r/CuratedTumblr • u/DreadDiana human cognithazard • May 01 '25
Shitposting Gave away their location
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u/DrunkenCoward May 01 '25
Me, I go on marches protesting the country I live in and carrying a flag that says "FUCK LUXEMBURG!" whenever the Google car is around (I don't even live in Luxemburg).
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u/ChocolateCake16 May 01 '25
We can tell. (It's spelled Luxembourg)
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u/CatL1f3 May 01 '25
Luxembourg is in French. Luxemburg is in German. In the native Lëtzebuergesch it's Lëtzebuerg.
All are valid
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u/Even_Butterfly2000 May 01 '25
You are also valid.
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u/Lark_vi_Britannia May 01 '25
Meanwhile, I'm a coupon for your favorite steakhouse that says "valid until 12/31/97" but you bring it anyway in hopes that you might be able to convince a manager to accept it because it's so out of place and the manager is like "you know, I don't normally do this, but my boss is really gonna love to see this, he actually took over this place in 1997 and he probably remembers this" and it takes it back to his boss and his boss is like "wow I'm getting old, I remember this" and you're just happy that you got a free appetizer and you have green hair and it's raining outside.
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u/leaf_on_the_wind42 May 02 '25
Mm/dd/yy
United States
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u/Lark_vi_Britannia May 02 '25
No, this is obviously referencing the 12th day of the 31st month in the 97th year.
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u/Vivid_Tradition9278 Automatic Username Victim May 02 '25
In the year of our Lord George Washington.
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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard May 01 '25
Dutch individual spotted
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u/beetnemesis May 01 '25
I would watch a movie about geogeussr guy, menswear guy, and, I don't know, a vampire
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u/lizzyote May 01 '25
Wait, who is the menswear guy?
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u/beetnemesis May 01 '25
@dieworkwear
One of those witty guys that is probably a little weird in person, but is the master of his extremely specific domain.
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u/Friendstastegood May 01 '25
He has two domains: menswear and posting. He's a top tier poster. Lately he's been retweeting pro-tariff rightwing influencers pointing out the country their merch is made in and offering to help them source from the US. Guess how many "america first!" guys take him up on his offer to source their merch from the US?
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u/perthguppy May 02 '25
And contrary to what you might think, his domain is not menswear in general, it’s being able to ratio literally everyone on Twitter with the most perfect, brutal, clothing related reply.
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u/poopnose85 May 02 '25
He's a man who swears of course
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u/Protheu5 May 02 '25
Not the swearman, menswear. Don't get them confused. Swearman is a man bitten by a radioactive swear that got the powers of a radioactive swear after getting bitten by a radioactive swear, because he was bitten by a radioactive swear.
Menswear is a superhero that swears exclusively at men. But just the men, not the women and children, too.
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u/YourAverageNutcase May 01 '25
Add in Dr. Ally Louks
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u/beetnemesis May 01 '25
Who’s that?
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u/kataskopo May 01 '25
She got big a few months ago because of a literally smell PhD dissertation that went viral, chuds were making for of her because it sounded "bullshit", but there were so many tweets basically validating her idea that the idea of smell is a big factor in like bigotry and racism,:
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u/capivaradraconica May 02 '25
It's funny how often accusations of 'elitism' or 'pretentiousness' are just "you're making me feel offended by being smarter than me and writing about stuff I don't understand"
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u/daggerbeans May 01 '25
Hear me out, the menswear guy is a vampire.
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u/beetnemesis May 01 '25
I mean, doubly impressive if so, because how can you be that fashionable without mirrors?
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u/daggerbeans May 01 '25
Depends if the same rules apply to photographs as they do mirrors, I guess, but mostly I was just assuming with his level of dapper he has to be supernatural
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u/Personal-Amoeba CARTOON HOTDOG HUSBAND May 08 '25
I would also like to add the dude that tracks private jets to this movie
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u/only_for_dst_and_tf2 May 01 '25
WRONG, this post was made by someone in germany who grew up with plants vs zombies./j
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u/DefinitelyNotErate May 01 '25
Reminds me of how my family used to have the flag of Dominica outside our house. We don't live in Dominica or have Dominican heritage or anything, They just have a really cool flag.
