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The Brits have lost touch with reality

keltic1701keltic1701 Member Posts: 1,162
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This is too weird to believe!! I guess this is to be expected when an empire falls.

 

news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080204/od_afp/britainpeoplehistoryoffbeat

 

 

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  • VampirVampir Member Posts: 4,239

    wow and everyone says american schools are the worst.

    So we need to send dentists and teachers to england then right?????

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  • VampirVampir Member Posts: 4,239

    Originally posted by Nasica


    I wouldn't be too quick to point fingers, i have seen a video where numerous Americans cant even say what date that 9/11 happened on. One man said it happened on August 16 2006 !!!!

    ya but i guarantee less then ten percent think george washington is a myth whereas thinking that their most famous prime minister who many of the population were alive at the same time as is a myth is unexcusable.

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  • keltic1701keltic1701 Member Posts: 1,162

    Originally posted by Nasica


    I wouldn't be too quick to point fingers, i have seen a video where numerous Americans cant even say what date that 9/11 happened on. One man said it happened on August 16 2006 !!!!
    Granted there are many boneheaded Americans out there but Churchill and WW2 was only 60 years ago for God's sake. There are still people alive who were around during the War!  I can understand if they were talking about King Arthur or Robin Hood but Churchill and Nelson being myths?? C'mon!!
  • Rikimaru_XRikimaru_X Member UncommonPosts: 11,718

    So yall are watching videos asking people when 9/11 happend when it's just media. When I can easily pick out 6 idiots out of  X number of people just to make a fool out of, "Americans"...or maybe they were forieners(sp) who didn't care? Oh well just stamp American on their for heads. Viewers will believe it.

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    Anyone can make a video showing stupid people from any country.  Just have to edit out the 95% that got it right and leave the 5%.  Makes for great TV, becuase in the end who wants to watch someone answer a question right?  And asking questions in NY that has a huge population of immigants and saying Americans are stupid is pointless crap.

  • SharajatSharajat Member Posts: 926

    Originally posted by Muirin


    Anyone can make a video showing stupid people from any country.  Just have to edit out the 95% that got it right and leave the 5%.  Makes for great TV, becuase in the end who wants to watch someone answer a question right?  And asking questions in NY that has a huge population of immigants and saying Americans are stupid is pointless crap.
    Oh yeah, and also anyone who sticks a camera in anyone's face and asks them when 9/11 happened is going to get a lot of very strange answers.  I live here, and this city has a low, low BS tolerance.  That would set most people's off.  I bet they got lots of people ignoring them, middle fingers, joke answers, etc.  I'm sure someone's "Durr... uh... August 16th maybe?" joke could easily come off a bit flat with a bunch of fancy cutting.  We can actually be quite nice, but not when you're screwing with us like that.  

     

    Lets stick to scientific polls please. 

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  • jaytheunseenjaytheunseen Member Posts: 3

    All good points, pretty much what I was going to say.

    And maybe they gave the poll to the stoner community or something...

    .:jaytheunseen:.

  • SkollSkoll Member Posts: 442

    Originally posted by jaytheunseen


    All good points, pretty much what I was going to say.
    And maybe they gave the poll to the stoner community or something...
    Heh at least something good came off from one of these annoying posts, thanks for the picture.

    I see a new one of these annoying videos every week on the internet, either its on Americans, Europeans, Asians or Australia. I am wondering how long it will take for people to notice that these videos are just hate mongering and blatantly dull. They are all the same <Question> <Wrong Answer> <Silence>. I can't imagine anyone enjoying these videos, but then again i have been known to over estimate the human race.

  • jaytheunseenjaytheunseen Member Posts: 3

    No problem.

     

    :D

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  • VampirVampir Member Posts: 4,239

    Originally posted by Nasica


    Thank god some people in this threat got the point of my message.

    I wasn't calling New Yorkers idiots. Purely pointing out that this kind of stuff happens the world over.

    My brother-in-law asked me the other day what Australia Day was all about. Something i would hope all Australians would know.
    But i did find it rather amusing at how defensive people were about it, and the assumptions they could draw for their own people but not for those dumb-ass British who have 'lost touch with reality'. Very amusing.

    im sorry i have to say this but what exactly is australia day???????

