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[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 8 points 1 hour ago

My brain worked so hard to make this look like America, even though now I know it isn't I'm pretty sure its still the USA

[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 2 points 50 minutes ago

I mean, have you been to Birmingham?

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 hours ago

I had a good, deep, cathartic laugh at this I didn't realize I was in need of. UK politics has been an interesting but unfun mess for a long while.

[–] RabbitInTheWoodPile@lemm.ee 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The lost continent had emerged! It's happening!

[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 1 points 55 minutes ago

Trash Atlantis.

[–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 hours ago

worldsfucked, m8

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 4 points 6 hours ago
[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 129 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

There's an even larger one between the atlantic and pacific ocean, just north of the gulf of mexico.

[–] Godofdirt@lemmy.world 23 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Gulf of Cuba USA and Mexico

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 36 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

OK, but for the record I didn't think you were that short.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I know! The United States of North America!

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

These are the jokes, kid.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That's so brutal, black metal fans burned a church in its honor

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 hours ago

Yo the church was burning when we got here we just didn’t wanna let it burn without a proper send off

[–] CelloMike@lemmy.world 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Hey now, we've got some nice bits - they're all the bits with no people in

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

I genuinely don't get why hating the UK has become so popular recently. Like, sure we have our problems, but it's not that bad...

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Have you not lived through the political shit show we've had? Brexit, COVID scandals, Boris Johnson, Farage, stagnating wages, poor productivity, inflation, high energy prices, NHS in crisis, housing shit show.....and there's no end in sight. Think the UK hasn't been doing that badly is quite a willful refusal to see how we compare to the rest of the world and where we could have been if we functioned better.

[–] luce@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

randomly choosing a random outgroup to collectively hate on is funny sometimes (see: the fr🤮nch) Genuinely there is no other reason. sometimes people will create justifications/other explanations for it but really its just absurdist humor with a pinch of tribalism.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Look we made a bunch of overblown jokes against the French for a while...

...then they got BASED organizing ferociously for their workers' rights...

...Then we stopped joking so much...

...and now they're not doing so hot again.

I think there's a causative effect here. Should the jokes continue in order to spur them to greatness once more, even if only out of spite?

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

Is it recently, though? As far as I can remember, specifically England has been the US of Europe. Or you mean the UK as a whole?

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 18 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Brexit, probably. That lost a lot of international respect.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago

And I think it was Blair before that. XD

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

And the US is on track to beat that record.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 hours ago

I think we already did reputation wise. Economically, give it a bit longer cause I think we're playing great depression 2: techie boogaloo.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 28 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Why are you being so cruel about Ireland?

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Ireland is barely in the picture.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 8 points 13 hours ago

I felt the joke would have had to be explained more if I’d said Alderney or Sark.

[–] bishoponarope@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Look Ireland has feelings too!

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Mostly Northern Ireland.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org -4 points 10 hours ago

Thats Britain lol, Ireland is on the left edge of the frame.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Kinda unrelated but Garbology is a pretty great album imo.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That's because all Aesop Rock albums are great.

[–] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Malibu Ken replaced None shall pass as my favorite but NSP still holds a place in my heart

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 hours ago

Skelethon > everything (tho i do like ITS, the song Vititus has a weirdly nostalgic vibe)

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 9 hours ago

Malibu Ken isn't an Aesop album it's a Malibu Ken album. TOBACCO should not be underestimated and is great on his own too.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours ago

Maybe this is the remnant of the last technological civilization that collapsed and disappeared, leaving behind a super massive floating wastepile in the Atlantic Ocean and eventually settled into where it is today. Along with all the survivors that have long since forgotten where they came from.

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

What do you think would happen if a population stayed within its own cesspit of a gene pool for a thousand years? ;)

Edit: typo.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 5 points 13 hours ago

It gets full and they have to export the really undesirables elsewhere?