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- birch25, on 10/12/2007, -11/+174speaking as an american who knew the answers to almost all those questions...i apologize for my idiot countrymen and women.
- joshuaxls, on 10/12/2007, -5/+158half "of all of all"?
I guess we know what half you're on. - Fluidity, on 10/12/2007, -6/+135Errrr CNNNN is a piss take of CNN, you do know that right? I think we have another contender!
- 1021, on 10/12/2007, -18/+132Seriously, you could probably find any number of people in every country in the world that will do something just as stupid... we all need to be more enlightened.
- pokjob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+98"After all, half of all of all humans are below average intelligence."
Half are below the *median*; not the average. - Shmoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+93Ignoring politics, I thought it was quite sad that people didn't know how many sides a triangle had.
- lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -28/+109Go anywhere in the world and you will find ignorant people to interview. Notice, it was the same 15 or so people in the video. These people are not typical of most Americans. If I go over to england and take a few pictures of people with bad haircuts, is that reason to believe that everyone or most people in england have a bad haircut? According to the logic of this video, yes it is.
- deepdiggdude, on 10/12/2007, -26/+100Not surprised.
After all, half of all of all humans are below average intelligence.
If you get that joke you also know which half you're in. - matthewsr2000, on 10/12/2007, -2/+68the trouble with these shows is that anyone who does know the answers are edited out. we have no idea if it took him 5 people to find these morons or if it took him 500.
that being said I'm still dismayed that these people exist, but then again, what are trailer parks for. . .
another great example of the US's public education system. - BobaFettTDG, on 10/12/2007, -13/+66Gotta love Australians. It's ridiculous how tenuous some people's grasps on the world around them are.
- cwill341, on 10/12/2007, -4/+51"I just realized just now that North Korea is a lot larger than South Korea, I didn’t know it was that large like that."
- Koch, on 10/12/2007, -8/+53I'm not sure if non-Australians realise this but this show is a SATIRE, it is HUMOUR. You're not meant to take it at face value.. It is in no way serious. It seems like most of the comments here are made by people who think that this is a documentary or something that claims to actually be factual, which it is not!
See here for more information... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaser - hhOwArdrOarKk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+40I love how you mention fair and unbiased and then invent a statistic like "75% of all Australians." I also love how you misspelled "those" Thanks for coming to the baseball game in hockey gear genius.
- ohcoaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31I'm just glad down here in Canada they're finally allowing us to create fires in the parking lots to keep our sled dogs warm while we're in our igloos working.
- growlzor, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35I think he only interviewed Bush voters
- OhJay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32"Name a country that begins with a U" (!!!) and "How many world wars have there been?" are definitely not in the random country, random politician category.
I wouldn't be able to recognize Mr. Howard myself (and would probably not believe that he'd greet random people like that), but most everything else in that video is just inexcusable idiocy. - ElementCDN, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33Canadian Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhTZ_tgMUdo - Shmoo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+34It was a comedy bit. Dear god it's worse than we thought.
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31"You know, people keep pointing to this type of thing saying "relax, it's just satire" etc, but the problem is it doesn't matter if it's meant to be satire or not, the fact is this type of crap WILL affect other's perceptions of Americans."
You talk about satire and what not, but these people are not joking when they respond (most of them are not). They are voting, and blindly supporting Bush. I realize that most Americans are not like them, but there are a fair number that are. You can say that it's all a joke, plug your ears, close your eyes and hum, but those are the people ruining your image and you should sit up and take notice more than any of us outsiders. - rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31@DigiRaven: That is incorrect, I watch The Chaser all the time, they do this kind of stuff in Australia too. They aren't trying to prove Americans are stupid. They are just playing with a stereotype and having a little joke.
If you are offended by this video, your as stupid as the people in it. Take it as a joke, have a sense of humour! - wisam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNNNN
- MasterFunk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30I am very sorry, but I just could not help it...
http://deepdiggdude.justgotowned.com/ - masgrada, on 10/12/2007, -13/+35Fox sounds more trustworthy for a news source. Fox.... fox.. awww. How couldn't you believe a station with a cute name like that?
- nipuL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23@BackwardsPanda
Good to see you consider one of your countries closest allies insignificant. - vermin, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27lol, Americans are dumb and have no sense of humor.
- Farik, on 10/12/2007, -10/+31I don't think you could find a country with people dumber than presented in this video.
