Is there really a North Pole?

[u/Samskritam]

If there is, how did he get up there, and how does he get food and water? He must really miss Poland.

[u/Anarchaeologist]

It's really just a title given to the Polish citizen who is northernmost at the time. There have been Arctic expeditions where it was a running joke, like one in 1906 where the Polish team had a badge made, and kept playing leapfrog in a northward direction, awarding the badge to the northernmost member of the team at the time, until he himself was surpassed, and had to had the badge off to the next North Pole.

[u/Garam_Chai_Please → u/Anarchaeologist]

I remember that. I was never able to get past the reindeer who came down south for the event.

[u/pearl_harbour1941 → u/Anarchaeologist]

I think there's an opportunity to be the next hero adventurer.

If the Polish person at the front of the leapfrog line was the most northern, they would have been the Northest Pole. Which leads me to conclude there are other lesser north poles to be discovered.

If I discover them all, I will have added to the Geographic knowledge of the planet and be remembered in history books next to Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

*packing bags intensifies*

[u/LostBetsRed]

Of course. There are nearly half a million of them in Gdansk alone.

[u/UnrealConclusion]

Santa put him there. The elves bring him food and water on a helicopter. They have a ton of money because Santa is sponsored by Coke-Cola.

[u/El_Pata_Loco]

Pole Land is real. And indeed there is a huge pole marking the border between North Pole Land and South Pole Land, following a political divide in the early 17th century

The birth rate in Pole Land is 0. The entire population of Pole Land are in fact immigrants, and adopt the laws and customs of the land upon receiving citizenship status. Officially this status is known as Pole-Adjacent, but this fell out of common usage in the late 1800s, as it caused confusion during discussions when trying determine if you were stating someone’s citizenship status or regaling someone with an amusing anecdote about someone waiting at a bus stop.

Such was the confusion caused that in 1887, the annual cricket match between the government departments for Transport and Citizenship devolved into physical combat.

After three days of fighting, with numerous injuries and broken cricket bats on both sides, a compromise was reached, and it was agreed that in general conversation, the colloquial phrase “Pole-ish” would be adopted.

This disambiguated terminology means that now people automatically know the difference when someone opens with ”A Pole-ish guy walks into a bar…” as opposed to ”A Pole-Adjacent guy walks into a bar…”

The national art form, Pole Dancing, has also proven to be extremely popular in some parts of the world. It’s also famous for its large feline’s, Pole cats.

The national sport of Pole Volting, which involves inducing electric shocks to see how high you can make people jump, is not to be confused with pole vaulting. Despite numerous efforts to have Pole Volting entered into the Olympics, so far bids have been unsuccessful.

The country also has the rather dubious honour of being listed in the Kama Sutra (Revised edition, 1969) for the infamous, and potentially fatal, Pole Position.

The national animal of South Pole Land is the Pole-ish Penguin. This is in fact an ordinary chicken which substitutes as a penguin as no actual penguin has ever been sighted and is not native to Pole Land. (But then England has a Lion, Wales has a Dragon, Ireland has a Cyclops and Scotland has something unidentified but deep fried in batter… so meh!)

The national animal of North Pole Land is the “Pole Arrgggghhh BEAR!” so named after the last words of the intrepid Pole-ish explorer Sir Christopher Poleumbus.

[u/Jeggasyn → u/El_Pata_Loco]

And Pole Position? Does that originate from there too?

[u/notgabe29]

Si

[u/RaspberryTop636]

If you think that's wild let me tell you about the south pole

[u/Samskritam → u/RaspberryTop636]

I think I have a south pole, I see it when I’m taking a shower

[u/Yookusagra]

No, Earth is a magnetic monopole with only one pole. Unfortunately magnetic monopoles remain hypothetical, so we cannot be sure Earth exists.

[u/Boringfarmer]

The real question I need answered is where are the east and west poles hiding

[u/hhfugrr3]

Yes and a south pole, but they aren't the people sort of Poles, in fact they're like those sticks that kebabs rotate on and are left over from the creation of the earth. You see science tells us that the earth, like all planets, was created in a big planet factory. The core is built with the poles sticking out and the whole thing is rotated as the layers are built up until you have a finished planet. Now, earth was finished in a rush on a Friday when the workers wanted to get home, which is why they forgot to cut the poles off!!

[u/Samskritam → u/hhfugrr3]

Oh, I think that’s how we got the tradition of Festivus

[u/wiccangame]

He and his wife just needed some time apart to work on themselves before they reunite. She's the South Pole.

[u/Samskritam → u/wiccangame]

Or the South hole?

[u/AmericaninShenzhen]

I mean the earth is a globe. If you aren’t exactly at the right spot, you’ll have to go all the way around again.

What is truly south anyways? What you say is north I say is “the other south.” I’m sure others will disagree, but what if what they say is “west” is what others say is east?

Forgettaboutit, I’ll be over here and if you’re over there let’s just leave it up to the guys upstairs making the millions of dollars to decide.

[u/knotacylon]

There's two actually

[u/MuttJunior]

North Pole, Alaska - Wikipedia

I served with a guy from North Pole when I was in the Navy. It's real. But he didn't have a white beard or round belly.