Oh Brother!

[Yank]

I'm going down to Booze Buster and pick up a six-pack of Bud, then stop for a pizza, come home and get ready for this eye-opening program on BBC2 tonight.
 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20030617/20030617_2100_4224_42448_90

[mankie]

You live in Europe and still drink that rats piss they call Bud....no wonder we hate Americans!

[ggw]

Sounds just like this Pew report.
 
 http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=185

[Bags]

From the article:
 
 "Hosted from London, the programme boasts a panel of quality thinkers, movers and shakers - a seldom-convened brains trust of world views on America pre-eminence. "
 
 If that's the case, why don't they tell us who any of them are?  It's going to be a bloodbath, and all about G.W., the f@&#er.

[ggw]

Originally posted by bags:
  From the article:
 
 "Hosted from London, the programme boasts a panel of quality thinkers, movers and shakers - a seldom-convened brains trust of world views on America pre-eminence. "
 
 If that's the case, why don't they tell us who any of them are?  It's going to be a bloodbath, and all about G.W., the f@&#er.

including former cabinet minister Clare Short, US journalist Joe Klein and former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto
 
 Others:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/wtwta/default.stm
 
 Take the America Quiz:
 
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/wtwta/2962622.stm

[thirsty moore]

Cripes, I only got 7 right.  I should have been homeschooled.

[ggw]

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
  Cripes, I only got 7 right.  I should have been homeschooled.

I got 8.  I didn't know about the hamburger or the latest revisionist theory on the Siberians.

[markie]

I only got five, I should obviously go home....
 
 in addition to those two, I got population, internet usage and the dollar question wrong......

[vansmack]

9 out of 10.  The only one I missed was the dollar question, which seems to have more to do with Germany than America, but that's just me.

[Bags]

I got six, missing pretty much the same questions most missed (because they're a bit of bullshit).  The revised discovery of America, populations and internet usage and the dollar crap.  Don't think I'm a bad American for not knowing all that, but damn, still stung a little....

[Bags]

PS, I only got hamburger because when they mentioned adding bread to the meat to stretch it, I thought, "Dude, that's not hamburger, that's meatloaf!"

[mankie]

8/10
 
 Got the hamburger one wrong and the "who discovered the place" wrong.
 
 Not bad for an ignorant wetback eh?

[markie]

mankie is smarter than me.....
 
 please kill me.

[ggw]

Originally posted by mankie:
 Not bad for an ignorant wetback eh?

You're Hispanic?

[thirsty moore]

Your from the UK, not Mexico.
 
   

Originally posted by mankie:
 Not bad for an ignorant wetback eh?