When you think of America, you should think of this.

man i saw this retarded dude on the bus today wearin a cowboy hat.
is it me or does it look like bill gates has a touch of down syndrome

Most amusing: 35 posts to realise that the reason for the thread in the first place is misplaced. Overseas is synonymous with "abroad" and "international", the reason it made its way into the language is that from England, almost any other country is "overseas". From here in New Zealand, you can remove the "almost".

Nearly as amusing: This thread or a discussion like it caused the site to be changed.
"Hey, do we really mean 'overseas' here? Isn't that ambiguous?"
"Ambiguous? Don't you mean confusing?"

PS - Mmmm, poutine.

PS- Mmmmm, Poontang

PS- Mmmm, Vegemite.

Speaking of dumbasses and New England. Kentucky Fried Chicken recently had an "educational" quiz on their happy meal box thing. The question was which state is not part of New England?

A) Mass
B) New York
C) Vermont
D) Maine

ANSWER: C) Vermont

Tssss. Dumbasses.

Vegemite is a yeast product that's a by-product of brewing. It's a thick brown paste. The best thing that can be said for it is that it's great when you finish a mouthful, in the same way that it's great when exams are over. Vigorously defended by Australians, who will adopt anything to do with beer. However knowing FARK's associations with beer, I'd better say - cowshiat is a by-product of hamburgers, but you don't eat it. My suspicion is someone heard of how plastic was discovered, as a by-product to another process, and attempted to do the same with a foodstuff. It has a sister product "Marmite" which is pretty much the same stuff only more concentrated. A serving suggestion from the jar is to dissolve a tablespoonful in hot water. This leads to a warm tan-coloured saltly mess with brown lumps in it. No thanks.

Damnit: I believe at one time (until 1790 or so), Vermont was part of NY and later became the 14th State. But, VT's always been in New England. Perhaps, the KFC was from 1790.

OK, I've been to that link 3 times figuring I must have missed something, but there's nothing there that implies anything about an ocean. What's the deal?

Oh, it's the URL that says "over-seas". Duh, that's a synonym in the travel industry for "international". Sorry, this one's just stretching it. There are enough intances of idiocy out there that we really don't need to twist one like this around. Let it go.

No, the graphic has been changed. Earlier today, it did indeed say "overseas" in the body of the piece. However, while overseas may be used as a synonym for international, that does not make it correct in this context. Why on earth could Newspaper by Playskool have not used, well, international. Isn't that more precise?

Why on earth could I not have used a question mark? Aaaaargh!

Every American I've ever run into is stupid.

The smart ones get out of my way.

I know people here are anal retentive about stupid mistakes (myself included), but is the fact that the file says "over-seas" really necessary for all this?

I found it more interesting that the article said Canada and Mexico provide about half of the visitors to the US, yet on the graph above, it says "Canada: 14.6" and "Mexico: 10.3". That's one helluva rounding job.

fark is probably the best slice of dumbness america has to offer.

pepito pea

what kind of loser smokes marijuana?

Probably the same kind of loser who is self rightious about not smoking pot.

Trapeziod, kenh: I think you should go for 'New America'. Following your previous imaginate naming conventions, you could have 'New new Jersey', 'New new Hampshire', and of course your capital would have the tagline 'New New York - so good we had to name it 1½ times'.