I’m glad I’m not someone who will jump at the opportunity to wantonly criticize someone of another country despite the obvious; in this case, it’s fairly clear that the guy is being sarcastic in order to mock conspiracy theorists.
So, before an argument rises (but inevitably it will), those opinions are from the masses. Americans are xenophobic, and are almost oblivious to the outside world, and perhaps even everything else that they feel like they don’t need to know. Natural sciences, theology (yeah, right, and they say they’re Christians), even the one language that is the only one that most Americans know, and a lot of other things and still left completely unclear to most of the population. There may be specialists in such roles, such as scientists, who are obviously smart, but they don’t make up the 300 million people in the USA, now do they? They’re not unique to America, either. They may not be dumb by comparison to other countries, but rather by the expectations from the USA.
But look on the bright side, China is following the US in stupidity in the same way as economy.
First of all, what makes you or your own country (assuming you’re not a self-hating American) any better? What you’re suggesting is quite similar to the notion that “Germany is a Nazi country” and “Russians are all communists.” Care to argue? “Americans are dumb.” In your experiences, you’ve ignored the fact that you, too, sit at a limited corner of the world. It’s clear to me that you’re educated enough to handle the English language; now demonstrate to me that your education wasn’t wasted on a bigot.
Secondly, do you come from a land where only super-friendly, extroverted, wealthy scientists over the age of 25 exist?
I agree, Americans ARE xenophobic. And Germans have no sense of humor, and the British are terrible cooks, and the Japanese are all perverts, and Canadians say “eh” all the time, and the French stink, and Mexicans are lazy, and the list goes on and on….
I feel sorry for you. Not all Americans think alike. Just like not all Germans think alike. Not all Mexicans are lazy. Not all French stink. Not all Canadians say “eh” all the time. And not all Japanese are perverts. Not all Americans are xenophobic. Not all British are terrible cooks. And I am probably old enough to be your grandmother. People with your view are who get wars started.
No, “ha” i understand. Stupid americans actually thinking the world isn’t melting. I mean with 1/62,500,000 worth of data on all the earth’s cycles (the 80 years [which is pushing it] of solid weather data divided by the millions of years of weather on earth) shows that that an influx of increased carbon in the atmosphere will destroy civilization.
Also it helps that humans make up 10% of what is in the atmosphere. I sure don’t want to the global ecosystem to be destroyed from us. Also didn’t you hear that Mr. Al Gore (whom flies his own private jet) has recently publicly stated that an increase in human FECES (which is poop) is speeding up the whole global warming process.
They must have been crazy when they told my dad the world was going through GLOBAL COOLING (yeah, global cooling) when he was in high school. No its a good thing that global warming is being recognized by the international commitee and its real cause is put to blame. I.E. Daylight savings time.
You, um, do realize that we know a lot about past climate and temperatures from the paleontological and geological record? There’s 7,000 years of continuous tree ring records in the Southwestern United States, which establishes relative temperature extremes and rain/snow fall levels for that entire time, for example. Erosion, sedimentation, etc… I mean, how do you think we ever learned that there WAS an ice age, let alone what time it spanned?
That isn’t how dendrochronology works. You match numerous tree ring data together by finding rings that correlate with each other. From here you can continue to follow the dates further into the past as a more or less continuous sequence.
You know that global dimming, so called global cooling, is a thing, and it’s not mutually exclusive of global warming, as counter intuitive as that may seem?
I know it is a stereotype, but posts like this support the view that Americans are idiots. Considering the population is so big, I’m willing to believe there are a few clever people out there though.
I’m pretty sure this is from Australia. You can tell by the colors covering the names.
BTW, Jar Jar Binks, who you similarly named yourself like, is *really* cool. Seriously. Keep the name. Makes you look awesome and not like a 13 year old pimply faced turd.
Oh, I think you are more Jibble than you know. (What the hell is a “Jibble” anyway (I have no clue)??? And what makes you think I’m a guy? I’m a 14 year old girl and think you’re cute. Wanna chat?)
Well I think everyone who says “Americans are stupid” knows there are exceptions. Thinking we mean it literally is actually… stupid.
Now, this is sort of stuff is not what makes us think Americans are stupid. It’s your government and the fact that you let it go on. The USA had a messed up, tyrannical government for 8 years under Bush, and now things aren’t getting better with Obama.
You call yourselves the land of the free but no other Western country has such a strict justice system as yours nor such a high rate of its population in prison.
Half of you love to boast about their guns, act tough and threaten to shoot anyone who robs your home or attacks you in the street and yet you’re so afraid of a religious fanatic bringing a knife on a plane that you let the authorities molest you so you can feel safe.
And then of course there’s all the government abuses… Violating the Constitution (Patriot Act), violating Freedom of Speech and Human Rights…
But the truly stupid thing is that most of Americans reading this will think “Yeah, this is going on, but we don’t like it nor agree with it” except they still won’t do anything about it.
Facebook statuses don’t make us think you’re stupid. Neither does Snooki’s popularity nor blondes who don’t know Hungary is a country. These things only confirm what we already think.
And please do take this as constructive criticism. My purpose is not to just criticize your country but to tell you “if you think dumb Facebook statuses are the problem, you’re barking at the wrong tree”.
OK, you want to be listened to as offering constructive criticism, but your very first sentence starts with the premise that: Thinking we meant what we said is stupid…. you qualify as a fully vetted Douchebag. Remember: ’tis easier to complain from the bottom than to lead from the top.
“Remember: ’tis easier to complain from the bottom than to lead from the top.” I like this quote. Especially because it describes whatever complex is going on here. <3
Yez the stupids amaricans always is the barking at the trees. They have the stupids comments about big guns and prisons are full of foregners hasing s3ks violating thw world rites of freeedoms of hasing s3ks not in prisons. Bush was likes the H!tler and there is zillions a deads d!ed in prisons. This good creiticisms. They hope will read and brodcast my grate debate on news and be betters countrys now.
Interesting. The mere fact that American foreign policy has led to the creation of so many despotic governments all around the world reduces all your comments to the utter drivel that they are. Since there seems to be so many patriotic Americans around, I think I will quote just the one saying: “If love is blind, patriotism has all 5 senses deprived.”
PS: if you dont know what zyzygy means, then look it up. And yes, it is actually a word.
Wow!! The USA is the oldest country around!! Obviously, there were never other pushy governments out there prior to the USA becoming a country, because the world was a happy and peaceful place without Americans and their foreign policy mucking it up.
Your comment is completely idiotic in the realm of time supported by this planet. Get over yourself already, because you’re starting to sound like a freaking American!!!
I think you mean “syzygy” — but I like the quote anyway. At what point did disagreement become unpatriotic?
I’m an American living overseas… there’s a certain sense of perspective offered by expatriation, especially when the country I live in has a highly successful and efficient national health system, coupled with an extremely low violent crime rate.
Yeah, and when your ‘great’ country goes bankrupt and begs other countries for loans and money, I hope we foreigners arent mature enough to not gloat at you. Americas time as the only superpower is ending. Oh, and we dont give a crap about your idiotic views either.
The only superpower? Are you serious? Like America is the only big country out there.. Oh, and it’s “aren’t”. And I believe you used a double negative. And you named yourself after the alignment of planets? You do know it’s supposed to start with an “S” right? Yes, I know I am a b*tch. :]
Since you know so much about American foreign policy, you will also know of all the lovely despotic regimes that the American government has supported, right? Like the Khamer Rouge in cambodia, the Indonesian military junta, the governemnt of Joseph Mobutu in kenya from 1962 to 1991, Saddam husseins government etc… i could go on, but I only wish to elucidate your own countries blatant hypocrisy when it stands on its self percieved moral high ground. This is the government that is supposed to represent your people, so if your elections are fair and democratic, that would mean that the majority of the people are responsible for their governments actions, since the government represents the peoples will… right? As for the other countries having corrupt regimes in power… suffice to say, that in most third world countries, America has assisted and actively caused enough misery, and brought corrupt despotic regimes into power to invalidate any of your bull manure arguments. Americas actions with regards to recent egyptian revolution is enough to reduce the credence of any argument you make to a minimum
Just remember where all Americans originated from…your country. They’re just a product of the same ancestors as you.
