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It's simpler than that - if I

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 May 2020 22:14:00 +0000

In reply to We could have a discussion

It's simpler than that - if I can drive there without a boat or a bridge, it's Europe or Asia (aside from the Sinai connection to Africa).

continent1

/ˈkɒntɪnənt/

noun

any of the world's main continuous expanses of land (Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, Australia, Antarctica).

Similar:

mainland

Opposite:

island
- the mainland of Europe as distinct from the British Isles.
  
  singular proper noun: Continent; noun: the Continent
  
  "clubs sprang up in Britain and on the Continent"
- Origin
  
  mid 16th century (denoting a continuous tract of land): from Latin terra continens ‘continuous land’.
- From Oxford

We could have a discussion

ocean-kat — Tue, 19 May 2020 22:03:29 +0000

In reply to Britain is an island. Europe

We could have a discussion about what nations are part of Europe. The UK is either part of Europe or a separate continent like Australia. That question has already been answered and I doubt that the UK leaving the EU is going to eventually grant them the status of continent. That much of Europe is pissed at the UK for leaving the EU doesn't change geography. This idea that you've put forward, essentially that if you're not a member of the EU you're not part of Europe is nonsense

Britain is an island. Europe

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 May 2020 21:31:00 +0000

In reply to A silly semantic argument.

Britain is an island. Europe is a continent. While we were willing to overlook the lapse for a while, politics have stripped away niceities. We'd tell them to go fall off in the ocean, but they already did. Frankly Caesar's misadventures in Britannia and William's foray in 1066 seem to have been mistakes - they really weren't worth all the trouble (though the Vikings seemed to have had a workable approach - weekends marauding like British punters in A'dam, weekdays back in Norse counting the loot).

Note: Cyprus and Iceland and Malta are also EU, even tho more geographically Asia and North American shelf and Africa respectively. And should they get uppity, we may have to treat them as such.

A silly semantic argument.

ocean-kat — Tue, 19 May 2020 21:09:28 +0000

In reply to No, it's 23. The UK left

A silly semantic argument. Before there was a European Union there was a Europe. When the EU was only 10 nations there were still European nations that weren't part of the EU. If every nation that is a part of the EU left they would still be nations that we consider part of Europe. The EU is simply a recent, and possibly shorted lived, organization of some of the nations that we commonly understand to be Europe.

No, it's 23. The UK left

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:32:24 +0000

In reply to Well it's more than 23. There

No, it's 23. The UK left Europe.

Reading your comment it

artappraiser — Tue, 19 May 2020 18:49:29 +0000

In reply to They fit our personal agendas

Reading your comment it popped into my head that Uncle Duke from Doonesbury, based on Hunter S. Thompson, might very well carry a bazooka into a Subway shop and many lefties would find it charmingly idiosyncratic (i.e., support the FBI? hell no, fight them with everything you've got, they have always been fascist pigs)

Well it's more than 23. There

ocean-kat — Tue, 19 May 2020 18:38:27 +0000

In reply to Over 2100 5G towers installed

Well it's more than 23. There were more than 60 in the UK alone. But yes, those embracing these types of conspiracy theories are a minority in the EU and in the US.

They fit our personal agendas

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 May 2020 18:31:02 +0000

In reply to And there's only been one of

They fit our personal agendas?

And there's only been one of

artappraiser — Tue, 19 May 2020 18:29:43 +0000

In reply to Over 2100 5G towers installed

And there's only been one out of the many in "open up America" and "pro-NRA" support groups to carry a bazooka into a Subway sandwich shop that we know of. Extremists are everywhere, the percentages of the population vary. Yes, there's lot of them in an ISIS controlled territory, just as there were once many in the appropriately named Waco, Texas. The question is why we in the majority focus on certain ones with special fear and loathing.

Over 2100 5G towers installed

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 May 2020 18:20:24 +0000

In reply to Conspiracy Roots of Europe’s Strange Wave of Cell-Tower Fires

Over 2100 5G towers installed across Europe. 23 attacked is an aggravation, not an accurate pulse of European attitudes.