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Are you smarter than the fifth grader?
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 11:46 am |
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Excellent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEP7uti0PDw
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 01:15 pm |
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Quoting Avalon: Excellent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEP7uti0PDw |
This one's just as good - if not better! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww&NR=1
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 01:24 pm |
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Loll, you'd better have posted the one with subtitles, Ãs she actually answering any question at all? Sort of stream-of-consciousness eh? Just saying what comes up in her mind related to maps 
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 01:43 pm |
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Quoting Chantal: Loll, you'd better have posted the one with subtitles, Ãs she actually answering any question at all? Sort of stream-of-consciousness eh? Just saying what comes up in her mind related to maps |
Yeah her answer has got nothing to do with the question at all!!!! Is she stupid or what???
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30 Apr 2008 Wed 07:50 am |
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Quoting lady in red:
This one's just as good - if not better!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww&NR=1 |
Quoting Chantal: Loll, you'd better have posted the one with subtitles, Ãs she actually answering any question at all? |
Chantal..unfortunately,there are no subtitles in this video but I hope this helps you to understand what "Miss Stoopid", oops! I mean Miss South Carolina tried to say!! 
(Jimmy Kimmel Explains what Miss Teen said)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR75L08SBHo&feature=related
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30 Apr 2008 Wed 10:08 am |
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Please don't think I'm implying this is normal for all Americans but watching those videos reminded me of when I was in the States last year. We were in a lift (elevator!!) and this American girl was talking to her friend about accents within America, Southern, Brooklyn, etc. and how easy it was to tell where people were from. I said 'well can you guess from my accent where I'm from then' (thinking 'she'll know I'm English but I wonder if she knows from which part of the country'). She thought for a moment and said 'Well, you are either European or Canadian'. Presumably she thinks that Europe is a country made up of the states of Germany, France, Austria, Italy, England etc. etc.!
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30 Apr 2008 Wed 11:54 am |
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LIR, your post reminded me of a satirical cartoon showing Americans' perception of the world. Like you, I'd never claim all Americans (or even most of them) are ignorant. Those I've met were all just the opposite. Still, this cartoon is funny:
http://www.welfarestate.com/map/
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30 Apr 2008 Wed 01:26 pm |
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Quoting lady in red: She thought for a moment and said 'Well, you are either European or Canadian'. Presumably she thinks that Europe is a country made up of the states of Germany, France, Austria, Italy, England etc. etc.! |
I don't think this means that she thought that Europe is a country..
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01 May 2008 Thu 01:41 am |
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Quoting catwoman: Quoting lady in red: She thought for a moment and said 'Well, you are either European or Canadian'. Presumably she thinks that Europe is a country made up of the states of Germany, France, Austria, Italy, England etc. etc.! |
I don't think this means that she thought that Europe is a country.. |
Well maybe she just had no idea that there are different accents in Europe - and thinks there is just a 'European accent'!
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