Here's a sofism:

The brain is the most important organ in the human body. Without it, all the bodily functions of the body would be inexistant. A human brain is about 5-6% of the body mass. But... the brain uses up more than a third of the resources of the body (food for thought). Let's continue our analogy and view the World as a human body, at a superior level, of course. Now, we know the USA, like the human brain, uses up about one third of the resources at the body/world's disposal. Also, the population of the United States is about 6% of the World's. Therefore, we conclude that we neet to relinquish controll of all bodily functions to the brain. :lol: :lol:

Good analogy. :)

I wonder which other parts represent what other countries...

You really want to know how intelligent US people are?
ok, then just look at this (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=46986) and especially THIS (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22669&highlight=scientific). Alarming isn't it... More alarming than funny btw :(


To conclude with the CNN. If really their reporters are as intelligent as this in geography not knowing where Switzerland is, then I guess the troops will not find Irak before a good century ;)

Now, that's scary... :eek:

hehehe, that's rather dumb :D

but... they did a poll out here in holland some time ago asking people if they could point out holland on a globe (u know, those earthlike beachballs)..
I don't recall the exact percentage of people who got it wrong, but beleve me, that was a rather scary result aswell..

That reporter is dumb or CNN is dumb. Could be either.

There has been alot of scary results.... Most of them are set-ups/fake results or just somebody going around asking the dumbest people that can find an easy answer. It's like that one thing I saw that said 7% of people think elvis is still alive... He's dead.... It's a fact... It's all fake.

I think it is dangerous and stupid to stereotype all americans as stupid because of some _minor_ mistakes. I bet mistakes like this could be made in any country.

For example: our foreign minister managed to call the Gambian prime minister "Bongo from Congo" on live TV :D ... Not even GWB would have made a mistake like that!

Australia would be the penis/vagina, making New Zealand the a$$ (just kidding you Kiwis!)

Papua New Guinea would be the Tensor Facia Latae

Originally posted by Bose
making New Zealand the a$$ (just kidding you Kiwis!)

I thought USA was a$$, they make crap for the rest of the "body" to deal with ;)

But the real question is, which nation is the belly-button!

methinks someone at CNN screwed up....

Originally posted by DvR
hehehe, that's rather dumb :D

but... they did a poll out here in holland some time ago asking people if they could point out holland on a globe (u know, those earthlike beachballs)..
I don't recall the exact percentage of people who got it wrong, but beleve me, that was a rather scary result aswell..
You think that's bad; Only 86% of Americans in a National Geographic poll could point out the USA on a globe. The citizens of the USSR were not much better at 88%.

At least your country has the excuse of being tiny.

Stupidity has no nationality.

I was watching Gameshows' Funniest Moments on TV, and during clips a guy was going around asking people random questions.
One which was asked to a woman about 50:
"Who is on the Susan B. Anthony dollar?"
She replies: "Oh, that's a toughy, I don't know."

Another was asked to a teenage girl:
"Where is the Eiffel Tower?"
She answered, "Isn't it in New York? Yah, it's in New York."
Another he asked her:
"What is North of South Dakota?"
She didn't know the answer

The Host then asked a man about 20-25 another question,
"How many states are in the USA?"
The man said, "Uh, 47?"

God Americans, get a brain!

but they didnt showed the enormous amount who answered correctly :rolleyes:

Stupidity has no nationality.
Damn illegal alien! "Who is on the Susan B. Anthony dollar?"
"Where is the Eiffel Tower?"
"What is North of South Dakota?"
"How many states are in the USA?"
Yeah those questions are real judges of intelligence. If you shut someone inside a small room for all of their life and they know nothing about the outside world, does that make them stupid? Knowing how many states in the America is trivia. Just like knowing how many blades of grass the average garden has or who was number one in the second week of March 1967 are trivia. Who is to say that simply because someone doesn't know trivia that you consider important that they're stupid? Also it should be said that quiz show appearances can be very nervous occasions and nervous have a funny way of making you look stupid.

Nothing like a thread to bring up some well established preconceptions about Americans...

no offence against you us-americans as individuals, but i´d rather die than being leaded by those brains

I have to say, those poll results do not show the stupidity, they only show the percentage of people who's been cut off from this world, either physically or psychologically, in result they seem "stupid" but really they are just inept.

EDIT: lol it looked like I replied to a thread that's been dead for a year... I just hope that my addition was good enough to be considered valuable.

A year later, looking at it... dumb

[QUOTE]Originally posted by GenghisK


_ Did dinosaurs live in the same era than the first primitive humans? 42% did not know the answer or said yes
[QUOTE]

As a Christian, I believe that humans (Adam and Eve) and dinosaurs lived at the same time.

BTW, hillarious switzerland pic. :lol:

Let's hope those people really were the stupidest. But thinking of the guy who is supposed to rule that country... I repeat: Get a good PR agent, for heavens' sake!

