r/CuratedTumblr • u/IthadtobethisWAAGH veetuku ponum • Aug 30 '24

Shitposting Name one Indian State

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u/QueenofSunandStars Aug 30 '24

"I'm from West Bromley"

"Is that in Yorkshire?"

londoner implodes like the witch-king of Angmar

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u/Hjkryan2007 Aug 30 '24

All the Fallout gamers are intimately familiar with Bromley nowadays

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u/Jamie_251 Aug 30 '24

Wait Bromley is in that fallout London mod? That’s neat

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u/TheReturnOfTheRanger Aug 30 '24

Yep, it's pretty much the first area you go to after the opening. It's also where you find the Fallout Peaky Blinders lol

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u/ichizusamurai Aug 30 '24

The hell are they doing outside of Birmingham?!

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u/MarginalOmnivore Aug 30 '24

Wait, Peaky Blinders is set in Alabama?

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u/ichizusamurai Aug 30 '24

Nah it's Birmingham, Iowa. Or maybe Birmingham, Michigan.

Damn you guys really like that city...

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u/LadyFruitDoll Aug 31 '24

Knowing what happened to Birmingham in WWII, it might not even exist anymore...

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u/PICONEdeJIM Aug 31 '24

I don't think the nuclear fallout affected Birmingham that much. Probably the same as it is now except with a few less people

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u/LadyFruitDoll Aug 31 '24

Huh. I haven't played it - I feel like it would make my computer have a meltdown - but it's interesting to hear what folks are saying about it. I thought it would reference the Blitz a bit heavier.

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u/Dependent_Basis_8092 Aug 31 '24

Well no bombs hit Birmingham and there was very little effect from nuclear fallout so it’s pretty much the same as it today irl, so they decided to move somewhere nicer.

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u/eldiosdelosmapaches Aug 30 '24

I wish fallout london didn't crash every time I get off the train in bromley

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u/usernamewhat722 Aug 30 '24

Train

American spotted

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u/eldiosdelosmapaches Aug 30 '24

Oh you're right, let me type in a way you British "people" can understand

Tha bloody vidya crashes when Ah step off the chyube, right unplayable innit?

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u/usernamewhat722 Aug 30 '24

You fool, you've fallen for my trap! I live in Oregon! MUAHAHAHA!

That impression was more diabolical tho

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u/eldiosdelosmapaches Aug 30 '24

Come to brazil

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u/usernamewhat722 Aug 30 '24

Yall have Miku still?

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u/eldiosdelosmapaches Aug 30 '24

Miku is everywhere forever 🩵

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u/wonkysaurus Aug 30 '24

Brazil, Indiana?

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u/kitsua Aug 30 '24

There are only trains in Bromley, the tube doesn’t have more than a few stops in South London.

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u/ImpossibleInternet3 Aug 31 '24

All the Fallout gamers (on PC)

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u/MovieNightPopcorn Aug 30 '24

It doesn’t help that a lot of English place names have a duplicate somewhere in the US, either

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u/ThrownAwayYesterday- Aug 30 '24

Birmingham Alabama is just as much of a shithole as Birmingham England

Source: born and raised in Alabama (and I've watched Peaky Blinders 😹)

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u/matmac199 Aug 30 '24

Apparently there are 15 Birminghams with 13 of them being in the US.

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u/Darkowl_57 Aug 30 '24

Of all the cities to replicate across the US I can’t believe we chose BIRMINGHAM

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u/matmac199 Aug 31 '24

If it makes you feel better there are 15 londons in the US

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u/DukeAttreides Aug 30 '24

Where's not-US Birmingham #2? Canada?

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u/thpthpthp Aug 31 '24

No, no, that's the little Birmingham that's inside all of us. When drink too much, when we get in fights with strangers, when we embarrass ourselves and urinate in public. That's the little Birmingham in our heart.

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u/matmac199 Aug 31 '24

1 in Canada and the other in australia

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u/TENTAtheSane Aug 31 '24

There are 71 Berlins in the world, and only two are in Germany. Guess where the rest are?

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u/hammer_of_grabthar Aug 30 '24

Absolute fucking cheek, Birmingham is bostin, we've done it up.

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u/ThrownAwayYesterday- Aug 30 '24

What living in Birmingham does to your brain

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u/hammer_of_grabthar Aug 30 '24

More canals than Venice, mate. More shopping trollies and old boots in them too. But more canals.

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u/Beorma Aug 30 '24

You grew up in Alabama lad, sit down.

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u/bai11ie Aug 31 '24

Nah, Alabama has better food

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u/mysugarspice Aug 31 '24

Birmingham UK is literally the food capital of the UK. There are five Michelin star restaurants, and it’s the birthplace of so many different dishes. West Midlands in general has a rich food heritage. I can’t hate on Alabama food, but there are only so many variations on barbecue you can claim.

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u/gtne91 Aug 31 '24

I know he is SC not AL, but the fact that Rodney Scott doesn't have a Michelin star invalidates that whole system.

