Australia: Country or Continent?

It IS both.



So?

So that ain't fair, dammit! Pick one and live with it!

Goddammed poll--I had another option in there, for "Neither--it's really just a turd that fell off Asia."

it's an island too, doesn't have all those untidy sticky out bits like Canada and Central America stuck to it

Wait a minute. Does the continent of Australia, also contain the islands of New Zealand and Tasmania or are they just floating out there with the rest of Polynesia?

If Indonesia is part of Asia, and you can practically spit from New Guinea to Queensland...(you need a wind from the North and permission from the local mullahs) wouldn't it stand to reason that Australia is in Asia too?

Who drew the lines? The British authorities who didn't want to be too closely linked to those folks in Irian Jaya?

When did Australia get it's continental designation?

Joe(I have a lot of questions for one so young)Nation

In this part of the world, we were taught there was a continent which was called Oceania but I can be wrong...

Australia is also the flattest AND the second driest continent in the world.

"Are these people self-important, or what? " No...... I think that distinction is ALL yours, congratulations!

Don't forget.... Canada has the U.S. stuck to it too.

We can be both if we want. Thats just like a New Yorker just because your city population is bigger than our entire continental population doesnt mean ya can tell us what to do.

do this for me kicky.........
take hold of your left ear with your right hand
come on...... just do it ok

ok now take hold of your right ear with your left hand

got a good grip?





















now pull yer head in

Speaking of islands.... how come it's the Philippines but the people are called Filipinos??

Huh.


j

Well, the USA is the United States of America, but its citizens are called "Yankee Bastids"...it's just the English language, you know...

I want to know more about Kiribati.

Taioka naaka, antai aramii?

Please answer.

J

Conversation emanating from the Black House.

No, it's the language of the Kiribati.

Antai aram? (What is your name?)

Arau ngai Joe Nation. (My name is .....)

I have been enlightened

American Imperialism on the phonetic level.

Its pronounced kirbus and I get to meet the attachee. unless you guys stop with the green house gas there wont be a kiribati soon (rising sea levals)

hello = fukaloko or is that Nuii............ I forget

Got that right. Estimates in today's paper (New York Times) put the possibilities at a rise in twenty feet if all the glaciers melt. And they are melting at a faster rate than previously measured.


Joe(I'm glad I live on the seventh floor)Nation

Don't think so. As the Philippines were named Islas Filipinas from Filipe II of Spain, the inhabitants are called Filipinos...