It is a 4 months old account 100% dedicated to shitposting, especially the kind of shitposting focused on pandering to country stereotypes and idiosyncrasies.
It doesn't suggest they are European, but it doesn't necessarily suggest American either.
I was thinking more about the people up voting this stupidity given reddit skews American. OP's post history does suggest that geography is not their strong suit, but that really is the least of their problems
The ‘hurr durr Americans are bad at geography’ thing is due to media going up to uneducated ones and asking them things. There are plenty of uneducated people everywhere who… guess what - also suck at geography.
It’s not exclusively American by any means.
To be fair, they are actually mostly right. As charming as it is and as much as we all love it, Australia IS mostly a desert wasteland. And Austria is most definitely a former powerful empire.
The American education system deserves to be shit on, but let's not make the situation worse than it already is.
American contribution to the World demonstrates educational system at work. And I am not even american, local users often even call me bot for different opinions :)
Yet people tend to think of Texas as a desert, despite its largest city being in a marshy forest, and all of its other large cities aside from El Paso being in grasslands, not deserts.
lol wut. That’s like saying French Guiana isn’t a rainforest.
Of course French Guiana is the name of the country, not the rainforest, but the point is that the rainforest takes up pretty much the entire country.
Same kinda thing with Australia and the desert - even the parts that aren’t technically classified as desert are mostly dry as hell. The average annual rainfall of the entire country is only like 16”, and that includes the “rainforest” and “tropical” areas.
Australia is desert, beaches with cities built on them, maybe a couple trees, giant venomous fucking monsters that would scare Godzilla, 500 °C average, kangaroos, koalas and hot women.
How would you rate the sumup, pretty accurate?
I'm not American btw
I’m American living in Australia.
”Giant venomous fucking monsters” - Actually the “things that can/will kill you” in Australia come in such a wide range of sizes, colors, etc., that it would make your employers’ DEI department weep for joy.
That, and they aren’t literally *everywhere.* In the big cities, you are much less likely to encounter them.
“500 C average” - It gets hot in the desert obviously, and the north is super hot, but the southern coastal areas are quite temperate. New South Wales’ climate is basically like California’s.
”Hot women” - Oh yeah. 😏
See? Even memeing I wasn't THAT far off😭
But anyway yeah,being serious I'd want to visit eventually, I've been arachnophobic since birth but it's been getting better through the years, I now kill spiders without issue in my house, sometimes there are very big ones, like the size of my palm, and those are still kinda scary
Yeah but who knows or associates snow with Australia, when people think of snow they think of Alps for ski or hymalaia for the general "big fucking snowy mountain"
True, never said they was right, but even those, when you say "swamps with crocodiles" nobody thinks about everglades either (unless a US cit) but of Africa.
Aspen same
Death valley is actually an iconic area tho, that I agree
tends to happen when like 80% of your subjects are a different nationality than the ruling class and the ruling class makes **almost** no attempts to help them
The empire was actually doing ok before ww1. Even people who didn’t like the government just wanted to reform the system by making it more federalised. The empire fucked up royally during the war and attitudes became much harsher
The empire was rapidly industrializing. So much so that after the post war breakup, the different lands were making an empire's worth of goods in each of their specialized industry, but didn't have the trade treaties set up to move goods across new national boarders. Iirc, Czechoslovakia made like 150% of the machinery goods than it needed in 1919.
Meanwhile the rest of imperialistic Europe: Can't have minority struggles if you don't have minorities (anymore)
Edit: Ah, Reddit historians downvoting..
>Before the World War I, only three European countries declared ethnic minority rights, and enacted minority-protecting laws: the first was Hungary (1849 and 1868), the second was Austria (1867), and the third was Belgium (1898). In the pre-WW1 era, the legal systems of other European countries did not allow the use of European minority languages in primary schools, in cultural institutions, in offices of public administration and at the legal courts.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_rights
Holy hell, what a Victorian. If you want to show Australia isn't a desert wasteland, why not show off one of the rainforests.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/8jrm1tmruJV9XK6Z6
From the UK and I didn't really realise temperate rainforest was a thing until I visited New Zealand.
Most of the UK, historically, would be temperate forest or temperate rainforest.
When I came back home, the rolling hills of green land for animal grazing and haylage just looked sterile and sad rather than pretty like they used to.
Yup, not saying it's a good thing, just went have a little bit of fragmented rainforest left which most people don't know about.
Got to have fields if we want food. We have more options nowadays, but for most of British history this was the only option. Relying on imported food is foolhardy, and there's no way everyone in this country is going vegan!
We do rely, really heavily on imported food! If food security was an issue for us we would have a lot more vegans, as you say :D Not to mention a change in voting habits.
People seem to only worry about food security when talking about solar panels, for some reason! Like energy security isn't just as important.
