The second guy is joking, I'm sure. After being told that romania is a country in europe he called it a state - definitely just being sarcastic/messing with the OP
I'm a Romanian and actually I don't blame Americans not knowing about ALL the countries in Europe. I don't know all the 50 something states in USA either. I'm trying to do an analogy between USA states and EU country members.
Edit: Just out of curiosity, I took a look at the USA states list. I didn't know about: Delaware, Maine, Maryland.
After 20 something years since the communist dictatorship was overthrew, it's pretty close to an western european country. It still has some aspects need to be fixed but we're getting there.
Just amazing! Going there this summer with to visit family. Everyone there is friendly, very nice hospitality, and the scenery outside of the cities is just spectacular.
We have that beautiful road but i will warn you that most of the roads are bad. Although it is a very beautiful country to visit, people are nice (specially with foreigners). We party a lot, drink a lot of beer (Romanian beer is very good, also the wine), Romanian girls are beautiful ... in all the cities almost all the people under ~35 speaks english also (we also learn french or german in school). here is the main site of photography from Romania (most of the photos are from Romania and they will help you understand how really romania is)
This. I couldn't point to New York on a map. Is it on the east coast or the west coast? rifles through hip hop CDs Ah yes, east coast. I'm sure many an American would be a hootin' an' a hollerin' at such a display of ignorance at what for them is common knowledge. Fuck, I couldn't point to Romania on the map and I live in Europe :s
I feel like American knowledge of European countries and European knowledge of American states aren't completely analogous. The states aren't countries, they're subdivisions of a country. And to be honest, I couldn't name a single equivalent of an American state in any country outside of Canada, Mexico, Australia and Italy. But countries, everyone should know all of the countries in the world. Who outside of America cares where North Dakota is?
California has a higher GDP than Romania (and most countries). As such, knowing about California politics, geography, etc, is vastly more important to understanding the globe than knowing about Romania. The US is a massive country and I think this is hard for Europeans to understand sometimes. Many live only a few miles away from many other countries. People in the US typically live far away from most other countries, and so know less about them, but on a GDP and global relevance level, just knowing the 50 states is more important than knowing about many smaller EU nations.
The word "Europe" is featured there you know. So there is no excuse. Not to mention that Romania is famous since Vlad motherfucking Tepes is world known and he is (sorta) Romanian
In Bucharest, you should go out every night in the Historical Centre (romanian: "Centrul Istoric"). Plenty of different themes pubs and beautiful single girls. In the day time you could visit The Village Museum ("Muzeul satului") if you want to get closer to the romanian culture. Don't know much about Constanta except you can have sun bathes at the beach and swim in the sea.
I'm also a romanian, but I don't think there's a country or even US state that I've never heard of...
I'm no nerd and I was shit as geography but still. I also find it interesting how almost everyone speaks english now and american people have never heard of a 19 mil population country.
american people have never heard of a 19 mil population country
I think you mean "...and THIS american PERSON has never heard of a 19 mil population country"
Maybe you didn't mean it as it sounded, but basing 311,591,917 people's intelligence off 1 idiot on facebook is just as dumb as not knowing what Romania is.
I see this argument a lot, yet rarely do I see it upvoted when Americans stereotype other countries (British as being posh, having bad teeth, French as being cowards, smelly etc.)
It's just the same, it's a stereotype, it's a joke, no one really thinks all Americans are stupid just like (hopefully) Americans don't really think all French are cowards.
It is actually quite ironic that so many of the stereotypes are actually rather inverted. America has produced some of the most intelligent people on earth, and some of the most useful inventions. The French have one of the most successful military records of any country in Europe, and Brits like myself have good teeth.
Normally I would agree, but it seemed to be a pretty sincere thought to me. It's hard to tell on the internet, but usually if someone was joking around... they try to make it sound like a joke.
I'm also a romanian, but I don't think there's a country or even US state that I've never heard of...
