Bizarre indeed!

[waste gate]

:doh: ‘US Americans’? Miss Teen USA Contestant Provides Bizarre Geography Lesson.:doh:

Quick video: the ramblings of a beauty queen????????!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=4870

[The Avon Lady]

She must really be an uber intellectual because I couldn't understand a thing she said. :88)

[Mush Martin]

Sounds like niether could she AL

[The Avon Lady]

Anyway, I have a map. :smug:

[Mush Martin]

oh yeah .......well I have google earth top that :|\\

[The Avon Lady]

oh yeah .......well I have google earth top that :|\\
That would require me to pay $20million for a ride on an upcoming Russian space launch.

So, you win! :up:

[Mush Martin]

Oh come on AL you have the money and need a vacation I think:rotfl:

[bradclark1]

She's wants to become a politician.

[Chock]

I suspect a lot of US Americans cannot locate the US on a map, because they haven't had a war with themselves in recent times. As such, it hasn't appeared on the news starting off with a globe graphic and zooming in on the country that the USAF is currently bombing.

Which means there is a fundamental flaw in her suggestion for an educational improvement plan. Iraq and Asia are fine with regard to the US helping them, as her ramblings suggest, because both of those have been well and truly bombed by the USAF. But South Africa will not yet be programmed into the B-52's targetting computers. Obviously this is a stumbling block for her educational plan and should be immediately rectified by the bombing of Johannesburg ASAP, in order that her thirty-five point plan to get Uncle Sam's IQ up to scratch can proceed with all haste.

PS, my wife has just said it is her ambition to be that bimbo when she grows up, obviously she'll have to dye her hair and have a lobotomy, but these are minor trifles.

:D Chock

[waste gate]

I think, and it is mere speculation on my part, due to my inability to 'rise' to her level. That someone told her to work SA and Iraq into her answer because it would show her to be a kind and thoughtful person. Unfortunately the question didn't lend itself to the answer and her plan to look thoughtful backfired.

[AntEater]

Here's a little help for her:


http://humor.beecy.net/misc/world/world.gif

[Letum]

http://pown.alluc.org/?uid=147


....I dunno....

[Happy Times]

Some stupid model.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX34ji5AWAk

TALKING TO AMERICANS 1-2
The part when they ask quostions from the university students is scary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLXRVvA6T9k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFqzBiLBwM8

[Officerpuppy]

Show that video to Europeans and they would say "oh thats so American" :lol:
Speaking of which, check this out:

http://www.pbs.org/weta/crossroads/about/show_anti-americans.html

[AntEater]

Seriously, of course I know how such TV surveys are made (helped doing some myself when jobbing for local TV while in high school). You take dozens of statements and use the stupidest answers. I bet for every dumbass the TV team got dozens of fairly correct answers.

On the other hand, Americans seem to handle knowledge on a strict need to know basis
:D

I don't really know how the US education system works, but from my viewpoint it seems it doesn't.
But of course the german education system ain't exactly something to be proud of either these days.
Some might argue that you can live a perfect life without knowing anything about geography, especially in these days of GPS for everyone. On the other hand, a profound allround education for everyone is IMHO the best way to preserve a democratic society. Knowing what the capital of Burma is might not be helpful in everyday life, but knowledge teaches you to learn to think in context and put things in relation to each other, thus making you less dependent on what other people tell you.

[JALU3]

Seriously, of course I know how such TV surveys are made (helped doing some myself when jobbing for local TV while in high school). You take dozens of statements and use the stupidest answers. I bet for every dumbass the TV team got dozens of fairly correct answers.

On the other hand, Americans seem to handle knowledge on a strict need to know basis
:D

I don't really know how the US education system works, but from my viewpoint it seems it doesn't.
On the other hand, a profound allround education for everyone is IMHO the best way to preserve a democratic society.

Without an educated, active populace . . . a democratically elected republic means nothing . . . as the votes become meaningless and the proactive and knowledgable use the wheels of government to their own benefit (look at the elderly).

As for the Capital of Myanmar, previously known as Burma, it is Rangoon . . . due to the former British Territory nature of the Nation. However, like many things, they have attempted to change its spelling to make it more authentic.

And that picture is funny . . . that reminds me of a political cartoon of how Liberals thought Reagan saw the world:

http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/800px-reagan-digitised-poster.JPG

Don't get me wrong . . . I believe that FMR POTUS Reagan was one of the top 10 Presidents the United States has had.

[tycho102]

I suspect a lot of US Americans cannot locate the US on a map, because they haven't had a war with themselves in recent times.
No, it's pretty much just because our public education system sucks. If I had a strong predilection to conspiracy theories, I'd suspect it was a plot to keep our population ignorant and docile. They only reason I don't is because of the NEA and AFT -- but they have , unquestionably, exacerbated the problem. More people are turning to some form of home-schooling, mostly out in the rural areas because they can afford it. Not easily, but much easier than urban areas.

