Co-worker (female) asks me how i know a lot about flags and countries

>co-worker (female) asks me how i know a lot about flags and countries

Dude, some guys in my class can't even find all the Indian states in the map. Same situation there?

>Blacks friend can’t even name the neighboring states
>”user, why do you learn useless stuff?”

>I use the international section of an American oriental media hobbyist's imageboard.

>Get pissed at a shitposter
>Look up facts about his country to counter shitpost with
Today, this process taught me Finland only industrialized in the 40's, due to the USSR's demand for reperations.

If that's the case why are they less savage than Japan and Korea?

Hell if I know. I stopped reading once I found my bant.

well, why do you?

I am worried I might have autism.
I finished massive books on history and geography but couldn’t read Harry Potter and still haven’t read it.
I dislike basketball.
I don’t listen to rap or hip-hop.
I didn’t get a Snapchat/instagram until very recently and I rarely use Facebook.
I am very bad at socializing to the point where I used to try avoiding talkative people.
I cannot stand American documentaries at all as well as movies.
I memorized every state capital by 7 and every major highway by 9 yet I suck terribly at math.

You're just a decent american, very few of you guys exist don't know how you should feel about it

I had all the names and capitals of American states memorised by the age of 11 and I was consistently the worst student in my class of fifty students in high secondary school.

not OP obviously but most americans probably couldn't label all 50 states accurately, probably not even 30 states

>tfw I'm even worse
>tfw know the first-level divisions of 96 countries and all 482 incorporated places in California

I've impressed a lot of girls with my worldly knowledge. Just don't be an autist about it and you can use that shit to your advantage.

I’m diaspora though.
I did not do good in secondary either would much rather be drawing some historical battle or something like that.
That is otherworldly.

>world cup going on
>english flag (white/red cross) on the screen
>mom: hey what country is that?
>brother: i think like denmark of iceland or some shit lmao
>me: it's actually england
>entire family: hahahahaha don't be dumb user the english flag is blue white and red (referencing the union jack)
>spend a good ten minutes explaining the difference between england, the united kingdom, and great britain
>nobody gives a shit and out myself as an autist for no good reason
has anyone else ever revealed their power level?

My parents are somewhat worldly, so this isn't an issue.

Indians are probably just as bad. Even educated ones.
Yeah, I've met people worse than this.

What is wrong with any of this??

>co-worker (female)

post pics

lmao neeeerrd

Could you name 15 Mexican states? And their capitals?

All of them and their capitals.

wtf
I can't name all the states unless I'm looking at a map with blanks

Mexican states are pretty easy tbqh
The hardest countries I've done are probably Turkey, Ukraine and Russia. They're just so messy
Egypt is worse in some parts but at least it's just the Nile Delta that has governorates

Australia has 6 states. Some Australians fail to name all 6 states, nevermind point to them on a map (all of them are fucking huge, btw). Just remember that 50% of people are below average intelligence.

These are the ones I can pull out from thin air
Aguascalientes
BCN
BCS
Chihuahua
Chiapas
Coahuila
Campeche
Colima
Durango
DF
EDOMEX
Guanajuato
Guerrero
Hidalgo
Jalisco
Nuevo León
Michoacán
Morelos
Nayarit
Puebla
Querétaro
Quintana Roo
Sonora
Sinaloa
Tamaulipas
Veracruz
Yucatán
Zacatecas
Tlaxcala
Tabasco
San Luis Potosí
I'm missing 1;-;

>alphabetical order
Why?

I do it geographically:
BC x2, Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, NL, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosi, Guanajuato, Queretaro, Hidalgo, Veracruz, Edomex, Morelos, Tlaxcala, Puebla, (jump to Nayarit) Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, Quintana Roo.

You missed Oaxaca I think

I just tell them i use interpals, one faggot thought it was a pornsite and was angry because there was no porn in there.

why are you like this? what are your motivations

Just doing it for fun

Chile is fucked up because I can never remember where Maule is, and O'Higgins and Aysen have fucking long official names

>alphabetical order
>Why?
I didn't have a map and I have shit visual imagination
Besides, geographically it's a bitch, my instinct is to go
Cali -> Sonora -> Chihuahua -> Coahuila -> NL -> Sinaloa etc
And since I'm not doing straight lines, I get lost
>Oaxaca
Fuck, I forgot one of the cool ones

niqqa I barely remember how many regions are. the names are not a problem for you? I mean, for the language

>confuses median with mean
>still acts like he's more intelligent than others

Nah, not really. I know how to read all major languages written in Latin so it isn't a problem.
Arabic names on the other hand are fucked up.

Since IQ is a property of all individuals it should follow a normal distribution, so the median should be more or less equivalent to the mean in this case

do you learn all this country and language stuff by yourself? please tell me how, I need some inspiration

It's the principle

When I was a kid I started memorizing the world map.
In elementary school I discovered wikibooks and decided to learn Miskito and Uzbek.

