Hotsauceman
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It’s less square miles than Oregon!
Jan 24, 2023 8:11 PM
Hotsauceman
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It’s less square miles than Oregon!
zHurk777
To be fair crumpets are just damned biscuits. - an American from Kentucky.
ChloeRed
2 hours and the accent changed twice? That's not the UK... Drive for 10 miles and the accent is probably on it's 4th change.
wotemer
Also UK: Within 2 hours you can reach at least 3 other countries(France, Belgium, Netherlands are ~200km from Dover)
just4thelolz
So it's like an ARPG map.
playingdead2022
Texas: 8 hours, still here
anonyx
Sorry your bread roll is now a butty
Melonfish
UK wise 10 min drive is all you need to here a different accent.
Melonfish
We're able to pinpoint where you're from so accurately by what you call a bread roll it'll shortly be replacing the post code system.
drduffer
In Metro Houston, you can drive for 1.5 hours and still be in Metro Houston. Harris County, where Houston is, is almost 1800 sq mi.
berlinson
*fewer*
RenaissanceFaireMan
Mine
SpecialAgentPinkfinger
405 in LA: you drive for 2 hours and have gone about 5 miles.
Painkiller1991
Sounds like every highway in Houston while the sun's out
TCGView
That can still happen in the US. Hell, here in Texas we have like 12 accents at minimum.
ChorizoPig
The sun has risen and the sun has set and we ain't out of Texas yet.
leroy666
That's cause you been shot dead.
ItawtItawApuddyTat
but you're glad to not be in Texas!
MrStickyCheeks
I could drive for 4 hours and never leave my state.
NightfallEverdark
Texas: drive for 12 hours, you are still in fucking Texas. As they hate to be reminded, the 2nd largest state.
iquestionthepinappleeveryday
California here. Yep. I’ve done 14 hours on the freeway in a straight line, w/ no traffic without leaving the state.
ItawtItawApuddyTat
CA is longer than TX wide or tall, but TX is 800+ miles in both dimensions. (And still not worth one CA state park .)
OriginalSyn
Canada: you drive for 12 hours and you're still in the same province.
yacko69
even in ontario.... more to it than just Toronto...
OriginalSyn
Heh just found a route in BC that could take >25 hours to drive
thevortexmaster
Up north and you haven't even reached the next town
LordHosk
We drove from Detroit to Alaska, We left Detroit turned right at Chicago, left at Milwaukee, right at Fargo, left at Winnipeg...
LordHosk
it looked like this... for 4 days. We counted the number of cars we passed or passed us daily on one hand.
IAmAMammal
What else can bread rolls be called? Unless you mean you ended up in France. My condolences.
RenaissanceFaireMan
Yes, very painful.
SlyeFox
https://external-preview.redd.it/RGtmNV0YVAtVB_YDMyR5r3i0m2H46ZPBV3uFLms3vPI.png?auto=webp&s=0b43ef01a501215ad7b856b3a460f6fad293c605
IAmAMammal
akaFLAMEGiRL
Accent only changed twice? Maybe if it's two hours driving in a tight circle.
drdorman86350
You're not outside of Dallas Fort Worth.
IfItKeepsOnRaininLeveesGonnaBreak
I miss Dallas, but I don't miss that.
erbiumyttriumytterbium
California. You drive 5 hours and you're still in Los Angeles. About 20 miles from where you started.
1eudaemonia
drive four hours still in same state
RenaissanceFaireMan
6...7...8 hours for some states. I think North/South California is about 10 hours.
Icanalreadytelliwillbepopular
4 hours and you still haven't crossed Colorado
CyriousLordofDerp
Shit that was crossing Kansas. Started at 9AM, ended at around 5PM, had changed over to Mountain Time, STILL IN KANSAS.
OlaphOfTheNorth
this is how I-75 feels in Georgia
69thStPepper
4 hours? You're stuck in Denver
Raistline
8 hours north, going 5+ above speed limit, taking the fastest route, and i'm still in the same state.
ImTheGodOfHellfire
There’s lots of us all crammed in here though.
Hotsauceman
I remember visiting London proper and holy shit did I feel claustrophobic
Cpthornswoggler
I feel that whenever I visit Manhattan, and I lived in London for years. I think it's not seeing the horizon that does it.