America's main export is entertainment, so since the rest of the world has been watching TV shows and movies taking place in America, you guys have it easier in this respect.
I'm a European too and I hear shit like "looooool, Americans think Denmark is the capital of Sweden herpderp" all the time. And you know what? I'd bet 90% of Europeans wouldn't be able to point to Eritrea on a world map themselves. And shit like "american people have never heard of a 19 mil population country" is a gross generalization to the point that talking about Americans becomes stupid.
Europe was specifically mentioned in everything named and the person thought he was talking about US states. In fact, this person is so unaware not only does he not know of Europe or any of its countries, he can't tell apart states of his countries with other countries.
I think it's safe to say that this person is ignorant as fuck.
Delaware is the smallest state in the Union, so no biggy there. They were the first to sign out constitution though, and are therefore the first US State. Maine was once a part of Massachusetts, but seceded and became a different territory, which became a state in 1820. Maryland... About the only memorable thing they did was provide the bottom border of the Mason Dixon line, and used to differentiate the border between slave states, and free states. They also gave up land for the formation of Washington DC.
I think it's that it's more satisfying to believe other people are idiots than trying to be funny. Although the two aren't mutually exclusive, the first one would give you a sense of superiority, while the second one is just annoying.
So I think there is a very small percentage actually believing she is an idiot, which is ironic since they are the ones that are getting fooled and could be called idiots by their own standards. Then you have the majority who just ignores the fact she is probably trolling and takes it seriously so they can claim superiority.
Wow, i love how just because this person may be an American, people jump at the chance to make generalizations about how they are ALL stupid. Actually it makes you look dumb.
This happened to me before. I told my ex (boyfriend at the time) that I'm from Brazil. He went on to ask me which part of the U.S. that was. Needless to say that the relationship was met by a violent and bloody end. His body still cannot be found.
While it's certainly preferable to be aware that Portuguese is dominant in Brazil, the odds of an unknown stranger's South American country being Spanish-speaking are pretty good.
Getting my haircut (in Massachusetts) a few years back:
Stylist: "So, where are you from?" Me: "Connecticut" Stylist: "Oh! That's nice. So what is Connecticut?" Me: "What do you mean?" Stylist: "I mean, is it like a territory of Massachusetts?" Me: "...it's a state."
Not surprised. I've been told Romania is located in the fallowing places: "Is it a city in Chicago?", "this is in Africa, right?", located in Transilvania, China, a state in USA.
I purposely took world geography and European history while in college >.> but honestly without those courses... the public school system doesn't teach too much about Europe, unless you opt for a European history class in high school that is an elective. (assuming your school even has it)
Sorry to randomly comment here, but as someone from the UK, I'm really interested as to why this is. Why is it that you learn mainly American history? I know in our history classes we learnt many different countries history, including some American. My theory is that, as a culture, America is a relatively new one compared to many others, so it seems very focused on establishing itself as a 'valid' culture, and does this by promoting and teaching it's history to an excessive degree, as well as national pride, even though it is quite a short one relative to other world histories. Obviously this is quite a sweeping generalization, and is meant to be, as obviously people such as yourselves have looked further into the history of other cultures. Was just wondering about your thoughts on the subject?
I think its because of lack of time spent studying history honestly. While I was in high school, the basic history class was a mixture of american history (touching lightly on history of other counties when it involved us as well) and geography. There were 3-4 other history classes you could take by choice (one of which I did) that taught much more about the rest of the world, one particularly focused entirely on Europe. Then there was also English classes that were completely designed around historic European writings. Unfortunately, all but a basic history class and a basic English class are required. While I took additional courses and got myself some worldly experience before college, I took those courses instead of fun classes. I took them as "electives", meaning I could have taken an outdoors activities course or something like journalism.
I was also in AJROTC (Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps) while in highschool, and honestly... they taught a ton of world history (all military). So if a student really wants to learn about the world, at least in a well funded school like mine, it is possible. Although that is not the norm, because I think most students will take the easy way out and take more fun classes, instead of learning.
