Images of Americans at Their Most Absurd That Might Make You Feel Like a Genius (New)

[@RmcBUDDY]

I can only read theses a little at a time, because if I try to read too many at one time I will lose IQ points. LOL 😅

[@ecamp6360]

Wow!😂😢

[@samreallylovescoffee]

Bro what about negative IQ points 😂

[@geoffspakes]

Not me, it confirms that I’m a brainiac and so many others are morons.

[@virginiaviola5097]

I need to take a break between wheezes in order to breathe.

[@grayfae3]

agreed.

[@roseannbarks9327]

The ignorance is astounding, and tragic

[@Wemius61]

And not a little concerning.

[@paulgreen758]

completely agree

[@diannelavoie5385]

So tragically true.

[@davidmcfaull3162]

Now i understand how trump became president

[@williamainsworth2256]

I’d like to point out that the public education system, along with most public universities is controlled by left leaning teachers and college administrators. Nice try, thanks for sharing.

[@NoNames-vw3bq]

Could you really not understand it before? It's not the first time the stupid was strong with them.

[@ronaldbunk9007]

The stupidity and narcissistic behaviour is scary and hurts my brain. No cars in Europe? No running water? We invented cars and running water you pudding for brains

[@Panbaneesha]

When I was visiting the US in 1990 (from Germany) I was asked if children ride horses to school, if we had electricity and if Hit**r was still in power, so...

[@wolf1066]

They think they invented everything. One was going on about fireworks being *the* great US symbol of freedom on Reddit, I pointed out they were invented in ancient China, someone got snippy about that so I said "As American as apple pie, LOL" - both my posts got heavily downvoted. Amazing how so many symbols of the USA - fireworks, apple pie, *_cars_* - were invented somewhere else.

[@NoNames-vw3bq]

Come on now, pudding for brains is still too much credit

[@edene.4870]

The food thing horrifies me the most. Kids becoming spoiled due to free lunch? And did you notice which two countries voted against the notion of food being a right? If that doesn't speak damning volumes, I don't know what does.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

The U.S. and North Korea would be my guess. In North Korea they have already implemented this idea across the country. :/ (I saw the video, my comment was a sarcasm).

[@edene.4870]

​@@marikothecheetah9342 Didn't know that, but doesn't surprise me, sadly. I was talking about the screenshot list of nations in 17:35 of the video actually. Several countries were listed as "did not vote" (and it's easy to guess why if you loom at the names of countries), but take a look at the name of the only two countries that voted against. Speaks volumes. (I will not write the name of the second country, because in my experience that alone gets my comments deleted.)

[@marikothecheetah9342]

@@edene.4870 I know, I get it. The second country actually surprised me, giving the history but the first country full of the second country's people... yeah, makes sense.

[@glenngilbert7389]

Exactly - the two most genocidal regimes ever

[@retmarut4499]

Well, we all know these countries are big buddies. If the second one would accept that food was a right, they’d have some very awkward questions to answer…

[@doris821]

The hubris, ignorance, and down right arrogant dumbness -- just. wow

[@petergaskin1811]

Americans call the 24 hour clock military time for some reason. Elsewhere it's just known as time.

[@rustythecrown9317]

well technically it Is military , but murcans have trouble counting higher than twelve apparently.

[@rattywoof5259]

@@rustythecrown9317 It's NOT military - it's just the standard world-wide 24-hour clock.

[@leec6707]

Having 24 hours in a day is not 'military'. 😂

[@rustythecrown9317]

@@rattywoof5259 lol... new guy has entered the chat.

[@Elriuhilu]

It's like how English speakers keep mentioning cursive writing and how they don't know how to do it, but everyone else just calls it handwriting and the only people who don't handwrite that way are small children.

[@dajofle]

Scary! World’s most influential country and this is their level of education for a lot of people. Beam me up NOW Scotty ! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@vodkablond]

It must be due to them spending most of the school years learning how to dodge bullets

[@jpbaley2016]

It’s not about the level of education it’s because with malice and forethought, many Americans choose to remain blind, deaf, and stupid.

[@unitb7713]

And they wonder why poorer folk want to immigrate to US. The most money in the world held by the stupidest people in the world. Isn't "one sucker born every minute" an American idiom? Easy pickings....

[@teresacarey3269]

Beam *you* up? I'm stuck in the middle of all this nonsense! Beam *me* up!

[@dajofle]

@ oh goody, I’ll have someone to chat with 🥰

[@marinam.2293]

Whose idea was it to spoil children so horribly by feeding them? That just makes them grow! 😳 God help us...just when you think the ignorance can't possibly get any worse, it turns out it can, and does.

