Where to invade next - the American People decide!

[Idaho]

Ordinary Americans plan next invasion

Be afraid, be very afraid

[R'as al Ghul]

Wow, I didn't know that France and Iran are neighbours on the Australian continent.
I guess you learn sth new every day.
Best reasons to attack at all: "They were our allies" and "They're trouble".

[R'as al Ghul]

Leave it to Idaho to take something that was clearly made in a humerous context as something sound for political exploitation.

You can clearly see that both the Englishman speaking in the background and most of the people being interviewed are not at all being serious.

Is this addressed at me?
I don't know where you read political exploitation in my post.

[Kanamori]

This is why America needs to die! die! die! Collect all of their children and burn them! Burn them!

Why do you hate America so much?!?!

[Idaho]

Leave it to Idaho to take something that was clearly made in a humerous context as something sound for political exploitation.

You can clearly see that both the Englishman speaking in the background and most of the people being interviewed are not at all being serious.

It was obviously made to scare the world. The people who seem so willing to engage in violence also seem to be the people with absolutely no idea about the planet they live on.

[Idaho]

Well go and be offended with your countrymen. I didn't make them say that stuff!

[|OCS|Virus]

LoL, now that was funny! I'm not inclined to believe that they were serious when they did this, but if I later found out for sure that they were serious, it wouldn't suprise me to horribly. But lighten up, it looks to me like a joke. Or maybe they were serious either way it got me laughing.

[Idaho]

No, you're just presenting it as "fact" in order to make a petty politically-motivated point.

It's clearly not serious. Clearly the majority of those people are not only joking, but are in fact being persuaded to say something downright silly. Either that, or the crew doing the documentary deliberately went out to find the dumbest Americans in london and decided to present them as "The American People."

It's Bullshit. It's hate-mongering bullshit.

Well it seems that you not only need to work on your sense of humour but need to work on your geography a bit better too. The presenter is Australian and the location is obviously not London but somewhere in the US.

I'm sorry but thinking Tasmania is South Korea and Australia is North Korea is

[mystic brew]

tee-hee... that was funny.

Reminded me of Chris Morris 'day-today' era stuff.
he used to have a segment called 'speak your brains'.

[InsaneApache]

tee-hee... that was funny.

Reminded me of Chris Morris 'day-today' era stuff.
he used to have a segment called 'speak your brains'.

The new drug called 'cake' was very funny as well.

[mystic brew]

(Cake: "I need my knees to feel like they've been on a fortnight's bad balloon ride"? )

yeah, the point being that put someone with a microphone on the street and you can get people to say almost anything...

note that the question was 'where should we invade next?' not 'do you think we should invade somewhere, if so, where?'

[Redleg]

Ordinary Americans plan next invasion

Be afraid, be very afraid

One can find idiots wherever one decides to look for them.

It seems if you wish to believe this as factual evidence of anything then you fall into that same catergory in which the film maker went after.



As a humor piece about how idiotic some people can be or made to be on film it is rather humorous.

[Quid]

One can find idiots wherever one decides to look for them.

It seems if you wish to believe this as factual evidence of anything then you fall into that same catergory in which the film maker went after.



As a humor piece about how idiotic some people can be or made to be on film it is rather humorous.

I'd have to agree with that. I am certain that if I were to go out and ask people at random here I would find some that magically confuse Australia with, say, Canada or whatnot.

It's a humorous piece and proof only that you can find stupid people anywhere you go.

Quid

[Idaho]

One can find idiots wherever one decides to look for them.

It seems if you wish to believe this as factual evidence of anything then you fall into that same catergory in which the film maker went after.



As a humor piece about how idiotic some people can be or made to be on film it is rather humorous.

And that's the closest Redleg will ever get to taking a joke

[Geoffrey S]

Looks like Australia's gonna get it.

Leave it to Idaho to take something that was clearly made in a humerous context as something sound for political exploitation.

Trying to find the politics in Idaho's first post... nope, looks like you were the first to bring that into the equation.

Linky.

[InsaneApache]

About ten years ago, when I had my boutique in Leeds, I had two girls who worked for me. One was an A level student, the other was, well quite frankly a chav, although a very nice girl.

The A level girl, who btw had an O level in history, had no idea what had happened in England in 1066 or 1215!!!

The other one, after I'd been on holiday in Lagos, thought that Portugal was, quote, "Just south of Sheffield". Although technically correct (It is virtually due south.) she meant that it was 'somewhere' in Yorkshire.

