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Started by Syt, January 18, 2020, 09:36:09 AM

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Zanza


PDH

There is no Central Europe.  But, then again, there is no Europe.  It is "Far West Asia" and "Not Quite so Far West Asia"
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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Jacob

I thought the accepted term was Eurasia?

PDH

Quote from: Jacob on October 20, 2021, 02:03:03 PM
I thought the accepted term was Eurasia?

Pfft, I don't give in to the whining of the far West.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Eddie Teach

To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

crazy canuck

Quote from: Jacob on October 20, 2021, 02:03:03 PM
I thought the accepted term was Eurasia?

Accepted by those who want to put the small bit in front of the large bit

The Brain

It should be Aisope. Fount of furry fables for freaks.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Zanza

As the definition of continents is arbitrary and not related to the actual underlying tectonic plates anyway, Europeans invented it so we get to define what a proper continent is or not.  :P

Savonarola

Quote from: Zanza on October 20, 2021, 03:44:33 PM
As the definition of continents is arbitrary and not related to the actual underlying tectonic plates anyway, Europeans invented it so we get to define what a proper continent is or not.  :P

In fact a number of Latin American countries count six continents by combining North and South America but counting Europe and Asia as separate continents.

I see from Wikipedia that Japan, Russia and some Eastern European countries count six continents with Eurasia as one continent but North and South America as separate continents.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Eddie Teach

Does anyone count Australia as just a big Island?
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

The Brain

Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Grey Fox

Quote from: The Brain on October 20, 2021, 04:10:21 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on October 20, 2021, 04:07:37 PM
Does anyone count Australia as just a big Island?

Technically it's a Gaol.

The marsupials must be contained, at all cost.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Sheilbh

Especially after the surrender to the emus.
Let's bomb Russia!