You’ve spent a lot of time trolling around for American foreign policy. What’s the foreign policy in your country. If you can poo-poo another country’s choices in dealing with dominating @ssholes, then you’re country had better be freaking squeaky clean with its foreign policy. If not, that makes you a hypocrit, which then negates your arguments and makes you look like a hypocritical idiot.
Or do you live in one of those chicken $hit countries that prefers to sit back and hide when the $hit hits the fan. Or let America take the first stand and you follow behind. Give me a break.
You act the the government has not changed at all. FYI: We elect a new president every four years, new senators every six years, and new representatives every two years. Plus you act like every American supports the decisions of the goverment. NEWS FLASH: We don’t directly decide what will happen next!
Let us know when you get to that promised constructive criticism, ok?
Because all I’m seeing so far is a pack of leftwing claptrap that’s divorced from reality, or even any smidgen of understanding about the issues you pretend to raise.
Oh, and before you can complain about some other country supposedly violating their constitution, how about explaining the “vote until you get a yes” approach you used to absorb countries into the EU? What happened to those countries’ constitutions which are now subservient to a central government that is not accountable in the slightest to it’s members?
Perhaps you should tend to your own knitting, especially when you don’t have a bill of rights to violate in the first place.
All you need to prove that other countries have their problems to is to point out that every other country looks to the USA for help when they cant provide it themselves. How many countries has the USA been protecting for years now. lets not forget if it where not for the help of the USA then everyone in the world would be speaking German.
Nobody won WWII, in the end. The Allies beat the Axis, but that doesn’t mean that it was a true victory. Russia lost more lives than anyone in that war….About 20 million. That’s an assload if you think about it. Definitely not a win.
Wait. The population in American prisons is mostly the horde of innocent illegal aliens coming from the south. Didn’t you know?? Jeez, and you call yourself knowledgable.
Ok, first of all, you say you realize not all Americans are stupid, but you’re still generalizing A LOT. There ARE people trying to do stuff about it, probably more than you would think. Or haven’t you heard whats happening in Wisconsin? Also, I don’t think I know a single person who enjoys being ”molested” by the TSA, or having basic rights abused. It also makes me wonder what country you come from, sir, and if you’re in a position to be handing out cristicism, which you may say is constructive, but you don’t seem to mention how exactly we’re supposed to improve anything. (Also, I agree with what kittyoxy said, that quote definitely applies.)
I’m fairly certain s/he’s trolling. Retards tend to sail along on the same arguments over and over, even if they’re debunked. This one’s actually doing an effort in “convincing” people, causing them to feed him. That’s the way of a troll, not a retard.
Yea that’s what Bleh meant. That those people who kept commenting on the status believing him are the re-tards, meaning they obviously didn’t get the trolling situation.
Yeah they’re trolling.
But if green was that stupid someone should of just said that for every hour they add in a year, they also take a way an hour at another point.
Why is he trolling? It makes perfect sense. The day is longer and thus more sunlight and more heating of the earth. I had never thought about it before.
Dude, even if we make the day’s hours shorter, let’s say 6 hours instead of 12, and the night hours longer, 18 hours instead of 12, and at 17:00 say “now its night”.. You think the sun will care what time we think it is? The sun will shine no matter what.
Human: “Good, it’s night – darkness time”
Sun: “Oh, good, time for me to hide!”
Oh and global warming is a myth, do some research.
Dude. It was a joke. The poster doesn’t really believe that. I mean, the dude even used the Bill O’Riely quote “never a miscommunication”. It’s supposed to be funny…
Because only English teachers have good grammar. Everyone else just slaughters the English language and hopes people can still manage to understand them.
Don’t take it so seriously. I said “should of” instead of “should have”. I’m just saying it’s not that important to go around correting peoples grammer on a site like Failbook. okay? okay
Good day sir.
Grammer is only correct if you’re referring to Kelsey Grammer, or others with Grammer as a surname. Other than that, I’m pretty sure Brits can handle using Google so they do not submit a dumb comment.
Not this guy. This is one of the most awesome trolls I’ve ever seen. He cited an article on “Early Astronomy” saying the earth was pear shaped! That’s AMAZING!
My sister-in-law(23 years old) thinks that you have to go to the bottom of the ocean, then back out the other side of the earth to get to outer space during the day so the sun does not burn you up….just saying…I agree..They DO exist.
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Yes, it is clear that green is trolling. The fail is that his friends (particularly yellow) don’t catch on. His friends obviously don’t have much faith in him if they think that he believes this.
we should TOTALLY reform pangea, that would be awesome!
and bring the dinosaurs back, they were so big they were blotting out the sun to help prevent global warming
Dinosaurs followed by an ice-age, coincidence? I think not! The huge shadows they had were cooling down the earth and it eventually made an ice-age! That would be the perfect solution to global warming : the ice-age would counteract global warming to keep the weather mild!
Green is a conspiracy theorist….”Don’t listen to the mainstream media….wake UP, people!” He (or she) probably believes in the Twin Towers conspiracy theory too :/
Wow – I actually laughed at this (which is rare) but not because the OP failed but because everyone else who commented totally missed the joke. The OP is satirically commenting on the rhetoric used by the political extremes in this country. “TAKE BACK THIS COUNTRY” is the rallying cry of several far-right/left groups, most notably used recently by the Tea Party. “Never a miscommunication” is a quote from Bill O’Riely used to justify his belief in God on account of the tides, regarding which he has been ridiculed. If you still thought he was serious at “fuzzy science of daylight denyers”, you have issues and “Reading between the chalkboards” is evocative of Glenn Becks school-roomesque set. In addition the whole concept of global warming has been relegated to the comedic realm recently.
*sighs* not everyone watches stupid American sit-coms, or follows idiotic commentators like O’Reilly… thus it is unlikely that they will appreciate the fine humour espoused by this beautiful post.
The green guy is actually pretty funny. The only fail is from all the dumb guys who could not see that this was a joke and kept trying to put him straight.
The sad thing about that is that you can say the same of just about any troll. No matter how ridiculous/offensive/both a belief may be, there will always be someone, somewhere, who will defend it to the hilt and actually MEAN it.
There are only two groups of people for whom I would agree should have ANY degree of difficulty in determining that Green is trolling:
1. Those not living in the USA. Since any American national or resident is essentially guaranteed to be familiar with the hilarious arguments, logic, tactics, studio dressing, and catchphrases of the major “opinion commentators” on Fox News, these liberally-applied trappings hanging all over Green’s posts are an obvious indicator.
2. ‘Tards. ‘Nuff said.
I know, I’m sorry. I just get annoyed when people don’t have enough time to read something, but do have enough time to click on the post, fill out a comment form and post it. Making more for me to read, for no decent reason.
The mods would get the idea eventually if too few comments were made about long posts, so I don’t think there’s a requirement to clog things up with tl;rd noise.
Besides, I figured you were busy and wouldn’t come back to read the comments about a topic you didn’t read; I could put what I liked.
“No need to be mean”? Oh, dude, put down the red and white bullseye you’re holding up for the trolls before you put your eye out with the corner of the sign.
Green’s got her facts wrong, Daylight savings time was proposed in the 18th century by Ben Franklin, not in 1895, and it wasn’t enacted until WW2, so it only had a 34 year head-start, which means it may not be too late!
I really hope that Green was trolling and doesn’t seriously believe all that stuff s/he said. Cause if s/he does believe that Daylight savings is the cause of global warming, then that is just sad… If s/he was trolling, then gotta love that so many fell and kept falling for the “hook.” LOL
Anyone who quotes Bill O’Reilly’s “never a miscommunication” is trollling. Watch Steven Colbert sometime. Also it is clear in the “You are not a scientist, I know a scientist” line. A non-troll would have said “I read” or “my friend the scientist said. Jean-yus
This persons name should not be censored, or made anonymous, it should be revealed to all on failbook so that the offending moron can be showered with ridicule for there retardation.
I would tend to be of the opinion that only those like yourself, who are so stupid as to have not seen the obvious satire of Green’s words should be publicly humiliated in the fashion you describe.
