The dollar...?

[Acidmouse]

http://www.shoutfile.com/v/gSfSsCpR/Why_People_Believe_Americans_Are_Stupid

*ducks*

psss i love Americans

[thetank]

How many sides does a triangle have.

Blonde answers immediately and confidently "It has no sides"

I reckon she saw Mean Girls as well last night.



That kind of spat is very amusing. Doesn't mean to say the American people are stupid though, you could get some fun silly answers from edited footage in any nation in the world. We have plenty idiots over here too, who would all jump at the chance to speak to a camera.

To be fair to the USA, they have a rather healthy Nobel prize count. The last section on Krygyzstan was a bit unfair too, most were ready to admit their ignorance, but just saying they would support their commander in chief in whatever action was deemed appropriate.

[Acidmouse]

Well I don’t think the clip is supposed to be anything but a light hearted comedic look at Americans in general. Of course its full of holes and not a true reflection on them all.

However I do find it really amazing how some people from whatever country dont even know the basic facts about their own country and world politics.

[boldie]

http://www.shoutfile.com/v/gSfSsCpR/Why_People_Believe_Americans_Are_Stupid

*ducks*

psss i love Americans

I love these things..although half the population of the UK also couldn't find brittain on a map of the world.

I love it that everybody just went with the "if the map says australia is France or North Korea then it must be"...bless stupid people...It's just more fun to make fun of the americans because..well ..they tawk funny.

[AndrewT]

http://www.shoutfile.com/v/gSfSsCpR/Why_People_Believe_Americans_Are_Stupid

*ducks*

psss i love Americans

Having your intelligence mocked by an Australian - that's harsh.

[thetank]

I'm always feel a little guilty chuckling away at this stuff though.

It's a little bit racist.

[boldie]

I'm always feel a little guilty chuckling away at this stuff though.

It's a little bit racist.

but everyone is a little bit racist...or so the song goes

[AndrewT]

I'm always feel a little guilty chuckling away at this stuff though.

It's a little bit racist.

Only if you're mocking people of a different race purely on the basis of their ethnicity.

One white Caucasian laughing at another white Caucasian mocking a third white Caucasian's intelligence isn't racist.

[thetank]

It wouldn't be as funny if they didn't talk in strange accents.

Their accent being part of their ethnicity.

Not trying to be a killjoy, fill your boots. It is what it is though.

[boldie]

It wouldn't be as funny if they didn't talk in strange accents though.

Their accent being part of their ethnicity.

Not trying to be a killjoy, fill your boots. It is what it is though.

It's not racist to make fun of stupid people.. Now if you were to say all Americans are stupid..that would be racist as there are atleast 3 that aren't

[barhell]

Just think if they done a British version you would get Jade Goodie and Vicky Pollard style people on there. I mean we all know East Anglia is a foreign country don't we?

[Rod Paradise]

Just think if they done a British version you would get Jade Goodie and Vicky Pollard style people on there. I mean we all know East Anglia is a foreign country don't we?

Enter the Colonel!!!! 


 



BTW in Scotland we'd have Aberdonians, Aberdonians have people from Elgin

[thetank]

I always thought that the East Anglia slip wasn't as stupid as we would have all believed.

After all, the Anglo-Saxons came from what we now call Germany, and that is where the region got it's name.

I'm not suggesting that's why Jade made the error, but everything is easy if you know the answer. The nation was shocked at the time as it displayed an apparent lack of basic British knowledge that any Queen fearing loyal subject should be able to recant as they stand for the anthemn, yet the name itself is foreign.




We are pretty much all flawed human beings. Most of us, myself included, will try to puff up their intellect, and hide their ignorance wherever possible. The childlike reflex to ask a question "East Anglia, that's foreign innit?" is surpressed in most of us. For every one who shows they don't know, there will probably be 20 who stay quiet and nod along.

Intelligence is so important in our society, we all naturally revert to childlike reflexes ourselves when confronted by it's apparent absecnce. It's the same thing we see in the schoolyard at playtime, I do it, and whomever is reading this probably does it too....

I have an insecurity, you personify the closest thing to an extreme of that insecurity, I will make fun of you to make myself feel better. Better about myself, because I now feel better than you.

When I hear people call Jade Goody stupid, it brings forward a question about the very nature of intelligence. Is it all about the memorization of useless facts? In Jade's life, if she didn't know where East Anglia is, what wives Henry VIII had, who won the FA cup final in 1990, would she be worse off? Maybe intellect has more to do with practical application in achieving real goals. Everyone who goes on that Big Brother show want's to be famous, 5 years on, how many who were on screen with Jade can anybody remember?

She who laughs last......doesn't really get the joke laughs loudest.

[marcro]

I always thought that the East Anglia slip wasn't as stupid as we would have all believed.

After all, the Anglo-Saxons came from what we now call Germany, and that is where the region got it's name.

I'm not suggesting that's why Jade made the error, but everything is easy if you know the answer. The nation was shocked at the time as it displayed an apparent lack of basic British knowledge that any Queen fearing loyal subject should be able to recant as they stand for the anthemn, yet the name itself is foreign.




We are pretty much all flawed human beings. Most of us, myself included, will try to puff up their intellect, and hide their ignorance wherever possible. The childlike reflex to ask a question "East Anglia, that's foreign innit?" is surpressed in most of us. For every one who shows they don't know, there will probably be 20 who stay quiet and nod along.

Intelligence is so important in our society, we all naturally revert to childlike reflexes ourselves when confronted by it's apparent absecnce. It's the same thing we see in the schoolyard at playtime, I do it, and whomever is reading this probably does it too....

I have an insecurity, you personify the closest thing to an extreme of that insecurity, I will make fun to make myself feel better. Better about myself, because I feel better about you.

When I hear people call Jade Goody stupid, it brings forward a question about the very nature of intelligence. Is it all about the memorization of useless facts? In Jade's life, if she didn't know where East Anglia is, what wives Henry VIII had, who won the FA cup final in 1990, would she be worse off? Maybe intellect has more to do with practical application in achieving real goals. Everyone who goes on that Big Brother show want's to be famous, 5 years on, how many who were on screen with Jade can anybody remember?

She who laughs last......doesn't really get the joke laughs loudest.

Good post.  Didn't Jordan say words to the effect that when people call her stupid she tells them to look at her bank balance?

[thetank]

All that aside, my true position is that I want to kill her, and I want to kill her mum. If I don't get to kill her, and if I don't get to kill her mum, I may have to kill my girlfriend, for making me watch her, and making me watch her mum.

I guess we're all human