'Murica

Because where you make the map is always the unchanging center.

Actually, it was the Muslims who attempted to make the first accurate maps of the world.

Notice who's in the middle here.

Thanks white people.

chinese consider north to be south as well

Greenwich, England actually. Hence GMT: Greenwich Mean Time

But it doesn't cut a continent in half.

Gave them a month and "free" casinos? i dont get it, what happened?

Holy hell, are you one of those retards? Now wait, what's even more stupid than a retard?

I always thought maps looked like that because GMT, all the countries that are -GMT are on the left and all the countries that are +GMT, so it makes sense that England is in the middle.

Well, fine then. Iceland. They are always at UTC. they dont change for daylight savings and they are in the middle too. Shall we just say that Iceland is in the middle and call it a day :D

P.S We came from England.

Good reason too, GMT is the central time on Earth, makes sense to put it in the middle

Actually, your logic is backwards, since the reason why Greenich became the central time zone is the same as the reason it's at the center of maps - Brittain ruling the world during colonial times.

Your spelling's pretty backwards too

That does not invalidate my point. It also doesn't make you any less wrong.

But i most say, splitting the map by the pacific is a good idea, since only that one little bit is cut over

The British actually made the first maps that had accurate longitude measurements with them and the prime meridian runs through Greenwich, England where the royal observatory is. They had a contest to see who could come up with a device to accurately measure longitudes and in order to have a benchmark, the royal observatory was to be the prime meridian. That's what my professor told me so take it for what it's worth.

Also why the prime meridian is in Greenwich. Crafty Brits making themselves the center of attention.

All they did was curcumsize Russia

Isn't the Prime Meridian in the middle of the map?

actually gabon is in the middle of the map you uploaded

callin the bullshit, i like it

the first maps? you're probably right, british were the first to think of map making. silly goose, you

First accurate world maps.

Fair enough :P

also, prime meridian.

Wut u fokin say m8?

U wot m8 you woulnt las a minit in a fite wiv me init bruv? dont test bruv me ill fuckin reck u!

which cunts? so many in the world, be specific anon fag

We're sorry

America forgives, I don't.

Just kidding, Canadians are awesome

Canada is America, It's not the United states, But it is America

North America to be Exact

That robot has too much swag...

Greetings fellow north american

U.S. Citizens

"America" refers to the United States. You can't make the argument that Canadians are Americans because they aren't, they're North Americans.

I know it sounds weird but you understand what I'm saying, right?

There's two American continents, South and North America, Central America isn't a continent.

Oh, don't worry, they don't need our help with that

Wot

I tried to read it at first, thinking it was a totally different thing.

wanted to be the have you ever tention so bad center of at sia in half you cut a

Yay logic

America is what's cut in half... Asia is the center of attention.

Somebody gloved up.

Hate to be that guy, but i world map is usually spitted between Asia and west USA.

I think you missed the joke

Ahh i get it now.

Having been to Australia, the only difference is that they put their country in the middle, not upside down...

The Earth looks really weird like that.
Wow.

oh hey look, another joke about Australia being upside down...
Too bad you put the map the right way up...
Srayan's: 1
rest of the world: 0

Unfortunately, it is not true and you were lied to by your teacher.

Thank god he isn't teaching Geography eh?

How would you know, if you're only in Canada?

Oh yea just kinda realized it really makes no difference which way you look at the earth.

This is now really counter intuitive. Here south is upwards and east is to the left. And Australians being ascendants of the British Empire, they would have been used to English maps.

All this being said: the first maps, before sailors started using the North Star and compasses for navigation, most maps had east on top of the map(probably because of the sun rising in the east.)

Its not technically wrong, North is 'up' and south is 'down just because that's what we're all used to seeing. On a solar system scale of things either direction is fine. I knew a Geography teacher who had one of these purely to make that point.

I hope to fuck you're kidding.

Something about this hurts me just looking at it...

The South Pole is apparently the North Pole in Australia.

no, the south pole is still the south pole, it's just on the top part of the map.

Learn2Geography n00b.

It was a joke dude...

mine was also, did you not see the part where i said "learn2geagraphy n00b"

why would i say that if i was serious

why?

I actually wasn't kidding...I'm so sorry.

S'alright m8

russia and canada are smushed, what the fuck, australia?

thats how it actually is on a round globe...

yeah, they should be finding more excuses to jack off americans

MFW 'jack off'

Maybe because they put GMT in the middle of the map and don't cut any continent in half.

