[Rictor]

From Gank's link:

87 percent cannot find Iraq

83 percent cannot find Afghanistan

76 percent cannot find Saudi Arabia

70 percent cannot find New Jersey

49 percent cannot find New York

11 percent cannot find the United States

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now tell me again why you think you have the right to interefere in foreign affairs? 11% can not find the country where they currently reside.

And over 80% can't find the two countries that have been invaded by the US.

You may have the missles, but in a few years time they will be useless because the people aiming them won't know where to aim.

Oy vey.

[Lonestar]

ROFL

[Kazan]

Rictor: since some of our population is ignorant ****s means the smart ones cannot do anything (and i am not calling **** smart)

go take a hike - what country do you live in? Let's do this survey there

[01010]

Ha ha, how can you not find your own country on the bloody map, especially when it's as big as the US is.

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

I remember reading a similar survey a couple of years ago. It was pretty big one, covering the whole EU. Luckily (?), finns were a bit better than an average European, but still there were people here who thought Earth is flat and we are at the center of the universe

[karajorma]

See what I mean. It's not just the brits.

Kazan : for Trisha read Rikki Lake or Jenny Jones.

[Kazan]

01010 - i can find my own country on the map, i can find all of those countries on the map.   if you name a country i can probably tell you what continent it is on off the top of my head

[01010]

Didn't say you couldnt, just makes me laugh how some people can't.

[J3Vr6]

lol, u tell'em Kazan!

[Kazan]

it's rather pathetic that some people cannot

[Zeronet]

Hmm, i dunno whether i trust this article. Bet they were all interviewing townies. At least some of them were taking the piss, lol, apes ruling the Earth.

[Rictor]

Kazan: Palau which continent. And no Googling :D

I live in Canada, and I think that if such a survey were to be taken, we would fare better than Americans. There probably has been a survey like that conducted for Canada, it just a matter of finding it.

I shudder to think what the results might be if someone *gasp* asked these people to identify the capital city of Iraq, or maybe Iran, Syria, Israel, Germany etc etc. Perhaps even asked them to name one country that shares a border with said nations.

[jdjtcagle]

Originally posted by Kazan



average human being = moron

a quote: More than 60 thought the Battle of Helms Deep in the Lord of the Rings trilogy actually took place. [/B]

That's actually very funny

[Rictor]

The Idiots are taking over - NOFX

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it's not the right time to be sober
now the idiots have taken over
spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?

Mensa membership exceeding
tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding
Watson, it's really elementary
the industrial revolution
has flipped the ***** on evolution
the benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized, what a bummer
the world keeps getting dumber
insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason

darwin's rollin over in his coffin
the fittest are surviving much less often
now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening
someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule
and im startin to feel a lot like charlton heston
stranded on a primate planet
apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
with generals and the armies that obeyed them
followers following fables
philosophies that enable them to rule without regard

there's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred
majority rule, don't work in mental institutions
sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions

what are we left with?
a nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists
who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland
pass on traditions
how to get ahead religions
And prosperity via simpleton culture

the idiots are takin over

:D

[Kazan]

palau is part of micronesia

[Goober5000]

More than a quarter of people do not know in which century the Great War took place

That's Freespace for ya.

[01010]

Ahhh NOFX. Made my day listening to "Idiot son of an asshole" at Reading Festival two years ago.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Kazan
palau is part of micronesia

Close but no cigar. It's independant.

The geography is correct though

[Kazan]

"Micronesia" IIRC is also a geopgraphic location, which is how i was using it

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Kazan
"Micronesia" IIRC is also a geopgraphic location, which is how i was using it

You could be right there

Once you get to the pacific island states my knowledge of geography starts to break down. In my defense though I'm almost completely self taught when it comes to geography and history cause the teaching in schools was so ****e.

What makes me laugh is that I found history boring in school. A lesson which contains wars, intrigue, backstabbing, love stories and the odd cunning plan was somehow made boring by my teachers. To this day I can't figure out how you make history lessons boring. It should be the most interesting subject taught in school.