• UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zone
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    In Australia we believe in equality, so I’ll piss off all the states.

    Victoria : “afDanistan”, wokeville. Small latte drinkers who don’t have a driver’s licence. Labourers and Stop/Go people on $200,000.

    New South Wales: dumb boomers on $3m property. Driving at 80kmh on their Learner drivers plates. Shit at rugby. Sydney nightlife ends at 9pm.

    South Australia: “oh yeah I have an auntie there I think.” Nothing to do. Their water tastes funny. Churches everywhere. Weird 1.5hr timezone.

    Western Australia: If you want to know why there’s a wait time for Toyota’s, it’s bloody WA buying them all. Full of cashed up bogans in lifted land cruisers. Have to watch footy at lunch time because they are 3 timezones away. If you are anti social and don’t mind a 6hr drive to anywhere live there.

    Tasmania: 10 people live there with a mild sense of imbreeding. Looks kinda nice, but why would you go to Tassy if you can go to New Zealand for the same price.

    Northern Territory: biggest employers, the mines and Pine Gap (the CIA base). Otherwise it’s Australia’s poverty lane.

    Australian Capital Territory: Australia’s Uni campus. A concrete jungle, a tiny town where we keep the big wigs who are driven everywhere in black BMWs or Camry’s.

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      A concrete jungle

      The bush capital being referred to as a concrete jungle is so out of touch it’s almost poetic.

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        As someone from New Mexico, I’m just happy to be included (Americans often assume it’s a country outside the USA)

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    I like that if you squint really hard, you could almost flip that map upside down and get a reasonable cultural map of the United States.

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    As a US southerner I think you want to make Queensland a combo of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia With SE Qld as Atlanta. Only thing fancy about Louisiana is the food

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    I sometimes also call Australia as a whole the Texas of the Commonwealth nations. We’re big, we have snakes and desert, we love big things, we’re ornery and we’ve flirted with secession more than once.

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    Little known fact(oid).

    Ohio’s original state motto was “75% of our name is vowels”

    Iowa’s State motto was “…God dammit Ohio!”

    These are the most interesting things about both states. I should know, I’m from Ohio.

    And if you want to experience the United States Midwest in song form, look up Bird Bird Bird by Lou and Peter Berryman

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        Don’t forget the Hocking Hills too.

        I just went to Jungle Jim’s for the first time this weekend actually. What an amazing place. For those that don’t know, it’s basically an IKEA sized grocery store. Over 6 acres (24000 m^2 )

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          Funny, I just got out of their parking lot. its basically 3-4 whole grocery stores and a warehouse all together.

          I don’t drink alcohol myself, but the alcohol department is the size of a grocery store on its own with booze from all over. Aisles upon aisles of wine and beer, and a backroom for the more expensive stuff (4 digit price tags and up). Cigars, brewing kits, etc.

          The “regular” groceries and cookware section are the entrance.

          A health foods area, roughly large gas station in size.

          Then the main cool factor (and biggest section) is international foods. There’s no real good way to describe it with words.

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        factoid (2) - an assumption or speculation that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact.

        Absolutely 100% made up. So, if that’s the most interesting thing about each state, and it’s fictional, imagine how mind numbingly boring the corn states must be

        (I’m joking ofc, Ohio has a few redeeming qualities. The southeastern portion is particularly beautiful, Idaho has some staggering vistas, and Iowa… I mean, 75% of their name is vowels I guess)

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          You’ve never been here have you? Because nobody from Ohio would ever call southeastern Ohio It’s redeeming quality. Sure it’s beautiful, but it’s less pretty than Kentucky and the best thing you can say about the people there is that you won’t run into many.

          Ohio has its positives. Columbus is fucking weird in a good way. Cleveland is a little slice of Michigan. And the amusement parks are great. Also the Ohio river and Lake Erie are awesome. Just don’t go south of Columbus or anywhere near Indiana.

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            Michigander here, Toledo is an actual slice of Michigan, but Ohio can keep it.

            Cedar Point is pretty awesome though.

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          Don’t forget where they got the name Idaho:

          This is just a message to time travelers because this retcon absolutely forgot/made it up

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      The driving in the hills of southern Ohio can be pretty nice. I used to spend a lot of time in the Dover area. Michigan and Ohio were my sales territory for a few years

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      Bavaria=Texas Swabia=West Virginia Niedersachsen=Ohio West Berlin=New York East Berlin=New Jersey Ruhr=Illinois Bielefeld=doesn’t exist

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      Because 99% of the people live near the coast line and it’s all beaches and generally laid back.

      Whereas the large interior is dry, hot outback with very few people.

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      The Margot Robbie account is here now? No wonder this place feels different. It isn’t the gay lil leftist meme page it was a few months ago.

      It’s nice that it’s bigger, but there are more right wing trolls targeting this instance than there used to be as a result.

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        Esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie shows up wherever she please!

        Also, randomly showing up in places is like, one of my thing here.