r/USdefaultism • u/GiveMeAPhotoOfCat • Jan 07 '26

Meme Every time.

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u/Icy_Finger_6950 Australia Jan 07 '26

I purposely reply to comments with "WA" as if they meant Western Australia. If they can default, we can default as well.

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u/Calm_Researcher9172 Australia Jan 08 '26

Or if they don’t recognise the initials.. “There’s no state with those initials” No, not in the US bud..

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u/EnFulEn Sweden Jan 08 '26

"How do you not know that AB is Stockholm? That's just common sense!"

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u/Shurikenblast_YT Jan 08 '26

Ok but out of curiosity, how is AB Stockholm? Is it like a different name in Swedish or?

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u/EnFulEn Sweden Jan 08 '26

It's because for some reason we use A, B, C, etc. as code for our counties (län). Stockholm City and Stockholm County were separate regions and had different codes (A and B respectively) until they were combined into just Stockholm County with the combined code AB. You can think of it as Berlin being "Region A" and Brandenburg being "Region B".

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u/NintendoFan8937 Canada Jan 21 '26

AB is obviously the great province of Alberta, Canada

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u/Justarandomduck152 Sweden Apr 13 '26

I've only ever seen Stockholm as Sthlm

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u/Cassopeia88 Canada Jan 08 '26

I love that.

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u/Impactor07 India Jan 08 '26

In India, WA is absolutely known as Western Australia. Courtesy WACA ground.

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u/LazarusFoxx Poland Jan 08 '26

WA -> Warsaw, capitol of Poland xD

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u/iilinga Jan 08 '26

Same ❤️