G’day, new here

[cookiebaker]

One of my favourite bits of wrong school knowledge is Europeans in the Middle Ages believing the world was flat.

there are STILL people that think the world is flat... mind boggling but true

 

[Auriel]

Is Tim tam's biscuits?

 

[Harpy]

Is Tim tam's biscuits?

Yes two choc bickies with filling in middle and covered in chocolate
So many different flavours now.
But my gf version isn’t as good.

 

[Harpy]

there are STILL people that think the world is flat... mind boggling but true

WHAAAAAAT
It’s not flat

 

[Harpy]

My daughter went up in a hot air balloon last week. World definitely round

They are going over the Hunter valley vineyards .

 

[JayCS]

you list your country as GE I am surprised that kids in school in Georgia would be taught anything about Australia

Yep, I'd be surprised too: GE is for Germany, but I didn't grow up there.

 

[JayCS]

My daughter went up in a hot air balloon last week. World definitely round

Hehe - stubborn people will say photoshop or the camera is distorting it with fisheye view... cos what can't be true isn't... I haven't given up discussing with people who believe things like this, but I find taking it to other levels like the emotional is more productive and less stressful ("Why is this important to you?" "What if...?"...)
Lovely pix, thanx!

 

[johnsalmon]

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Yep, I'd be surprised too: GE is for Germany, but I didn't grow up there.

silly m e I always thought that Germany was DE

 

[cookiebaker]

WHAAAAAAT
It’s not flat

Yes, there are people that think this.. and they are totally convinced of it too.
just like there are people that think the world is only 6000 yr old, instead of 4.5 billion...

GE is for Germany,

um, no, it isnt... I thought GE was for Germany as well, but went and looked it up, GE is for Georgia, DE is Germany, aka Deutschland

 

[johnsalmon]

GE is for Georgia, DE is Germany, aka Deutschland

yep I flew as crew with Qantas for 10 years on the b707 - required knowledge was country codes

 

[JayCS]

I thought GE was for Germany as well, but went and looked it up, GE is for Georgia, DE is Germany, aka Deutschland

I'd say it's both right, after looking again at wikipedia re. "Country codes G".
On the profile settings here it says use "international 2 character code" - but doesn't specify which one.
GE is right for Germany in NATO two-letter code, the NATO is international, so is right.
DE is only right in "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2" - "I" in "ISO" means international. That'd be the one used for URLs too.
The ISO has 167 members, NATO 31, so I spose ISO is a bit more international....
It's DEU in NATO three-letter code, GER in IOC country code..
And there's loads more... ICAO airport code prefix: ED, ET (!!), ICAO aircraft regis. prefix is D- like the license plate code.

Georgia's alternate abbreviations are GG and GEO.

Well, you'll have to bear with it, cos the software considers changing GE to DE as spam, maybe that was the problem.

 

[Harpy]

Hope everyone is doing ok.
I should get a call off the hospital today to let me know when to fast and what time to arrive at the private hospital, whoohoo been wait 4 years for this endoscopic procedure.
Hopefully I will get some answers as to why I have this reflux.
So excited

 

[cookiebaker]

Good luck, Harpy!! hope you get answers!

 

[Auriel]

 

[Harpy]

I have already got one call. They just wanted to know if I was on blood pressure, am diabetic , on blood thinners or allergic to anything.
She said they will ring this afternoon for fasting information.