Where In The World...

[Franko]

Where In The World...

Just curious to get an idea of the where Amiga.org members are in the world. I of course couldn't put each country here separately, so instead I've just put them under a category that hopefully covers just about everyone.

Heck I've even had to lump Scotland in with the UK, quite a hard choice to make that one was...

Also the list is not a league table, so don't be offended at your position on the table it was purely random...

1) UK & Eire
2) Scandinavia
3) Europe
4) North America
5) South America
6) Australia & New Zealand
7) Asia & The Middle East
Africa North & South
9) The Poles North & South !
10) Somewhere Else...

[Franko]

Well, many Americans consider UK part of Europe too.

I know, but we do allow for the American education system here, and therefore let you off with that line of thinking...

That's why we don't lump Americans & Canadians together, a far better education system here....

It's bad enough for me having to lump Scotland in with the UK, but even I wouldn't go as far a lumping in the UK with Europe. Thats why we still use £s and not Euros, were mostly a bunch of nationalistic anti Euro sceptics here... :biglaugh:

(but we still love our European comrades

@ ferix

For me UK is a lot more European than Spain...

Were you educated in America !!! :lol:

[Franko]

+1

[Franko]

The general education system here is not good, and it is getting worse, but we still have several of the top higher education and research institutions in the world.  And it's so much easier to get your Ph.D. in the UK than here in the US -- it's really quite an astonishing difference in the physical sciences!  I think that's true for the rest of Europe too.  ;-)

The education system in the UK is not much better to be honest. The lack of discipline in schools along with the dumbing down of all levels of exams in recent years just to achieve higher pass rate figures in government league tables, has only led to the sorry state of this country which is rapidly being overrun by the Neds & Chavs culture that has come of all this dumbing down & Political Correctness.

I think it's the same in most countries these day's but here in the UK it's a really big problem and not getting any better.

@ JJ
Love that Anthem...
(especially at the end of ZULU...)

[Franko]

And - by the way - the usual "EU bashing" is getting really boring. Even the brits work with the € since more than 20 years, everything you do, everything you sell, the whole british economy is based on the € since middle/end of the 80's. This has indeed nothing to do with that more or less funny coloured paper you use as money in the streets.

I can assure you the man or woman in the street here in the UK doesn't use the Euro on a daily basis (if ever), probably the only time any of us see some of this mickey mouse currency is when going on holiday, personally I've never even seen this toy money...

[Franko]

Where are the users from the north and south pole, I'm sure Trevor D lives at one of them...

[Franko]

That so many Brits are unable to comprehend that the British isles (and Scandinavia for that matter) is part of Europe, and that Europe is a geographical term and not a political one, says alot about their educational system.

You won't even find a Glaswegian claiming to have anything to do with Edinburgh, let alone being British, so as far as being European goes you've got no chance...

It's in the genes, it's a birthright, strongly defended in these little isles, well that and the simple fact we just love to hate each other... :biglaugh:

@ Kesa

How can you vote Somewhere Else, I know, You Know, We all Know, your a deported Englishman sent down under to the penal colonies... :roflmao:

[Franko]

@ Smerf

Scotland is located in a small hamlet in the southern most tip of Ireland, which in turn is located in an ashtray at the end of a public bar in Wales, all of which of course are located in an old ladies flowerpot somewhere in England which just so happens to be floating above the Isle of Wight right now...

@ MrMoonlight

On the train journey back home, my dad traded his piece of goalpost for a bit a the hallowed turf, which took pride of place in my mums back garden for many years. Unfortunately the weeds eventually took over and no-one could ever quite remember exactly which part of mums back garden was that wee bit of Wembly...

[Franko]

Finland is not part of Scandinavia, so I have to choose Europe. Perhaps "Nordic countries" would have been more suitable?

As I said at the start of the thread I didn't have enough options to cover everything (10 Max) but you're right "Nordic Countries" may have been a better choice of words...

The atlas of the the world sure has changed since I was at School many old countries have either disappeared or split up or changed name since I passed my geography O'level (especially the European ones), still at the end of the day we all have one thing in common, were all Citizens Of The 3rd Rock From The Sun...

[Franko]

Uh oh... those Europeans have taken the lead even over the good ole boys from the U S of  A, with us Euro Sceptics in the UK taking bronze as usual, still at least we're doing better than the colonists in down under land... :laughing:

[Franko]

That shouldn't be the case as more Amiga's were sold in the UK, but maybe their not as active as the rest of Europe.

I know, but when the EU opened all it's borders there were a quite a number of Polish folk who came to work here and one thing I noticed as I made friends with quite a number of them, is that they would buy any Amiga hardware they could as well as stuff like mobile phones and send or take it back home to Poland with them.

From the Polish friends that I made, it would seem that there is quite a big Amiga Scene in Poland these days, could be one of the reasons why the UK doesn't have so many now, the UK users sold all their Amiga hardware just to make a quick buck and now there having to buy it back via ebay...