Australia Located In Central Europe NBC Fail    - Page 1
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author: Sionyn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2012, 08:35:14 am
content: daveland has moved, well according to NBC it has

author: David_AVD
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2012, 08:44:29 am
content: Epic FAIL !

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2012, 08:47:13 am
content: Some one was using Google and spell check at the same time.

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2012, 10:58:49 am
content: The description is for Austria...Alexander.

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2012, 11:03:14 am
content: Quote from: Sionyn on July 29, 2012, 08:35:14 amNice!Now I could drive to Australia for a weekend trip :-)

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2012, 12:08:39 pm
content: Well, it is NBC, who only know 2 places - USA and "RestOfWorldIstan".

author: bullet308
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2012, 12:35:28 pm
content: As a former US high school social studies teacher, allow me to extend a blanket apology for the collective American ignorance of all things geographic.All I can say is, yes, they do get taught this stuff...it just doesn't stick for whatever reason. I personally taught them where Austria was, in the context of the Germananschlussof 1938. They probably wonder to this day how Hitler could have driven his Mercedes into downtown Sydney like that. :-/And, if it makes you feel any better, they cant tell Wyoming from Wisconsin on a US map, either.

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2012, 12:45:50 pm
content: It seems that Dave's note for "Australia, not Austria" is valid.Alexander.

author: Bored@Work
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timestamp: July 29, 2012, 12:58:39 pm
content: Wisconsin is the one with the cheese, Wyoming the one with the mountains, right?

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2012, 01:22:19 pm
content: What beats me is if you ask an American for directions instead of telling you to take a right or left they say take north or south, east or west. Are all Americans born with an internal compass.

author: StubbornGreek
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2012, 06:01:30 pm
content: Quote from: SeanB on July 29, 2012, 12:08:39 pmHmm, could be wrong but isn't NBC a subsidiary of BBC?Also, America-Bashing has become quite chic... Maybe we should all focus on consolidating all our cultures (at least the good things) and therefor advancing the human race in general than picking apart the ones we don't belong to.

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2012, 06:13:53 pm
content: Quote from: StubbornGreek on July 29, 2012, 06:01:30 pmYou make bashing to easy ...

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2012, 02:46:00 am
content: Quote from: StubbornGreek on July 29, 2012, 06:01:30 pmHoly crap, what?!?!?!??!!!Huh??Are you crazy?

author: hlavac
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2012, 02:53:50 am
content: Like slovenia / slovakia

author: JonnyBoats
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2012, 03:00:22 am
content: Heck, it's easy to tell Australia from Austria (or even that place down under with all the sheep).Australia is the country with Olympic medals, including a gold!

author: FenderBender
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2012, 03:02:42 am
content: Quote from: G7PSK on July 29, 2012, 01:22:19 pmWell our main highways and interstates run east-west or north-south. Not many are on a diagonal, and if they are...then they are assigned a cardinal direction. :p

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2012, 03:11:39 am
content: It's got little to do with not knowing Geography,& a lot to do with the perils of "cut-n-paste".Oz was probably the umpteenth country that some bored minion had to insert into the standard page.They got the map & general info right,just stuffed up the text.They probably just finished doing Austria,then forgot to remove the information for that country.

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2012, 03:15:04 am
content: Quote from: FenderBender on July 30, 2012, 03:02:42 amJust to make it interesting there are some north-south highways that run east-west for a while, or vice versa.This is rather like what happens at Euston station on the London Underground, where southbound trains on adjacent platforms may depart in exactly opposite directions.

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2012, 04:50:10 am
content: Quote from: vk6zgo on July 30, 2012, 03:11:39 amBut if the minion worked through the alphabet he got tired very early, and Australia would have to be done before Austria. If he didn't do the work alphabetically, why should he do Austria and Australia in a row?

author: StubbornGreek
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2012, 06:27:11 am
content: Quote from: Bored@Work on July 29, 2012, 06:13:53 pmOK, I suppose I did with that statement. I don't remember what I read to give me that impression but I was wrong.

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2012, 07:21:58 am
content: Quote from: Bored@Work on July 30, 2012, 04:50:10 amWhen you are doing boring crud like that,you quite often play silly little games,thinking you are saving time.I've done it myself.Back when word processors were dinky little green letters on a black background,I had the job of producing a weekly report.It was as boring as bat faeces,& I was greatly cheered when I found that a lot of stuff was repeated at different intervals over several months.I went mad with cut-n-paste,stealing sentences,& occasionally whole paragraphs from earlier versions.This saved a lot of time,& I was very pleased with myself,until I printed it out.Instead of about one page,there was about 5 pages of gibberish.Somehow,I'd included a lot of stuff I thought was outside the "cut" highlights.At the time,I would have sworn it looked OK on the screen!

author: SgtRock
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 02, 2012, 05:37:44 pm
content: Greetings EEVBees:--There is an ancient Austrian joke about Austrian aristocrats; Two Austrian aristocrats a lost in the country. One looks at a map and says "I know just where we are. See those mountains over to the west, we are just on the other side of them.""I don't know what the term is in Austrian ..."Barack Obama 1961 -Best RegardsClear Ether

author: RCMR
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 03, 2012, 01:46:19 am
content: No, seriously -- Australia *used* to be in Europe but it was moved when the EC was formed back in the 1980s.Dick Smith actually cut it free from Europe and towed it down below the equator to a nice little resting place off the West Coast of New Zealand.Not many people are aware of this -- just Dick and I.NBC aren't wrong -- their information is simply a little out of date