Wait until AFTER I move, demmit!

Yeah and take Ohio too. Ah, soon the West will rule...Muhahahaha

Hm..we could put the capital in Denver....

y'all tried once or twice before... how did that work out for ya?...lol

j/k, just having some fun with England...

you can move to Houston.. you'll have a few friends here

Yeah, I like tea but I've never been one for tea parties, especially in Boston

damn tea taxes, i hate them...

Well, thank GOD England has Obama has president, otherwise this could all get messy.

Its barraco barner

Yeah, we haven't mastered that just talking louder technique when we go to foreign countries. I can understand an American tourist from at least a mile away.

We're just as loud at home :-)

All this talk about England...I could murder a pastie right about now.....washed down with a good bitter. Oh, I miss the UK.

There's a comedy skit show in Oz called Chasers War on Everything, they basically run around chasing politicians in the street and doing satire at them about policies, things like dressing up as osama bin laden (before he was killed) and trying to walk into a parliamentary session acting all surprised that security try to stop him, silly things like that. (they've been arrested several times, but so funny they're still on air)

Anyhoo they went to various cities in the US, new york, DC, etc. and asked random americans in the street if they could find places like the middle east on a world atlas.

Overwhelmingly, no. Most people pointed at england and said, that's Iraq.

So they started asking people if they could find the United States on a world Atlas. About 1 in 5 there.

Asked them to name three countries starting with U. Found they had to repeatedly point out that USA starts with a U so could be included as one of the three.

Next asked which religion do muslims practise, as a multiple choice to make it easier. Christianity, Islam or Judaism.
At least half those asked said either Judaism or Christianity, half all the rest had no idea and wouldn't answer, the ones who said Judaism were absolutely certain of it. Everyone who said Islam weren't very sure about it.

Finally the year of the 9/11 attacks was asked. Very few got that right. So they asked what date, as in day and month the 9/11 attacks happened, phrased like that too: the 9/11 attacks to really make this one easy. Again very few, like 1 in 6 could remember exactly which date even when being told the exact date in the question.

The majority were english speaking, native white americans who clearly completed secondary school.

O_o


it is comedy satire, not a serious thing btw. Obviously when put on the spot in front of a camera most people tend to freeze up with mental blocks, it's perfectly normal.
But hell it was funny.

Met English people who couldn't find Sweden on a map. Wouldn't rave about your education system.

It's political satire, about policy not education system.

The punchline is when put on the spot, half the people who lobby vehemently and very publicly against muslims in general, and loudly support the war in the middle east appear to think their soldiers are fighting jews in england.
The object is to reveal those shouting loudest with the most self justification shouldn't be in charge of an appliance, let alone international and domestic policies.
That's what political satire is about.

Sorry mate, didn't read it correctly, my apologies.