The brilliant “never a miscommunication” line makes it clear that this is a troll…a damn good one too, green even has half the posters here eating out of their hand.
sorry i didn’t even laugh at this because it’s a joke…..no way in heaven or hell can this be legit….i knew yanks are stupid but this goes beyond even the most reddest of rednecks’ minds’ capacity for stupidity…. i think im going to cry :-/
1895! Around that time the undustrial revolution was in full go!
And the scientists say that carbonoxide is responseble for the global warming for the most part. Did he overlook that one?
The Undustrial Revolution… was that the revolution where they realized that they screwed up half the stuff in the Industrial Revolution and had to go back and undo it?
I think my favorite line in this whole thing is the “you are not a scientist. I know a scientist.” It sounds like something you put in your argument to sound more credible, and hope that no one looks at close enough to realize that that’s the intent.
I do believe this is in reference the the 1939-1945 conflict with Germany? Maybe is the appropriate word as people are unsure if the war would be won without the Americans help, it definately sped up the outcome though.
Come on guys, this guy is obviously joking! The line “never a miscommunication” totally gives it away, too (google it). The guys who think he’s serious are the real retards
The OP green was joking. I weep more for people who actually think that he/she was being serious. And as far as Americans being stupid, for a stupid people we sure gained Superpower status quickly, became the only nation on Earth to go to the moon, have satellites venturing into dostant solar systems as we speak and currently have robots on the surface of Mars. Perhaps the rest of the world should follow our “stupidity”.
While I would agree on the fact that not all Americans are stupid, consider the amount of money your country spends every year on space exploration, when there are so many people living in poverty and going to poorly funded schools. The people who can afford to go to the great universities and get a good education are a small percentage of the country. Just a thought.
Then how do you explain the US being behind every other developed country in Math and Science (as well as many other fields), the fact that we have have more conspiracy theorists (both in the country and on the news) than most other countries, the fact that the governments spends more on shipping kids out to war than on education, the fact that a good portion of children (as well as adults) are illiterate, the fact that Stephanie Meyers is considered a “good writer,” and that NASA’s funding (which is one of the major factors behind the success of all of the accomplishments that you are citing) has been DRASTICALLY slashed because people want the government to reduce the deficit without raising taxes (indicating no knowledge of High School level economics if so many people believe the deficit can be eliminated by cutting spending alone — we have to either raise taxes on the rich or get rid of all available tax breaks and/or refunds in order to do that in addition to cutting spending — simple economics).
What the OP said is an old and fairly common joke intended to make fun of people who are conspiracy theorists/don’t understand science. He wasn’t being serious.
seconded….After my post about a book I’m reading for a report on evolution called Saving Darwin (a book that helps Xtians rationalize evolution into their religions beliefs). Jeezy creezy. Although it was mainly one person….but one person I thought to be VERY bright.
God, you anti-religious nuts just cannot ever be satisfied, can you?
First, you scream that religious folks are ignorant for criticizing evolution. Which is just fine, except…
Then you take the ones who DO agree with evolution and accuse them of “rationalizing”!
So, there’s literally nothing a person who believes in god can do to make you happy except stop believing in god.
When will you idiots just simply be exposed as the ignorant haters that you are? You’re the ones who cannot live and let live, so by rights you are the ones who should be shunned.
I don’t understand. Is the point of this posting to poke fun at his/her moronic friends that clearly can’t ‘read between the chalkboards?’ What a bunch of idiots! They think they’re so damn smart.
Maybe most or all of these comments the troll has written are taken from books/shows in America, and maybe not everyone in America reads/listens to the same thing also… and come to think on it, maybe then not everyone lives in America!
Seems to me like you never thought this comment through…
We should change all our clocks to add four hours of darkness a day, to ensure those polar icecaps stay frozen! Otherwise the consequences will never be the same again!
The funny part is I just started reading “Idiot America” today, and this sounds just like something out of that book. You need no proof, no experiments, and no independent studies. All you have to do is yell loud enough until a major news corporation picks up the story.
I can’t tell if it is a joke or if this is an Idiot American in its natural habitat!
Stupidity is a human condition, it knows no boundries, not race, not religion, not nationality. Nowhere is that more evident than on the internet. Comment boards in particular!
How is it even debatable that green is joking? He did the Billo’ “Never a miscommunication.” He also deliberately, in caps for added sarcasm, stated that correlation implied causation. And the 80 year head start thing?
I mean, he’s obviously joking, but then when I came to the comments people were unsure. I was surprised. There probably ARE people that stupid, but green is not one of them.
This daylight savings problem is actually true, though. In fact, we should take it to the next level by having less entire days on the calendar. If each month were only 28 days long, like February (which is a cold month! coincidence??), that would mean even less daylight each and every year.
Its pretty simple, people. Now that the Tea Party is in charge, maybe we can finally wrest ourselves free of the iron grip of the calendar industry and daylight savings industries and solve this looming crisis.
Americans are stupid-I admit it, being one. But nobody is stupid enough to ignore 1100 years worth of hard data, and 4.2 million years of simulated data to believe that what caused all the past episodes of global warming has nothing to do with the current one. HUMAN BEINGS did not cause this. It is a natural cycle, surely assisted by our delightful greenhouse gases, but we are not the cause. Look up the past, we aren’t even as warm as the earth has been before. All the other ice ages and periods of “global warming” were not caused by humans, but suddenly because there are humans to make money from these sensationalist ideas, we must have caused this one. Grow up, nobody is denying global warming, that is fact. But only idiots think this one is so different from all the past ones!
Actually, it was created by railroad companies so they could have a standard time by which they could adjust their arrival and departure times. At least according to my AP US History textbook, which is probably (but not not necessarily) correct. Every source is fallible when it comes to history
So I think this MAY be one of those times where you know a friend is being completely ridiculous, and then you play along for a while… or this person should have a serious chat with his/her friends about how they see him/her, if the friends assumed he/she would believe these things.
You know sometimes, it would be nice to know the gender, just for the sake of making comments easier.
Something people are forgetting… Global warming is a natural process… Yes, we are affecting it a bit, but it is going to happen whether we want it to or not.
I’m American, btw, and I’m not stupid. I find it offensive that the loud majority thinks most of the country is. I hope the quiet majority think differently.
@tulsamom – Seriously, I’ve never laughed so hard.
No, it’s not a problem. Regardless of whether or not we remove an entire day from a year, the sun will still shine. We will always have the same amount of sunlight regardless of the date You could completely scrap and/or re-invent time measurement and we will still have the same amount of sunlight. If we didn’t have summer and winter time, over the years you’d finish up sleeping later and later in the day –
and guess what -
the sun doesn’t disappear just because you shut your eyes.
Sorry, but 30 years ago the same scientists as are now predicting global warming thought we would be in an ice age now… and it seems more and more every day like they were right… so i would welcome a little global warming right now- its f*cking FREEZING where I am! Hey did you know the global warming comitte a little while ago was canceled because of a blizzard? That is called a true fail, if anyone can find it and post it…
Um dont the dude or chick that put this up realise that the amount of sunlight does not change and its more daylight shifting? Eg sunrises and sunsets an hour later than normal time. We have this problem where I am from in Qld where ppl don’t have a clue and bring in all kinds of wives tales and excuses lol.
are you sure its sarcasm? there are a LOT of stupid ppl around the world… i deal with college kids at work (US and int’l) and they are pretty much RE-TAR-DED!! i would like to think the person is being sarcastic but you never know…. stupidity never surprises me
1. I’m laughing at the FB fail post.
2. I’m a proud American.
3. The comment above mine asking if this was a Junior High message board also has me laughing.
4. Anthropogenic Global Warming is a religion with little science to back it up.
5. All the non-Americans posting how stupid we are need to a.) learn how to spell and b.) take a history class.
6. All the non-Americans calling us stupid would shut up if we announced we wouldn’t bail any of you out militarily when you get attacked like we’ve done pretty much around the world since America’s inception as a country.
7. That feels better to get all that off my chest. USA FTW!!!
Douche. Glad I’m not American
GOOD THING HE’S JOKING.