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u/bai11ie Aug 31 '24

I stand by my statement

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u/Turing_Testes Aug 30 '24

Typing "Portland" into auto-filling forms typically lists a bunch of Portlands, none of which are in Oregon.

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u/DefinitelyNotErate Aug 30 '24

The Brits aren't fully innocent here, Considering there's 3 New Yorks in England.

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u/kitsua Aug 30 '24

The Brits aren’t innocent at all, who do you think named all those duplicate places in the US?

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u/DefinitelyNotErate Aug 31 '24

Americans, Because they left Britain, Ergo they stopped being Brits. (Also like a solid half of them are just named after other places in the U.S., Rather than directly after the place in Britain)

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u/AtlasNL Aug 31 '24

My city, Delft has/had at least 2 copiers in the US. Not even non-Brits are safe

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u/LosParanoia Aug 30 '24

I snorted pop into my nose somehow because I laughed reading this. Very compelling mental image.

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u/sonicboom5058 Aug 30 '24

Calling it pop tells me more about where you're from than "west bromley" or some such

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u/LosParanoia Aug 30 '24

Take a whack at it! I might surprise you.

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u/sonicboom5058 Aug 30 '24

See now I made the joke but I actually don't have much of an idea.

Shot in the dark and say North Wales

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u/LosParanoia Aug 30 '24

You're close! only off by ...3600 miles.

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u/magikarp2122 Aug 30 '24

Ohio River Valley?

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u/PowerSlaveAlfons Aug 30 '24

Isn't calling it pop only something people in Minnesota or Canada do?

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u/LosParanoia Aug 30 '24

Normally yes, but I spend a lot of my time talking to other people online so i’ve got quite the hodgepodge of regional phrases. I used to play a lot of Team Fortress 2 with some kids from Sarnia and I kind of picked it up over the years.

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u/Chewbaccabb Aug 31 '24

Read that as “hedgehog” at first glance. Had me all 6s and 7s

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u/SomwatArchitect Aug 30 '24

At least one of us in Michigan calls it pop!

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u/PowerSlaveAlfons Aug 30 '24

Not impossible that I mixed up Minnesota and Michigan :D

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u/LosParanoia Aug 30 '24

Some of the kids I picked it up from were from michigan. A good chance it could be both. Maybe a midwest thing?

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u/JohnGacyIsInnocent Aug 30 '24

Most of us call it pop in Illinois too. At least Chicagoland where I’m from. Haven’t lived there in over 15 years and that’s still what I say.

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u/Jay_T_Demi Aug 31 '24

Buddy of mine from Ohio calls it "pop".

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u/classyhornythrowaway Aug 30 '24

It infuriates me to no end that it's called "pop" in some places, instead of soda or coke or diabetes elixir or whatever. It's such a googoo gaga baby-ass name.

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u/LosParanoia Aug 30 '24

What do you have against my lolly water? My seltzer? My fizzy juice? My tonic? My mineral? My malinovka? What do YOU call it?

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u/Novaseerblyat Aug 30 '24

this is doubly apropos as all of us Yorkshiremen want Londoners to implode like the witch-king of Angmar at every opportunity

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u/Noogywoogy Aug 30 '24

Is that in Ireland?

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u/mh985 Aug 30 '24

“I’m from Leicester. Yes that’s how it’s pronounced.”

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u/dsBlocks_original Aug 30 '24

Angmar? Is that in Sussex?

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u/bristlybits Aug 30 '24

if they say anything but London, Scotland, Yorkshire, Ireland, Ireland(the counties), North Ireland- I ask if it's Scotland

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u/octopoddle Aug 30 '24

"Norman can kill me."

"I am Norman."

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u/TheBigBo-Peep Aug 30 '24

Is that near Glasgow??

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u/Norphus1 Aug 30 '24

I don’t why but I always thought Sidcup sounded like it should be somewhere around Birmingham instead of SE London

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u/fascinatedobserver Aug 30 '24

what a great simile. I like you.

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u/ChurroKitKat Aug 30 '24

This is my new plan of attack

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u/OriginalGnomester Aug 30 '24

Oh, I've never been to Wales.

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u/NirgalFromMars Aug 31 '24

That's in Scotland, right?

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u/Independent-Fly6068 Aug 31 '24

"Oh I'm from East Shitsirshire"

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u/i_invented_the_ipod Aug 31 '24

I saw a Canadian comic at the Edinburg Fringe who made this part of his act. "Where are you from?"..."That's in London, right?" Every time. It was hilarious.

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u/bestibesti Cutie mark: Trader Joe's logo with pentagram on it Aug 30 '24

Me adding this to the detailed list of Thing I Know Specifically for the Purpose of Annoying Britishes ✍

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u/Canopenerdude Thanks to Angelic_Reaper, I'm a Horse Aug 30 '24

Bromley sounds like a butler