Retard alert. GMT was decided to be the England, since they made England the center of the world

Ah no. GMT was the time that was set at a busy shipping port and it was very common for people to set their watches to that time, so it became the +0. Basically they thought of a system the rest of the world liked and so uses while americans like you still complain cause it's not a 'MURICAN time system.

But can you imagine how big the world is? I mean, that map is showing a huge portion of Earth, and we aren't even seeing the other half either!

world maps are more pictures put together into a flat version of earth

dat sarcasm

Yeah, apparently to advanced for funnyjunk

No one gets it, we can make it as obvious as we want but it doesn't matter. Cleverness is wasted sometimes.

please tell me your joking.

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And yes i am joking.

Thumbs up for you, sir.

No, the Babylonians invented the idea of maps, Europeans improved it, but they did not invent it.

But you said Europeans invented them m8.

Technically you writing your flaw in caps, does not make it louder. Allow me to open my fucking ears.

"That's probably cause the invented them" - timmywankenobi

k.

some of this entire argument: timmywankenobi GOT OWNED

Obviously not

You weren't completely wrong, but the way you went about your argument was childish and borderline illiterate. If you improve your argument tactics and grammar, people may actually view your point seriously.

consider the following this if funny junk not the national debate team . I just gave a very basic explaination not a entire essay because I didn't think it would be nessary but clearly I was mistaken .

Clearly.

You really are full of yourself. By claiming that the Europeans recreated something that already existed does not mean you are right. In fact that means you are wrong because the devise was already made by the Babylonians THEN the Europeans adopted it.

Good Day.

MFW I finish reading these comments.

I want the heavy weight belt.

the bablyonians made a poorer and more basic map completely different from modern maps . eruopean maps are an invention no different then a ipod.

The ipod is just an mp3 player with a name. Apple does not claim to have invented the mp3 player, they just produced the ipod to compete.

The European map is simply an improvement and the idea was probably obtained through trading

I said Good Day!

they do claim that they invented the Ipod, furthermore the patent office has declared and creation that vastly changes or improves a previously existing invention is in it self a new invention,ergo european maps are an invention in their own right, ergo your a massive fagget. egro I was right .

(in response to #260)
Awe is it past someone's bed time
Poor word choice does make a statement wrong, you did not oversimplify your original statement, you just said it wrong no more no less, do not try to claim you are in the right. Claim responsibility for your actions and quit trying to be elusive by saying people should be able to understand a complicated meaning.

If one is meant to think further into something such as my definition of invention, you would have been able to see that the example you followed up with would have fallen into that category because it merely added features, it did not change what a map did.

I suppose not everyone would share the US patent offices definition of invention as I do but that is your limitation not mine, and arguing semantics is pointless and tiresome.

You fail to understand why that definition is in place. If the patent office did not allow variation in products, capitalism could not thrive in the US. This definition has a purpose and loses the meaning that it wishes to portray. With this several types of cars can exist. If they adopted a more philosophical definition like mine, all car variations would still simply be cars and therefore who ever came up with it first reaps the benefits.

I understand perfectly the problem here is our definitions differ and that caused the issue at hand so really we are both right and wrong, and this battle of semantics could go on forever .

First of all I said leave.

Second running to find a definition to benefit your cause proves nothing because this definition was made to encompass a broad spectrum of things so that capitalism can thrive.

Third A thing that is designed for a particular task is part of the rest of the items that are designed to do the same thing. All mp3 players are mp3 players, all maps are maps. No new task was accomplished so no new thing was invented. (you cannot say the new task is the location because the task is a record of geographical information)

Continue to argue, our peers already decided who was wrong and who was right before I even got involved, You kept ranting like an ass and I don't even know how you got popular here.

european maps did complete a new task they tell elevation and distance and encompass a greater area in more detail . and you second assumption is just as wrong as your first you seem to believe the amount of thumbs= how right you are,there is no such correlation. unlike you I don't require some faggets approval to determin weather I am correct or not,I use fact and common sense something many here are clearly lacking.

(in response to #238)
First of all, learn to spell and use Your/You're correctly. It's one thing to not have excellent English skills but trying to claim you are smart and saying your instead of you're does not help.

Next if you word something wrong, you have to accept that you are wrong. If you say something incorrectly that is on you, we cannot tell for sure what you are thinking so we have to use the words you put on the screen.

