This woman is NOT the brightest bulb in the box

[Eldritch Warlord]

The average person on the street wouldn't be able to name the leaders of France, Switzerland, Germany or Spain and their policies - I'm not exactly ashamed to say that I don't either - what makes the US so important?

A military and economy that dwarfs the other four combined and a propensity to use them to influence the affairs of other nations in a newsworthy way mostly. The same reason you might expect the average person to know Russia's leader (but not China's since despite their power they exert influence in less news-friendly ways).

You already know all that though. Do you just have low standards for how informed a person should be?

 

[KOMega]

So... slow news day for the entire world or something?

So some girl gets a name wrong... I'm sure some idiot somewhere is drinking bleach because they think it's good for them or something dumber...

If anything I think this might be saying something about those who care about this perhaps?

Captcha: big brother

What if we are all big brother?!

 

[Yoshi4102]

She got a piece of trivia almost incomprehensibly wrong.

Trivia?

I think the current president of the US and what he is up to is much more than trivia.

Not really. The average person on the street wouldn't be able to name the leaders of France, Switzerland, Germany or Spain and their policies - I'm not exactly ashamed to say that I don't either - what makes the US so important? Yeah, she's not the sharpest tool, but everyone has gaps in their knowledge. I'm almost certain she's a better beautician than you.

She still thought it was the "President", not even Prime Minister, of Great Britian. Still a big time fuck up. Anyone in France, Switzerland, Germany, or Spain would at least know their own country's leader.

 

[Weaver]

If there is one thing being on the internet has taught me: getting anything wrong, even the minutiae of a fact, is a death sentence.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Not really. The average person on the street wouldn't be able to name the leaders of France, Switzerland, Germany or Spain and their policies - I'm not exactly ashamed to say that I don't either - what makes the US so important? Yeah, she's not the sharpest tool, but everyone has gaps in their knowledge. I'm almost certain she's a better beautician than you.

What makes the US important?

Apart from the most powerful military and economy and western cultural force, you mean?

I don't need to know who is in charge of Spain or Switzerland, because they don't matter to me. However, the GFC, for example, was caused by the US, what the US does matters. Small people have to know about big people in a way they don't for other small people.

 

[Olas]

It's kinda like watching a snowball of stupidity form.

First a person says something stupid on the internet, then a bunch of people make fun of that person for saying the stupid thing, then a news site decides to report on the fact that people are making fun of the person for saying the stupid thing, then people on other sites post threads linking to the first report on the people making fun of the person who said the stupid thing, and now many people including me are posting comments about those articles linking to the report about the people making fun of the person who said the stupid thing.

Keep this up and we'll reach critical mass and form a stupidity black hole that sucks up any and all intelligent or interesting conversation that floats by.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

In any case, I'm sorry for accusing Escapist for declining news standards. Sites like DailyMail and Mirror seemed to have reached whole new lows.

You consider them news sources?

I personally consider them 'wank material' and fish & chip wrapping respectively. (Or was it vice versa? Its been a few years since I've been to England)

 

[EeveeElectro]

I feel sorry for her.

She's getting a load of abuse calling her thick and stupid when she doesn't strike me as stupid. She might not be booksmart and she's completely ignorant to politics but she just seems ditzy and harmless.
I'll admit I know nothing about America's politics. I don't know what's happening over there right now so I suppose that makes me stupid too.

I'd rather focus on my own country, unless America is planning to invade us, I don't really pay attention.

She's taking it quite well, but if you seriously have to send abuse to someone to belittle them over a mistake then you are the idiot.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I'd rather focus on my own country, unless America is planning to invade us, I don't really pay attention.

What about when the US is causing troubles for your economy, like it did a few years ago, and keeps looking like it might do again? The US doesn't need to invade you to muck your country up.

 

[Angelous Wang]

Ignorance is bliss.

This girl has clearly chosen the bliss option, she seems to be having nothing but fun with this happening to her despite the world viewing her as a complete airhead.

Not sure whether to pity her stupidity or envy her happiness.

Then again it could all be front and she might be stupid and crying herself to sleep or intelligent and attention whoring.

 

[Nimcha]

It's kinda like watching a snowball of stupidity form.

First a person says something stupid on the internet, then a bunch of people make fun of that person for saying the stupid thing, then a news site decides to report on the fact that people are making fun of the person for saying the stupid thing, then people on other sites post threads linking to the first report on the people making fun of the person who said the stupid thing, and now many people including me are posting comments about those articles linking to the report about the people making fun of the person who said the stupid thing.

Keep this up and we'll reach critical mass and form a stupidity black hole that sucks up any and all intelligent or interesting conversation that floats by.

That's a rather bleak future we're heading to... at least until the time comes I can enjoy your very amusing post.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I don't get it. Why is the is woman famous just for misspelling the president's name while the majority of YouTube commenters who more or less do the same thing, perhaps worse, still hang around in obscurity?

Really? That is the only thing you can see wrong with that tweet from a British girl?

Not the fact that 'Barner' isn't the President of Britain?

OT: I thought it was damn hilarious... I haven't laughed at general ignorance like that since hearing a conversation in my A Level geography lesson on what the capital of Africa is... They concluded it must be Kenya, because that was the only place they could think of... and 'the most well known place is always the capital'...

 

[The White Hunter]

I feel sorry for her.

