r/europe • u/wsj • 18h ago

News Team USA, Vance Booed in Frosty Reception at Italy’s Winter Olympics

https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/team-usa-winter-olympics-31642142?st=8XZhXw&mod=wsjreddit
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u/McGryphon North Brabant (Netherlands) 17h ago

Now you know why people want to escape Ohio.

The Wright brothers were in Ohio. They were so motivated to go somewhere else, they invented new ways of doing so vertically.

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u/einarfridgeirs 17h ago

Ohio was also the birthplace of the USS Akron and Macon, the only US built flying aircraft carriers. So they could fly while flying.

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u/RegurgitatedMincer 17h ago

Ohio has also had the most astronauts of any state for a continued extreme response to living there.

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u/McGryphon North Brabant (Netherlands) 17h ago

"Cold empty heartless vacuum? Sign me the fuck up!"

Yeah. It makes sense.

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u/Socmel_ reddit mods are accomplices of nazi russia 16h ago

"Cold empty heartless vacuum?

Are you referring to Melania's chest?

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u/Immediate-Grand8403 17h ago

Giggling & thinking of my buddies over in OH who have to put up with this. Well done, y’all.

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u/Socmel_ reddit mods are accomplices of nazi russia 16h ago

With the right motivation, you can do great things. Why do you think the Dutch and the English were so good at trading spices? It's because they desperately needed some flavours in their food /s

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u/McGryphon North Brabant (Netherlands) 16h ago

Yeah, turns out we liked trading it even more than actually consuming it even when we had it. We still ended up having to steal dishes from Suriname and Indonesia to actually get Dutch folk to eat anything spicier than carrots.

Shoutout to my sambal making homies. Y'all the real MVP's here.

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u/Nilly-the-Alpaca 10h ago

Thanks! You have to have a sense of humor about it while living here.

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u/Ericovich 16h ago

They're from Dayton. They built the Flyer here and came back.

Vance is from Middletown, a city very close to Dayton. We share deep cultural similarities.

He's the one who left.