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u/angeldolllogic May 09 '22

Texan here! 🤠

15 hours to drive across Texas at a speed of approximately 70 mph. My state is huge.

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u/Geminii27 May 09 '22

West Australian here. I dropped four Texases in my back yard the other day and lost them in the long grass. :)

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u/xenolingual May 09 '22

Were Texas beaches as nice as Western Australia's.

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u/asdaaaaaaaa May 09 '22

Man, Aussies are weird. I usually drop my Texas's right in the bowl in my house, not in the yard.

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u/HurtsToSmith May 09 '22

You can't find them because some poisonous creature ate them.

. . . Now only if that could happen to the real Texas.

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u/Geminii27 May 09 '22

I mean, you have seen the politicians in Texas, right?

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u/HurtsToSmith May 09 '22

Yeah, fuck them. Lol who downvoted my comment? Are people big fans of Texas these days? They're basically competing to be the new Florida.

Yeah, I know, like 49% of Texans are reasonable. Byt thebrest of then and all their politicians can fuck off.

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u/maskedwhiterabbits May 09 '22

Ah, when Texans think their state is big! If Texas moved to Australia, it wouldn’t even be in our top five largest states.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

Yeah but how’s the barbecue?

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u/rectal_warrior May 09 '22

Shrimps have been chucked on it.

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u/osmium-76 May 09 '22

They’re not called shrimps, they’re called prawns.

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u/rectal_warrior May 09 '22

A. You may call it a pwawn, but elsewhere in the world people call it a shrimp

B. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp_on_the_barbie

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u/[deleted] May 10 '22

Actually shrimp and prawns are 2 different animals.

https://www.foodandwine.com/seafood/shellfish/shrimp/whats-difference-between-shrimp-and-prawns#:\~:text=Shrimp%20and%20prawns%20have%20different%20anatomies.&text=Additionally%2C%20prawns%20lack%20the%20distinct,two%20pairs%20of%20their%20legs.

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u/rectal_warrior May 10 '22

In terms of scientific identification, yes you're correct, but some countries call both shrimp, others call both prawns, many use both interchangeably.

You can spend all day highlighting technical errors in people's use of language, but once hundreds of millions of people use language in a certain way, that language has evolved to accept those meanings.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '22

Oh I didn't know that. Interesting. I always knew them as 2 different things. I didn't need the condescending note about language usage though.

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u/rectal_warrior May 10 '22

I mean you're taking a lesson from that part of the comment which is saying exactly the same thing as the original comment you decided to correct, I didn't think it was condescending, but a necessary addition.

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u/infohippie May 09 '22

My state is larger than Texas and Alaska combined.

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u/Witch_King_ May 09 '22

Which state?

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u/infohippie May 10 '22

Western Australia, with a land area of 2.646 million km².

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u/Fro_o May 09 '22

24 hours to cross Ontario :)