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18th December 2013, 15:36 #31
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Re: Americans Try To Place European Countries on a Map
I can imagine my face if an american would say "I'm from North, South Carolina".......
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18th December 2013, 17:46 #32
Re: Americans Try To Place European Countries on a Map
How about 'northern lower Michigan?'
As someone stated there's a big difference between states, and the further south you go you start running into county loyalties as well. I was at a rally in Tennessee with some local rescue workers complaining about saving 'idiots that float down from Hickman County.' That said one of them had been tanker in the Army and lived a number of years in Germany.
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18th December 2013, 19:01 #33
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Re: Americans Try To Place European Countries on a Map
Originally Posted by Gregor-y"Old roats am jake mit goats."
-- Smokey Stover
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18th December 2013, 21:37 #34
Re: Americans Try To Place European Countries on a Map
That's how I try to explain where the Sno*Drift rally is located, near Atlanta, MI.
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20th December 2013, 16:28 #35
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Re: Americans Try To Place European Countries on a Map
[quote=555-04Q2]
Originally Posted by "D-Type":1mebznv0
Yank: "Hey there. Noticed your accent. You from Australia?"
Me: "No boet, I'm from sunny South Africa."
Yank: "Oh ok." <blank stare for a few moments> "Where's South Africa?" <he asks with a serious face>
Me: "Erm, at the bottom, you know, southern part of Africa."
Yank: <another blank stare for a few seconds> "Oh yeah, yeah, ok. I think I got it."
Me: Turned and walked away before I burst out laughing in his face. Idiot.[/quote:1mebznv0]
So you chose one American to bash the whole country. Amusing to see this as South Africa, the country ranks way down in knowledge of Math, Sciences and Reading.
I find it difficult to believe what you are telling us. It's one thing talking about Southern Africa. Another to locate and know about South Africa. Like NI and ROI.
I wonder what you would do in the Bayou to get yourself out? Would you be in Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas? Where. Maybe in Biafra, Zaire,Tanganyika and Zanzibar,Abyssinia. How many variations of Congo are there and how many of your citizens of South Africa could place and name without using Google where in the continent they are or even what they were formally known as.
We found how to get to the moon. Did you? Oh yes, you hosted the World Cup, but, we did that before you in '94.
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21st December 2013, 15:18 #36
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Re: Americans Try To Place European Countries on a Map
Don't expect much from a country who elected Obama.
Obama to Biden - "Let the Welfare checks rain upon the Earth - I am going to a barbecue"
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22nd December 2013, 21:13 #37
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Re: Americans Try To Place European Countries on a Map
Originally Posted by Roamy
Merry Christmas.
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23rd December 2013, 15:32 #38
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Re: Americans Try To Place European Countries on a Map
Originally Posted by Rollo
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24th December 2013, 16:32 #39
Re: Americans Try To Place European Countries on a Map
I would just draw a big circle around most of Europe and write "former Roman Empire" at the top.
"Every generation's memory is exactly as long as its own experience." --John Kenneth Galbraith
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24th December 2013, 22:56 #40
Re: Americans Try To Place European Countries on a Map
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
(I'll just let myself out...)
At 19:15 Saturday, the FIA are announcing a new WRC event for 2025 at Sardegna. The event, I don't know - perhaps Paraguay.
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