Poll: On which continent are you?

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#1  Edited By pr1mus


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#2  Edited By pr1mus

North America for me. Canada represent.

This also brings me to another question. What continent model did you learn in school?

The one i learned isn't even listed on the Wikipedia page. I learned a 5 continent model that includes Africa, America (as a whole), Asia, Europe and Oceania (never referred to as Australia). I also learned Eurasia because they could never figure out if they should put Russia in Asia, Europe or both. I guess they also considered Antarctica some No Man's Land that isn't worth worrying about.

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#3  Edited By Animasta

Well there really are only 3 continents technically (afro-eurasia, america and oceania)

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#4  Edited By pr1mus

@Animasta: Isn't Africa technically completely separated from Eurasia by water?

Also it doesn't get any more vague than being an Afro-Eurasian. :D

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#6  Edited By Animasta

@Pr1mus said:

@Animasta: Isn't Africa technically completely separated from Eurasia by water?

Also it doesn't get any more vague than being an Afro-Eurasian. :D

that's only because people made it so (just like north and south america are only technically seperated by the panama canal)

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#8  Edited By jonnyboy

Most of Europe is asleep. Check back later.

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#9  Edited By coaxmetal

@Animasta said:

Well there really are only 3 continents technically (afro-eurasia, america and oceania)

even if you want to be like that, which is silly because continents are a thing to provide a geographic descriptor, not a technical classification, you forgot Antarctica.

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#10  Edited By Turambar
@Animasta said:

Well there really are only 3 continents technically (afro-eurasia, america and oceania)

Continents are not only defined on strict geographical grounds. 
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#11  Edited By Animasta

@Turambar said:

@Animasta said:

Well there really are only 3 continents technically (afro-eurasia, america and oceania)

Continents are not only defined on strict geographical grounds.

it's really just opinion based honestly

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#12  Edited By Sooperspy

'Murica!

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#13  Edited By Turambar
@Animasta said:

@Turambar said:

@Animasta said:

Well there really are only 3 continents technically (afro-eurasia, america and oceania)

Continents are not only defined on strict geographical grounds.

it's really just opinion based honestly

Considering its defined by social conventions, sure.  But social conventions that gives us a common descriptor are a lot more useful than technical but esoteric definitions.
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#14  Edited By PeasantAbuse

I learned the continents as North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia. The same as the first image on that Wikipedia page.

I live in North America.

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#15  Edited By Fredchuckdave

I voted for Antarctica, because that place is awesome.

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#16  Edited By mandude

@Animasta said:

Well there really are only 3 continents technically (afro-eurasia, america and oceania)

True, but for the sake of not being vague, shut the fuck up. :3

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#17  Edited By Cold_Wolven

Australia, land of PAL.

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#18  Edited By Fredchuckdave

@Animasta: No they're just Pangaea.

@Pr1mus: I take offense to the phrase "learned in school." To me continent = big fucking piece of land, and there are several big fucking pieces of land. I guess most people don't question what they're taught with any great frequency, but I've always felt that any true inspiration, insight, or thought development occurred through personal investigations; education is simply a guiding system along that route (and not a very successful one apart from creating drones I suppose).

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#19  Edited By Patman99

Team North America!!!

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#20  Edited By Video_Game_King

There's only the one continent up here, so I live on that one.

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#21  Edited By coaxmetal

@Animasta said:

@Turambar said:

@Animasta said:

Well there really are only 3 continents technically (afro-eurasia, america and oceania)

Continents are not only defined on strict geographical grounds.

it's really just opinion based honestly

the word continent specifically refers to one of generally 7 landmasses. Nothing about it specifies that they need to be unique contiguous landmasses of a certain size. So don't be like that because its dumb.

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#22  Edited By Turambar
@Fredchuckdave said:

@Animasta: No they're just Pangaea.

@Pr1mus: I take offense to the phrase "learned in school." To me continent = big fucking piece of land, and there are several big fucking pieces of land. I guess most people don't question what they're taught with any great frequency, but I've always felt that any true inspiration, insight, or thought development occurred through personal investigations; education is simply a guiding system along that route (and not a very successful one apart from creating drones I suppose).

On the other hand, I'd also be a failure as a teacher if my students leave the classroom incapable of communicating with the common social lexicon, or at least understanding its reasons for existence in various forms.  Also 7th grade geography is probably not the most useful place to start taking the "you're all drones" stance.
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#23  Edited By L44

The best one.

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#24  Edited By TheManiacsGnome

But to be more specific, Canada.

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#25  Edited By toowalrus

Why did I see Antarctica and click it without thinking. Truly I am a child.

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Trapped in a research base in Antartica. Don't know who I can trust or who is a freaky alien. Am I an alien? Are you? Take the test Wilford Brimley! Keith David and Kurt Russell passed how about you?

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#27  Edited By Claude
 Give me your tired, your poor,  Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free,  The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,  Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
 Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
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#28  Edited By ChadMasterFlash

North America, America's America.

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#29  Edited By Giantstalker

Indar, usually.

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#30  Edited By GTCknight

North America, due in part to the fact that I live in the United States.

Would love to move off-world though. It would be a great learning experience.

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#31  Edited By evilb0y

I'm from Asia

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#32  Edited By pr1mus

I didn't know there was such a large and thriving duder community in Antarctica.

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#33  Edited By Hector

North America!!!

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#34  Edited By habster3

@spankingaddict said:

Goddammit, I was hoping I could get this in first...

But yeah, I'm from North America

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#35  Edited By amir90

Europe, Norway.

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#36  Edited By haffy

@Riboflavin said:

@Animasta said:

@Turambar said:

@Animasta said:

Well there really are only 3 continents technically (afro-eurasia, america and oceania)

Continents are not only defined on strict geographical grounds.

it's really just opinion based honestly

the word continent specifically refers to one of generally 7 landmasses. Nothing about it specifies that they need to be unique contiguous landmasses of a certain size. So don't be like that because its dumb.

It pretty much is opinion based. Nothing really defines them in any meaningful way. My dad was taught there was 5 continents, I was taught 6, others 7. How many continents there are is basically, how many you've been taught there are.

Also this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBcq1x7P34

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#37  Edited By Canteu

I hail from the wonderful giant continent of Great Britain. We own the world right? So that means we're a continent!

You should all probably hail me, or some such nonsense.

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#38  Edited By EarlessShrimp

I picked Antarctica because it's there

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#39  Edited By Sterling

No one from South America huh. Conspiracy?

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#41  Edited By NegativeCero

North America.

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#42  Edited By HarlechQuinn

Old Europe...

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#43  Edited By FiestaUnicorn

I believe people from Texas will be upset that you didn't include the continent of Texas.

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USA, and why did you put central America as part of North America? Hasn't it always been that way? Do people really not know that?

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#46  Edited By iam3green

north america reporting in

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#47  Edited By AlexanderSheen

Central Europe.

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#48  Edited By Brendan

I think this thread should be recorded for proof of the uselessness of polls.

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#49  Edited By Senno

G'day!

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#50  Edited By Hunter5024

Am I the only one who was taught that the number of continents has to do with tectonic plates?