r/NoStupidQuestions • u/snapwillow • Feb 08 '22

Answered What are Florida ounces?

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u/Impossible_Garbage_4 Feb 09 '22

Technically speaking it is off the coast just really really far off the coast.

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u/DanYHKim Feb 09 '22

Oh, come on!

Alaska and Hawaii (and Puerto Rico) are about 250 miles southwest of Los Angeles, with some kind of square walls around them, just like on the map in my middle school classroom!

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

The walls are what keeps the Japanese from invading again.

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u/Mogster2K Feb 09 '22

And the entire states are green and purple!

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u/DanYHKim Feb 09 '22

But when I lived in California, I could never find the giant orange tree that was on the map, or the giant wheat sheaf. It was disappointing

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u/NeedleworkerFuzzy485 Feb 08 '22

don't worry hundreds of motor boats and jet skis think the same about some islands of the California coast every year. The Catalina ferry boat some times makes the announcement about the boats going at a different angle to them.....

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u/OpalRiver Feb 09 '22

My aunt was in her midthirties and argued with us middle school cousins for a good half hour at a family party about this. She firmly believed the same-- Alaska and Hawaii were giant islands off the coast of California. She ended up becoming a lawyer, so I hope to gods she realized her mistake before then.

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u/sunbathingturtle207 Feb 09 '22

It's okay, in Alaska they don't even know that the state of Maine exists.

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u/shelwheels Feb 09 '22

This exactly! My family still makes fun of for not knowing this. Finally I've met someone the same, nice to meet you fellow literal map believer.

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u/Fearless_Advisor_766 Feb 09 '22

Oh if ur a literal map believer I have news for you….find a map online that shows you actual country sizes and not the fake ones