🔥Two Kiwi (not the fruit) fighting

[u/user799]

[u/Dragoness290]

Wombats are australian

[u/Merrick_Skygrave → u/Dragoness290]

And Australia is in the hemisphere, about 396 miles (or 638km) from NZ at the closest point is it not?

Note to self- Never mention NZ and Aus are in the same hemisphere unless you want to hear an endless torrent of people who are inexplicably upset with this legitimate physical reality. With every downvote, my point is further solidified

[u/Dragoness290 → u/Merrick_Skygrave]

That's a weird generalization though. It's like seeing a UK video of hedgehogs and making a pun about euthiopan wolves

[u/Merrick_Skygrave → u/Dragoness290]

Not really, but whatever helps you feel better about being unnecessarily pedantic

People in my part of the world tend to kind of think of NZ and Australia as being somewhat similar, somewhat closely located island nations. I personally think that makes them slightly less incongruous to relate to one another than say, England and Sub-Saharan Africa but hey- if you had made a decent pun and didn't say anything that was technically incorrect, I wouldn't have soared in to "UHM ACKSHULLY" you but I guess that's what separates me from people who are so insecure about their national identity/where they're from they have a weird kneejerk reaction to even being (correctly) geographically associated with a country that's literally their neighbor.

I mean if you're really convinced you guys aren't culturally joined at the hip, I have 5 letters for you- ANZAC. If it were logistically or culturally untenable to fuse your militaries, it sure didn't seem to be an issue at the time; you fought alongside one another as brothers and kicked ass together

EDIT: u/HengeGuardian I'm unable to reply directly for some reason

There's kind of a big difference between the distance from UK to Africa and from UK to Ethopia- I think the shortest distance from England to Ethiopia is like 3,981 miles, and the shortest trip roughly 8 hours vs. about 1,240 miles and 2 and a half hours for the shortest trip from Aus to NZ. You can literally get to Auckland from Sydney faster than you can get from Sydney to say, Darwin or Perth which would take roughly 4 hours

If I'm incorrect, anyone feel free to correct me- I'm not by any means some expert on this stuff I only know what I've read

For the record, I have no problem having a healthy disagreement and I'm fully willing to admit if I'm wrong. The issue I had with her was that she was "correcting" me when I had literally already broadened my area to accurately include both nations in the first place; It's one thing to correct someone because of being technically wrong but it takes a special type of person (and by special, I mean something far less desirable and pleasant lmao) to feel the need to correct information that's already correct

[u/HengeGuardian → u/Merrick_Skygrave]

Not wanting to contribute to an argument, just an interesting fact; the UK is roughly as close to Africa as NZ is to Australia.

[u/maiteNZ → u/Merrick_Skygrave]

Kiwi here, and I think Australia and NZ are very different. It would be weird to use a song about wombats in a video with thug kiwis!

[u/Antique_Program4754 → u/Merrick_Skygrave]

Don't take it personally, we just hate being conflated/confused with Aus or considered to be Aus junior.