Europe According to the United States of America

    Produced by AlphaDesigner's Political Design Buro. Sense of humor highly recommended.

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      PEKADORR, Nickolas Hananniah, hihihi, Bambam78_E, and 262 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. Claudiu Balaceanu * [deleted] (33 months ago | reply)

      in fact, europe according to US would be a walk distance between London and Paris.

    3. FernandoLins [deleted] (33 months ago | reply)

      "Resident Evil" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    4. Bambam78_E (33 months ago | reply)

      Wikileaks! Wuahahahahahahahahah, wuahahahahahahahahahahaha! Wuahahahahahahahaha!

    5. teh resa (33 months ago | reply)

      hehe

      "smelly people and dirty porn"

      (do the French ever bathe or do they just squirt perfume on to cover it up?)

    6. Lumberg the Loquacious Llama (33 months ago | reply)

      Mmm... Chocolate.

    7. Mischief 1972 (33 months ago | reply)

      I love your maps!

    8. savl (33 months ago | reply)

      I am from the Buffer zone and I like Your maps. It's a great project. Try to make the same from Russia point of view. I feel that the place where I live will be a buffer zone again :)

    9. P G L (33 months ago | reply)

      I'm a fan of Smelly People, Dirty Porn, Chocolate, Sodom and Apfelkuchen. What does this say about me?

    10. Emrah Serdaroglu (33 months ago | reply)

      thanks giving meal? :) weird

    11. Port Aiguadolc (33 months ago | reply)

      OH MY GOD! This is incredible!!!

    12. Port Aiguadolc (33 months ago | reply)

      oh, I got it, Turkey=thanksgiving...gee 2 minutes later.

    13. madrioso (33 months ago | reply)

      LOL

    14. Sushanta - paper, scissors, void (33 months ago | reply)

      I like Wikileaks.

    15. Wetsueno (33 months ago | reply)

      LOL

    16. Tank707 (33 months ago | reply)

      Chocolate, sodom & dirty people are some of my favorite places...this is GREAT!

    17. abelrodriguezb (32 months ago | reply)

      hahaha mexico

    18. dilated_dilemma [deleted] (32 months ago | reply)

      LOL.......the humour of sweeping generalizations :o)

    19. Axel-D (32 months ago | reply)

      ! love it!

    20. alphos (32 months ago | reply)

      amazing

    21. kernowseb (32 months ago | reply)

      I remember a Californian almost falling off her chair when I told her that Great Britain was an island with sea all the way round us :0)

    22. Bambam78_E (32 months ago | reply)

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH! OMG! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH

    23. swannr.tumblr [deleted] (32 months ago | reply)

      I do smell actually

    24. Sheska U (32 months ago | reply)

      this is awesome. ahaha

    25. Slonie (32 months ago | reply)

      Resident Evil 4! Great reference. The rest is very clever as well.

    26. gustaf alstromer (32 months ago | reply)

      Sweden should say Switzerland. Everything else is correct :)

    27. alexito4 (32 months ago | reply)

      amazing!
      but spain is not mexico :( xD

    28. Dalmatica (32 months ago | reply)

      gosh, i don't know if we invented zombies. but werewolfs, yes, we did.

    29. lenag_photographee (32 months ago | reply)

      i agree with everything but "smelly people" yanks looove france... and especially paris. may be call it "where people kiss and eat stripy potatoes" ?!?!

      love it otherwise!!

    30. ppeyrolon (32 months ago | reply)

      great

    31. Beyond the grave (32 months ago | reply)

      United States? Isn't it called Redneckistan?
      Greetings from southern Sodom.

    32. teh resa (32 months ago | reply)

      how about a map of the word according to flickr photographers?

    33. VoodooDahl (32 months ago | reply)

      Ha ha love it!

    34. vrubinst31 (32 months ago | reply)

      Love it! England should have been labeled "Mom", though, because to Americans "mummy" is exclusively a bandaged Egyptian corpse. And I'm not sure most younger Americans even get as specific as apfelkuchen with Austria... I always thought of it as a sort of "Germany Lite" or "Hitler's Birthplace."

    35. P G L (32 months ago | reply)

      Austria as "The Sound Of Music" has a certain appeal too.....after all, The Von Trapps ended up Stateside....

    36. alphadesigner (32 months ago | reply)

      Thanks everybody!

      - LOL. That is a common mistake even in Europe. :)))
      Of course, smelly objects have their charm too. I like French cheese very much, for example so both things don't necessarily cancel out. ;)
      Bahahaha! Greetings from Mexico!
      Now this is an original idea. Maybe I can even ask a programmer to make it dynamic and use geotagging to populate it with photos instead of text as well.
      Well you know, mummy for England can have multiple meanings, including the ones you mentioned. But I always thought Hitler was born in Hell on the eve of Halloween. ;)

    37. msnovtue (32 months ago | reply)

      Speaking as someone of 'recent' German descent who lives in US, Germany should be labeled "beer, bratwurst, Nazis and lederhosen". *sigh*....

    38. alphadesigner (32 months ago | reply)

      Then you probably missed South Park and Family Guy. I'm sorry. :)

    39. whatafeckineejit (32 months ago | reply)

      Love it!

      Well done!

    40. ericnchen (32 months ago | reply)

      What's the meaning of "mummy" for the UK?

      I'm an American and like someone else mentioned, the spelling "mummy" exclusively means the Egyptian kind. Plus I've never heard of anybody refer to the UK as "mom" or anything similar. My friends and I agreed "mummy" was a reference to the British Museum which is apparently full of mummies.

    41. alphadesigner (32 months ago | reply)

      Well, don't be that literary analytical. It's supposed to be a little bit of both - a mother and a mummy. ;)

    42. teh resa (32 months ago | reply)

      I noticed that too - not the spelling but the "mother" idea. Lots of people who want to travel to the UK need to have a british grandparent if they want to get some sort of work visa (used to be the case anyway). Also, somehow people (used to) get British Passports because they have a grandmother who is British.

    43. ericnchen (32 months ago | reply)

      Alright then, makes sense! I really like this poster and I'd buy it in a heartbeat to put in my flat. It'd be quite funny because I live in Germany at the moment, but unfortunately it costs more to ship it here than the actual print.

    44. zelnunes (32 months ago | reply)

      I love the "mummy" thing!

    45. The F-ing Soldier! (32 months ago | reply)

      Very nice, though I think the Netherlands should be "weed". Or at least "drugs". Since every damn tourists wants to go to the coffeeshop

    46. alphadesigner (32 months ago | reply)

      I adopted a more "Christian" view. But you are right, some Americans don't even bother asking, like the Service of the Bureau of the Consular Affair indicates in its article about the Netherlands:

      "In 2007, several American visitors reported experiencing excessive drowsiness, confusion, dizziness, and nausea after drinking alcohol in public areas such as hotel bars and night clubs in several cities throughout the Netherlands. These effects may be the result of unknowingly ingesting drugs surreptitiously placed in drinks."

      Now that's what I call drug fear-mongering. :)

    47. risamay (32 months ago | reply)

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    48. net_efekt (31 months ago | reply)

      Great series!

    49. This photo was invited and added to the John Calavera group.

    50. simon meisinger (30 months ago | reply)

      Apfelkuchen? Democracy? I don't get those two.

    51. Serena Mithbaokar (29 months ago | reply)

      I don't quite get "Dirty porn" for Germany....What the meaning behind those two?

    52. alphadesigner (29 months ago | reply)

      That might help. :)

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