# The next time someone tells you how stupid Americans are ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-someone-tells-you-how-stupid-americans-are/372488 "2006-09-13T01:56:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-someone-tells-you-how-stupid-americans-are/372488/1 "2006-09-13T01:56:04Z")
… show them [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQRVFILbEi4). I don’t think you need to know the langauge to understand this French_Who Wants to Be A Millionaire_ question. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-someone-tells-you-how-stupid-americans-are/372488/2 "2006-09-13T02:02:56Z")
It’s just as boring a show in French as it is in English. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-someone-tells-you-how-stupid-americans-are/372488/3 "2006-09-13T02:04:54Z")
Do I understand that to ask which one as a tenth of the Earth’s gravity? The SUN?? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-someone-tells-you-how-stupid-americans-are/372488/4 "2006-09-13T02:18:08Z")
I don’t speak French, but I was assuming that A) the question was “Which of these is closest to the Earth” (Moon, Sun, Venus, or Mars), and B) that 56% the audience were fucking morons. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-someone-tells-you-how-stupid-americans-are/372488/5 "2006-09-13T02:22:25Z")
The question is asking “What revolves around the earth”? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-someone-tells-you-how-stupid-americans-are/372488/6 "2006-09-13T02:31:15Z")
I had to use Babelfish to see that the question was “What revolves around the Earth”. Goddamn those are some dumb fucks. Not that I was ever too impressed with the general science knowledge of Americans, but is France even worse? ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-someone-tells-you-how-stupid-americans-are/372488/7 "2006-09-13T02:36:43Z")
And not only does the man not know, but 56% of the audience says the sun? Oy. Stupidity apparently knows no national borders. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-someone-tells-you-how-stupid-americans-are/372488/8 "2006-09-13T03:31:19Z")
Comment dit-on _dumbass_ en Français? ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-someone-tells-you-how-stupid-americans-are/372488/9 "2006-09-13T04:14:21Z")
[QUOTE=Mama Tiger] And not only does the man not know, but 56% of the audience says the sun? Oy. Stupidity apparently knows no national borders. [/QUOTE] It could be conceivable that 20 or 30% of the audience voted for the wrong answer just to screw with the results, to make a more amusing result (I might have been tempted if I was in the audience). But then the other 20 to 30% still really _are_ that stupid. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-someone-tells-you-how-stupid-americans-are/372488/10 "2006-09-13T09:52:42Z")
I love the 2% that said “Mars”. Heck, even if the guy got hung up on the word “gravite”, you’d think that the “autour”(“around”) would have been a mighty big clue. ---
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-someone-tells-you-how-stupid-americans-are/372488/11 "2006-09-13T12:01:50Z")
And as one of the people commenting said, before you go casting stones from glass houses, check out [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yls_qSaJbLo)! ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-someone-tells-you-how-stupid-americans-are/372488/12 "2006-09-13T12:37:29Z")
[QUOTE=Dottygumdrop] And as one of the people commenting said, before you go casting stones from glass houses, check out [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yls_qSaJbLo)! [/QUOTE] Wow. That guy will be embarrassed by that for a long, long time. From the French one, the guy’s wife should have been playing. Her facial expression was pretty funny, she was shaking her head like no, you dolt. It’s the moon!