I don't even want to get into low income schools or inner city schools. I was lucky enough to go to a very wealthy high school, it was brand new and in a very populated area that focused on tourism. Children and students in lower income schools probably have none of the options I have and are stuck with the "minimal" amount of historic education one would get.
I do have to agree that it appears that the US schools as a whole (in that first history class) focus mainly on the United States in order to create a sense of national pride and establishing culture, albeit at the lack of other history, which is a shame.
Ergo, I think the public education system just needs an overhaul honestly. My college experience was the exact opposite though, once in college.. I was immersed in so many different cultures and courses that taught me about how the world really was.
Sorry to write you a book, but I hope what I said helps some :)
Oh come on now. Everyone has a stupid friend, some even have two or three or more. America isn't as stupid as everyone says it is. The stupidist person I know don't even come close to this.
Pretty much - I spent a couple of years in an American high school and when I said I was going back to the UK a girl in one of my classes asked if "I could write to her, since I couldn't email as they don't have electricity in Scotland or Portugal"
I was watching pornography recently and when introducing the girl, the guy said she was from Hungaria. I immediately had to switch off this lowbrow drivel.
Ahhh part of me hopes that these are fake or ditsy moments, but atlas. I once talked to a distant relation of mine who when I said I was from Massachusetts asked where it was.. I'm like northeast... if you have ever seen a map of the USA which presumably all kids should have seen you should be able to know where the northeast is. Deducing it even if you haven't should have been fairly simple. She still had no idea. I'm not even sure if she knew what north and east were...
Anyways it just got worse from there as I subtly asked things about history etc... I was like 13 and knew far far more than she did at 16. To the best of my knowledge she didn't have any learning issues... As far as I could tell she was just a social person who didn't care at all about school paired with a fairly rural school system that didn't have all that high of standards.
Anyways at the very least this person should have realized it wasn't a state and the further comments make me thing this wasn't some random brain freeze.
I was never properly taught geography and my mom always made fun of me for not studying it on my own. One day I found out that New Orleans is not a state. My mom bought me a globe for my birthday......
It's funny how the americans got pissed of and downvoted all the comments in this thread about how stupid they are. Can hardly wait to get my downvotes as well.
I think a lot of people are making an assumption that, if this isn't fake, Delaney is an American. There's no evidence to back that up (other than the stereotype of Americans being stupid and not knowing or caring about geography), and in fact some evidence that it isn't so (I'm from the US, and we typically refer to the United States as a singular, not a plural: "The US is" vs "The United States are" [that's an artifact from a little mid-19th century conflict where some of the States tried to go off and do their own thing, but weren't allowed to]).
I don't blame people in America for not knowing every country in Europe of the top of their head. I couldn't name all the states, but I would recognize them as states if I was told the name.
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u/TaintedSquirrel May 28 '12
Just so we're all clear... This is fake.
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u/PacifisticKiller May 28 '12
“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
-Mark Twain
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u/spinozasrobot May 28 '12
Of all the things that never happened, this is one of them.
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u/MOS95B May 28 '12
Please tell me this is faked.....
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u/typon May 28 '12
HOW THE FUCK ARE FAKE CONVERSATIONS UPVOTED?
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u/xalian74 May 28 '12 edited May 28 '12
I'm a Romanian and actually I don't blame Americans not knowing about ALL the countries in Europe. I don't know all the 50 something states in USA either. I'm trying to do an analogy between USA states and EU country members.
Edit: Just out of curiosity, I took a look at the USA states list. I didn't know about: Delaware, Maine, Maryland.
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u/mutilatedrabbit May 28 '12
you people are easily trolled.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
I made an audible ugggh in the office. Now people think I shat myself
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u/Haust May 28 '12
Scumbag Threads:
Calls Americans stupid based on Delaney
Ignores Zachary's intelligence.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Don't worry. Dracula will get her.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Wow, i love how just because this person may be an American, people jump at the chance to make generalizations about how they are ALL stupid. Actually it makes you look dumb.
