[ SECRET POST #2220 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2220 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Sherlock, The Hobbit, Doctor Who]


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[Hotel Transylvania]


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[Skyfall]


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[Love Actually]


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[The Walking Dead]


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[Small Wonder]


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[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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[Downton Abbey]


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[Magi]


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[Homestuck]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 042 secrets from Secret Submission Post #317.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that's what the OP was saying. I think he or she was just saying they're sick of people assuming they know all about a culture because of their favorite shows and stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

So I can assume the British don't use the television they see from America as a basis of what they think US culture is like?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, don't you know that Los Angeles and New York are the only two major cities (Washington, D.C. is just an NYC suburb) and that the Gateway Arch, Disney World, the Rocky Mountains, and the Grand Canyon are all right next to each other?

[(Anonymous)]

...I know you're being sarcastic and I'm probably being stupid, but do people overseas really get something like that impression of USA geography from our tv shows and movies?

[(Anonymous)]

Tourists apparently sometimes tend to think they can travel from, say, Philadelphia to the Grand Canyon (in Arizona) for a nice little daytrip. Check notalwaysright.com or any online discussion about American geography and you'll find loads of examples.

[drakontion]

To be fair that's not limited to the US, and some things over there are closer than what you'd expect. When I was over there, I was surprised when I found it was only an hour or so's travel by car from Washington DC to a friend's place in PA, and then the same from that same place to New York city (in a totally opposite direction), plus it was almost completely urbanised the entire way (except for where the Amish were). Totally amazing. I'm used to driving for 4+ hours to see the next town.

On the flip side there are still tourists who think they can drive from Sydney to Perth in a smart car with a 600ml bottle of water.... *shakes head*.

So you know. It happens everywhere.

[(Anonymous)]

On the flip side there are still tourists who think they can drive from Sydney to Perth in a smart car with a 600ml bottle of water.... *shakes head*.


/Fellow Aussie WINCE

[(Anonymous)]

True, the opposite can happen in certain countries. When my sister went to Scotland with a choir she's in, she was floored how everything was an hour or an hour and half away (just in Scotland; she didn't go down into England), whereas here in Missouri (the Midwest), it takes five hours to get from St. Louis to either Kansas City or Chicago (nearly seven if you're traveling in snow). And on the east coast, things are closer together because the states are smaller, so you can travel through more states in a smaller amount of time.

Uh, I would never assume that about Australia.

[stormy1x2]

Canada is famous for this. We get thousands of American tourists asking at the Niagara Falls border in July how far it is to the snow so they can ski in summer. Niagara Falls being a lower latitude(longitude? I always mix these two up..) then most of the Western USA, I never understand this mentality. Have they never looked at a map of North America??

*says this noting Canadian tourists can be just as silly when going abroad*

[kamino_neko]

Latitude. Longitude runs north-south.

An easy way to remember is longitude lines are all the same length, whereas lines of latitude get shorter the further you go from the equator. (Also, that lines of latitude are called parallels, and are parallel to each other, whereas all meridians (lines of longitude) meet at the poles.)

[(Anonymous)]

I live in NS and have had people ask me if they can drive to Alberta for supper.

[(Anonymous)]

LA and New York are totes within a few hours' drive of each other. And the US is completely insensitive and racist, which the UK isn't at all, because the UK is way more diverse than the US. Also, none of them can speak English correctly (not that the Commonwealth countries are any better) because only the British speak English correctly. And why do Americans think RP is the only British accent? Just because they only have one or two...

Brits can be just as fucking dumb and ignorant as Americans.

[(Anonymous)]

The Midwest does not exist. Chicago is a cute little island town with skyscrapers adrift in the middle of lake Michigan, which sits between New York and L.A. The only other thing is Florida, which contains beaches, Miami, Disney World, Cubans, and alligators. There's also Texas, but that's practically its own country anyway, and if you go there, you should bring a gun because Texas loves guns. Guns and high school football.

Brits can be just as fucking dumb and ignorant as Americans.

Stupid has no nationality.

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair a number of Americans think this...That only the Coasts matter and the rest of the country is just something they see out of the window of an airplane as they fly over it.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, we even have a word for that. "Flyover states."

[(Anonymous)]

I live in Missouri, and we didn't even get a shout-out in the country song, "Flyover States." Neither did Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, or either of the Dakotas, or Minnesota or Illinois. That's how much we don't exist. *facepalm*

[(Anonymous)]

I'm from Michigan. Worse, I live outside of Detroit. The only thing people ever say is " OMG! How do you not die? Because guns/gangs/murders and such!"

People are awful.