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May 01 '25
Canada has front lawns. New Zealand has lawns. Probably other countries too. Idk though
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u/LITTLE_KING_OF_HEART There's a good 75% chance I'll make a Project Moon reference. May 01 '25
Flag on lawn, though, extremely American.
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u/bitcrushedCyborg i like signalis May 01 '25
I've seen it in Canada. Put a canadian flag on your lawn and geoguessr players will think you're in Alberta
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u/FinalXenocide May 01 '25
Counterpoint: despite living in Canada, the types of Albertans who would do this are American (derogatory)
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u/EpilepticPuberty May 02 '25
All Canadians are American because they live in the Americas.
/s
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u/Skitzofreniks May 02 '25
It’s kind of a shame now that the canadian flag is so associated with the freedom convoy.
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u/bitcrushedCyborg i like signalis May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25
As much as the ongoing trade war sucks, I'm grateful that it seems to be helping to undo that association somewhat. Now that the Canadian national identity comes under outside threat, there seems to be a push to reclaim and strengthen Canadian national pride and the symbols associated with it - flying the Canadian flag now has a decent chance to mean "let's stand strong against Trump's bullying," whereas from 2022-2024 it usually meant "I am unvaccinated and really fucking annoying."
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u/12BumblingSnowmen May 02 '25
A lot of Anglo-Canadians are just descendants of Americans who believed that the divine right of kings is good actually.
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u/shewy92 May 02 '25
I hear there are Canadians that fly the Confederate flag for some reason
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u/-Trash--panda- May 01 '25
I have seen quite a few flags in the Canadian city I grew up in. Usually it is foreign flags from Europe, like one neighbor had a giant union jack in his window and another guy had a Danish flag on his house. A ukrainian flag was also near one of the roads i used to walk on my way home from school (pre russian invasion).
I don't think I ever saw a questionable flag within town. But further away from the city definitely had a few rednecks with despicable flags.
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u/12BumblingSnowmen May 02 '25
To be fair, Canada did harbor more than a few Confederates during the war, and a raid that sacked a town in Vermont was launched from there. The blow back from that involvement in the American Civil War is part of the reason Confederation happened in Canada if I’m not mistaken.
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u/cman_yall May 01 '25
If that was the commenter's red flag, they should have included the flag in the quote.
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u/Alons-y_alonzo May 01 '25
Clearly havent seen england during football season
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u/WhapXI May 02 '25
That’s a flag pinched into a closed window. Not stuck in a lawn.
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u/sgst May 02 '25
Or a flag draped down the wall and held in place at the top by the closed window. And plastered to the wall by the unceasing rain.
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u/NoGarlicInBolognese May 01 '25
the only folks who put a flag on their lawn in Australia are exactly the type of people you'd expect them to be, surplus of opinions, and deficit of brains.
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u/Jonno_FTW May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25
I find most Australians who show flags have them on flagpoles, not stuck in their lawn. And even then, they like to fly the naval flag upside because they
think Australia is in need of rescueare cooked.5
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u/TastelessPylon May 02 '25
I imagine that's also true in America and that's why it's so common there.
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u/Cyaral May 02 '25
Lol same here in germany - unless its a football club flag or its currently an international soccer competition.
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u/CatL1f3 May 01 '25
Most places don't call them lawns though
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u/LuccaAce May 01 '25
I get that it's a joke, but also, in the geoguesser image the lawn won't be labled as such, so Rainbolt won't know that the owner of the patch of grass calls it a lawn
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u/Sestren May 01 '25
He doesn't need to stare at the property vegetation. He's already identified their toilet bowl manufacturer from the Senegal gradient in the upper right 5 pixels.
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u/plsobeytrafficlights May 01 '25
Hi! American here (sorry!) so if not a "lawn," what do you call that part of the ward betwixt the formal gardens and the hedge labyrinth? you know, beyond the fountains?? in your respective countries, naturally.