[@maargenbx1454]

I guess Wisconsin thinks wasting funds by having kids too hungry to learn in school makes good economic sense 🙄

[@mkvv5687]

Research has shown that every single terrorist was fed food as a child. Makes ya think!

[@wolf1066]

13:49 - "what war crimes did America do?" do you have a few hours? this could take a while...

[@rustythecrown9317]

They are the worlds angels.. they do no wrong , and can only do the best ever.

[@Kualinar]

ONLY the chapter about Vietnam would take a few hours...

[@adriancampbell6924]

@@Kualinar Yes, the rest would take weeks or months.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

@@adriancampbell6924 Did you account for the time of their existence? Probably not.

[@teresacarey3269]

"It's not a war crime the first time." -The Fat Electrician ; ]

[@wolf1066]

0:45 - the guy _who is actually from Ireland_ is being extremely polite, given the circumstances.

[@memisemyself]

Yeah and she was going to idiotsplain things to him.

[@mariarose6194]

Thank you for the upload . Unfortunately my brain can not handle the stupidity of some people anymore. It is no longer something to laugh at.. it is something to mourn. Seriously wtf is wrong with people nowadays.

[@wolf1066]

9:19 - the "Land of the Free" - where you can be arrested for refusing to worship a flag.

[@rustythecrown9317]

Free to be held without charges...

[@Goldenhawk583]

at the age of 6 no less :(

[@wolf1066]

@@Goldenhawk583 Oh, I'm sure they'd arrest someone who's less than 6-years-old. The USA has a proud tradition of sticking children in cages.

[@unitb7713]

Or for crossing the street (jay-walking) or for holding ad drinking a beer in a park or...or...or...

[@teresacarey3269]

@@Goldenhawk583 Sixth *grade.* Age of 11. Very slightly less horrific.

[@RmcBUDDY]

4:23. Based on that comment, your right to bear arms shouldn’t even be honored at all.

[@ecamp6360]

Or your right to arm bears.

[@DoloresLehmann]

At least he asked! I guess that's progress.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@@DoloresLehmann Just before he tried to board a flight to Paris while carrying an M-14.

[@teresacarey3269]

@@Gough-jf9zf Good! That'll stop 'em!

[@need2bereading]

"Port o' Rico" twinned with Ireland! How are these people online yet unable to use google?

[@marikothecheetah9342]

They can't read and you expect them to have ability to sift through data. Please. 🤪

[@maargenbx1454]

I never understand why people don’t bother to look up words they can’t spell when posting online, and instead just guess. These are the people who would definitely fail an open book test 🙄

[@rustythecrown9317]

they're murcan...enough said.

[@4363laura]

This made me face-palm so hard I broke my nose 😐 although it did help me understand how Trump got re-elected.

[@laramaaike3050]

That is true. I did not get it, but now you mention it, it makes sense, sad though.

[@krejados1]

4:45 - Fun fact: the U$ has no declared national language. Or religion.

[@Kualinar]

And, until 2018, no official national anthem.

[@timoakley277]

Interestingky in Britain, the country that created the imperial system counts yards in a mile. Not feet. Why? Because that's how a mile is defined. 3 feet to a yard. 22 yards to a chain. 10 chains to a furlong (220yd) and 8 furlong to mile. 1760 yards. Never feet. Me? I'm metric but I do like the history.

[@michaellechner3194]

Imagine if one could convert stupidity into energy, we would be able to power the entire planet - plus, it's renewable.

[@rustythecrown9317]

One american could power an entire city for a whole month.

[@garethpearse9697]

​@@rustythecrown9317I don't know about a whole city but certainly a 40 watt light bulb. 😅

[@majortwang2396]

Collections like this explain why Trump was elected again.

[@wolf1066]

1:21 - an American, of all people, calling other people "War Criminals" 🤣

[@TheChiefEng]

Well, you cannot fix stupid.

[@deineroehre]

Especially refering to normal commonly used time format which has nothing to do with military. But what can you do if your education stops at second grade when you barely got to know counting above 12 and mixing up even simple things like date formats. And what do you expect from a country measuring distances in body parts or other weird legacy units and not like every developed country in commonly used and much more practical metric. All for the illusion of "freedom"...

