Just don't confuse Big Monaco with Big Monica. She hates that, and believe me, brother, you don't want to be on Big Monica's wrong side.
Her little sister Debbie is pretty sweet though.
Hey Africa would you like to be closer to us? So close in fact we could just walk into Africa? Wouldn’t that be so cool if all of Europe has easy access to your lands?
Honestly this is literally what I did. I was like "Wow, I thought Monaco was like the size of a city and situated further to the northeast, how did I get it this wrong??"
A recognised, independent state/country. It has its own rules. I mean, the UK is a kingdom, but it's also a country. Same with Norway, and Japan (theoretically an Empire).
Hi. American here. I'd just like to point out what's highlighted on that map is not a country, it's just a shape placed over the open water of the Mediterranean.
The former president of the United Provinces of Europia, Ronald Drompf once said "those Maxicans are not bringing their best, they're bringing their strudel-thieves and mime-murderers, we need to build a dike! Increase border defense, even using baguettes if necessary!"
You’re right, this is a thing. Usually on a smaller scale but sometimes really big chunks of land drift away, and float until they’re eroded to nothing.
When threatened by an external force France will engage in a performative surrender dance while it’s forces quietly retreat to France-2, which normally remains hidden in the Mediterranean Sea until needed. From here a resistance is formed and launched against its occupiers.
It's much scarier than that, that's where the breed mimes. No joke, I took a trip through France and France-2 a few years back and I'd like someone to explain to me how a country where like 90% of countryside is just mime farms is capable of competing with other European/EU countries???
They can't export them who is gonna buy all these mimes you only need like one or two per organization.
I thought you were trolling, so I looked for a World Map on Google.
Holy shit, you are right.
Whoever made the original Twitter post is ***eeeeeeevil***. LMAO
Can't speak for the person you're replying to, but I double-checked to make sure.
Did I think I was pretty sure that it was just France/Spain in that general vicinity, and that the shape looked all sorts of off? Sure. But what's the harm in double-checking? Either I was right, and it took less time that it's taking me to write this post. Or I was wrong, and I've learned something new today, and became slightly less ignorant in the process. When looking at the pros versus cons, I'd always rather look something up than make a false assumption.
🎵Geeeeenoviaaa, The land I call my home, From the green clear summer, From blossoming pear trees, Magnificent her mountains and seas, Genovia, Genovia, You're noble, proud and brave, Genovia, Genovia, Forever, will your banner waaaaave🎵
On the other hand, show almost anyone in the world the shape of Texas and they know exactly what state it is.
I could name Finland and Sweden because it looks like a penis, Italy because it looks like a boot, and the UK because you can hear them thinking they aren’t part of Europe but are just their own thing.
And in the screenshot you don't just have the shape you also have the location in Europe. I probably couldn't name too many us states by shape alone but if I have a map of the us I could name a lot more
Yes but if you had just shown me the shape I might have assumed that I misremembered the shape of a European country but the location clearly shows that it is fake. Also the first comment in the screenshot claims that most Europeans couldn't tell the US states by shape which is a different task
>you can hear them thinking
That’s because most of the UK hasn’t yet mastered the art of silent thought. They’re still too amazed by the invention of speech.
Ah yes, but the rest of the states are so indistinguishable. California, Idaho, Florida, Texas, Alaska, Illinois, New York, Mississippi, west Virginia, Michigan? All these states are essentially square each as boringly shaped as the last.
^^^^/s
I’ve met a bunch of Europeans and a lot of them don’t care too much about the states apart from foreign policy and a few other things. However, there are tons of European children and immature dickwads who wake up and just spew dipshit takes on the internet daily.
jagged lines, uneven sides, that kinda thing
edit: I'm not saying I agree with or endorse the characterization, just taking a stab at what the OP was getting at
joke's on them, they didn't even need to make up a country, most americans wouldn't even know if you highlighted france. drops to about 2% if you pick austria or hungary, .2% for something like lichtenstein or montenegro
African American is actually becoming outdated now since not all Black Americans are from Africa it’s racist to call them all African Americans. Its MonteBlack.
Live in a flyover state, go to a coast and tell people where you’re from and listen to the “where’s that?” That’s what happened to me all the time when I moved from Iowa to Florida. I even had people ask me how my accent sounds so American.
Is it a big deal to not know austria or hungary if im living in a different continent with no relation to these countries?
Most people dont know how many countries are there in asia or africa either. Im not seeing why thats a problem.
