This Brit’s hilarious guide to America’s 50 states ‘without Googling’ is a very funny read
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To the best of my knowledge Montana is famous for being a mountain people live on.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge Nebraska is famous for being flat which, guys, c’mon, that’s not an achievement.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge Nevada is famous for losing all your money in the desert.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge New Hampshire is famous for being nothing like actual Hampshire.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge New Jersey is famous for being nothing like actual Jersey.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge New Mexico is famous for being nothing like actual Mexico.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge New York is famous for being nothing like actual York.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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The the best of my knowledge North Carolina is famous for inventing the phrase “Is Pepsi OK?”
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge North Dakota is famous for nothing, I’ve literally never heard of it.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge Ohio is famous for having at least one talented astrophysicist.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge Oklahoma is famous for a musical I haven’t seen.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge Oregon is famous for being named after a herb. Other than that, this whole place is news to me.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge Pennsylvania is where the Amish live, and they’re apparently just like our European Dutch people.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge Rhode Island is famous for, err, being an island I guess?
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge South Carolina is famous for getting merc’d by nature on the regular.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge South Dakota is famous for nothing, I’ve literally never heard of it.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge Tennessee is famous for saying “I do declare” and people fanning themselves on their porches.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge Texas is famous for big trucks and small dicks.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge Utah is famous for being where all your morons and preppers and general nutjobs gather together to be alone.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge Vermont is famous for being the home of famed socialist and progressive politician Bernie Sanders.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge Virginia is famous for tricking me, as I thought it was one of those states where there’s a north and south because of that song. I was expecting to have to deal with East and West Virginia seperately.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge Washington is famous for not being Washington DC which is elsewhere and not a state, but also not a town. I think Washington (this one) is where Frasier lives.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge West Virginia is famous for ok what the fuck, why is there a Virginia and a West Virginia. Get your shit together.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge Wisconsin is famous for being where you Americans pretend to make cheese and fail.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
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To the best of my knowledge Wyoming is just a big field with a buffalo in it.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
Here’s what @human_not_bees told us about the thread and how it came about.
‘While talking to some Twitter friends someone said they knew “all the UK accents” because they’d visited the UK and driven around. I thought if the bar was that low for claiming you knew about a country then I’d test my knowledge of US states.
‘I pulled up a list of the state names and just started guessing. I think all their TV and movies help with the stereotypes. Florida was easy because everyone’s heard of Florida Man.
Outside of churning out a blend of nonsense, socialism, and Björk memes for the timeline I also run a Dungeons & Dragons campaign for friends on Twitter. It was while I was playing that this tweet blew up.
‘When I checked my phone after the session I couldn’t believe how popular it had become (and how willing Americans were to laugh at each other!)’
And just a few of the many, many responses it prompted
This was a fun read. Thank you! I’m Canadian so a lot of these assumptions make sense to me.
— Leanne 🇨🇦 (@sunshine_in_RD) April 11, 2021
As an American, I can confirm that nearly all of these are correct. 🤣
— gargoyle (@gargoyle030) April 11, 2021
In return, I, an American, will tell you everything I know about England based off watching every episode of Love Island.
— Caramelgoddess0death (@notrosario) April 11, 2021
A show which famously takes place in Spain.
— human_not_bees (Beës) (@human_not_bees) April 11, 2021
In Wisconsin, we not only make cheese, but also famous serial killers.
— John Malueg (@GalenMadoc) April 11, 2021
I, an American, having watched many shows & movies with British people in them can state unequivocally that England has many criminal masterminds, brilliant detectives, expert secret agents, and haunted castles.
Also, witches.— Matt Skywalker (@Jedi_Adopted) April 11, 2021
As a Canadian who has watched a lot of BBC, I know you can never visit a small British town without at least 3 people being murdered. Also there are only 10 actors in all of Britain.
— Deb from Lambton, the land that Ford forgot (@deb_morris12) April 11, 2021
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This American’s hilarious thread about weird British traits went viral because she knows us so well
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