Lastly, constantly trying to prove you are right does not make you any more or less wrong than you were before. Everyone knows what you said and you handled the situation incorrectly. Your carelessness caused you to look like a complete dumb-ass and I don't see how anyone can respect someone so full of them-self.

it is late at night and I am tired forgive my spelling errors, but a typo or poor choice of a single word does not make your whole statement wrong. you are correct I am wasting my time here I over simplified my original statement thinking there were some semi intelligent people here that would understand and a complicated explanation would not be required; I was mistaken.

Are you still on this?

Like I said earlier, I want the belt.

kinda.

I never used thumbs as a way of approval, I used them to show that our peers rejected YOUR views and YOUR vision. You completely failed to think beyond what was displayed in front of you or else you would see the first part of your argument is wrong.

I did use facts gained in my education and common sense would tell YOU to revisit your argument to see how you were wrong. Do not tell someone to use something if you first do not use them.

ha what people on this site feel about my statements is irrelevant I know I am right, I may have worded my first statement poorly but that doesn't make it wrong . if you could read you would see I reiterated my point repeatedly in different ways but your all so dumb I had to spell it out in small words for you to grasp it , as I clearly overestimated the deniziens of fj's intelligence. Do not tell some they are wrong without reading what the wrote !


here it is again for your benefit :
"okay maybe if I use very simple small words so as no to confuse you . "Europeans put themselves in the middle of most maps"-nortledrones
yes they probably did this because they created/made/("invented"-admittedly not the best descriptor) all the modern maps we commonly use and thus viewed them self as the center of the world. "

is this the only reaction pic you have?

Yes.

good to know

Go to google images.
Search "World Map"
???
You're fucking retarded!

i. what? im saying the content is incorrect and i have never seen a map like the content. i don't know why you told me to look at maps cause i know what maps look like

Oh. The way you replied to comment 84 made it seem like you were saying the way you had seen most maps was with America in the middle. Sorry for the misunderstanding. My apologies.

its alright, i said that in regards to the picture in the comment.

Well you're still getting your red thumbs for making people think that you are 'murrican dumbnut. Enjoy the shower

i will,,,i have that gif too. yay

guise, guise, im saying i saw it the way in the comments. im not retarded guise

I don't hate Americans or America. It's just that I like to look at these silly little things America does that contradicts the rest of the world. Australia got a fucked up map as well.

And I neither claim that they are overly nationalistic or arrogant, nor that we're better than them. But there are some things with America that's pretty different from Europe. I think it was like half of all Americans don't believe the sun is a star.

They bring it upon themselves

I'll just leave these here:
www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2013/mar/05/world-top-100-universities-reputation-rankings-times-higher-education#data
http://www.aneki.com/nobel.html

well of fucking course Harvard!

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle!

Canada is the most educated state in the world, in terms of percentage of people with a college or higher degree.

It's no doubt private learning institutions are able to have much higher quality, though, considering the market system the united states has.

The U.S. is fourth. And that's roughly 150 million people with degrees.

The U.S. private schools are probably the best in the world. I'm not saying that because I'm American, I'm saying that because when you compare U.S. private schools to those in other countries the U.S. blows them out of the water. The only problem is that property taxes are what pay for schools so poorer areas don't produce as well. Ricer areas like Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, San Francisco, Miami, etc. produce students that rival, if not surpass our counterparts across the globe.

Canadian schools are great and are also really cheap. McGill University is within 20 minutes of my house and will cost me under 6,000 dollars a semester, including books.

I go to the University of Arizona. 5000 dollars roughly

Shit, I meant to tell you this is all per year, not per semester.

Community college? or is that private?

McGill is like our equivalent to Harvard, though. That's the thing. I'm in CEGEP right now and it's costing me 2 grand a semester. That's kind of like our community college.

What are you studying? I'm curious c:

I wouldn't say you can claim anything to be the "equivalent" of Harvard. Like people saying Stanford is the Harvard of the West, or Vanderbilt is the Harvard of the South.
Arizona is a public land grant university.

I major in writing (top 5 in the country for writing undergrad)
and minor in astronomy (#1 in the country for space sciences)

People forget that when you go to a university you're going for what you want to study. U of A beats Harvard and many of the Ivy Leagues in several areas. We are #2 in the world for environmental sciences, the world leader in atmospheric sciences and climate change research.

