Australia is not a country???

50 states plus Costa Rica and Washington DC...

Approximately.

Neil

Oops, Sorry! It wasn't intentional.

50 states plus Costa Rica and Washington DC...

Approximately.

Neil

Uh, Costa Rica is not part of the USA. Maybe you were thinking of Puerto Rico, which is an "Unincorporated US Territory".

The continent that the USA, Canada and Mexico are on is commonly called North America.

Australia is a country and a continent with no pesky land borders.

Don't forget the Isle of Wight!!

You might want to be a little cautious throwing that statement about in certain quarters of Ireland itself, where there are still those who refer to said isles as "these islands".

Except at state of origin time where there is a definate demarcation zone between NSW & QLD

And yes, at Origin time, south of the border people up here in QLD are referred to as Mexicans -- so we're not even sure which continent we're on, let alone which country.

And let's not forget that despite being one country (or was it continent?) Australia still does not have a common-gauge railway running from one end of the country to the other. Still running a mish-mash of narrow, standard and broad gauges in various states.

And Western Australia is not only another country, we have the referendum to prove it!

It's all a load of legal claptrap. We're members of the world.

I always wondered why, if 7/8ths of the planet is covered in water, why did they call it earth ?

Roy

Edited By roy entwistle on 13/02/2018 16:10:57

Thanks for shining a lamp on the matter. Nice to just blow some steam off every once in a while.

& re roy: tis' because it's the part of the place that we (mostly) use. 

Michael W

Edited By Michael-w on 13/02/2018 17:01:04

Because Planet Puddle wouldn't sound right.

Someone sent me this via Facebook today; I can't credit the source as I've no idea where it came from.

It does put things in perspective, though I don't know what map projection is used.

Bill

Ah this would depend on where you are in OZ??? Hope you are enjoying the steam days on atm? Plenty visits to places where Vintage Machines are about?

Ray

Terrible when you must remind these Aussies boarder security is high around the Nation's capital Canberra. This is due to trying to keep all the morons who live and work there inside the fence LOL. They do enough damage from within letting them out only causes further damage.

Then the Mexican invasion of lands north and warm where they flock to thaw out mainly from mid NSW coast to FN QLD..

The sand groppers from WA thank goodness see the boarder as a dark forest and shy away from it by 100's of k's.

State of Origin what a joke it's like politicians they cross the boarder when it suits them to play for wich eve side hey wish with pocket loads of $$$$$ going into NRL CEO"s and state coffers.

Costa Rica is an anagram of Puerto Rico. Almost. Ish...