I’m glad I’m not someone who will jump at the opportunity to wantonly criticize someone of another country despite the obvious; in this case, it’s fairly clear that the guy is being sarcastic in order to mock conspiracy theorists.
Douche.
ha must not be reading between the chalkboards
Ha Troll ees from country where hee cannot tell… how you say… sarcasm…. Neveir a misscomuneecation….
“Never a miscommunication” is a reference to Bill O’Riley’s lack of knowledge in science. OP is 100% joking.
Also what I noticed.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed. But he could just be an O’Reilly fan.
Enough to mock him?
Bill O’Reilly*
1. I did not sense sarcasm.
2. Americans are stupid, there’s no denying it. Google “dumbest country in the world”.
America has garnered itself the right to pride but not hypocrisy.
But yes, he IS a douche.
So, before an argument rises (but inevitably it will), those opinions are from the masses. Americans are xenophobic, and are almost oblivious to the outside world, and perhaps even everything else that they feel like they don’t need to know. Natural sciences, theology (yeah, right, and they say they’re Christians), even the one language that is the only one that most Americans know, and a lot of other things and still left completely unclear to most of the population. There may be specialists in such roles, such as scientists, who are obviously smart, but they don’t make up the 300 million people in the USA, now do they? They’re not unique to America, either. They may not be dumb by comparison to other countries, but rather by the expectations from the USA.
But look on the bright side, China is following the US in stupidity in the same way as economy.
Christopher Columbus is a freaking myth! You, PX173, have founded America!! From what you just stated, it has to be you.
The fact that you didn’t detect the sarcasm of the post tells me that you aren’t very bright, either.
Agreed, he’s being sarcastic. Anybody who says otherwise is clearly an idiot.
First of all, what makes you or your own country (assuming you’re not a self-hating American) any better? What you’re suggesting is quite similar to the notion that “Germany is a Nazi country” and “Russians are all communists.” Care to argue? “Americans are dumb.” In your experiences, you’ve ignored the fact that you, too, sit at a limited corner of the world. It’s clear to me that you’re educated enough to handle the English language; now demonstrate to me that your education wasn’t wasted on a bigot.
Secondly, do you come from a land where only super-friendly, extroverted, wealthy scientists over the age of 25 exist?
Not me: i hold three passports… I can do what I want
I agree, Americans ARE xenophobic. And Germans have no sense of humor, and the British are terrible cooks, and the Japanese are all perverts, and Canadians say “eh” all the time, and the French stink, and Mexicans are lazy, and the list goes on and on….
I feel sorry for you. Not all Americans think alike. Just like not all Germans think alike. Not all Mexicans are lazy. Not all French stink. Not all Canadians say “eh” all the time. And not all Japanese are perverts. Not all Americans are xenophobic. Not all British are terrible cooks. And I am probably old enough to be your grandmother. People with your view are who get wars started.
That was his point.
The lines between which to read in this case are far enough apart to fit a jetliner between them.
ha, nice ^
hey bob, i think we are long lost brothers…
Olol I bet you’re an butthurt American.
I knew he was joking but I think it was a lot of effort put in for a really lame joke.
And you are clearly American
Successful troll is successful.
Reform Pangea!
FOR PANGEA!
For Rodinia!
For Chlamydia!
For Pony!
For Richard!
For Al Gore! … Wait.
For Narnia!
Fore score and seven years ago. . . wait . . . .
For c-c-c-combo breaker!
Remember the ALAMO!
Alamo Cigarettes!
Nah I’m good
REMEMBER THE SUNWELL
FOR FRODO!
Toss me….just don’t tell the Elf!
For Sparta!
FOR THE HORDE!
For Shizzle!!! wait.
Fourre Drongo..annede dee enngrieleashhes lanngearrelledge’es;
AND FOR ASLAN
For zee lulz!
FOUR PLUS FOUR IS EIGHT!!!
FOR EQUESTRIA!
lmao Im glad I’m not the only one that’s read that comic now.
FOR DEMACIA!!
FOR NOXUS!!
For Kickassia!
*Pangaea
we’re glad your not too
you’re
So are we, Ha. So are we.
Because that one person is every American.
Yes. And every American is that one person.
An army of one?!
WOW. lol what an ignorant statement
So are all of us!!!
No, “ha” i understand. Stupid americans actually thinking the world isn’t melting. I mean with 1/62,500,000 worth of data on all the earth’s cycles (the 80 years [which is pushing it] of solid weather data divided by the millions of years of weather on earth) shows that that an influx of increased carbon in the atmosphere will destroy civilization.
Also it helps that humans make up 10% of what is in the atmosphere. I sure don’t want to the global ecosystem to be destroyed from us. Also didn’t you hear that Mr. Al Gore (whom flies his own private jet) has recently publicly stated that an increase in human FECES (which is poop) is speeding up the whole global warming process.
They must have been crazy when they told my dad the world was going through GLOBAL COOLING (yeah, global cooling) when he was in high school. No its a good thing that global warming is being recognized by the international commitee and its real cause is put to blame. I.E. Daylight savings time.
I like you.
You, um, do realize that we know a lot about past climate and temperatures from the paleontological and geological record? There’s 7,000 years of continuous tree ring records in the Southwestern United States, which establishes relative temperature extremes and rain/snow fall levels for that entire time, for example. Erosion, sedimentation, etc… I mean, how do you think we ever learned that there WAS an ice age, let alone what time it spanned?
7000 years of tree ring data? There are very, very few trees known to be older than 5000 years.
That isn’t how dendrochronology works. You match numerous tree ring data together by finding rings that correlate with each other. From here you can continue to follow the dates further into the past as a more or less continuous sequence.
I’ll be honest, I’m fairly out of the loop about global warming. All I know is it’s pretty freakin cold where I live!
tl;dr
very tl;dr
You know that global dimming, so called global cooling, is a thing, and it’s not mutually exclusive of global warming, as counter intuitive as that may seem?
or australia. a news reporter asked if curtians would fade.
Curtians? The worshiper of Curt?
I’m pretty sure they’re fading, yeah.
Successful troll is successful.
I know it is a stereotype, but posts like this support the view that Americans are idiots. Considering the population is so big, I’m willing to believe there are a few clever people out there though.
I’m an American, a Texan to be exact, and agree with you wholeheartedly.
I, unfortunately, belong in the circle of clever people that are so easily overlooked and underestimated.
george bush?!?!?!?!?????
DUDE! George Bush was born in CONNECTICUT not Texas!!!
How could you think “clever” and “george bush” in the same sentence?!?!
I’m sure we’ll see you on Intervention for that crack addition, bg.
I’M GONNA VAMMIT!
VOMIT*
Connecticut apologizes.
So do your parents for not using a condom.
I wish George Bush was overlooked.
Full of yourself much?
Same here Peace.
I’m pretty sure this is from Australia. You can tell by the colors covering the names.
BTW, Jar Jar Binks, who you similarly named yourself like, is *really* cool. Seriously. Keep the name. Makes you look awesome and not like a 13 year old pimply faced turd.
That was rude.
I know. JaJa Stinks should really be ashamed for calling Australians idiots.
missa thinka youssa baaad man.
((says something incoherently and probably derogatory about aussies))
You made my day.
you laid my gay
You fade to grey.
You ate my prey.
You raid my bay.
Get Out Mah Way.
Coming from the guy named Jibble…
lolz
Oh, I think you are more Jibble than you know. (What the hell is a “Jibble” anyway (I have no clue)??? And what makes you think I’m a guy? I’m a 14 year old girl and think you’re cute. Wanna chat?)
+17 interwebz
IT’S A TRAP!
P.S: rule 16c : All internet children are policemen.
Everyone who watches Star Wars and enjoys it must die.
Yeah, f*** them for having an opinion!
Can i actually enjoy a movie instead of being criticized for what i do, watch, say, or act please?
Well I think everyone who says “Americans are stupid” knows there are exceptions. Thinking we mean it literally is actually… stupid.
Now, this is sort of stuff is not what makes us think Americans are stupid. It’s your government and the fact that you let it go on. The USA had a messed up, tyrannical government for 8 years under Bush, and now things aren’t getting better with Obama.