She's getting a load of abuse calling her thick and stupid when she doesn't strike me as stupid. She might not be booksmart and she's completely ignorant to politics but she just seems ditzy and harmless.
I'll admit I know nothing about America's politics. I don't know what's happening over there right now so I suppose that makes me stupid too.

I'd rather focus on my own country, unless America is planning to invade us, I don't really pay attention.

She's taking it quite well, but if you seriously have to send abuse to someone to belittle them over a mistake then you are the idiot.

Unfortunately when America does stupid things it tends to have a knock on effect in Europe, an american military intervention in the Ukraine would not be good for us in the slightest.

That said the current leadership here in the UK seems pretty hellbent on fucking everything up and lying through it's teeth to the public about the supposed recovery through "austerity" and how we need an internet "whitelist" because their filter fucked up and didn't work, as anticipated by anyone with two brain cells to rub together.

ON topic: Ha! Ignorant people on the internet. And now back to more pressing matters.

 

[The White Hunter]

I don't get it. Why is the is woman famous just for misspelling the president's name while the majority of YouTube commenters who more or less do the same thing, perhaps worse, still hang around in obscurity?

Really? That is the only thing you can see wrong with that tweet from a British girl?

Not the fact that 'Barner' isn't the President of Britain?

OT: I thought it was damn hilarious... I haven't laughed at general ignorance like that since hearing a conversation in my A Level geography lesson on what the capital of Africa is... They concluded it must be Kenya, because that was the only place they could think of... and 'the most well known place is always the capital'...

Your A-level ignorance story brings a tear to my eye, my best such tale is when a sociology student decided to argue that marxism was the foundation of modern market societies. Yeah no.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I'd rather focus on my own country, unless America is planning to invade us, I don't really pay attention.

What about when the US is causing troubles for your economy, like it did a few years ago, and keeps looking like it might do again? The US doesn't need to invade you to muck your country up.

That was poorly phrased on my behalf. That's the result of waking up, seeing this story and thinking the first thing I should do today is post what I think about it.
I take note, obviously. Like the current situation with Ukraine, we're so up Americas arse that if they were to intervene I can guarantee we'll trundle along behind them going, "wait for us, America!"


Saying that, the beautician doesn't seem to know about her own country's politics which is worrying. At least knowing we have a Prime Minister is something we are taught as children.

-snip-

Hey now, our David is doing a mighty fine job of fucking us over without us even needing to help America!
We can give her points for knowing about what's happening in Russia at least? I know some people who don't keep up and looked lost when I tried talking about it.

Really though, people need to invest this amount of interest in actual news stories. ;_;

 

[manic_depressive13]

Who cares? I know it seems like knowing the Prime Minister of the UK and the President of the US is important, but she hadn't known and it didn't impact her life until she started getting harassed for it. I mean, even if I didn't know Kevin Rudd is the Prime Minister of Australia, I don't see how my life would be much different. Although it's nice to feel special for knowing more irrelevant crap than others.

 

[Atrocious Joystick]

A military and economy that dwarfs the other four combined and a propensity to use them to influence the affairs of other nations in a newsworthy way mostly. The same reason you might expect the average person to know Russia's leader (but not China's since despite their power they exert influence in less news-friendly ways).

You already know all that though. Do you just have low standards for how informed a person should be?

Nah brah, it´s hollywood and the news. That´s all there is to it. People know about Putin because the news always write about Putin, not Russia. Putin has enacted this or that law, putin has done so and so, putin is invading crimea, etc. I bet most people don´t know what party Putin actually belongs to because the news never mention that. When for example China does things, it´s just china doing them and not the current "leader". Same for most other countries. Because that´s what US news cover and journalists, having the integrity of an average household sponge, are happy to mimic that (with exception to their own country) because otherwise they would have to, you know, work.

And for the US, well, we get an assload of movies and TV-shows from hollywood on top of all that other stuff. I bet a lot of what people across the world know about the US are things that are frequently brought up on US media that is shown across the world. If say, Australia became the media capital of the world instead of the US and international news started referring to the US as just "the US" without going into who the president is then I suspect people would quickly stop caring.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I mean, even if I didn't know Kevin Rudd is the Prime Minister of Australia, I don't see how my life would be much different.

...

That was intentional, wasn't it?

Anyway, yes, that sort of thing is important. People who based on what they know, and their votes determine who runs the country.

 

[The White Hunter]

-snip-

Hey now, our David is doing a mighty fine job of fucking us over without us even needing to help America!
We can give her points for knowing about what's happening in Russia at least? I know some people who don't keep up and looked lost when I tried talking about it.

Really though, people need to invest this amount of interest in actual news stories. ;_;

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Yeah he is doing a damn good job of that, not to mention his indecisive lackeys progressively gnawing away at the education and health systems without actually offering plans or structures with which to replace or improve services.

And yes if only people invested their time and interest in real news and current events .___. the things we could accomplish.

 

[manic_depressive13]

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That was intentional, wasn't it?

Anyway, yes, that sort of thing is important. People who based on what they know, and their votes determine who runs the country.

Was what intentional?

We have a political system of two almost identical parties. Let's imagine that Tony Abbott were in power, and he wanted to continue cutting education spending, cut medicare spending and introduce laws to make getting an abortion even more difficult. Have you been to any of the demonstrations? Have you engaged politically on any of these issues? Because most people generally sigh loudly and shake their head, in which case they may as well not know. What's special about knowing if it doesn't inform how you act? Sure, it might influence how you vote in three years time, but let's guess how much difference that makes.