Newsflash! Brits as dumb as Americans

Hey Homer is great!!!

Hooray - we won something

"UKTV Gold television surveyed 3,000 people"

Ahhhhhh.........

Brits have always been as dumb as Americans, and now, even more so. It's Chav Country now.

"Don't go giving me evils!"

That's why I moved out to the country. The people aren't any brighter, but there's less pollution and the views are better.
(Thinks fondly of the Scottish educational system, looking back with rose-tinted glasses.)

Is it all down to reality TV and factual dramtisations? Maybe we need a few interesting docos to draw the line between fact and fiction. Chances are nobody would watch them though as fiction is always "more interesting than fact" (not my view).

So based on 750 people who watch UKTV Gold, the whole of Britain is thick as the Americans?

Since the average IQ of America is 99 and Britain is 100; I think it's fair to say that I don't believe this poll's credibility.

Source?

Red source or brown source?

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I do think that the UK is becoming generally less educated. Results apparently go up, but then also apparently standards to pass come down. Furthermore teaching people to pass a test is not the same as educating them.

Throw into this apparent global dumbing down and anti-intellectualism as discussed elsewhere and yes, I am sure that you can find dumb fucks here as dumb as anyone else's dumb fucks.

Not sure what US people would make of a question on their 12th Century history though.

Has anyone on here ever been asked one of these surveys?? There are 100's every day in the papers and on the news but I've never met anyone who's ever taken part in one...I'm sure they make 'em up

I thought the initial headline was about "
Brit" as in "Britney" and was a dumb American. Had my intuitive pause checked.

Everywhere there are uneducated people. Most of them don't make the news. Most of the news they generate isn't amusing. Or worth checking out, unless its a Darwin Award.

A few years ago, some New York hoodlums chased down Hindu folks and threatened them 'cause they looked like A-Rabs. Ignorance at its nadir.

We didn't win brother dumb, we drew! We don't win, it's bad for us; we win something then spend several decades hibernating, it's too much of a shock to the system.
Dumb Sea

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Originally Posted by ZOS23xy A few years ago, some New York hoodlums chased down Hindu folks and threatened them 'cause they looked like A-Rabs. Ignorance at its nadir.

What's that? Are you calling Ralph Nader an ignorant Arab? That's impossible! He has run for president of the US and everyone knows you must be VERY smart to do that.

Since no one but the indigenous tribes or Native Americans knew that we were even here until the late 1400's I imagine you would get a lot of dumb stares from people to who m you asked this question.