Annoying Landlord

Fun Fact: we now know who is the actual Dancing Queen that Sweden sings about.

We gotta give the faroes to child protective services

I need more underwear-Denmark, for eh... research

@MrEvers sussy

@MrEvers We all know why.... if you know what I mean.

Where is that patch of dirt located again?

@Joggar it dosen’t exist

Too be fair America is that way too with our "incorpuated territories" which honestly we mostly forget even exists... Because we focus mostly on Puerto Rico

Edit because I don't wanna reply to everyone when I say "focus mostly on Puerto Rico" I mean it the one that talked about the most (mostly about statehood and stuff) yes I know our focous on Puerto Rico is sporadic and that many Americans in the US don't realize Puerto Rico is also part of the US I guess they think if they aren't a state it doesn't count

@AmericanButterfly
And even then, the number of Americans that don't realize Puerto Rico is a US territory is disturbing...

@omega13a true

@omega13a Hell, a lot of time in America, we forget Alaska and Hawaii are states.

@dtilque And New Mexico.

@uktana I'm reminded there's a website out there that has world maps that New Zealand has been left off of.

@dtilque and maps of Australia that fail to include Tasmania...

@dtilque In Star Trek: First Contact, despite New Zealand being mentioned in a few episodes of Star Trek, it was strangely absent when looking out a portal on the ship. You can see Australia, Tasmania, and all the other islands in that part of the world but no New Zealand...

@uktana Well to be fair it has Mexico in the name... Why the hell would it be part of the US ?

@Isdaril Well... most people realize New England is part of the US... and New York, and New Jersey. Those all have foreign places in the name, and yet are part of the US.

@merpius I live in New England myself, and it's not unusual that, when I'm when chatting with someone in other parts of the country and I tell them that, they'll ask me how things are on my side of the pond and what do I think about the Queen and all that? New York and New Jersey never seem to get that, I guess because everyone sees so much of those on TV.

@uktana I wonder how many think New England is one of the states? lol

The distances don't help. New York is closer to Denmark than to Hawaii.

@merpius Fair point. Though England is on the other side of the atlantic while mexico is just accross the border so it may be easier to remember that new England/York/Jersey are not part of england.

@Isdaril Well, it was part of Mexico, along with the rest of the Southwest, up until 1848. Originally "Mexico" meant the area around what is now Mexico City, and when explorers went to see what lay further north, they called the area "Nuevo Mexico", in much the same way that English explorers called the area of the new world that they landed in "New England". Once we got the land, we just didn't bother to change the name, though we did whittle it down quite a lot.

@AmericanButterfly
> Because we focus mostly on Puerto Rico

For a very limited amount of "focus", though =)

@AmericanButterfly Americans pay almost not one single whit of attention to PR. Continental americans forget about their conquered territories because they're myopic and like to forget about their conquest when it's not directly making them look cool in their minds.

@Lailah During the 2020 Democratic primary races, Michael Bloomberg bet the farm on Super Tuesday, when a large number of states hold their primaries, and ended up with only four delegates from American Samoa. We're all saying, "Why is Samoa voting in our elections?"

@AmericanButterfly I suspect that if asked, an embarrassingly large number of us Americans would say that Puerto Ricans are immigrants.

They are U.S. citizens.

@Gnomon That's true, even here in the Northeast which has had a large PR population for decades.

@AmericanButterfly
You are welcomed to send Danish West Indies (US Virgin Islands) back to Denmark, I am sure the danes wouldn't mind.

@TheFlyingMilkBottle I'm not sure how people who live on USVI would feel about that they have a holiday called "Transfer Day" to celebrate when Denmark sold the Danish West Indies to the U.S.A

plus Danes enslaved the DWI so it wasn't exactly a good deal for them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_West_Indies

I mean Danes did free their slaves before America freed its slaves

@AmericanButterfly But if we got them back, at least they would have national representation and be able to vote in Danish elections, besides having their own government; but their taxes would skyrocket... Swings and roundabouts I guess.

@fhp007 maybe the Virgin Islanders should vote on it

Though I doubt "higher taxes" would make them wanna be the Danish West Indies again

Ok the American Territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The only one I ever hear about is Puerto Rico who really wants to be a state. I have never really heard anything about the Northern Mariana Islands or American Samoa in the news or Guam for that matter. So I guess there is a point to that territories are somewhat overlooked

@boundgirlie fun fact :-) The U.S. Virgin Islands used to be Danish, but was sold to the US in 1916 for 25 million US dollars in gold and was handed over 31. of March 1917

@Zento NICE i didn't know that thank you for the info

Wouldn't Denmark do that anyway?

Well at least it means you do think of them sometimes... I mean France's offshore territories just seem to always get forgotten about. For example at the start of the COVID pandemic, the Reunion had to go full isolation mode even though they didn't have a single case on the island. I guess we just edicted a rule for everybody and forgot they even existed...

Each time Faroe Islands are mentioned, I have to check Google maps where the frell it is located.

I love how it says "no porn" on the phone screen