You call yourselves the land of the free but no other Western country has such a strict justice system as yours nor such a high rate of its population in prison.
Half of you love to boast about their guns, act tough and threaten to shoot anyone who robs your home or attacks you in the street and yet you’re so afraid of a religious fanatic bringing a knife on a plane that you let the authorities molest you so you can feel safe.
And then of course there’s all the government abuses… Violating the Constitution (Patriot Act), violating Freedom of Speech and Human Rights…
But the truly stupid thing is that most of Americans reading this will think “Yeah, this is going on, but we don’t like it nor agree with it” except they still won’t do anything about it.
Facebook statuses don’t make us think you’re stupid. Neither does Snooki’s popularity nor blondes who don’t know Hungary is a country. These things only confirm what we already think.
And please do take this as constructive criticism. My purpose is not to just criticize your country but to tell you “if you think dumb Facebook statuses are the problem, you’re barking at the wrong tree”.
tl;dr
Hahaha mixer
OK, you want to be listened to as offering constructive criticism, but your very first sentence starts with the premise that: Thinking we meant what we said is stupid…. you qualify as a fully vetted Douchebag. Remember: ’tis easier to complain from the bottom than to lead from the top.
“Remember: ’tis easier to complain from the bottom than to lead from the top.” I like this quote. Especially because it describes whatever complex is going on here. <3
Yez the stupids amaricans always is the barking at the trees. They have the stupids comments about big guns and prisons are full of foregners hasing s3ks violating thw world rites of freeedoms of hasing s3ks not in prisons. Bush was likes the H!tler and there is zillions a deads d!ed in prisons. This good creiticisms. They hope will read and brodcast my grate debate on news and be betters countrys now.
Translation: ?
im a worthless foreigner.
I was trolling the d@uchebag “I” above. If you read his comment you are going to need brain bleach.
I like getting molested at airports!! Why does “I”‘s comments make me feel dirty now?
I don’t mind the TSA feeling my junk as long as they are gentle…
i love you jibble
Interesting. The mere fact that American foreign policy has led to the creation of so many despotic governments all around the world reduces all your comments to the utter drivel that they are. Since there seems to be so many patriotic Americans around, I think I will quote just the one saying: “If love is blind, patriotism has all 5 senses deprived.”
PS: if you dont know what zyzygy means, then look it up. And yes, it is actually a word.
Wow!! The USA is the oldest country around!! Obviously, there were never other pushy governments out there prior to the USA becoming a country, because the world was a happy and peaceful place without Americans and their foreign policy mucking it up.
Your comment is completely idiotic in the realm of time supported by this planet. Get over yourself already, because you’re starting to sound like a freaking American!!!
I think you mean “syzygy” — but I like the quote anyway. At what point did disagreement become unpatriotic?
I’m an American living overseas… there’s a certain sense of perspective offered by expatriation, especially when the country I live in has a highly successful and efficient national health system, coupled with an extremely low violent crime rate.
Thanks for the dissertation on my own country. You’re clearly an expert on a place you’ve probably never been to.
*Cough* no one cares about your stupid opinion here, foreigner
Yeah, and when your ‘great’ country goes bankrupt and begs other countries for loans and money, I hope we foreigners arent mature enough to not gloat at you. Americas time as the only superpower is ending. Oh, and we dont give a crap about your idiotic views either.
Like I said before, you’re an over-inflated bag of noxious gas. Good job.
The only superpower? Are you serious? Like America is the only big country out there.. Oh, and it’s “aren’t”. And I believe you used a double negative. And you named yourself after the alignment of planets? You do know it’s supposed to start with an “S” right? Yes, I know I am a b*tch. :]
Since you know so much about American foreign policy, you will also know of all the lovely despotic regimes that the American government has supported, right? Like the Khamer Rouge in cambodia, the Indonesian military junta, the governemnt of Joseph Mobutu in kenya from 1962 to 1991, Saddam husseins government etc… i could go on, but I only wish to elucidate your own countries blatant hypocrisy when it stands on its self percieved moral high ground. This is the government that is supposed to represent your people, so if your elections are fair and democratic, that would mean that the majority of the people are responsible for their governments actions, since the government represents the peoples will… right? As for the other countries having corrupt regimes in power… suffice to say, that in most third world countries, America has assisted and actively caused enough misery, and brought corrupt despotic regimes into power to invalidate any of your bull manure arguments. Americas actions with regards to recent egyptian revolution is enough to reduce the credence of any argument you make to a minimum
Just remember where all Americans originated from…your country. They’re just a product of the same ancestors as you.
You’ve spent a lot of time trolling around for American foreign policy. What’s the foreign policy in your country. If you can poo-poo another country’s choices in dealing with dominating @ssholes, then you’re country had better be freaking squeaky clean with its foreign policy. If not, that makes you a hypocrit, which then negates your arguments and makes you look like a hypocritical idiot.
Or do you live in one of those chicken $hit countries that prefers to sit back and hide when the $hit hits the fan. Or let America take the first stand and you follow behind. Give me a break.
You act the the government has not changed at all. FYI: We elect a new president every four years, new senators every six years, and new representatives every two years. Plus you act like every American supports the decisions of the goverment. NEWS FLASH: We don’t directly decide what will happen next!
Let us know when you get to that promised constructive criticism, ok?
Because all I’m seeing so far is a pack of leftwing claptrap that’s divorced from reality, or even any smidgen of understanding about the issues you pretend to raise.
I enjoy your word choice. Just saying.
Oh, and before you can complain about some other country supposedly violating their constitution, how about explaining the “vote until you get a yes” approach you used to absorb countries into the EU? What happened to those countries’ constitutions which are now subservient to a central government that is not accountable in the slightest to it’s members?
Perhaps you should tend to your own knitting, especially when you don’t have a bill of rights to violate in the first place.
america is a countr of clowns.. too many though
*criticise , what are we American ?
All you need to prove that other countries have their problems to is to point out that every other country looks to the USA for help when they cant provide it themselves. How many countries has the USA been protecting for years now. lets not forget if it where not for the help of the USA then everyone in the world would be speaking German.
Only not really. That is a common historical fallacy.
But cool story, bro.
the Americans didn’t win the WWII, the Russians did.
Nobody won WWII, in the end. The Allies beat the Axis, but that doesn’t mean that it was a true victory. Russia lost more lives than anyone in that war….About 20 million. That’s an assload if you think about it. Definitely not a win.
Wait. The population in American prisons is mostly the horde of innocent illegal aliens coming from the south. Didn’t you know?? Jeez, and you call yourself knowledgable.
Wait… Hungary’s a COUNTRY?!?!?! Next you’ll be saying that Turkey is as well.
Ok, first of all, you say you realize not all Americans are stupid, but you’re still generalizing A LOT. There ARE people trying to do stuff about it, probably more than you would think. Or haven’t you heard whats happening in Wisconsin? Also, I don’t think I know a single person who enjoys being ”molested” by the TSA, or having basic rights abused. It also makes me wonder what country you come from, sir, and if you’re in a position to be handing out cristicism, which you may say is constructive, but you don’t seem to mention how exactly we’re supposed to improve anything. (Also, I agree with what kittyoxy said, that quote definitely applies.)
I’m glad you are so clever and smart as to miss the sarcasm that this status implies.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sarchasm
The unfortunate thing is that OP’s friends are the idiots here. OP is simply a beautifully fantastic troll.
As the great Joninja once said…
Successful troll is successful.
Nice trolling!
BEST.
TROLL.
EVER.
Obvious troll is obvious
Not very obvious given the fact that actual retards are actual.
*ahem*
I’m fairly certain s/he’s trolling. Retards tend to sail along on the same arguments over and over, even if they’re debunked. This one’s actually doing an effort in “convincing” people, causing them to feed him. That’s the way of a troll, not a retard.
Yea that’s what Bleh meant. That those people who kept commenting on the status believing him are the re-tards, meaning they obviously didn’t get the trolling situation.
Yeah they’re trolling.
But if green was that stupid someone should of just said that for every hour they add in a year, they also take a way an hour at another point.
Why is he trolling? It makes perfect sense. The day is longer and thus more sunlight and more heating of the earth. I had never thought about it before.