    Is it like 4th of july there and everyone walks around in black and white outfits in celebration of englands creation of a prison colony.

    I have no probelms with australia but that is how it was founded and i am wondering what exactly it is celebrating.

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  • SkollSkoll Member Posts: 442
    Originally posted by Vampir


     
     
    im sorry i have to say this but what exactly is australia day???????
    Is it like 4th of july there and everyone walks around in black and white outfits in celebration of englands creation of a prison colony.
    I have no probelms with australia but that is how it was founded and i am wondering what exactly it is celebrating.

    Australia day is on 26 January, it celebrates the first European settlement on the continent of Australia. However you are wrong about Britain creating penal colonies, as Britain had used North America way before Australia ( Sorry if you meant otherwise but i thought you meant that Britain created a penal colony on Australia first ).

  • RittoRitto Member Posts: 191

    I'm from England and I must say the school system must be failing from when I went to school.

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  • slannmageslannmage Member Posts: 540

    These polls are soo stupid because everyone i know and myself knows who churchill was, not justa  insurance company lol. It's just like all these polls they do in America to make them look stupid, i've been to America many times and the actual people there are smart and friendly........



    I dunno who they use for these polls tbh but i think they make it up.

  • slannmageslannmage Member Posts: 540

    Originally posted by Ritto


    I'm from England and I must say the school system must be failing from when I went to school.

    Not really because it's just how much effort you put into your education, the problem is kids these days are brought up badly with bad parenting and decide that they want to cause toruble at school or just drop out. I myself dropped out of school at the age of 15 because my parents were getting divorced and i had to move away and my mum didn't care about my education....... even so i know who Churchill is lol.

    Kids today need a good smack tbh.

  • pyrofreakpyrofreak Member UncommonPosts: 1,481

    Originally posted by Nasica


    I wouldn't be too quick to point fingers, i have seen a video where numerous Americans cant even say what date that 9/11 happened on. One man said it happened on August 16 2006 !!!!

    Lol, that's my birthday.

    Now with 57.3% more flames!

  • GodliestGodliest Member Posts: 3,486

    I could go out and ask questions regarding any topic and make everyone seem like total idiots. It's just a matter of asking the "right" persons and the correct questions. It nowhere mentions how many or which people they questioned, they could have asked 3 year olds for all we now.

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  • CastleGoobCastleGoob Member Posts: 134

    So UKTV  Gold throws up a poll of 3000 veiwers and this is represensative of 60 million give or take a few. ahahhaahahah..... Just priceless.  Maybe just maybe this was a very slow news day so they dig up some  poll to fill gap hmmmmm?

  • CleffyIICleffyII Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 3,440

    In America, we would carve Winston Churchills head into the side of Mt.Rushmore if it wasn't reserved for American Leaders.

    Also you can get those numbers by polling in a mental institution.

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  • HYPERI0NHYPERI0N Member Posts: 3,515

    I found this 'Poll' very funny really because.....


    UKTV Gold television surveyed 3,000 people

    That pretty much says it all

     

    Another great example of Moore's Law. Give people access to that much space (developers and users alike) and they'll find uses for it that you can never imagine. "640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates 1981

  • QazeQaze Member Posts: 247

    I found this amusing.

    That is all.

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  • Aiimee-eAiimee-e Member Posts: 10

    That's stupid!

    Sherlock Holmes is a famous Fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his interllectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of "deductive reasoning " while using abductive reasoning  (inference to the best explanation) and astute observation to solve difficult cases.

    People who watch UKTV Gold proberly don't even know what's happening around them..

    Not all Britons are losing grip on reality

    Grrrr....

  • Aiimee-eAiimee-e Member Posts: 10

    Also..Churchill was real..he was PRIME MINISTER.. those with great grandparents in britan will get told..

    My great grandparents went through WW2...Survey >>> Rubbish

  • fulmanfufulmanfu Member Posts: 1,523

    Originally posted by Nasica
    Did i add that they were in New York asking these questions,

    oh new york. so it wasn't actually american citizens they were asking.

  • Aiimee-eAiimee-e Member Posts: 10

    Huh?

  • fulmanfufulmanfu Member Posts: 1,523

    you've obviously never been to new york..

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