[@wolf1066]

@@deineroehre I much prefer 24 hour time format - it's no harder to remember that a show starts at 20:30 than at 8:30pm or to make basic calculations like "oh, shit, it's 19:45, I'd better get a move on if I want to get to the shop and back before the show starts..." And the benefit is that there's no ambiguity - no one ever said "Oh, sorry, I thought you meant 19:30 in the morning!" and for the clinically lazy, it means not having to type/write am or pm on everything. 8:30 is always morning, 20:30 is always evening - saved one whole character typing 20:30 instead of 8:30pm; saved two on 8:30. They add up over a lifetime... 😝

[@attempted_realist]

I wish the dumbest of us weren't so loud, given a megaphone, or elected. I miss intelligent people.

[@MrJacobThrall]

Shout out to the US for taking the heat off the UK on this one. Years and years of "Why learn a foreign language? Just shout louder in English!" and "I don't like that foreign muck...I want _chips_ with it! Where's the gravy, dickhead?" have seemingly been eclipsed. That said, here's a little nugget from a supermarket checkout in Yorkshire. I had a few packs of sushi... "Ooh, sushi. I just couldn't though. Raw fish? No thanks!" _shudders theatrically_ - "Sushi isn't raw fish though - it's pickled rice. Sashimi is raw fish. You might get sushi dressed with raw fish sometimes, but...look, this pack's actually vegetarian. I don't think you sell any raw-fish dishes here." "No love. Not for me, although saying that, I do actually love Chinese though, so maybe. We go for Chinese all the time, so..." -"Sushi's Japanese." "Yeah, but, well, you know. It's all...well, you know..." It's alive and well, if you know where to look.

[@yurenchu]

Aw, come on. This person was probably not completely "up to date", but it's not a bad thing to be averse to raw meat. In a restaurant, the non-meat sushi is probably being prepared with the same kitchen knife with which the chef prepares the sashimi / raw fish sushi.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

True, it's just percentage that makes it more visible. Although as an afficionado of Asian cultures I distinguish between their writing systems (among many other things) pretty well, don't expect others to do so, though.

[@olgabartels2879]

SO true. Look at british tv or radio people. Either they choke on a non-english word , or they start laughing and being all giggly and oh dear how can anyone pronounce this silly foreign word. Yuk !

[@marcinkalinski308]

American coming to other countries shouldn't expect that other people will speak english.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

I saw a comment claiming, that because they've won with British, English is spoils of war and belongs to the U.S. and you demand from them to accept other languages exist 🤪

[@glenngilbert7389]

Quite entertaining in a way that Americans seem to revel in their ignorance

[@hrma6313]

What do you expect of people who don't know how to write their own language (Amerenglish)? there - there there - they are (they're) there - their And use letters and numbers for words. And more than 20% believe the Earth is flat. And, and, and......

[@patrickporter6536]

And their dictionary can't spell. 😂

[@csnide6702]

and throw in - To Two and too as well.......

[@sarahmccurry9128]

Let me also bring up the inability to form plural or possessive. I read a post today that said and I quote "my sister's are on vacation" Huh? Further reading revealed the OP's sisters had gone on vacation. On another note, Munster really is a province in Ireland, but it has 'no official function for local government purposes."(Wikipedia).

[@patrickporter6536]

​@@sarahmccurry9128 can't figure tenses either. Past, present and future for the same event in the same sentence. And American (!) is their first and only language...

[@marikothecheetah9342]

@@csnide6702 and to. Have seen gazillion times too spelled as to.

[@Oligodendrocyte139]

6:00 Errr hate to say this chaps. England has a West Coast too. The cat is sitting on an Avanti West Coast train in Euston Station, London, England. Talk about pot and kettle 😂😂😂

[@marikothecheetah9342]

Taking into consideration passenger trains aren't much of a thing in the U.S. not to mention of this standard.

[@olgabartels2879]

You can leave out the "England" after London , please.

[@Oligodendrocyte139]

@olgabartels2879 I normally do but in this case, given the video's subject matter, I thought I'd stress the point. 😀

[@olgabartels2879]

@ All right. Thank you. I dislike this new stupid imitation american habit , you see. Bye.

[@carloduroni5629]

5:08 How to tell me you've never been in Europe without telling me you've never been in Europe.

[@PaulStevens-z8b]

Why is there never a face-palm emoji when you need one?

[@marikothecheetah9342]

🤦‍♂🤦‍♀- there you go, under category: people. I added both versions: male and female. 🙂

[@richardbeckenbaugh1805]

4:46 In Puerto Rico, most people speak Spanish. In some areas, more people speak Spanish, French or German than English. We don’t have an official language because we don’t speak one language. I was born in Seattle and until I was 4 years old, I didn’t speak English. We spoke German and Norwegian and it wasn’t until Kindergarten that I met people who spoke English. I had no clue what they were talking about but I had to learn English if I wanted to have any friends.

