Comments on: independence day, the geographic inaccuracy of stupid fucking alaska, and a placemat that basically ruined my life

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:26:17 +0000

I feel your shame… I found this out like last year.. I’m 21. It is totally a huge dirty lie. I had those damn placemats too! What else blew my mind was that Alaska is freaking enormous!! The least they could’ve done was draw the thing to scale. Or like asterisk it and make a side not, “btw this isn’t an island, and it’s huge, enjoy your food.”

By: Angi

Angi — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:28:54 +0000

I live in Alaska.

Sometimes it feels like it’s an island.

(Although I do, in fact live on an Alaskan island…)

By: nicole antoinette

nicole antoinette — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:22:07 +0000

Libraries huh? Never heard of them. Guess I’ll have to Google what those big buildings are during all my afternoons on the internet…

Those libraries though, do they also help you learn proper capitalization? Maybe you should check them out too!

Hey, we can go together.

Or wait, maybe instead you can just stop trolling around people’s blogs and being an asshole.

By: Ed Hall

Ed Hall — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:56:00 +0000

wow. I read your blog and have lost all hope for humankind. someone has to teach you something in order for you to learn it? are you in 2nd fucking grade? oh, I see. well, we have these big buildings called libraries that are full of things called books; some of which even contain geographic maps of the world. I suggest you log off the fucking internet for at least an afternoon and wander over to one of these places and OPEN your mind!

By: Yomms

Yomms — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:39:33 +0000

I spent most of my childhood and adolescence believing that Australia and New Zealand floated around between the East Coast of Canada and Europe, right around where Iceland and Greenland are. I’m not sure I’ll ever know why.

By: suki

suki — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:18:48 +0000

hilarious. damn placemats…

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:05:07 +0000

update: it is not cold in Canada 95% of the time.
get a clue.

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:22:56 +0000

I guess that problem was avoided for me because we had a mental map assessment in 7th grade

By: Nikkol

Nikkol — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:03:17 +0000

I think that this is the most historically accurate theory behind this wacky place called Alaska!

I too am Canadian and remember asking the same question when I was in school!

By: Nikkol

Nikkol — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:59:56 +0000

Well ben if you are living in grand ol’ Canada you probably did get the first of July off! (Happy Canada Day fellow Canadian… belated of course…)