I've forgotten all of that (and didn't learn much anyway) but basically that kickstarted my learning language orthographies.

It's a whole fuckton easier to learn the phonology and orthography of a language if you learn phonetics first. i.e. the different types of consonants, vowels, etc. Helps especially when a language has a phoneme not in your own language (e.g.gy in Hungarian), that isn't easy to describe. If you've learn phonetics you can just look it up as "voiced palatal stop" and instantly know how to pronounce it instead of having to rely on shitty descriptions that try to approximate it to another sound.

Your insecurity about this make you sound like 18. You sound fine.

Some people love Harry Potter, some can't get into it. My wife finishes huge neurobiology and psychology books but hates reading fantasy.
Most people outside the U.S don't give a fuck about basketball. I hate watching most sports.
I hate 90% of rap and hip hop. One of the most garbage genre. Completely normal.
I think you'll find that you're in the majority of not having instagram or snapchat here, I loathe social media, but I need facebook so people can contact me
You are in the majority about social issues here aswell, you'd fit right in here in Scandinavia. Cold talk is the absolute worst.
What do you mean about american documentaries, you don't find the ripped Hans Zimmer music blasting with constant jump cuts while trying to watch a beetle climb a rock? Definitely autism.
Memorizing this shit is the only actual sign of autistic behaviour. State capitals? What a waste.
Maths is not for everyone. The majority of jobs don't utilize it.

HAHA NERRD

There is a way to learn to be socially good, but you will still probably really dislike it.

Spend ~ 2 months with a shitty phone-sale job or even better, recruit people on streets to charity.
Worst fucking jobs I've ever had, and I hated every second, but I got so much fucking better at social situations and appreciating other jobs, completely worth it.

thanks for the phonetics tips
all this knowledge have some practical use?

Not that much, though it helps when you're reading the news

Wait, so you don't know the names of all the counties in Sweden?

The problem with memorizing US state capitals is that it's sort of an American tradition for the state capital to be a dinky small-to-mid-sized city that nobody from out-of-state's ever heard of. Of 50 states, only 14 have capitals that are also the state's largest city. Of those cities, there are only six (Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Honolulu, Phoenix, Salt Lake City) that your average American really knows about.

I can point to most Balkan cities, towns and even villages on the map. I've spent tons of hours inspecting the maps. It's my favourite thing to do - dream that I am somewhere else.

>State capitals? What a waste.
Why is it a waste? It's useful when learning the histories of the states.
E.g. Tallahassee, FL is only the capital because it's midway between Pensacola and St. Augustine, the original two capitals of the two Floridian colonies. And it also reminds you that peninsular Florida was really unpopulated until recent times.
Sacramento, CA, Santa Fe, NM and Salt Lake City, UT were where the trails west ended, so if you know where they started you can pretty much map them out.

It really isn't useless.

That's because a lot of the early states wanted their capital to be deliberately a distance away from the large cities. Either that or the large cities were competing for the status of capital, and they had to compromise on something midway between. Frankfort KY for example.

>6 that your average American really knows about
Won't OK city count?

Maybe, if only because of that truck bombing.

You're also a tripfag on Sup Forums, you're an autist.

Google maps is my only form of travel. Sicily seems nice

>Black
>Friend

ah yes, the classic question, I usually just say I love countries and flags.

t. nerd
ahahahah

>all these autists know so much about geography and probably history
>can't even name one other city/town in my province other than montreal or quebec city

>walking down the street when expo was going on and they had all the flags up
>my girl asks me what flag is that
>"it's Kiribati"

she was impressed, to say the least

Trois-Rivieres, Sherbrooke, Magog, Levis, Longueuil, Laval, Saguenay, Gatineau, Gaspe, Schefferville.
Your move

Oh yeah? Name all the boroughs in montreal, nerd.

Nah can't. I can't name any city's subdivisions except for NYC's

Well even I can name one... manhattan

>Canada (country)
>Quebec, BC, Whites (all 3 provinces)

what did he mean by this

life sucks as a geographylet. i got laughed at because i thought new brunswick was an island.

Life sucks either way
>tfw friends ask me what flag this is
>"Hawaii"
>"lol no it's not, there's the British flag on it"

I shocked an aussie once with my knowledge of his country and slang, banter, politics and more or less secrets that only aussies know

m8, you're just retarded, we only need to remember 10 provinces ffs

5 of them are irrelevant anyways do i don't need to know them.

Manhattan
Brooklyn
Staten Island
Queens
What am I missing?

the Bronx

Haha I figured I had messed up.
British Columbia
Quebec
Ontairio
Alberta
Nunavut
Yukon
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
New Brunswick
PEI
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland and Labrador
Northwest Territories
I’m fine here right?

Get your shit in order my man, Canada is probably the second-easiest country to organise properly

From west to east: BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, N&L, and the three maritime provinces, then the three territories in the north.
Ontario is spelt like such

It was gonna be in order but I got interrupted right at the beginning haha.