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a blond gets asked "Budapest is the capital of which country?
*hilarity ensues*
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2...y-p1.php?emf=1
"I thought Europe was a country."
"Is France a country?"
"I'm listening to what you're saying, but I only hear what I want to."
"That's just called being a woman."
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Heheheheh! :laugh4: She is like some prototype of a stupid good-looking woman. What a great video, I'm gonna watch it again!Quote:
"That's just called being a woman."
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I don't think I could stand watching this show. It's embarrassing.
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If anyone cares, that lady is Kelly Pickler. She's a Country Music singer.
Ha!
The twit can't pronouce it either though.
Anyway, if you were American and didn't care about the rest of the world I can understand why you might think Europe was a country. It's big, it has a flag and open borders.
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There's worse. There always is over here.
Some smart ass goes out and interviews the people on the street. The question is: "It's been, as you know, discovered that the Egyptian pyramids were smuggled out of Turkey; what do you think?"
All interviewees fall to that, or only those that fall are on the video. They comment with the usual stuff you get out of anyone. The punchline is, one of them is a history teacher. :stunned:
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The only Dutch example I can think of right now is an old one, and I don't have a link. They showed a bunch of people this traffic sign and asked them what it meant. (it means there could be snow or ice on the road so it might be slippery)
Among the answers was one person who thought it indicated a six-way road junction and one who thought it was a swatsika.
This is pure gold!
"This might be a stupid question". - Yea!
"I know that they speak french there ... " - Oui, mon ami! :laugh4: Look at the man' face when she said that! Like :wall:
the guy: "Women do not really want to hear men's oppinion they just want to hear their oppinion in a deeper voice!" - brilliant!!! :laugh4:
the guy: "The right answer is Hungary"
blonde: "Is what?"
the guy: "Hungary, like I am hungry"
blonde: "That is a country?" :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :wall:
blodne: "I have heard of turkey but hungry?" :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :help: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :help:
Thx again, pure gold!!!!
Can you imagine yourself not knowing that?
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Originally Posted by mrdun
But...I wouldn't know I didn't know that until I knew I didn't know that.
On the same note :grin2:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LvtFaPslA_o
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qv8yLT6jM04
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:laugh4: ~:mecry:
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Yeah, it's really hillarious and the woman is the stereotype we Europeans like to think of when we're talking about our friends on the other side of the Ocean...
...but be serious, how many Europeans can link all the American states to their capitals. I know I wouldn't be able to name them all.
America is a single country though with some states, unlike Europe which is a lot of countries close together with their own states.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peasant Phill
Still, its quite surprising how ignorant some people can be. Is there something like a geography class over there? If so, someone should make some amends to the curriculum as it certainly does not seem to be effective.
It kind of makes you wonder when you say "Let's go to war with Afghanistan" how many people actually knew what Afghanistan is and where it is located.
Unfortunately I couldn't find the one where they had some US citizens identify Australia as North Korea and Tasmania (southern Australian state) as South Korea :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
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My old choirmistress's even older late big brother told us in a past festival visit... He stayed at a hospital in Cleveland. During the chat with a nurse he asks her if she ever wished to learn a foreign language. "Why" she says, "everybody speaks English!" He pushes: "Wouldn't it be fine to talk to the natives in, say, Germany in their own tongue?" The answer:Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
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no one is criticizing the woman for not knowing what the capital of hungary is.....I don´t know all european capitals by memory either...Quote:
Originally Posted by Peasant Phill
it´s the "I didn´t even know that was a country" and "don´t they speak french there" lines that are killer :laugh4:
I don´t know all US state capitals either...but I´m aware they exist....there´s a difference.
It's not important for Romans to know the capital of Backwateruria but for Backwaterurians to know where Rome is. Gah!
The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Oh, love the hair on the Aussie guy. What the hell? How can he criticize anyone? :laugh4:
That would be a real shame on me :clown:Quote:
Originally Posted by mrdun
I am not saying that we know everything over here, far from it. Just this whole conversation was funny from the beggining to the end (and perhaps more to a hungarian than to anyone else).
