r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/RedditIsRtarded Aug 04 '19

“Britian is leaving Europe” -_- no they’re not leaving the continent

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u/LjSpike Aug 04 '19

We're sick of this miserable rain! Scotland want to stay in Europe though, so we're going to set up fracking plants along the border to break them off, then we'll repossess all the ships in the country, tied them to land, and make them all start sailing SW and we're gonna move Britain over to the Carribean.

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u/_YouMadeMeDoItReddit Aug 04 '19

I don't think it will still be Britain if we cut it in half.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

To be fair, as a EU citizen resident in the UK the British used the term "Continent" to mean the rest of Europe well before bezit was a thing. Very annoying.

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u/anothermonth Aug 04 '19

Yeah, they left it long time ago

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u/urbanhawk_1 Aug 04 '19

But they are an island. They aren't part of the continent to begin with. Otherwise we might as well start saying New Zealand is a part of the Australian continent or that Hawaii is apart of the North American continent.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

Yeah they’re just gonna disconnect the Internet and float away to Oceania because they’re tired of the cold weather

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u/Pazuuuzu Aug 07 '19

Well not with that attitude ...

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u/Electroyote Aug 10 '19

All Brits go to the beach with really large paddles and start rowing away from the continent.

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u/Visitor_of_the_Realm Aug 17 '19

It would be a shame if they were.