Americans are (not) stupid

[Magdlyn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE

O.
M.
G.

[Matty]

Heh, have you never seen that one before? I am fairly certain that it come pre installed in your favourites on all new UK and Aussie computers.

i have always loved the triangle question.
"Ha, There are no sides!" "Or is it one"

the buddhist monks one is pretty class too.

And a mosque is an animal, if you are a complete and utter retard.

[Magdlyn]

No. I dont spend tons of time on youtube. My ds just showed it to me.

[Matty]

Class eh. Though to be fair i could probably cherry pick a cross section of the Uk thats pretty fucking stupid too though I'm fairly sure they would get the country starting with U and triangle ones though.


The triangle one was extra - special, but wasnt that girl CUTE.
She'll probably go far. UN goodwill ambassador or the next "its cool to be dumb" TV starlet in waiting

[VenDexter]

I honestly can't believe how uneducated some people can be. I realize that they're probably only showing the worst of what they filmed that day but as Magdlyn so graciously stated - OMG!

A triangle, a freakin' triangle! Hello, numbnuts, it's a triangle! You learned basic shapes in Kindergarten. Also, geographic knowledge is really awful here in the states. I love how they put the pin on whatever country has the name written on it even though it's nowhere even freakin close. A while back there was a published survey/report that showed a huge number of people here couldn't identify Texas or Alaska on a US map!

For a few years here locally, there was radio station that did morning prizes to whomever could answer current events trivia questions. It never failed that if the question involved "name the country", a million people would call in and guess some stupid shit like "Africa?" or "South America?" I finally had to stop listening before my brain started to bleed.

Out of curiosity, I wonder if they were to ask those questions to citizens of other modern nations what responses they would get.

[Magdlyn]

goes with

[Matty]

i have that second one up in my office, class. Its right next to the:

If a man speaks in the middle of a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong"

and the

"some people are like slinkies, not much use for anything but still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs"

ones. Right next door to the ministry of silly walks poster. Yup my office is an enclave of music, sarcasm and irreverent silliness in a dept chock full of rationality and intellect. Just the way i like it.

[laughing dog]

I('d more interested to know the ratio of wrong to right answers in the USA relative to other places. I'll wager anyone can travel anywhere in the world and get dumbbell answers.

[Matty]

I'm pretty sure they werent cherry picked, they just picked the first handfull of people they ran into on Harvard campus.

[KnightWhoSaysNi]

Here's a good one from xplicit in an old IIDB post:

[Matty]

heh. i like that one. Exxonmobilstan in particular.

and no dumb American thread is complete without this little braindead beauty of course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

for those of you that got a little lost here is a MsSC tube map.

[KnightWhoSaysNi]

For the caption on Canada, I wish that xplicit wrote: "Soviet Canuckistan: no healthy people here because of their evil socialist healthcare."

[Octavia]

I like the last map. It's the only one NZ actually makes it on to!

[jess]

NZ? Wut's that?

[hecaterin]

Hobbiton!! Can't you read? Oh, wait, you're American, sorry.

*runs away very fast*






*sneaks back in*
The chaser boys also did a series featuring stupid people in Australia, with the caption "This Person Votes" at the end. Stupidity can be found everywhere.

[Matty]

Before i get accused of being unfairly biased to our transatlantic friends, te UK has tried to keep this one secret for a some time.
Media "starlet" of "showed her snatch on Big Brother and is really really fucking stupid" fame. Jade Goody

"Rio de Janeiro, ain't that a person?"
"Where's East Angular though? I thought that was abroad."
"The Union Jack is for all of us, but the St. George is just for London, isn't it?"
"I knew Lynne was from Aberdeen, but I didn't realise Aberdeen was in Scotland"
"I am intelligent, but I let myself down because I can't speak properly or spell"
To PJ after he revealed he knew someone who kept pet peacocks: "You see those things... don't think .........I'm being daft... but them things that look like eyes, are they their real eyes?
"They were trying to use me as an escape goat"
"Do they speak Portuganese in Portugal? I thought Portugal was in Spain"
"That's asexual harassment"



She also claimed that the Mona Lisa was painted by an Italian called Pistachio and that Sherlock Holmes invented the toilet.



And this is a multimillionaire celeb whos sole overriding talent is how fucking dumb she is so its not just the yanks, although they do seem to have a lot more of them.

At least she has those looks though. Imagine if she were a minger. sheesh.

NZ? Wut's that?

Isnt it a small town in Washington state?

[Ray Moscow]

Jade is a one-woman campaign on why reality television is bad for society. How a person like that becomes "famous" remains a mystery to me.

My only consolation was seeing how quickly she became "infamous" and more importantly "nonfamous" when she made racist comments on the air.

[Matty]

but still managed to bang out a few units of her chavette perfume and be set for life. Nuts eh.

i must admit though. I'm not sure if the escape goat line is really dumb or complete genius.

[Comfortably Numb]

Rick Mercer - Talking To Americans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhTZ_tgMUdo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaLyphI1pWM

Rick Mercer did a "Talking to Americans" segment on a news comedy show called This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

[JamesBannon]

"The Coalition of the Willing" was one that got me, I'm afraid.

[Matty]

I love the one about the Canadian Naval forces borrowing some of the US ports "seeing as Canada has no coastline of its own". That and emergency renovation aid for Manitoba's provincial capital building because it is melting, of course.

where they find these morons i have no idea. I can understand these tards not knowing the difference between Cambodia and Laos on a map, or not knowing the old currency of Sweden, but knowing nothing about your neighboring country is unforgivable.

Do American atlases stop at the us border or something?

[Magdlyn]

As Eddie said in D2K: Do you know there's other countries?

I am sorry. After 8 years of George Fucking Bush, I hate fucktarded USAmericans. I just hate them.

[jess]

to be fair, I hate fucktarded everyones. Not that I hate everyone, but...

I'm sure any group will look awful if you cherry pick them to look bad.

[Magdlyn]

Here is something to cheer us up

[Ray Moscow]

to be fair, I hate fucktarded everyones. Not that I hate everyone, but...

I'm sure any group will look awful if you cherry pick them to look bad.

The problem is that in the US, fucktards are the voting majority, or at least they were in 2004 (as well as a near majority in 2000).