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(BBC) Amusing One in ten British children believe that the Queen invented the telephone. The remaining 90% think that she will, she will, rock you   (news.bbc.co.uk) divider line 94
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SphericalTime [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 08:31:42 AM
A fourth of Americans believe the world was created in six days, plants before the sun and moon. We really don't have any room to laugh at them.
 
Adman12 [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 08:45:58 AM
+1 headline.
 
consciousNOT
2010-03-13 08:58:08 AM
I lol'd.
 
Pud [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 09:03:29 AM
"Luke Skywalker or Richard Branson had been the first to set foot on the Moon".

"Just over a third of boys said Newton discovered fire, while the remaining 16% either said he invented the internet, or discovered the solar system or America".

This would be funny as hell ... if it was fiction. These are going to be the people running things in another 20 - 40 years.

/Finally a reason to feel better about being old
 
itsdan [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 09:07:01 AM
Pud: This would be funny as hell ... if it was fiction. These are going to be the people running things in another 20 - 40 years.

The people running the country now think Hitler was a liberal socialist democrat, if teh gays marry then people will marry turtles, and that money grows on magical money trees. I don't see things getting any worse/
 
Theaetetus [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 09:56:57 AM
SphericalTime: A fourth of Americans believe the world was created in six days, plants before the sun and moon. We really don't have any room to laugh at them.

Photosynthesis is just a theory! Teach the controversy!
 
Saborlas [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 09:57:51 AM
itsdan: I don't see things getting any worse/

Don't SAY things like that! You're summoning the demon Murphy!
 
DarthBrooks [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 10:25:49 AM
After the thread the other day, I'd bet that more than half of them think the phases of the Moon are caused by the Earth's shadow.

Thank goodness they didn't ask these questions in the US. The most typical answer to each question would be "Who?"
 
Glenford
2010-03-13 10:35:21 AM
In other news, kids lie on surveys.
 
Blind_Io
2010-03-13 10:36:14 AM
Only one in ten? Things are looking up.
 
cookiefleck [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 10:36:28 AM
Im envious of idiots...Really. It kills me when peeps are like "you think too much". Id rather think too much and know who invented the telephone, kthanx!
 
8ace [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 10:37:45 AM
Some of them even believe god invented everything!
 
Daffydil
2010-03-13 10:37:55 AM
Long live the Queen

/oh wait
//that's already happened...
 
MrLint
2010-03-13 10:39:06 AM
Pud: "Luke Skywalker or Richard Branson had been the first to set foot on the Moon".



Thats no moon!
 
Daffydil
2010-03-13 10:39:47 AM
8ace: Some of them even believe god invented everything!

'invented' or 'created'? if you're going to slam get it right...
 
Ponzholio [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 10:40:52 AM
How many know what year the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
 
8ace [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 10:41:35 AM
Daffydil: 8ace: Some of them even believe god invented everything!

'invented' or 'created'? if you're going to slam get it right...

Invented
 
Mayhem_2006
2010-03-13 10:41:43 AM
Eight out of 10 boys incorrectly identified patent-thief Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone...
 
FriarReb98 [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 10:43:59 AM
i199.photobucket.com

Approve.
 
skinink
2010-03-13 10:45:00 AM

Fat bottomed Royals, you make the rockin' World go round!


www.sweden.se

 
Poorboytech2000
2010-03-13 10:45:25 AM
What a Queen might look like

shrutisays.blog.co.in
 
Minipax
2010-03-13 10:47:01 AM
In related news, it has been reported that some kids may occasionally feel the urge to answer pointless sueveys for t3h lulz. Allegedly.
 
8ace [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 10:48:20 AM
I believe this. Have you ever been to the UK? It's worse than then America!
 
Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo
2010-03-13 10:48:28 AM
Nah, the people running things are always the smart sociopaths. The people who can't name 10 states will be making the fries like they always do.
 
Daffydil
2010-03-13 10:49:24 AM
8ace: Daffydil: 8ace: Some of them even believe god invented everything!

'invented' or 'created'? if you're going to slam get it right...

