Never heard of Arkansas . . . WHAT.

[Fetzenfisch]

is ia arkansas pronounced like R-can-saw?

Well its american, so its english speaking, the pronounciation you proposed makes no sense, so its probably right.


QED

I'll take your 360...

I think this is one is worse:

I was in Berlin on a school trip, and a parent of a kid from a different school actually asked if the Nazis were "for or against" Hitler....IN THE FUCKING MIDDLE OF FUCKING BERLIN!!!!!!!!!
AND THIS WAS PARENT!!! If it had been a kid I would have had a slightly less overwhelming urge to disembowel them on the spot with the nearest sharp object!!!! I almost strangled them right then and there....

Anyway the Brandenburg Gate is pretty sick, and its like a couple hundred meters from the Reichstag which is totally badass....

Wow thats one kind of a story.....

And yeah the Gate is awesome. I love to sit in front of it when i have my coffee. Good thing theres a Starbucks just opposite of it

Favourite American-German moments (that i all was unlucky to live through)
A: "Why should i go there, we bombed it all to ruins" (yeah i know i can be lazy, but imagine, we rebuild some of our country in post-war times)
A: " Do you have TV/Cellphones down there?" (No, we did invent both of it, but we prefer staying in our caves, looking at the still smoking ruins of the country)
A: "The only German town i know is Amsterdam" (well ok its close, kinda)

Plus the several specialists that still think the country is ruled by the nazi-party

 

[Tharwen]

Well... they're ignorant. I don't really know what else to say.

Going to Mars now; who wants my 360?

...you could still play Red Faction.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

We once ran into this really friendly guy in Disney world (florida), on our family vacation there a long time ago, who asked us which country we were from. My dad answered "Bangladesh" to which he replied "where is that?" This wasn't very surprising at all, as BD IS a really small, obscure country.

So my dad said, it's right next to India, at which point the man asked "Where's India?"
We did a coordinated family facepalm. (not in front of him obviously)

Does that beat the story of your colleagues? No.....not by a long shot XD

 

[ENKC]

Arkansas? I always thought that was a county in Europe... Im kidding... Maybe.

I thought Europe was a country (someone will get this reference).

And hey, you can always be amazed at the gaping holes in people's general knowledge. I met a Swiss guy once who didn't know where Slovakia was.

 

[Guffe]

Well I wouldn't be able to count even half of the states of USA. I am a Finn and educated (as educated as you can be at 19 years) but my geography skills suck huge elephant dick, luckily I do understand the world map and wouldn't place Irak where Australia is something of the sort but states and even countries of Europe, not speaking of small areas/countries in Asia or Afrika makes me completely dizzy. Not everyone is good at everything. Althou I hear stories that you who live in the states should learn them...

 

[superbatranger]

Do you know anybody from Arkansas?
Have you ever been to Arkansas?
Do you know anybody who has ever been to Arkansas?
Can we really assume Arkansas exists?

My brain is full of fuck now.

 

[SimuLord]

To be fair, Arkansas is pretty forgettable.

C'mon, man, Stevie Wonder is from there, it can't be all bad.

 

[Heinrich843]

To be fair, cultures or sovereign states with bold similarities tend to get grouped together. This of course is generalizing, but most humans if not all are guilty of it.

However, to live in the U.S. your whole life and to not have known that Arkansas was a state is perplexing. (This woman was 30 years old.)

Continuing on, it must be noted that a large portion of the population that lives on the east or west coast of the U.S. subscribes to the "EVERY1 IN THE MIDDLE IS STUPID" code. Living on the east coast myself, I can tell you that ignorance, the inability to critically think, airhead syndrome, etc.. is going to come from all walks of life.

Only thing you can do is correct the person when they say something which makes your head fill with profanity.. and hope they don't do it again.

 

[Alade]

They're obviously Americans that have realized that the state system the U.S. employs is irrelevant to everyone, they're just going with the flow.

Seriously though America, us foreigners couldn't care less about your messed up state system.

 

[baddude1337]

I knew someone who thought Berlin was it's own country, and refused to believe it was Germany's Capital until we actually went there on a history trip.

 

[baddude1337]

I've heard of it, but only because we read "I know why the caged bird sings" in school. And I'm British.

 

[jigilojoe]

I wanna call Bull shit.

... But then again I've had people who asked my why they named New Jersey "new" and asked me what old jersey was like and if it was a different country (like Mexico and New Mexico). So I can believe it, though doing so makes me want to hit someone with a baseball bat that says common sense.

So yeah. Americans are fucking dumb. This coming from a fellow American.

It is like Mexico and New Mexico, Jersey is a beautiful little island on the English Channel. Much like New York and New England they're named after things over here cause America seems to dislike thinking.

 

[thingymuwatsit]

It took me about a month to even learn I was pronouncing it wrong!
Regardless, I am Australian and we have 'proper' English here, so pronouncing something read as "Ar-can-sass" but is spoken "Ar-can-saw" was a bit confusing to me, seeing as no other word has ever used such grammar conventions.
So don't be hard on your friend, unless she grew up there.

 

[The Stonker]

Maybe she was trolling you and she's very good at it.
Don't worry....There are more stupid moments which I've gotten from Americans.
I asked a American to name 1 country which started with the letter U.
He said Jugoslavia...

 

[darth.pixie]

I've met someone who thought Romania was fictional...and Transylvania was a country.

All of these examples makes me think geography is so much harder than I was previously led to believe. That or no one actually pays attention to it.

 

[paragon1]

Do you know anybody from Arkansas?
Have you ever been to Arkansas?
Do you know anybody who has ever been to Arkansas?
Can we really assume Arkansas exists?

I know people from Arkansas. My mom lived there for a while and my little sister was born there (no birth defects thankfully). It isn't bad, but it isn't great either.

You must be in on the conspiracy then. YOU'RE ONE OF THEM!!

No, he's telling the truth. Little Rock's a fun town, and the Ozarks are lovely in the summer.

 

[Kraiiit]

I've had some people who think Singapore is in China. I also had one guy who thought Singapore was in TEXAS.

Try the one where you convince them it's in Hong Kong and China at the same time. Easier than you might think.

Texas, man? Wat

Heh, though I'll admit I'm no map genius. The first time I heard of Arkansas was when I played Fallout 3.