Do you ever think that Ireland is an island?

andekwarhola · 11-02-2017 10:07PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

To me Ireland looks like a teddy bear.

I always remember those Irish School Of Motoring ads when I was younger. Maybe it was me nut the first thing I always thought is that county Clare looked a bit phallic :pac:

foxy farmer · 11-02-2017 10:25PM

andekwarhola wrote: »

I always remember those Irish School Of Motoring ads when I was younger. Maybe it was me nut the first thing I always thought is that county Clare looked a bit phallic

Could be a beer gut.

bodice ripper · 11-02-2017 10:42PM

It's only an island if you look at it from the water...

Kermit.de.frog · 11-02-2017 10:47PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

To me Ireland looks like a teddy bear.

I always thought on a map Ireland looked like a small child reaching out for America and Britain a bent over creepy old pervert behind.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 11-02-2017 11:28PM

All the land masses in the world are also islands.

Agricola · 11-02-2017 11:44PM

Only when I want to go somewhere else and have to consult airline or ferry websites. Jealous of the Brits being able to hop in their car and be in the south of France / northern Italy without all that hassle.

Skylinehead · 12-02-2017 12:08AM

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

All the land masses in the world are also islands.

Nah, there's continents and then there's islands. Not the same thing, although it would get sketchy when you talk about Australia or Greenland.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 12-02-2017 12:15AM

Skylinehead wrote: »

Nah, there's continents and then there's islands. Not the same thing, although it would get sketchy when you talk about Australia or Greenland.

America north and south combined for example and all the other continents technically are islands, seeing as they are surrounded by water.May not be classified as such but they kind of are islands, just really, really big ones.

Skylinehead · 12-02-2017 12:41AM

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

America north and south combined for example and all the other continents technically are islands, seeing as they are surrounded by water.May not be classified as such but they kind of are islands, just really, really big ones.

Yeah you're probably right in a dictionary, but not in geography class

Birneybau · 12-02-2017 12:43AM

I don't think it, I know it?

Capt'n Midnight · 12-02-2017 01:54AM

Johnboner wrote: »

Yes and imagine if megatsunami happened, there would be no escape like in mainland Europe where you could just move more inland. I am sure it also affects the economy as it is more difficult to import. We don't have a tunnel like UK and France do

I'm not all that sure that an undersea tunnel is the best place to go in the event of a megatsunam

DanielODonnell · 12-02-2017 04:18AM

Much of the Irish Republic don't view Ireland as an island, I think it is the way they are taught at school like the Protestant schools in Northern Ireland. They view Ireland the island as a historical phrase that is no longer viable in todays world, to the blueshirt the only Ireland is the 26 county state and the rest of the land in the British isles is the United Kingdom, I also feel the UK is a sad term too, especially how great cultural lands Scotland and Wales are.

The funny thing is that if you see a Scot online they would write they are from Glasgow, Scotland and an English person would write Manchester, UK, England really is deprived of a cultural identity i think.

namloc1980 · 12-02-2017 04:35AM

Skylinehead wrote: »

Nah, there's continents and then there's islands. Not the same thing, although it would get sketchy when you talk about Australia or Greenland.

Australia is significantly bigger than Greenland. Also Australia sits on its own tectonic plate whereas Greenland is part of the North American plate.

JupiterKid · 12-02-2017 05:39AM

Greenland looks much bigger than it really is because of all those wall mounted Mercator projection maps make Northern lands look much larger than equatorial ones. There were the wall maps most schools had in the past.

It's a total distortion due to the way a curved sphere (the Earth) is projected onto a flat piece of paper. Since the 1970s there are better, more balanced projections used.

J Mysterio · 12-02-2017 05:49AM

foxy farmer wrote: »

To me Ireland looks like a teddy bear.

LordSutch · 12-02-2017 10:43AM

Switzerland is not an island.

...not that anyone suggested otherwise.

Avatar MIA · 12-02-2017 11:01AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I always thought on a map Ireland looked like a small child reaching out for America and Britain a bent over creepy old pervert behind.

Yeah, and what about the other ink blots the psychiatrist showed you :pac:

4ensic15 · 12-02-2017 11:17PM

JupiterKid wrote: »

Do you ever dwell on the fact that we live on an island?

It is a fact that I dwell on an island. I don't dwell on a fact unless you call an island a fact.

coco0981 · 13-02-2017 09:59PM

JupiterKid wrote: »

Greenland looks much bigger than it really is because of all those wall mounted Mercator projection maps make Northern lands look much larger than equatorial ones. There were the wall maps most schools had in the past.

It's a total distortion due to the way a curved sphere (the Earth) is projected onto a flat piece of paper. Since the 1970s there are better, more balanced projections used.

Do you ever think that Ireland is an island?

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