Invented

/augmented
 
Regnad Kcin
2010-03-13 10:50:16 AM
I always wondered about old Alexander G.
"Watson, come here. I want you!"

Probably a queen.
 
ROBO-Jesus
2010-03-13 10:52:56 AM
Minipax: In related news, it has been reported that some kids may occasionally feel the urge to answer pointless sueveys for t3h lulz. Allegedly.

Pretty much. It's sometimes really hard to gauge the accuracy of these things. If I was asked to do a ridiculous, uncompensated test with questions like:

Who was the first person on the moon?
a) Neil Armstrong
b) Yuri Gagarin
c) Luke Skywalker.
d) Richard Branson


I'd have a hard time answering seriously. Alt history for the win.
 
8ace [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 10:53:19 AM
Daffydil: 8ace: Daffydil: 8ace: Some of them even believe god invented everything!

'invented' or 'created'? if you're going to slam get it right...

Invented

/augmented

Man invented god, then god created everything, then Fox augmented god. And made man dumber
 
Lampmonster
2010-03-13 10:58:49 AM
SphericalTime: A fourth of Americans believe the world was created in six days, plants before the sun and moon. We really don't have any room to laugh at them.

More US Americans believe in angels than in evolution.
 
FriarReb98 [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 11:00:24 AM
Lampmonster: More US Americans believe in angels than in evolution.

Hell, there are non-Christians who believe in angels.
 
Regnad Kcin
2010-03-13 11:01:27 AM
Lampmonster:
More US Americans believe in angels than in evolution.


How obtuse!
 
Why Would I Read the Article
2010-03-13 11:04:14 AM
1/5th of all Americans can't find the US on a map. Why do you think this is?
 
Roadogs [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 11:05:39 AM
Poorboytech2000: What a Queen might look like

What people who believe in Queen might look like

i43.tinypic.com
 
NakedApe
2010-03-13 11:08:49 AM
This is an example of the law of unintended consequences. Multiple choice tests are used because they're easy to grade; the problem is they encourage guessing. If you put a ridiculous choice in there it's going to get picked by some of the guessers. If it was a fill in the blank test the results would be a more accurate "x in 10 British children don't know who invented the telephone."
 
dobro
2010-03-13 11:09:31 AM
It gets better!

"Just over a third of boys said Newton discovered fire, while the remaining 16% either said he invented the internet, or discovered the solar system or America."

Everyone knows Newton invented that fig cookie thing.
 
StreetlightInTheGhetto [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 11:09:45 AM
Why Would I Read the Article: 1/5th of all Americans can't find the US on a map. Why do you think this is?

Anyone can miss Canada the US, all tucked away down there.
 
StreetlightInTheGhetto [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 11:10:47 AM
dobro: It gets better!

"Just over a third of boys said Newton discovered fire, while the remaining 16% either said he invented the internet, or discovered the solar system or America."

Everyone knows Newton invented that fig cookie thing.

I love the fact that at least some British kids think America was 'invented'. It's kind of stupidly adorable.
 
StreetlightInTheGhetto [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 11:12:19 AM
StreetlightInTheGhetto: dobro: It gets better!

"Just over a third of boys said Newton discovered fire, while the remaining 16% either said he invented the internet, or discovered the solar system or America."

Everyone knows Newton invented that fig cookie thing.

I love the fact that at least some British kids think America was 'invented'. It's kind of stupidly adorable.

I'm gonna just post the Snopes link about Gore 'inventing the internet' since I know that's the inevitable reply to my post:

Spoiler - False.
 
Daffydil
2010-03-13 11:14:24 AM
8ace: Daffydil: 8ace: Daffydil: 8ace: Some of them even believe god invented everything!

'invented' or 'created'? if you're going to slam get it right...

Invented

/augmented

Man invented god, then god created everything, then Fox augmented god. And made man dumber

/circumvented
 
Jackpot777
2010-03-13 11:17:10 AM
pandadan.files.wordpress.com

There have always been idiots. There are idiots now. And even if we have a future where people could access facts from the web using an implanted device AND transmit these facts into the mind of another in an attempt to teach them something, we'll still have idiots.

