Best of all, you can likely make that same lap on bicycle as well as the cycling infrastructure is beyond awesome.
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I want that here. I feel like so much less of a dying lazy ass when I bike places. I also don't zonk out and suddenly realize I'm at the destination with no recollection of anything leading up to it since getting into the car.
Apparently it only takes 9hrs to drive around Moscow. US guys, your time to shine! I bet you'd have a city that would take more time to drive around than Netherlands
I'm reasonably sure that that route neither begins nor ends in Holland. I think Holland is the western area of the Netherlands, not the northernmost bit.
I have actually encountered this phenomenon, and it involves neither Americans nor Europeans. I live in Korea, and I'm from Canada. I've had to explain that no, I have never been to Vancouver because it's something like 8000 km from where I lived on the opposite coast in Canada. At least a couple weeks of driving. In Korea, the furthest you can be from anywhere is about a four-hour drive.
You can drive in Russia for 161 hours and still be in Russia: 
You can drive 30minutes into Russia and end up in Ukraine! No matter where you start from
If you are male russian citizen between age of 18 and 30, that is not currently a student, then yes. Or doctor of any age.
Yeah, but plenty of the land contributed to Russia doesn't belong to them, so its fake
To Magadan!
And that's not even a lap like the OP's picture (if Russia even has such roads to approximate driving the perimeter)
Best joke of the day! You wouldn't even consider the road across a road, lmao, perimeter.
In about a century it'll be quite a bit smaller than it is now, meaning that 13 hours it takes to drive the Nether- I mean Holland would become... I'm guessing 10 hours (I have no idea how to calculate stuff like this myself, so please downvote this comment if I'm too far away from the correct answer)
Smaller? We'll just have to re-annex some stubborn province to the south then. We don't do smaller.
So... Flanders becomes Dutch then?
If I managed to get Belgian citizenship right before that happens, will it get immediately invalidated and replaced with a Dutch citizenship? Or will I get to have both at the same time?
Damn, that meme really struck a nerve with the Europeans, huh?
It is more like a ridiculous argument that we are now ridiculing.
Show me one person who brags about driving in a single location for so many hours, outside of the memes.
It didn't really seem like an argument to me... more like a joke that some people took way too seriously.
Normally the good jokes are also somewhat smart, even though they are not "serious". A joke about Texas being big is not very smart, IMHO. Is also not very original, as it's not the first one I've seen in this vein. And above all, it's specially stupid to end it with a remark about "The European mind cannot comprehend this", because Europeans know a lot more about the US than the US people know about Europe.
IOW, it's not that it's struck a nerve, it's that it was legit bad.
PS: Oh, and, the fact that it appeals to Europeans, it seems like it appeals on Europe as a whole, which makes it doubly stupid, because then individual members of the EU/continent are like USA states, and then each member/state has routes as long as the one in the original meme.
Normally the good jokes are also somewhat smart, even though they are not "serious". A joke about Texas being big is not very smart, IMHO
Yeah this is literally Europeans clowning on the dumb "joke" with our own version of the dumb joke.
I'm just glad yall found a new joke
I never said it was a good joke... smh. Looks like its easy to trigger the Europeans nowadays. I'm assuming you're European; could be wrong here. Please correct me if so.
Dunno, but 13 hours is not that much really. I can drive for more than 13 hours straight, in Italy, without going in circles, staying on the highway, traveling between two region capitals and not counting the islands. And it's Italy, not exactly the biggest country in the world. Or even in Europe.
PS: in August that's 24hrs
It may not be the biggest by area, but it sure is a long boy.
As someone from neither place - I'm guessing it didn't strike a nerve, so much as it struck a funny bone.
There's just something ludicrous about the phrasing.
I just liked the meme
I mean, if we wanna be silly about it
Bonus, here's my travels from my home-state from my current home to my girlfriend's home-state, back and to where we are planning on moving next year.
63 hours? Pffft. Driving in Russia for 161 hours:
161 hours is a very optimistic estimation... given the extreme weather conditions and the awful roads at the far east.
13 hour drive that’s like Kansas pfff lol. At least it feels like 14 hours every time I drive across it
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