Originally posted by puglover
As a Christian, I believe that humans (Adam and Eve) and dinosaurs lived at the same time.


me too, and we prolly killed them. The whole meteor story is a cover-up... :crazyeye:

I´m a christian also, I attend every sunday to mass but this is fact: the oldest human fossils found were about 2.000.000 years old, and the most recent dinosaur fossils were about 65.000.000 years old. And the pope accepted evolution theory is TRUE. Don´t be a fundamentalist.

Originally posted by holy king
no offence against you us-americans as individuals, but i´d rather die than being leaded by those brains
Yeah, I'm sure your grandfathers hated us too after we helped liberate your country from Hitler. Saying you'd rather die than being governed by America is pretty harsh. At least under our rule you'd be able to vote for who you want in office.

QUOTE]Saying you'd rather die than being governed by America is pretty harsh. At least under our rule you'd be able to vote for who you want in office.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, and your vote would count for nothing as you´d be a part of a ridiculous indirect electoral system. BTW, Puerto Rico IS under your rule and they can´t vote (at least not as much as a true state). And that ´liberating´ stuff is rubbish, D-Day and the invasion of Western Europe were made just to stop the USSR (not that it would have been much better than Hitler, but it was still so), as Germany was already doomed. Until half the war had passed, America didn´t care (or should I say since 1933, year in which hitler took power). Why didn´t the US respond to Hitler´s annexation of Austria or Czechslovakia if they were so interested in mantaining democracy?

Turn off Fox News.

Originally posted by RegentMan
Saying you'd rather die than being governed by America is pretty harsh. At least under our rule you'd be able to vote for who you want in office.

Yeah, and your vote would count for nothing as you´d be a part of a ridiculous indirect electoral system. BTW, Puerto Rico IS under your rule and they can´t vote (at least not as much as a true state). And that ´liberating´ stuff is rubbish, D-Day and the invasion of Western Europe were made just to stop the USSR (not that it would have been much better than Hitler, but it was still so), as Germany was already doomed. Until half the war had passed, America didn´t care (or should I say since 1933, year in which hitler took power). Why didn´t the US respond to Hitler´s annexation of Austria or Czechslovakia if they were so interested in mantaining democracy?

Turn off Fox News.

Originally posted by alejandro-magno
Yeah, and your vote would count for nothing as you´d be a part of a ridiculous indirect electoral system. BTW, Puerto Rico IS under your rule and they can´t vote (at least not as much as a true state). And that ´liberating´ stuff is rubbish, D-Day and the invasion of Western Europe were made just to stop the USSR (not that it would have been much better than Hitler, but it was still so), as Germany was already doomed. Until half the war had passed, America didn´t care (or should I say since 1933, year in which hitler took power). Why didn´t the US respond to Hitler´s annexation of Austria or Czechslovakia if they were so interested in mantaining democracy?

Turn off Fox News.

Are you joking or stupid, it is hard to tell.

what did he say that was stupid?

Invasion of western Europe was to prevent soviet expansion.

Look, i´m no stalinist, but germany was crumpling in 1944, and i´m being serious. The german troops in normandy were reserves. Without d-day germany would have possibly resisted a couple more years, but it would have fallen eventually.

Sorry for the double post though.

So you're saying that America shouldn't have invaded europe and let Hitler continue killing the Jews?

No he's aying AMerica sucks and he's willing to make up whatever BS it takes to convince people he's right.

No Xi12.
I never said that. I just said that the real motivation behind the invasion wasn´t that. The US govt (or the UK in the 1800s, or Spain in the 1500s, or Rome, or any government of any world power in any century) has never worried the smallest bit for the people in other countries (i mean, is invading iraq and killing 10000 civilians a true liberation). So while the cause of the invasion was (IMO) to stop soviet advance, the effects were quite good. As I said earlier, the soviets werent much less totalitarian than the nazis.

h4ppy, i´m sorry if you didn´t like the tone of my previous posts. I never said the US sucks, I´ve got family there. I´m just against the established view of d-day and the invasion of W europe as the single defining factor of WWII. Berlin was actully taken by the Soviets, you know. I don´t really hate the US, nor Americans (I used to think you were idiots, but then i realized most of the other people in the world are idiots too). And i´m quite angry about American foreign policy, and FTAA, and your government´s continual invasion of anywhere in the world.

I recomend you Michael Moore´s books Stupid White Men and Dude, Where´s my Country, specifically the ´Idiot Nation´ chapter in SWM and ´Mike´s Terrorism prevention guide´in DWMC.

I REALLY didn´t want to offend anyone. About the "Turn off Fox News" thing: really, turn it off.

Also, about your sig H4ppy, eu comprende o que voce esta dizendo :p (I can understand it). And Iraq/Irak can be spelled both ways (though the q is official), as it is actually a translation. Same for Usama/Osama/Ousama ben/bin laden/ladin (and i´ve seen it spelled all these ways).

is invading iraq and killing 10000 civilians a true liberation
You can't have a war without civilian casilities.

