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**fishhead** · 31-01-12, 18:35

While I readily accept that Septics know little or nothing about the location of other countries around the world and even less about the people who inhabit them from what I have witnessed on TV quizzes the population of the UK are heading in the same direction.On a recent edition of the programme "Who Dares Wins" a couple in their 30s struggled to name 8 British counties and I am certain they were not isolated examples.

**alfred_the_great** · 31-01-12, 19:28

And the US is bigger than most of W Europe put together - I'd like y'all to point to Turin (or Indiana) without looking it up first.

**Magda** · 31-01-12, 19:54

I'd argue - perhaps wrongly - that a fair few Brits could point to where Washington DC is on a blank map of the US, ATG. Maybe?

**Montigny-La-Palisse** · 31-01-12, 20:01

Originally Posted by fishhead

While I readily accept that Septics know little or nothing about the location of other countries around the world and even less about the people who inhabit them from what I have witnessed on TV quizzes the population of the UK are heading in the same direction.On a recent edition of the programme "Who Dares Wins" a couple in their 30s struggled to name 8 British counties and I am certain they were not isolated examples.

To be fair, the people who appear on such shows are invariably fuckwits.

**Zebraaa** · 31-01-12, 20:47

Million pound drop fail - YouTube
Imagine not knowing about Justin Timberlake. Burn

**alfred_the_great** · 31-01-12, 20:58

Originally Posted by Magda

I'd argue - perhaps wrongly - that a fair few Brits could point to where Washington DC is on a blank map of the US, ATG. Maybe?

A - I doubt it
B - why would they care where London is? Seriously, for all the shit they get, they are still the single most powerful country in the world. They have more types of environment in one country than we can achieve in an entire continent. Why bother learning about London (Red buses, the Queen and guardsmen right), when you can have LA, Texas, Yellowstone Park, The Rockies, NYNY, Boston, Miami, all without having to get a passport.

**Flagdeck** · 31-01-12, 21:08

Originally Posted by Montigny-La-Palisse

To be fair, the people who appear on such shows are invariably fuckwits.

Yeah, but they're 'British' fuckwits !

**MG Maniac** · 01-02-12, 09:15

Must admit I got to thinking last night ... if thats where the Septics think London is ... I hope the bloke that sets the coordinates in their inter-continental ballistic missiles isn't working from the same sort of map .... but it would explain a few of the freindly fire episodes!

**SJRM_RN** · 01-02-12, 10:17

I have to agree with ATG here, how many British people could point to say; Tokyo, Berlin, Moscow, Seoul etc on a map? Probably not that many; let alone major US/Canadian cities.

Or even; Bolton, Manchester, Edinburgh, Truro, Cardiff, Cambridge, Oxford, Norwich etc etc.?