True story: I won a guitar pedal on ebay recently and the shipper in California refused to mail it to me because I live in New London, Connecticut because that’s obviously not in the United States. Gotta love a free country where people can choose to be take ignorance to mammoth proportions.
last week i saw a snippet of a frat boy trying to find the adverb in a sentence. he was saying, “well, a noun is a thing, a verb is something you do, and a pro-verb [i write it this way because he said "pro" as in "pro football"] comes before a verb. huh… adverb…” i thought that was really dumb, but this takes the cake.
Oh man. I don’t think is commentary on the American education system, as you and I are products of it. I think this is girl is just an idiot, plain and simple.
December 4, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Please. Make. It. Stop
To be honest, the British are probably no better. Although I suspect most people are aware that France is a country, it’s got to be said…
December 4, 2007 at 7:15 pm
True story: I won a guitar pedal on ebay recently and the shipper in California refused to mail it to me because I live in New London, Connecticut because that’s obviously not in the United States. Gotta love a free country where people can choose to be take ignorance to mammoth proportions.
December 4, 2007 at 11:18 pm
last week i saw a snippet of a frat boy trying to find the adverb in a sentence. he was saying, “well, a noun is a thing, a verb is something you do, and a pro-verb [i write it this way because he said "pro" as in "pro football"] comes before a verb. huh… adverb…” i thought that was really dumb, but this takes the cake.
December 5, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Come on y’all that there was a hardest question.
December 5, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Oh man. I don’t think is commentary on the American education system, as you and I are products of it. I think this is girl is just an idiot, plain and simple.
December 6, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Who the hell is that girl? Do people really think “Europe” is a country? I mean, besides in that Mr. Show beanbag sketch?
December 6, 2007 at 3:22 pm
She was on American Idol. I’m surprised she could even hold up the mic.
Oh, and Dylan, remember that one post I did about the woman from Levenshulme who thought that -7 was less than -8? Yeah…
December 6, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Point taken, Melanie! Actually I was shamefaced enough by that Levenshulme incident to blog about it myself - http://www.britoutofwater.com/blog/2007/11/the-sad-truth.html . Still can’t quite believe the stupidity of it though…
December 6, 2007 at 10:46 pm
The South really hurts us on shows like this (and YouTube). I hope this isn’t why you’re moving to London.
December 6, 2007 at 11:45 pm
Awww, Peter, I’d think the same thing even if she had a British accent ;-)
December 7, 2007 at 4:39 am
I think young Nathan redeemed the American education system. He had no problems with the question and he also found her as amusing as the rest of us.
To be honest, I probably wouldn’t have known the answer when I was his age. Go Nathan.
December 7, 2007 at 9:31 am
Always the optimist, Davies, always the optimist…
December 11, 2007 at 4:10 pm
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