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Arrogant Cowboys (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 127 points 3 days ago

My favorite Texas dig is: If you cut Alaska in half, Texas would be the third biggest state.

[-] [email protected] 73 points 3 days ago

Alaska: "We have the biggest state!"

Texas: "How long does it take to drive across?"

Alaska: "We wouldn't know, we've never left Anchorage."

[-] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago

Alaska: our mountains are so huge, weather so severe, and land so vast, that mankind does not have the ability to build roads across our state. Come at me, Texas.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago

mankind does not have the ability to build roads across our state

Only pipelines

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Texas: the biggest usable state.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

As long as it doesn't get too hot, or too cold... or to windy... Or wet... Come to think of it, a lot of stuff has managed to grind Texas to a halt lately.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

FTFY: the biggest ~~usable~~ (mentally) unstable state.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

No, that's Florida. Alaska is the most geologically unstable.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Is it less geolocically stable than the one thats literally nothing but volcanoes and in the middle of the ring of fire?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Alaska is also on the ring of fire and the Aleutians are also a volcanic island chain.

Both Alaska and Hawaii have on average 1-2 volcanic eruptions per year. However, Alaska has an average of about 12,000 earthquakes per year. Hawaii has an average of about 100 earthquakes per year.

Alaska is by far more geologically unstable than Hawaii.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Florida Man has entered the chat

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

my state of despair

[-] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago

I live in California and I can buy weed at the weed store.

Texans can't.

Californian women have protected human rights that Texan women don't.

So I guess my state has more freedom than Texas.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

We also have legal psychedelic mushrooms, at least where I am in Oakland.

Also, I fucking hate cowboys. Had a layover in 2001 in Dallas. I couldn’t believe how many cowboy hats, boots, belt buckles. It was a clown show. I’ll never fly through Texas again.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

All hat, no cattle. Too much truck, not enough dick. Just like jacked up stupid trucks, it's suburban men cosplaying. They're imitating a culture they aren't a part of and don't understand.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Wait what? You're telling me there is a reason to go to Oakland without continuing on into SF?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Come buy some. For some reason they can't be sold in weedshops, but they're often next door or across the street. My partner tried mushrooms for the first time recently. The kitties were adorably soft and we just laughed a lot.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Oakland has a fair amount if you're not scared by non-white people. Delicious food, some cool parks, lots of venues. Just don't be wandering in people's neighborhoods causing problems, but thats true for everywhere.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

You can buy delta8 or whatever it is now at shops in TX tho, in fact https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/22/texas-thc-ban-bill-greg-abbott-veto-senate-bill-3/

One good thing Abbott has done

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

What a lame thing to be proud of

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Texas is a third world shithole, they have to be proud of something

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

laughs in Western Australian

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Laughs in Queensland

Plus there is a tiny little Texas inside Queensland.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago

Bigger in everyway! Bigger crime, bigger gun problem, bigger capture by oil companies, bigger environmental damage, bigger racism, bigger highways... The list goes on!

[-] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago

Bigger douchebags

[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not to defend Texas, but Alaska has waaaaaay more crime. At least if we're talking about violent crimes. I wanted to move there once, but I decided against that based mostly on that factor. Approximately 8 in every 1000 people will commit a violent crime in Alaska. For reference, Texas is about 5.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

*does not include bigger area

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Yep. One guy in my class had an exchange student from Texas. Absolute biggest asshole. A real advertisement for Texas: "Never go to a state where they breed idiots like that."

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

One of the worst people I ever had the displeasure of working with was from Texas.

Granted, I have also worked with others from Texas that were fine.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

Everyone knows Colorado would be bigger than Texas if you hammered it flat.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Actually makes me wonder what the 3d surface areas are relative to their 2d projected surface area.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah? Well my state is blue.

(Aka not considered a shithole state)

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Also Alaska: It’s over, Texas. I have the high ground.

Alaska - High point: 20,320 feet - Sea level
Texas - High point: 8,749 feet - Sea level

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

lol

Sincerely, Australia; where two states are bigger than Alaska, and all but 2 states and 1 of 2 real internal territories are bigger than itty-bitty Texas.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

TIL the claimed Australian Antarctic Territory is six times the size of Texas.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I mean yeah, the Australian Antarctic Territory (that we basically inherited from the UK, IIRC) is fucking massive. But it's also what we call an "external territory", so I wasn't counting it.

The internal territories are the Northern Territory (practically a state for our purposes here) and the Australian Capital Territory (similar to America's District of Columbia, but with real legislative representation!). Oh, and the Jervis Bay Territory, but for most practical intents and purposes that's another arm of the ACT.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Those 2 small states are where most of the people live though.

And within those states, most live in the main city. Even more if you count the commuter cities.

Also points for both snow and heat in different parts.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Who the hell sticks a bumper sticker on the side of their car? Hell, who the hell sticks a bumper sticker anywhere but the windows? Good luck removing them without destroying your paint once you get sick of them.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Who the hell gets bumper stickers they might later regret and want to remove?

Also: A little baby oil or rubbing alcohol will destroy the adhesives in the sticker and leave your paint just fine.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Who the hell sticks a bumper sticker anywhere but the bumper?

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

My province is bigger than your state

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

You assume I give a shit about the state where I live.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In 2145 the competition between the two states takes a violent turn as the cyberpolarbear division meets the mechacowboys in brutal mechanized combat, fighting in the sweltering heat among the gaint sand dunes in the deserts of Anchorage.

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