Local German Gets Bored And Tries To Name All American States

[steve2470]

Link to tweet

He says further down the thread that he's never been to the USA.

[dewsgirl]

1. lol..the fuck is going on here.🤣

[sl8]

2. Yes, let's all start calling Minnesota "Texas 2".

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. I can assure you that Minnesota is nothing at all like Texas

except for the number of horses.

[sl8]

18. A likely story. Next you'll be telling us it doesn't border Arizona or North.

[underpants]

3. 😆

[sl8]

4. Quiz: Name the German states:

https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3014

[DFW]

7. Well, I scored 100% on that one

DUH!! (There's only 16 of them, and I live there).

[sl8]

14. Well, I should hope so.

You scored more than double what I did (46%). In my defense, I did click on Bremen a couple of times, but it thought I was clicking in Lower Saxony. Even so, that's pretty bad. Consider me humbled.

Did you happen to see bobbieinok's question about the Free Democratic Party, in her thread about the Thuringia election?

[DFW]

19. Not yet

I had been in the States for a month, and have been country-hopping on pretty much a daily basis for work. I had to get up at 4 AM yesterday (Friday) to be in Zürich and Basel and today, after I get done in Basel, will try to get home (Düsseldorf) since I have to be up at 4 again Monday (France) and again on Tuesday (Spain). A month's absence usually means punishment in the form of sleep deprivation.

It was all over the news here in Europe about the short-lived AfD coup in Thüringen. Everyone seems pretty sure Merkel kept a calm exterior while putting her foot down with quiet behind-the-scenes force.

[steve2470]

22. hi DFW

Hope you and family are well

[DFW]

24. HI Steve

I THINK we're all well! Kinda crazy around here. Turns out we will have a new granddaughter come June. Here's hoping granddaughter #1 doesn't get too jealous.

[sl8]

23. Yikes. That's some schedule.

No moss growing on you, I guess.

Thanks for the update on the Thüringen election.

[DFW]

25. Not too much moss at all

The Moss Growers Association of greater Düsseldorf has sworn out a formal complaint.

[smirkymonkey]

11. Well, that was fun.

I got 42%. Now that I've gone through it once, I think I could probably ace it the next time.

[petronius]

29. I got 34% by mashing the keyboard in frustration. But it's madness! How

can Lower Saxony be higher than normal Saxony? Madness! At least our directional state names are in the right direction...

[DFW]

30. We use different measures. In the 13th century, there was no "North and South Dakota"

Lower Saxony, as well as Lower Bavaria, were originally determined by river flows, and not English-speaking cartographers. Charlie Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were not around when the Danube river flow was used to decide where upper and lower Bavaria were.

[tblue37]

5. LOL! K&R. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

6. "Square"

How did he not get Alabama? If he got Mountain Mama, surely he would have heard of Sweet Home Alabama.

[DFW]

8. At least he asked how many Kansas there are (answer: 2)

Ar- and plain!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. He did a better job than most of us would do with German states.

DFW excepted, but he lives there. I know where most of the major cities are but only because I once worked for an airline.

[smirkymonkey]

12. How could he not get New York?

I would think that state would be pretty obvious to most relatively educated Germans.

[rsdsharp]

13. Are we sure

this isn't really Trump? Looks like it was done in Sharpie.

[liberaltrucker]

15. No way. It's actually readable

[Staph]

16. I love, love, love,

that he got West Virginia, but calls Virginia Mountain Mama.

(As a native West Virginian, I've been to Europe about ten times. Every time the subject comes up, Europeans know John Denver's Country Roads and know that West Virginia is a state. I wish Americans knew that we were a state and not just the western part of Virginia. No, I don't live anywhere near Richmond!)

[Glorfindel]

17. I'm actually quite impressed that he got Georgia!

I made 59% naming the German states. I should have done better, and will next time. Thanks for posting this, steve2470.

[steve2470]

21. my pleasure! nt

[yuiyoshida]

20. He seems to have a liking for

Ohio and Kansas. I am glad he got California right! I bet he did better than Trump would do!

[2naSalit]

26. Reminds me of my SIL who is from

Germany. She lives in "the fuck is going on here" and considers states by their shape. At one time she confused all rectangular states and called them "the square states" and called me once to tell me she wanted to come an visit me and bought a book about the national park near me so she would have an idea about the place... Yosemite NP. Except I live next to Yellowstone NP. We both had a good laugh about that. She still hasn't made it here to visit yet, doesn't like camping and I guess she thinks that's all we have for housing out here. It's pretty funny.

[NCjack]

27. He did better than the MAGAts I know. nt

[rurallib]

28. He beat Trump. trump only got Florida and New York right.