Annoying Landlord

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

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...

@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

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...

All the Faroe islands have to do is forge some signatures and boom. Greenland is America's 51st state. (The U.S. has been trying to buy Greenland since 1867. The US claimed a large section of northern greenland when it was uninhabited and has never fully let go of its claim. Legally it recognized Denmark's claim but policy is still to try and claim greenland if ever possible. The US is legally obligated because of the Munroe Doctrine. )

Then it wont be forgotten.

@Humility if we make Greenland the 51st state before Puerto Rico or D.C or all the other territories they would be so pisssed

It most likly Greenland would be incorporated territory and be same category as American Samoa, Gaum, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and U.S Virgin Islands

@Humility

Not actually on that last bit. The Monroe doctrine is simply a unilateral statement by a US President. It has no legal binding on either the US or anyone else and only gained any influence as US power grew enough to be able to enforce it.

Steve

Fun fact: It says "no porn" on Denmark's phone.

Well as someone who has been to both places many times, I think of both often. The Faroe Isles are perhaps not as significantly different to the southern part of the Kingdom as Greenland. Or perhaps it is the grudge of the indigenous Scandinavian settlers being driven to extinction by the inuits invading from Canada....

the look on faroe islands face
he looks like he saw Denmark dancing in his underwear and drinking beer while eating pizza
thats just my opinion

@Norte_boi

*dancing in his underwear and drinking beer while eating pizza*

That's my Tuesday afternoon sorted, then.

It wouldn't be a problem if only Danes would sell Greenland to US.

@comrade_Comrade I'm confused, do you mean us or U.S. (as in United States of America) ? :o

@Isdaril yes. Senator Tom Cotton proposed that at one point.

@comrade_Comrade Geography being what it is, it would make better sense to transfer Greenland to Canada. It's not widely known that Canada and Denmark share a land border on Hans Island, an uninhabited lump of rock about halfway between Greenland and Canada. Both countries claimed Hans Island but neither wanted to fight over it, so they sawed the baby in half.

BTW Humon, if you want to add Hans Island to your file of odd facts, feel free.

@westofEden ... Saw the baby in half.. please, Hans Island belongs to the kingdom of Denmark, and Canada knows this.
They are just too invested in the war we had over it to back down.

@xPraetorianx Indeed. It was a terrible war. There must have been at least four or five slightly testy diplomatic notes fired by each side.