On: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train

[jon-wood]

It's really not. There was a little falling out that occurred in 2016, you might have heard of it.

[flohofwoe → jon-wood]

EU and Europe are not the same thing (one is an organization, the other is a continent).

[jamiek88 → flohofwoe]

Yes and everyone understood what was meant from context without the pedantry.

Do you really think people don’t know which continent the UK belongs to?

Do you think people are in danger of thinking the UK is actually in Africa or Asia when the colloquialism of ‘Europe’ is used?

[flohofwoe → jamiek88]

What better place to be overly pedantic than the HN comment section ;)

[JackSlateur → jamiek88]

  Do you really think people don’t know which continent the UK belongs to?

Have you heard of americans ?

[jamiek88 → JackSlateur]

Touché!