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What would the European equivalent be? Thinking the Leaning Tower is in Paris?
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Americans make me feel clever
In his defence Washington is also a state in northwest Usa… not even close to Washington DC, but still it fails pretty bad
Yes, at least he’s aware that Washington State actually exists. You’d be amazed how many East coast people forget about everything west of the Mississippi.
Los Angeles? Sounds spanish to me!
It’s actually really annoying when I tell people I live in Washington and they respond with, “you live in the capital? That must be cool!”
I’ve even had someone say that to me here, in Washington. And people wonder why I’m so angry all the time. :/
Really?
1/3 of Germans thought 9/11 was an inside job. Not exactly geniuses. But hey, anti-American bigotry is cool, kids!
Yay hate speech!
yayyyy
I think someone needs a definition of “hatred” and “humor”… not the same thing, kids!
You’re talking to a German conservative. It’s useless.
FWIW, I don’t think 9/11 was an inside job, I’m German, and I still think Vernunft is an ignorant jackass.
im sick of these god dam americans taking credit for my work
I live in eastern europe and I honestly haven’t met one person that does NOT believe 911 was an inside job, and this is fairly consistent with the westerners I’ve met too.
that was some fail
w8…, what?!
this is why my hope is fading…
…You still have hope? Mine died a ~long~ time ago.
I never had any hope.
Yep, instead of going on facebook everyday, try reading a book
How about instead of getting on Cheez Burger every day, try reading a book.
How about reading a book about Failbook by CheezBurger?
3 birds with one stone.
Very nice!
What are you doing on the internet? You’re a bird. >_>
OH EM GEE! That is not just some fail, that is epic fail.
Sort of…
you fail for saying oh em gee! how lame????????
You fail for misquoting him, he said ‘OH EM GEE’ not ‘oh em gee’ ¬_¬
You dun goofed, son.
You fail for saying that saying oh em gee is a fail.
I have to agree with ‘uprising resistance’ on this one, just write OMG, or write out “Oh my God”, there’s no need to spell OMG phonetically. It’s almost as stupid as thinking the white house is in the state of Washington. Almost.
I agree, that’s almost as bad as people speaking the letters “lol” instead of actually laughing.
Correct
and yet, in some languages it can make sense, for instance in Dutch, ‘lol’ is the equivalent of ‘fun’
wut? That’s ridiculous…
This person should kill them self
fact
Epic & I’m an aussie chick :-p
this was an epic sick fail..
it’s an epsick fail!
Oh dear god… I wish this was a joke :/
I thought Americans know nothing about the world outside the US. I didn’t realize that they don’t even know enough about their own country
No offense. I know that there are also a lot of Europeans who wouldn’t even find their own country on a map of Europe. There are stupid people everywhere.
We Americans just seem to have a ~lot~ of stupid people.
I think it’s just that stupid Americans are louder than every other kind of stupid.
this
Hahaha, this ^
I live in Japan, the gaijin aren’t any more stupid than the Japanese, the Japanese are just more polite and quiet about it.
What many Americans lack in intelligence, they make up for in confidence…..unfortunately. That’s why the really stupid ones never hesitate to open their mouths – or post on Facebook – before thinking.
Stoopid thing keeps trying to submit while I’m in mid-comment. Never mind.
I can’t find the exact quote, but Jeff Foxworthy said something like, “Southern pe
…i know plenty of kids who can find many European Countries on a map of europe. but we still fail at finding our own states.
sorry but americans have established quite a bad rep in europe
Are they still sore from the American Revolution? Or was it 1996? Where i beat a British man with a broken freaken neck in wrestling and won OLYMPIC GOLD? Do you have olymipic gold? No you dont thats why no matter how dumb we are we will always be better than you!
Where exactly is the difference btwn the prejudice of Americans being stupid and your blatant exaggerations and generalizations about your “superiority” in sports and whatnot?
And just because someone is not from US but speaks English doesn’t make him British.
q.e.d.
Thank you for fulfilling the European stereotype of the arrogant American.
you would think that knowing about your own country is more essential than winning gold in the olympics but oh well….
can you say “country brought to its knees by some apes in turbans”?
or how about “lowest average IQ in the civilised world”.
or even “has religious nuts at every corner protesting perfectely acceptable things”.
oh and try and say “country full of immigrants that think they are better than the countries they are originally from”.
wow, couldn’t have said it better myself,
could add looking down at other parts of the world but if you go to an american ghetto its worst than many places in africa, or the fact that americans feel they have the “god given right” to do whatever they please, most agressive nation in the last 100 years (most military conflicts initiated around the globe) and the list goes on, lived in america for some years, went there to school, most ignorant nation ever (or at least that’s how it was in the south)
well, its obvious, that you as a nation put sports over general knowledge. how else would you explain calling a sport where an ellipsoid gets mostly carried around “football”?
