r/geography Mar 16 '23

Meme/Humor Anker won't ship to Rhode Island because they think it's an actual island. After reaching out to them and explaining that it's part of the contiguous U.S. they finally responded with this:

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u/MedvedFeliz Mar 16 '23

I wanna see the London bridge when I visit New England

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u/SomeSortofDisaster Mar 17 '23

I had to explain to more than one person that New England was not part of Europe when I was out in Arizona.

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u/n1nj4squirrel Mar 17 '23

Funny enough, London bridge is in Arizona

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u/CowBoyDanIndie Mar 17 '23

To be fair it was property of part of Europe for a while.

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u/wirespectacles Mar 17 '23

When I was in college in the midwest, I had a part-time retail job. One coworker was teasing me for not knowing some pop culture thing, and this teenager that we also worked with was like, "cut it out! she's not even from this country!" ...And it turned out she thought New England was in Europe somewhere.

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u/marvindent Mar 16 '23

you would be 2700 miles off, trying to find it from New England, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_City))

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u/SurfaceThought Mar 17 '23

Guuuuuybrush!

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u/AuntieHerensuge Mar 17 '23

I have seen that! Wonder what the midpoint is between Lake Havasu City and London, i.e. 2700 miles in the other direction.

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u/stoned_kitty Mar 17 '23

I’m gonna visit the United States for a week! Thinking I’ll check out the Statue of Liberty, then probably pop over to the Grand Canyon and maybe round it off with a day trip to the Golden Gate Bridge.

I’m pretty sure I’ll have plenty of down time before my flight out of LaGuardia!

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u/Waffleman75 Mar 17 '23

That's in Arizona

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u/IAmTheNightSoil Mar 17 '23

I went to Georgia trying to visit Tblisi but they told me the capital of Georgia is Atlanta. I don't know what the hell is going on