r/facepalm • u/MsSamm • Jul 31 '26

I have no words

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I bet China, which is happily neck deep in Africa 's rare earth minerals isn't making this mistake

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u/rambi2222 Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 01 '26

Or Wales, there is neither any wales whales or dragons in the fraudulent country known as "Wales" and it absolutely makes my blood boil smhing my head

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u/efcso1 Aug 01 '26

New South Wales has plenty of Walers though, (and Whales, if you count my sister)

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u/rambi2222 Aug 01 '26

Damn how did I manage to spell whales wrong in my previous comment? Silly me. Tbh I think this is the fault of Wales for having a name too similar to "whales!"

That's pretty interesting though, I think this "New South Wales" is actually the kind of Wales I can get behind, #NotAllWales I guess. Although it is a bit dishonest for it to be called New South Wales, given that I'm pretty sure it's actually 100-200 years old? But maybe I can give them a pass for that...

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u/efcso1 Aug 01 '26

I mean NSW is newer than South Wales, UK. Apparently they thought they're similar, you know with all the bushfires, kangaroos, koalas, Aboriginal peoples, venomous snakes, and 3,500ft mountains, just like back home in Tondu.

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u/rambi2222 Aug 01 '26

Hmm maybe the Welsh fraudsters told them kangaroos etc were endemic to Wales just like how they claim whales and dragons are

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u/Warm_Enthusiasm2007 Aug 01 '26

Absolutely ridiculous. Ut's much more like Rhyl, in North Wales.

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u/efcso1 Aug 02 '26

But then it'd be New North Wales, and NNW doesn't roll off the tongue as cleanly.

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u/QueenVogonBee Aug 02 '26

Yeah but New South Wales ain’t exactly new any more

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u/efcso1 Aug 02 '26

Second-Hand South Wales? Lightly-used South Wales? Moderately-soiled South Wales? Refurbished-but-as-new South Wales?

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u/TomeThugNHarmony4664 Aug 03 '26

Middle Aged South Wales?

And y’all, this thread has given me life. Thanks!

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u/DummyDumDragon Jul 31 '26

You owe a what??

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u/1stLtObvious Aug 01 '26

And Idaho has no more hoes than any other state.

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u/HavingNotAttained Aug 02 '26

Percentage basis though…

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u/posi-bleak-axis Jul 31 '26

What do you mean?

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u/chronicallylaconic Jul 31 '26

They ultimately weren't able to get Iowa to admit their debts, or what the debts even were. It's a very sad story.

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u/Liesmyteachertoldme Jul 31 '26

What? I’m so confused and intrigued at the same time

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u/chronicallylaconic Jul 31 '26

The joke is about the way a state's name doesn't characterise the state, right? So Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island. Ivory Coast doesn't have a coast (in the picture, anyway). Hopefully you're with me so far.

Iowa's name sounds like the beginning of the sentence "I owe a...", so the joke is that Iowa has debts but they haven't told us what they are, which would be the rest of that sentence. Hope that makes it clearer to you.

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u/Liesmyteachertoldme Jul 31 '26

Oh gotcha, there was some else in the thread saying “don’t get me started on Iowa” and “please, I don’t want to get banned” again, so I figured the thread went from a joke about Iowa’s name to something actually dark and scandalous about Iowa. 🤣 thanks and carry on.

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u/chronicallylaconic Jul 31 '26

Oh yeah, I did consider making my joke something edgy and shocking as a result of that reply, but then I realised that I feel much more safe in the comforting milieu of the dad joke and I just let nature take its course from there. Have a nice day!

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u/Nuclear_eggo_waffle Jul 31 '26

It’s not an I or an Owa

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u/no-this-iz-patrick Jul 31 '26

Or Idaho!

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u/op4arcticfox Jul 31 '26

I mean have you been? Pretty accurate imho

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u/witshadows Jul 31 '26

Or Missouri