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Air Canada tried to cover vomit on the seat with coffee grounds and petfume, complaining passengers escorted out of the plane (www.bbc.com)

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[–] Arrakis@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the English-speaking internet, North America = the world.

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you will find that it only includes half of north America (604,155,369 total population https://worldpopulationreview.com/continents/north-america-population vs the 334,233,854 of the contry you likely mean.)

[–] Arrakis@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

North America is the term generally used for the US and Canada, where I'm from anyway, so I'm not sure what you mean. I do enjoy all the downvotes from the Americans whose exceptionalism is being offended by my pointing it out though, keep it coming chumps!

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Don't forget Mexico, Greenland, or the entire Caribbean.