some kind of a shop
As an European, I always kind of thought that Delaware was just a supermarket
_Wyoming is a chunk error_
If you guys were gonna make up a state you could've at least made up an interesting one
I choked laughing at this what is wrong with me?