Dude, even if we make the day’s hours shorter, let’s say 6 hours instead of 12, and the night hours longer, 18 hours instead of 12, and at 17:00 say “now its night”.. You think the sun will care what time we think it is? The sun will shine no matter what.
Human: “Good, it’s night – darkness time”
Sun: “Oh, good, time for me to hide!”
Oh and global warming is a myth, do some research.
I am going to see the Justin Bieber movie tonight, but I have to finish reading Twilight first. I am 12 and what is this?
(Thanks for stepping in my troll poo, Maniac_. There’s one born every minute…)
Haha s/he totally did.
there r no girls on the internet, they’re to busy making sandviches…or at least THEY SHOULD BE!
Fart.
How blissfully original
Ha, makin sandwhiches, that is hilarious! LOL!! Do you watch Tosh.O???
I am going to see the Justin Bieber movie tonight, but I have to finish reading Twilight f!rst. I am 12 and what is this?
(Thanks for stepping in my troll poo, Maniac_. There’s one born every minute…)
Dude. It was a joke. The poster doesn’t really believe that. I mean, the dude even used the Bill O’Riely quote “never a miscommunication”. It’s supposed to be funny…
and the chalkboards refer to Glenn Beck, yes?
Thank you! Have to hand it to the subject: he’s an equal oppurtunity trollster. Gotta respect that.
*opportunity
global warming is a myth ? WTF ? r u totally stupid ?
Why are you putting spaces in front of your question marks?
I like it that way …
Seriously?
*should have
Thanks, I didn’t know I was submitting this to my English teacher..
Because only English teachers have good grammar. Everyone else just slaughters the English language and hopes people can still manage to understand them.
Don’t take it so seriously. I said “should of” instead of “should have”. I’m just saying it’s not that important to go around correting peoples grammer on a site like Failbook. okay? okay
Good day sir.
*grammar
Do you really not know how to spell grammar?
lol okay thanks
ya i do but rite now i serioslly dont carre aboat it allrites?
Do you really not have anything better to do?
“I” should be upper case.
I don’t have anything better to do: fighting illiteracy is a noble cause!
*Yeah
*right
*seriously
*don’t
*care
*about
*all right
Also it should be “have nothing better to do”.
Actually “have anything better to do” is not wrong either. Both work just fine.
obviously the american way of spelling grammer. In britain it is spelled ‘grammer’. I do love how cultural differences are tolerated online.
No, it’s spelled grammar here also.
Grammer is only correct if you’re referring to Kelsey Grammer, or others with Grammer as a surname. Other than that, I’m pretty sure Brits can handle using Google so they do not submit a dumb comment.
*correcting
Everyone not green = whoosh.
Green = winner.
A troll is a retard.
Not this guy. This is one of the most awesome trolls I’ve ever seen. He cited an article on “Early Astronomy” saying the earth was pear shaped! That’s AMAZING!
Serious respect for green.
My sister-in-law(23 years old) thinks that you have to go to the bottom of the ocean, then back out the other side of the earth to get to outer space during the day so the sun does not burn you up….just saying…I agree..They DO exist.
0_0 I just…I don’t know what to say to that. I hope your family doesn’t leave her unsupervised for very long.
THIS
Exactly. Trolls nowadays aren’t easy to spot because there’s so many stupid people out there, wherever you are in the world.
A girl in my class (15 years old) tought stars really had five spikes like in the books.
I loved his reference to O’Reilly’s ‘Tide comes in Tide goes out, Sun goes up Sun goes down, Never a miscommunication’ argument (to prove god).
Beautifully Trolled
is green really that dumb or is this a joke?
Are you really that dumb, or is this a joke?
Are you really that dumb, or is this a joke?
Are the three posters above my name really that dumb, or is this a joke?
am i this dumb, or am i a joke?
Are you really that dumb, or is this a c-c-c-combo breaker!
really this joke is that dumb.
or are you?
I am
This proves that this video should be on artoftrolling.
what video?
Well, that’s one way to break that u- ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.
Are you really that joke, or is this a dumb?
Did you really bum Joe?
Yes, yes I did.
nah, you bummed the invisible man in between
Not very obvious given the fact that actual retards are actual.
Maybe if you keep saying that, it will be funny.
Maybe if you keep funny that, it will be saying.
actual retards are actual, actual retards are actual, actual retards are actual, actual retards are actual, actual retards are actual, actual retards are actual, actual retards are actual, actual retards are actual, actual retards are actual, actual retards are actual, actual retards are actual, actual retards are actual, actual retards are actual, actual retards are actual
funny yet?
Not yet. Try some more?
Nah, no use kicking a dead horse… MY dead horse
Green is trollin’. See how he says, “Never a miscommunication”? That’s Bill O’Reilly’s line.
Yes, it is clear that green is trolling. The fail is that his friends (particularly yellow) don’t catch on. His friends obviously don’t have much faith in him if they think that he believes this.
it’s a joke. The ‘never a miscommunication’ bit should give it away.
‘MURICA!
LOL, he is clearly trolling, and its funny that people feed the trolls so easily
RAWR he is saying something ridiculous and must be straightened out RAWR!!!
I love you.
+1 internets
Feeding trolls is what keeps Failblog and sister sights up and running! >w<
sites*
Reform Pangea! Bahahahahahahaahhaaha what a tard I wish I could comment on his status.
But I guess that’s why we have failbook
we should TOTALLY reform pangea, that would be awesome!
and bring the dinosaurs back, they were so big they were blotting out the sun to help prevent global warming
Dinosaurs followed by an ice-age, coincidence? I think not! The huge shadows they had were cooling down the earth and it eventually made an ice-age! That would be the perfect solution to global warming : the ice-age would counteract global warming to keep the weather mild!
Reform pangea was the only response where I thought the commenter knew what was going on. Too funny
Green is a conspiracy theorist….”Don’t listen to the mainstream media….wake UP, people!” He (or she) probably believes in the Twin Towers conspiracy theory too :/
Wow – I actually laughed at this (which is rare) but not because the OP failed but because everyone else who commented totally missed the joke. The OP is satirically commenting on the rhetoric used by the political extremes in this country. “TAKE BACK THIS COUNTRY” is the rallying cry of several far-right/left groups, most notably used recently by the Tea Party. “Never a miscommunication” is a quote from Bill O’Riely used to justify his belief in God on account of the tides, regarding which he has been ridiculed. If you still thought he was serious at “fuzzy science of daylight denyers”, you have issues and “Reading between the chalkboards” is evocative of Glenn Becks school-roomesque set. In addition the whole concept of global warming has been relegated to the comedic realm recently.
tl;dr
Well, you should. It was smart. But the fact that you can’t sustain attention for 30 seconds is not Duke’s problem.
tb;dr
AGW has only been relegated to the comedic realm by those who believe the right-wing nutcases that Green’s satire is meant to mock.
*sighs* not everyone watches stupid American sit-coms, or follows idiotic commentators like O’Reilly… thus it is unlikely that they will appreciate the fine humour espoused by this beautiful post.
You are a sad little hater.
The green guy is actually pretty funny. The only fail is from all the dumb guys who could not see that this was a joke and kept trying to put him straight.
Actually, you never know. Retards exist. He/she could NOT be trolling.
Nope. Too many smart and aware cues in there. Witty (and even-handed) social commentary.
…………………”Listen, you are not a scientist. I know a scientist.”
I bet his scientist friend is a geologist named Randy.
THIS!
+1
Win
“I know a scientist” should be the next “I own a horse”
If Green’s comments were sincere and not obvious satire, then yes, that would be an entertaining new meme.
*Disconnects*
What a nagger…
Trolled.
“Make this your status if you love America.”
That’s the clincher right there.
The sad thing about this is it is actually hard to tell if he is trolling or not…. There are people like this.
The sad thing about that is that you can say the same of just about any troll. No matter how ridiculous/offensive/both a belief may be, there will always be someone, somewhere, who will defend it to the hilt and actually MEAN it.