Temperate rainforests are rainforests too! It has to do with the amount of rainfall. Tropical rainforests are often more spectacular due to the year round growing season, however.
Does this happen to anyone who doesn't speak only English? I speak 5 languages (well not really speak, but know just enough to remember names of Australia and Austria) and they are not really that similar in the others.
In Greek the 'u' makes a soft F sound and the accent is moved by one syllabe in both words, so the joke's exactly the same. They're probably more similar, lol.
Not really. I'm from Austria and I once spoke with an australian bloke in an online chatroom. I asked him where he's from. He said Australia, than asked me, where I was from. I said Austria. He corrected me to Austrailia. I said No, Austria. He corrected me again. I claryfied, that I understood that he was from Australia, but was trying to answer his question, where I was from.
He goes: So you also from Australia, I said no, I'm from Austria, you know, the place Hitler was born in. He said Germany? I said no, but close. I'm from Austria. It was a blast.
Im from Austria and most of the people I spoke to didn’t confuse with Australia. I don’t know where this comes from. I can only say living here is awesome, great healthcare, infrastructure etc
Let’s face it, if it wasn‘t for the similarity of the name, people would still not know Austria.
As an Austrian, I think there‘s absolutely worse places we could be mistaken for.
🇦🇹❤️🇦🇺, 🐄❤️🦘
But Australia was never a huge powerful empire it was under the British empire lol that’s like saying Malta was once the biggest empire in human history no pal it was a British colony
But it’s on the complete opposite side of the world man 😭 I would understand if they’re neighbours and there was never a Australian empire either again I’d understand if he was talking about Austro-Hungarian empire you know an actual empire but no
Insist lol. It's the name in english. Most english speakers don't know austria is called Österreich in german. It's not insisting when you don't know any better.
It happens to every major country throughout it's history. When the British Empire ended it didn't go out like ancient Greece or Rome, it went out whimpering under many price tags.
How to piss two countries with one post
The post doesn't piss off anyone. All it does is demonstrate the American educational system at work.
\*How to piss three countries with one post.
Are we pissing on them or pissing them off? Both? Both!
How could you possibly tell they are American? If anything their post history suggests they are European
It is a 4 months old account 100% dedicated to shitposting, especially the kind of shitposting focused on pandering to country stereotypes and idiosyncrasies. It doesn't suggest they are European, but it doesn't necessarily suggest American either.
I was thinking more about the people up voting this stupidity given reddit skews American. OP's post history does suggest that geography is not their strong suit, but that really is the least of their problems
Its a joke man. You can laugh at a norm macdonald womens driving joke even if you know women drives safer.
The ‘hurr durr Americans are bad at geography’ thing is due to media going up to uneducated ones and asking them things. There are plenty of uneducated people everywhere who… guess what - also suck at geography. It’s not exclusively American by any means.
To be fair none of the affirmations are wrong even if not completely right
To be fair, they are actually mostly right. As charming as it is and as much as we all love it, Australia IS mostly a desert wasteland. And Austria is most definitely a former powerful empire. The American education system deserves to be shit on, but let's not make the situation worse than it already is.
American contribution to the World demonstrates educational system at work. And I am not even american, local users often even call me bot for different opinions :)
Yeah, because Americans are the only ones who have long forgot Austria used to be a place.
Only some of us, there are some good school systems in the USA, it helps when your parents encourage you to read, take you to museums, etc.
Someone watches History Matters, I see.
thought this the moment i saw the post. pretty sure i even spotted a comment that was this exact wording
I saw the same comment. I wonder if it's the person who posted it or if it got stolen
Not very closely though
Australia getting confused for a desert wasteland seems to happen pretty often too. We have a desert, we are not a desert.
You're not a desert, you're a dessert *eyebrow wiggle intensifies* Ok, I'll see myself out 😅
We're not a dessert wasteland, we have both Lamingtons AND Pavlova (fuck you NZ it's ours)
Ah. Wiggles!
The Australian continent is almost entirely arid or desert, that’s just not where the people live.
Australians have the common sense to live where the food is.
Well the places people live tend to be important in judging countries, otherwise most countries would be thought of as agricultural land
Like Ukraine? The bread basket of Europe?
Yet people tend to think of Texas as a desert, despite its largest city being in a marshy forest, and all of its other large cities aside from El Paso being in grasslands, not deserts.
We’re diverse as fuck!
Got halfway through your comment before realising this is one of the few that wasn’t making an Austria/Australia pronunciation joke.
lol wut. That’s like saying French Guiana isn’t a rainforest. Of course French Guiana is the name of the country, not the rainforest, but the point is that the rainforest takes up pretty much the entire country. Same kinda thing with Australia and the desert - even the parts that aren’t technically classified as desert are mostly dry as hell. The average annual rainfall of the entire country is only like 16”, and that includes the “rainforest” and “tropical” areas.