I may not have olympic gold, but at least I know how to spell.
…..Europe has quite a bad rep in many parts of the world
That’s because no-one has gone there, looks to TV where you see all the s**tty parts of Europe and thinks “what a s**t!”.
Well, seeing as Europe ain’t a Country, I can’t really imagine why the whole continent would have a bad reputation in other places. But hey, as long as you’re happy.
Well, Re-read what I was replying (ditch’s comment) too and tell me where ‘countries’ were mentioned….don’t worry, I’ll wait….
Europe isn’t a continent
Ugh sorry, Had a brain freeze… Ignore the last comment.
Why are you apologizing ditch? You just stated your opinion; you are allowed to do that. But, if your opinion is an attempt to negate my statement above…you may want to dig a little deeper.
Maybe plenty of British people like that (stupid chavs), but I would struggle to find a French who can’t locate France or a German who can’t locate Germany.
belive it or not Britain is not full of chavs. i mean there are a lot of them but a great deal of said chavs get jobs and settle down at 25-ish
to assume is to make an ass out of u and me
You might want to read up on some elementary English grammar, punctuation, sentence structure and spelling rules, it’ll make you telling someone he’s making an ass out of himself a lot less ironic.
No, pretty sure you, and everyone else, understands what I said, so perfect grammar and spelling are not a necessity on comments on a website, just something people like you cling to because you have nothing better or funny to add, therefore, it would only be a waste of my time to spell and grammar check my posts for boring anal retentive people, such as yourself. If and when you actually have something original and beneficial to add, maybe you’ll redeem your own asinine behavior.
Well you have certainly proven possessing a capability of constructing a well-worded retort with none of the errors in the comment I responded to, I have to give you that.
You have, however, fundamentally misunderstood my comment; I do, in general, not care that much about the plethora of atrocities committed to the English language on the interwebs, I just get annoyed by people lecturing others in such a flawed way.
lol, i tend to spell check if i think the Nazi’s are about, just don’t want that to be the first thing they respond to again, lol.
You are correct in my misunderstanding, and you are correct in the flawed grammar in my comments. I still don’t think it takes away from my original message, but thats niether here nor there.
I apologize for insulting you, as I said, I thought you were a Nazi, and generally speaking, my natural reaction to their posts is to be as insulting as I can be…force of habit i suppose, so, sorry.
None taken. He sounds kinda like a hippie anyway, what with the “duuuude” and a general stupidity that suggests hippie homeschooling, excessive marijuana or both.
The correct quote is ‘To assume is to make an ass out of u and me’.
You assume that person is an American and not a tourist. It sounds a lot like the mistake non-Americans make about Washington state and Washington D.C.
I know literally zero Americans who would not know the White House is in Washington D.C.
Funny though, Americans are the only people who are ever universally indicted for the actions of individuals… even individuals who are not American.
Carry on.
Oh that is not true. Try being white, and from South Africa… please… let the flood gates open.
but you get a free racist pass… if someone makes fun of you or downs you, you get to say “you’re just saying that because I’m African”
Being white and from South Africa is a WIN in my book
why the f**k not?
i am scottish and yes i do carry irn-bru and wear a kilt abbroad but the only times i am abroad is for weddings in spain (very popular for some reason) and it is tradtion to wear a kilt at a wedding
The fact this person typed “Mom” and not “Mum” the way the rest of the world (as far as I’m aware) does it, I’d say he was a yank.
I think the way he starts his sentence with “duuuddddeeee” kind of implies he is American.
Wait – are you insinuating that Americans start out their sentences with “duuuudddddeeee”? If you are, that’s not it.
Bouh hou hou! Let me cry… Anyways’ i’m heading up to the States today!
N E W Y O R K C I T Y B A B Y!
“Up” to the states, where in Canada are you from?!
…if you went ‘up’ to the states, you would have to be coming from Mexico, not Canada….
Leave him alone guys, he’s Canadian. Poor guy.
My point exactly.
Oh, I see what you did there…
…or you would be going to Alaska.
Geography fail.
Except McCanada said he was heading to New York City. There is nowhere in Canada where you can go “up” to NYC.
He is holding the map up side down..
UP to the States from Canada? SERIOUSLY!?!
You do understand that “up” isn’t a geographical or navigational directional term, right?
“Up” doesn’t equal “North”. It’s just you’re under-developed brain and poor communication skills that make you think “up” when looking at a map.
If you were looking at a globe and trying to following a path from California to China would you think of it as “going around a corner”?
Well, I visited my Aunt in Italy once, and she always used the term “up” when she spoke about travelling from her home in Brindisi. So, I’m assuming, that this whole Up = North thing is not strictly an American thing. No, Up does not equal North, but quite a majority of people mean North when they say “up”. You’re just being contrary.