BTW, what I found really amazing (shocking) is not that she never heard about Hungary (fine), not that she did not know that France is a country (!), not that she thought that Europe is a country, but apparently she never heard about ... Paris !!!
How come that a woman of her age, beauty and ambitions never heard about Paris? :inquisitive:
Maybe she only heard about the "other" Paris :laugh4:
I think I remember that one. Too bad I can't find the link. Though I think I posted this one in the Backroom video thread once.Quote:
Originally Posted by sapi
Just for the record, you guys know it's all an act, right?
Jeff Foxworthy (the MC) has made a 20-year career out of poking fun at "rednecks" and their exaggerted ignorance on topics any more complicated than NASCAR standings or possum stew.
And Kelly Pickler rose to fame on American Idol despite having only a slightly above-average singing voice, it large part because of her "disarmingly simple" persona - which enamoured her to a couple of judges and the Idol-watching viewers/voters.
So "country hick blonde" meets "wise-cracking quiz-show host", on a show designed to prove that schoolkids know more than adults. Hilarity ensues. And it's apparently the best our networks can offer for entertainment during a Hollywood writers strike.
Which is not to say it isn't sometimes embarrassing to watch my countrymen mangle news stories, geography, and names. :embarassed:
You mean those states have capitals? :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peasant Phill
Reminds me so do our "states", makes me wonder what they are... :sweatdrop:
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I got really outraged when I learned that Tanzania's capital had been moved from Dāru's-selām to Dodoma a few years before. :wall:
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Originally Posted by Husar
You don't have states you ignorant Vista lover; you have Länder! :whip:
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It would make sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
If you think Budapest is an extremely annoying Buddhist, you might be dumber than a 5th grader... :laugh4:
It gets worse every week; it was an orange/green mohawk by the end of the season, iirc :grin2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
If it was NOT an act, it would make sense too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheetah
You guys are gonna love this:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SS3_hT_FUNQ
It's one of the most hilarious videos I've ever seen! You're right, they really do need extra geography lessons!
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Originally Posted by Shogun
On an unrelated note, is it الإمارات or الأمارات? :book2:
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It's الإمارات but some people pronounce it الامارات.:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre
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شكراً :bow:
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عفواً :bow:
Seeing this one I am leaning towards the opinion that the first might not been an act. ~;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Shogun
On a related note:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WALIARHHLII&feature=related
I don't get it though, why would they "act" stupid? All they would do is make the country look stupid...
How the hell can you people read that? I'll never be able to learn it. I, think I see some spaces in there. :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shogun
It doesn't even display properly in my post!
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Set your browser's encoding to auto-detect.
Actually it's easy. Really! Not easier than the Latin alphabet maybe but that also depends on the reader I believe. :yes:
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I think it's the font, I don't know why their all crushed together like that.
Yeah, CNNN was done by the same guys as the ones I turned up, but a couple of years earlier ~:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Shogun
Why would you want to appear stupid? because in some cases it makes you popular.
In Belgium we have a great example of that Eddy Wally (singer). He seems the most stupid man alive but he earns a good living with what he does.
Wow...woman needs an atlas...
My mother is allergic to maps :sweatdrop:
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
My parents are both rather geographically ignorant. I've had to remind her twice that Tunisia (where one of my friends has gone on an exchange) is in Africa, not Europe as she keeps saying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beefy187
I can't actually watch the videos at the moment because I'm running at dial up speed but we have a program here called "Are you smarter than a 10 year old?" and my parents and youngest brother watch it. They always struggle with anything geography or history related. One time they had an argument about when the World War I ended and so came over to ask me to try and beat the contestants to figuring out the answer (no, I don't know why :sweatdrop:). When I said November 11 1918 they didn't believe me until the answer was shown. :laugh4:
Although on the NZ show the kids are really rich kids and most of them rather arrogant and went to private schools etc. so of course they make average people look stupid.
