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I love the self proclaimed fails. But really, not being able to differentiate between a country and a continent is one thing…a U.S. state and country is a little ridiculous though.
Actually I think confusing countries and continents is worse. I mean, there’s only 4-7 of those (depending on the convention you have been taught).
the standard is seven, some people say ‘Eurasia’ or that Oceania and Asia are one continent,but the standard is 7.
And I agree, by the way. It drives me up the wall when people suck horribly at geography, I mean, I suck at it, but I’m Einstein compared to my classmates.
7?
I learned that there were 6 (Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, America and Antartica)…
Where did you get the last one?
I was taught that North America and South America count as two different continents.
North- and South-America are different continents.
No, they aren’t…
Yes, they are. Lrn2geo.
Australia.
Australia is actually a country. The continent is Oceania.
You are both correct.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_%28continent%29]Australia Continent[/url
Depends on who you ask really Australia or oceania (Also known as Australasia), if you asked me I'd say Australia by itself is a continent with the exception of Tasmania (which I know contradicts myself)
since there seems to be two definitions of a continent.
A) The land mass above sea level or
B) Includes the continental shelf which is below sea level
Also
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number_of_continents]Number of Continents[/url]
(Bastard, made me wiki all that.)
Seems i f**ked up with the hyper-linking………Oh well, my bad
Little place called South America.
australia….
Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, America, Antarctica and Artic
Each pole is a continent
Damn your wrong…. the Arctic is in Canada bud.
uuuuu?……………australia????
or alternatively north and south america,which are two separate continents. check an atlas if you don’t believe me. that makes it North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica
Not sure what the point is though… geography seems to be a dying science!
Yeah… Like you never said “America” instead of “the United States”…
Look. If Mexico or Canada would step up and contribute something to the world forum, we’d stop confounding the two. But until their combined best export exceeds the contributions made by John Candy and Dan Aykroyd, we just have no choice but to lump them all in together.
To recap,
Contributions made by Canada: Great SNL comics, some awesome cities which you have to actually visit to appreciate.
Contributions made by Mexico: Tequila. Which admittedly, is an AWESOME contribution.
Contributions made by US: Winning WWII. Winning Cold War. Being a world superpower for over 50 years, uncontested for about 10 years. The Internet. Bourbon whiskey. Jazz.
Until anything else in North America starts putting out stuff as good as the Internet, forgive me if occasionally I forget my neighbors.
We’ll take our credit for:
Beer,
Jet engines.
NASA,
WW1,
and multiculturalism.
Signed,
Canada.
Your Welcome.
Whats bad is that a lot of people in the US dont even know that New Mexico is a state. # 48
- It’s not. Along with the northern third of Mexico and Baja California, New Mexico makes up the continent Mexicica. Also: it’s a very common error, but there are actually only 43 states in the continental US. The remaining territories consist of islands, communes, and reservations which thrive under their own sovereignty. Many people are unaware of this factoid; the New Mexicans are simply in denial.
Please pay attention.
I don’t know that Puerto Rico is *thriving* under its own sovereignty…
Bwahaha! Good stuff, and I love how she thinks saying Sweden is close-ish to being landlocked, what with its over 3000km of coastline!
Thank you for explaining the joke Caft. Obvious
Yeah Sweden is close … to the water. Geez – ever heard of the vikings?
You mean those guys from Norway?
Norway, Denmark and Sweden.
The Swedish Vikings mostly went east to Russia and Ukraine.
Not as far as Ukraine, actually Beliki Novgorod was the only Russian-Viking kimgdom. The kingdom of Kiev was mainly of Norman culture. Novgorodians were polytheists while Kievan were christinas.
Not funny I know, but fyi.
*christians lol
There were probably some Christinas. Maybe even some Christianas.
Actually, untrue on both counts. Most of the latest paleontological and geological studies are agreeing that early viking civilization originated in Alaska and crossed the northern ice shelf some 50,000 years prior to settling in northern Europe.
Also, they are credited with discovering and refining kite technology to its current standard, as well as several advancements in iditarod aerodynamics and aeronautics. Hans Vlebrogen, the father of modern veterinary medicine, was a viking, just as most Eskimo are direct descendants of the vikings.
One other thing, the religion of Christina was actually also a historical farce. Artifacts purporting to be Kievan origin from this sect have since been carbon-dated to 300 years ago. (FYI.)
…I wouldn’t feel too badly, though – you can’t know more than everyone about everything. =]
+ Iceland, a land founded by Norwegian vikings…
no i think they mean the ones from Minesotta
You mean Minnesota.
yes I do
So how was cheerleading practice Innadiebus?
This saddens me a lot…
-Headdesk-….
i had an idiot friend like that. it was a blast playing Trivial Pursuit with him.
