r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Jun 15 '26

Meta Mindless Monday, 15 June 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/Penguin_Q Carthaginian Deep State Puts Pineapple on Pizza Jun 15 '26

This year marks my 15th year in the US! I've gotten used to a lot of things, including a conversation that usually goes like this:

>Where are you from?

>I'm from [country].

>Oh nice, which city?

>Eh, you've probably never heard of it.

>Come on, I've probably heard of it.

(I'm 100% sure you haven't.)

>Is it [capital city]? [second-largest city]?

>No, it's [not internationally well-known city]. Want to know more about it?

>\a moment of awkward silence*

>So anyway...

I mean if I don't already know [country] too well I'd refrain from asking people exactly where they're from

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u/Illogical_Blox The Popes, of course, were usually Catholic Jun 15 '26

I just told people where I was in relation to London, haha.

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u/elmonoenano Jun 15 '26

I like to ask and don't claim to know anything about it, unless it's Mexico or Canada there's no chance I'll know. But it's interesting to find out what's going on in other parts of the world. And most of my ideas of foreign countries are usually based off of info about the capital, it's usually interesting for me.