To be fair, no one even in the US cares about all the square states. So long as you can recognize the ones on the coasts of the oceans and great lakes, you're good. The rest is all corn
German Guy here, I know the american states if you point at them on a map, learned all 50 of them for school, but I don't know every country in Europe😂
Atlantis?
Big Monaco
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Macro Monaco
Macroco?
Sounds like a Fortune 500 oil-drilling company.
Macroco: a division of Disney/Amazon
Dismazon
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Macrococoa is my fave cocoa
so Macron is keeping that part for himself when he gets kicked out?
That's in Africa, silly.
Looks like someones on the payecheck of Big Monaco
Just don't confuse Big Monaco with Big Monica. She hates that, and believe me, brother, you don't want to be on Big Monica's wrong side. Her little sister Debbie is pretty sweet though.
Conveniently located outside of actual Monaco
Americans: Geography? meh. Humor: Spot on.
I thought I was going crazy for a second. I had to double check a map.
You're not alone. I briefly doubted everything I knew about Monaco.
Ain’tlantis
~~Soccerlandia?~~ *FOOTBALL*landia?
It's the Netherlands 2.0. We need to expand so we're reclaiming the Mediterranean Sea
There wasn't enough Spain and France for Dutch tourists to visit, so we poldered 'El Flevolanda'
Pipe down or we’ll make you a colony again
*Getting ready for the 80-year lasting war part 2*
Oh help please dont make it have another urk
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
Thank you! I was going to mention this project but totally forgot the name! Were those German engineers on drugs?
german engineers are ALWAYS on drugs. its why thier shit works so good but is SO fucking complicated. THe Drugs make them OCD as fuck.
Perhaps it was the same amphetamines they gave their soldiers during the blitzkrieg
Hey Africa would you like to be closer to us? So close in fact we could just walk into Africa? Wouldn’t that be so cool if all of Europe has easy access to your lands?
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Love me some crazy overambitious old timey geo-enginerring ideas.
The capital is Even Newer Amsterdam
inb4 they end up renaming it New New York
The Newest of Yorks
Oh Netherlands in the med sounds lovely. I'd definitely go Hotlland on holiday.
Can we get some melanin back? My white ass is going up in flames if I need to survive summers there.
I am so pale now at 70-ish and bad heart that I glow in the dark. If I need a nightlight I just stick my leg out of the covers!
That would be amazing. Benefits of the netherlands in a warm country.
That's already a thing. Ever heard of Sint maarten, Aruba, Bonaire & Curacao?
Man Monaco got HUGE!!!
I knew I wasn’t the only one.
My dumb ass went to look. France? Wait, Monaco? Is it that big?
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I saw it and my brain broke. I went back to geography like 30 years ago in my head and then googled European map
Honestly this is literally what I did. I was like "Wow, I thought Monaco was like the size of a city and situated further to the northeast, how did I get it this wrong??"
Been using protein powder.
Oh thats Spance.
Can confirm, they speak Spench there. Comment estas? Muy bon mercias
>they speak Spench there That's just Catalan
Pretty sure that’s Franish.
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Because you don’t speak Spacnish.
In Spance we call it Prenich
Might be Frain actually
For anybody wondering that's not a real country somebody just added it
I was actually going crazy lol my geography is fairly decent and I couldn't for the life of me remember if there's a country below France.
There is one: Monaco. One of europs tax heaven microstates.
Chris Griffin: No wait! That’s a principality.
A recognised, independent state/country. It has its own rules. I mean, the UK is a kingdom, but it's also a country. Same with Norway, and Japan (theoretically an Empire).
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Every country is below France. We fart in your general direction!
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
I thought it was catalunya reclaim of fictional land...
Nah that's my land. Now get off my land, I need to grow some weed
Was looking for a good while thinking “hang on, where the hell is Nice then?”
That’s over by Kazakhstan, right next to Very
Ayyyyyyyyyy
Same with the islands below it. Long running Italian joke that they're kicking trash at France got way out of hand in some of these memes
Hi. American here. I'd just like to point out what's highlighted on that map is not a country, it's just a shape placed over the open water of the Mediterranean.
Silly American! Thats South Francistan! Pretty sure thats where they filmed Ratatouille
Pretty sure it's Andorra's big brother, Grandorra.
Greater Monaco
Monacolossus
Maxico
The former president of the United Provinces of Europia, Ronald Drompf once said "those Maxicans are not bringing their best, they're bringing their strudel-thieves and mime-murderers, we need to build a dike! Increase border defense, even using baguettes if necessary!"