Thanks for calling us all stupid, but keep the name calling to yourself, please
They said Canada because the user before them called themself “McCanada.” Not because they really think Canada is “below” the US.
Southern Ontario, presumably…
By the way, the southernmost point in Canada (Pelee Island) is more to the south than the northermost point of 25 US States, including California. When people in Detroit, Michigan, look south, they see Windsor, Ontario.
Just sayin’.
Being from Maine, this is a pet-peeve of mine, lot’s of Canadians come here and say they’re headed “up to Boston”, or “Up to NYC” and they have the gaul to tell us we’ve got no geographical direction?????????
Well see, New York has a higher average elevation than Maine, so…
Nah, it’s really just phrasing. Some of us use “up to [wherever]” in the same sense as one would use “downtown”. I’m not very good at explaining it.
What Zem said. I have several relatives who will say, for instance, “I’m going up to the store, do you need anything?” or “We’re going up to mom’s this weekend,” or even “I’m gonna go on up to bed” (living in a single story home).
It seems to be a regional “placeholder” word, something that people insert into sentences without it really having any meaning, similar to how some people use “like” or “eh.”
Most of us do this all the time, with various words and phrases, but only notice it when someone uses a construction unfamiliar to us.
I live in the US and I’d never say “I’m going up to Mexico”. That’s just silly to me.
Ok this is something I have thought about and would like to ask someone who lives in the southern hemisphere about but never had the chance. Do you think people in the southern hemisphere say “going up to somewhere” when they are going south? Do they think of south as up like we think of north as up?
Britbrat – As a Kiwi now living in London, I can guarantee that we all use North as “up” just like you Northern Hemisphereans.
You can, however, buy “funny” (and I use that phrase quite loosely) maps of the world that make New Zealand “on top of the world”… assuming you don’t count Antarctica, Chile or Argentina, who are all more southern – but they it just looks like an upside-down map. It’s very hard to read and pretty much fails.
Here’s one… it also explains WHY North is so traditionally used as “up”.
http://gisweb.massey.ac.nz/Topic/webreferencesites/TheUpsideDownMapPage.htm
We sure do! Because our cardinal points go S – W – N – E (clockwise), with south at the top. Our compasses always point south, too.
Are… you basing this question on the presumption that people in the Southern Hemisphere are upside down in some way?
If you look at a map (assuming it’s oriented as most maps are), south is always going to be down, no matter how close to the bottom of the page it is.
The only thing I can make of your question is that you are referring to a situation like this:
If you’re walking across Antarctica towards the South Pole, you’ll be going south until you get to the Pole – then, when you cross that point, even though you are continuing to walk in the exact same direction, you are now going north (or “up”) instead of south (or “down”).
However, except a few hardy scientist-types, no one lives on Antarctica, so the question is moot.
I liked my answer better.
So you’re saying you went to the states by going around the world vertically north from canada
(It only makes sense that way)
No, the writer is from the US, no one else would use the Lincoln Memorial as a landmark, and no other country calls their mothers mom.
Except for Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.
Only Brits call it “mum”.
Fail. Australians and New Zealanders both use ‘mum’. I wouldn’t know about Canada though.
…my brother still confuses the two. We’ve lived i America our whole lives. oh, and he’s 13.
**in
I think that foreigners in particular wouldn’t make the mistake because it’s basically one of the first things one learns about America.
He uses the term “mom” -an American term. This man is clearly not European or any other ethnicity. He also uses “dude.”
Lee DeWyze was on Ellen and didn’t know what country other than Canada borders Niagra Falls. I can’t say all Americans are stupid, there’s certainly stupid people in every country all around the world, but the Americans that actually are stupid, sure like to make sure the rest of the world knows it! Like the Failbook title states, if they didn’t make it so easy…
*Niagara
there is no European equivalent because europe is NOT a country.
stop comparing europe to usa …
no, they’re just saying that because the facebook fails in all of europe almost = USA facebook fails.
Eh…I’d recommend some history lessons.
We know. Calm it Cappin’ Geography…
the white house? wasn’t that in dubai? that’s where i dropped off the presents last year, the white house is in dubai ! santa knows all (note:the present was nude pics of the presidents wife)
Now there’s some pics that should not be getting out there!! Ewww!
washington and Washington ain’t the same thing.
Europe IS a country, and Sweden is the capital of Helsinki…
And why do we say americans? There are like 35 countries in america where USA is only one of them… the loudest but still only one!
//Ignorant Patrik from Sweden
because it is hard to say “Statians”, it usually comes out as ‘stations’ or ‘statans’. No-one is suggesting good ol’ US down south is the only country in the Americas.