[@xao_phan580]

The amount of things you can do in a two weeks vacation period is amazing. Visit family or friends that matched with you, plan trips, go camping, work things around your house, develop your hobbies or put more time into them, learn a new skill, put a little bit of extra strain on that sport you enjoy, catch up with your books or series that have been on hold, etc Being lazy is not measured by the amount of time you got on your hands, but how you employ it...But yes, a lazy evening once in a while doesn't hurt either

[@lovebeaches4255]

I am wondering if these ignorant questions are being asked by someone who dropped out of high school, rather than get their diploma. Trust me world, not all Americans are this dumb. Some of us graduated from college.

[@patrickporter6536]

I once met one who wasn't dumb. Out of about 150. They all had engineering degrees.

[@linethy42]

Surprisingly, all countries with a coast on their western side has a West Coast 😂

[@Gough-jf9zf]

Yeah, but USA had a west coast before quaint little England....

[@linethy42]

@ But what about the West Coast in Denmark, it’s been there for a lot of years 😂

[@aldaronlaurelin7235]

@@Gough-jf9zf Technically, yes, the Americas formed the west coast of Pangaea but the USA as a country didn't exist until much more recently than England as a country

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@ Are you sure god wasn't American? And decided to make the USA the largest & bestest nation in the world? And on the 8th day, created lesser, poorer nations as satellite colonies? Every time I visit the US, I hear their country is largest. They don't want to hear Canada and Russia are larger. When told my country (Australia) is larger than the contiguous US states, they contradict you. (With Alaska US has larger area). The European nations stole US place names- London, Oslo, Cambridge, Paris....

[@-.-4]

I’m American and boy I’m glad I’m old. I learned by reading books. Love history, have a science degree. How can people be so stupid!? I know someone who traveled outside the US and told people he was Canadian. He didn’t feel safe otherwise. That says a lot. English was not my mother’s first language, Finnish was. She became a teacher, one room schoolhouse. 😊 I didn’t get a computer until I was in my 40’s. Libraries are a wonderful thing. I read the encyclopedia and dictionary for fun. The two places I would move to, England or Finland.

[@mayatheworm]

I'd say issue them all a passport and make travelling required, but then again, they might come HERE!

[@patrickporter6536]

No please no...

[@marikothecheetah9342]

An American tourist was travelling to Europe. She was denied entry because... she wrote travelling notes in her passport. So... Also, they did enough damage in Asian countries "travelling" :/

[@bbowling4979]

Please stop censoring the names of these people. We need to know who they are so no one procreates with them. Think of the children!

[@Kualinar]

1:20 24 hours clock : 16:05. Same as military time : 1605. Notice that there is no colon in military time. 4:25 NO ! That PRIVILEGE ONLY ever apply when in the USA. 4:40 If Canada ever become states 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 63, then, being bilingual WILL need to become mandatory for ANY public facing job. 8:10 Wait till he discover that the inch is DEFINED as 2.54cm, the foot as 30.48cm, the yard as 90.44cm, ... That ALL the Imperial units are defined in term of metric units. Also wait for him to discover that the American gallon is actually called the «Colonial American Short gallon».

[@gypsygem9395]

Being bilingual should ALREADY by compulsory seeing as how Spanish is spoken by at least half the population

[@Kualinar]

@@gypsygem9395 That mean that if Canada is made into states 51 to 63, those jobs will need to be trilingual : English, French and Spanish.

[@davidhamm7909]

What is the Pledge? In the UK, Pledge is a furniture polish (see, we can be stupid too) ❤😁

[@GBURGE55]

My pledge is to the duster that spreads the pledge!

[@olgabartels2879]

I think it is when schoolchildren have to stand all together , on the playground for instance and sort of swear they will be loyal to the US constitution. I believe this is even more than once during the year. I have the creepy feeling it is daily before school starts. But maybe not. They even, as far as I remember have to make some sort of salute with their arm. I once saw it from a hill , looking down on the playground , and I found it quite creepy. This was a while ago.

[@SirBarth]

I read these and I utter "Jesus Franklin Christ" ....and I'm American. Although I did not know that "counties" in Ireland are provinces, that was neat to learn.

[@chriscurley7977]

the provinces are made up of different counties. The province of Leinster is composed of counties Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Offaly, Longford, Louth, Meath, Laois, Westmeath,Wexford and Wicklow; the province of Munster is made up of the counties of Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, and Waterford; the province of Connaght is made up of counties Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Leitrim, Sligo; the province of Ulster is made up of Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Derry, Down, Donegal, Fermanagh, Monaghan, and Tyrone.

