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Continents
2010-12-03, 5:28 PM #1
A query; How many continents do you divide the planet up into and what are said continents?
nope.
2010-12-03, 5:30 PM #2
There are 7 "Continents,"

Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, South America, North America.
2010-12-03, 5:37 PM #3
And you live on Qwghlm so you're not technically on ANY of these, Buoco.
2010-12-03, 6:37 PM #4
America, Antarctica, Afro-Eurasia, Australia.
2010-12-03, 6:49 PM #5
Where is the "I don't really care" option. School taught me 7, so I always think about them that way even though it's pretty arbitrary.
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2010-12-03, 7:07 PM #6
That would be incontinence. :P
nope.
2010-12-03, 7:08 PM #7
America.
2010-12-03, 7:17 PM #8
The traditional 7 continents are based more on racial divisions rather than geographical.
2010-12-03, 7:18 PM #9
Pangea
2010-12-03, 7:22 PM #10
Damn right they are, Vin, we gotta keep those filthy Antarcticans separate from regular people somehow.

-For some reason, I always want to say that there's 9 continents. I have no idea why.
2010-12-03, 7:25 PM #11
2

america
and not america
free(jin);
tofu sucks
2010-12-03, 7:33 PM #12
Originally posted by Vin:
The traditional 7 continents are based more on racial divisions rather than geographical.


actually they're based on plate tectonics, but whatever stems your bleeding heart man.
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2010-12-03, 7:36 PM #13
Woah, Australia's tectonic plate looks like a distorted United States! Florida's huge and so's the Puget Sound, but that's the USA if I ever did see it.

-Also, despite your hypothesis, Jon, Europe and Asia are different continents in geographic maps.
2010-12-03, 7:36 PM #14
Ah yes, the great continents of California, Saudi Arabia, and India.
2010-12-03, 7:38 PM #15
For the record the whole point of this thread is that I wanted to see how many people mention Australasia. :P
nope.
2010-12-03, 7:39 PM #16
Originally posted by Jarl:
-Also, despite your hypothesis, Jon, Europe and Asia are different continents in geographic maps.


Right. So no matter who you ask, "Afro-Eurasia" isn't one continent.
2010-12-03, 7:39 PM #17
I'll allow India, given how freely people toss the term "subcontinent" around.

-Pacific Plate was here, all other plates are posers.
2010-12-03, 7:43 PM #18
Originally posted by Baconfish:
For the record the whole point of this thread is that I wanted to see how many people mention Australasia. :P

I'm forced to assume this is some sort of art project depicting Australia through the eyes of Asia album covers.

-Also, I kinda want to change my vote to "incontinents" :(
2010-12-03, 8:26 PM #19
Seven, because that's how many there are.
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2010-12-04, 12:58 AM #20
While I always thought it was stupid as hell that Europe and Asia are considered separate continents, I do recognize the traditional 7 continents.
2010-12-04, 1:00 AM #21
I honestly thought those things were big islands.
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2010-12-04, 1:01 AM #22
Originally posted by Dash_rendar:
While I always thought it was stupid as hell that Europe and Asia are considered separate continents, I do recognize the traditional 7 continents.

Big crack around the Ural mountains.
2010-12-04, 1:24 AM #23
Originally posted by Tibby:
Big crack around the Ural mountains.


I'm not buying it. It doesn't fit the way all the other continents are defined (obvious natural land masses) and there are plenty of more significant natural boundaries around the world that don't translate into continental boundaries like say the 500 miles of water that separate Greenland from anything worth a damn. Yeah I know it's smaller than it looks on most maps and probably too small to be it's own continent but still. Europe and Asia should never have been different continents.
2010-12-04, 1:44 AM #24
The Urals were hard as hell to get through, just like an ocean.
2010-12-04, 5:16 AM #25
Both you people were right before. The continents were originally fairly arbitrary and the europe/africa/asia division is mostly a matter of race. But it so happens that the land masses break apart on plate divisions, so while ancient people had no clue about plate tectonics, they still managed to follow the lines just fine. There aren't any rules for it, the divisions are just wherever someone drew them on a map one time and had it stick.
2010-12-04, 11:43 AM #26
I want to change my vote to 6 until Pluto is once again recognized as a planet I REFUSE to recognize Europe and Asia as separate continents!!!
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2010-12-04, 11:58 AM #27
Originally posted by saberopus:
There are 7 "Continents,"

Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, South America, North America.


Oceania.
2010-12-04, 1:43 PM #28
I picked the pee pee joke because I can.
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2010-12-04, 1:45 PM #29
Australia has never been allied with Eurasia. They have always been at war with Eurasia.

-When I was 7 I used to think Central America was its own continent.
2010-12-04, 3:00 PM #30
Sometimes I wonder why Jarl does that thing.

-That li'l thing he does!
2010-12-04, 4:52 PM #31
Europe is not a continent. Never has been, never will be. Europe is a collection of nations around the Mediterranean Sea and North Atlantic ocean.
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2010-12-04, 6:00 PM #32
Originally posted by saberopus:
Sometimes I wonder why Jarl does that thing.

-That li'l thing he does!


Didn't it start out as a challenge or a running gag or something?

-And then he decided to keep doing it?
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2010-12-04, 6:01 PM #33
Originally posted by saberopus:
Sometimes I wonder why Jarl does that thing.

-That li'l thing he does!


It's so that every post is kind of like a demotivational poster.

-got nothing
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2010-12-04, 6:30 PM #34
Not so easy is it.

-I do it because I started doing it on a different board about 11 years ago if I had a final thought that was unconnected to the rest of the post, and pretty much never stopped.
2010-12-04, 8:24 PM #35
so what you're saying is you're

-a total hipster


[YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH]
2010-12-04, 8:45 PM #36
JARL IS BACK BABY
COUCHMAN IS BACK BABY
2010-12-04, 10:45 PM #37
Glad to be back, Tracer.

-And that's my cue to vanish for another four years.
2010-12-05, 5:54 AM #38
i didnt realize there was different opinions on this =/
2010-12-05, 7:39 AM #39
Originally posted by DSettahr:
Oceania.

Eurasia and Eastasia too?
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2010-12-05, 7:42 AM #40
So which one of those big islands is MBeggar
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