I beg to differ on the “loud” part. Mexican’s can be pretty loud, just not so much on the internet maybe?
There are “like 35 countries” in America?
Wow. You’re stupid.
The NORTH American Continent has 3 nations: the US, Canada and Mexico (And Mexico barely counts as a nation anymore, seeing how most of their citizens live in other countries most of the time)
Look at a map and count how many countries there are in north america again…I’ll wait
That’s OK, humor can be difficult to understand sometimes.
And how many countries are there in South AMERICA?
You forgot Central and South America, genius; and while it’s called Central America, it is technically a part of the North American continent, so, theres quite a few more than 3 countries…
Technically, Iceland is on halfway on the North American continent.
Technically, Iceland is halfway on the North American continent.
There, I fixed it!
Sweetie – There are 23 countries in North America. Mexico’s part of Central America. And “America” encompasses North, Central, and South America.
I’m crying here, really I am.
Yes! All Americans are stupid! Instant comedic gold! Yay! Every one! In fact, I didn’t even know why this was funny until I read the comments. The White House isn’t in Seattle? Lima is the capital of Peru? Yeah right, maybe if Peru was in Ohio!! Maybe if I lived in another country, like Europe or Asia, I wouldn’t be so stupid, but here I sit in the US.
lolwhut?
Hope this was sarcasm, but I’ll correct you anyways…
Asia and Europe are Continents, not Country’s
Maybe you are just stupid because your Mom dropped you on your head as a child? Here’s another Baby Ruth Sloth…
*Countries
Asia and Europe are not countries…
Incidentally, they’re not country’s either. English, however, is a language.
When Matthew’s mom dropped him on his head, did he, by any chance, land on yours?
hmm, I never said they were countries….in fact I said the opposite…so thanks for reiterating my message, but I don’t really need a sidekick. Also, thanks for the tidbit of info, but I already know that English is a language. Heaven forbid….I mixed up countries and country’s….I must be the dumbest human being on the planet….or maybe, just maybe, humans are capable of mistakes, and you are just an annoying anal retentive twit who has nothing better to do.
p.s. please don’t piggy back on my own jokes…I don’t want to be brought down to your level of fail
FYI he was correcting your grammar. It’s spelled “countries” not “country’s”. “Country’s” = possessive.
Thanks Matthew, I know he was correcting my spelling error, in fact, I admitted to the mistake right there in my message you replied to.
My bad. Didn’t read the whole thing.
What Matthew said. You were hasty to jump on the mistake of someone saying “country” instead of continent, but while doing so, you made an error yourself.
Both errors are (unfortunately) all too commonplace and understandable, especially when one is typing out a message on the internet. I daresay no one would have bothered to make a single comment on your mistake, except that you made YOUR mistake in the course of jumping all over someone else for THEIR mistake.
As you said to Hobson’s Choice, “Maybe, just maybe, humans are capable of mistakes” – including both you AND Matthew with his original goof – “and you are just an annoying anal retentive twit who has nothing better to do” than mock other people’s errors and then get butthurt when someone points out your OWN errors.
Furthermore, all of the above is based on the assumption that Matthew’s original post WAS an error of phrasing, and that he wasn’t making the “countries like Europe and Asia” remark with his tongue firmly in cheek, playing on the “stupid American” riff.
Given his opening lines, I suspect that was EXACTLY what he was doing, but I got distracted by your hypocritical histrionic “how dare you correct me I am a human and make mistakes” nonsense.
You, sir, are my new hero.
Maybe I will end the debate if I post it here nearer to the top: totally kidding about everything. Do we even know that the facebook failer was American? (Statsian? United States of American?) It’s in fashion to criticize those from the USA, and considering that we exceed everyone else in the world in a number of measurable ways as a country, I don’t really understand it. I have a theory that it’s because each country’s popular entertainment (TV, movies, etc.) is in some way stupid, embarrassing, and appealing to the lowest common denominator (Bachelorette, Jersey Shore, etc.) and since the US’s popular entertainment is so ubiquitous, the world tends to assume that its citizens are as stupid, vapid, etc., but I digress.
hmm….given that in my first post, in fact the very first sentence, I said “I hope this was sarcasm” generally means, that’s what I thought it was, and just felt like correcting the mistake so many grammar and spelling Nazi’s didn’t jump all over it. My addition with the baby dropping and sloth was only in comical respect. So I guess I fail too see how I jumped all over Matthew with a joke…maybe a movie reference fail on your part as well?
hmm…I responded with such distain to Hobson, b/c I despise grammar Nazi’s, and correcting one’s spelling or grammar doesn’t add anything to the ‘conversation’ at hand. And since the Nazi ‘error’d’ in his correction, I ripped him a new one.
