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Are some people seriously that stupid?
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I can do the same thing. Look at people you would think that had know Idea what was going on. 
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Wtf? How come Iceland never figures even with stupid people? darn!
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how many people must they have interviewed to find people that stupid
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This thread has made me feel good about myself, but also a bit scared.
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This troubles me.
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Originally Posted by Fred_Cokebottle
Wtf? How come Iceland never figures even with stupid people? darn!
This post makes no sense.
how many people must they have interviewed to find people that stupid
Not many really. You just have to look for people that appears not to care about what is going on in the world around them.
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Originally Posted by Kevin
This post makes no sense.
Not many really. You just have to look for people that appears not to care about what is going on in the world around them.
even so it wasnt just the country they didnt recognise
it was a contenent
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Originally Posted by demibob
even so it wasnt just the country they didnt recognise
it was a contenent
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Originally Posted by demibob
even so it wasnt just the country they didnt recognise
it was a contenent
Condements!
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Originally Posted by Fred_Cokebottle
Condements!
and why not
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The obviously didn't know much about continents either.
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Why is there always money for war, but none for education?
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Haha, the American psyche is just great.
"I don't know where the hell they are, but we should bomb the fsck out of them anyway, because I don't like their attitude!"
Sorry, but when you don't know where the hell Europe is, and what that big continent down below is, you are not entitled to *any* opinions whatsoever.
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[QUOTE= by tomchu
Sorry, but when you don't know where the hell Europe is, and what that big continent down below is, you are not entitled to *any* opinions whatsoever.[/QUOTE]
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Originally Posted by Face Ache
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Originally Posted by demibob
how many people must they have interviewed to find people that stupid
In Texas? 20
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Originally Posted by Tomchu
Haha, the American psyche is just great.
Wow we have an American psyche? Didn't even know it existed.
Tell ya what Tomchu, if I go to Vancouver, and interview a bunch of people, and then put down on video all of the ones that makes idiotic statements, can we call that the "Canadian Psyche" ?
Originally Posted by Tomchu
Sorry, but when you don't know where the hell Europe is, and what that big continent down below is, you are not entitled to *any* opinions whatsoever.
I would say the same about anyone make broad generalizations about a group of people as well.
But hey.
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Originally Posted by Kevin
Tell ya what Tomchu, if I go to Vancouver, and interview a bunch of people, and then put down on video all of the ones that makes idiotic statements, can we call that the "Canadian Psyche" ?
Would work with any country, actually.
Oh well, I suppose I've just gotten used to the anti-US bias and bigotry around here. (Not directed at the OP, just at the "American psyche..." BS.)
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I really really need to start taking advantage of people like that. They're everywhere
where's the evil smilie when you need it
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Originally Posted by MacNStein
Would work with any country, actually.
Yes of course.
Oh well, I suppose I've just gotten used to the anti-US bias and bigotry around here. (Not directed at the OP, just at the "American psyche..." BS.)
Yes I know, I know. And if you say anything negative about another country, they will just say that too is part of the "American Psyche"
Even though they do it themselves.
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Originally Posted by demibob
how many people must they have interviewed to find people that stupid
It was a random sample from the RNC.   
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Originally Posted by Kevin
Wow we have an American psyche? Didn't even know it existed.
Tell ya what Tomchu, if I go to Vancouver, and interview a bunch of people, and then put down on video all of the ones that makes idiotic statements, can we call that the "Canadian Psyche" ?
You could still call it the American psyche, because Canada is in America
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Reason: Added smiley to emphasize that this is in fact a joke.)
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Originally Posted by The Windozer
You could still call it the American psyche, because Canada is in America
Oh no, now you've done it.
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People say America is in trouble because of so many retards like this. But I say we're lucky not to be in worse shape with so many fsckwits running around. And let's not forget - each moron gets one vote just like people with decent IQs.
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Originally Posted by rambo47
People say America is in trouble because of so many retards like this.
