The History of down under
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What are the continents? How many continents are there? Brought to you by the guy who explained the United Kingdom and a whole lot more.
*Eastasia is not one of them.
**Six. The answer is clearly six.
Sitting in geography class…
Dumb girl next to me: ”You know when the earth turns around, and like, people in Australia are upside down yeah?”
me: ”not really but okay…”
her: ”well, why doesn’t the water in the sea, like, fall off?”
*everyone in the class laughs because she is ‘so funny’*and I’m just sat there like;
This is why I can never go to that college now. There was a boy at the tour believing that Austria was in fact, Australia. Never even had heard of Australia.
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If I asked a random assortment of my friends what the capital of Australia is, maybe a third would come up with Canberra. If I asked a random assortment of my friends what cities other than Sydney are in Australia, I doubt they’d even come up with Canberra.
Australian climate scientists receive death threats
The Guardian reports that Australia National University has moved several climate scientists to a safe, secure facility after receiving a number of death threats against them. This comes in the midst of Australian debate over carbon pricing.
Because this is how big boys and girls get things done.
W… T… F???
It’s Australia, but I would also have accepted the United States, although that desert is better known as the Oregon High Desert.