Yes, you can say I am a hypocrite b/c I corrected Matthew and then went off on Hobson for correcting me, but I corrected with jest, and I don’t correct religiously, like Hobson, so I guess I feel I am justified in giving these Nazi’s a little thrashing.
Furthermore, your entire statement was under the assumption that I was attacking Matthew….when I was only making a joke. If you don’t believe me when I say I was joking, then you haven’t seen the Goonies.
I guess I should join in here, since you’re referring to me. Can I just say, at this stage, that I’m not a Grammar Nazi? ‘Correct religiously, like Hobson’? I have neither the time nor the inclination, nor the interest, believe me. I just feel it’s justified when self-righteous ‘correcters’ make mistakes which are just as sloppy as the ‘correctees’. My reply to you was equally in jest – in fact, I used your ‘joke’.
If I were a Grammar Nazi, I would be tearing your comment above to shreds. Honestly though, I couldn’t care less…
Rest assured, your ‘thrashing’ didn’t leave a mark. As for ‘ripping me a new one’… I checked. I’ve still only got the old one there.
……i dunno, i may be in the worng here, but I feel like I have seen your name many a times correcting ones grammar or spelling….but i could just as easily be wrong. Believe me, I know I am horrid at grammar and spelling, hence why I have such an easy button to push when Nazi’s are about.
And everyone gets a little self rightous on here, its the internet for pete’s sake.
What I am still in disagreement with you on, is that I don’t believe your original response was in jest…..but, it cannot be proven as it is just my opinion.
Awww, damn! Would you mind just scrolling down a bit to my last comment? Cos this is getting a bit ridiculous… (and, quite frankly, hilarious).
Hahahaha, I thought for sure you would have left to lunch already. It is definitly entertaining, it seems you too have a job where you are infront of a computer screen for over 40 hours a week?? And get just as bored of your work, as I do. O well, Im glad we hashed it out until we could see eye to eye though. It seems like that is an incredibly hard thing to do online anymore, everyone just insults and belittles, so its easy to get wrapped up in the snarkiness, I find myself falling into that trap time and time again, no worries thou, I comment to get away from work, as Im sure you do, and actually getting someone to respond more then once is awesome b/c for that brief period, I am no longer bored. Good day sir, till we meet (er..comment) again.
ROAR TROLL smash on everyone! You all are dumb humans! USA has stupidest people on planets BAHAHAH! also have some of smartest people who are continually tortured by the idiots BAHAHA. I enjoy their pain! Even smartest people aren’t immune to the hatred of TROLLS!!!
TROLLING FTW!
TROLL, TROLL, TROLL, TROLL.
TROLL, TROLL, TROLL, TROLL.
caps lock is CRUISE CONTROL FOR AWESOME!!!
Based on the other neat replies to your comment, it should now be evident even to you that you’ve made a complete tit of yourself. This saves me having to translate my own response into fluent moron, and cheers me up no end. Which means that there’s just one last thing to clear up, and then we can get on with our lives…
I deny piggy-backing on your jokes. What I did, in fact, was take your lame old comment and drag it kicking and screaming into the 21st century. It wasn’t great, but I didn’t have much to work with, as you can see. You’re welcome, by the way.
Anyway, I’m off. We must do this again sometime…
Hahahahahahaha, wait wait, let me get this straight. So because I corrected matthew, then went off on you for making an error when attempting to correct me, makes me a tit? Okay Hobson, sit down before you hurt yourself.
Since hmm’s statements were pointing out my clear hypocritical behaviour, and hmm and matt both assumed I was insulting matthew (which regrettably I should have made clearer the first time around). I fail to see how this translates your response when the only mention of you is that I responded harshly to your comment and that you coorrected my first comment….Neither of them translated your response in the slightest, so maybe you should go ahead and translate it into fluent moron for me…..that should be entertaining.
lol, you can deny it all you want too, the proof is in the thread, don’t get all bent out of shape because you lack creativity.
Have a good one Hobson, Im sure we will cross paths again…
I am sitting down. And shaking my head… we’re actually replying to each other at the same time in different comments here…
Okay, let me try again. My original response to you, if you read it again, contains no error. I was simply highlighting the fact that you had used country’s instead of countries (okay – in a roundabout way, granted, but you seem to be the only person who doesn’t see this). I too assumed you were insulting Matthew, and wanted to point out your clear hypocritical behaviour, which was the reason for my reply in the first place…
And now I’m off to respond to your other reply to the previous reply to your reply. Gotta warn you though, I break for lunch in fifteen…
lol, thats pretty funny, im at my desk too, except my lunch was a while ago, I got about another hour and a half and Im done for the day, THANK GOD!!
AH HAA!!! See I took the first line too literally, I thought you were telling me that they were not countries (and on that assumption, I thought, why is he telling me what I already said?) then my crazy brain got to thinking and thought maybe you meant continents and just had countries on the mind? I dunno.