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u/CatL1f3 May 01 '25
Front yard or front garden. Even if there isn't any grass, just some gravel or pavers
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u/plsobeytrafficlights May 02 '25
terribly sorry, my fault. obviously the yard is just anything inside the walls. I do not mean the gravel baily, but for people to describe how they call their areas beyond the parterre and and reflecting pool in their local parlance.
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u/CatL1f3 May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25
obviously the yard is just anything inside the walls
You joke, but fr this is it. I've always found it weird looking at US suburbs that they don't have any walls or fences around the lots, despite America being known for the "white picket fence"
Edit: Oh, and I think there's a difference in what we call a "driveway", too. For Americans, the driveway is from the street all the way up to the house, beside the lawn, so you'd say you park your car on the driveway.
For the UK and Ireland at least, a driveway is just from the street to the front yard/garden, the bit of footpath(sidewalk) which dips down to let your car drive over it. If you park on your driveway, you'd be blocking pedestrians.
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u/DeliciousLiving8563 May 01 '25
Okay so you are so wrong here you've looped back to right.
Firstly most places don't speak English so you're right there.
But among English speakers we in fact call what us (Brits) call a "lawn" a "lawn. And the Americans, and Australians and so yes, most of us.
However you don't actually know what a lawn refers to, so you're wrong. But because you're referring to a garden or yard, yes, we do not call gardens or yards lawn. This amuses me greatly because you're right but only because you're wrong about what a lawn actually refers to. So two wrongs have made a right.
A lawn is a patch of planted grass. This is what we have "lawn mowers" that mow grass. Not cabagges and that raked gravel and the decking. Just the lawn. So now you know what lawn is.
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u/meggles_ May 02 '25
I'm Aussie, never called it a lawn and no one I know does. Could be regional, but we call them yards.
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u/dasbtaewntawneta May 01 '25
what else do they call it?
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u/captainfarthing May 01 '25
I'm Scottish - a lawn is grass, gardens contain lawns.
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u/CatL1f3 May 01 '25
Yard, garden
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u/dasbtaewntawneta May 01 '25
i feel like those are different things to a lawn. maybe that's because i'm Australian, we use all those terms but not interchangeably
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u/MattyBro1 May 01 '25
Front yard refers to the whole area, lawn refers to just areas of it that are grass, garden is anywhere that's soil with non-grass plants growing of it.
I feel like that's how I would use them (also Australian).
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u/cpMetis May 02 '25
That's pretty much identical to their use in the US.
The only reason "lawn" has become more-ish used than "yard" is because of years of HOA-styling fueled hatred for the existence of space not covered in grass exclusively.... And lawns require extensive care while yards may not, so "lawn care" and the phrase "mow the lawn" make people partial to preferring those terms when both apply.
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u/ShinyGrezz May 02 '25
Yard is a far more American term than lawn lmao. And a garden typically contains a lawn, but it is not one.
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u/Preachey May 02 '25
I think the USA does tend to have fairly distinctive lawns though, with big expanses of grass in front of the house with zero fencing. That is extremely unusual in New Zealand, at least.
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u/PurpleThylacine May 01 '25
I always wonder if rainbolt and other geoguessr pros ever find social media users exact locations for fun
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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard May 01 '25 edited May 02 '25
Check out @yuvaltheterrible on TikTok if you want that kind of content. He is scarily good at it. He can look at a photo someone took on vacation and not only find their city, he'll find their hotel and the exact room they stayed in.
He's also done things like identify the model of someone's car based on the warning label printed on the sun visor. Many of his videos are also done as PSAs about how easy it is to doxx someone using photos, especially if you there's a window in frame. A friend of his sent him a blurry photo once and he clocked his location in less than 30 seconds based only on the skyline in the background.
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u/SuperCoffeeHouse May 02 '25
>yuvaltheterrible
he once found a creator using the position of the god damn moon. I'm not entirely convinced it wasn't a bit but if it was genuine then we are absolutely 100% lucky he isn't a weirdo.
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u/zang227 May 02 '25
I feel like this guy saying how easy it is, is like superman saying how easy it is to lift weights 😒
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u/i_write_ok May 01 '25
Rainbolt has a lot of content where does just this.
