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goodjob;

Fuck this thread

WHY CANT I PICK 1

also you're going to have to justify your choice goodjob;

7 idc if it doesn't make geographic sense

for reference,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number

5thgrade;

Quote from: reeper on September 07, 2018, 09:10:42 PMWHY CANT I PICK 1

Pangaea is the only continent that matters baddood;

7


cuz thats wut they learned me

they learned you all wrong

Quote from: Magyarorszag on September 07, 2018, 10:09:09 PMfor reference,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number

5thgrade;

the post soviet union and japan are the only sane ones lol

by any sensible definition, there are only 6 geological continents

five is the only one that makes sense da fuk

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Quote from: reeper on September 07, 2018, 09:10:42 PMWHY CANT I PICK 1

Quote from: bluaki on September 07, 2018, 10:19:28 PM

Quote from: reeper on September 07, 2018, 09:10:42 PMWHY CANT I PICK 1

Pangaea is the only continent that matters baddood;

Quote from: C.Mongler on September 08, 2018, 08:22:01 AMfive is the only one that makes sense da fuk

reasonings, pleasonings

america is one thing
eurasia is one thing
africa gets to be its own thing because of toto
australia
antarctica

Quote from: C.Mongler on September 08, 2018, 10:36:07 AMamerica is one thing

wrong

Quote from: C.Mongler on September 08, 2018, 10:36:07 AMeurasia is one thing
africa gets to be its own thing because of toto
australia
antarctica

same

If Africa gets to be its own thing, I see no reason why you'd combine the Americas

when toto writes a hit song about the continent of south america then we can talk


until then america is conjoined via panama and no man made canal can convince me otherwise.

continents are a spook

it's all connected underwater

round earth is a spook

Quote from: don't let's on September 08, 2018, 09:04:50 AM

Quote from: bluaki on September 07, 2018, 10:19:28 PM

Quote from: reeper on September 07, 2018, 09:10:42 PMWHY CANT I PICK 1

Pangaea is the only continent that matters baddood;

pangaea for life

Quote from: C.Mongler on September 08, 2018, 03:41:00 PMwhen toto writes a hit song about the continent of south america then we can talk


until then america is conjoined via panama and no man made canal can convince me otherwise.

Africa is also conjoined via the Suez peninsula, and a man made canal shouldn't change that either.

continents that are barely conjoined are separate enough in my book. so africa is its own thing, and the americas are their own things.

but eurasia makes a lot of sense, i've never really understood the need to separate europe from western asia.

so my preferred model would definitely be that particular six-continent one.

on a semi-related note, can we someday come up with a better name than "south america" and "north america?" i understand that "america" was initially intended to just be a name for the western hemisphere in general, the new lands discovered by european explorers...but "america" is far too often just shorthand for our country these days, so the whole naming system seems misleading. either we rename the continents or rename our country.

Quote from: Detective Spatchcock on September 08, 2018, 10:45:21 PM

Quote from: C.Mongler on September 08, 2018, 03:41:00 PMwhen toto writes a hit song about the continent of south america then we can talk


until then america is conjoined via panama and no man made canal can convince me otherwise.

Africa is also conjoined via the Suez peninsula, and a man made canal shouldn't change that either.

a man made hit #1 single does however

(https://i.imgur.com/0vsR8hM.jpg)

show me on the map where """europe""" and """asia""" split

(https://i.imgur.com/3liF13a.png)

either above or below ground

go on now

Quote from: Samus Aran on September 09, 2018, 03:00:27 AMbut eurasia makes a lot of sense, i've never really understood the need to separate europe from western asia.

so my preferred model would definitely be that particular six-continent one.

wrench;

Quote from: Samus Aran on September 09, 2018, 03:00:27 AMon a semi-related note, can we someday come up with a better name than "south america" and "north america?" i understand that "america" was initially intended to just be a name for the western hemisphere in general, the new lands discovered by european explorers...but "america" is far too often just shorthand for our country these days, so the whole naming system seems misleading. either we rename the continents or rename our country.

srsly, how lazy of cartographers to name two enormous and very clearly distinct landmasses "america"

anyway i call dibs on the name america for america

the rest of north and south america will have to find some other title

Quote from: Magyarorszag on September 09, 2018, 02:14:09 PM(https://i.imgur.com/0vsR8hM.jpg)

show me on the map where """europe""" and """asia""" split

(https://i.imgur.com/3liF13a.png)

either above or below ground

go on now

The Ural and Caucasus mountains are generally used to define the border and you know this

But then how many sub continents are there?

Quote from: Magyarorszag on September 09, 2018, 02:14:09 PM(https://i.imgur.com/0vsR8hM.jpg)

show me on the map where """europe""" and """asia""" split

(https://i.imgur.com/3liF13a.png)

either above or below ground

go on now

(https://i.imgur.com/HmOFPRK.png)

Quote from: Detective Spatchcock on September 09, 2018, 02:20:05 PMThe Ural and Caucasus mountains are generally used to define the border and you know this

the what now

i don't see either of those geographic features on either of those maps

what i do see, however, are giant isthmuses like suez and panama, and island continents like australia and antarctica

Quote from: don't let's on September 09, 2018, 02:30:33 PM(https://i.imgur.com/HmOFPRK.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/BXqF8af.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/kd4T9LY.png)

but... but why >.<

although the latter is JUST as arbitrary as the split between """asia""" and """europe""" lol

Quote from: Magyarorszag on September 09, 2018, 03:11:09 PM

Quote from: don't let's on September 09, 2018, 02:30:33 PM(https://i.imgur.com/HmOFPRK.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/BXqF8af.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/kd4T9LY.png)

but... but why >.<

although the latter is JUST as arbitrary as the split between """asia""" and """europe""" lol

also, I don't know how clear it was, but africa was technically a part of both the Asian and European continents

It just works

india (by which i mean the geographic region, not the country) has its own discrete tectonic plate

its boundary with the rest of eurasia is the himalayas, a tremendously more impressive and renowned mountain range than the pitiful ural molehills

and india's (by which i mean the geographic region, not the country) population is also over TWO TIMES the size of europe's

So explain to me why Europe, with its pitiful molehill boundaries, half the population, and no separate tectonic plate, gets to be its own continent while India (by which I mean the geographic region, not the country) doesn't. Go on. :|

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USA
North America (Canada)
Cenouth (Cnetral+South) America
Europe
Africa
Antarctica
Asia
Oceania

Quote from: David on September 12, 2018, 07:57:42 PMUSA

Agreed. We have at least as valid a claim to the horribly defined title "continent" as Europe does. srsly