- Renshai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23To be fair, the actual first KFC restaurant was located in Salt Lake City, Utah.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFC - TheWedge, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22@BackwardsPanda:
Agreed, I'll admit one quarter of Americans are retarded, but I would like to see the uncut version. - CrookedAsterisk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Him being alive might be a start.
- swagy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I just read a few of these comments and most of you do not get it.
This is humor and satire, as an Australian working in the US I can tell you this is not supposed to be reflective of the average American, it is humor Australian style, we make fun of our friends because we like them. - smoothmedia, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Rick Mercer of CBC (Canada) did a similar piece
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BhTZ_tgMUdo - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+22and how many people with correct answers did he completely leave out of the show?
- deepdiggdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16ALL RIGHT! ALL RIGHT! It was late at night when I wrote that. I accept my owned-ness.
- torabora, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I don't believe people support your answer (+11)
I don't mind if they don't know what a Mosque (A place where Muslims worship) is but not knowing the religion of a Buddhist Monk, a country that starts with "U," Not naming an Axis of evil, Supporting a war just because the president said so (but then again they were Texans), etc. is ridiculous
And my comment to the lady that described the turbans as towels or whatever, I can't get over the enjoyment that I get from watching what a foul you look like now. That goes to you too jogging guy. - halosniper7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17wow, im a 14 year old who could answer those correctly, so its either fake (which its not) or i have to go weep for my country.
- NeilSkoglund, on 10/12/2007, -8/+22you don't need a video to see that America is dumb, i mean come on these people voted bush into power!
- kiantech, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19now we know how Bush won presidency TWICE...
- Gwydion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Mmmhmm.... Learn how to spell Buddhist..And you're making fun of our neighbors to the south.
- scooper86, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15I cant believe Americans are so ignorant about other countries and cultures and just take things at face value, I'm not saying i know everything about other countries or even my own but at least i question things and want to learn more about other cultures and people. No wonder their president is an idiot when other idiots voted for him.
- Gizza, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13That was the best part. Even when he put France on Australia.
- sven007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9This is just like "talking to Americans" on cbc. Rick Mercer would mess with all sorts of people, making them think canadians lived in igloos and used a 20 hour clock. things like that. actually really funny :)
- martel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13terribly terribly depressing
- mykal01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Great to see how many people take it seriously. Which kind of puts them into the same category as those sad individuals that were edited into the final comedy. The Chaser team are well known satirists here in Australia, their humour is based on sarcasm eg calling it CNNNNNN is typical of their way of twisting reality.
At the start of the Attack on Iraq (war?) they also had a big map of the world, and swapped nation titles so that Australia was labeled Iraq, then went out and asked Americans on the street to suggest the best way to lead an attack on Iraq. It was hilarious watching people look, squint a bit then without any further thought, suggest the best method would be via Indonesia. I suppose Australia is in the middle, and it is east of somewhere on the globe.
Hang in there Americans, we know you are not ALL like that, so don't take it personally. - thaglove10, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Well I don't think this bit is claiming accuracy. I think it's just trying to say "Hey! Look at these dumb people." Really I don't think this is a hit on America. It's just an entertaining little piece. The moral of the story is that if you don't know something you should probably keep your mouth shut because otherwise you're going to look stupid.
- briantech, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10The Intelligence Quotient is a normalized score, meaning a score of 100 is always kept as the median and the mean, as normalized against the entire population. Thats what a "normal" curve means. If a curve is normal, 50% of the values are below average, 50% are above.
You can take a 5 element set of { 50, 55, 60, 70 and 120 } all you want, but thats a different distribution than is represented by the normalized IQ test.
So, to MasterFunk, Pokjob, and Elmasri ... I won't pretend that you know which half you're on, so I'll just tell you. Its the bottom. - milkmage, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11@miggz06
wtf is a butist?
do you mean Buddhist? as in BUDDHIST monk - you ***** moron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism - thaglove10, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10@hhOwArdrOarKk
All I have to say is thank you so much for saying everything that I was just thinking. - 0x0000ff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8It's not propaganda you moron, Chasers war on everything is a comedy show based around commentary of modern society. Hence the word "Everything", the show has entire segments dedicated to showing that there are ignorant people everywhere - including Australia.
The funny part is I don't think anyone knows exactly when Ireland stopped being the stereotypical 'stupid' country and the USA took over.
(an Irishman and an American walk into a bar ...) - J3yrad, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Yugoslavia lmfao.
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