Troye Sivan reveals he thought that the UK left Europe’s continent

[LateToCult 37,118]

51 minutes ago, Lukasson said:

Who in the world refers to the European Union as Europe? 
 

One can make up a lot of excuses for being not educated enough.

Actually a lot of institutions of higher education and figures in the political landscape use “Europe” as a way to refer to the EU. There are many many instances when the continent of Europe itself is irrelevant to the conversation. Especially when it’s about things like policy, but it would almost be silly to go out of your way to make sure to say “the European Union.” Might as well just say “Germany and France” because those are the relevant parties 80% of the time when the EU is being discussed. 

[Lukasson 439]

15 minutes ago, LateToCult said:

Actually a lot of institutions of higher education and figures in the political landscape use “Europe” as a way to refer to the EU. There are many many instances when the continent of Europe itself is irrelevant to the conversation. Especially when it’s about things like policy, but it would almost be silly to go out of your way to make sure to say “the European Union.” Might as well just say “Germany and France” because those are the relevant parties 80% of the time when the EU is being discussed. 

Obviously this leads to confusion and shouldn‘t be used without context and one should take the silly route and call it the European Union to not further confuse our current pop singers.

[Gorehound 2,555]

Stay in school kids.

[RAMROD 98,496]

2 hours ago, Lukasson said:

Who in the world refers to the European Union as Europe? 
 

One can make up a lot of excuses for being not educated enough.

There are more people than you know. People usually say or text they are going to visit EU as in Europe. European Union as a concept is giving very local pop girl outside Europe actually.

[Pharamon 6,777]

just focus on making songs about gay s*x troye

[lastpopicon 533]

7 hours ago, malzejar said:

Ignorance is not cute, sorry. 

But he is 

[palma 4,329]

This reminds me of when Madonna came to Istanbul in the 90s and called the Bosphorus (the strait separating Europe from Asia) a river  

Americans and their level geographic ignorance never fails to make me giggle 

[River 95,778]

8 hours ago, Cello said:

Literally, it's continents, it's such basic stuff  how is a country going to leave a continent

Like this

[malzejar 1,470]

11 minutes ago, lastpopicon said:

But he is 

Highly subjective 

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1 minute ago, malzejar said:

Highly subjective 

[Naak Le Vaar 1,023]

I'm tired of these celebrities saying "quirky" things all for market appeal

[sarahb 15,324]

2 hours ago, palma said:

This reminds me of when Madonna came to Istanbul in the 90s and called the Bosphorus (the strait separating Europe from Asia) a river  

Americans and their level geographic ignorance never fails to make me giggle 

Troye Sivan is Australian

[sarahb 15,324]

6 hours ago, Eggs said:

Why does this thread have such a weird energy??? Pop star says something forgivably dumb and it's like he's desecrated some of your ancestors

I think next time I'm gonna poke fun at people from a certain country/continent I'm gonna stick to Americans, Europeans seem too defensive 

Yes, your geography knowledge sucks too sometimes, deal with it. 

[Awakened M 2,736]

10 hours ago, Red said:

Yes, a huge claw came down from the skies and physically removed the United Kingdom from European territory and dropped it in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

This statement instantly reminded me of Eternatus of the Galar region (the UK inspired Pokemon region )

[Lukasson 439]

6 hours ago, RAMROD said:

There are more people than you know. People usually say or text they are going to visit EU as in Europe. European Union as a concept is giving very local pop girl outside Europe actually.

Well, you‘re from the US. So can‘t blame you for that.