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    This is pure gold!

    "This might be a stupid question". - Yea!

    "I know that they speak french there ... " - Oui, mon ami! Look at the man' face when she said that! Like

    the guy: "Women do not really want to hear men's oppinion they just want to hear their oppinion in a deeper voice!" - brilliant!!!

    the guy: "The right answer is Hungary"
    blonde: "Is what?"
    the guy: "Hungary, like I am hungry"
    blonde: "That is a country?"
    blodne: "I have heard of turkey but hungry?"

    Thx again, pure gold!!!!
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    Can you imagine yourself not knowing that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mrdun
    Can you imagine yourself not knowing that?

    But...I wouldn't know I didn't know that until I knew I didn't know that.
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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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peasant Phill
    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.

    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peasant Phill
    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.
    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...

    it´s the "I didn´t even know that was a country" and "don´t they speak french there" lines that are killer

    I don´t know all US state capitals either...but I´m aware they exist....there´s a difference.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peasant Phill
    ...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.
    You mean those states have capitals?

    Reminds me so do our "states", makes me wonder what they are...


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    Quote Originally Posted by mrdun
    Can you imagine yourself not knowing that?
    That would be a real shame on me

    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?
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    Maybe she only heard about the "other" Paris
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