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britpoptarts

Somethin' Stupid, like, I LOATHE you

Apr 29, 2008 01:48

Are you smarter than the average American?

1. Name a country that starts with the letter "U".
A. Yugoslavia
B. Utah
C. Utopia
D. United States of America
E. United States of America, Uzbekistan, Uruguay, Uganda, United Arab Emirates (which includes Umn Al Qaiwain), United Kingdom, Ukraine

2. How many sides does a triangle have?
A. Um, four?
B. Five
C. One
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kornmonkie April 29 2008, 08:11:48 UTC

Notice how that video and many others never show what the people answer correctly? You can cut up incorrect answers from anyone in any country and make them appear stupid.

The fact that this was shown on television and on a news station is more stupid than anything. It's the appearance of stupidity made by stupid people. I agree with your comment about books.

A sample size of 20,50 or even 100 people in a city (like Washington D.C.) is hardly an indication of stupidity in a whole country of over 300 million people. I'd like to take the same set of questions and ask 100 people in London, Paris or Honk Kong and cut together clips of the 20 people who get a few wrong.

floopyboo April 29 2008, 10:09:12 UTC

Please see link above. I guess it'd be like saying Penn & Teller (I think that's the one) is a news channel.

It's satire, but it's very cleverly done. I can understand how it'd go over your head.

kornmonkie April 29 2008, 10:48:28 UTC

In my own defense, I live somewhere, where it's hard to get cable news channels or comedy central(yup, they still exist), so exposure to news-esque satire is extremely limited to me. So I did actually think that was a real British news channel.

britpoptarts April 29 2008, 10:09:43 UTC

Actually, I said something similar when showing the videos about stupidity to my professor. I said I wished they'd stop ME in the street, then I noted I would probably be edited out for not being stupid enough. :P ( ... )

sclerotic_rings April 29 2008, 13:41:36 UTC

Point. One of the best things I liked about Rick Mercer's show Talking To Americans was noting that some Americans weren't completely ignorant about Canada. Oh, lots of Americans would spout whatever came to their microscopic little minds, but Mercer's crew was more than willing to admit that we weren't all idiots. (If you've never heard of the show, this was a CBC program where Mercer and a camera crew went to the US and asked random people in random places about such things as whether the Canadian $5 coin should be called a "woody", changing the maple leaf in the Canadian flag to a hockey puck, or about stopping the seal clubbings in Sasketchawan. The show also managed to get some classic idiocy from public figures, such as having then-Governor Mike Huckabee pledge money to assist the Canadian government to cover the Parliament Igloo with a weatherproof dome and asking George W. Bush if he was planning to start negotiations with Prime Minister Poutine ( ... )

britpoptarts April 29 2008, 14:58:03 UTC

LOL. Poutine.

Sorry!

Yeah, all Americans think you guys all wear toques, say "eh?" and "aboot" incessantly, and deal with rampaging elk and polar bears for igloo space.

And Huckabee is a tard. But you knew that.

sclerotic_rings April 29 2008, 15:06:13 UTC

The funny part is that my grandparents were Canadian, but I've lived in Texas for most of my life. My wife and I made a trip to Banff two years ago, and almost everyone was shocked to run into Americans, much less Texans (the Czarina is a native-born Dallasite), who actually knew something about Canada. I plan to keep surprising them, too.

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