American has no more or less retards than the rest of the world.
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Except our retards have more influence, so they seem worse.
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Originally Posted by Lateralus
Except our retards have more influence, so they seem worse.
How so?
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It's more than interviewing lots and lots of people until you find the idiots. It's also about editing. Most of those people are not as stupid as they sound in that video. They just took the parts where they said things they didn't know anything about and threw away the rest.
Jay Leno and Jon Stewart do the same thing.
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Those are some pathetic, stupid, people.
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Originally Posted by Kevin
American has no more or less retards than the rest of the world.
No less retards? Great. But I'm more concerned with if America has no fewer retards than the rest of the world.
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Originally Posted by Kevin
How so?
Kevin, face it, America has a lot of morons in it. You're fighting a losing battle, mainly because you're wrong. 
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I think you can selectively find a group of "retards" by simply choosing your location properly. In every city of any size there are locations where people who just don't care about anything beyond their next beer. Go there in YOUR city and ask the same sort of question. This wasn't an interview with a bunch of poly-sci grad students, it was a bunch of individuals who could easily be expected to not know where Jersey (as opposed to New Jersey) is, let alone what nations might be on one side or the other in the War on Terror. You can find such a group on any campus, in any workplace, and so on. And of course there's no indication of how many people they talked to overall, let alone how many might have had more informed viewpoints.
This, folks, is a great example of an editorial, using selected interviews to make a point-or just stir stuff up.
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Originally Posted by itistoday
Kevin, face it, America has a lot of morons in it.
The WORLD has alot of morons, so America would too!
I am not denying that.
I am saying America doesn't have a monopoly on them.
As I have met alot of morons not from the US.
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Originally Posted by Dark Helmet
Those are some pathetic, stupid, people.
This coming from someone that keeps confusing Catholicism with Christianity.
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Originally Posted by demibob
how many people must they have interviewed to find people that stupid
Prob 1 LOL, Canadian Air Farce (a show) did something similar a couple years back, 9 out of 10 couldn't figure out the Map of the US was wrong, florida was put where california was, and Texas was up where Alaska was lol
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Originally Posted by Kevin
Wow we have an American psyche? Didn't even know it existed.
Tell ya what Tomchu, if I go to Vancouver, and interview a bunch of people, and then put down on video all of the ones that makes idiotic statements, can we call that the "Canadian Psyche" ?
I would say the same about anyone make broad generalizations about a group of people as well.
But hey.
just make sure you ask for there ID first, because chances are the ones you find making idiotic statements will end up being American Tourists BTW your always welcome to crash at my place (no guns please)
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Originally Posted by The Windozer
You could still call it the American psyche, because Canada is in America
Canada is in North America or the America's, not America! 
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There is no country on this planet that is free of such ignorant idiots. Listening to those kind of people when they talk about world politics makes me either very angry or very amused, depending on the person's behaviour. The bad thing is that it is not possible to have an intelligent conversation because facts you state are meaningless since they don't understand anything at all.
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Originally Posted by andreas_g4
There is no country on this planet that is free of such ignorant idiots.
This is true. 
Originally Posted by andreas_g4
Listening to those kind of people when they talk about world politics makes me either very angry or very amused, depending on the person's behaviour. The bad thing is that it is not possible to have an intelligent conversation because facts you state are meaningless since they don't understand anything at all.
And this is the Political Lounge.
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Are there links to any research for average IQ per country?
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iq tests differ from country to country
most are made from different companys anyway
it would be interesting to see some results but i dont think it would be a fair test
anyway most iq tests arnt that great
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Originally Posted by Athens
Canada is in North America or the America's, not America!
If it is the America's, I'd say it definately is in America. It's not like any nation belonging to the America could be on another continent.
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Originally Posted by The Windozer
If it is the America's, I'd say it definately is in America. It's not like any nation belonging to the America could be on another continent.
Americas, not America's
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