There are only two groups of people for whom I would agree should have ANY degree of difficulty in determining that Green is trolling:
1. Those not living in the USA. Since any American national or resident is essentially guaranteed to be familiar with the hilarious arguments, logic, tactics, studio dressing, and catchphrases of the major “opinion commentators” on Fox News, these liberally-applied trappings hanging all over Green’s posts are an obvious indicator.
2. ‘Tards. ‘Nuff said.
No one seems to mention the obvious fact that whole we gain an hour in fall, we lose one in spring… There is no additional time added to the world..
Logic?! Who uses THAT?!
That’s what I’m saying. None the less, the dude’s a troll and is no way that stupid.
Except that one time
at band camp
lololololololol!
With my tuba.
WTF?!
TL;DR :S
I could come round and read it to you if you like.
Which drive thru’ is it?
You’re implying he has a job.
I think he just might have a job…Not the job that most people would like, but it pays for his internet.
mooching off parents is not a job
and to answer his name : no… no you don’t know stuff
No need to be mean.. D: And I ain’t wurkin’ in no drive thru.
I know, I’m sorry. I just get annoyed when people don’t have enough time to read something, but do have enough time to click on the post, fill out a comment form and post it. Making more for me to read, for no decent reason.
The mods would get the idea eventually if too few comments were made about long posts, so I don’t think there’s a requirement to clog things up with tl;rd noise.
Besides, I figured you were busy and wouldn’t come back to read the comments about a topic you didn’t read; I could put what I liked.
“No need to be mean”? Oh, dude, put down the red and white bullseye you’re holding up for the trolls before you put your eye out with the corner of the sign.
I’m not really sure this is trolling. That person just seems plain retarded.
You people dont take this question seriously, join the facebook group, together we can make a DIFFERENCE!
Aww…isn’t that special? Glenn Beck got a facebook.
So Glenn Beck is a successful troll?
Green’s got her facts wrong, Daylight savings time was proposed in the 18th century by Ben Franklin, not in 1895, and it wasn’t enacted until WW2, so it only had a 34 year head-start, which means it may not be too late!
No, it’s too late. The trolls have won.
Successful troll is successful
Wow, that poor person has many very stupid friends.
Pangea needs our help! If we don’t stop the sun, who will?
LMAO!.. Now that’s just sad.
Don’t you just want to throw a textbook at him or something?
Green is christian and republican
Green is a troll. Did you seriously miss the whole point of this?
Yes, s/he did. Missed it entirely.
Uh oh…. I’m starting to think that all these people that missed the satire are actually trolling US! Grrrrr….
I’m pretty sure they’re just morons.
I really hope that Green was trolling and doesn’t seriously believe all that stuff s/he said. Cause if s/he does believe that Daylight savings is the cause of global warming, then that is just sad… If s/he was trolling, then gotta love that so many fell and kept falling for the “hook.” LOL
Anyone who quotes Bill O’Reilly’s “never a miscommunication” is trollling. Watch Steven Colbert sometime. Also it is clear in the “You are not a scientist, I know a scientist” line. A non-troll would have said “I read” or “my friend the scientist said. Jean-yus
Epic troll.
Trolling is a art.
Trolling are a art. -.-
Trolling is an art.
Trolling causes farts?
Farts are banned.
It’s our only chance!
boot wo0t w1ll happwn t00 m4y v4kat10nz?!1one!!two!!?
Daylights Davings ^^
This persons name should not be censored, or made anonymous, it should be revealed to all on failbook so that the offending moron can be showered with ridicule for there retardation.
*their.
Who’s the retard now? Aren’t you supposed to learn the difference between there, their, and they’re somewhere around second grade?
JAACCCKKKKK! Plz stop dripping fail on me….
I love you.
I would tend to be of the opinion that only those like yourself, who are so stupid as to have not seen the obvious satire of Green’s words should be publicly humiliated in the fashion you describe.
*their
Wow……Just Wow
Troll gets 1 internetz
The brilliant “never a miscommunication” line makes it clear that this is a troll…a damn good one too, green even has half the posters here eating out of their hand.
I weep for humanity…
Ah, another great example of democrat thinking…
Exactley!!!
sorry i didn’t even laugh at this because it’s a joke…..no way in heaven or hell can this be legit….i knew yanks are stupid but this goes beyond even the most reddest of rednecks’ minds’ capacity for stupidity…. i think im going to cry :-/
For those ove u how thinkds GREEN is serious…please leave the internet. Forever.
Hur hur yanks r stupid hurrr
You made me grin….
1895! Around that time the undustrial revolution was in full go!
And the scientists say that carbonoxide is responseble for the global warming for the most part. Did he overlook that one?
The Undustrial Revolution… was that the revolution where they realized that they screwed up half the stuff in the Industrial Revolution and had to go back and undo it?
^THIS
Does this theory mean if we turn all the clocks forward simultaniously, we will watch the sun fastforward across the sky?
I think my favorite line in this whole thing is the “you are not a scientist. I know a scientist.” It sounds like something you put in your argument to sound more credible, and hope that no one looks at close enough to realize that that’s the intent.
Voldy, You should learn to love us Yanks, maybe you would be speackin the Deutche? oh yea..ur gay.
u mad?
Also, don’t be afraid. The ‘Reply’ button is your friend. It is there to help you, not to hurt you.
Jesus, please don’t try to represent Americans when you can’t use the reply button or even spell a few basic words.
I do believe this is in reference the the 1939-1945 conflict with Germany? Maybe is the appropriate word as people are unsure if the war would be won without the Americans help, it definately sped up the outcome though.
Come on guys, this guy is obviously joking! The line “never a miscommunication” totally gives it away, too (google it). The guys who think he’s serious are the real retards
AHAHAHHAHHAHAH, I have never laughed this hard at a Failbook post recently. And I was born in USA
The OP green was joking. I weep more for people who actually think that he/she was being serious. And as far as Americans being stupid, for a stupid people we sure gained Superpower status quickly, became the only nation on Earth to go to the moon, have satellites venturing into dostant solar systems as we speak and currently have robots on the surface of Mars. Perhaps the rest of the world should follow our “stupidity”.
I knew green was joking by correct grammar. Stupid people don’t have correct grammar.
While I would agree on the fact that not all Americans are stupid, consider the amount of money your country spends every year on space exploration, when there are so many people living in poverty and going to poorly funded schools. The people who can afford to go to the great universities and get a good education are a small percentage of the country. Just a thought.
Then how do you explain the US being behind every other developed country in Math and Science (as well as many other fields), the fact that we have have more conspiracy theorists (both in the country and on the news) than most other countries, the fact that the governments spends more on shipping kids out to war than on education, the fact that a good portion of children (as well as adults) are illiterate, the fact that Stephanie Meyers is considered a “good writer,” and that NASA’s funding (which is one of the major factors behind the success of all of the accomplishments that you are citing) has been DRASTICALLY slashed because people want the government to reduce the deficit without raising taxes (indicating no knowledge of High School level economics if so many people believe the deficit can be eliminated by cutting spending alone — we have to either raise taxes on the rich or get rid of all available tax breaks and/or refunds in order to do that in addition to cutting spending — simple economics).
Nice use of stereotypes; I see what you did there.
I know – who’d have thunk it! An American understanding irony!
Oh look, a non-American misunderstanding the definition of irony!
Didn’t you know? Every brand of humor has been labeled ‘irony’ now.
What the OP said is an old and fairly common joke intended to make fun of people who are conspiracy theorists/don’t understand science. He wasn’t being serious.
Don’t know about old or common — and its contemporary Fox News references are certainly not old — but it’s freakin hysterical!
dostant, ok that was a fail.
Conspiracy… wait, what?
I’m speechless.
That’s because you’re not a Scientist. I know a Scientist.
I own a horse.
reading between the chalkboards = great glenn beck ref. never a miscommunication = greater bill o’reilly ref. winning troll is win.
This might be the most ignorant person ever in the history of human kind.
Pretty sure you’ve got that one locked down until you know what satire is.
I would never troll my friends like this. I don’t want to know how stupid they really are.
seconded….After my post about a book I’m reading for a report on evolution called Saving Darwin (a book that helps Xtians rationalize evolution into their religions beliefs). Jeezy creezy. Although it was mainly one person….but one person I thought to be VERY bright.