Mxlespxles
New York is just too damn much of everything
twoamartist
Why does North Ireland call bread rolls BAPS?!
NotTinyPancakes
Aren't baps a specific type of bread roll though
crashmat
Yes but it is also used as a general term for bread rolls in parts of the UK
twoamartist
Right. Like a round sandwich roll.
spLagger
Pretty true on the West coast of the US, maybe not as much on the East coast.
BushDidWolf359
Always jarring to me how close east coast cities are, but they’re all old British colonies so kinda consistent with the OP
Canofminus
Yeah, the regional differences between New England English can be pretty confusing at times.
AvsFreak
ScottPerri
This one always makes me chuckle.
hexbolt751
And! We could divide Alaska into two states and Texas would be the third largest state.
BijouGreenBirdie
Msdee83
Gotta love Dr. Cox!
PhailRaptor
"Halifax is in Nova Scotia. Which is in Canada. Which is on Earth. Which is in Canada."
MadeYouLookAgain
ItawtItawApuddyTat
"If Texans don't stop talking about how big they are, Alaska will split in half and demote them to 3rd."
gablestout
So just fuck Maine, huh? Let Canada deal with 'em?
AvsFreak
Lol ?
Fabulously
Bollox in Uk it’s 6 accent changes and at least 4 bread names for this distance.
TheLesserOfTwoWeevils
And how many different spellings of Bollocks
Ryukaa
Yes.
crashmat
We're calling them buns here, What's your local name?
agentcutielocks
Breadcakes.
crashmat
Sheffield?
agentcutielocks
Leeds.
Fabulously
Muffins or barms
AbelardSnazz
Barm cakes or Baps
Jopler420
laughs in Canadian*
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
Good point.
2thless
Except majority of Canadians live on the east side. And half the population lives further south than Seattle Washington.
NoobsStfu
CogPrimus
Quality over quantity, eh? :P
yacko69
drives for 12 hours still in the same province....
theInfinitelyProlonged
theInfinitelyProlonged
allthenamesaregone
Australia: You drive for 2 hours. You're still on the same outback station.
bamcobra
Ford?
Schaade
My first car was like that.
StevenAlleyn
Australia’s outback is scary big! And I’m from Quebec saying that - I drive 1000km every summer to go to the beach and I’m still in Quebec.
chewybacon
Is that like a radio station?
sfrinlan
"It would take nearly 24 hours and 1,073 miles to travel from Homer, Alaska, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, on the Arctic Ocean."
MickTaylorVRussellCoight
kalumburu to albany WA 38 hr (3,207.2 km) via National Highway
Hyndisfox
Some days I can drive for an hour and I've only gone 4 miles. It would have been faster to get out and walk.
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
California: You drive for two hours. You are three miles away from where you started.
Gryphonosiris
Ah, I see you've driven on 880 and 580.
cornzilla
Texas: drive in any direction for hours and scream because you're somehow still stuck in this state.
GorgeouslyDefinite
Maaate.
thevortexmaster
Canada. Drive 17 hours and you haven't reached the next town
DDhyatt
20 hours and you haven’t even crossed into the next province yet (e.g. Ontario) lol
DavidBrooker
While we're being metaphorical, it is hypothetically possible to drive from Atlantic to Pacific ocean in Canada with only, I believe, 1/2
DavidBrooker
three or four *total* lane changes over the entire route. 2/2
thevortexmaster
I don't doubt it! I'm from the far north. There is definitely hours in between towns up in the NWT or Yukon. Fort nelson to Watson lake>>>
thevortexmaster
Is one highway and 10.5 hours with nothing in between other than a couple very small stops
ChickenChickenBurningBright
bekindtoanimals
God. Such a long drive from Houston to Colorado
BlackHartMTB
I hired laborers for a job in Houston and the union hall called people from New Mexico… it was a 2 day job. I don’t think they were happy.
HypnagogicHallucinations
That sign is closer to the Atlantic coast or to Iowa than it is to El Paso.
CowboyScientist
"The sun has ris', and the sun has set. And here we is in Texas yet." The halfway point between Beaumont, TX and San Diego is in Texas.
shadowdragon81
I still love this fact. King Ranch is around 825,000 acres, it is larger than the state of Rhode Island and country of Luxembourg.
