Americans are NOT stupid

Fircoal · Post by **Fircoal** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:22 pm

Nobunaga wrote:... The U.S. needs to go metric.

... What's up with all this inches, feet, yards and miles? Pints and gallons?

... Make the switch, and in a year's time, everybody will be used to it. 2 years max, for the stupid folks.

...

you underestimate our stupidity. :lol:

And ya I argee we do need to go metric.

Titanic · Post by **Titanic** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:21 pm

muy_thaiguy wrote:
Nobunaga wrote:... The U.S. needs to go metric.

... What's up with all this inches, feet, yards and miles? Pints and gallons?

... Make the switch, and in a year's time, everybody will be used to it. 2 years max, for the stupid folks.

...
We don't 'need' to go metric, some people use it anyway, but most people like it the way it is.

Metrics so much easier to use though...I dont understand why you would prefer imperial..

sam_levi_11 · Post by **sam_levi_11** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:28 pm

cos they are stupid....

firth4eva · Post by **firth4eva** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:30 pm

Titanic wrote:
muy_thaiguy wrote:
Nobunaga wrote:... The U.S. needs to go metric.

... What's up with all this inches, feet, yards and miles? Pints and gallons?

... Make the switch, and in a year's time, everybody will be used to it. 2 years max, for the stupid folks.

...
We don't 'need' to go metric, some people use it anyway, but most people like it the way it is.

Metrics so much easier to use though...I dont understand why you would prefer imperial..

a change on that scale though?
making all of the USA metric?
most wouldnt agree anyway and refuse to use it.
we still use imperial a lot in UK

High Guard · Post by **High Guard** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:44 pm

firth4eva wrote:
Titanic wrote:
muy_thaiguy wrote:
Nobunaga wrote:... The U.S. needs to go metric.

... What's up with all this inches, feet, yards and miles? Pints and gallons?

... Make the switch, and in a year's time, everybody will be used to it. 2 years max, for the stupid folks.

...
We don't 'need' to go metric, some people use it anyway, but most people like it the way it is.

Metrics so much easier to use though...I dont understand why you would prefer imperial..

a change on that scale though?
making all of the USA metric?
most wouldnt agree anyway and refuse to use it.
we still use imperial a lot in UK

There is only ONE reason why is US is not metric. They wanted to change before and majority of the population want to go metric, but the big automotive companies are against it, because it would cut into their profit to change computer and mechanical systems in their factories.

Dmunster · Post by **Dmunster** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 3:28 pm

By the, what the hell is a "stone"? I mean, come on, not all stones weigh the same. Some pebbles weigh less than a pound and some boulders are over a ton! Get with the times stupid Brits!

umanouski · Post by **umanouski** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:37 pm

Stopper wrote:
Fo Sho wrote:I also have many friends in america I consider idiots...

Stopper, you are unbelievable. Taking the one part of a post that meets your needs. If someone had no idea what this thread was about, they would think Americans ARE idiots. Most of us aren't. The smart ones don't make the news and shit like that. The 5 percent of them are giving the 95 percent of us bad names.

MeDeFe · Post by **MeDeFe** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:38 pm

Aren't you sure it's the other way 'round? ;p

Stopper · Post by **Stopper** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:52 pm

umanouski wrote:
Stopper wrote:
Fo Sho wrote:I also have many friends in america I consider idiots...

Stopper, you are unbelievable. Taking the one part of a post that meets your needs. If someone had no idea what this thread was about, they would think Americans ARE idiots. Most of us aren't. The smart ones don't make the news and shit like that. The 5 percent of them are giving the 95 percent of us bad names.

Look, I'm not sure what you thought I meant by that, but just in case, I'll say now, I don't think the Americans are any more or less stupid than anyone else, and the video at the start of this thread was a set-up.

I simply found the statement "I also have many friends...[that] I consider [to be] idiots..." very funny. (The "in america" bit is irrelevant - it never occurred to me to take it out.)

umanouski · Post by **umanouski** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:40 pm

Sorry dude... i just was a little defensive. Again, my apologies.

unriggable · Post by **unriggable** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:59 pm

Metric wouldn't take too long to get used to, its the degrees I'm concernicus about. 32 degrees? WTF is that like high or low (I know it's about 90 in farenheit but I need to translate the degree to know what it really is, I can't just get accustomed to it)

Nobunaga · Post by **Nobunaga** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:50 pm

unriggable wrote:Metric wouldn't take too long to get used to, its the degrees I'm concernicus about. 32 degrees? WTF is that like high or low (I know it's about 90 in farenheit but I need to translate the degree to know what it really is, I can't just get accustomed to it)

... In a matter of time you start thinking in metric, and realize how very ancient and stupid is the older system. I'm back in the US after some years abroad and I'm having a helluva time readjusting.

