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    Americans are NOT stupid... are they?

    It was requested that I post this here... so uh, here. A few of these people made me rage. A few made me laugh. All of them are pretty fucking tragic, though.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE

    Have fun. I couldn't sit through the whole thing, I had to pause it a few times and walk away.

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    These are always funny, but could be done and said for any country in the world to be honest. Just ask a hundred people and only show the clips of the dumb ones.

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    Uh, sure but... "how many sides does a triangle have?" "what religion are buddhist monks?" "name a country that starts with 'U'?" Not being able to answer those -- that's beyond stupid. And these people are allowed to vote. So sad.

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    Totally hasn't been posted 3 times before.

    No youtube thread either.

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    Looks like several days of footage. I wonder how many people got the questions right.

    EDIT: Also what Correction said.

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    Its basically like what Leno used to do, Jaywalking. Not only do they do a ton of different people and pick only the stupid ones, they also ask each person like hours of questions and try to catch you slipping. In the case of this video, it looks more like the former thing though, picking the really really stupid people.

    The triangle and buddhist monk ones seem pretty bad, but I could easily see people that clearly would know the question getting it wrong using certain tactics. I think the geography ones are worse/funnier, where they literally made up land in the bottom right of the map for people to find. Its hard not to see a map or globe once in awhile and its pretty sad that you could be fooled into believing an entirely fake land mass on no other map exists (and happens to be the country you were asked to find).

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    Quote Originally Posted by geno View Post
    I think the geography ones are worse/funnier, where they literally made up land in the bottom right of the map for people to find. Its hard not to see a map or globe once in awhile and its pretty sad that you could be fooled into believing an entirely fake land mass on no other map exists (and happens to be the country you were asked to find).
    Uh. That's Australia.

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    Judging by Geno's post and the OP: Yes.

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    The picture the guy held up, had Iran written on Australia on the map, which is funny in itself that people put the flag there, but it's the same as if I asked someone who lives in say... Kentucky "How do you pronounce the capital of Kentucky: Loo-ey-ville, or Loo-is-ville?"

    Hell, I'll ask you, which is it?

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    It's Frankfort.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trocian View Post
    Uh. That's Australia.
    I'll admit, that was pretty retarded of me, lol. But in my defense, I actually didn't watch the video before I posted that. I remembered it from the still shot in the beginning from when I had seen it a long time ago and the part I remembered most was the guy mentioning how he never knew S. Korea was so much smaller than N. Korea. (and I've seen some similar skits where they completely fuck up a map and no one notices, which I'll go ahead and assume I was combining with my memory of this video)

    Yeah and Santa Claus is real. I don't believe in Australia, made up by the media to justify the accent.

    edit: Funny enough, I happen to have a hemisphere map carpet on my wall that confirms my suspicions:

    http://i37.tinypic.com/whz1bo.jpg
    (the penguins down at the bottom surely agree with me)

    Also, as you may have noticed, I have a sinking suspicion that the devil lives in the pacific ocean, somewhere near hawaii:

    http://i37.tinypic.com/x285yb.jpg
    (Poseidon wouldn't have such evil horns imo)

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    By the way, I'd have totally said Utah for the KFC one and they woulda cut it before I mention thats where the actual franchise based on the original restaurant was started

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    Of course a ton of Americans are stupid, and so help you if you try to 'edumacate' them. I first saw this video a long time ago, and I'm still amazed they found somebody who didn't know about a triangle, and couldn't name a country that began with U.

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    Couldn't doesn't begin with U.

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    You know what is amazing cause i realized just now that North Korea is a lot larger then South Korea.

    I didn't know it was large like that!

    Had to pause and take a deep breath at this point ;\

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    this made me giggle. I'm glad I was raised properly. ^_^

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    Quote Originally Posted by Null View Post
    These are always funny, but could be done and said for any country in the world to be honest. Just ask a hundred people and only show the clips of the dumb ones.
    Similar to the "A Gathering Storm", apocalypse-themed commercial that got exposed and decimated when the original acting rehearsal/casting call vids were released.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sera View Post
    It was requested that I post this here... so uh, here. A few of these people made me rage. A few made me laugh. All of them are pretty fucking tragic, though.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE

    Have fun. I couldn't sit through the whole thing, I had to pause it a few times and walk away.
    lolTexas


    I'm shocked that there are stupid people in this world. I'm sure you could make the same type of clip in any country.

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    I like the people that think this is legit in any form or fashion lol. All you have to do is look for any blond or any redneck and you've got yourself a super cool youtuber.

    Everyone knows that common sense aint so common.

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