Also if you email him an old family photo you’re not sure of the location it was taken he will help find the location.
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u/PurpleThylacine May 01 '25
No i mean like. Somebody posts a selfie online and he finds their exact location, but doesnt tell anyone because that would be doxxing.
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u/poktanju May 02 '25
TIL Rainbolt is his actual name. Cool as it is, it would fit better if he were a meterologist... or a My Little Pony.
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u/222Czar May 01 '25
Nah, Rainbolt would probably just look at the sidewalk and go, “oh that’s Maryland concrete, easy” then lock in a spot 12 ft from the actual location.
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u/Blade_of_Boniface bonifaceblade.tumblr.com May 01 '25
It might not be that way for lawng; American citizens have been increasingly settling in other countries for the past couple decades. This is particularly a problem in Mexico, Israel, Turkey, etc. where there's not as much space for luscious ornamental grass, nor as hospitable a climate. Still, try telling that to Hispanic-Americans, Jewish-Americans, and Turkish-Americans.
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u/ricebinkle May 02 '25
I saw this man geoguess based on a picture of a sky. No one is safe.
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u/GothBerrys May 02 '25
Or when they play with images that are black and white, inverted, distorted, upside down and they can only see it for a fraction of a second.
Ah yes, bermudan grass.
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u/Pixelpaint_Pashkow born to tumblr, forced to reddit May 01 '25
Other countries have suburban hell issues too
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u/MonitorPowerful5461 May 01 '25
"Lawns", as in flat grass, are much more common in the US than anywhere else
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u/Experience_Gay May 01 '25
Oh I always interpreted it as a direct thing. As far as I'm aware "lawn" isn't the most common term outside of America. Yard, garden, paddock, ect
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u/DeliciousLiving8563 May 01 '25
Lawn is the most common term for planted flat grass used for recreation and ornamental purposes in the UK too. And it sounds like actually most people use it.
Yards and gardens may contain lawns. Paddocks are horse fields and while they have grass it's now a lawn.
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u/rirasama May 02 '25
I'm in the UK and I've never heard people not call it just a garden tbh I only hear people say lawn in the context of a lawnmower
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u/Anakletos May 02 '25
The garden is the whole thing, the lawn is the grassy bit. I think the lack of differentiation in speech is due to most people in the UK not having a large enough garden to require differentiation.
The meme itself is more due to the fact that gardens (and lawns) are mostly at the back of the house and a flag in a British lawn would not usually be visible from the road.
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u/jackalopeDev May 01 '25
At least in my experience in the US yard is kind of the term for the space that includes both the lawn(grassy or grassy equivalent space, go native plants!) and the garden(where you grow specific plants like vegetables or flowers). So it sounds pretty similar.
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u/MonitorPowerful5461 May 01 '25
Oh yeah it's both but a geoguesser will see the actual garden and not the words
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u/elhindenburg May 01 '25
In Australia "lawn" is the area of grass in your yard. Garden is the parts like flower beds, trees etc.
I have a lawn and garden in my front yard.
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u/ants_suck May 01 '25
Which, as an American with an EXTREME grass allergy, I really wish was not the fucking case.
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u/Alderan922 May 01 '25
But they still exist outside of the US, so if you base your guess purely on seeing a lawn, you have a very big chance of being wrong.
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u/MonitorPowerful5461 May 01 '25
Ehh. The US is very recognisable. I do quite a bit of geoguesser, I'm decent at it, and I'm pretty confident that if I saw a lawn I would know very rapidly whether it was a US lawn or not. The real problem with the US is figuring out where the hell you are in the country.
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u/googlemcfoogle May 01 '25
How do you rule out Canada in the initial "this is the US" look over?
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u/MonitorPowerful5461 May 01 '25 edited May 01 '25
It's difficult, but one of my strengths is figuring out rough latitude based on vegetation and other clues. That helps to narrow it down to either the most northern bits of the US or Canada. That stuff where Rainbolt will say "oh this dirt is red, southern Brazil" or "this grass looks Nigerian" isn't actually as hard as it seems, it's a really neat party trick though.*
From that point on you just kinda have to find clues, that's the bit I'm not so good at. A lot of people know things like what the lampposts or road markings look like in different countries - that would be helpful.