See, I don’t like adding on jk or lol to my jokes because I feel it takes away from them, but with them all of these misunderstandings would have been avoided…..double edged sword i tell you
And now we’re on the same wavelength…
I agree with the lol and jk thing – I don’t think I’ve ever lol-ed in my life. But yeah, unfortunately you can’t add ‘tone of voice’ to a written comment.
(Um… incidentally, I replied to your Grammar Nazi comment above in a fit of frustration. Feel free to ignore it… I was getting a bit sarky, and ‘comment awaiting moderation’ is yet another double-edged sword in web-world…)
Oh God!! “I was just trying to Blah Blah Blah, but you were Blah Blah Blah, so please be good enough to Blah Blah Blah.” You two sound like little five y.o. girls!! Get over yourselves already.
Goonies FTW
Totally sarcasm.
Maybe your ability to detect sarcasm’s mother dropped your ability to detect sarcasm on its head.
Hello again Matthew, I thought it was sarcasim!!
Sorry If you took it personnally man, you said “Maybe if I lived in another country, like Europe or Asia, I wouldn’t be so stupid, but here I sit in the US.”
So as a joke, I was giving an alternative reasoning behind your stupidity (not that you are stupid, just that you suggested it in your own comment) and thought everyone would get that I was joking, by adding on the comment from the Goonies. So that was a fail on my part, as it seems not many people know of that movie.
I find it unhealthy and ill advised to take anything personally on the interwebz.
indubitably
CHILL THE F**K OUT! Interweb trolling whores. If the USA’s population all lived in Canada you would still be neutral Switz. And Russia, still commies. Annnnnd Africa, still vastly 3rd world. And France — Le tired — SO SMOKE A CIGARETTE! oh… assumptions and stuff?
Love the generalizing!! You pulled that off wonderfully!
stereotypes for the win!
I’ve had someone that taught Plymouth Rock was in North Carolina, and that San Francisco was in Texas.
Plymouth Rock is in Detroit. That’s why they named the car after it.
i think you meant thought…
I thought about think and now I’m confused.
Every place and culture has stupid people. In the US, however, it’s actually cool to be dumb, while intelligent people who display this intelligence and do well are mocked. At least that’s the way it was 15 years ago, I’m sure it hasn’t changed much.
Our education system needed an overhaul 30 years ago, instead we keep pi**ing money down that pit with diminishing returns.
its the same in Britain. although our education system is overhauled every 5 years meaning that secondary school (4-6 years) can compleatly change halfway through and younger siblings cannot get any help from older siblings. ex. me = 17 left school last year sister = 13 just going into second year and nothing is the same except math (seem to be the excpetion to the rule as my cusin is 26 and got the same math homework as me)
I think in America to be successful you need to be smarter than everyone else, but it’s much harder to have a very smart population than it is to drag the standards of education down to such a level that even makes morons like Dubya, Biden, Pelosi and Palin look smart instead of actually being smart.
Of course the hardcore christian fanatics in the Bible Belt of America don’t like intelligent, free thought either (at least to an external observer it looks that way) because generally the more intelligent a community the more difficult it is to control (see the farce with the Texan Schoolbooks as a prime example of how the religious extremists want to keep Americans dumb and don’t get me started on the sick joke that is Conservapedia).
Same goes for the corporate world, mindless drones complete simple functions without question, intelligent free-thinking corporate drones think about the consequences of their actions and are less likely to perform morally reprehensible actions unless you pay them buckets of money. The cause of the GFC is another prime example of how idiots let loose in the financial system, selling other idiots high risk, low value products without any disclosure or oversight can have massive repercussions.
But you’re right every culture has stupid people, but only in America you can be handsomely rewarded for being as dumb as a bag of hammers
I hope this kid is playing dumb. Every public school kid knows about the white house and the nation’s capital from grade school. Not that I am assuming this is someone who goes to a public school, but I would hope private school kids know this stuff too seeing as they are paying for the education.
What about home schoolers?
home schoolers learn how everyone is eveil except thier parents and how satan is in the white house
*evil
Satan’s not in the White house(well not always) hes at the school house. Thats why the homeschool’d kids have to stay away form the other kids!
…here, public school kids have a hard time showing that they know ANYTHING. The homeschooled and private school kids who don’t have radical teachers/parents count themselves lucky. But of course, most of those people who homeschool or send their kids to christian schools would consider it a sin to spend government money on anything but tax cuts, as recently shown by a certain political party advocating for a nearly $2 trillion tax cut for the rich, while calling for the repeal of a (paid for) $600 billion healthcare package.
every single american is an idiot… that’s a fact. just trollin’. actually people tell much more about the amercians being retarded than about any other people in the world.
