Reply to: Americans

[darmstadt]

[Flashman]

1 in 20 is 5%. isn't that quite a low figure?

I wonder where you got that quote from anyway?

[darmstadt]

One in four Americans 'do not know the Earth circles the Sun' - Telegraph






I like 'muricans generally even if they are a bit too loud. But you really have to wonder about them sometimes...

A bit like:

A study of 2000 British children aged 9-15 revealed that more than one in 20 "thought Hitler managed Germany's football team rather than the leader of the fascist Nazi Party" while "one in six children believed Auschwitz was a World War Two theme park."

This may seem unlikely, but it becomes somewhat more plausible when you read the results of another survey indicating that "more than half of children aged between four and 12 struggled to recognise a crocodile while 44 per cent were unable to identify a leopard. Many children also had difficulty recognising gorillas and chimpanzees while others could not tell the difference between a male and female lion." Now, to be sure, both of those studies were conducted by interested parties (the animal study was, in fact, put together by a videogame company pushing a new zoo-themed title), but it probably does say something about the state of education in Britain, particularly when you consider that pretty much every British child can tell you the brand, type of blade, and potential for grievous bodily harm of every knife on that island.

[stek]

One in four Americans 'do not know the Earth circles the Sun' - Telegraph






I like 'muricans generally even if they are a bit too loud. But you really have to wonder about them sometimes...

The original series of 'Randall and Hopkirk, Deceased' was renamed 'My Partner the Ghost' in USA when released there because research showed the majority of American's didn't know what 'Deceased' meant....

[woohoo]

One in four Americans 'do not know the Earth circles the Sun' - Telegraph






I like 'muricans generally even if they are a bit too loud. But you really have to wonder about them sometimes...

Yeah but they also good at inventing a whole load of cool tulip, the software I'm using to write this was developed in US, top uni's etc etc.

So to take some twats stupid survey and apply to a whole country and an effin big one at that shows me how stupid you are.


And go on, correct my ******* spelling.

[Flashman]

One in four Americans 'do not know the Earth circles the Sun' - Telegraph

The question - "Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth" - was answered incorrectly by 26 per cent of respondents.

I like 'muricans generally even if they are a bit too loud. But you really have to wonder about them sometimes...

[Sysman]

Washington DC, was quote obvious.

Er, is that a state? BTW, twinned with Sunderland

The original Washington is just up the road from Sunderland.

[scooterscot]

Er, is that a state? BTW, twinned with Sunderland

It's stateless.

[darmstadt]

Washington DC, was quote obvious.

Er, is that a state? BTW, twinned with Sunderland

[scooterscot]

So what states were they both from? If you couldn't tell, you're a hypocrite.

Washington DC, was quote obvious.

[d000hg]

Off to my favourite pizza / iTalian restaurant tonight for a takeaway. Whilst waiting an American couple got chatting with me.

So your from... 'his brow appeared tempered, with a slight perspiration glinting in the moody yet buzzing Friday night restaurant light. His lady friend abide looked on with very white teeth on display and a constipated appearance as she waited for her partner's question to be received'.... Ireland.

So what states were they both from? If you couldn't tell, you're a hypocrite.

[Bacchus]

You're a good egg.

Tally ho, hark for'ard!

[scooterscot]

Quad Erat Demonstrandum

You're a good egg.

[Bacchus]

Punctuation please!

Quad Erat Demonstrandum

[scooterscot]

American/Irish/Scotch - isn't it all just a lot of people who can't quite speak English?

Punctuation please!