... And metric is so easy to understand... based on 10's, and temperatures - water boils at 100, freezes at 0, simple. One litre of water has a mass of precisely 1 kg, etc...

... Japanese use metric... but measure golf holes in yards, go figure.

...

Iliad · Post by **Iliad** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:02 am

USA should go metric. It is so much easier and understood much more easily.

Skittles! · Post by **Skittles!** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:06 am

Iliad wrote:USA should go metric. It is so much easier and understood much more easily.

QFT

vtmarik · Post by **vtmarik** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:48 pm

Sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but here is indefatigable proof that Americans are indeed stupid.

Recently, a kid was suspended from school for drawing a picture of a laser gun. Why?

school officials mentioned the seriousness of the issue and talked about the massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High School - the site where two teenagers shot and killed 12 students and injured 24 others in 1999.

Yes, because two psychos shot up their school 8 years ago it is now punishable to draw a picture of a laser gun. A gun that doesn't even exist outside of science fiction.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/chan ... 22-on.html

Way to go guys, you've set us back another 50 IQ points. Pretty soon this nation will be dumber than a piece of cake.

salvadevinemasse · Post by **salvadevinemasse** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:14 am

vtmarik wrote:Sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but here is indefatigable proof that Americans are indeed stupid.

Recently, a kid was suspended from school for drawing a picture of a laser gun. Why?
school officials mentioned the seriousness of the issue and talked about the massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High School - the site where two teenagers shot and killed 12 students and injured 24 others in 1999.

Yes, because two psychos shot up their school 8 years ago it is now punishable to draw a picture of a laser gun. A gun that doesn't even exist outside of science fiction.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/chan ... 22-on.html

Way to go guys, you've set us back another 50 IQ points. Pretty soon this nation will be dumber than a piece of cake.

Hate to break it to you sweety- we are already to that point on/off..

My brother has a Spanish class/ lab. This guy signed up for the lab but not the class so he can be fluent in Spanish before he goes to Spain... When does he go you might ask yourself... in 1 month. This guy expected to be fluent in 1 month, and know EVERYTHING that even the people that have taken Spanish for 2 years didn't know.. Nice right? My brothers teacher called the guy loco, and my brother laughed because only 3 people knew what loco meant in Spanish! The teacher even called on him and demanded to know why he was laughing and he told them why and its just great!

jay_a2j · Post by **jay_a2j** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:08 am

s.xkitten wrote:Okay...i knew Americans aren't the brightest on the planet...i knew that they are woefully uneducated, especially in history...but seriously people! i have lost all faith in America...

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

Come on! I wonder just how many people they asked these questions to and answered them CORRECTLY (that they omitted from the video) I can answer EVERY single question as I'm sure MOST Americans could. They recorded the idiots answers... no fear kitten.... it's easy to spin something when YOU have the camera in your hands. :wink:

MeDeFe · Post by **MeDeFe** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:37 am

You take a lot for granted there, jay.

salvadevinemasse · Post by **salvadevinemasse** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:29 pm

MeDeFe wrote:You take a lot for granted there, jay.

agreed

spurgistan · Post by **spurgistan** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:19 pm

Actually, I kinda feel Jay's right here, that's the way these shows work, cherrypicking the dumb ones. Game shows used to (possibly still do) pick the dumb people to go on, both to provide entertainment value and cut costs.

Of course, the fact that, even if this may (MAY) not be the majority of America it purports to represent, the fact that at least some of us don't know what the language spoken in Rome or whatever (forgotten most of them) doesn't bode well for the Republic.

... Wait, was that faked?

sam_levi_11 · Post by **sam_levi_11** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:55 pm

yes but that would require days and maybe months to get that many idiots...and its all obviously one day so it cant be

cawck mongler · Post by **cawck mongler** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:12 pm

Subtitles?! You're my fucking hero, sticking up for us audio impaired fools, a true god to us all.

Psilocbin · Post by **Psilocbin** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:29 pm

Those two psychos at Columbine were supposed to be helping society....

boogiesadda · Post by **boogiesadda** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:38 pm

these things are such a farce just like jaywalking on jay lenos' show of course they are not gonna show you the people that got the questions right they will edit the piss out of it to make it look like everyone is stupid

Whiteberry · Post by **Whiteberry** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:53 pm

That film is such bullshit. While it's true that there are a lot of stupid people in the world that do not keep up on current events, there are a lot of very intelligent people that do. Can someone please name one country in this world that do not have stupid people? If I made a similar film in any other country and edited out the smart people, I'm sure I would have the same results. Those who believe that this film represents a true sampling of all Americans are more stupid than the people on the film. Wake up people. Do you believe everything you see?

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