[@Roses-lilac]

No my American friend. Counties are NOT provinces.

[@SirBarth]

@@Roses-lilac So basically, what was posted there was a lie.

[@jadarv]

@@SirBarth no it wasn't. It would be like saying "I'm from the county of Florida".

[@chriscurley7977]

@@Roses-lilac I am Irish. Living in Ireland.

[@judythompson8227]

good lord. don't let people like this drive...I think we've failed somewhere when adults function like this

[@qwadratix]

I'm just curious how Americans got the idea they can speak English.

[@wolf1066]

0:06 - the sentence *_only_* makes sense to Americans. To anyone else, it's a sign that the person is ignorant and rude.

[@lennartdahlback]

11:13 It could also be done as in "socialist" Sweden, where there isn't any minimum wage, but, instead of that, collective bargaining, where workers' unions and employers' unions meet some month before the contract expires. Political parties have nothing to say, because they neither do the work nor pay for it.

[@oilslick7010]

You make it sound as if the two are mutually exclusive. The minimum wage is there to prevent a situation where the employers' union has more clout and forces a bad deal. Other European countries also use the 'Rhineland Model' you describe for finding social-economic solutions (I'll let you guess which countries those are based on the name :) ) yet still have an absolute minimum wage as a failsafe.

[@leonfairhurst7597]

This explains a lot about the USA 😂

[@Mark73]

It is literally illegal for schools to compel students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance or punish them for not reciting it. That was established in the 1960s.

[@wolf1066]

Unfortunately, corrupt officials care more about their "freedom" to disregard the law and their own Constitution.

[@olgabartels2879]

Ah , better.

[@unitb7713]

In the beginning God created the creatures of the Earth, then, his masterwork, he created Canadians from all that was good, followed by Philipinnos, then the nations of the East; Far and Middle, and the Europeans, creator of much grace and beauty. Finally all he had left was greed, fat and empty noise so the Americans were created last from the remnants of the Earth. And he departed. [Genesis 12:1-3]

[@marikothecheetah9342]

I like this version.

[@elaineb7065]

Africans???

[@thesilversurfer7136]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 I like it!

[@carloduroni5629]

11:28 "Capitalist" asking for laws forbidding companies to self-decide about their salary policies.

[@wolf1066]

Given that US companies benefit from laws enabling them to self-decide how much paid leave an employee gets and how many hours per week constitute "Full Time" and what "benefits" full-time employees get and lower minimum wages for serving staff all because of capitalist ideals...

[@rossprentice4975]

And all these people voted for Trump

[@Gough-jf9zf]

I'm in Australia, we have preferential voting in the lower house, the house that decides who governs. That is, if a ballot paper has 8 candidates listed, the voter must number them all, from 1 to 8, for it to be valid. Imagine presenting such a ballot to Trump voters. Or even one with 12 candidates! They'd invalidate their own vote 90% of the time.

[@ElishamMacJ]

Those Americans... are all like this ? How did they win the cold war ?

[@Gough-jf9zf]

A lot of bluff and hypocrisy. Stationed their nukes just outside Russia in Germany and Japan, so they could strike very quickly, and the threat always loomed. Yet when Russia tried to put nukes into Cuba, the Americans frothed at the mouth at their gross aggression and warm mongering.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

Let me tell you about something called Project Paperclip. Without it Americans would have never made the scientific progress they made. Also, once they stood on the moon all the space funding ended and thanks to that Europe has large hadron collider and not the U.S.

[@thesilversurfer7136]

All the intelligent people died after Steve Jobs invented Apple.

[@stusand1]

I gave up after viewing a few....it was too depressing.

[@carloduroni5629]

10:38 "'Cause I don't have a fifth neuron to occupy on the fifth day of vacation."

[@laramaaike3050]

Please tell me that not all in the US is this dense?

[@marikothecheetah9342]

Not all of them are that dense, it's just that the ratio is not in their favour.

[@laramaaike3050]

@@marikothecheetah9342 🤣

[@marks.3303]

Please tell me the Rome one is fake or a joke. No one could be that stupid and still be able to type complete sentences, right?

[@rustythecrown9317]

these are murcans , so yeah they Are that dumb.

[@Goldenhawk583]

Sorry, plenty of examples of americans that think all names come from their country.. Even those that has " New" in front:(

[@helenafuentesramajo6633]

Wow, how did humanity make it to 2025? 🤦🏻‍♀️ We should start selling products without labelling, it would be a sort of natural selection 🤔😂

[@lilyg5304]

That dumb people were the cause for labeling even existing tells you something.