"But the reality couldnt be further from the truth" ~ Oh dear here we go
"Who won the vietnam war?" ~ Anysecond now...
"We Did" ~ For the foolish and less than intelligent. the north vietnamese won after the USA "pulled out"
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"How many sides does triangle have?"
"4"
I find hillarous that they think before answering
"What is the currency of the United kingdom?"
"Possibly american money" ~ NO WAY! ours is worth twice as much (Please note this was written at the time the exchange rate was £1 for $2, and sorry for caps)
"Queen Elizabeth money? I don't know" ~ Its called the british pound but at least you named a english queen
Just look at this:
National Geographic 2006 poll
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* Only 37% of young Americans can find Iraq on a map—though U.S. troops have been there since 2003.
* 6 in 10 young Americans don't speak a foreign language fluently.
* 20% of young Americans think Sudan is in Asia. (It's the largest country in Africa.)
* 48% of young Americans believe the majority population in India is Muslim. (It's Hindu—by a landslide.)
* Half of young Americans can't find New York on a map.
Gah, these seemingly random very very small curved lines drive me mad! I envy those of you who can read itQuote:
Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre
On behalf of all Americans, I apologize for all of the above videos. You have no idea how embarassing it is to be universally known as a nation of idiots. I assure you, many of us are actually intelligent and know what is going on in the world. Furthermore, you should take heart in the knowledge that people who are that stupid are almost always way too lazy to vote. Most eyebrow-raising results in US elections and votes are due to intelligent morons, not the more mundane variety of imbeciles.
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Originally Posted by TinCow
Don't worry mate! This small country out here in the Middle East host the people most similar to the average American one. You're not alone!
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I'd think having 40% who do would be very good....Quote:
* 6 in 10 young Americans don't speak a foreign language fluently.
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On behalf of all Americans, I apologize for all of the above videos. You have no idea how embarassing it is to be universally known as a nation of idiots. I assure you, many of us are actually intelligent and know what is going on in the world. Furthermore, you should take heart in the knowledge that people who are that stupid are almost always way too lazy to vote. Most eyebrow-raising results in US elections and votes are due to intelligent morons, not the more mundane variety of imbeciles.
But we can all agree "bartix" doesnt exist right abokasee?:laugh4:
What? :jawdrop: ~:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Boyar Son
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Originally Posted by Boyar Son
Infidel! :whip:
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Originally Posted by Rodion Romanovich
To be honest, it reminds me of, uhm what to call it? Text written by hand. ~;)
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But we can all agree "bartix" doesnt exist right abokasee?
I see that this user is now demoted; be careful when entering touchy subjects in the frontroom. :laugh4:
HERESY
http://premium1.uploadit.org/DuxCorvan//bartix.jpg
Bartix did exsist but in a apocalyptic war with Uranians it was removed, this place is now called Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and Greenland, and the flemish part of Belgium which was hit by an experimental Uranian Gravity Gun and Flung from Micronesia to Europe, same for greenland, but it was connected with australia
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Well if the boy knows Budapest is in hungary... thats of course reassuring that the next bunch of americans will have signifcantly higher IQ
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Wikipedias wrong? :help:
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WOAH didnt spot the scale of my image
I have scaled it down
I must confess that I have not watched the vids that have been linked in this thread. But I do know the ones that they go on about.
Often they are edited to make you look silly and also many of the people are not all that well educated as well.
In saying that some of the stupidest people I have met were at University.
Now my beautiful gf (bless her) has the most appalling sence of direction and I am not surprised that she does not know the location of many countries. Some alot larger than others (ha ha).
But get her on a topic that interets her then "boom" her knowledge blows mine out of the water.
Who is stupid now? - or is it more just whose interest is geography/history/politics/cars/animals/etc and what is the topic of the question?
The US does not have a monopoly on idiots - they are worldwide. The US is just unfortunate that theirs are broadcast everywhere....
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Originally Posted by El Diablo
we'rethey're prettier!