Is this for real?
I think this might have been edited for middle east propaganda, if not, WTF??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5I4oY7zj-w
No one is that stupid, are they?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5I4oY7zj-w
No one is that stupid, are they?
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And sadly, there are such people all over the world.
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
I always feel it is a bit unfair to pick on Americans over ignorance of the rest of the world, e.g. knowing who Tony Blair is, as I am sure that if you asked most Europeans questions like "Who is the president of China?" (probably the 2nd most powerful man in the world, Hu Jintao) they would not know but most people from Asia would know this and they might consider us stupid and ignorant for not knowing.
It's probably even worse than this when you consider all of the 7 billion people in the world.
I've always found this good for giving some perspective:
http://www.globalrichlist.com/
On the other hand most of these people survive just fine in their local environment and will probably have good local knowledge of what is important to them.
Although I cringe when people don't know obvious things about their own country.
Damn, I need to narrow my perspective back to the 10% before I get too depressed. :sad:
I just found this video too. It made me propper :lol:
You can almost see the tumble weed spinning around inside those heads :lol:
Sometimes it works in your favour. My sister did a tour of Edinburgh once to a lot of Americans, one of them asked "Is this building (Edinburgh Castle) pre-war? (meaning pre-WW2)" to be met by a smile and "It's actually pre- War of Independence)".
Cue a lot of jaw-dropping and a captivated audience thereon in.
Yup, they are quite thick.
Some of the things they've said to me while I've been living here are quite funny.
Here's few small examples.
"So which part of England is the UK in?".
"You're from England right?" "yes" "So you're not British then?".
When saying one time I fancied a Donner kebab I was met with "Who's she? Is she hot?".
One time someone asked my wife were I was from It went something like "So where is your husband from?" "England!" "Oh so he speaks French then?".
and...
"So you're from England then?" "Yes" "So is that in the North or South of Canada?"
But one of the funniest ones I've ever had was when I was talking about films and stuff and I said something like "I don't like Russell Crowe to be honest, but have you seen Romper Stomper, that's pretty good?" which was met with "Oh yeah that film was the sh*t! You British guys always play the best villains", I said "He's Australian", and when they guy replied I though he was taking the piss, but he was deadly serious he said "Really he hides it pretty well, he sounds nothing like Arnold Schwarzenegger".
I actually faced palmed when he said it, and burst out laughing. I still to this day don't think the guy knows why I was laughing? :lol:
....and in 5 years of living in the US, this is only a microscopic fraction of the stupid things people have said to me, I could post 15 ewgf posts full of them and still not be anywhere near done :D
Yep. Same for me too. Lots of studdying rivers, rocks and farming, but nothing about actual countrys. Although, we did have to learn the African countries, but I failed that miserably (there was something like 49 of them, but I believe some of them have changed name since, but I could be wrong and probably am with that!)
(no there's not, just go & ask a few different scientists).
Follow-up question to each of those girls: "could you explain what is gravity, just a bit?", then sit back & laugh...
I suspect many of them are confusing "gravity" with "intelligent design vs. evolution a la Darwin", since that's one of those subjects that caused a lot of controversy of should be or should not be taught in schools in some US states. Regardless, mixing that up with gravity is equally dumb as not knowing what gravity is (or Darwin). :lol:
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Are you fecking serious? :-o
1) Denmark is right next to Germany (to the north, above Hamburg / Kiel).
2) Germany invaded Denmark in April 1940.
And it's the schools fault that you couldn't be bothered to pick up an Atlas? Or a history book?
Umm, it is :-? ;) :lol:
they didn't invade, in can only be called an invasion if there is some sort of resistance. :-P
'Occupied' Denmark then. :razz:
I was allowed to drop both subjects (I struggled to "get into" them at all) because I was taking an extra GCSE outside of school. I did do geography for the first year of GCSEs though, all we learned about was weathering and erosion, green belts, and the banana produce of Guatemala.
Looking back, I'm quite gutted that I didn't try harder to get into history as I find it quite fascinating now...
Listen to the video, the word gravity is clearly dubbed by someone else over whatever the original word is (I suspect it's variously 'God', 'evolution', 'science', etc, a few different terms over the course of the video). The video has been edited (by a bit of selective audio dubbing) to make it about gravity when it's about something else, probably intelligent design vs. evolution (as you say).
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i disagree you mother crusher!! :razz:
And I was jealous of the people on that video who didn't know who Tony Blair was, though. How I wish we British could say the same thing...
Oh dear, there goes my cup of tea... <nips to ebay for a new keyboard> :D
Elaborate my dear sir, :D
EDIT: Oh wait! You said 15 *ewgf* posts!!! That's my reading material for a month, lol
A couple more I can tell you :D
Somebody I used to work with said to me one time "Interesting fact, it never rained before Noahs Ark". I wouldn't have cared if he'd not said the interesting fact bit, I walked out of the breakroom shaking my head, there was nothing else to do really (Other than punch him in the face, but I kinda wanted to keep my job :D).
Of course the same guy after saying that he was all about logic then said "I believe that Dinosaurs where a lot smaller, and back a couple of thousand years ago we probably all had one, infact I bet even Jesus had a domesticated one".
I started whistling the Flintstones tune every time I was around him.
Another guy I worked with was scared to go near any homsexuals incase he caught gay, I thought he was joking at first but he was serious. He also believes it's a lifestyle choice, and that it can be cured. So I told him that he didn't need to worry if he caught gay, because he could choose not to act upon it, and if he couldn't help himself he could get cured.
I thought he'd cotton on that I was taking the piss out of him, but he actually said "Hmmm Yeah I suppose I ain't got nothin' to worry about really".
Who knows, maybe I inadvertantly cured his homophobia? :lol:
He's now got a show in the US. Pretty much the same as over here but with better accents. Fair play to him yelling at the yanks too, takes some balls what with their liberal gun laws!
so he's taken an idea from the americans and sold it back to them, genius. :razz:
Actually, there is. And indeed if you ask the "man in the street", they'll invariably give you the Newtonian Physics version, i.e. it's a force that pulls objects together - despite that having been long since discarded by science in favour of the curvature of spacetime indicated by General Relativity.
Cutting edge physicists will point out that even that is somewhat at odds with Quantum Theory and there has been no definitive theory of Quantum Gravity which resolves the disparities yet. So anyone who claims to know exactly what Gravity is has either discovered something revolutionary in science, or isn't quite as knowledgable as they think they are.
Alright, so the Sheldon Coopers of the world might disagree about what gravity really is, but for 99% of people, gravity is the force that pulls all objects, including ourselves and anything we accidentally drop, directly in a downwards direction. We don't need to know anything more about it, and I don't think any layman would deny that that's a fair definition of gravity (even if he admits that that's a gross oversimplification). And somehow I doubt that when the beauty queen said 'no one really knows' that she was referring to the difficulty she was having in trying to relate the quantum state with the old-school Newtonian laws, for the physics doctorate she was studying for...
For some very amusing answers to exam quesions, see:
http://www.innocentenglish.com/funny-bloopers-mistakes-quotes/history-mistakes.html
:lol: The "airhead" line is still my favorite :lol:
Because beautiful woman must be stupid?
The video is obviously dubbed over, so the question is who is really being mocked: the women and their answers or those watching who think they're smarter?