Q: what southwest state leads the nation in copper production
his answer: Seattle
awesomeness!
well i didn’t know that… i don’t know any thing about states in the s**tty US
I didn’t know that either, but if you ask me for a state, I wouldn’t answer with a city.
doesn’t know about the states= doesn’t know their names ergo thought Seattle was a state?
well i didn’t know that.. wtf is seattle? … and yes i am clearly from a differant nation as you
it’s a city that is the capital of one of the northernmost states.
Olympia is the capital of Washington……..
Holy crap…you FAIL.
I should expect people at least have heard of Seattle from the movie ‘sleepless in Seattle’
Yeah… Movie titles are translated. I thought you would know that. Or maybe you think that all foreign movies have English titles?
They actually do in quite a lot of countries…
Name five movies from non English-speaking countries with English names. With proofs!
hmm…
In Sweden: A LOT of them. Especially the latest ones. I don’t know any new movie title that has been translated…the newest one is probably…”The magicians apprentice” or whatever it’s called in english…oh well here’s a few movies:
1. Little miss sunshine
2.Eternal sunshine on (of? I forgot…) the spotless mind
3. The American
4. Pirates of the Carribean (although the subtitles (dead man’s chest etc.) are translated, for some reason.)
5. Scary Movie (God that would sound RIDICULOUS)
I said “from non English-speaking countries”. NOT “American movies whose titles are not translated in your country”. Total fail, man.
You fail, because Sarah was talking about people from other countries, who probably know Seattle from the movie.
So that means she was talking about translation of movie titles from e.g. the US to other languages. Titles aren’t translated very much, in that way. So you misunderstood, and therefore you fail.
I fail? It was you who said that a lot of movies in other countries have English names then decline to give concrete examples… Or maybe I didn’t fail 5 comments ago?
Okay, any 5 British countries.
Like Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and even most of Canada.
Lol!! You’re right!!
I’ve never even heard of that movie, not every US-movie is as sussesfull in other countries as in the US, sorry for bursting your superior bubble
IT’s a cheap remake of An Affair To Remember with Cary Grant. As if Tom Hanks could be anything but a parody of Cary Grant.
Unfortunately, you’re demonstrating the point perfectly.
I can name a number of states and cities in the US, but if you are of a different nationality, that’s not something that would categorise you as dumb in the international arena.
Unless you can name all the capitals of all the countries in the world, and then throw in a few other cities/provinces/regions/states beside, then you should really stop the finger-pointing and assumptions.
Sweden has a very large coastline. All the vikings in Russia were the swedes.
It is obviously a bunch of very dumb people there, or people who have had a baaad education in geography.
A person responded.
And yes, dumb as a sack full of hammers.
sweden has a huge coast SVENSK ftw
Skandinavia FTW
There are many stupid people in the world … or at least U.S. I agree
Sverige ftw!
Yea, it’s kinda hard to miss, SVENSK ftw
Vi måste hålla ihop för vi kan (i dem flesta fall) vår egen geografi xD
Men inte vårt eget språk … (i *de flesta fall)
hahaha! men seriöst, vad är det för fel på folk? there’s a big difference between sweden and switzerland!!
Vi borde starta klubb!!! Sverige FTW klubben
how is that even possible? T_T colorado? tennessee? i understand that some stupid person would mix up sweden with some other country but brazil!?!? where do they think brazilian bikini wax comes from and why? <.<
Finally somebody said it XD
Guaranteed American.
I wouldn’t exactly call all Americans stupid. It’s mostly the popular cheerleaders who get by on looks, and have no brains at all.
not all Americans are stupid, only ones from the US
Um. I happen to be from the United States. I know this place is teeming with idiots, but do people from other countries really thing we’re *all* stupid? For my part, I at least try to be well-informed of basic knowledge.
Hey, im from the us and i happenz to be verie smart(i did it on purpose)
Hey, dude. Typing like a dips**t doesn’t make you look smart. It makes you look like a dips**t. Even if you do it on purpose.
Well… yeah… Just like you think Saddam Hussein was the devil itself or that french people smell or that Irish are drunks. While playing on-line games some Americans have yelled at me “Stop speaking Mexican! Speak American!”… We’ve all seen that video where a journalist asks random people walking down the street if they can name a country that starts with a U, or if they can locate Irak in a map and they can’t… Not knowing the first letter of your own country’s names is sad… sad sad sad…. I know it’s not all of you… But being the country with the highest nuclear arsenal and also the only one that’s ever used that kind of weapon in a war, and also beinng the country that consumes 50% of earth resources with less than 5% of the population and if you want, you can add to that that you never sing the enviromental treaties that are meant to stop the pollution that YOU are mostly responsable of… It scares the crap out of me…
So not knowing the names all the 50 states and some random big cities in the US is as bad as not knowing if the largest country in South America is landlocked or not? And just by the way if you have ever seen South America on the map you should be able to say Brazil isn’t landlocked.
