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Fri Apr 14, 2006 2:16 pm
http://media.putfile.com/On-The-Streets-Of-America-3
Sidenote to Australia: Set up a defense system, quickly.
Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:36 pm
XD camoon
Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:39 pm
What on earth is cnnnn?
Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:52 pm
its a comedy news show
Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:24 pm
wow lol,
Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:45 am
omg, c'mon did thouse idiots got money fro saying that Iran or France is wher Australia is?
Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:54 am
Do you think they actually show the people who get it right? That wouldn't be funny.
Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:11 am
This is really fake
You should have known, they probably got paid for sayin that stuff
Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:25 am
Holy shit, those damn americans wanna come and attack us from the East which where me and x live...
Anyways... stupid people, i seen it before. CNNNN is a pretty funny show actually.
Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:26 am
Is it an aussie thing or does this show air in the states?
Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:47 am
I thought I saw it on CBC the other day. Pretty funny show.
Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:32 pm
I saw this when it was on TV a few years back, and it really stuck in my mind.
Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:38 pm
keepnitgangsta1 wrote:This is really fake
You should have known, they probably got paid for sayin that stuff

They don't get paid.
It's like Riot said, they only show the people who say something funny or stupid. They could have been asking people all day or even for a couple of days before they find enough material to put into the show.
It has nothing to do with American's being stupid, you can do something like this for any country in the world.
Sat Apr 15, 2006 6:22 pm
Find any group of dumb people on the street, show them a map with Aussieland labeled Iran or France, and they'd believe it. Hell, go and do it yourself. I could ask Aussies where stuff in America is and they'd get it wrong. Doesn't mean they're stupid. Just that they don't care about where that shit is so they don't bother to keep/obtain the knowledge.
Most people, especially Americans, don't care about things outside their direct lives. Only weirdos like me can take those internet tests where you label all the countries on a continent and get only two wrong. (cause I flipped 'em! Damn you Yemen and Oman!)
Yeah, Australia should be an easy one. But come on, almost nobody I know can name all 50 U.S. states let alone put them in correctly on a map except myself. Geography just isn't that exciting.
People can name the Simpsons over rights/freedoms in the First Amendment and stuff. (For the record, like James Taranto, we can name both.) Because they think "government/history/geography" is boring or find it hard to understand.
Kinda like you kids and stats...
Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:01 pm
Nick wrote:I saw this when it was on TV a few years back, and it really stuck in my mind.
Me too. I always think of it whenever I hear about Americans being stupid
In a related incident, one of my friends went to America a few weeks ago and stayed with a host family, and went to school with someone for a day. One of the people at the school asked him 'What state is Australia in?'
benji wrote:I could ask Aussies where stuff in America is and they'd get it wrong.
There is a huge difference between places in a country and an entire country.
Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:37 pm
^He's just saying that this had nothign to due with them being Americans. It had to do with them being stupid. Hell, I met a girl who was also from Canada and didn't understand that Ottawa is the capital of Canada and it's in the province of Ontario. Yet Toronto is the capital of Ontario. There are stupid people everywhere.
Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:27 pm
I don't know. I think Australians generally have a better knowledge of America's geography than Americans do of Australia's.
Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:38 pm
Colin wrote:^He's just saying that this had nothign to due with them being Americans. It had to do with them being stupid. Hell, I met a girl who was also from Canada and didn't understand that Ottawa is the capital of Canada and it's in the province of Ontario. Yet Toronto is the capital of Ontario. There are stupid people everywhere.
No he isnt. He is saying that Australians wouldnt know places in America.
Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:10 am
Nick wrote:I don't know. I think Australians generally have a better knowledge of America's geography than Americans do of Australia's.
That's because you're our bitch.
Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:18 am
Well, we pretty much are.
Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:19 am
Nice thread!

(that's the answer to my misterious location)
Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:47 pm
Riot wrote:Nick wrote:I don't know. I think Australians generally have a better knowledge of America's geography than Americans do of Australia's.
That's because you're our bitch.
I find all of the wealthier nations pretty ignorant of the world around them, that's why you get the most amount of racist issues in those countries and fall backs. This whole Americans are stupid thing is really old, theirs alot of knowledgeable people here well maybe not geography wise but they are smart enough to know where the major countries are located and specially a place like Australia with quite a population of ex-patriots from their living here.
The media can easily play with your mind, I mean you can't let 10 people represent a whole country when its population is in the millions, heck not even 1000 people should allow you to cast a stereo type on a country.
Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:58 pm
Laxation wrote:No he isnt. He is saying that Australians wouldnt know places in America.
And I bet there's millions of them who don't. Because they're stupid. Just like Americans.
I even bet there's some Australians who think you can't use how many points a team allowed to measure how good their defense is.
They are not stupid because they are Americans, and they are not Americans because they are stupid. The only thing that defines an American is that they were born in the United States. If all variables were unchanged except for them being born in Aussieland, they'd be dumb Aussies instead of dumb Americans.
And they might not even be dumb for all we know. Remember, Einstein failed a math entrance exam. It's all about where your strength and weaknesses lie.
I find all of the wealthier nations pretty ignorant of the world around them
Then you must find poor nations really ignorant, because some of them don't even know there's a rest of the world. Their focus is not dying and finding food. They could care less if Kofi Annan's son is part of the biggest scandal in world history for example. In fact, in some African nations they only thing they probably care about the rest of the world is why they keep sending bluehelmets over to rape their girls while claiming to "help" them.
Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:40 pm
benji wrote:Laxation wrote:No he isnt. He is saying that Australians wouldnt know places in America.
And I bet there's millions of them who don't. Because they're stupid. Just like Americans.
Im agreeing with you... maybe if you fucking read it propery you would understand that I never disagreed with what you said.
No shit most Australians couldnt name places IN America... thats just dam obvious, but it isnt what this is about.
I even bet there's some Australians who think you can't use how many points a team allowed to measure how good their defense is.
Once again, learn to put sentences together you stupid shit-for-brains
Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:47 pm
Wow, you have anger issues. Calling people names and cursing up a storm just because someone replied to one of your posts. Such rude behavior.
Im agreeing with you... maybe if you fucking read it propery you would understand that I never disagreed with what you said.
And I didn't say you did. However, you did say "no, he isn't" in response to Colin, when Colin exactly restated one of my points. Considering how much you complain about the meaning of your posts being analyzed, well, I wouldn't throw stones from your glass house.
learn to put sentences together you stupid shit-for-brains
How rude. You should really go wash your mouth out with soap. That was really unnecessary and incorrect, since I did put a sentence together. Infact, I have a continious string of sentences going right now.
You really shouldn't assume just because someone used one of your posts as a point to expound off from that they're directly challenging your manhood as you really are quite defensive over nothing at all. Because some people might take issue with
you calling
me or others "stupid shit-for-brains" and they won't be as kind to you.
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