Did you know Australia is not a country?

[traveller]

As part of her final class, for which she paid almost $1,000, students were required to complete a project outline last month in which they would compare a social norm in the US and another country.

For her "norm" Arnold picked social media use, and for her country she chose Australia.

But when Arnold got her grade back on Feb. 1, she was shocked to see her professor had failed her. Why? Because, according to the teacher, "Australia is a continent; not a country."

https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/davidmack/australia-is-real-i-swear?utm_term=.vnNZeygRG1&__twitter_impression=true

 

According to this Prof at least! Saw this today had a chuckle and thought of you guys

Edited January 11, 2022 by traveller
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[AndrewNR]

I've always thought lf it as more of an asylum than anything.. 

[El Presidente]

1 hour ago, AndrewNR said:

I've always thought lf it as more of an asylum than anything.. 

 

 

.........more a penitentiary in the pacific 

[Fuzz AI]

Oi! We're not just a continent and a country!... we're also an island!!

[PigFish]

You’re in good company. I live in a state of confusion…

[Cairo]

Back in the old days Philip K. Dick would debate all comers and argued that Australia did not exist at all--and that people who claimed they were from there were all liars.

To the folks from that imaginary place that have mailed me such wonderful smokes in the past few years--I just say "thank you", whoever and wherever you might be!

[Corylax18]

Everyone here is Mistaken. Australia is actually a Private Company, incorporated in The U S of A. 😄

 https://www.google.com/search?q=australia+is+a+us+corporation&rlz=1C1GCEB_enUS870US870&oq=Australia+is+a+us+co&aqs=chrome.0.0i512j69i57j0i10i22i30j0i22i30l2j69i60l3.5259j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[Nino]

As far as I am aware and I can prove it, Australia is a sugar mill town with some old locomotives at the entrance to the Zapata swamps - Bay of Pigs peninsula, Cuba .... :-)

http://flyingcigar.de/travel-cigars/201204-cuba-playa-larga-australia-part-ii/

PS : Australia was Fidel Castro's HQ during the Bay of Pigs invasion. Fact !

 

[Jai]

Learn something new everyday. 🤔

[El Presidente]

5 hours ago, Nino said:

As far as I am aware and I can prove it, Australia is a sugar mill town with some old locomotives at the entrance to the Zapata swamps - Bay of Pigs peninsula, Cuba .... 🙂

http://flyingcigar.de/travel-cigars/201204-cuba-playa-larga-australia-part-ii/

PS : Australia was Fidel Castro's HQ during the Bay of Pigs invasion. Fact !

 

I have stopped on my way  through there quite a few times now (on the way to fishing in Zapata)  and it always brings a smile to the face. At the same time the town showcases how things have fallen apart under the regime.  Just a shadow of a once proud sugar town. 

 

[Fuzz AI]

1 hour ago, El Presidente said:

 

At the same time the town showcases how things have fallen apart under the regime.

 

Funnily enough, we could say the same thing here...

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Just now, Fuzz said:

Funnily enough, we could say the same thing here...

I guess that could be said about most places right now, sadly