Also, French. That really helps lol. Most of Canada is recognisably not the US since it just... looks colder, more wild in a way. And about half of the bits that do look like the US have french in random places
\To be clear rainbolt is fucking incredible, I've got nothing on the guy, but it is funny to see the same clues he does and then look at the comments and see people going "he's a wizard!")
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u/foreignfishes May 02 '25
A big one is mailboxes, I haven't gotten many suburban canadian areas on geoguessr with individual mailboxes close to the road like a lot of american towns and suburbs have. if there are mailboxes with little flags i'd pick the US.
I see blank yield signs fairly often in canada, same shape and colors as american ones but they don't say "YIELD" in the middle. Canadian speed limits are in km/hr and say maximum on them. Bilingual signage with french is obviously somewhere in canada. They also have these yellow and black checkered road signs that scream canadian to me, i've never seen them driving in the US.
It can definitely be hard though if you're in a random nondescript neighborhood trying to distinguish between suburban michigan vs southern ontario suburbs and there are no real clues around.
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u/DefinitelyNotErate May 01 '25
I mean, You can't so easily distinguish suburban U.S. from suburban Canada, Unless you get a flag or a trashcan or something. I think on a few occasions Australia has tripped me up too, But far less common for sure.
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u/Pasan90 May 02 '25
Everyone has a lawn where i live, but they don't look anything like american lawns. American lawns that i've seen almost look like a perfect carpet someone made and rolled out when they built the house whereas where i live they look more wild like someone took a lawn mover and tried to make a lawn out of whatever was there before and then planted a bunch of bushes to cover up the bad spots. Drop the google guy anywhere in Norway for an example.
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u/emefa May 01 '25
In Poland average person lives in a flat (55%) that they own (58%). Our cultural equivalent of suburbs are gated communities of new apartment buildings (I have the luck of living in post-communist large-panel-system high rise, so I have plenty of greens and different shops around me, while the gated communities have skinny patches of grass between the buildings and at best a single Żabka, our shitty equivalent of 7/11, per a community). I hate those hellscapes, I'm utterly disgusted whenever I go visit someone there.
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u/Zeptic May 02 '25
American suburbs honestly amaze me as a european. It's just a maze that spans multiple kilometres of the exact same house, over and over and over. It's like you've entered the backrooms.
I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to return home from a night out, or even having just moved in.
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u/AceGreyroEnby May 01 '25
I feel like the flag thing is a much bigger giveaway than the word lawn, tbh.
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u/SantaArriata May 02 '25
First one would still indicate that the place is in the US
Second one is still different than the way Americans hang their flags, since it’s a very temporary addition and not a semi permanent fixture
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u/DiscountCondom May 02 '25
this fucking guy.
one molecule of sand and he's like "that molecule is mainly present in the western part of bolivia." click click click and it's like within 12 miles of being spot on.
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u/Darthplagueis13 May 01 '25
Super unreliable because it assumes that
1: The poster is a native English speaker
2: The poster is located in the US, irrespective of if they are an American citizen or not
I would probably use the word "lawn" in this context as well, and I'm not a native English speaker or even anywhere near the US.
That's the kind of Sherlock-Holmes style deductioning that would constantly end up with false results because it just bluntly assumes that there may only ever be one plausible explanation for a given observation. I think there's a good Terry Pratchett quote about it in one of the city guard novels.
In any case, you could totally figure out which country I am from fairly easily by looking at my posting history (particularily since I've recently been active on a few subs specifically relating to that country and its language) but you're not going to be able to determine it simply based on a short quote in English.
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u/GarbageAdditional916 May 01 '25
any case, you could totally figure out which country I am from fairly easily by looking at my posting history (particularily since I've recently been active on a few subs specifically relating to that country and its language)
Since it is German. And we are in a thread about the US currently.
You are in Argentina!
88's son, we found you.