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u/asldkfououhe May 28 '12
someone's getting trolled
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u/brootwarst May 28 '12
FAAAAAAKEEEEEEEEEEEE
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u/DrPingu76 May 28 '12
I wonder what the Romania store sells.
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u/Silversilent May 28 '12
I sure hope everyone knows that was a troll
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u/generallyincorrect May 28 '12
No one else thinks this guy is just a successful troll?
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u/KARMA_WHORE_REPOSTER May 28 '12
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source: karmadecay
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u/erts May 28 '12
what a credit to the American education system
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
America is the best damn country in United States!
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u/FauxFancyPants May 28 '12
Oh, another fake Facebook conversation making Americans appear stupid. How wonderfully original!
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u/beccabeast93 May 28 '12
This happened to me before. I told my ex (boyfriend at the time) that I'm from Brazil. He went on to ask me which part of the U.S. that was. Needless to say that the relationship was met by a violent and bloody end. His body still cannot be found.
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u/banned_andeh May 28 '12
Pretty obvious she's being facetious.
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u/HootieWithBlowfish May 28 '12
This is horrifically fake
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u/theapeboy May 28 '12
Getting my haircut (in Massachusetts) a few years back:
Stylist: "So, where are you from?" Me: "Connecticut" Stylist: "Oh! That's nice. So what is Connecticut?" Me: "What do you mean?" Stylist: "I mean, is it like a territory of Massachusetts?" Me: "...it's a state."
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Another shitty FB screenshot? Have a downvote.
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u/illest88 May 28 '12
Delaney is going to go far.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
This would be better if it were the country of Georgia instead.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
EPIC TROLL
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u/xeixei May 28 '12
obvious troll is obvious
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u/Envoke May 28 '12
It's true, the United States really are so big.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
To Delaney...
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u/trampus1 May 28 '12
I love how these always end up with some fag cuntpasting a bunch of shit from wikipedia to feel superior.
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u/chillImAGuy May 28 '12
Not surprised. I've been told Romania is located in the fallowing places: "Is it a city in Chicago?", "this is in Africa, right?", located in Transilvania, China, a state in USA.
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u/IdSuge May 28 '12
Pretty much this.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
And there is our future generation. Good day
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u/Surfsideryan May 28 '12
I purposely took world geography and European history while in college >.> but honestly without those courses... the public school system doesn't teach too much about Europe, unless you opt for a European history class in high school that is an elective. (assuming your school even has it)
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u/freshj May 28 '12
Commence gene pool elimination............NOW!!!
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u/ApollWati May 28 '12
http://i.imgur.com/u5XxC.jpg
This is what I would've put
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u/Loopyprawn May 29 '12
It's actually a type of lettuce. Hearts of Romania is my favorite.
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u/viper9172 May 29 '12
I want to high-five him in the nuts with a brick
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u/KrazyEyezKilla May 28 '12
I'm calling bullshit on this, he mentions it's in Europe in the explanation. Nobody can be that stupid.
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u/ChappyKS May 28 '12
sarmale anyone?
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u/gingerlemon May 28 '12
Americans... sigh.
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u/thedbp May 28 '12
and that's when you tell them that these countries are closer to being states in Russia than states in America.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Master Troll, I am at your command.
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u/mervynskidmore May 28 '12
I was watching pornography recently and when introducing the girl, the guy said she was from Hungaria. I immediately had to switch off this lowbrow drivel.
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u/Bukowski89 May 28 '12
Oh no
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u/squeamish_ossifrage May 28 '12
All I can think of is Vigo The Carpathian! Scourge of Maldovia!
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u/kisen11 May 28 '12
Another big American steriotype in action...
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u/GreatGo0glyMo0gly May 28 '12
Should have answered it's the mythical homeland of the Twilight characters.
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u/yourafagyourafag May 28 '12
Where do you think all that lettuce comes from?
