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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Well this is just inaccurate.

North North North North Virginia should be North North North East North North Virginia, and that propagates through The State Formerly Known As New Hampshire and The State Formerly Known As Maine, too.

North North North North Virginia would be Old Canada.

Edit: I guess technically it would be North North East North North North Virginia; the labeling would track backwards from the current state to Virginia. East North Virginia would be 1 state east of "North Virginia", for example, which would be The State Formerly Known As Delaware.

I've spent way too much time thinking about this already.

[–] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

California should be westest Virginia

[–] dill@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a dad joke so powerful you need a license to carry it.

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[–] Piogre314@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

It's appropriate that they all be slightly wrong, though. Virginia extends slightly west of West Virginia, so West Virginia should really be North Virginia. To use the same naming convention means to carry similar errors.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 7 points 1 year ago

Agreed.

They list Ohio as "West North Virginia" when it should either be "North West Virginia" (North of [West Virginia]) or "West North North Virginia" (West of [North North Virginia, AKA, Pennsylvania])

[–] Saganastic@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The word west no longer has any meaning to me.

[–] Gerblat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Semantic satiation

[–] Zeko9381@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's called Jamais vu, the opposite of Deja vu ;)

[–] FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Me when I’m coding:

Bro, is that a word?

[–] amansman@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Virginia became "vergina" for me.

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[–] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Country ROOOOOAAAAADDDDDDD

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[–] Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

United Virginias of America

[–] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You got Virginia wrong. It should be East West Virginia.

[–] Trekman10@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Came here to say this

[–] prumbles@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Big Virginia” is what they called me in high school

[–] MrJukes@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Virginian resident here, WE OWN YA'LL!

/s

[–] MrJukes@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They should have called your state East Virgina

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No

"OD Virginia"

Recognize!

/we are the "Old Dominion"

https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/old-dominion/

/s just having fun!

[–] MrJukes@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would have thought West Virginia was more appropriate for OD'ing :)

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dark I Like it!

Also WV illegally secede from VA during the Civil War.

https://i.imgur.com/XkB9e3N.jpg

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, Virginia illegally seceded from the Union. Illegally seceding from an illegal secession makes you a patriot I think.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Regardless we want them back. My argument is thin I agree.

But I live 1 town out of WV so I can jump ship if I have too. VA is becoming a silly place.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We are all Virginia on this glorious day

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[–] MrTulip@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm still trying to bring back Mega Virginia.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh my god, it's so... aggressive

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You know what, I'm down. I think life in Mega Virginia will probably be better than life in Indiana now. Can we also do Long Massachusetts?

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Not calling Hawaii "Wet Virginia" is a tiny blemish that is only visible because it's the only one

[–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Alaska should be northest westest Virginia.

[–] naticus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Unless you're considering the farthest point of the archipelago, and then it's northest eastest Virginia.

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BIG VIRGINIA 🤣🤣

West West West West West West West West Egypt needs to work on their energy grid

[–] iviattendurefort@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I really like how North Carolina is now South Virginia

[–] mudmaniac@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Country Road..... Take me home....

To the place.... I belong.....

..........

Fuck it I'm moving to Canada.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

If Virginia ever splits again we're gonna be in for some pain

[–] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

🎶 mountain mountain mountain mountain mama 🎶

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Can we go to squared, cubed, etc notation?

Eg South^2 Virgina.

South^3 Virginia.

[–] FellowHuman@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I think the progression should be in folowing order: Virginia - West Virginia - North West Virginia - West North West Virginia. And so on

So just prefixing the one closer. It looks way better(silier) and actualy explains what state is this one next to.

[–] ByeByeBoopsie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I literally have been laughing at this and the comments for 20 minutes I can't stop I'm crying real tears. The mountain mountain mountain mountain mama comment took me out. 🤣

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

We now need a Virginia-based coordinate system. Lats and longs centered on Virginia.

[–] figaro@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago

Lol I love Hawaii and alaska

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Well, Virginia should be renamed “East Virginia” based on this logic.

[–] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The future Virgins want smh my head

[–] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

This is so stupid 🤣 now do country's

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The United States according to Tars Tarkas, Jeddack of Mars.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago

...my sister-cousins'll vouch for west west virginia...

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

This post did make me wonder about something related to American history. Maybe someone can she some light on this.

In my understanding the colonization of the Americas was a bit of a blank slate, I can understand some areas being name after Indian names (Delaware) and some from their former colonial history (Louisiana).

Buy why have several terrorists (Virginia, Carolina, Dakota) ben divided north/south? Was there some kind of internal political struggle that caused a divide? Why did they stick to the name?

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