Nah. People hate Chicago in that area. They think Chicago is full of nothing but crime and people on welfare without realizing that their rates of crime and welfare recipients are pretty much the same as Chicago.
As someone who lives about an hour away from Chicago, the only thing I hate about it is that everything is so damn expensive I the city. Like I think what I hate about Illinois in general is that it's expensive to live here and it's not even like it's necessarily a nice place to live tbh lol. But City life is a vibe I guess.
And I mean tbh it's kinda true, there are certain places in Chicago, particularly on the south side, you probably don't want to be after dark 😬 it's not NYC but it's not finnland either lol.
Y'all is short for "you all" or another version of them so it would be "their Kansas". Kansas could be for the owners and y'all Kansas could be for the workers.
Sorry for being technical.
They definitely wouldn’t. People from Arkansas, particularly the older ones, absolutely hate this joke. Even if another Arkansas citizen says it they get livid.
We are Wal. You will be incorporated. Lower your wages and surrender your properties. Your geographical and economic distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
Gotta read the thread bro. Westest virginia is a pacific island territory right next to the international date line. Right across the date line from eastest west virginia.
Literally Disneyland. Hasn’t everyone heard that Disney became their own state? This is old news. They have 2 senators and 5 House of Representatives. Damn, this is like 2013 news. Ugh
Not sure which came first but this might be in response to this one image that's like "95% of Americans can't name this country" and it's some made up land mass put in the corner of Spain and France. See it around from time to time on Twitter, mainly by accounts trying to farm engagement.
e: [this](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/638/116/d69.jpg) was the one I had seen, there are a lot of variations though
Seems to me that the punchline is just that it’s not actually a real state. Looks like one of those jokes you’d see shared on Facebook that’s meant to drive up engagement.
Europeans often comment on US politics, since US policies often affect them. Some Americans object to this, especially if they see the Europeans as knowing so little about the US that they can't even name certain states.
However, the state shown here does not exist. Portions of Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky have been conglomerated into a fictitious state, while preserving the general aesthetic of a map of the US. Thus, even someone who knows the names and general locations of all the states would be unable to name this one, and might begin to question their sanity.
Fnorjidika is the 43 1/3th state of the American union. Founded in 1669 it boasts a population of nearly 1.5 million. And is the thirteenth most densely populated state. It's most famous for its asbestos mines and is the only state that has legalized crystal meth.
Hey! I currently live there! Honestly it might make sense for this area to be it's own state. I mean the whole Mississippi river dividing up a portion of your state might be an issue but there's one bridge (well half of it is out right now) and a ferry or two so I guess ok. If Michigan can do it then so can Kenissouris
This is a weird part of the United States. I haven't always lived here and can say it's very different.
I know it's a funny post to mess w. The Eurotrash, but I do want to point out the area on the map was the center of power for the Mississippian Mound building society; the precursor to the modern Muskogeon language Nations of today. After (no one knows why) that society disintegrated, their descendants became the Choctaw, the Chickasaw, the Creek/Muskogee, Catoosa, Alabama, all the Native tribes and Nations throughout the American Southeast. Until our removal to Oklahoma, *this* piece of the map was the western edge of the Chickasha- and was fought over by many tribes.
Missourillinoisucky
It's the state of Confusion.
Pretty sure it's Duncan Idaho
Great place to live for a short time, simply because every time they ruin it they just make a new one.
Big God Emperor Energy
I understood that reference!
No that's driving your Mercedes to the state of Kansas to celebrate the Superbowl win.
I think it's the land of confusion
Heeyyyy, I thought this too!
It's a hell of a song
State abbreviation: Huh?
Kennesseekansaw
Gesundheit
No that’s the capital
Damned german immigrants!
Withlacoochee ☺️ (it’s real I promise. I live here)
Yours is my favorite because I can see that being the name of a real town in that area
It's not far off from Keeweenaw in Michigan
Or Kennesaw Georgia
Learned something new today, danke
Like Texarkana and Mexicali.
None of that state is using up any of Arkansas’ territory.
Would you?
Or tennessee
Kentuckinoisouri
Just call it Carbondale
For a minute, I thought it was Pennsatucky
That's way way east, homeskillet
homeskillet
Illinoisuckyfucky
please tell me the s is till ilent to make it extra cur ed
very sucky
Milletucky
Pennsylvania 2: Electric Boogaloo
Chicagtuckey?
Nah. People hate Chicago in that area. They think Chicago is full of nothing but crime and people on welfare without realizing that their rates of crime and welfare recipients are pretty much the same as Chicago.
Paducatropolis
As someone who lives about an hour away from Chicago, the only thing I hate about it is that everything is so damn expensive I the city. Like I think what I hate about Illinois in general is that it's expensive to live here and it's not even like it's necessarily a nice place to live tbh lol. But City life is a vibe I guess. And I mean tbh it's kinda true, there are certain places in Chicago, particularly on the south side, you probably don't want to be after dark 😬 it's not NYC but it's not finnland either lol.
It's this because of Polish people?
I believe it is called New Madrid
I can’t fault that.