She also couldn't grasp that the USA was a different country. She was a big Buffy fan and would have none of it.

'But they speak English!' she kept saying.

Quiet days were often a struggle with those two with me.

[Geoffrey S]

It's by no means even nearly as dumb, but one of my friends revealed her ignorance of geography when I said I was going to Lisbon for the weekend; "Why are you going to France?"

[Strike For The South]

I say we invade Idaho Commie nazis. Idaho thats in the middle east right?

[Redleg]

And that's the closest Redleg will ever get to taking a joke

You really have no clue do you?

[Redleg]

I say we invade Idaho Commie nazis. Idaho thats in the middle east right?

No commie nazis in Idaho, mostly just rasict facist and idoitic potato farmers.

And its not in the Middle-East its somewhere near Moscow.

[Ronin]

I say you stop by Vietnam....surprise the hell out of those people!


ohhhhhh you make movie?
not this time pal!

[Xiahou]

Well go and be offended with your countrymen. I didn't make them say that stuff!

You know it's fake right? CNNN is a parody news show. Good lord, I cant believe people's memories are so bad- how long ago was it that someone posted this video here? It couldnt have been that long, 6 months maybe?

Of course, you had the same predictable reactions then too- "oh look how dumb Americans are"

[Alexanderofmacedon]

No, you're just presenting it as "fact" in order to make a petty politically-motivated point.

It's clearly not serious. Clearly the majority of those people are not only joking, but are in fact being persuaded to say something downright silly. Either that, or the crew doing the documentary deliberately went out to find the dumbest Americans in london and decided to present them as "The American People."

It's Bullshit. It's hate-mongering bullshit.

You can have a sence of humor you know...

I live in America too...

[Tachikaze]

Uh-huh.. I live in America. So by proxy I come into contact with Americans every day. I can assure you, most have a sense of basic geography. There's a reason we have the top science and math institutions in the world, there's a reason people come here for the best that medical science has to offer, and there's a reason we have more high-quality universities than any other nation in the world.

I am genuinely offended by the trash in the first post.

I live in the United States (I'm not sure which part of America you live in--Chile? Venezuela? Canada?)

While it's true that the US produces among the finest scientists, engineers, and computer programmers in the world, they are counterbalanced by a remarkably ignorant populous. The US, as in most other areas, is a nation of extremes.

I taught an advanced history course in highschool. These were the finest history students in the school. I gave a pop geography quiz on the first day of class to check prior knowledge. The test had the basic landforms, like the six continents, the peninsulas of Europe and the Middle East, the four oceans, and a dot for the city of San Diego, where the school is located.

I think 5 of the 25 students got them all correct. About 5 more made an acceptable number of mistakes. Another 5-8 did rather poorly, but only embarassing for an advanced class. The rest had only a couple correct. One had two answers: North America and South America. Unfortunately, she labeled them reversed.

I think someone being "genuinely offended" must be defensive about the US due to embarrassment. If the satire portrayed in the video weren't realistic, an American would be truly vexed at why anyone would make the joke. Being offended is an admission that the video was painfully accurate.

[Kanamori]

I think the premise that they're attempting to answer correctly is proven false when someone mislables North and South America. I'm pretty sure most second graders would be up to the task...

[Louis VI the Fat]

About ten years ago, when I had my boutique in Leeds, I had two girls who worked for me. One was an A level student, the other was, well quite frankly a chav, although a very nice girl.

The A level girl, who btw had an O level in history, had no idea what had happened in England in 1066 or 1215!!!

The other one, after I'd been on holiday in Lagos, thought that Portugal was, quote, "Just south of Sheffield". Although technically correct (It is virtually due south.) she meant that it was 'somewhere' in Yorkshire.

She also couldn't grasp that the USA was a different country. She was a big Buffy fan and would have none of it.

'But they speak English!' she kept saying.

Quiet days were often a struggle with those two with me.

Lovely story!

But pray tell us what convinced you to surround yourself with two intellectually useless young lassies - did they posses some other 'great' qualities that you've left unmentioned?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Leave it to Idaho to take something that was clearly made in a humerous context as something sound for political exploitation.

Dude, he has a laughing smiley in his post. You're the one who seems to have missed the humorous context.

[solypsist]

an invasion of washington dc is very overdue

[InsaneApache]

Lovely story!

But pray tell us what convinced you to surround yourself with two intellectually useless young lassies - did they posses some other 'great' qualities that you've left unmentioned?

What do you think?

[drone]

an invasion of washington dc is very overdue

Too late, the Republicans have already accomplished that.