LordChhaya said:
Quite recently I started listening and got addicted to the Beatles, I had known of them before hand but never listened but a day or two ago while discussing music in school a few ladies asked who were the Beatles...I was close to killing them, considering these guys were bigger than Jesus and they had never heard of them was rather upsetting, a few weeks earlier a few people asked who Winston Churchill and Stalin were and a number of other important historical figures.
So I ask you Escapists (or whatever you're called) do you know of any criminal lack of knowledge towards important people? Please post here so we may mock them.
That's very condescending and frankly quite rude to expect people to know things and dismiss them when they don't. So maybe they're not the biggest music fan out there, why the fuck would you hold it against them?
It's also pretty ignorant to assume that everyone has the exact same cultural upbringing as you. We live in a diverse world here, there are people who don't give a shit about the Beatles, people who haven't heard of them and people from a different culture who's emphasis wasn't necessarily the fucking Beatles. Why the fuck would you judge someone so negatively based on something as trivial as a fucking music band?
Now it can be surprising, funny, or unusual that someone doesn't know a certain fact but that's not any sort of basis for judging a person.
Mr.Tea said:
I saw a video of a comedian interviewing a bunch of people on the streets of my nearby metropolis... It's in French, so I won't post it, but he interviewed some truly retarded everyday people that make me lose faith in humanity every day...
First was: Spell "Orthographe". (Orthography, in english)
Ortografe
Hortaugrahe
Autorgrafe
Orthorgafe
And one even spelled complete rubbish.
Next up was: Who discovered the Jacques-Cartier bridge?
Cue people answering "Well it must be Jacques Cartier duh!"... Idiots... The comedian even commented to one of the people answering that and said "So Jacques Cartier arrived here with his ship, saw the bridge and said "Oh, that's my bridge now!"?" The lady looked quite embarrassed.
Moving on: How many sides to a triangle?
"I don't know"
"Only one if it's on paper"................
More: True of False, Benedict XVI succeeded to Benedict XV?
"True"
"True"
Then he asked another lady who answered "True", "So there was Ben XV, then Ben XVI the next one will be?" And the retard answered "Benedict XIV!"
Always moar!!: True of False, Sun rotates around the Earth?
"Hmmm... Damn that's a hard one... Huh, I'll say true. I mean come on, it rises and sets!"
(A couple, the girlfriend answers "No, the Earth rotates around the sun") Then the guy says "Nah I'll go with the sun rotates around the Earth."
"Of course it does... Naturally..."
My god it's like they're living in the sixteenth century!
Congratulations for transcending the OP's level of pretentiousness by not only making assumptions about people but about a whole fucking country.
First of all, it's a COMEDIAN doing it for very light-hearted reasons and I'm sure everyone can find it funny (especially those answered) however, you bridge the gap between funny and asshole by deducing french people are retarded.
Second, to make it funny, they only ever broadcast the people who fucked up and never show just how many people actually got it right.
Third, even if you're a fucking genius you may fall for one of these school-grade tricks:
Orthographe is not only a fucking hard word to write but spelling things out lout is MUCH harder. (Go on, try it in your head). So apparently people who can't spell a fairly complicated word are retarded.
Who discovered the Jacque-Cartier bridge? Is phrased in a tricky way that makes it seem like the answer is "Jacque-Cartier" and anyone can blurt this out without thinking first.
Fuck the triangle question, it could easily be rigged through context.
The benedict question is just confusing and I'd like to see the show myself to really understand. (True was the correct answer, right? if so then are you sure the comedian phrased the followup question in exactly that way? I doubt it)
And here's a fun fact: The sun DOES rotate around the earth..... FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SOMEONE WHO LIVES SOMEWHERE ON THE PLANET EARTH. Most people in real life aren't thinking through science, they are thinking through common sense. Also, WORDING STILL FUCKING MATTERS; saying
"Does the sun rotate around the earth or does the earth rotate around the sun?"
is different from "True or False: the sun rotates around the earth"
The fucking hilarious part of shows like this, is that everyone says to themselves "well, I, certainly wouldn't fall for that" when in fact, it's perfectly possible.
sunset_savage1393 said:
Furburt said:
Well, I do hate it when people don't even know who the Prime Minister of Ireland is when they're from Ireland.
In fact, I hate it when anyone from a country doesn't know who's in power in their country, unless they're under 11.
Not even that, there are kids that could list off the campaigns of U.S. Presidents in the the correct order at age
five. That is just sad that people are too illiterate to figure out who leads their country. But wait, at least the know what the name of the clown that is the mascot for a major fast food chain. Very disappointing...
Wow, I would never expect kids to know who Ronald McDonald is (A stand-out character who's presence is EXTREMELY broad due to successful advertising) and not know who the president is (A random guy in a suit who makes speeches, who isn't shown in saturday morning cartoons and not someone especially present in a kid's daily life). Put things in perspective, will ya? I dare you to name me one kid who's interest in politics surpasses his/her interest in yummy food.