Show me a map where you get $5 if you're right
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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Americans and picking one of the countries out on a map their taxes go to bomb, a classic for over 20 years
I was watching Americans guess wildly Iraq was on This Hour Has 22 Minutes over 20 years ago and somehow nothing has changed
Maps with new zealand but still new zealand isnt included
*Pointing directly at washington DC on a map* "yeah yeah of course I know where Iran is. It's right there. That's where the US military should be doing it's thing, this spot I'm pointing at, which is Iran, because I know where that is, see, right there that point right there."
The one respondent who wants to nuke Godzilla again
I'm the guy who thinks Iran is in the middle of the south Atlantic
It's like motherbase a series of linked oil rigs.
:kaz: We pull in money, recruits, just to combat Israel... rubbing our noses in bloody battlefield dirt, all for revenge.
Mother Based
Iran? Oh, you mean the seaboard off the coast of eastern Greenland? Fuck those guys
I can understand maybe missing by picking another gulf nation, but I hope that most of the other ones are just trolls. Stuff like this does not help with my doomerism.
I'm not sure... In 8th grade our social studies teacher was trying to get a feel for where everyone was in geography and picked on students to go up and point out various geographical locations on the giant map on the chalkboard.
He started with really simple ones like "Where is North America? Where is South America?" and barely got through that point because he picked a rich white kid on the basketball team to go point out where "Asia" is on the map and the kid pointed to everywhere BUT asia.. North America, South America, Australia, Africa.
The kid was getting really mortified as the rest of the class was laughing harder and harder with each try.
I will never forget that as long as I live because after class I asked him if he was just messing around and he confided he honestly never looked at maps so he didn't know, but also he didn't care because he would never need to know that.
I remember my honors English class where the most popular and successful student/athlete learned about the existence of Arabs for the very first time.
but also he didn't care because he would never need to know that.
I...this is so alien to me, I cannot understand this attitude. I see it everywhere, but it always baffles me. I don't understand why so many people are so incurious. How can they know that they'll "never need to know" something when they don't know it or know how important that information could be?
It's always in the last place you look
One time my workplace did an informal fun lil test of identifying every state in the US. More than one person was surprised Mexico was so close. Most people got around 10 states correct and left the rest blank.
Around ten people labeled states with the names of foreign countries, like I remember one person identified Hawaii as Japan, and one wrote "British" on Virginia. These were people with college degrees too. Americans are simply not great at geography.
Damn, I'm not even American and I feel like I could get at least 50% of the states labeled correctly
one wrote "British" on Virginia
a die hard Walter Raleigh stan.
Yikes
Eyeballing it, at least a third of these are misclicks. Virtually no one, even in America, believes that Iran is in the western hemisphere or in the ocean (not even on an island), and several more of the popular locations are similarly improbable.
ive been saying for years that kunming is the true capital of iran
See that giant mosque in the middle of downtown? That's the ayatollah's white house.
Ozark Rednecks do be inhabiting rugged mountain terrain, they're cooking with this one
I was just told by my most trusted source that Iran is 50 North Koreas, but this map is claiming that it's not even 1!
Did they use PEMDAS or BEDMAS?
This explains why the USA sees Iran as a threat - it’s an internal one.
respect to "the Falklands are Iran" guy
With so many points placed in the middle of the ocean...I have to wonder what those responders were thinking, especially because I assume they had to volunteer to answer and were not forced to. Like was it all trolling, and doing something 'funny' was more important than actually attempting to answer? Was the act of thinking and guessing just like, too much effort to put in, so they click randomly anywhere just to be done with it? Were people so afraid of guessing the wrong country, so it felt safer to not pick one at all? Were people so unfamiliar with looking at maps that they confused which color represented countries and which was water? All of the other misplaced dots are worrying as well for other reasons, but the ones in the ocean just have my head spinning. If it's all just trolls, I guess well played, you got me.
I'm wondering how many of them just didn't hear/understand the question and just put a pin in the map so they could get away from the person asking them to put pins in things and interrupting their day.
That could potentially explain a lot of them, actually
Maybe they were using s laptop with a shitty track pad and clicked by accident
Don't know why I didn't think of that possibility, a much more likely answer
And those who know that Atlantis is Iranian teritory but still don't know where it is
"I don't know where it is, but it's probably either in Europe or the US so I'll put it in between them"
Well now I finally understand why we are going after Greenland.
Australia? Also Iran.
Israel? Believe it or not, also Iran
I'm the Iran is a Japanese province guy
I'm behind the one guy who must think To the Lighthouse was about a young man's coming of age during the twilight of the Qajar dynasty.
I don't know which are my favorites between the folks who formed the cluster of points north-east of Texas or the handful of peoples smacked their guess dead in the middle of an ocean, not even near a coastline.
respect to whoever said it was in St. Kilda.
Wtf I'm Iranian now?