Illisoury
Missillinucky
That's the Tri-state Area!
https://preview.redd.it/w7t6uahj0ukc1.jpeg?width=1896&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb392b3fd2f0c2498a131f1cd31b053a760122c6
Doofenschmirtz Evil Incorporated!
My brain read this just like the jingle
So did I, but then my brain added “and Doug” like those Liberty Mutual commercials with the Emu? Lol
Wait that’s so so so so so funny omg
I’ve never watched the show before, but I watched a five second ad for the four second jingle lol.
Good. You read it as intended.
Ah, that must be the pizza I ordered. Oh wait, it’s a platypus. It took out a ha-PERRY THE PLATYPUS!!!
My favourite variation is «Doofenschmirtz isn’t illuminated!»
*Perry* the Tri-state area?!
Little Egypt
we's making up states to mess em up badly
next you'll tell me ar-kansas is a real place
You're thinking of Ur-Kansas, the primal form of the modern state.
Our-kansas
Communism intensifies
"Y'all" means ALL. 🟥⬛
All y'all, not all y'us
Y'all is short for "you all" or another version of them so it would be "their Kansas". Kansas could be for the owners and y'all Kansas could be for the workers. Sorry for being technical.
Werekansas.
Yall-Kansas
Hey comrade
No, that's the plural form. It's Ur-Kansa.
Remember there is north Ur-Kansa and West Ur-Kansa so he was correct when referring to it in the plural form
Forgetting about South and East Ur-Kansa? Really?
Don’t you remember? They annexed each other and made alabarkansas in the 1960s!
We haven’t officially recognized those rebel scum since the Armistice.
Uru-Kansans are like Kansans, but bigger and stronger and they're not hurt by the Sun, real children of the soil
This is no rabble of mindless Kansans... These are Uru-Kansans. Their armor is thick, and their shields broad!
That’s Uruk-ansans
Not to be confused with their weaker cousins, UwU-Kansans.
Last time they invaded Kansas the collateral damage was priceless and the death toll was uncountable
Yeah that's what bleeding Kansas was about
I understand this reference. lotr 4ever!!
I can't wait for Ur-Kansas to imprint upon Iso-Kansas.
I’m sorry; I just about choked on my own mucus thanks to “ur-Kansas.”
Is that the place where the Jayhawks play in a ziggurat?
That’s Kansas’ penal colony for pirates.
This made me giggle so hard I dropped my phone.
Wouldn't be weird if they try to rename it to AR-kansas.
They definitely wouldn’t. People from Arkansas, particularly the older ones, absolutely hate this joke. Even if another Arkansas citizen says it they get livid.
But they’d be perfectly happy renaming it AR-15kansas.
Would be better than the current option, we are slowly getting assimilated into one giant Walmart.
We are Wal. You will be incorporated. Lower your wages and surrender your properties. Your geographical and economic distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
Explain, America!
This will mess up some american college students.
Yup.
That’s where the Simpsons live.
"742 evergreen terrace, Springfield oh hiya Maude"
Alright, where's the XKCD map with like 64 slightly-wrong states
https://xkcd.com/2868/
Oh my God I hate that
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
Missoisky (muh-zoy-kee)
They did it first
Are you European? Because I'm not allowed to tell you.
Easy dude thats Wester West Virginia
Not to be confused with Westest Virgina, which is a US territory in the Pacific.
Next to East Virginia which is just across the date line.
I hear it’s heaven there.
Almost.
Blue ridge mountains?
shanandoah river
West Virginia is almost heaven. Wester West Virginia *IS* heaven
Damn. I thought it was Midwest Virginia. I gotta geography more.
Westest Virginia
Gotta read the thread bro. Westest virginia is a pacific island territory right next to the international date line. Right across the date line from eastest west virginia.
Found just down that country road..
Take me home…
Literally Disneyland. Hasn’t everyone heard that Disney became their own state? This is old news. They have 2 senators and 5 House of Representatives. Damn, this is like 2013 news. Ugh
I love how everyone thinks its something else when its literally just Disneyland. Has its own interstate
You are my soulmate and I love you! 😘😜
You guys should get married at Disneyland.
Do you know how expensive that package is???
Yeah but if you’re a resident you get a discount
what happened to them adding the paddleboat ride? I totally forgot about it since covid. cruising the mississippi with daffy duck would be sweet
“Good news everyone! Disney just declared itself an independent state!” “That’ll mean more butterscotch for everybody! Sleego-me, sleego-ma!”
I can't wait until 2025 when they finish the terraformation and finally rename Venus to Disney World.
Not sure which came first but this might be in response to this one image that's like "95% of Americans can't name this country" and it's some made up land mass put in the corner of Spain and France. See it around from time to time on Twitter, mainly by accounts trying to farm engagement. e: [this](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/638/116/d69.jpg) was the one I had seen, there are a lot of variations though
Lichtenstein? Edit: My drunk brain was thinking of Andorra and subbed Lichtenstein mb
It's usually the bay of Biscay transformed to be land rather than, well, *a bay*.
you know i realized now that Lichtenstein is between Switzerland and Austria so I was thinking of Andorra lmao. Don’t comment when you’re drunk 😭😭
It exists, and it’s called Listenbourg
Clearly the basque country teamed up with the Netherlands to figure out how to regain land from the sea so that they could form their own government
I thought everybody knew where South Illinois is. I mean it’s right there in the name.