It's also unfortunate that the only required world history is a single course in high-school, and it focuses exclusively on European history -- Africa and other nations only in relation to events in Europe. South America, all of Asia, Australia, Russia and eastern Europe are non-incorporated. The university sciences programs (math, chemistry, physics, engineering, programming [compsci]) require only American government history.

It's a wicked, wicked rough program. A lot of the problem stems to the liberal cowards in California (http://tron-chaser.net/images1/ani_emotrant.gif) selectively configuring textbooks to omit inconvienent details that any pitiful (literally -- the selections are dependent on the liberals having pity for the group) group files complaint with various publishers and authors. California is such a massive market, the publishers acquiesce to the requests, and that's what the whole country gets. Baby-killing neocons do the same thing where they can, in the exact opposite manner, of course, but we have more liberal universities than conservative.

Classic example of all this is Augusto Pinochet. He was a baby-killing neocon warmonger, raping gold, looting babies, burying detractors alive in mass graves. Never mind what Chile has become because of the specific changes he made and then left the country (i.e. abdicated) -- he was eviler than Hitler*. Or at least, if the guy is even mentioned in the American education system, that's the portrayal.




* Why is Hitler always the pinnacle of evility? Why isn't it Mao Zedong? Why not Saloth Sar? Why not Ghengis Khan? Or Saladin? Or David, with his bag of 200 foreskins (which he probably didn't take the time to just cut off the actual foreskin, and so it was actually a bag of 200 penises)? Why not Napoleon? Or Stalin? Or Che Guevera? Or Castro?
It really ticks me off that he's the standard, when he was a amateur in comparison to Stalin. Stalin stacked up more dead bodies in a week than Hitler did in a month.

[darius359au]

My head started hurting after the first 10 seconds and i could feel my IQ plummeting , Luckily I was able to hit the close page button before two much damage occured ;):lol:

[Iceman]

PS, my wife has just said it is her ambition to be that bimbo when she grows up, obviously she'll have to dye her hair and have a lobotomy, but these are minor trifles.

:D Chock

Once she does sounds like you'll be a match made in heaven...lol

[The Avon Lady]

Bonjour, Europe (http://my.break.com/media/view.aspx?ContentID=335023). :nope:

[Happy Times]

Bonjour, Europe (http://my.break.com/media/view.aspx?ContentID=335023). :nope:

That IS scary?:o

[The Avon Lady]

Bonjour, Europe (http://my.break.com/media/view.aspx?ContentID=335023). :nope:
That IS scary?:o
Nah, I'm sure it's something easily explanable.

Like Copernicus being banned again.

:sunny:

[bookworm_020]

Does it prove that the world is being taken over by idiots?:88):doh: I could put a point french joke in here but I'll be kind, my wife is part french and she might take it personaly!:-?

[The Avon Lady]

Does it prove that the world is being taken over by idiots?:88):doh: I could put a point french joke in here but I'll be kind, my wife is part french and she might take it personaly!:-?
I suggest that just as S. Carolina is part and parcel of the USA, so, too, France is of the European Union. :roll:

[kiwi_2005]

Who else thinks Google Earth Pro is good for spying:) Hell i can pinpoint right down to anyones house around the world! I know where Arnold Schwarzenegger lives, I seen his house man!

Just give me your co-ordinates and i'll find your place:yep:

Anyone:hmm:

Makes ya wonder what the CIA and the rest have access too...

[Von Tonner]

I would bet that if the follow up question to her was. 'Can you give me the name of any country in the world OTHER than the USA, SA and Iraq?' Her answer would probably be "You mean there are more?????"

[The Avon Lady]

I would bet that if the follow up question to her was. 'Can you give me the name of any country in the world OTHER than the USA, SA and Iraq?' Her answer would probably be "You mean there are more?????"
You are wrong.

She would have answered "Hawaii."

[Von Tonner]

I would bet that if the follow up question to her was. 'Can you give me the name of any country in the world OTHER than the USA, SA and Iraq?' Her answer would probably be "You mean there are more?????" You are wrong.

She would have answered "Hawaii."

Love it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[The Avon Lady]

Take 2 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/ap_en_tv/miss_teen_south_carolina;_ylt=AvhKoClq7yO5ZA7_1vrf LySs0NUE).

[Tchocky]

http://www.morningtoast.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads//missmap.gif

[JALU3]

Bonjour, Europe (http://my.break.com/media/view.aspx?ContentID=335023). :nope:

That IS scary?:o

The state of the US education system, as depicted by the Simpsons. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKT7SBea1RM)

[AVGWarhawk]

Anyway, I have a map. :smug:


She wants to know what a map is as well!!! I would really like to know if she could point out the US on a map. Anyway, just what the heck did she say anyway???

[AVGWarhawk]

I would bet that if the follow up question to her was. 'Can you give me the name of any country in the world OTHER than the USA, SA and Iraq?' Her answer would probably be "You mean there are more?????" You are wrong.

She would have answered "Hawaii."

Love it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

She probably would have answer South Carolina:roll:

[The Avon Lady]

Must be viral (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b03_1188641636). :88)

[AVGWarhawk]

Yes Ladies and Gentlemen, we are screwed:88)