i have friends/acquaintances that live all over the world..

i have a question for your peeps across the pond..

it is fairly easy to separate canada, the us and mexico here, but exactly how do you separate your tiny countries over there? excepting russia and china, i imagine most of the rest are rather smallish countries..

actually thats not my question, my question is, where does the UK stop, and the rest of the world begin???

Atlas tsh, and i thought they were joking when they said 70% of US high school students couldnt point to the USA on an unmarked world map

? posted by Wild Card

I know when I went there for a 3 week exchange, some of the high-school students kept asking me and my friend if we lived in igloos.

sadly, the highschool teaching level is not what it once was, but from some of the thoughts i have read from our UK collective, their teaching system is not any better

hell, most have trouble thinking that most issues have more than one solution

Not really, the UK is small in comparison to its role on the world stage. For instance, France has the same population (around 60m) but is a good 4/5 times the size? Yes, theyre small in size when compared to states of the USA but that's just how small Europe is.

I think so far there's around 12 member states in the EU, and theyre mostly from our western half... if you can visualise how big our continent is in relation to the USA you can "guesstimate" how big the countries are..

Seriously though, if you have an Atlas or some spare time go spy through them - the CIA world factbook is always interesting for learning about the world.

Europe is a small place, so there are less countries overall in comparison to the USA area.. thats just a presumption on my part, no real evidence to support my theory

As for me, i'm slap bang middle in of the UK - pretty much the exact centre (excluding Scots highlands..). and Adam Hawkins lives about 15 miles or so down the road, i'm sure gimpinthesink lives in the next city along..

considering 90% of my online friends, my true online friends , hail from the UK, you should really never assume i mean any comment such as "pissant' to be detrimental guys..

sad that after all this time, i still have to explain this concept to you.. i use words you don't, to describe the same meanings you do, just accept it. IE "prick" can mean dick, but does it have to?

anyways.. i reckon i can look it all up, but it would have been nice had you only explain it from the onset, without being condescending

afterall, i have driven my nation from side to side, and top to bottom, if you asked me where iowa was, i could have told you without resorting to your educational forte'

so pissant, means something else besides "size" there?

i realize that a truly negative personality can conceive of all sorts of hateful meanings for almost any words known, but i would hope/expect, that the snarkpit would mature past that someday

question- can pissant be taken poorly?
answer- sure
question- can it be taken any other way?
answer- not according to SP

i hope to live long enuff to where we all bond, at least to a point to where we can argue over something OTHER than text and its shortfalls.

It's not about text and it's shortfalls Orph, its about respect and combatting ignorance and offensiveness