Basic anatomy 'baffles Britons'

[bodyklok]

Well I checked my results and I got them all right.

On a side note.

How the fuck could anyone even get that wrong? This isn't basic, it's elementary. Man I hope no one picked A or C for this.

Anyone else think this might of been troll'n

 

[A Random Player]

For some reason, people tend to forget that ignorance is international (two-thirds of Americans 18-24 can't find Iraq on the map). Which sucks!

Hopefully our robotic overlords will take better care of us.

 

[Kinguendo]

Well, time to start the empire back up... We didnt want to do this again but you have to learn to respect your elders. XD

I'd advise against it. I mean, you can't even find all your organs. How are you going to build an empire?

Ouch, that hurt my inside squishy parts. But we dont need to find our body parts, we just need to find our enemies. >

 

[Kinguendo]

Why did you have to laugh at this and say "Baffle Britons"?

Try reading the article, it's just the same alliterative headline the bbc used. And saying "Basic Anatomy Baffles Just Over 50% of Britons" doesn't have the same ring to it. It's not quite the slur against the country that you're making it out to be, just an example of our great nation's legendary, self-deprecating humour. Or lazy journalists, take your pick.

I don't see how people on the forum can be so judgemental of these people who can't exactly locate their organs, although some of the answers were pretty stupid. Given that the average age of an Escapist forum-user is of a age that it is very likely they are still in education, we are probably more likely to know where they are, simply as we have more recently/still be studying biology. I'd assume that most of those surveyed are past that age and could well have forgotten a lot of what they had learned in school as it hasn't been relevant to most of them for a long time.

Of course, this is all unfounded speculation on my part. I'm just calling for some perspective.

Hey... look at the "XD" at the end of my post. I care not for patriotism, what do you think I am a conservative? I clearly wasn't being serious, as if I would say an empire was a good idea... especially one for such a petty reason.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

This makes me glad i'm english, not british. always knew we were a country full of retards, i just didnt think it was hat many.
Also, this survey obviously doesnt represent britin as a whole. The only way they could valdate this claim would be to ask everyone and make sure they all replied. As they only asked a few, it doesnt count. They probably didnt even get a good cross section of britsh society

 

[Skeleon]

Wow, this is unbelievable.
Where would they perform CPR? On the wounded persons' crotch?!

 

[Axolotl]

Why would they know this? What possible reason would the average person have for desperately needing to know where major organs are?

 

[wewontdie11]

Well a as a scientist I find this slightly amusing. It will give me a whole generation of people to take the piss out of when dealing with medical queries.

"You have an inflamed larynx, here take these suppositories 3 times a day and you should be fine in a week."

Hehehe...

Seriously though who are these people? I know nobody so stupid that they cannot locate their lungs. If you can't do that I highly doubt they can read the options A,B,C and D and understand them.

 

[Madrak the Red]

Oh god, that's embarrassing.

I want to say that human stupidity doesn't surprise me anymore, but it still does. I came up with these numbers as a general rule. 50% of the population of the world is retarded, 25% are stupid, and 25% are intelligent. These number are also backed up by the percentage of people who think fallout 3 is a good game. My research shall continue.

Ouch. I haven't heard somebody say fallout 3 is a bad game ever before. Why the hate?

Just to go off tangentially from the topic...

You havn't heard anyone call FO3 a bad game?

Where have you been?

PLAYING FALLOUT 3!

heck, I love that game, but everyone to his own, right?

also:

Hey, come on. Not everyone knows everything, and some of my fellow Brits are moronic but come on... there are stupid people everywhere. Why did you have to laugh at this and say "Baffle Britons"? Thats generalisation man and it hurts that you hate us so... Well, time to start the empire back up... We didnt want to do this again but you have to learn to respect your elders. XD

please don't do this. I did it, assuming it was always the americans please, don't, it makes every english person seem pretencious.If you can't realise that england is a breaking down flailing nation filled with 3 types: the nationalists, the apathetics and the smart arses like you and me saying how it's all gone to shit but not actually doing anything, then welcome to the 21st century. Also, you clearly have not met the average british teenager... blerrgh. Now that my brief rant is over, I leave to your reguarly scenduled escapist.

And to cap it off:

I have noticed on these forums quite a bit of US vs UK posts and threads.Didn't we all learn anything when we won the Korean War by nuking the British at the Alamo?--it's over...let it go.

I'm American,and I like the Brits.Sue me.

You sir, win.

 

[Kinguendo]

Well, time to start the empire back up... We didnt want to do this again but you have to learn to respect your elders. XD

I'd advise against it. I mean, you can't even find all your organs. How are you going to build an empire?

