WTF Kiwis are not australian

Are these the puns Gargamel is talking about on Dys's "cliques" thread?

dlowan wrote:

Are these the puns Gargamel is talking about on Dys's "cliques" thread?

No.

That would be over here.

One positive thing that I would like to mention about Kiwis, is that they seem to be very eco-friendly.
Why, only last week they offered, in an attempt to cut down on aviation fuel, to drop off the Aussies on their way home after their early exits from the Rugby World Cup.

the league was played in wellington mate but I dont care if aussie beat us in the league, I dont like it, I played for a year but found rugby union a much bigger challenge

the league was played in wellington mate but I dont care if aussie beat us in the league, I dont like it, I played for a year but found rugby union a much bigger challenge

The only Aussie at a party on the sunshine coast? What's happened to this country?

Dartboy wrote:

the league was played in wellington mate but I dont care if aussie beat us in the league, I dont like it, I played for a year but found rugby union a much bigger challenge

Hi DB

Clearly you are in the majority - union is much more widely played around the world, but I would have thought league would be more of a challenge. Two less players and a lot less stoppages.

What would you say makes union more challenging than league? I'm not taking the piss, I really want to know and because you've played both I respect your opinion.

I was too much of girl for those games. Played hockey and soccer and then one season of AFL - now that was a challenge....

Thanks for the expo DB. I'd always seen men in their mid 40s playing 5th grade union (usually in the forwards), never seen that in league, so I assumed it was much tougher on the body - not that that necessarily makes in a more challenging sport.

I think Australia the continent belongs to Oceania or Australasia.....though I think Craven convinced me that some people use Australia to cover the entire entity. I honestly do not know how commonly they do so...but Funk and Wagnalls sure doesn't cut it for me! It would be interesting if some geography types came and talked about it. I truly claim no real knowledge.

I had honestly never heard of such a useage, but Craven's research is usually good, so that is likely my lack of current geographical terminology. The thing is, that useage is obviously little known in the area concerned, and causes some people offence.

I was largely amused when I first saw it, and commented on Craven's ignorance, and was then interested by the explanation, which was new information.

I hardly see it as a big deal, but I think it unreasonable to be so dismissive to people about their reactions to what is seen to be ignorance, and patronising nomenclature, just as non USA people sometimes react to meaning only the USA when you say America.


I think that, given there is a perfectly good alternative name (two, in fact) that it was somewhat ignorant to use Australia, but certainly not something worth being as rude as Dartboy was about!!!

dlowan wrote:

I think Australia the continent belongs to Oceania or Australasia.....though I think Craven convinced me that some people use Australia to cover the entire entity. I honestly do not know how commonly they do so...but Funk and Wagnalls sure doesn't cut it for me! It would be interesting if some geography types came and talked about it. I truly claim no real knowledge.

I had honestly never heard of such a useage, but Craven's research is usually good, so that is likely my lack of current geographical terminology. The thing is, that useage is obviously little known in the area concerned, and causes some people offence.

I was largely amused when I first saw it, and commented on Craven's ignorance, and was then interested by the explanation, which was new information.

I hardly see it as a big deal, but I think it unreasonable to be so dismissive to people about their reactions to what is seen to be ignorance, and patronising nomenclature, just as non USA people sometimes react to meaning only the USA when you say America.


I think that, given there is a perfectly good alternative name (two, in fact) that it was somewhat ignorant to use Australia, but certainly not something worth being as rude as Dartboy was about!!!

There's no real authority on any of this, hell you can't even get everyone to agree on how many continents there are, much less what the best name would be.

The 7-continent model favored by Western cultures is only one of several continent models, Japan and many other countries prefer the 6-continent model for example and there are other 5-continent and 4-continent models.