No Dearie, Ignorance Really Isn’t Bliss…
Friday, October 26, 2007Posted in: Miami Dolphins In London, there's a fucktard born every minute
Apparently Channing Crowder, Miami Dolphins linebacker didn’t realise that they speak English in London.
This is what Crowder had to say:
“I couldn’t find London on a map if they didn’t have the names of the countries,” he said.
“I swear to God. I don’t know what nothing is. I know Italy looks like a boot. I learned that.”
Ya see, this is why some Americans seriously need to get a passport and leave the country every now and again.
I wouldn’t mind, but he’s rich, so it’s not like money is an issue.
How does one not know that A, London is in England, and that B, Londoners speak English? Is this not general knowledge?
shiloh walker
October 26
4:49 pm
Oh, man… I winced when I read this part.
“That’s the closest thing I know to London. He’s black, so I’m sure he’s not from London. I’m sure that’s a coincidental name.”
Apparently he doesn’t know that black people live in London, too.
Oye.
Sarah McCarty
October 26
5:08 pm
Speechless. I’m simply…speechless. (and this is not an easy thing to achieve!)
Casee
October 26
5:29 pm
Huh. I thought you spoke British and we spoke American.
Just shows that money doesn’t buy intelligence (or common sense in this case).
Kat O+
October 26
5:45 pm
Holy crap.
Ann Bruce
October 26
6:09 pm
I live in Canada and I had a tourist in a bookstore once ask me if the books were in American.
I won’t reveal what I said in response, but suffice it to say that she turned beet red and left in a huff.
Barbara B.
October 26
8:34 pm
This is sad. What’s even sadder is that this kid graduated high school and attended college for 4 years. I hope that he’s able to hold onto some of that football money because his prospects in the real world aren’t that great.
wendy
October 26
10:01 pm
I think he might have been taking the mickey.
Loved the stories on the sidebar, especially the one about the stupid sod who got drunk and dived onto a croc.
Dee Tenorio
October 26
10:34 pm
See, dis is wah dey needs edjamakayshun in da’hood. 🙂
LOL, y’all really think that poor boy was bothered with grades while playing football?
Sadly, I can’t tell you how many folks here in Orange County say they speak American and their employees speak Mexican. You stop beating your head on a stone after a while.
LOL though, Karen. You sure you really want your brethren inundated with people this dumb?
Dee
Rosie
October 26
11:34 pm
Please tell me he wasn’t drafted from college? That’s just ridiculous and if you didn’t know why practically brag about it? Even more ignorant.
LauraD
October 26
11:41 pm
I once had a fellow American tell me she wouldn’t be comfortable visiting Sante Fe because she didn’t speak Spanish.
Teddy Pig
October 27
1:57 am
If there is one thing I learned living in the South, The Carolinas that is. Florida is nice and all that but I think it sucks your brain dry or something.
Keira Ramsay
October 27
3:12 am
OMG!! I caught this while hubby was watching ESPN tonight (which I was studiously ignoring until this caught my attention).
Holy shit. Besides being totally ashamed that an American is THAT stupid, what else can I say?
Pepper Espinoza
October 27
5:08 am
Well, you know, the guy does play for the 0-7 Miami Dolphins. Maybe you’d be Channing-Crowder-dumb if you had Channing Crowder’s problems….
Karen Scott
October 27
6:11 am
I once had a fellow American tell me she wouldn’t be comfortable visiting Sante Fe because she didn’t speak Spanish.
OK, now that is HILARIOUS!!!
Florida is nice and all that but I think it sucks your brain dry or something.
Teddy, there’s at least one person in Blogland who that applies to.
Karen Scott
October 27
6:20 am
Hey, Blogger finally put in follow-up comments via e-mail, about time too!! Oh crap, you have to have a GMail a/c! Oh well, at least it’s a start.
Anonymous
October 27
3:22 pm
He was being interviewed on a male oriented morning show and he was joking.
Shannon Stacey
October 27
4:38 pm
Could you imagine if he had kids with that Miss America contestant-slash-geography whiz?
Wow.
Anonymous
October 27
6:50 pm
A guy from New Mexico applied for a scholarship from Harvard. He was advised to apply within his own nation of Mexico. So an American, gainfully employed at Harvard, didn’t realize that New Mexico is part of the US. Yeah, we largely retarded when it comes to geography.
–Jackie L.
Sam
October 28
2:35 pm
I lived in the US Virgin Islands. People came into the shop I worked in and asked me what language we spoke.
Others asked us what money we used.
Still others wanted to know if the island floated.
There’s something about tourism, maybe, that makes people say dumb things.
Eve Vaughn
October 28
2:43 pm
This isn’t surprising at all. This idiot is clearly a product of what happens when you excel at sports in the US. From very early on teachers are told to look the other way if the star athlete cheats or can’t read beyond a first grade level which is the case with a lot of pro athletes over here (not all but a significant amount). Education is not emphasized when you can toss, catch, hit or dunk a ball. When I attended college, damn if any of the atheletes ever showed up to class and somehow they still managed to get passing grades. Just sad.
byrdloves2read
October 28
4:44 pm
Those comments about New Mexico are so spot on! Twenty-five years ago when I moved from Virginia to New Mexico my fellow workers wanted to know if I had to get shots and a passport. Sigh. And I was working at an insurance company at the time. The Ugly American just keeps going and going like the Energizer Bunny. Big Sigh!
Oh yeah, and athletes in the USA are a privileged species. No doubt about it.
bonnie
October 29
12:26 am
It is so sad that so many Americans barely know the geography of their own state much less the whole of the US and very much less the whole world. I remember when I was soph in high school, our world history teacher assigned us a uber-easy assignment: label a world map with major landmarks. At least my best friend and I thought it was uber-easy. The rest of the class had to resort to asking us where crazy things like the Amazon River, Australia, England and the Nile River were. I was flabbergasted! That was when I realized that many of the students around me weren’t interested in anything beyond their own limited scope of experience.
Anonymous
October 30
3:25 am
In defense of some Americans, it all depends on where you are educated in the country as to just how much you know about the rest of the world. I grew up in Iowa, which most people outside of bordering states always assume is Idaho. I used to think how fucking retarded are these people.
Then I moved to Ohio and got involved in a local school. Those students, high schoolers, didn’t learn anything even close to what I did. I was absolutely flummoxed by the ignorance. The last straw for me was when a political science teacher informed her class that there was no such thing as Jews, in relation to heritage. I quit the school, and told my husband we were moving back to Iowa.
My children received excellent educations in Iowa. They learned world history and geography, as well as the state’s history beginning in elementary school and continuing through high school.
In all truth, most athletes still get cut a great deal of slack when it comes to the pass or fail and its relationship to eligibility. So IMO they shouldn’t be relied upon to show the general aptitude of the country.
Shirley