Thread: You know what pisses me off...

Originally Posted by Ziazca

... Anyone else learn the Fifty Nifty United States song in elementary school?

Aaaaaalabama, Alaska, Arizona, ... Yeah, memorization through the POWER OF MUSIC.


Edit: The dumbest people on Jay Leno's "Jaywalking" are the ones who couldn't tell him when the War of 1812 started...

That's how I memorized it! hahahaha!

Actually, my geography is really weak. Thus we have a thing called maps and GPS! WOOT!!!

At least I don't need to pull out my cellphone with the calculator to do math (ex: splitting the bills at restaurants)

They had a song for the presidents, too. It was bomb.

Originally Posted by Terasiel

Steal, I got an example that beats the average American hands down. Forever.


My mother, born in 1963, didn't know what the cold war was. She didn't have a clue that the Soviet Union fell. She didn't know what the Berlin Wall was about.

Want worse?

She thinks Hitler was converting and/or killing Christians over his Atheistic beliefs.
She thought Saddam Hussein was the one who bombed us on 9/11.
She thinks the reason our country is failing is because we can't pray in schools.
She even thinks AIDS is always spread by gay people.
And...
Just for you, cause I know how much you love these kind of things: She thinks almost all people of African descent frequently engage in incest because they don't have actual family units.

Let's see where this goes...

No offense Terasiel... but if I was given the opportunity I may have to murder your mom for the good of humanity. Then again you're not so bad so maybe its her brain thats fucked up and not her ovaries. >_>

Im fucking with you btw. Seriously Im not at all surprised about that Saddam Hussein thing. I have a feeling everyone outside of NYC believes that crap. The incest thing is funny because my roommate always says that incest in Texas (my neighbor in my dorm is Texan) went down 70% with the invention of television, and 90% with the invention of cable tv. Don't tell her that for the AIDS thing to be right she just needs to replace "Gays" with "Inner city minorites"... She might die of joy. The Hitler thing I think you should smack her in the back of the head for. Seriously... No seriously I'm not fucking kidding. Open palm preferably.

I worry more about grown adults, who can not read in this day and age.

But I have to say,I don´t know all the counties of my home country (Romania,there are around 41 I think).

And I´m living in Germany and I don´t know all the "Länder" here too.Most people of my age (around 15-16) don´t know em´ either,but even so I´m one of those who know more.
But I´ll tell ya,there are things you must know and others that aren´t that important....I meant,what´s the use of knowing the names of 41 counties (It´s prolly something else with the USA,a state there is as big as Romania xD)

I´ll learn this things someday probably (if I have time :P ). But don´t worry,I know that Africa isn´t a single country and I also know Africa is located south of Europe ^^

Originally Posted by StealDragon

Then again you're not so bad

I think that's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me in this forum. I'm marking this on my calender. Then again, people might misinterpret "Steal Day."

The incest thing is funny because my roommate always says that incest in Texas (my neighbor in my dorm is Texan) went down 70% with the invention of television, and 90% with the invention of cable tv.

She'd laugh at that, but never concede that it reflects on her Southern rural upbringing; and she's lived in a pasture, in one place or another, for the majority of her life. (Save the time she was married at 15 and possibly for a short time after she was remarried at 16.)

On a related note: Did you see how close Obama got to winning South Carolina? How he's still possibly the winner of and North Carolina and Missouri?(Still Pending) Hell, he even got at or around 40% in all Southern States in which he didn't win.

As far as I'm concerned, that's cool as hell.

Originally Posted by BlueDemon

It´s not just the U , S & A.

Here there´s a radio "show" similar to what Mojo said and people are so dumb I just can´t understand.
They even asked who discovered America and they didn´t knew it.
I pray to freakin God that some of the answers were edited so that people look stupid,but if it ain´t so I only can say: We´re fuckin doomed xD

Americas discovery...
What was the name of that viking captain again, who discovered Greenland?

Originally Posted by Henchy432

I worry more about grown adults, who can not read in this day and age.

If they can´t write but live in a modern country, they are ill-breded (okay- not their fault), but still it´s somehow a good think, they can´t spread their believes (usually ill-breded people believe nonsense) as well.

Originally Posted by nroejb

What was the name of that viking captain again, who discovered Greenland?

Buck Rogers?

The world is flat, BELIEVE IT!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7540427.stm

Originally Posted by Terasiel

Buck Rogers?

Would have been funny if you said Jan Tanner... (though it would just be funny for people from germany, with knowledge about denmark and the other way around)
But that was half a serious question you know.

It was Gunnbjørn about 875
first Wiking settlement 982 (Erik the Red)

Originally Posted by Ziazca

The world is flat, BELIEVE IT!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7540427.stm

That was the stupidest thing I ever read...
Really makes me consider compulsive castration.