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Self-deprecatingly describe your home country (lemmy.world)
submitted 22 hours ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Many of us have heard the deprecating characterizations of many countries. Like Putin described the UK as an "insignificant little Island", and Russia has been characterized as a "mob run gas station" or Trump calling El Salvador, Haiti and African countries as "shithole countries".

Let's flip things around for a bit of fun. After a heavy night of drinking with your country's head of tourism, you have one shot to give your best self-depricating characterization of your country for a new border sign.

I'll go first:

Welcome to Canada - Enjoy world class sexual assault in sport -- Come and play!

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[–] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

My mother and I were driving through Texas on the way to Tennessee to visit some friends. Stopped in a random restaurant just off the highway (not an Interstate highway, just a State highway). One of her coworkers was at another table. We are not from Texas, or even New Mexico. That restaurant in the middle was not on a major Interstate corridor and was multiple states away from home, and still somehow we ended up there at the same time.

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