Post your "American Moments" here.

[AFK]

I oveheard 3 people tell others where Portugal was in the break room.  Only one of them got the correct continent. 

The other two thought it was in South America right?  So they sailed to the New World by making a big-ass U turn?  

[Jenne]

I oveheard 3 people tell others where Portugal was in the break room.  Only one of them got the correct continent. 

Seriously? I thought the American geography fail thing was a myth.

  Oh, no.  Not by a longshot.

I imagine most of my optimism/naivete about Americans and the state of things stems from having been reared by a would-have-been history teacher and having had decent schooling.

Thou needst to find thyself some episodes of Jay Leno's "Jaywalking" and catch a glimpse of the awesome power of the American Dumb.

[Richter]

I oveheard 3 people tell others where Portugal was in the break room.  Only one of them got the correct continent.  

Seriously? I thought the American geography fail thing was a myth.

 Oh, no.  Not by a longshot.

I imagine most of my optimism/naivete about Americans and the state of things stems from having been reared by a would-have-been history teacher and having had decent schooling.

Edit: I mean, fuck, if you showed me an unlabeled map of the world I couldn't tell you which specific blob Uzbekistan was, but I could tell you that it's a former Soviet Republic in Asia.

Yeah.  Then they started asking where Brazil was.

I will take this decade for one fuck of a ride, if I don't axe it for stupidity first.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Regarding South America: It's fucking stupid, but I can see the confusion if they did know in fact where Brazil was located, since they speak Portuguese there too.

GRRRRR!!!! PAPAL DIVIDING UP OF IMPERIAL LANDS BETWIXT PORTUGAL AND SPAIN WHY DON'T FUCKERS KNOW?!?!?!?

Sorry. Again, my dad was going to be a history teacher and I might be myself....

In regard to Jaywalking: Yeah, I'll do it. It'll make me feel better about my intelligence to be sure.

[AFK]

Regarding South America: It's fucking stupid, but I can see the confusion if they did know in fact where Brazil was located, since they speak Portuguese there too.

It's kind of amazing to me someone would know enough that they speak Portugese in Brazil but not understand WHY they speak Portugese in Brazil.   

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Regarding South America: It's fucking stupid, but I can see the confusion if they did know in fact where Brazil was located, since they speak Portuguese there too.

It's kind of amazing to me someone would know enough that they speak Portugese in Brazil but not understand WHY they speak Portugese in Brazil.   

Well, fuck it couldn't possibly be for the same reason that Americans, Canadians and Australians speak English, right?
Or that most countries in this hemisphere speak Spanish....

Hell that's like arguing that I should know Algonquin.

[Iron Sulfide]

a few weeks ago at the local farmer's market, I saw a man pass by the beer garden on a rascal or hover round or something, with three long white poles jutting out the back holding 5-7 American Flags (made in china, likely). The second time I saw him, he entered the beer garden, parked his rascal and walked, unaided, to the beer line and and stood the 10 minutes to get a beer, only to return to his rascal and drive away with the beer in hand.

He walked fine, from what I saw- he was just Fat.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

a few weeks ago at the local farmer's market, I saw a man pass by the beer garden on a rascal or hover round or something, with three long white poles jutting out the back holding 5-7 American Flags (made in china, likely). The second time I saw him, he entered the beer garden, parked his rascal and walked, unaided, to the beer line and and stood the 10 minutes to get a beer, only to return to his rascal and drive away with the beer in hand.

He walked fine, from what I saw- he was just Fat.

Fucking Socialist. 


As for the rest of it:

[Jenne]

  Oh, that's America, alright.    Classic tale.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I actually once, went to Walmart with my former vocalist. I don't remember why, but we parked next to an SUV that had an American flag vanity painted over the whole thing. John (former vocalist) had to talk me out of adding other decorations to it. He was always very acutely aware of my thoughts on the matter.

[Iron Sulfide]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI

"You Don't Mess...With God's America!"

[LMNO]

So, when the US team was playing Ghana, I was watching it in a bar.  During halftime, the bartender began playing, of all things, the Team America: World Police title song, "America, Fuck Yeah!"


The bar began to sing along, non-ironically.





American Moment?  Fuck yeah!

[Nephew Twiddleton]

So, when the US team was playing Ghana, I was watching it in a bar.  During halftime, the bartender began playing, of all things, the Team America: World Police title song, "America, Fuck Yeah!"


The bar began to sing along, non-ironically.





American Moment?  Fuck yeah!

That's awesome, lol

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Wow. 

[Suu]

Regarding South America: It's fucking stupid, but I can see the confusion if they did know in fact where Brazil was located, since they speak Portuguese there too.

It's kind of amazing to me someone would know enough that they speak Portugese in Brazil but not understand WHY they speak Portugese in Brazil.   

True story, when I went to Brazil in 1999, we were on the plane, and my teammates had Spanish-English dictionaries with them. I was like, "Wow, did you guys learn NOTHING in ELEMENTARY geography?!"

So when we were there, and went out to eat, this girl got made fun of really bad and comes running up to me, "They're laughing at me over there because I spoke Spanish, how was *I* supposed to know that Brazil spoke Portuguese?!"

For 7 days, I felt like the smartest person in America.