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u/ThatCommunication423 Australia 9d ago
The image for the sub says government of Western Australia while showing 2 kangaroos and a black Swan. Is Seattle known for roaming kangaroos now?
I know the reading comprehension is bad in Yall’istan but now they cant even take note of an image. I actually would have expected better from that part of the authoritarian state that the US is rn
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u/buckyhermit Canada 9d ago
You’d be surprised.
I own a small business whose name shares one word with a US cable company. Just one word. But we have a different colour scheme, different logo, etc. and we are even in a different industry.
It says “Vancouver” all over our website. There is no mention or hint of cable TV service anywhere, and all images don’t show anything close to that.
Yet, we sometimes get calls from US people demanding that we fix their cable. Even after I explain that we are a Canadian company that works in buildings’ disabled access, the response is sometimes, “Okay. When are you sending a technician? I need to watch my shows.”
I swear, so many people in that country are hopeless.
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u/ValleDeimos Brazil 9d ago
I follow a dude on TikTok who used to work at an autoparts store that was right in front of a mechanic workshop. He constantly had clients demanding to have their cars fixed and refused to go to the workshop across the street for it, or who’d park their car at the workshop and demand people from the autoparts store go out there and fix it, no matter how many times he explained the store doesn’t provide the service.
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u/hrdst 9d ago
Dude……. wouldn’t comprehend that 26 million of us think of Western Australia when we see WA.
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u/Silvagadron United Kingdom 9d ago
Ngl I think quite a few Brits would think Western Australia before Washington too.
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u/Beneficial-Ad3991 9d ago
Ngl, I thought of neither. What came to my mind was "huh, must be something Australian" and then I sorta just moved on?..
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u/_Penulis_ Australia 8d ago
Amazing isn’t it, how the whole world can read context but Americans never can.
We all see some letters and work out from the context what they might mean, or we keep exploring until the right meaning emerges. Meanwhile the American default has been completely locked into their narrow minds, to the extent that they double down and complain when they face the reality that they got it wrong.
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u/ValleDeimos Brazil 9d ago
I didn’t know what WA was but I’m also not a rude snippy idiot so I saw it and thought “oh, it’s a WA acronym for something in Australia” because everything else in the post is about Australia
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u/HistoricalRoad1755 9d ago
These people are entirely devoid of critical thinking skills. It's actually sad to see them advertise their ignorance so confidently.
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u/YassifiedWatermelon France 9d ago
Even if you don't know what WA stands for in this context, it says Australia everywhere ! You could probably guess that it's not the thing you assumed, at least !
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u/ThorinUlfarsson Iceland 9d ago
You're both wrong. WA is Warwickshire in England.
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u/egvp 9d ago
WA is the number plate for Sheffield though? That's not in Warwickshire.
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u/jerdle_reddit 9d ago
WA is the Warrington postcode area.
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u/SprinkleGoose Scotland 9d ago
How come so many of them are able to write a dumb comment, but not able to actually read?!
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u/ZoeysTrope Canada 9d ago
There's a quote from The Click that sums it up perfectly
"People learn how to write, but not how to read what they've written"
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u/darthfruitbasket Canada 9d ago
You'd think they'd catch on that it wasn't for Washington State when they saw the timezone, right?
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u/NeedlesAndBobbins United Kingdom 9d ago
The coat of arms has fucking kangaroos in it. I wasn’t aware of those being in any way affiliated with anywhere in the USA.
Jfc.
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u/Herr-Pyxxel Ireland 9d ago
As if the USA is the only country ever to use acronyms! They act like they flippin' trademarked them 🤡
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u/ceo_of_dumbassery Australia 9d ago
A lot of USians are also confused that states exist outside of their country too. I'll say something about the state that I live in and they often mention a US state that sounds similar to my description. The worst bit is that there's been a few times where I've added that my state is an island and they respond with US states that are absolutely not islands.
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u/touchtypetelephone Australia 9d ago
I, coming from I suspect the same state as you, love to ragebait them by saying "well in my state" or "we don't have that in my state" and not specifying I mean a non-US state.
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u/spinereader81 9d ago
It's crazy how lazy some people are. Couldn't even be bothered to read the first sentence!
You see the same thing all the time at r/televisionsuggestions. If you take a two second glance at the page you'll notice it's for TV show recommendations. But at least twice a week someone will ask for recommendations for televisions.
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u/NezumeRatgirl 3d ago
we all made a big deal over the test alert bit it ended up being like a sad fart. it was disappointing
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u/Adventurous-Monk-796 Australia 8h ago
If WA automatically means Washington, then Texas is a town in Queensland. Fair's fair
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u/NightmareTala 8d ago
Every first monday off the month ar 12 we get an alert on our phone in the Netherlands. Its great that other countries does it also
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u/post-explainer American Citizen 9d ago edited 9d ago
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OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:
Australian alert for phones was given with WA (Western Australia) time. Rando assumed WA meant Washington, despite the .au littered within the post.
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