[@mikelove6502]

Do you mean the year? or nearly half past eight???

[@smilingbandit4975]

To be fair in a country with 345 million inhabitants the chances are pretty good that there are quite some people of that kind.

[@lomax343]

The population of the US is approximately 335 million. Yes, not all of them are terminally stupid. Just 334,999,900 of them.

[@smilingbandit4975]

@@lomax343 Correct. Changed my comment accordingly.

[@rmalus10297]

9:30 my sons school doesn't say the pledge anymore

[@WideCuriosity]

I don't think many runners would cope well with a 5 kilomile race.

[@rustythecrown9317]

Why ?... the Marathon is a loooot longer than 5 k.

[@yurenchu]

​​@@rustythecrown9317 "kilomile"... as in "a thousand miles". The commenter was essentially saying "if those people assumed the units used were miles, then what did they think the letter K in 5K run stands for?" 5K miles would be 5000 miles. That's like across the US towards the sunset and then take a right turn to Alaska...

[@DoloresLehmann]

7:45 Additional fact for those who don't speak German: The second person was mocking the (absolutely correct) spelling of the first comment, while making a spelling error themselves. Stupidity is not only on the rise in the US.

[@rustythecrown9317]

no, but it's the home of it.

[@yurenchu]

How was the second person mocking the first person's spelling? I'm not a native speaker of German, but I interpreted their post as saying (something along the lines of) "Well, that is a mouthful!".

[@DoloresLehmann]

@@yurenchu It was ironically saying "Great spelling!"

[@yurenchu]

@@DoloresLehmann That's the literal translation, but I think the intended meaning was to convey "I see what you did there!". The first poster was mocking some typical "corporate" practice by inventing some ironic, expensive/important-sounding, typical "corporate-speak" term for whatever phenomenon he/she was satirically addressing, and the second poster basically expressed agreement by commenting how "corporate-speak" terms like that are indeed usually a challenge to spell correctly (but are in essence hollow terms, invented merely to sound important). I don't think the second poster was criticizing the first poster and/or their spelling (because the spelling was correct anyway).

[@yurenchu]

@@DoloresLehmann I think the gist was that the first poster and second poster were both mocking the corporate practice of inventing expensive/intellectual-sounding terms for the (non-)tasks they (= the "corporate people") are performing.

[@Jo-yp8wy]

I keep thinking, it can't be real. Then I remember.

[@Mark73]

13:12 I don't know anything about trains in Europe or how often people use them, but that guy is so confident about what he's saying I'm just going to assume that he's wrong.

[@Goldenhawk583]

He is wrong, and trains are very commonly used throughout europe for travel.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

Trains in Europe are clean, frequent, efficient and very fast. Most of the staff speak English and can quickly work out a schedule that suits your specific needs. The stations are serviced by interconnected bus, tram or even monorail. It's not too uncommon for residents in country A to commute by train daily to their jobs in country B. Booking is simple.

[@TonboIV]

16:28 Yes "Zane" is an ignorant person, but there's a good reason for the sign. That's a Canadian airport and Canadian airports usually divide up flight into "Domestic", "Transborder"(The U.S.) and "International"(everything else). It just makes sense because a huge chunk of travel is to the U.S. There are usually as many flights to the U.S. as there are to every other foreign country put together. The American flag indicates the way to the transborder section and the globe is for the international section.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

Wow. We don't do that in Europe. We just call all flights international, because listing all our neighbours in some cases would take much of the sign's space.

[@TonboIV]

@@marikothecheetah9342 Yeah, the geographical situation in Canada is probably unique in the world. Do European airports divide international flights up by Schengen and non-Schengen? I would also imagine that a country like Switzerland or Belgium might have very few domestic flights at all and almost every flight would be international.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

​@@TonboIV we do divide in EU and non-EU flights, since EU-flights have faster check out (for obvious reasons). And yes, some countries flights are mostly international, but then again, in Switzerland you can have domestic flights but in smaller planes (like with Alaska, where smaller planes operate).

[@thesilversurfer7136]

Please let these comments be from children under 12. These people have never heard the phrase: “knowledge is power”. Stay in school people.

[@BassGirlSusan1961]

Ancestry DNA percentages change with twice yearly updates. How's that tattoo working now?

[@lomax343]

I'm more worried about 42% Scandinavian, 24% European - they clearly don't know that Scandinavia is in Europe.

[@rustythecrown9317]

@@lomax343 American customer , american tattooist. 120% accurate.