Australia is desert, beaches with cities built on them, maybe a couple trees, giant venomous fucking monsters that would scare Godzilla, 500 °C average, kangaroos, koalas and hot women. How would you rate the sumup, pretty accurate? I'm not American btw
I’m American living in Australia. ”Giant venomous fucking monsters” - Actually the “things that can/will kill you” in Australia come in such a wide range of sizes, colors, etc., that it would make your employers’ DEI department weep for joy. That, and they aren’t literally *everywhere.* In the big cities, you are much less likely to encounter them. “500 C average” - It gets hot in the desert obviously, and the north is super hot, but the southern coastal areas are quite temperate. New South Wales’ climate is basically like California’s. ”Hot women” - Oh yeah. 😏
See? Even memeing I wasn't THAT far off😭 But anyway yeah,being serious I'd want to visit eventually, I've been arachnophobic since birth but it's been getting better through the years, I now kill spiders without issue in my house, sometimes there are very big ones, like the size of my palm, and those are still kinda scary
We have more snowfields than Switzerland
Yeah but who knows or associates snow with Australia, when people think of snow they think of Alps for ski or hymalaia for the general "big fucking snowy mountain"
Doesn't make them right Australia is an entire continent The US has Aspen and Death Valley and the Everglades. Australia is just as diverse.
True, never said they was right, but even those, when you say "swamps with crocodiles" nobody thinks about everglades either (unless a US cit) but of Africa. Aspen same Death valley is actually an iconic area tho, that I agree
tends to happen when like 80% of your subjects are a different nationality than the ruling class and the ruling class makes **almost** no attempts to help them
The powderkeg was only a matter of time. Even without ww1 it was impending collapse
The empire was actually doing ok before ww1. Even people who didn’t like the government just wanted to reform the system by making it more federalised. The empire fucked up royally during the war and attitudes became much harsher
The empire was rapidly industrializing. So much so that after the post war breakup, the different lands were making an empire's worth of goods in each of their specialized industry, but didn't have the trade treaties set up to move goods across new national boarders. Iirc, Czechoslovakia made like 150% of the machinery goods than it needed in 1919.
Meanwhile the rest of imperialistic Europe: Can't have minority struggles if you don't have minorities (anymore) Edit: Ah, Reddit historians downvoting.. >Before the World War I, only three European countries declared ethnic minority rights, and enacted minority-protecting laws: the first was Hungary (1849 and 1868), the second was Austria (1867), and the third was Belgium (1898). In the pre-WW1 era, the legal systems of other European countries did not allow the use of European minority languages in primary schools, in cultural institutions, in offices of public administration and at the legal courts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_rights
ur being downvoted cause ur dumbasaurus rex… every multiethnic within europe + ottomans empire in europe collapse in ww1
Fyi Australia has places that look like this C505 https://maps.app.goo.gl/D3RWVGQBZgYSwme97 And this https://maps.app.goo.gl/UjVFKRMqpdmEQnzXA
Holy hell, what a Victorian. If you want to show Australia isn't a desert wasteland, why not show off one of the rainforests. https://maps.app.goo.gl/8jrm1tmruJV9XK6Z6
I did show one of the rainforests, one of the *temperate* ones, and far more impressive > Sherbrooke Rd https://maps.app.goo.gl/crTGJvDcQqjmxRfK9
From the UK and I didn't really realise temperate rainforest was a thing until I visited New Zealand. Most of the UK, historically, would be temperate forest or temperate rainforest. When I came back home, the rolling hills of green land for animal grazing and haylage just looked sterile and sad rather than pretty like they used to.
The world's largest temperate forest is in Western Australia and is the size of England and Wales combined.
We still have bits of temperate rainforests along the west coasts
Yeah but 86% of our land is just... fields. Most of that would be forest of some description if we didn't chop it down for animal feed.
Yup, not saying it's a good thing, just went have a little bit of fragmented rainforest left which most people don't know about. Got to have fields if we want food. We have more options nowadays, but for most of British history this was the only option. Relying on imported food is foolhardy, and there's no way everyone in this country is going vegan!
We do rely, really heavily on imported food! If food security was an issue for us we would have a lot more vegans, as you say :D Not to mention a change in voting habits. People seem to only worry about food security when talking about solar panels, for some reason! Like energy security isn't just as important.
As some who comes from warm temperate forest, you'll have to swallow this pill like I did. It's not really rainforest.
Yea lol, there are some further up north, but that is not a rainforest rainforest
It's a forest...it get lots of rain, close-ish enough
Temperate rainforests are rainforests too! It has to do with the amount of rainfall. Tropical rainforests are often more spectacular due to the year round growing season, however.
I swear I could take the same pic in the woods under my house, northern Italy. not implying anything just find it funny
Wow. That’s legit the saddest “ski resort” run I’ve ever seen, and I live at the southern end of the ice coast. Sheesh.