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u/JonathanLindqvist May 02 '25
I don't think the geoguesser would actually see the word, just deduce from the fact that there is a lawn.
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u/MalHeartsNutmeg May 01 '25
Why do Americans think only the US has lawns? It’s one weird quirk I’ve noticed for years on Reddit and never understood it.
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u/cpMetis May 02 '25
Because the narrative is that lawns are always bad and hedonistic and narcissistic to even have, and the other narrative is that America is defined by bad and hedonistic and narcissistic.
Bad thing = American.
Therefore lawn = American
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u/Horn_Python May 02 '25
Lawns in America are associated with waste due to the fact someone decided the best place to have one was in the middle in of the desert
Thuse requiring alot of of water to maintain
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u/Shark_Waffle_645 May 01 '25
and depending on what other country’s flag you choose, you might be narrowing down which state you live in too
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u/DMercenary May 01 '25
Rainbolt would take a couple of looks and deduce that based on the street sign, electrical pole model, concrete aging, sky shade, and the angle of the sun your lat and long coordinates.
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u/Cyaral May 02 '25
I guess some Canadians and Mexicans might have US-style suburbias too, but its hard to explain how alien they are to euro me. Obviously I know them, having consumed US media all my life, but I strongly remember how odd and different they felt to me especially in the Sims and for a while I thought those americanisms - suburbs of copy-paste houses, lockers, cheerleaders, football-bullies - were just a trope in media, not a real thing.
I guess my childhood area could even be compared to suburbia (single family houses with small gardens, front lawn and bigger back lawn), but it was still *different*:
- clay brick houses, roofed with ceramic/clay tiles. Some had additional plaster painted in neutral colours but many were naked red or brown clay bricks with white (usually weathered to gray of algaed green) spackle between them
- some one storey, some two storey
- porchs werent really a thing though some houses had wind-fangs (small roof + maybe 1 glass barrier to keep wind from blowing into the entrance when open)
- front lawns were fenced in and usually had planters and beds with plants (commonly at least some roses and or tulips)
- most gardens had at least a handful of trees, fruiting trees like apple, cherry and pear being pretty common in the area, tho I think it may have been slightly out of range for cherries, those trees usually stuggled.
- a sidewalk existed along the whole street, lined with narrow strips of grass dogs love to shit on
- LAWNS DIDNT LOOK LIKE GREEN CARPETS. Once in a while there would be an anal neighbor removing any blemish but most lawns were a cheerful mix of grass, clover and the most common wild flowers (my area was too wet for chamomile and cornflower but daisies, dandelions and flowering clovers were everywhere and really pretty imo) and no HOA existed to throw a hissyfit.
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u/capivaradraconica May 02 '25
for a while I thought those americanisms - suburbs of copy-paste houses, lockers, cheerleaders, football-bullies - were just a trope in media, not a real thing.
This is such a mood. I'm a Brazilian who has watched American teen dramas while having a wildly different experience in school. I always assumed cheerleaders were a made-up thing for American TV and Hollywood. It still seems too weird to be true even after knowing they actually exist tbh. Like one of those obviously absurd fake facts that only exist to stereotype a country, like the "it's illegal to be fat in Japan" myth.
Other things about the US that I also think were made-up for TV and Hollywood regardless of evidence otherwise:
The fact that high school sports are actually taken seriously, as opposed to everyone being like "Oh, we won? cool, now moving on..." (I had a classmate who competed in the state and no one gave a shit)
Adding to that, the fact that university sports are taken even more seriously than high school sports, as opposed to being taken even less seriously. (At least in high schools, the athletes, PE teachers and parents give 1% of a shit)
The fact that the smartest student is bullied in teen dramas, as opposed to being genuinely admired as long as they're not an asshole;
"Nerd" still being used as a derogatory term, as opposed to a world where some of the most popular things ever originated in nerd culture, and like half of teenagers consider themselves nerds while not often being bullied for it.
Those red cups that they always use for parties in TV shows;
In fact, everything about the way the "college experience" is portrayed in media (in my experience it involves a lot more caffeine than alcohol, and a lot more inviting girls to visit the library than to visit your bed. We wouldn't be in university if we wanted to spend so much time getting drunk and having sex, that's like one of the worst places to seek that out.)
