Sweeny79 said:

sounds really high, yes, but it honestly was something like that. Maybe it was 50% of US high school students can't find Mexico on an unmarked map, I suppose that would be a little easier to swallow.

Hell it could be a made up statistic, who knows?

Sweeny79 said:

sounds really high, yes, but it honestly was something like that. Maybe it was 50% of US high school students can't find Mexico on an unmarked map, I suppose that would be a little easier to swallow.

Hell it could be a made up statistic, who knows?

NDRU said:

now sadly, THAT is a statistic i could believe.

NDRU said:

or it could have been a really small sample size. like they asked two high school students and one was a real dumb shit.

fantasyislander said:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...EQanxyZDsw

NDRU said:

now sadly, THAT is a statistic i could believe.

fantasyislander said:

Here I just found a quote

"50% of Americans aged 18-25 cannot find New York on a map! And a little over 10% can't even locate the US!! Think about..."

but of course, who was tested, how many, etc

NDRU said:

guess i don't count anymore since i'm over 25. but i could locate both when i was that age.

PlanetMe said:

Well, yeah, i don't think I know a single person who couldn't have located NY when they were 10, but then I don't know anyone who voted for Bush.

That Youtube link is funny, but scary. everyone seems to know we should bomb someone, but they don't know much else!

GaryTheNoTrashCougar said:

Not only that, old people smell funny too.

NDRU said:

i guess that's why these statistics baffle me so much. I don't know very many normal, everyday people who are like this. Or maybe i'm just giving people more credit than they deserve?

well at least we have proof that there's at least one living in whatever country you happen to be in now.

Thanks for making yourself known!

For years I stood up to people (usually friends from my own country of Australia) talking crap about Americans and America, because my GF was American and I had lived there and blah, blah, blah. And there was a lot I did like about it, as acquired a taste as it is. But the more distant in time that period becomes, the more I realise just how fucking dumb many Americans really are, including some of my old American friends, who at least I thought were friends at the time.

However, it's only cause it's such a huge country with such huge problems. If you evened it out per capita, it's probably no more stupid than any other country, it just has a larger quantity of stupid people with stupid laws compared to most other places which call themselves democracies. So on a street level, I was constantly amazed at how many idiots and affected people I'd come across, but from God's perspective, it somehow works. Perhaps!



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For years I stood up to people (usually friends from my own country of Australia) talking crap about Americans and America, because my GF was American and I had lived there and blah, blah, blah. And there was a lot I did like about it, as acquired a taste as it is. But the more distant in time that period becomes, the more I realise just how fucking dumb many Americans really are, including some of my old American friends, who at least I thought were friends at the time.

However, it's only cause it's such a huge country with such huge problems. If you evened it out per capita, it's probably no more stupid than any other country, it just has a larger quantity of stupid people with stupid laws compared to most other places which call themselves democracies. So on a street level, I was constantly amazed at how many idiots and affected people I'd come across, but from God's perspective, it somehow works. Perhaps!



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Speakind as a former New yorker i was supposed to be in that area on that day. now did you ever think because of the tragedy and the power that day had people wish to forget? im not saying its right, but when people use the word "911" for stupid things it pisses me off. NY will always be in my heart and i will never ever forget where i come from.all i know is that day i refuse to forget.

mrdespues said:

gee, uh, thanks.

fantasyislander said:

you're welcome. will you hold this cross for me for a bit? my back is really aching.

mrdespues said:

They asked which country held American citizens hostages at the end of the 1970s. One dumbass said Canada.