Why are so many Americans stupid?

**cluezo** · 30th September 2012 08:28

Originally Posted by swampy

They believe 100% that America is god and the salvation of the planet.
Wake the fuck up pond life.

**keekwai** · 30th September 2012 08:34

There's only one reason this thread will never be as successful as the "Why are Australians So Stupid?" thread.

1. It's true.

**Don** · 30th September 2012 08:38

I think that every nation has it's stupid people, but stupid Americans are more noticeable as they are LOUD!

**cluezo** · 30th September 2012 08:39

Unlike the Russians

**swampy** · 30th September 2012 12:31

Unless you spend time in the urban high rises of Nutsakograd you are not likely to meet any real Russians.
I firmly believe that he only Russians who travel abroad are drug couriers on a money laundering holiday, which is why they set up expensive brothels in Thailand.

---Update---

Most Real Russians stay home to fix their 50 year old tractors. Nutsakograd is the new Cuba.

**purplesmoker** · 30th September 2012 13:14

"Compare it to Thai, French, German, or Swedish humor--my god" That's what i like about u TOAC, yoou have no idea what you're talking about but still u make this kind of statement! Unfreakingbelievable

---Update---

Norway 0.890 ()
Australia 0.856 ()
Sweden 0.851 ( 5)
Netherlands 0.846 ( 1)
Iceland 0.845 ( 5)
Ireland 0.843 ()
Germany 0.842 ()
Denmark 0.842 ( 4)
Switzerland 0.840 ()
Slovenia 0.837 ( 7)
Finland 0.833 ( 7)
Canada 0.829 ( 7)

Czech Republic 0.821 ( 9)
Austria 0.820 ( 1)
Belgium 0.819 ( 1)
France 0.804 ()
Spain 0.799 ( 2)
Luxembourg 0.799 ( 3)
United Kingdom 0.791 ( 4)
Slovakia 0.787 ( 7)
Israel 0.779 ( 8)
Italy 0.779 ( 2)
United States 0.771 ( 19)
Estonia 0.769 ( 2)

Nice USA just infront Estonia (IHDI)

**keekwai** · 30th September 2012 13:19

Originally Posted by purplesmoker

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Very nice set of stats. But what are they for?

**Beavis** · 30th September 2012 13:28

Since the subject of his post was humor, I assume the stats are the International Humor Division Index. I had no idea Norwegians were so funny...

**Enclavean** · 30th September 2012 13:30

Originally Posted by Beavis

I had no idea Norwegians were so funny...

Me neither

**keekwai** · 30th September 2012 13:33

If Aussies are so funny ... why didn't Thaithanium like my cannibal joke?

**swampy** · 30th September 2012 13:42

Originally Posted by Beavis

I had no idea Norwegians were so funny...

They are rip roaring funny. It;s the moonshine that does it.

Originally Posted by Beavis

International Humor Division Index

Does such a thing really exist? Do they have promotion and relegation?

**Beavis** · 30th September 2012 14:10

Yes the Jews win the League and Cup every year. Tyler Perry got the blacks relegated.

**purplesmoker** · 30th September 2012 14:17

"Tyler Perry got the blacks relegated"

---Update---

No I went off track, i was thinking of something else and in the end the post didn't make any sense

**swampy** · 30th September 2012 14:20

Originally Posted by purplesmoker

No I went off track, i was thinking of something else and in the end the post didn't make any sense

Happens to me all the time. In real life too.
I occasionally find myself in a pub and think to myself, "Who am I and what am I doing here"?

**purplesmoker** · 30th September 2012 14:42

"The problem is not just the things we do not know (consider the one in five American adults who, according to the National Science Foundation, thinks the sun revolves around the Earth); it's the alarming number of Americans who have smugly concluded that they do not need to know such things in the first place. Call this anti-rationalism -- a syndrome that is particularly dangerous to our public institutions and discourse."
Susan Jacoby - Washington Post