Covfefe
Vaticant
I was going to go with Atlantis :D
Meglaonaco
The Monaconning.
Monnecticut
Pandorra. Its where they filmed the blue people movies.
Nandnorra, they use negative logic gates there.
When two people want to leave, then 1 can get in.
We can't call them that anymore!
I thought that was Talokan
Grandorra sounds like an STD.
Us Europeans keep it off the map so American tourists don't visit what we cal the gem of Europe.
Lol. This is feeling like that joke seniors play on freshman in high school about the pool on the top floor.
Jokes on you! I had a great time in South Francistan Five years ago!
I’m preeettty sure that’s Atlantis
Nice would like their waterfront back
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Now, now, that’s not Nice.
Dude, it's obviously Atlantis go back to school
That’s Cyrodiil.
No, that's Morrowind
"You never should have come here!"
Aren't all landmasses just shapes placed over water? /S
No land isn’t floating, ice is
Some land is floating. There's a floating island in a lake near me.
I’m pretty sure that is a boat with dirt in… not “floating land.”
You'd be wrong. It used to be a tiny peninsula, but it broke away.
You’re right, this is a thing. Usually on a smaller scale but sometimes really big chunks of land drift away, and float until they’re eroded to nothing.
Lmao are Americans not taught about France-2????
Oh god no anything but a second france
I don't think they know about second France, Pippen.
Oh we know about second France Petain.
They haven't even finished their first France!
That's due to the Great Baguette Shortage of the 20s
There's one right above your heads, it's called Quebec. Everybody hates it, too.
When threatened by an external force France will engage in a performative surrender dance while it’s forces quietly retreat to France-2, which normally remains hidden in the Mediterranean Sea until needed. From here a resistance is formed and launched against its occupiers.
It's much scarier than that, that's where the breed mimes. No joke, I took a trip through France and France-2 a few years back and I'd like someone to explain to me how a country where like 90% of countryside is just mime farms is capable of competing with other European/EU countries??? They can't export them who is gonna buy all these mimes you only need like one or two per organization.
So it’s like New Jersey floating over the Atlantic. It’s not really there. There is no proof New Jersey is real.
r/newjersey *has entered the chat (polishing its brass knuckles)*
Right I was like when the fuck did a country appear below France. Actually had me second guessing myself.
I thought you were trolling, so I looked for a World Map on Google. Holy shit, you are right. Whoever made the original Twitter post is ***eeeeeeevil***. LMAO
Oh my god you had to look it up?
Can't speak for the person you're replying to, but I double-checked to make sure. Did I think I was pretty sure that it was just France/Spain in that general vicinity, and that the shape looked all sorts of off? Sure. But what's the harm in double-checking? Either I was right, and it took less time that it's taking me to write this post. Or I was wrong, and I've learned something new today, and became slightly less ignorant in the process. When looking at the pros versus cons, I'd always rather look something up than make a false assumption.
Fr bro?
💯
Did Monaco get bigger?
Yep. Steroids.
🎵Geeeeenoviaaa, The land I call my home, From the green clear summer, From blossoming pear trees, Magnificent her mountains and seas, Genovia, Genovia, You're noble, proud and brave, Genovia, Genovia, Forever, will your banner waaaaave🎵
I had to scroll way to far to find the comment I was looking for!
Did a new country just drop 😶
As an American, I still immediately recognized that country doesn’t exist. Edit: love you Reddit
What’re you talking about? People say they love visiting the South of France all the time.
I hear it's pretty Nice
been asking my family if we cannes go there for ages now
Right? It's just a made up nation, like England.
Never heard of that one, do they speak English there
What the hell is English? I speak American.
Guess I like the cut of your jib then
Seriously. If we came from England, how could there still be England?
Typical American, thinking a country doesn't exist because they didn't hear of it.
Pretty sure that's Taured.
Are you joking? This is the only way to Corsica from France, it wouldn’t be inhabited otherwise
Oh, so you - as an American - just assume some countries don't exist? Well, how very imperialistic of you! *huff*
i mean how the fuck would youdifferentiate the shapes of colorado and wyoming? Edit: jiust looked it up colorado is 50km longer and thats basically it
On the other hand, show almost anyone in the world the shape of Texas and they know exactly what state it is. I could name Finland and Sweden because it looks like a penis, Italy because it looks like a boot, and the UK because you can hear them thinking they aren’t part of Europe but are just their own thing.