[@yurenchu]

Those percentages seem to suggest that one parent is an American who was born from a Native American person and an American person of (mixed) European descent, and the other parent is a recent migrant from Scandinavia with faint traces of Asian heritage. In that case, I don't think those percentages will change very much (but I could be wrong).

[@matthewhuszarik4173]

Spanish like English is spoken by far more people outside its nation of origin than in it. As such it is really an international language and no longer owned by its nation of origin.

[@BonaparteBardithion]

I don't think any nation "owns" its language just because ethnic diasporas have never stopped at national borders. There's always overflow. That said, I don't think it's wrong to say that a language, even a global one, "comes from" a specific place. Latin still comes from Rome even though Latin-based languages are all over the world now. You can say you speak Mexican Spanish or American English but at the end of the day we still acknowledge the region the language originated in until the language changes into a distinct one.

[@michaelhather9753]

My ancestors were Vikings. When I fill a form in, it says English only, there isn't an option for Viking-English. Madness! 🤣🤣🤣

[@GinkgoBalboa142]

I used to feel smug watching these vids but considering the deterioration of Swedish schools, hospitals and safety and security, I should probably shut up.

[@csnide6702]

Thank an American Teacher for these.... This is on THEM.

[@DoloresLehmann]

It's not the teachers' fault - their so-called "educational system" is broken on purpose. Stupid people are easier to govern. And as we see by the latest developments, this works like a charm.

[@beauteoussounds1156]

Oh, yes. Blame the teachers because two idiot parents’ never read to their spawn.

[@DanMarksman]

Ancestry DNA: 42% Scandinavian and 24% European? LOL!!!

[@marikothecheetah9342]

Apparently Scandinavia isn't in Europe. The more you know.

[@perfesser944]

Is there a Rome in Italy? LOL. In Toledo, Spain, there is a street called "Toledo, the One in Ohio." (Toledo de Ohio. Look it up).

[@wolf1066]

6:48 - it was probably started by some Yank whose great-grandfather came from Australia and therefore thinks he's Australian and is saving "his" people.

[@wolf1066]

7:34 - now, see, if that Yank had just had a German grandfather, he'd be _German_ and would have been able to understand what they were saying, just like all those "Irish" Americans are fluent in _Gaeilge_ and know everything about Eire and Northern Ireland...

[@marikothecheetah9342]

Obviously!

[@69wilmax]

I weep for the future.

[@caseyleichter2309]

You can fix ignorance. You can't fix stupid.

[@abbofun9022]

The ancestry tattoo at least added up to 100%, let’s consider that a win. . . . . .

[@yurenchu]

A win, really? Those numbers were clearly rounded to whole percentages. An actual scientist would have expected that those rounded figures _may not_ add up to exactly 100% . For example, suppose the actual (unrounded) percentages were: {A: 42.75% , B: 25.63% , C: 23.75% , D: 7.80% , undetermined: 0.07%} Then the rounded percentages would have been: {A: 43% , B: 26%, C: 24% , D: 8% } which don't add up to exactly 100% .

[@ivanivanovic5586]

A global-jurisdiction law that makes making dumb statements like ones shown(regardless of who made them and where) a slappable offense(with full legal protection for the slapper if and only if they invoke the law before applying the slap) would've cut down on the nonsense 9 out of 10 times(ofc it has to be the (patent-pending) slavic educational slap for it to be effective).

[@fakkedd]

I blame Fox "News"

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

thanks

[@janeboxell246]

The posts on here may be about stupid people, (mainly American it seems) but the viewers aren't stupid, so you have no need to just keep using headlines taken straight from said posts! They're pointless

[@williamainsworth2256]

4:43 I’d like to point out that there are quite a number of jobs in America where you are required, in some cases by federal law as in truck driving, to be able to read and speak English. I’ve always thought that being multilingual was more of an added advantage, but not necessarily required, unless you’re working as a translator or ESL teacher. Just my 2 cents.

[@terrencetrussell7625]

This makes me ashamed to be an American when overseas….

[@rustythecrown9317]

you should be ashamed when your home too.

[@Ater_Draco]

Pretend to be Canadian and don't be loud. You'll pass

[@rustythecrown9317]

@Ater_Draco they do ... for year they wore the Canadian flag to prevent a beating , the locals knew the difference though.

[@rustythecrown9317]

@Ater_Draco lol... when can murcans be anything but loud?.

[@copycat21c]

JHFC. So much now makes a LOT more sense… 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@mrnemo1480]

why reapeat at the bottom of the screen what your are reading in the video...