I thought it was stereotypes and not cliches?
no-one noticed the spelling error at ‘responce’?
Yes it stood out like a sore thumb. It means the OP is also a ‘tard.
And the Americans wonder why the world hates them…
The world doesn’t hate America… only the US
Judge only by individual, not by the divide.
theres nothing cliche about this :S
I think the ‘stupid cheerleaders’ is a cliche and a stereotype
I think its just a stereotype… that, and I have not slept all night. So if I’m wrong I don’t really care. wait… why am I posting this… I’m off to bed lol
im from switzerland!!! wohoo!
WTF is “oh, cheerleaders’ supposed to mean? Is he saying that cheerleaders are stupid? ooooohhhhh, if I ever get a hold of him…
The fact you needed to ask that speaks volumes.
ZING
I meant it as a metaphorical question.
*face desk* metaphor – an implicit comparison or identification of one thing with another unlike itself without the use of a verbal sign (such as “like” or “as”= a simile will use the construction “like” or “as”) Stop trying to make yourself look smart.
I lol’d.
Rhetorical. -_-
Why does people mix up Sweden and Switzerland?
They don’t sound very familiar to me.
I used to mix Sweden and Germany when I was a young, and thous don’t even start with the same letter XD
English might be their second language.
At least the cheerleaders I’ve met or know aren’t this stupid. I was expecting more of a stupid answer like the Philippines or Cuba.
Brazil is a pretty stupid response.
that is true.
…
please stop stereotyping.
No
responses*
She spelled responses wrong too. I bet that was her answer to the question, and by avoiding embarrassment she just pinned it on someone else.
Brazil? tsc tsc
It’s an awkward fact that most stereotypes have a little basis in truth… usually the most conspicuous worst aspects of the worst members of a particular group, but still true ones.
I’m sorry, no. Cheerleading is a sport. So is soccer. Are soccer players said to be stupid? noooooooooo.
Cheerleading isn’t ALWAYS a sport. Competitive cheerleading, sure, but at my high school, all the football cheerleaders did was jump in place and yell almost audibly, and maybe clap once in awhile. Definitely not a sport.
And, not in the majority of my experience, but sometimes cheerleaders do tend to try to get by on their looks and can tend to be the same girls who dumb themselves down for guys. And some of them (just like some of any group) are just dumb. I’d say it’s the number that act dumb, more so than the actually dumb ones, that are the basis for the stereotype. That seems to be the case more in schools where cheerleading is like automatic popularity (which it wasn’t at my school, but it was at some of the schools we played, and started to be at our middle school).
Venice. Now give me some cheerleaders to catch!
I really hope you’re kidding about Venice.
It’s so frustrating that every FAIL is assumed to be from an American. I realize that we have an abundance of morons. I KNOW this. But we have smart people too. Just because those people don’t make headlines in your country doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
Don’t believe me? Come visit. I’ll prove it.
And correct me if I’m wrong, but: Chad, Bolivia, and Austria are landlocked.
I believe Paraguay is landlocked too…
The only reason people assume that all Americans are morons is because we have more morons than them. The US also has a greater population than pretty much every other country in the world.
It’s not that we have more- it’s that our celebreties are morons. Politicians, musicians, movie stars, warmongers- that’s the bulk of coverage of our country in foreign media. What about the woman who developed Kiva? Or Toms shoes? Those people seem pretty darn smart to me.
HAHA! Take THAT, foreign countries!! We gave you the beat generation and therefore the best works of literary genious IN THE WORLD.
Thanks for reminding me.
That’s subjective. Those are the most important literary names in YOUR literature. But assuming that those are the most important in the world is a bit patronizing.
Now seriously. You Americans shouldn’t get so frustrated about the Americans-are-dumb stereotype. It’s a stereotype — like Italians-idolatrize-their-mammas or French-wear-stupid-moustaches or Brits-drink-tea-at-5o’clock. Stereotypes are something to have fun with, not to be ashamed of.
Agreed. I love the fact that I can totally be prejudiced against people who have the same race, gender, and live in the same country as me without being considered prejudiced. It’s great fun.
Stupid Americans.
Its not like NASA is anything special…
responses*
Oh Americans.*
*Of course not all Americans are this clueless, but the scary fact is that when they are, they REALLY are. Education system and news media fail. *sings Television the Drug of a Nation*
woooow i love you
I’m reminded of this from King of the Hill. “No, I’m from Laos, it’s a small landlocked country.” “So are you Chinese or Japanese?” “YOU STUPID HILLBILLY!!” You learn things from the weirdest places sometimes…