Then why have a war? Support local guerrillas, such as the Kurds, the way Reagan supported Lech Walesa and his Solidarity movement in Poland in the 80s. I´m sure the Iraqis would have preferred being dominated a little longer rather than losing ther families to ´collateral damage´.

alajandro, shut up and take it to the off-topic board where some established people can debate you on this.

And please, close the book. No really, close the book :rolleyes:

Evedentally you have never hear of this places opinion on Micheal Moore, here's a hint, we all hate him. What I mean is that 9 out of ten people here dislike his debating methods. He took quite a pounding in the last Micheal Moore thread we had and only like two peopole defended him. (and they did it badly)

I didn´t say you loved or hated him, i just recommend you his books. And while it might be true many people hate him, i find the "we all hate him" statement is of dubious veracity, as the facts are that the most sold book in 2002 was SWM, and BFC was seen by millions. But I guess Azale is right, this is OT, so i´ll stop posting this here.

And, i started this on the possibility of WWII without operation overlord: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=81047

Here's a picture explaning Moore's books.
This is the humor section.

Yeah, Michael Moore is a complete moron, and a liar. You his famed "Bowling for Columbine?" Apparently all those interviews that were set up to 'on the street' were set up and scripted beforehand, and it was just designed to make it look like everyone he met agreed with him automatically. Not exactly lying i suppose, but definetely obscuring the truth, as most of the people like him do, not lie directly, but not tell the truth either.

ANyway, i'm not gonna get into it heavily but i'll just say the America bashers are idiots, and who would you ratehr have ruling the world, Russia, on the brink of turning communist if we stop giving them money, or CHina, the guys gearing up to take over teh world overseas, or the U.S.

Those are your only options, and you're better off being happy that you've got the one which allows you economic and political freedoms, and won't run you down with tanks if you say bad things about it like in Tianmen square, and that allows you basic human rights.

Man, i hope Michael Moore is helped to an early demise, i mean, hell, he has no weapons, he has no hope of defending himself.

WTF Micheal Moore is awesome, much better then all those greedy-ass REPUBLICANS!

Bunch of corperate-Nazis

Fun...... sorry sad fact:

I have family in USA, and they have told me, that the respons to that they are orginaly from Denmark some times is:

Denmark??? Thats the Capitol of Sweden right?:confused: :(

Thats not good...........

:egypt:
Have a nice day

2nd post

Im not bashing USA, but there are some wrong things over there, and it is nice that there are people like Michel Moore who dares to speak, im not saying he is right in all the things he says.

In most contrys in Europe there are Health Care, if your poor or rich you can always get to an hospital and get an opration and mostly for free. Indeed in my contry (Denmark), there are free hospital choice. Wich means you can go to all Hospitals in the contry and say that your ill, and they will help you.
In USA not all people have acess to hospitals, most of them cost money, and you need and HMO (i think its cald that). So many of the poor people cant not afford to go there, and they can not be healthy, wich means that they cant get a job, that in the means they have to be poor to they die. I know there some free hospital, but there far from the best one.

Guns, yes what about Guns? Well there alot of americans wondering why so many peole gets killed, could it be because any one can go buy a gun? Even kids can get them easy..

In Europe there alot of things diffrent from America, and we dont get smashed by tanks. We too got freedom of speach, and we are allowed economic and political freedoms.

Americans dont take this the wrong way, there are alot of good things comming from America, and I do like alot of American people.

:egypt:
Have a nice day

PS. I know this is the wrong forum for this post, but i just had to get it out..

Wow, leave it to a few people on CFC to turn this HUMOR AND JOKE THREAD into an all out flame war. Bravo to you all.

Originally posted by CIVPhilzilla
Wow, leave it to a few people on CFC to turn this HUMOR AND JOKE THREAD into an all out flame war. Bravo to you all.

Your welcome, and sorry :(

I don't really get the pic.

Neither do I. In my country, jounalists and filmmakers who defend the poor and the opressed are admired by most. And we also have free health care, even if it´s now collapsing due to low governement funding, and NO schools are sponsored by corporations, and socialist literature is not censored (to get into a FREE public university, chances are, you´ll have to read the Communist Manifesto). And you wont be judged by someone with no legal studies. It´s amazing how we got to this with rampant corruption and US "aid".

Sorry Cap´n Commando, i forgot to read your whole post. I´d like Sweden or Norway Ruling the world. Maybe france, as under french laws I´d have 5-week vacations, and most of the greatest intellectualtuals of the 20th Century were french. But then again, when they were a top world power they massacred people in Argelia, Indochina & NW Africa, so, i´d say better not. Hey, I got and Idea! What if NO world power tried to "rule them all and in the darkness bind them"? That would be GREAT, IMO!

The picture was there to try to keep humor in this thread. It seems to be running low on it.