Ouch, that hurt my inside squishy parts. But we dont need to find our body parts, we just need to find our enemies. >

Unfortunatly your enemies organs are in the same place as yours. Although considering the only colony you have a chance at reclaiming is Canada I don't think that'll matter much. Canadians are all bark, maple bark.

Their organs arent in the same place if they are... COMMUNISTS... I mean ALIENS!

Also, I LOVE Canadians. Anytime I see one I run up to them and rub up against them like a bear against a t... oh, I see the maple thing now. But whats wrong with Canadians? I like em', but then again I like everyone... unless they are serious a**holes with no redeming features.

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

CHAMPIONS!

CHAMPIONS~!

Yeah, what the fuck... I barely paid attention in Science class and I know where my pancreas is...

i was ashamed to be british when I saw that article *sigh* but that doesnt compare to the article i found about 3 arseholes who stamped a baby deer to death for fun. :/

Damn my morbid curiosity...
That is awful, scumbags like that should be castrated...

 

[Kinguendo]

Oh god, that's embarrassing.

I want to say that human stupidity doesn't surprise me anymore, but it still does. I came up with these numbers as a general rule. 50% of the population of the world is retarded, 25% are stupid, and 25% are intelligent. These number are also backed up by the percentage of people who think fallout 3 is a good game. My research shall continue.

Ouch. I haven't heard somebody say fallout 3 is a bad game ever before. Why the hate?

Just to go off tangentially from the topic...

You havn't heard anyone call FO3 a bad game?

Where have you been?

PLAYING FALLOUT 3!

heck, I love that game, but everyone to his own, right?

also:

Hey, come on. Not everyone knows everything, and some of my fellow Brits are moronic but come on... there are stupid people everywhere. Why did you have to laugh at this and say "Baffle Britons"? Thats generalisation man and it hurts that you hate us so... Well, time to start the empire back up... We didnt want to do this again but you have to learn to respect your elders. XD

please don't do this. I did it, assuming it was always the americans please, don't, it makes every english person seem pretencious.If you can't realise that england is a breaking down flailing nation filled with 3 types: the nationalists, the apathetics and the smart arses like you and me saying how it's all gone to shit but not actually doing anything, then welcome to the 21st century. Also, you clearly have not met the average british teenager... blerrgh. Now that my brief rant is over, I leave to your reguarly scenduled escapist.

And to cap it off:

I have noticed on these forums quite a bit of US vs UK posts and threads.Didn't we all learn anything when we won the Korean War by nuking the British at the Alamo?--it's over...let it go.

I'm American,and I like the Brits.Sue me.

You sir, win.

What the F**K? Does an "XD" at the end of a F**KING comment not mean that I was clearly joking! I am so F**KING sick of this self-righteous, holier than thou BULLS**T... XD

 

[chrisw23]

Why did you have to laugh at this and say "Baffle Britons"?

Try reading the article, it's just the same alliterative headline the bbc used. And saying "Basic Anatomy Baffles Just Over 50% of Britons" doesn't have the same ring to it. It's not quite the slur against the country that you're making it out to be, just an example of our great nation's legendary, self-deprecating humour. Or lazy journalists, take your pick.

I don't see how people on the forum can be so judgemental of these people who can't exactly locate their organs, although some of the answers were pretty stupid. Given that the average age of an Escapist forum-user is of a age that it is very likely they are still in education, we are probably more likely to know where they are, simply as we have more recently/still be studying biology. I'd assume that most of those surveyed are past that age and could well have forgotten a lot of what they had learned in school as it hasn't been relevant to most of them for a long time.

Of course, this is all unfounded speculation on my part. I'm just calling for some perspective.

true the average escaper(escapie?)is probubly either in high school or colege or recently out of the afore mentioned institutions and there fore health class was a few years back

never the less...
the graph apears to show that about 30 percent couldnt find there lungs
there lungs people
come on those puppys move when you use them
i hope to god that this is either the botom intelectual rung of the population or that alot of people intentionaly nerfed the test

 

[Arrers]

This is pathetic. I got all those questions right, and it's really simple stuff. I'd say any idiot could get this right, but apparently they can't.

I know where all my organs are and im 14 , so these people who got it wrong just fail.

After the GCSEs, most people clear out alomst everything they learn at school, I find.

 

[Kinguendo]

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Their organs arent in the same place if they are... COMMUNISTS... I mean ALIENS!

Also, I LOVE Canadians. Anytime I see one I run up to them and rub up against them like a bear against a t... oh, I see the maple thing now. But whats wrong with Canadians? I like em', but then again I like everyone... unless they are serious a**holes with no redeming features.

