Rants & Raves of Jasmine’s Fiction

I recently had a very interesting conversation with my cousin Naomi about our fear of the education system in the world.  It all started with her posting a very interesting YouTube clip about Americans Are Not Stupid – with subtitles.

Some of my favourite bits from that YouTube clip:

Q:  What is the religion-of-

Israel’-?

A:  Israeli?

Q:  How many sides does a triangle have?

A:  FOUR!

A:  There is no sides. One?

Q:  How many kidneys does a person have?

A:  One.

Q:  Which state does KFC come from?

A:  What the chicken?  I don’t know. I really don’t know.

Q:  Okay do you know what KFC stands for?

A: 

Kentucky

Fried Chicken right?

I can’t even BEGIN to comprehend the sheer stupidity of these people. I mean come on!  I know lots of folks out there are not trivia whores like myself but for the love of all that is holy why can’t these people know a bit more about the world? I’m not asking for much.  Basic geography, some general knowledge, maybe even a desire to actually know a bit more than your front lawn?

You would think that with technology as it is today with information literally at your fingertips with Wikipedia and Google that people would learn to overcome being ignorant morons but NOOOOOOOO.

Basic Murphy’s Law is it not?

When someone makes something idiot-proof, someone will make a better idiot.

Naomi then told me about her fear of the British education system when she overheard the following conversation:

A:  What, you mean there’s a country called-Georgia-I thought it was just an American state! Where is it anyway?
B: Yeah I only found out because I met someone from-Georgia-and it’s in-Eastern-Europe-somewhere.

Kinda makes you wonder why people are debating so heatedly over whether or not-TURKEY-is-in-Europe-when people seem to think that even-Georgia-is-in-Europe-LOL.  I shouldn’t laugh; I’ve had that conversation before.  I however, just mess with people heads and tell them that the country is next-to-

Kazakhstan

-in-the-Middle-East-.

**Like duh of course I know it doesn’t border-on-Kazakhstan-because-Georgia’s northern neighbour-is-Russia-and to the south-is-Turkey-and-Armenia-and in the-east-is-Azerbaijan-see???

I now have a witty comeback for when someone asks me if I believe there is intelligent life on other planets.  Usually, I just tell them that as a Catholic I don’t believe in extraterrestrial life but now, I’m gonna say that I don’t believe there is intelligent life on THIS PLANET, nevermind other planets.

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