The only reason we don't have as many people dying senseless deaths as we did centuries ago is because our advances allow the simplest of morons to ride on the shoulders of giants and gain the advantages of a world with soap, clean water, and immunizations. So much so, these people have the privilege of protesting the testing of soap / fluoride in tap water / autism in their indigo spazzing kid in a society that kept them alive and well enough to do so, using these things, until they reached the age where they could vocally cut off their noses to spite their faces.
 
PJMurphy
2010-03-13 11:18:21 AM
Saborlas: Don't SAY things like that! You're summoning the demon Murphy!

PJMurphy here, what can I do for you?
 
8ace [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 11:20:28 AM
Daffydil: 8ace: Daffydil: 8ace: Daffydil: 8ace: Some of them even believe god invented everything!

'invented' or 'created'? if you're going to slam get it right...

Invented

/augmented

Man invented god, then god created everything, then Fox augmented god. And made man dumber

/circumvented

The security system
 
Godamnlimey [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 11:22:28 AM
11 million school kids in the UK and they polled a thousand ,having said that Idiocracy seems more and more prophetic everyday.
 
cowsspinach
2010-03-13 11:23:16 AM
skinink: Fat bottomed Royals, you make the rockin' World go round!

She's too prissy I like her naughty sister better!

www.ratewall.com



i57.photobucket.com

/blonde and blue eyes...what's there not to love?
 
Millions_Knives
2010-03-13 11:24:38 AM
How many kids new that Jesus was a mechanic prior to his career as a prophet??
 
mrexcess
2010-03-13 11:25:17 AM
\^/
-_-
 
Jackpot777
2010-03-13 11:27:00 AM
StreetlightInTheGhetto: dobro: It gets better!

"Just over a third of boys said Newton discovered fire, while the remaining 16% either said he invented the internet, or discovered the solar system or America."

Everyone knows Newton invented that fig cookie thing.

I love the fact that at least some British kids think America was 'invented'. It's kind of stupidly adorable.

You know the old saying about people thinking you're an idiot, until you put it beyond doubt by saying something? Yeah. About that...
 
brantgoose [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 11:27:45 AM
Sir Isaac Newton, inventor of the internet.

Care to hazard a guess as to what percentage of Americans have bought into the claim that Al Gore claimed to have invented the internet?

I love those "student boners"--they open up vast vistas of alternative reality--especially if you're a horny school teacher.

What if Charles Darwin had invented the telephone? Ma Bell would be The Dickens. The biggest phone company in the world would be German, unless the British nationalized it. And very likely, Congress would never have forced Ma Bell to wire rural America, so the fly-over states would be short on telephone lines--and there would be an American Carlos Slim, some guy who went after all those customers the hard-wired companies were failing.

Bill Gates, the Telephone King of America? You can get any color of phone you like as long as it's black.

Remember those days? Those Bakelite phones made a much more satisfying dent in the wall than Blackberries. It was pretty hard to break one of those. Archeologists are going to be digging them in centuries to come, and many of them will still be in working order if you replace a few of the tinier rusted bits.
 
Jackpot777
2010-03-13 11:30:40 AM
StreetlightInTheGhetto: StreetlightInTheGhetto: dobro: It gets better!

"Just over a third of boys said Newton discovered fire, while the remaining 16% either said he invented the internet, or discovered the solar system or America."

Everyone knows Newton invented that fig cookie thing.

I love the fact that at least some British kids think America was 'invented'. It's kind of stupidly adorable.

I'm gonna just post the Snopes link about Gore 'inventing the internet' since I know that's the inevitable reply to my post:

Spoiler - False.

You thought THAT was the inevitable reply?

/you know we mock self pwnage hard on Fark, right?
 
8ace [TotalFark]
2010-03-13 11:30:40 AM
Millions_Knives: How many kids new that Jesus was a mechanic doctor prior to his career as a prophet comedian??

FTFY
 
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