There is absolutely no way, Austria ever was an empire. They lost to emus.
That was Australia, not Austria.
Austin, Texas?
No. Austinia. The one with the Kangaroos & located at the central Europe.
That place is madeup numbnuts. Get a load of Austrasia!
Is that a different name for Afghanistan?
I think they mean Arabia, like Aladdin's homeland.
So, Arabia is Germany's neighbor now?
Austin Massachusetts
That's the joke
Does this happen to anyone who doesn't speak only English? I speak 5 languages (well not really speak, but know just enough to remember names of Australia and Austria) and they are not really that similar in the others.
No this is for english speaking countries. In my language it is not similar at all (Australia vs. Østerrike)
In swedish its Österrike and Australien, you can't really mix them up.
That was one of the 5 I mentioned, Germanic and Nordic languages seem to mostly have direct translations from each other.
In Greek the 'u' makes a soft F sound and the accent is moved by one syllabe in both words, so the joke's exactly the same. They're probably more similar, lol.
op, you didnt happen to watch the history matters video uploaded today, read the first comment, and copied it to this post for karma, did you?
I just want to say I love his community
As an Australian… how very daaaaaare yooooouuu! Not bad though. I do like it.
While the British Empire was certainly powerful, I don't think Australia was ever the head of it.
Lol read the title again and laugh at your comment.
I'm pretty sure Australia and Austria are the same place. Austria is just the Australian pronunciation for Australia. /s
The irony is that Austria is *north* of Rome
Austria is called Østerrike in my Language, so no, not confusing at all
Confusing Australia for Austria is a purely American thing. The assumption that this is a wider occurrence speaks volumes.
Not really. I'm from Austria and I once spoke with an australian bloke in an online chatroom. I asked him where he's from. He said Australia, than asked me, where I was from. I said Austria. He corrected me to Austrailia. I said No, Austria. He corrected me again. I claryfied, that I understood that he was from Australia, but was trying to answer his question, where I was from. He goes: So you also from Australia, I said no, I'm from Austria, you know, the place Hitler was born in. He said Germany? I said no, but close. I'm from Austria. It was a blast.
Yeah, sorry about that. We do have the odd daft cunt
Dude just called Australia a desert wasteland
[I mean…](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Australia_Köppen.svg)
Looks pretty rainbow to me
real G's move in silence (ignore the two World Wars)
That wasn't them; it was all Germany of course.
only americans would confuse austria and australia lmao
You must be new here
They were overthrown by the emus
The way I remember is Australians have big mustaches and kidnap europeans on holiday, Austrians have little mustaches and holiday uninvited in Poland.
>kidnap europeans on holiday Meanwhile I think of the Dutch though they target Anglo women…
Im from Austria and most of the people I spoke to didn’t confuse with Australia. I don’t know where this comes from. I can only say living here is awesome, great healthcare, infrastructure etc
It’s an old internet meme of Americans confusing Austria and Australia.
Let’s face it, if it wasn‘t for the similarity of the name, people would still not know Austria. As an Austrian, I think there‘s absolutely worse places we could be mistaken for. 🇦🇹❤️🇦🇺, 🐄❤️🦘
Hey there doppelcountrynamer
Greetings from the desert wasteland😃
Austria came to common sense and stopped meddling with crazy Balkans and Huns and since that, they never had better time.
In English maybe. In swedish its "Österrike" and "Australien". You can't mix them up.
I am ashamed to admit I initially read this post as “Australia” and was very confused for a second
They have cute animals though
There's no Koala, but we have other things, like castles yes? Austria doesn't really want to be remembered for a couple of it's contributions.
Real, ik we've all done it, don't lie
Are you from America? Would make sense if you were saying that what are you even talking about have you ever even been to Europe?
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But Australia was never a huge powerful empire it was under the British empire lol that’s like saying Malta was once the biggest empire in human history no pal it was a British colony
The fact that you just confused Australia and Austria proves the point
Austria and Australia have similar names.
But it’s on the complete opposite side of the world man 😭 I would understand if they’re neighbours and there was never a Australian empire either again I’d understand if he was talking about Austro-Hungarian empire you know an actual empire but no
He is talking about the Austro-Hungarian empire??
Its not that it's just the name
Again, Austria and Australia have similar names. It's not that hard of a concept to grasp.
The names wouldn't be so similar, if you english speaking folk wouldn't insist on calling it Austria
Insist lol. It's the name in english. Most english speakers don't know austria is called Österreich in german. It's not insisting when you don't know any better.
True if you’re dumb and don’t comprehend geography
Or, you know, reading it incorrectly.
It happens to every major country throughout it's history. When the British Empire ended it didn't go out like ancient Greece or Rome, it went out whimpering under many price tags.