FatBastardVegetarian
TX rancher says, "I could drive from sun up and still not be across my land by noon." WV farmer says, "Yeah, I had a truck like that once."
xj4low
Then comes the updated mileage signs every 2 miles to make it seem extra long and remind you it's only been 2 miles and you are bored.
Billis75
It took 10 hours to get from Los Angeles to El Paso, and another 10 hours to get from El Paso to the LA border (i10-i20 through Dallas)
shadowdragon81
I seriously read that as El Paso to the LA (Los Angeles).... not Louisiana.... and 10 hours? you had good traffic!
TsunamiJohn
I red that as 10 hours from LA to El Paso, and another 10 hours to get back... like no shit?
Vergenbuurg
*eye twitches* Accompanied my friend on her road trip to move to Texas. I was well-rested, but 3 hours of nothingness on I-10 WORE. ME. OUT.
DarthWaiterSE
Yeah, Orange to El Paso is literally more than 13 hours on one road. I rode shotgun from Houston to San Diego and back. Madness, I tell you.
geoffreyfourmyle
One of my favorites is the sign in Michigan on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_75 going into Ohio, giving the /1
geoffreyfourmyle
distance to the Florida Keys as another 1500 or something miles (nearly 1800 total, minus distance already in Michigan)... /2
cheesedogs
bonetonelord
The first distance sign on I-40 in California is for Wilmington, North Carolina in 2,554 miles. NC used to have a matching sign for Barstow1
bonetonelord
but they removed it because it kept getting stolen and they were sick of replacing it. 2
TheSilverSeraph
Laughs in West Australian http://www.comparea.org/AU_WA+US_TX
Returned
Half the continent!
TheRealBunn
comparing a state to a country? LOL NOPE
TheSilverSeraph
WA is a state
PutItInNeutral
So roughly about the same land area as Alaska and Texas combined.
TheCrankyCow
People live on both sides of Texas
yeahhedugit
Population of Australia is 2/3 that of California.
onlyawfulnamesleft
And we're mostly around the edge.
ChickenChickenBurningBright
RabidDingo
Well you're comparing driving across 1 state versus driving in Australia. Laughs in I-90.
TheSilverSeraph
Western Australia is 1 state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australia
RabidDingo
Oops, I totally missed the 'western' part. I concede.
TheSilverSeraph
No probs! Australia is on a scale that is honestly confounding. I’ve driven some of the Outback and it is truly something else
StevenAlleyn
“difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.”
BleedingQuasar
I believe that's a Neil Gaiman and quote isn't it?
StevenAlleyn
I found a few different attributions when looking so I left it unattributed but in quotes
BleedingQuasar
It might be a popular British saying, and you know what it probably is but I'm certain I've heard him say it in an interview.
StenYngve
As someone who is from Sweden and lived in Canada with colleagues from all over the world, we had plenty of discussions like this.
lonelyrangerofthedreams
…and [insert name of country you don’t like] think 100 mile is a long period of time!
3leggedpup
It feels a little weird to insert America there, but okay...
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
Due to density of people and stuff, 10 miles in the UK is equivalent to 100 in the US.
BlindGardener
False.
PirateRubberDuck
Why do you use UK statistics instead of England? The population densities of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are much lower.
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
True.
CharlieandOliver
Depends where in both countries… New York City compared to London, for example, vs countryside and smaller cities.
Movietimeme
For example I commute 100 miles a day and don’t even leave the SF Bay Area.
mardukkur
The population density of Massachusetts is a good bit higher than the UK. The size & density of UK & New England are very close to equal.
Sunshine12345
It has 5X the people of Michigan but is nearly the same size.
meglatron
UK is about 10% bigger than New England and has an extra 50 million people or so
blaghart
that's..not even remotely true. Jeremy Clarkson has admitted he commutes 60 miles to work. That's an hour drive for him, and for the US
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
Jeremy Clarkson's math is seriously off.
crashmat
Averaging 60mph on our roads hahahaha. My commute is 20 miles and that takes me 30 minutes on a quiet morning.
goodisunpopular
Your math is a bit off there. Unless traffic is light and he's can actually do 60mph the entire trip, it's going to take him a but longer.
corprophage
Or theres segments of highway where he can travel faster
upfr0mhere
I see you've never had the pleasure of driving on a British motorway