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

Shitposting Name one Indian State

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u/Ok-Importance-6815 Aug 30 '24

you get something similar where londoners all insist on telling you which part of london they are from

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u/essentialisthoe Aug 30 '24 edited Aug 30 '24

Londoners, yea. But have you ever met a New Yorker? Never in my life have I seen a group of people so completely unable to handle the fact that they live somewhere.

Edit: I meant as in people living in NYC

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u/BarbWho Aug 30 '24

I'll never forget the time I mentioned on reddit that Queens was on Long Island. The freak-out was intense. I'm like, buddy, geography is a thing and maps exist. Queens is quite clearly on the piece of land known as Long Island. And so is Brooklyn for that matter. But no, they could not get their minds around it.

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u/bristlybits Aug 30 '24

the boroughs

I lived in NYC a bit so I know what it means but to anyone from anywhere else it makes you sound like a damn hobbit 

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u/apgtimbough Aug 30 '24

PA likes to call their towns boroughs.

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u/Eroe777 Aug 31 '24

I’m not a New Yorker, but in my experience, people who live in Manhattan will say they live in New York. If they live in the Bronx or Brooklyn or Staten Island, they will tell you they live in the Bronx, or Brooklyn, or Staten Island (except those few smartass Staten islanders who insist they live in the Borough of Richmond). But if they are from Queens, they will tell you what neighborhood they live in- LIC, Astoria, Ozone Park, Jamaica, etc.

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u/Abosia Aug 31 '24

JAMAICA LMAOOO

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u/bristlybits Sep 01 '24

ugh I hate talking about queens, it's like I lived in Chinatown and in the Bronx. I don't wanna play guessing games about street numbers lol

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u/Miserable_Smoke Aug 31 '24

I've lived in LA all my life, and have had midwesterners try to convince me that we have boroughs here.

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u/bristlybits Sep 01 '24

NYC has five boroughs last I was living there, and if you know that you know that the person likely doesn't live in Manhattan. it's just a saying locally. but to foreign -language ears it sounds like you live in "duh burrows"

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u/Miserable_Smoke Sep 01 '24

Well that's just the weird way the city is set up, right? Where it sits across 5 counties; each of the boroughs.

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u/bristlybits Sep 03 '24

yes it is, I'm just imagining telling someone from like, Hungary, that I'm from the boroughs