Comments on: I Suck at Geography, and Can’t Read, Either

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:27:43 +0000

I’ll give that a second.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:56:28 +0000

I nominate Paul’s last comment for the “being offended with the least justification” award. As the commercial says – I didn’t see that coming.

By: digglahhh

digglahhh — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:10:16 +0000

It was a joke, Paul. Relax.

Plus, KTK didn’t act like an asshat. I allegedly did.

But, I wasn’t the one who made the mistakes either. I’m aware of the Mercator Projection issue, I just said that I kinda suck a geography – a problem, btw, that would not be very much resolved by learning about the Mercator projection anyway.

By: KTK

KTK — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:47:57 +0000

Actually, I didn't say anything about the projection issue. I was trying to look cool about it, like I already knew all that. The truth is I did totally forget the map projection problem, while at the same time mentally discounting the size of Greenland, because that's the classic example of Mercator distortion and I know it's not really that big. So there's an example of something I did know messing up what I thought I knew, in addition to all the things I didn't know. But any way you slice it, the Nordic countries are way bigger than you'd think, given their otherwise invisible position on the world scene. Also, if you tilt your head to the left, they look like a double-headed penis with three balls. Which is kind of cool.

By: Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:35:05 +0000

people will respond to you as if you are a total moron

It’s nice to know that if you offer some advice to somebody to help them no longer make the sort of mistakes they just confessed to having made, they’ll act like a total asshat about it.

By: redjade

redjade — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:34:35 +0000

Thanks this was a laugh in my home with my hungarian wife. She’s always frightened when she meets an American to find out how ignorant they are – perhaps that’s why she enjoys educating me!

I am always amazed how much Europeans know about America. I pride myself in being able to say I have travelled through a majority of US states – but I met many Europeans who claim to have travelled far more in the US of A than I – and most europeans simply cannot believe that I have never been to California.

Recently, I went to a Budapest meeting of Hungary for Obama only to discover a majority of the group are Hungarians and that they know the US Campaign issues better than some Americans I know!

Here’s a mp3 recording I did of what Hungarians think of Obama….
http://lmv.hu/node/2787

By: shirt

shirt — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:36:55 +0000

As Thers always says, sometimes, “Si vous refusez de lire, vous êtes des cons.”

By: Dan M.

Dan M. — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:18:24 +0000

~~Blah blah Mercator.~~ Equal area!

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:04:23 +0000

If he does it more than once, I’ll begin to wonder.

By: Derf's Irom

Derf's Irom — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:34:19 +0000

quote: “give McCain a call and describe your trip to him. Maybe then he will stop talking about Checkoslovakia[sic].”

Give Obama a call and tell him there are 50 states, not 57.