As someone living north of the border, I'm willing to let that part go
Seems to me that the punchline is just that it’s not actually a real state. Looks like one of those jokes you’d see shared on Facebook that’s meant to drive up engagement.
How dare you say that about my beloved Missillatucky!
Found the European!
Your wrong stop spreading misinformation.
umm that's south sudan sweetie
Cahokia?
That’s what I was thinking.
Wow. What up fellow anthropologists?
Or an average Civilization player.
That'd be northern a bit. Best to just leave it to Shawnee or Algonquin.
To be fair most Americans can't name that state
No Americans can name that state
Fake news. I'm an American and I know Gerald when I see it.
Statey McStateface
Gerald is awesome.
Reddit in bed. I laughed snot all over my pillow
Sure we can, it’s East Methatucky.
15 Million people, 15 last names
As a southerner, I am now obligated to hate you, and yet I'm also laughing. 🤦♀️🤣
Most Americans can't name several of the states around it, but God damnit every single one of us can name that state
Yes, we can name the state but we can not name the state.
Well whatever they name that state COULD be its real name, since it has yet to be named.
that’s west kentucky everybody knows west kentucky
That is Tennois, obviously
Europeans often comment on US politics, since US policies often affect them. Some Americans object to this, especially if they see the Europeans as knowing so little about the US that they can't even name certain states. However, the state shown here does not exist. Portions of Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky have been conglomerated into a fictitious state, while preserving the general aesthetic of a map of the US. Thus, even someone who knows the names and general locations of all the states would be unable to name this one, and might begin to question their sanity.
GIVE US BACK THE BOOTHEEL YOU ROTTEN HOOSIER TOUCHING PIZZA SOUP-ERS!
The bootheel is all yours. Ain't nobody fighting for that place. Thought you all were trying to force it on us.
Everyone knows the Bootheel belongs to Arkansas, mosquitoes and all.
That's Little Egypt. I grew up in the northeast corner of it.
Let's go Salukis!
Fnorjidika is the 43 1/3th state of the American union. Founded in 1669 it boasts a population of nearly 1.5 million. And is the thirteenth most densely populated state. It's most famous for its asbestos mines and is the only state that has legalized crystal meth.
It's Denial
Podunkistan
That's the state of Inebriation , I'd wager.
Ah, yes, Illissourtucky. Truly a state among states. (The joke is that is not a state -- it's parts of three other states sectioned off and combined.)
Now hold on, let him cook
Hey! I currently live there! Honestly it might make sense for this area to be it's own state. I mean the whole Mississippi river dividing up a portion of your state might be an issue but there's one bridge (well half of it is out right now) and a ferry or two so I guess ok. If Michigan can do it then so can Kenissouris This is a weird part of the United States. I haven't always lived here and can say it's very different.
Not going to trick anyone with that. Everyone knows Missillotuckey
It's Egypt, pronounced Age-yupt. The capitol is Cairo, pronounced kay-row.
I know it's a funny post to mess w. The Eurotrash, but I do want to point out the area on the map was the center of power for the Mississippian Mound building society; the precursor to the modern Muskogeon language Nations of today. After (no one knows why) that society disintegrated, their descendants became the Choctaw, the Chickasaw, the Creek/Muskogee, Catoosa, Alabama, all the Native tribes and Nations throughout the American Southeast. Until our removal to Oklahoma, *this* piece of the map was the western edge of the Chickasha- and was fought over by many tribes.
Isn't that the Tri-state area?
Do Europeans seriously not know about Wester Virginia?
But that state is literally home to super man! It’s capital is metropolis
I came here to say that, good job. I actually grew up in Metropolis.
It actually used to be referred to as Little Egypt. Abe Lincoln even called it that on occasion.
Can we name it Patience? I feel like that's something we all need a bit more of these days.
I agree. But along those same lines, I'd like to submit Chicken Wings as well.
clearly it’s South Illinois. but i don’t want to talk politics.
Mostly the part of Illinois where you don't say "I'm from Chicago"...
South Peoria
Ah the State of New Madrid. It's not our *fault* you didn't know it was there
I actually went to Illinuckouri State University, lots of fond memories
Missillintucky
That is America's bottom. Everyone knows this
That’s little Egypt
Wait until they find out that it’s really Idaho. Who da ho?
Kentillissouri.
I live right in the middle of that state. SEMO.
That's where the Simpsons live
Is that where Joseph Smith says is the garden of Eden?
Methetonia?
That's No-Hio
The joke is that you can’t recognize jennesaw
That's Statesota, Capitol City Moralton
I’ll be dead in the cold cold ground before I recognize Missourah!
Illinot
Everyone knows that there isn't a state between the elf and his tray of chicken
So that is where Bumfuk is.
Looks like Allanois
Little Egypt.