Where is Queensland?

[AdrianF]

I have just received an email from a friend with a screen shot from a CNN bulletin concerning TC Yasi.

Adrian
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[erick]

A "picture" tells a thousand........................... ....lies (if it has been anywhere near a computer)

[supernova1965]

I thought the weather had changed lately:P:rofl:

[Draconis]

They probably think Tassie is those two small islands we used to call New Zealand :screwy:

[CarlJoseph]

Graphics must've been done by the same person at Fox News. Egypt's moved too!

[Zaps]

Guys, don't sweat it.

Americans can't even find their way around a map of the USA, so don't expect them to know anything about foreign places they've barely heard of.

Their ignorance often makes me feel embarrassed and ashamed. :doh:

[mithrandir]

I was sent that map during the week.

Queensland and Queenstown are the same place?

[Kevnool]

Makes you wonder why Queenstown is on the map.
Probably a big joke.

Cheers Kev.

[M110]

Stupid geographically challanged yanks, is what that is. We had that story in The Mercury a few days ago.
If it's not Mexco, Canada or Cuba, the yanks have no idea.

[Draconis]

They wont be letting the work experience kid loose on the computer again thats for sure :P

[renormalised]

Work experience kid???....More like the head editor at CNN:):P

[Jeffkop]

Yep ... yer right folks ... Anyone who holds a world series but only they contest it are going to struggle knowing anything about whats not under their rock !!!!

[Ric]

I find that very amusing yet strangely disturbing. :D

[Draconis]

Although it would be a good idea if Queensland were able to be easily transported down there for a while every year, the last 2 weeks in Brisbane were so humid it would be nice to just say 'right boys take her down' and if the cooler weather wont go to us lets go to it!;)

[Waxing_Gibbous]

Take ultimate American intellectual Britney Spears (please!);
"Yeah, I've been overseas. Like to Canada and stuff"
I'm not sure where 'stuff' is, though.

[Chillie]

I normally have NASA TV running in the background (to use up excess bandwidth). A couple of months back NASA reported the ISS was between Australia and Tasmania.

[Draconis]

Maybe the ferry wasnt working? It does have solar 'sails'..sorry couldnt help myself :D

[Zaps]

Most of the Aussies of my acquaintance still believe that Americans know (or want to know) everything about Australia! The sad fact is that most Americans have zero interest in anything beyond their own county lines. They know very little about their own state. The world beyond the U.S.A. is a quaint and bizarre amusement park they may visit some day, but probably not.

[renormalised]

Actually, it's more likely another planet....might have to turn the Kepler in our direction:):P

[FlashDrive]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Good one Andrew .... had to laugh at that mate ... brilliantly said .... !! :thumbsup:

[Zaps]

The problem is that the vast majority of Americans are totally ignorant of anything that isn't happening within their immediate neighborhood. Sure, most of them have heard of Canada, Mexico and Cuba, but few could point them out on any map that didn't have flashing neon labels. There are Americans who cannot tell you if Canada is to the north or south of them. More to the point they don't care about not knowing. Is it surprising that so few Americans know anything about Australia, or even where it is, when they don't care about Australia, or anywhere else outside their immediate vicinity?

[renormalised]

I remember a survey that was done years ago where they figured out that something like 45% of the population of the US didn't even know where on a world map their own country was...and that most of them didn't even realise that the Earth orbited the Sun, or the time it took to make that orbit.