That’s just because the flamboyancy of Americans makes them so dang popular!!
americans are stupid but so are the english french and spanish happy?
EVERYONE IS STUPID. There.
Correct, sir. Americans just don’t realize it.
Hardly matters where the White House is. If you try to go in and talk to Obama you will be beaten. And all the important governing is happening at undisclosed locations anyway.
STFU & GTFO
Here, let me fix that for you:
Hardly matters where the White House is. If you try to go in and talk to [any sitting President] you will be [removed from the premises unless you have been issued an invitation to meet with that President, and may even be] beaten [if you put up a fight against the law enforcement officers whose job it is to protect the President and other politicians from nutcases].
And all the important governing is happening at undisclosed locations anyway [as it more or less always has been and always will be, given that providing a single obvious target whereby enemies/potential enemies could theoretically wipe out all our "big name" leaders at once is the height of irresponsibility].
You’re welcome.
You’re so smart, you make me want to puke…but in a good way.
this comment makes all warm and fuzzy in side. now if only i could find a map with all those undisclosed locations so i could stop by with some napalm…err i mean cookies. Delicious cookies straight from the oven.
makes me*
On the one hand, I know there are a lot of stupid people in the United States; I encounter them every day. On the other, I’m still surprised this person (in the fail) didn’t know the White House was in DC. It’s pretty common knowledge, even among the slowest of the slow.
What really baffles me, though, are the people in the comments acting as though not being good at geography automatically makes you a complete, worthless dunce. Newsflash: geography is not the only subject of knowledge that exists, and a thorough knowledge of geography alone does not an intelligent person make.
But if you can not master a subject as easy as geography, you’re not very bright are you?
That’s assuming geography is easy for everyone. I bet you are an accomplished saxaphone player and know Calculus inside and out. Those two things are really easy for me to comprehend…that makes them easy for everyone to understand and memorize, no??
Why do people feel the need for generalizing?
geography is easy for anyone. i turned up exactly 3 times in 2 years and all 3 times were because one of my (more school going) friends told me there was a test that day. i passed with a 2 (a B in american)
Calculus the math with he derivatives and integrals right, that you learn when your 12? Whats so hard about that?
My point exactly.
no, but there are some basic things that everyone should know. knowing where the White House is is one of them.
Oh, God…I have no hope for this person…they shouldn’t breed…but if it were a tourist, I would probably see how it would confuse them, considering on the news they just call it “Washington…”, but if this guy was a citizen, that would make me feel bad. Even the stupid kids in my geography class knew where the White House was! D:
That’s fake. Fail to all of you for thinking it’s real.
Why is it fake? Because it’s so hard to believe anyone can be so dumb?
You’re new to the Internet, aren’t you?
You must be new to the internet, if you don’t know about trolling. That one is so fake, it’s a troll, and it got you.
and the troll went ah-num-num-num
I actually am inclined to agree with the people calling “fake” – but only because the timestamp (partially visible at the bottom) is “less than 30 seconds ago.”
The timing would have to be AWESOME for someone to post that and someone else to come along, read it, (perhaps take a moment for the obligatory facepalm), then screenshot it – all within 30 seconds. Not to say it’s impossible, just seems more than a bit unlikely.
Lots of people – including myself – spend a lot of time on facebook. I don’t think that being fast equals fake. I often see people’s statuses less than a minute after they were published, and making a screenshot really doesn’t take that long..?
It’s not that, it’s the font, it’s all off.
The Canadian equivalent would be thinking that Toronto is the capital of Canada (sadly, there are a good number of pple who dont know it is really Ottawa)
Hey, at least American Oil companies aren’t responsible for the Oil Spill…….oh, too soon?
not soon enough the jokes been milked dry
For quite a while I thought Washington and Washington, DC were the same place. I had two things going for me, though. The first that I was fairly young and eventually figured it out. The second is that I didn’t live in the US, and therefore was never supposed to learn this in school. If this guy actually went to an American school, then there’s no excuse for his mistakes.
Perhaps if people didn’t refer to Washington DC as simply ‘Washington’ this wouldn’t have happened. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been on vacation and this has happened:
Where are you from?
Washington.
DC?
No, the state. If I meant DC, I would have said DC.
(and then of course it goes on like this:)
I’m from (insert city here)
Is that near Seattle?
*sigh*
I’ve heard the converse:
Where are you from?
Washington.
The state?
No, DC. If I meant Washington state, I would have said Washington State.
*sigh*
I’m an American, and I gotta admit I’m pretty damn stupid. Most of the people I know are stupid. Personally, I blame genetics. Stupid European ancestors.
Then I guess Europeans evolved and Americans didn’t? Swish.
Can I just say I am an American currently living in Germany and I am sooo f**king sick of the stereotyping that Europeans make about about the U.S. True there are a few dumb asses but we are not all like that. Jesus Christ you people make me sick.