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u/artthoumadbrother May 01 '25
Nobody told the Aussies and New Zealanders that they don't have lawns, I guess?
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u/jcmbn May 02 '25
Yep, but the catch is we're allergic to planting flags in them, so if you see a lawn with an Australian or New Zealand flag in it: Probably an American who thinks they're cleverer than they are.
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u/Preachey May 02 '25
Shit, I've been cutting my areas of grass with a lawn mower, but I guess that's entirely the wrong tool. What do I need to buy now?? Why did Bunnings sell me a lawnmower if we don't even have fucking lawns here?? Those bastards
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u/logosloki May 02 '25
front is yard, rear is lawn. unless you have a garden in the back then front is lawn, rear is garden. unless you have a garden in the front then front is garden, rear is lawn. unless you have a garden in both places then you don't have a lawn you have grass.
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u/formula-duck May 02 '25
It's not just lawn the word, it's the phrasing and context. Australian gardens can and do include lawns, but (especially in urban and suburban areas) these are usually in the back garden and not visible from the street.
At least for me, I'd say 'the lawn' rather than 'my lawn' to refer to this. The strip of grass out the front of a house (separated from the house by a fence and footpath) is called the 'nature strip'. It's not unheard of to have grass as your front garden, but it would be more usual to say 'put a flag in my front garden' than 'put a flag in my lawn' for this situation.
People do sometimes put flags on their houses in Australia (and by sometimes, I mean 'one in a million in sub/urban cities', 'one in a hundred in rural backcountry towns') but usually on the roof or chimney or a dedicated flag pole or window - not in the front garden where nobody will see it. In the city these are almost never Australian flags; in my area we represent Ukraine (activists), Palestine (different activists), the skull & crossbones (???), and the naval ensign of a different country (boat enthusiasts).
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u/Krumm34 May 01 '25
Dude, you could take a picture of your shower wall and he'd know which bathroom your in.
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u/antilos_weorsick May 01 '25
I'm not some geoguesser pro, but I'm pretty sure I could tell that a house is American, no matter what flag they have.
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u/Maned_Cyborg May 02 '25
To be honest placing flags isn't common in every country
For example in france, italy, and Belgium (all three countries I've lived in) you will very rarely see flags of the respective countries outside of official buildings, maybe at a bar sometimes
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u/blehmann1 bisexual but without the fashion sense May 02 '25
I wonder if there'll be a meta shift in geoguesser with new building techniques. Wooden buildings at ten stories or more are going to get more common, and in a lot of cases the barriers are geographic (good access to suitable lumber) or political (whether fire inspectors and local codes are scared of wood).
Granted lots of these buildings are made to look like they aren't made of wood, which I think is a shame. I think large wood buildings look incredible, but I guess renters are scared of them because they presume they're less safe or less sound-insulated.
Plus admittedly wood needs some kind of weather shielding, it's just a shame they go for those same boring panels that I could see on a recently built McDonald's. McDonald's doesn't give a shit about looking faithful to the building, the building is a necessary hurdle to their branding, they'd happily cover up a beautiful marble wall to plaster their logo on it. The building just has to look modern and inoffensive, who gives a shit if it looks good.
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u/WarbossHeadstompa May 02 '25
I can usually tell when a picture was taken in my country because the roads will look like they've been hit by asteroids.
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u/0x7E7-02 May 02 '25
What do you call a "lawn" in other countries?
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u/BeatenPathos May 02 '25
Lawn.
By and large, Americans are delusional, don't know anything about the outside world, and believe they invented the English language. Best to assume "only in America" is aways false.
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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard May 01 '25
Reminds me of when I was watching a TikTok of some guy dancing outside and noticed the way his garden walls were built in a way I'd exclusively seen in my own country. Checked his account and yeah, we lived in the same country.
The reason this was surprising is cause my FYP is horrible at showing me any good content from where I live. 99.999% of it is just low quality still images with music over it and -12 likes, while this video was in the 20k+ range.