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[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 177 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] Godofdirt@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gulf of Cuba USA and Mexico

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

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

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

I know! The United States of North America!

These are the jokes, kid.

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[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It took me way to long to realise its Britain. My first thought was, that it would be the US and then got confused because this wasn't the US.

[–] potoo22@programming.dev 42 points 1 week ago

It says garbage patch, not dumpster fire

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why are you being so cruel about Ireland?

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ireland is barely in the picture.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago

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

[–] bishoponarope@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I mean, have you been to Birmingham?

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago

I once had to stay in Birmingham after a cancelled train. On leaving the station I was accosted by a drunk demanding cigarettes, who started swearing at me after I admitted I didn’t smoke. That’s my only experience of Birmingham, I have to assume it’s typical.

[–] stephan262@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Yes I have, and I found it to be rather pleasant actually... But then I am from Wolverhampton so it could just be the comparison.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

I will always have a soft spot for Birmingham for giving us Black Sabbath. Luckily, I have never been there though, so the reality will not ruin it for me.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's North America from an upside down perspective.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

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

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

They've just stated to unfuck themselves out of tgeir own neolib brainfuck. Guys like Garry and Giantsomething

[–] CelloMike@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (5 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...

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And the US is on track to beat that record.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week 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.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

And I think it was Blair before that. XD

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week 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.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] luce@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

randomly choosing a random outgroup to collectively hate must be ironically funny sometimes(see: jokes about 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. edit: i should add though, usually this type of humor is meant to be ironic by most of its participants. the more i think about it, the more it seems this is more rude than funny.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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?

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

UK export neoliberalisn,evagelicals and that traitor against all human Boris,UK will not be allowed to live that down for 100 year. UK stop having shit ideas.

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

Kinda unrelated but Garbology is a pretty great album imo.

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

That's because all Aesop Rock albums are great.

[–] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] RabbitInTheWoodPile@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The lost continent had emerged! It's happening!

Trash Atlantis.

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

worldsfucked, m8

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week 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.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

New beavers just dropped in england, so give em a chance to clean the place up (the beavers I mean).

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/28/beavers-released-english-waterways-government-licence

i thought this was making fun of ireland for a bit

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

blighty has it's problems but they're resolvable. rejoin the EU. Support Ukraine. Restrict 5 eyes intel until the US get's it's shit together. Lead NATO.

problems, but feasibly resolveable problems.

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago
[–] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

As someone who lives slightly north of the island in the middle of the south coast of this particular garbage patch; yes.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Hey now, we just exonerated ourselves by being nice to Zelensky. For today and today only, you have to respect us!!

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