Nothing wrong with Canadians. Except they care about hockey and say eh? to much. And they're communists

Come on, they arent communists... nothing wrong with communism if it is done right, which so far it hasnt been done properly.

 

[arc101]

My pancreas hurts... let me get my ear drops then...
WTF how could people get this wrong!! It is fucking easy!

 

[Madrak the Red]

Oh god, that's embarrassing.

I want to say that human stupidity doesn't surprise me anymore, but it still does. I came up with these numbers as a general rule. 50% of the population of the world is retarded, 25% are stupid, and 25% are intelligent. These number are also backed up by the percentage of people who think fallout 3 is a good game. My research shall continue.

Ouch. I haven't heard somebody say fallout 3 is a bad game ever before. Why the hate?

Just to go off tangentially from the topic...

You havn't heard anyone call FO3 a bad game?

Where have you been?

PLAYING FALLOUT 3!

heck, I love that game, but everyone to his own, right?

also:

Hey, come on. Not everyone knows everything, and some of my fellow Brits are moronic but come on... there are stupid people everywhere. Why did you have to laugh at this and say "Baffle Britons"? Thats generalisation man and it hurts that you hate us so... Well, time to start the empire back up... We didnt want to do this again but you have to learn to respect your elders. XD

please don't do this. I did it, assuming it was always the americans please, don't, it makes every english person seem pretencious.If you can't realise that england is a breaking down flailing nation filled with 3 types: the nationalists, the apathetics and the smart arses like you and me saying how it's all gone to shit but not actually doing anything, then welcome to the 21st century. Also, you clearly have not met the average british teenager... blerrgh. Now that my brief rant is over, I leave to your reguarly scenduled escapist.

And to cap it off:

I have noticed on these forums quite a bit of US vs UK posts and threads.Didn't we all learn anything when we won the Korean War by nuking the British at the Alamo?--it's over...let it go.

I'm American,and I like the Brits.Sue me.

You sir, win.

What the F**K? Does an "XD" at the end of a F**KING comment not mean that I was clearly joking! I am so F**KING sick of this self-righteous, holier than thou BULLS**T... XD

crap, sorry, missed it. I tend to not notice them cos I never use them. But then does this mean your joking.... am I joking!? so confused... stupid internet and it's unclarity. I just get so sick of when people (like me circa january) do it for real.

 

[Skreeee]

The test seems a bit unfair. I mean, they didn't even ask where the squeedly spooch is. Anyone could have gotten that one.

It amazes me anyone anywhere under the age of 3 wouldn't have figured out where the heart was. Maybe they think that strange thumping in their chest is a demon trying to claw its way out.

 

[Kinguendo]

Oh god, that's embarrassing.

I want to say that human stupidity doesn't surprise me anymore, but it still does. I came up with these numbers as a general rule. 50% of the population of the world is retarded, 25% are stupid, and 25% are intelligent. These number are also backed up by the percentage of people who think fallout 3 is a good game. My research shall continue.

Ouch. I haven't heard somebody say fallout 3 is a bad game ever before. Why the hate?

Just to go off tangentially from the topic...

You havn't heard anyone call FO3 a bad game?

Where have you been?

PLAYING FALLOUT 3!

heck, I love that game, but everyone to his own, right?

also:

Hey, come on. Not everyone knows everything, and some of my fellow Brits are moronic but come on... there are stupid people everywhere. Why did you have to laugh at this and say "Baffle Britons"? Thats generalisation man and it hurts that you hate us so... Well, time to start the empire back up... We didnt want to do this again but you have to learn to respect your elders. XD

please don't do this. I did it, assuming it was always the americans please, don't, it makes every english person seem pretencious.If you can't realise that england is a breaking down flailing nation filled with 3 types: the nationalists, the apathetics and the smart arses like you and me saying how it's all gone to shit but not actually doing anything, then welcome to the 21st century. Also, you clearly have not met the average british teenager... blerrgh. Now that my brief rant is over, I leave to your reguarly scenduled escapist.

And to cap it off:

I have noticed on these forums quite a bit of US vs UK posts and threads.Didn't we all learn anything when we won the Korean War by nuking the British at the Alamo?--it's over...let it go.

I'm American,and I like the Brits.Sue me.

You sir, win.

What the F**K? Does an "XD" at the end of a F**KING comment not mean that I was clearly joking! I am so F**KING sick of this self-righteous, holier than thou BULLS**T... XD

crap, sorry, missed it. I tend to not notice them cos I never use them. But then does this mean your joking.... am I joking!? so confused... stupid internet and it's unclarity. I just get so sick of when people (like me circa january) do it for real.

Yeah, I am joking. I have been watching Metal Gear Awesome over and over so I got alot of F**KS and stuff in my system. XD