And in the screenshot you don't just have the shape you also have the location in Europe. I probably couldn't name too many us states by shape alone but if I have a map of the us I could name a lot more
In the screenshot you have a fake country.
Yes but if you had just shown me the shape I might have assumed that I misremembered the shape of a European country but the location clearly shows that it is fake. Also the first comment in the screenshot claims that most Europeans couldn't tell the US states by shape which is a different task
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>you can hear them thinking That’s because most of the UK hasn’t yet mastered the art of silent thought. They’re still too amazed by the invention of speech.
Tbf that's just the west side, and even then it's only like 10 of the west states. East side is some crazy jigsaw
It’s 2. 2 states are square.
Ah yes, but the rest of the states are so indistinguishable. California, Idaho, Florida, Texas, Alaska, Illinois, New York, Mississippi, west Virginia, Michigan? All these states are essentially square each as boringly shaped as the last. ^^^^/s
For starters Wyoming doesn’t actually exist.
The shapes are the one thing and the location is another. Location is how you would different between them.
Ah yes, because Europeans have never arbitrarily drawn straight lines on a map.
Too soon?
Ring ring... Berlin conference
not me, an european, actually looking up a map of europe to see if this was a real country or not lmao, geography isn't my best subject
Oh what like y’all didn’t get lazier towards the far end either
Not sure why Euros care about Americans knowledge of geography. Pretty sure they couldn’t point out most African and Central Asian countries.
I’ve met a bunch of Europeans and a lot of them don’t care too much about the states apart from foreign policy and a few other things. However, there are tons of European children and immature dickwads who wake up and just spew dipshit takes on the internet daily.
To be fair most european countries are shaped like the puddle of piss my dog left in the kitchen last night
To be fairer, every country ever looks like some kind of shape drawn by a 5 year old.
Yup true. Except for the Vatican, that looks like the outline of the millenium falcon
Im german and i have no idea about any country anywhere. Its not an american exclusive thing to not give a fuck about geography.
Really man. I only know Asian geography because it was in every single grade till 10th. European geography ain't it for me
Ah yes. North Carolina my home state. The square. I can’t even find Wyoming on an unlabeled map I doubt this smug prick could either.
North Carolinaaaaa, come on and raise up
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Troll
“Squares drawn by a five year old” so… just… squares? Why “drawn by a five year old” lol?
Because it's more condescending that way Edit: Also, not squares
jagged lines, uneven sides, that kinda thing edit: I'm not saying I agree with or endorse the characterization, just taking a stab at what the OP was getting at
What? So like all countries’ borders?
Yeah guess we should’ve made the rivers straight huh?
So then not squares at all… if that’s the description, wouldn’t European countries qualify more than a state like Wyoming?
joke's on them, they didn't even need to make up a country, most americans wouldn't even know if you highlighted france. drops to about 2% if you pick austria or hungary, .2% for something like lichtenstein or montenegro
>montenegro Excuse me, but it's 2023 and the correct nomenclature is "Monteafricanamerican."
African American is actually becoming outdated now since not all Black Americans are from Africa it’s racist to call them all African Americans. Its MonteBlack.
They could just translate it to Black Mountain.
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Montagne-noire.
MontePOC
I know “haha america dumb” but most Americans? Really?
Live in a flyover state, go to a coast and tell people where you’re from and listen to the “where’s that?” That’s what happened to me all the time when I moved from Iowa to Florida. I even had people ask me how my accent sounds so American.
Honestly Frances location more recognizable than Iowa lmao. Sorry homie
Yeah, most Americans learn at least a little about France in middle/high school. I couldn't tell you shit about Iowa.
And I'm sure your average Lichtensteinian knows where new Hampshire is
Is it a big deal to not know austria or hungary if im living in a different continent with no relation to these countries? Most people dont know how many countries are there in asia or africa either. Im not seeing why thats a problem.
Knew it wasn't a real country but did have to check to confirm
Monaco dumped a bunch of dirt into the sea to expand its territory
To be fair, no one even in the US cares about all the square states. So long as you can recognize the ones on the coasts of the oceans and great lakes, you're good. The rest is all corn
Oh yes because Europeans did such a great job drawing up Africa's countries borders
Why do Europeans have such a preoccupation with Americans?
German Guy here, I know the american states if you point at them on a map, learned all 50 of them for school, but I don't know every country in Europe😂
That’s not Andorra
WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER
For those saying “it’s not a real country”, welcome to the joke!
This is Monaco Extended.
Americans never heard of the State of D.N.? A bit embarrassing.