[@3isactuallyalot]

It hurts. My poor brain is hurting... How can people be so stupid.....😭

[@carloduroni5629]

Oh! So "Ancestry" would tell you "you're 42% Scandinavian and 24% European"? Mmh…

[@Gough-jf9zf]

It took two years for me to realise Ancestry was a private corporation with profit as their main motive, not information service. Their TV ads were designed to look like government services telling you- "you can now draw your own family tree".

[@3isactuallyalot]

Isn't that just sad? I had no idea HOW stupid those people actually are 😢.

[@DoNotPushHere]

4:16 The more you sum up those numbers... :) ...the more you realize I was joking about it not summing up to 100

[@mariuschka888]

Have to stop because all these comments are depressing

[@deineroehre]

1:23 24h Format is the normal format, so what is the point? It hasn't even to do with military, it is just helping against confusion. So you spelled "Leaving a watch set to 12h format is a sure sign of being mentally challenged" wrong in the undertitle.

[@yurenchu]

The caption is merely repeating the most appalling/preposterous/head-scratching part of the displayed text in the screenshot.

[@kfdaftsaeroblox]

6:14 I can understand the confusion if you can't read & sucked at Geography.

[@georgejones3526]

5:06 - Sounds like heaven to me. Wish I could afford to move, but since Trump is going to take away my social security to make up for the tax cuts for the rich…

[@dawnydoob]

4:42 This isn’t not dumb as it sounds. If you don’t speak Spanish, you will not get hired. This is a requirement in some companies here in S FL.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

*This isn't as dumb as it sounds - seems all Americans could use this advice.

[@kate4121]

4:07. ya, this is America gotta speak English. “Ya” literally German for yes. “Yeah” American slang for yes. smh.

[@yurenchu]

Actually it's spelled _Ja_ in German (and also Dutch), so not literally "literally", as in "accurate to the letter".

[@kate4121]

@ Oh, you’re right! Silly me. Thanks for the correction. I should have known better.

[@yurenchu]

@@kate4121 No problem. :-)

[@wolf1066]

3:09 - sounds like 100% Yank, actually.

[@matthewhuszarik4173]

The US didn’t invade Vietnam. They went in to assist the French and South Vietnamese. The US should have given the Vietnamese people their independence after WW2 just like it did for the French, Germans, Dutch, Danes, and the rest of Europe they helped liberate. It was wrong to allow the French to retake possession of their former colony. The US should have set up national elections and given the Vietnamese the opportunity to be completely self governing just as they did for all the White nations of Europe. The US is and always has been a very racist nation. They treat most White nations very well and non-white nations only as well as they are forced to.

[@Goldenhawk583]

uh, the us was never the one to set up free elections in europe.. white nations or not.. I think you need to read some more.

[@MCT954]

Can you please explain how it was in the gift of the US to give independence to the Vietnamese? The Japanese surrendered and the US did not occupy Vietnam. Also if you read around enough, the US president was deeply suspicious of most independence movements which he, and many in the US Government as being backed by the Soviet Union. The US leant on a lot of Western European nations as well

[@user-re6yo7tj5s]

It would be funny if it werent so dusturbing.

[@susanp.collins7834]

Text too small to read. Thumbs down.

[@Ater_Draco]

If only "zoom to fill screen" had been invented, Karen. Oh.....wait ...

[@susanp.collins7834]

@Ater_Draco Not interested. I expect the text to be readable from the get-go.

[@adriancampbell6924]

All those invasions and conquests perpetrated by the people of Spain and the forced indoctrination of the natives into using Spanish instead of the native tongue has made Spain irrelevant in the 21st century. Spain apparently, no longer exists. So sad! I will miss them.😪

[@Gough-jf9zf]

Shame none of them were "white"....

[@marikothecheetah9342]

These were Mexicans! 🤪

[@hilsuk8359]

Dear God America, sort out your education system. Though sadly, it will likely get worse once president Musk cuts funding for it.

[@whyamiheredlb]

This is so embarrassing. I’m in international trade, coming off this 2024 Election and the lack of brain cells and research by “these” voters on tariffs, informed US importers are incredibly angry. These are importers who supply an unfathomable amount of goods to US consumers and businesses. My first meeting after the election with a very large manufacturer in the US, established in the US in 1906, I was asked point blank by their director, “Why are Americans so stupid ?”… never in my 30 year career have I ever had to talk politics during a business meeting, nor have I ever been asked this question. I simply said, “ I do not know sir, I’ve been asking myself the same question since the election.” My foreign colleagues are like WTF is wrong with America. 😐 Buckle up people… this is really going to get really bad, really quick.

[@tonypolito6320]

they just get stupider