What is your least favourite continent and why

Fabb

mine is australia bcos there are lots of spiders there that are huge and snakes and stuff and that scares me

What is yours?

JohanFr

Africa. Endless potential. Tragic non-starter.

In no rush to ever go there.

BabyE

Fabb wrote: »

mine is australia bcos there are lots of spiders there that are huge and snakes and stuff and that scares me

What is yours?

The Americas, two continents, two cultures. Compare it to europes diversity :O

GLaDOS

France.

Skylinehead

GLaDOS wrote: »

France.

Nobody ever says Italy.

Zaph

Asia, constantly trying to muscle in on European stuff like the football qualifiers and the Eurovision. Fcuk off back to your own continent. :mad:

GLaDOS

Zaph wrote: »

Asia, constantly trying to muscle in on European stuff like the football qualifiers and the Eurovision. Fcuk off back to your own continent. :mad:

They can leave their cuisine here though

Outlaw Pete

Z.

ThinkProgress

Bongo Bongo land.

If that's where we all originally came from, thank f*ck we left when we did... :P

harry Bailey esq

Until Ryanair start pushing cheap flights to 'Beunos Aires south' ill have to say Antarctica.Its so poxy that people often forget its even a continent in its own right.

kjl

I would have to say ketchup.

Butters1979

Atlantis. We care so little we've stopped looking. F*** you Atlantis. Stay lost.

kneemos

I feel like we're all drifting apart.

RobertKK

Antarctica as it is too cold.

uch

I think Bray is the worst continent because it's so close to Dublin, but no Cigar

learn_more

incontinent is my least favourite

jacksie66

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iLikeWaffles

learn_more wrote: »

incontinent is my least favourite

Showing a terrible lack of self-restraint there but you beat me to it.

kneemos

From once we came so shall we all be one.

Duckworth_Luas

Pangaea. Completely stupid continent. Thank God some ancient Yoko Ono came along to split it up.

Fabb

Fabb wrote: »

mine is australia bcos there are lots of spiders there that are huge and snakes and stuff and that scares me

The people. You forgot to mention the people. Loud and annoying.

I don't like it when other people generalise about nationalities, Irish are all drunk, the French are rude, the Swiss are all thrifty members of the Green Party, or whatever. And out of a population of 25 million I've only dealt with about fifty, so granted not a massive cross section of society. But by God I've never met one that wasn't a complete and insufferable pain in the hole.

FTA69

JohanFr wrote: »

Africa. Endless potential. Tragic non-starter.

In no rush to ever go there.

You're missing out. You could spend your whole life exploring Africa and only scratch the surface. You could go to Morocco and hike through the Rif mountains and watch huge macaques bound across the hillsides before you jump into a waterfall pool. You could go to Algeria and visit Roman ruins or sit on massive sand dunes and look at the expanse of the Sahara. You could go to Victoria Falls in Zambia or tour wine producing areas at the Cape. You could see all manner of fantastic wildlife and meet extremely sound people.

Africa offers a huge amount to any traveller.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Salt, I just don't like the taste of it, pepper comes a close second.

philstar

Fabb wrote: »

mine is australia bcos there are lots of spiders there that are huge and snakes and stuff and that scares me

What is yours?

don't mean to be anal,

but is australia a continent?

suicide_circus

learn_more wrote: »

incontinent is my least favourite

In which continent is it worst to be incontinent in?

Ragnar Lothbrok

FTA69 wrote: »

You're missing out. You could spend your whole life exploring Africa and only scratch the surface. You could go to Morocco and hike through the Rif mountains and watch huge macaques bound across the hillsides before you jump into a waterfall pool. You could go to Algeria and visit Roman ruins or sit on massive sand dunes and look at the expanse of the Sahara. You could go to Victoria Falls in Zambia or tour wine producing areas at the Cape. You could see all manner of fantastic wildlife and meet extremely sound people.

Africa offers a huge amount to any traveller.

Africa scares the s*** out of me.

Watch everything you've listed above on TV with a nice mug of tea and you're virtually guaranteed not to be killed by lions, spiders, crocodiles, hippos, etc. (not forgetting the "extremely sound people" who might just kill you too)

joeguevara

philstar wrote: »

don't mean to be anal,

but is australia a continent?

Yes, a long with a couple of other small islands, is a continent.

artanevilla

uch wrote: »

I think Bray is the worst continent because it's so close to Dublin, but no Cigar

I think the Spar sells Hamlets?

kneemos

Did he think about the morals of spending gazillions on a Mars colony when folk on earth are starving.
Who's going to pay for it without a return.
I reackon anybody who would want to leave earth to live in a bubble on a God forsaken dark shoitehole are probably not the sort you want to spend the rest of your life with.

Buona Fortuna

kneemos wrote: »

I reackon anybody who would want to leave earth to live in a bubble on a God forsaken dark shoitehole are probably not the sort you want to spend the rest of your life with.

Do you mean Dublin?

the groutch

B

kneemos

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Do you mean Dublin?

Oops wrong thread.

Your Face

Ballina

Boom_Bap

Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »

Africa scares the s*** out of me.

