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01-11-2004, 10:23 PM
People used to say Australia until they realised they forgot about the other 12 countries or so which were continentless.
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01-11-2004, 10:23 PM
[quote=ninty9][quote=Tripper][quote="Cpl. Eames":70197][quote=ninty9]What if someone was on a plane, flying over the ocean? They wouldn't be on a continent. What if I jump up. I'm not on the continent anymore either. What if I suspend myself from my ceiling. I can do whatever I want because the government can't do anything because i'm not on the country. BWHAHAHA!! I am invincible! I guess oceania is what you meant if your flying on a plane? oOo:
You missed a continent. Australia. And Oceania isn't a continent.
North America.[/quote]
ROFL you forgot Austrailia you dumb ass!!!!!!!![/quote]
*Ahem*
Oceania IS a continent, it is Australia & New Zealand and a few other pacific nations. oOo:[/quote]
Eames, I have no idea what you're talking about.
And Tripper, I have never heard of a continent "Oceania". I was taught "Australia" was a continent, and I suppose that NZ was a part of that continent.
[url="http://www.ri.net/schools/Central_Falls/v/218/t7con.html"]http://www.ri.net/schools/Central_Falls ... t7con.html[/url][/quote:70197]
what do u mean u dont know what im talking about?? I said the same thing that you did, that i was taught austrailia instead of oceania. what were u reading???
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01-11-2004, 10:26 PM
omg
you can call it either Oceania & Australia. Oceania is just more umm considerate. biggrin: what a thing to argue about. rolleyes:
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01-11-2004, 10:40 PM
Atfriggenlantis!
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01-11-2004, 10:41 PM
Potato, Potatoe.
I'm gonna make a big thing out of this:
I was brought up being taught that MY country belonged to a continent called OCEANIA......I also feel that a continent which includes 22 nations simply being named 'Australia' is inconsiderate.
As a member nation of OCEANIA, I would have thought that our school system would have gotten it right.....and reading through a couple of websites now (most likely North American ones) I am finding out for the first time that the continent is refered to be people overseas as simply AUSTRALIA.....And no doubt, just because it is the biggest country in the continent.
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01-11-2004, 11:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Tripper
Potato, Potatoe.
I'm gonna make a big thing out of this:
I was brought up being taught that MY country belonged to a continent called OCEANIA......I also feel that a continent which includes 22 nations simply being named 'Australia' is inconsiderate.
As a member nation of OCEANIA, I would have thought that our school system would have gotten it right.....and reading through a couple of websites now (most likely North American ones) I am finding out for the first time that the continent is refered to be people overseas as simply AUSTRALIA.....And no doubt, just because it is the biggest country in the continent.
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he's got a point there... happy:
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01-11-2004, 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Pyro
North America
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01-12-2004, 01:25 AM
Ive heard Australia and Oceania, but I always called it Oceania.
I live in Antarctica oOo:
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01-12-2004, 01:30 AM
They call it Oceanina because they didn't want it to be named after a single country (like tripper said.) .
It's Australlia, New Zeland, New Guiney, Indonesia and all those other small islands around the pacific area.
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01-12-2004, 02:20 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tripper
Potato, Potatoe.
I'm gonna make a big thing out of this:
I was brought up being taught that MY country belonged to a continent called OCEANIA......I also feel that a continent which includes 22 nations simply being named 'Australia' is inconsiderate.
As a member nation of OCEANIA, I would have thought that our school system would have gotten it right.....and reading through a couple of websites now (most likely North American ones) I am finding out for the first time that the continent is refered to be people overseas as simply AUSTRALIA.....And no doubt, just because it is the biggest country in the continent.
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01-12-2004, 02:40 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tripper
Potato, Potatoe.
I'm gonna make a big thing out of this:
I was brought up being taught that MY country belonged to a continent called OCEANIA......I also feel that a continent which includes 22 nations simply being named 'Australia' is inconsiderate.
As a member nation of OCEANIA, I would have thought that our school system would have gotten it right.....and reading through a couple of websites now (most likely North American ones) I am finding out for the first time that the continent is refered to be people overseas as simply AUSTRALIA.....And no doubt, just because it is the biggest country in the continent.
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im sorry dude, but i, we...from north america have never heard about this oceania before . i too was taught that there was 7 continents. and australia was one of them
guess you can just chaulk this one up to us being arrogant egocentric asshole americans again rolleyes:
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01-12-2004, 02:43 AM
I was taught Oceania in the states... oOo:
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01-12-2004, 02:46 AM
[quote="Animal Mother":71879]I was taught Oceania in the states... oOo:[/quote:71879]
i think this might be a generation gap thing then...im gonna be 24 in may. and i think AM is a youngin...im sure the school system has become WAY more pc since i was in gradeschool. so i can easily see them teaching oceania now. for me though, i wasnt taught that, just being honest. beer:
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01-12-2004, 07:20 AM
I was taught Australia, not Oceania, and I'm 16 eek:
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01-12-2004, 01:07 PM
yeah last I check Oceanea or...a bunch of small ass island out in te middle of an ocean wasnt a giant land mass called a continent. while Australia was.
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