stackyFACTSWhy walk across a country when you can nauseate yourself for hundreds of miles? A few eccentric individuals historically traversed entire states purely by doing continuous forward rolls. It is undeniably the most agonizing, dizzying, and utterly pointless method of crossing a land border ever devised.
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