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Is she a right wing personality? Not remembering much about Nicaragua is a serious career booster in those quarters. They should have had Oliver North on the show. No one doesn't remember more about Nicaragua than him.
...no one is going to get this one.
Oh I got it, but then, I wasn’t schooled in America
Most of us aren't 60 years old or are going to remember every detail of every major GOP scandal. The short version, Ollie North took the fall for Reagan's Iran-Contra weapons sales, is sufficient without knowing that the Contras were Nicaraguan.
Ollie North took the fall
I'd hardly call that a fall.
Sorry, best I can remember is Peter North.
europeans dominating when they get into a naming countries competition with the not educated in the field of naming countries competition competition that they have.
This has little to do with American vs British schooling and a lot more to do with the specific people involved. The UK has lots of comedians dumber than Noel and the US has plenty smarter than Chelsea
Aye, but... we all know they are different.
Perhaps it's hard to see if you're American, but sometimes it's downright incredible — in the very sense of the word — how badly educated some Americans are.
I'm Finnish, and I genuinely have a hard time imagining someone not being able to name like 10 countries on a map. Even people I know who literally discovered an inner monologue at the age of 25 while in a stimulant psychosis, and who had been huffing gas and paint since they were 12, and never were too sharp to begin with, those people could name a couple of dozen countries and at least all the continents. (Edit, now that I consider it, I think it's also to do with Europeans "needing" to know Europe whereas Americans don't. Just need to know Canada, Mexico, but then all the different states. Although European countries have similar divisions as well, I'd argue the local entities are less crucial than in the States. Hell, I probably don't remember our one's 100% correctly)
No offense, America has a lot of smart people. And Noel Fielding isn't an example of a highly educated person. He was in the Croydon School for Art and then got a degree for graphic design. Meanwhile in the US, common core maths is a thing.
So like, let's not pretend there's not a pretty significant difference in the education systems. Not recognising that would mean accepting the one the US has, and I for one think education is rather important and that the US could improve even if they were the best in the world. Which they're not. Granted, now was the first time I checked the 2024 rankings, and the difference between UK and US is much smaller than I expected. UK being #14 and US #18.
As someone totally ignorant about a lot of pop culture, who is that lady?
Chelsea Handler
She's a football manager?
Thank you. I still didn't know who she was, but I looked her up. She's clearly ignorant, but it seems like her heart is in the right place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Handler#Political_views
I consider myself ignorant of only about 2/3rds of pop culture and I still have no idea who any of these people are.
The two at the bottom are British comedians Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, most famous for a very weird, partially-improvised show called The Mighty Boosh, which has quite a cult following. But I have no idea who the lady is.
Isn't the left one the goth guy from IT Crowd?
He was. He’s a boss now.
Yes. He also is one of the current hosts of The Great British Bake-Off.
Best part of the show imo. His stints on 8/10 cats are also top tier
There's nothing I don't like about bake-off. I hate reality shows because everyone is mean to each other... except bake-off, where everyone's friendly and nice and encouraging. It's so refreshing to see.
I will give them this, England is great at geography. Can't colonize if you can't get there.
The taste of fine English cuisine, and the beauty of English women made the English men the best sailors in the world.
It's all still on the curriculum from when everything was part of the Glorious Empire
Having grown up in both countries, the joke here is about colonialism more than American stupidity.
The British know everywhere spices, sugar and coffee come from innately
The joke is that America Bad, and you're ruining it by bringing England Bad into it. What are you, some kind of shill for America? How much is Big America paying you, bro?
Big America pays everyone(except our employees)!