God, you anti-religious nuts just cannot ever be satisfied, can you?
First, you scream that religious folks are ignorant for criticizing evolution. Which is just fine, except…
Then you take the ones who DO agree with evolution and accuse them of “rationalizing”!
So, there’s literally nothing a person who believes in god can do to make you happy except stop believing in god.
When will you idiots just simply be exposed as the ignorant haters that you are? You’re the ones who cannot live and let live, so by rights you are the ones who should be shunned.
Green must cry himself to sleep every night, now that he knows how stupid his friends think he is…
I still cant tell whether he’s joking or serious.
He’s joking — he’s making fun of Bill O’Reilly’s moon/tides fail and Glenn Beck’s constant use of chalkboards to make him look smarter.
Google “Bill O’Reilly tides” and you’ll get it — even better if you watch the Stephen Colbert bit about the incident!
“I know a scientist.”
It’s official….I always thought it was a myth, but this is the proof I needed! You can litteraly screw someones brains out!! Proof is right there!!
I don’t understand. Is the point of this posting to poke fun at his/her moronic friends that clearly can’t ‘read between the chalkboards?’ What a bunch of idiots! They think they’re so damn smart.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Reform-Pangea/189108894462891#!/pages/Reform-Pangea/189108894462891
lol “Aerospace/Defense”
^I am a scientist, for the government. I know these things.
If this is trolling, then he wins.
“I know a scientist.”
Yeah, that helps sooo much.
Also, this person should move to AZ, USA where they don’t set their clocks to the wrong time.
I put this as my status and every single one of my 300+ friends knew it was a joke. Why is it so hard for readers of failbook to understand satire?
Seems to me like maybe Americans aren’t the only dumb ones…
Maybe most or all of these comments the troll has written are taken from books/shows in America, and maybe not everyone in America reads/listens to the same thing also… and come to think on it, maybe then not everyone lives in America!
Seems to me like you never thought this comment through…
No kidding, considering people call americans the dumb ones other people don’t seem to understand satire very well…
We should change all our clocks to add four hours of darkness a day, to ensure those polar icecaps stay frozen! Otherwise the consequences will never be the same again!
… eyeroll. Fo’ real.
The funny part is I just started reading “Idiot America” today, and this sounds just like something out of that book. You need no proof, no experiments, and no independent studies. All you have to do is yell loud enough until a major news corporation picks up the story.
I can’t tell if it is a joke or if this is an Idiot American in its natural habitat!
If you can’t tell, then by your own definitions, you must be an American.
Yup everyone else has said it. It’s just a trolling session, it’s funny though since it’s a parody of O’Reilly.
OMG this is so sad…
now I know why its so hot in summer ond cold in winter
Successful Troll appears to have been Successful.
This seems kinda like a parody of the Coalition to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide. Nonetheless, a well made troll.
^This!
Dihydrogen Monoxide is a horrible health hazard! We must get rid of it!!
*if you have no idea what this is, you have totally and utterly failed at life! Please memorize the song in the following link to un-fail:
http://www.speakeasy.org/~mamandel/filks/DHMO.html
save the children! H2O is a deadly menace!
My very first thought, once I realized he was joking.
Stupidity is a human condition, it knows no boundries, not race, not religion, not nationality. Nowhere is that more evident than on the internet. Comment boards in particular!
I’m pretty sure that green is joking, and the funny part is that none of his/her friends caught on. Of course, green could just be that stupid.
Unfortunately, we’ll never know the truth…
How is it even debatable that green is joking? He did the Billo’ “Never a miscommunication.” He also deliberately, in caps for added sarcasm, stated that correlation implied causation. And the 80 year head start thing?
I mean, he’s obviously joking, but then when I came to the comments people were unsure. I was surprised. There probably ARE people that stupid, but green is not one of them.
tl;dr.
tl;dr?
Then GTFO and STFU.
I hope that wasn’t too long for you.
This daylight savings problem is actually true, though. In fact, we should take it to the next level by having less entire days on the calendar. If each month were only 28 days long, like February (which is a cold month! coincidence??), that would mean even less daylight each and every year.
Its pretty simple, people. Now that the Tea Party is in charge, maybe we can finally wrest ourselves free of the iron grip of the calendar industry and daylight savings industries and solve this looming crisis.
For all of those concerned, America is one of the top countries for institutional learning (colleges). Also, ignorance=/=stupidity.
Americans are stupid-I admit it, being one. But nobody is stupid enough to ignore 1100 years worth of hard data, and 4.2 million years of simulated data to believe that what caused all the past episodes of global warming has nothing to do with the current one. HUMAN BEINGS did not cause this. It is a natural cycle, surely assisted by our delightful greenhouse gases, but we are not the cause. Look up the past, we aren’t even as warm as the earth has been before. All the other ice ages and periods of “global warming” were not caused by humans, but suddenly because there are humans to make money from these sensationalist ideas, we must have caused this one. Grow up, nobody is denying global warming, that is fact. But only idiots think this one is so different from all the past ones!
AMEN!
It’s not as funny when the OP of the status CLEARLY was being sarcastic the entire time, and all of her friends were too tarded to catch on. :/
made this gorgeous piece of hilarity my status. because i care about humanity. lolz
Um daylight savings time was created for farmers to have more time to plant there crops. There is still the same amount of time in a day XD.
Actually, it was created by railroad companies so they could have a standard time by which they could adjust their arrival and departure times. At least according to my AP US History textbook, which is probably (but not not necessarily) correct. Every source is fallible when it comes to history
So I think this MAY be one of those times where you know a friend is being completely ridiculous, and then you play along for a while… or this person should have a serious chat with his/her friends about how they see him/her, if the friends assumed he/she would believe these things.
You know sometimes, it would be nice to know the gender, just for the sake of making comments easier.
Something people are forgetting… Global warming is a natural process… Yes, we are affecting it a bit, but it is going to happen whether we want it to or not.
I’m American, btw, and I’m not stupid. I find it offensive that the loud majority thinks most of the country is. I hope the quiet majority think differently.
Successful troll is successful
@tulsamom – Seriously, I’ve never laughed so hard.
No, it’s not a problem. Regardless of whether or not we remove an entire day from a year, the sun will still shine. We will always have the same amount of sunlight regardless of the date
You could completely scrap and/or re-invent time measurement and we will still have the same amount of sunlight. If we didn’t have summer and winter time, over the years you’d finish up sleeping later and later in the day –
and guess what -
the sun doesn’t disappear just because you shut your eyes.
Sorry, that would be Tulsa_tom…..
Sorry, but 30 years ago the same scientists as are now predicting global warming thought we would be in an ice age now… and it seems more and more every day like they were right… so i would welcome a little global warming right now- its f*cking FREEZING where I am! Hey did you know the global warming comitte a little while ago was canceled because of a blizzard? That is called a true fail, if anyone can find it and post it…
I love how some ppl r so stupid that they dont even see pure sarcasim.. It cracks me up this is most def. 100% sarcasim sooo yea
Um dont the dude or chick that put this up realise that the amount of sunlight does not change and its more daylight shifting? Eg sunrises and sunsets an hour later than normal time. We have this problem where I am from in Qld where ppl don’t have a clue and bring in all kinds of wives tales and excuses lol.
are you sure its sarcasm? there are a LOT of stupid ppl around the world… i deal with college kids at work (US and int’l) and they are pretty much RE-TAR-DED!! i would like to think the person is being sarcastic but you never know…. stupidity never surprises me
Is this a junior high school board?
1. I’m laughing at the FB fail post.
2. I’m a proud American.
3. The comment above mine asking if this was a Junior High message board also has me laughing.
4. Anthropogenic Global Warming is a religion with little science to back it up.
5. All the non-Americans posting how stupid we are need to a.) learn how to spell and b.) take a history class.
6. All the non-Americans calling us stupid would shut up if we announced we wouldn’t bail any of you out militarily when you get attacked like we’ve done pretty much around the world since America’s inception as a country.
7. That feels better to get all that off my chest. USA FTW!!!
Please please tell me this is a joke
The earth is pear-shaped?