...Yet further evidence that USA is growing ever more ignorant of other countries...


Not entirely, just a fairly big chunk

Sweden isn't the capital of Norway?

Damn. Next you're going to be telling me that the capital of America isn't New York, and that the whole of central Asia actually is divided into countries, rather than being this sort of mass of emptiness and void, a twilight zone owned by some guy called Stan.

All I've got to do now is work out where this Stockholm place is. I think it might be somewhere between Norway and Finland.

LOL Good one Foster!

hehehehe ... very funny.

Olav, don't feel bad, this sort of thing (ignorant Americans) happens over here too.

My hubby n I are both born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey. After we got married we moved to San Antonio, Texas.
Whenever we'd tell people in San Antone we were from New Jersey, they'd say "So what's the Big Apple like?" & "I've always dreamed of going to NYC." & "New York isn't as big as Texas." So we are saying "No, not New York, New Jersey." and they all would say "Well, isn't that a burrough of New York?"
Not just a few, all of them thought that. Stupid Texans!

LOL Ibis, that sounds hilarious! Even I knew that New Jersey isn't the same as New York.

But I must admit I don't know much about US geography, so please don't ask me any questions on that... The main reason I know is that I've been to New York myself (when I was a kid, amazed by the view from the top floor of one of the World Trade Center buildings when it wasn't even completely finished... ), while I had a former classmate who spent a year as an exchange student in New Jersey. We had some discussions on the location of that back then...

Someone actually asked me on my first time to the US if I knew the Queen.

"Of course I do. I eat cucumber sandwiches with her every afternoon at 3, on the veranda looking out over the croquet lawn. Why do you ask, colonial?"

On the whole (and I know I'm generalising) people are ignorant about Geography and History. That's not just the US, mind you, but the US does have the most notable occasions. It took a lot of explaining to someone who was in the US military that I wasn't lying when I told him that there was such a thing as the Spanish-American war.

i am very good at geography, i got an A in socials in that section! i am not ignorant of other countries what so ever. I am terrified of all the europeans in the forums taking over.

"hides in corner in feetle position"

I'm not in fear, I am truly astounded by the huge ammount of people around the globe who speak English. I think it's fantastic - especially since it's the only language I can speak. I can read Spanish but really don't speak much of it.

I salute all the multi-lingual people of the world. You are the ones really making the world go round, or at least, making it turn more easily and with good relations between many countries. I saw that in Europe it was standard for everyone to speak at least two languages.

Americans are spoiled, I think. We really don't give a thought to what true communications between people of different cultures involves. We here in Orlando see a lot of international tourism. But let a New Hampshirite go to Oklahoma & honey, let me tell you - not only will they probably not understand him but they will probably make fun of him just for being different. And vice versa I'd bet.

Miami, Florida yeaaaaaa. Go Heat!!!!!!!!!!!!

Canadian, born and bred in my moderate sized city called Kitchener. Though we basically border directly with two other cities, so this area is called the "Tri-Cities" area.

I'm in Ontario, so it's the congested, fairly temperate place in Canada. Not too hot and not too cold.

Okay I know this is probably the lamest joke y'all hear but .... are you all good cooks in Kitchner?

Haha, very "cheesy" of you Ibis. Personally, I don't know if I'm a great cook, I can cook what I need to eat.

I know a few good cooks in town though.

Now for some random trivia: This one is for you boxing fans. Lennox Lewis, former heavyweight champion, grew up in Kitchener and still owns property in a very nice area of town.

*rainbow star* The more you know! *rainbow star*

Cool TMM! I've been to Canada 3 times when young and I really liked it there. Very beautiful country.

I will never forget a Catholic mass we attended in Quebec that was conducted entirely in French and we couldn't understand the sermon ... but my father pointed out how expressive the priest had been with his hands and from the few Latin words we heard .. figured out the subject of the sermon in English. Great fun. Good breakfast after that sermon too.

I live in Antarctica! Right next to the south pole! I'm Sualc Atnas, arch enemy of Santa Claus! I help the Grinch, and blow up the little Bosmeri children that work at Santa's place with Nitro Glicerine bombs! And put Nitro Glicerine into the water system at the north pole! Just joking, I live in Letitikaha. It's a secret state that no one knows about, because it goes by another name - Colorado. I AM CORNHOLIO! GIVE ME YOUR TIPI, OR SUFFER THE WRATH OF THE ALMIGHTY BUNGHOLE! *cue Meow Mix song, while playing a scene of me chopping up Nix Hounds on Morrowind*

This post has been edited by Abu the Cat: Aug 22 2006, 02:12 AM

So, ever write a story aboot a boot? Ha ha ha, had to say that! And, are you pissed off about the South Park Movie?

Of course not, that movie was hilarious. It's very tongue-in-cheek, I can never take that stuff seriously.

Speaking of movies, I just finished watching a Canadian one called Bon Cop Bad Cop. Basically for a loose comparison, it's like the Bad Boys movies only Canadianized. The two cops are a French-Canadian one and a English one. So the humour at times is dark, and yet there is a seriousness to the movie in certain parts. Other times are completely hilarious. If you don't mind subtitles (about half the movie is spoken in Quebec French), then you could like it very much.

It looked like they had a very nice budget too, the film looked great, Hollywood even.

And to think that I started this thread yet didn't even give my own vote...

The bedlamite whose post you're reading right now was born in/lives in/plans to die in the Nordic country currently known as Finland.