I was going to say this gives Americans a bad name...

[shrinetolust]

...but I just discovered through a bit of digging that this person probably isn't American, but from the UK somewhere. It would be nice if it wasn't us for once...heh. I was poking around on the IMDB messageboards (often a scary experience) for Torchwood and John Barrowman tonight. While I assure you that there were many intelligent folks on there

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[vixalicious]

Well, that's making me feel better about my language faux pas this week, when I asked this really nice IT guy to help me write something on a post card in Ukrainian, only for him to tell me very sweetly that he is from Kazakhstan (which I had to look up for spelling and location) and he speaks Russian. Oops!

[shrinetolust]

I'm happy he was sweet about it, especially after the Borat movie apparently maligned his country!

That so reminds me of way back when I worked at the college library and I was getting wrong numbers on my phone by a man speaking Spanish. Everyone told me to ask our coworker Armando to translate for me. He listened to it and started laughing, and we were all wondering what on earth the translation was. He hung up the phone and said "That's not Spanish!" LOL! Luckily he wasn't offended because he didn't know what language the man was speaking either. :P

I feel very badly about my geography skills. Hubby and I try to break out the atlas and look things up when we have questions but it seems to be something that doesn't stick in my head well. Though I feel pretty good compared to when you see Jay Leno's segments of LA college kids who have no idea where Chicago or the Great Lakes are!

[tiinuli101]

I had no idea there were such terminally ignorant and uneducated people in the world. Especially if she's from England I would think she's heard of the British Empire, but what do I know I'm just a Finn:D

[shrinetolust]

It's really disturbing when people don't have a clue--and are not even aware enough to *realize* they don't have a clue, you know? I mean, if you ask me some geography stuff I'm sure you could embarrass me easily, but I'd at least know I'm bad at it and should know better! But this girl just had this whole little invented history in her head of how we all just "adopted* the English language...and then by sheer majority vote we should then rename it of course...hee!

[moody_girl]

I find that really funny actually. Everyone is always point to the US for having such poorly educated youngsters. I can honestly say that having lived in Canada for 4 years and now seeing this... WE ARE NOT ALONE! lol!

[shrinetolust]

LOL! I know, I wrote up this whole post just ASSUMING it was an American...hee...even I'm starting to believe our bad press. When I realized she was most likely a UK'er I did actually have a private moment of HA! *G* It's not just us after all! :P

[tessa111]

LOL. That is hilarious - and also very tragic and almost scary. It made me laugh though... I'm a bad person!

[shrinetolust]

Hee! You're not alone, a lot of folks here found it amusing! It is funny and scary all at once...you can't make this stuff up!

[anorienparker]

Bah....people like that make my head explode. And they are far too common on the internet these days! I'd love to ask her how she thinks all tihs happened.

:P

[shrinetolust]

I know...some of the stuff I read on news messageboards makes my head spin. Not only the misinformation or pure cluelessness, but the frightening prejudice that still exists. We kind of float along in our liberal bubble here and then when you venture outside it, it's kind of terrifying.