Watch everything you've listed above on TV with a nice mug of tea and you're virtually guaranteed not to be killed by lions, spiders, crocodiles, hippos, etc. (not forgetting the "extremely sound people" who might just kill you too)

I've been to different parts of Africa a few times now and have only been killed twice.

turnikett1

I don't have a "least favourite" continent because I don't make sweeping generalizations over hundreds of millions of people from wildly varying cultures and environments.

The_Valeyard

ThinkProgress wrote: »

Bongo Bongo land.

If that's where we all originally came from, thank f*ck we left when we did... :P

Each morning, a missionary advertises neon sign
He tells the native population that civilization is fine
And three educated savages holler from a bamboo tree
That civilization is a thing for me to see

So bongo, bongo, bongo, I don't want to leave the congo, oh no no no no no
Bingo, bangle, bungle, I'm so happy in the jungle, I refuse to go
Don't want no bright lights, false teeth, doorbells, landlords, I make it clear
(That no matter how they coax him) I'll stay right here

I looked through a magazine the missionary's wife concealed (magazine, what happens )
I see how people who are civilized bung you with automobile (you know you can get hurt that way Daniel)
At the movies they have got to pay many coconuts to see (what do they see, darling)
Uncivilized pictures that the newsreel takes of me

So bongo, bongo, bongo, he don't want to leave the congo, oh no no no no no
Bingo, bangle, bungle, he's so happy in the jungle, he refuse to go
Don't want no penthouse, bathtub, streetcars, taxis, noise in my ear
(So, no matter how they coax him) I'll stay right here

kneemos

turnikett1 wrote: »

I don't have a "least favourite" continent because I don't make sweeping generalizations over hundreds of millions of people from wildly varying cultures and environments.

The hell kind of attitude is that!

Larbre34

turnikett1 wrote: »

I don't have a "least favourite" continent because I don't make sweeping generalizations over hundreds of millions of people from wildly varying cultures and environments.

Yeah thats all very well but its still Asia isnt it? Asia? Yes?

Get off your high horse,this isnt about the people there, its about our experiences of other continents relative to our pampered european ways.

I met some lovely people in India, China, Thailand, Vietnam etc but i didnt like many of the places there as i found them to be hot, filthy, shabby, cramped, dangerous (both criminal and safety wise), slightly savage and i was ill all the time.

So, Asia.

demanufactured

In-continent

Ragnar Lothbrok

I'm going to Bali next year for my daughter's wedding (she lives in Australia with her fiancé). Wish she was getting married in Cork instead

I don't want to visit any other continent apart from Europe. Nothing to do with the people, but every other continent seems to have evolved flora & fauna, environments and weather with the sole aim of killing it's human inhabitants.

If I can't walk to the local pub for a couple of pints without being attacked by lions or killed by tsunamis or freezing to death in a snowstorm or having to climb a mountain or traverse a jungle, then I don't feel the need to go there.

Oh, I don't like Dublin, either

Badly Drunk Boy

turnikett1 wrote: »

I don't have a "least favourite" continent because I don't make sweeping generalizations over hundreds of millions of people from wildly varying cultures and environments.

Hundreds of millions? On Antarctica? 5000 on a good day!

Cookie_Monster

Zealandia, 93% underwater.
The other 7% is pretty good though

pickarooney

Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »

I'm going to Bali next year for my daughter's wedding (she lives in Australia with her fiancé). Wish she was getting married in Cork instead

I don't want to visit any other continent apart from Europe. Nothing to do with the people, but every other continent seems to have evolved flora & fauna, environments and weather with the sole aim of killing it's human inhabitants.

If I can't walk to the local pub for a couple of pints without being attacked by lions or killed by tsunamis or freezing to death in a snowstorm or having to climb a mountain or traverse a jungle, then I don't feel the need to go there.

Oh, I don't like Dublin, either

You certainly live up to your bold and adventurous name there Ragnar.

Ragnar Lothbrok

pickarooney wrote: »

You certainly live up to your bold and adventurous name there Ragnar.

Left England for Cork when I was 23. That's been more than enough adventure for me, thank you very much

JohanFr

JohanFr wrote: »

Africa. Endless potential. Tragic non-starter.

In no rush to ever go there.

I done a study about Globalisation in college couple of years back. Unsurprisingly, the lowest countries on the Human Development Index were the least globalised (Mostly Sub-Saharan African nations). The Asian countries such as Vietnam, etc, by contrast are booming.

For Forks Sake

Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »

I'm going to Bali next year for my daughter's wedding (she lives in Australia with her fiancé). Wish she was getting married in Cork instead

I don't want to visit any other continent apart from Europe. Nothing to do with the people, but every other continent seems to have evolved flora & fauna, environments and weather with the sole aim of killing it's human inhabitants.

If I can't walk to the local pub for a couple of pints without being attacked by lions or killed by tsunamis or freezing to death in a snowstorm or having to climb a mountain or traverse a jungle, then I don't feel the need to go there.

Oh, I don't like Dublin, either

Location: Cork City

There's a surprise alright.

HensVassal

Incontinent in any continent.