It's harder to get into certain American schools, especially since more people come to school here in the States more than any other country in the world. Not just Chinese, but plenty of Europeans come to go to school here because it's cheaper, and because the curriculum is considered the best.

Am I sounding arrogant? Yeah, but there is some truth to what I say. This is why most other nations continue to structure their schools after the U.S. model. McGill is McGill and you can't really compare it to another school unless it's the same field, Harvard is Harvard, MIT is MIT. Harvard is known primarily for law and business, whereas Johns Hopkins is spectacular in medical sciences, UCLA in engineering sciences, USC for film school, U of A for space sciences, Washington in water sciences, and Berkley for Journalism.

I just meant that Harvard is the the U.S as McGill is to Canada, that's all!

Oh, okay. I would have thought the University of Toronto would be considered the Harvard of Canada

Yeah, it was higher in your listings.

But I've seen from many more sources within Canada that McGill is higher up. I've stopped by both, and have friends that have gone to both schools. More often than not they prefer McGill. Plus, Montreal is a way nicer city than Toronto (doesn't have much to do with anything, but whatevs.)

I would say without a doubt it's the best school in Canada. But, in reality, it doesn't make THAT much of a difference.

hrrrrr you made a typo on the internet you must be a retard.

Canada isn't a state...

"State commonly refers to either the present condition of a system or entity, or to a governed entity (such as a country) or sub-entity (such as an autonomous territory of a country)."

Erhm. Big S. Sorry.

Canada is a State. The USA is a State. Cambodia is a State. Russia is a State. etc, etc.

Misunderstanding then. I assumed you were referring to it as a state such as Virginia, Wyoming, etc.

Yeah, I can understand the confusion. I'm used to referring to countries as States.

We coo, bra?

yeah mang

toatz

Nice!

Haha I thought it was funny

Im no funny dude, am complete cereal.

Pic related, it's you.

**fabelousnagger rolled a random image posted in comment #32 at 100% Repost. Sue me. ** you made my day

Just no.......

Why no? u rectalfrustracted Eureofeg? Can't like haveing to wake up at noon every day?

No, American, just saddens me is all, I shan't explain. I just have vomited a bit of faith, no biggie.

I just knew someone was going to take this seriously....

pic unrelated

Most of our maps tend to be like this. Which on the surface is really stupid, but when you think about it, wouldn't it make sense to make your nation the primary geographic region for ease of use? Also, WE'RE not the ones who are so arrogant as to call the part of the Eurasian continent we live on, a separate continent. I mean come on, look at Europe. LOOK AT IT! How the FUCK is that a continent? Look to your own idiocies before attempting to construct idiocies in others.

An American making good points knocking other countries? Go the fuck back to heaven, you don't belong here.

Wish I could, Mate, wish I could. But they got it wrong, it's not All Dogs go to Heaven, it's ONLY dogs go to heaven (and Mormons...and atheists. I guess they figured heaven was less cliche than hell and that it would piss them off just the same if not more) So I'm just sitting here in Purgatory (Suburbia) with a lousy internet connection (seriously, the bandwidth issues in here are terrible) and a control block on all the good porn sites.

you're a good man, charlie brown...........

There is a lot of different continent counts. The most basic one says there are 5 continents, but in other ones there's up to 20-something.

Nice one.

You must go to a shitty school, I still looks maps today just by interests, and to get assignments done. I don't know, maybe it's just personal preference.

For what classes?

I still have IB economics and it deals with world economics so I look at countries locations to determine their investment value at certain times of the year.

2/10

Eh don't flatter yourself, afaik most countries are made fun of on the internet.

I'd say I see more about North korea than about the us

Now you know how women, or other minoritys on funnyjunk feel.

No, for the first time I agree with these people. How far is this going to go?
Its sickening to see everyday at least 4-6 posts about America.

I love these posts, but overusing the joke is already killing it.

Also, people have opinions.

^this is the kind of shit that makes people think you are faggots.

Take a joke, faggot

Neither have Europeans. Nobody uses this form of the world map. The person who created this content is just very moronic.

I saw a map like this in fourth grade. The only reason I remember it was because someone drew balls next to Venezuela and made South America a giant dick.

I've been to Murcia. Lovely place.

That made me raugh!

LOL!!! This dumb fuck

Sorry, can't hear you over my oil. Can you repeat?