Agreed!
I’m Canadian, and pretty much everyone in my school makes fun of Americans on a daily basis… I don’t see anything wrong with Americans, though…
I would laugh at this dumbass if everyone wasnt bagging on america, at least we brush our teeth and didnt ruin the ecosystem of the gulf
_l_
No just the worlds economy, several developing nations, and your own healthcare and education systems. bravo.
don’t forget blowing more than triple the average yearly national income of a third world nation on arms alone
hHaha true, If the US had its priority on researching and education, we would been in a much better situation.
US is still a developing world too, we’re developing more and more oil, food, and manufacturing dependencies!
Hello, everyone! I’m here to spread the wonderful word of equality! Did you know that all humans are equal? It’s true! No one person is greater or lesser than another! Isn’t that great?! God made us that way, and God expects us to treat each other that way, so make sure you’re kind to everyone you see!
Do you believe in equality? Good! Let’s make this world a better place and spread the word together that all human beings are equal!
Hi there! did you know that your entire belif system is based on paganism that you constantly try to eradicate? its true. Don’t forget that the man you call the son oof god was born in july and had his birthday moved to december to match up with the winter solstice to make it easer for pagans to convert.
Yes the pre-Judaism pagans were the originals. No one was before them.
I’m not preaching christianity, I’m preaching equality. I couldn’t care less if people are christian or jewish or muslim or whatever, I’m just preaching equality.
You’re a spammer and it’s fvcking annoying.
Humans aren’t equal, we may be genetically similar but some are born smarter, others are born with athletic prowess, some with big schlongs, some with small, some are poor, some rich and of course there are women, who are clearly superior to men (I know my place)
But all those differences are petty. All people have a constitutional right to be respected. There is no reason to be so shallow as to think someone is superior because he has a “big schlong” or that someone is inferior because she’s overweight. Our forefathers said that all men (and women) were created equal. We do not revoke that right until we either become a citizen of another country or die.
you are so incredibly stupid i just want to pat you on the head and condecendingly read you a book entitled the tiniest bullfrog…
Hope and Change voter for sure. Biggest morons on earth.
He will be further surprised to learn that the president is black.
O’Dumbass had the White House painted black while he was appearing on “The Spew”…
…And people say mexicans are stupid
Stupid ARE mexicans because.
Stupid is as stupid does.
If Sam Eagle were here, and he had an unlimited bazooka, he would be having sooooo much fun. lol
I am one of the few that knows what’s going on. I am thirteen year old that watches the news (one of the few) so I know where things are located. The people in my school are a different story however…
I live in Washington state. It’s too far West to be the location of the white house. It wasn’t a state when the white house was built. I hate this sort of thing. It gives Americans a bad reputation.
“It gives Americans a bad reputation.”
Oh, please. Give me a break, you twits. If this guy is the representative of all of America, a kid whose probably a 14 years old stoner, then yeah, I guess we look like idiots.
It’s times like these that make me think of the song, “Proud to be an American.”
Excuse me, but the person, whoever he is, is obviously a tourist.
That said, where is the evidence this person is actually an American? Tourists do come from other places, you know. They even sometimes come from… wait for it… Europe!
The only evidence I see here that the poster is American is that they apparently realize Washington is both a state and a city, which is a baby-sized knowledge hurdle that those with Euroegos constantly trip over.
ahaha, i submitted this.
http://i32.tinypic.com/259dh5j.png
if you wanna see the comments^
(:
two additional retards. lol.
LOL.
um, I’m Canadian, and before I saw this, I wasn’t entirely sure if the White House was in Washington or Washington D.C., either.
Heck, a year ago, I thought that Washington D.C. was IN the state of Washington!
You can’t blame me for not knowing, though. I’m don’t even live in the U.S…
In juxtaposition to this post, I am from Australia and am pretty certain I could name at least 50 US states right now without a map. Go figure.
“Washington State” is a University. Washington is a state. Washington, D.C. is a city. The problem we have here is since the city is in the news far more than the state, they shorten it to just “Washington”…”the news from Washington today…”. Since they’ve abbreviated the city’s name, they have to extend the state’s name whenever it’s mentioned: “Two hikers went missing today in Washington state” (make sure to not capitalize the word “state”). Growing up in the state of Washington I had to put up with this constantly. I even had people online try to “friend” me because they thought I lived on the east coast. Go figure.
FACEPALM!
trust me. living here is a constant facepalm.
As a resident from the east coast area, i am insulted, yet i am laughing my ass off. this is what i would expect from the west coast people.
HAA! it’s funny because it’s usually the other way around XD
“OH YOU LIVE IN WASHINGTON? DO YOU LIVE NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE!? 8D”
*facepalm*