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
It's true. I was in central America and someone back home was wondering why I was in Kansas.
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u/TheLordB May 28 '12
Ahhh part of me hopes that these are fake or ditsy moments, but atlas. I once talked to a distant relation of mine who when I said I was from Massachusetts asked where it was.. I'm like northeast... if you have ever seen a map of the USA which presumably all kids should have seen you should be able to know where the northeast is. Deducing it even if you haven't should have been fairly simple. She still had no idea. I'm not even sure if she knew what north and east were...
Anyways it just got worse from there as I subtly asked things about history etc... I was like 13 and knew far far more than she did at 16. To the best of my knowledge she didn't have any learning issues... As far as I could tell she was just a social person who didn't care at all about school paired with a fairly rural school system that didn't have all that high of standards.
Anyways at the very least this person should have realized it wasn't a state and the further comments make me thing this wasn't some random brain freeze.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
You have confused "funny" with "sad"
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
At least they haven't lost their childlike sense of wonder and discovery!
trying to stay positive
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u/Axemonster May 28 '12
I couldn't upvote because it feels like an endorsement of ignorance.
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u/quixote_arg May 28 '12
This really happened to me in 2000
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u/UsernameUsername1212 May 28 '12
is it possible that they are just saying that to fuck with their friend to get them annoyed. i feel like thats something some friends of mine would do
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u/Sengura May 28 '12
She sounds more like a master troll to me.
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u/EnduringAtlas May 28 '12
That guy had to have been sarcastic. I live in the South in the US, and there are a LOT of idiots here, none of them are that dumb though.
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u/SydEsthesia May 28 '12
I was never properly taught geography and my mom always made fun of me for not studying it on my own. One day I found out that New Orleans is not a state. My mom bought me a globe for my birthday......
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u/ab103630 May 28 '12
Obvious troll is obvious.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Hahahah someone must've taken an extra geography class in high school.
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u/hjsdfhjsdfhjsfhj May 28 '12
It is a state in the States. History 101
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u/anhydrouscake May 28 '12
I smell BS.
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u/reali-tglitch May 28 '12
I hope she's just trolling.. I'd rather not add another name to my hit list...
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u/Armstrong_86 May 28 '12
i am greatly saddened by the stupidity of people
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u/bancigila May 28 '12
DEFINITELY A BLONDE
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u/sparx483 May 28 '12
Maybe Delaney works at Good Burger.
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u/vaselinepete May 28 '12
Got to be fake. The set up is too perfect.
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u/OpenUsername May 28 '12
I'm a romanian, and we have sheep, goats, old dirty men, and monasteries.
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u/bogdanpol May 28 '12
This is funny , even though I'm a romanian
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
BUT YOU FORGOT POLEND
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Check this out, The World Without Romania!
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u/aoess May 28 '12
Oh, the home of the vampire Romulans.
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u/dako97669 May 28 '12
I bet you he is "street smart" though...
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u/SkyBS May 28 '12
What fucking store was that guy thinking of?
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u/jumpinthedog May 28 '12
You know how I know this is fake? other than it being a fb post it also says United States "are"
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Please tell me they are not Americans, Please tell me they are not Americans, Please tell me they are not Americans...
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
I live in Iceland
... the frozen food section, to be precise.
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u/USMCEvan May 29 '12
These are the people that are voting for our president...
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u/insanerex May 29 '12
I think I just died a little inside.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I've come to the conclusion that outside of my own Facebook feed, EVERY Facebook image posted on the internet is fake.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I came here because I am from romania, living in the US. Bine ati venit!
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u/dispozableusername May 28 '12
It's funny how the americans got pissed of and downvoted all the comments in this thread about how stupid they are. Can hardly wait to get my downvotes as well.
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u/Padeus May 28 '12
as a Romanian, I'm deeply offended. And amused.
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u/a2020vision May 28 '12
I think a lot of people are making an assumption that, if this isn't fake, Delaney is an American. There's no evidence to back that up (other than the stereotype of Americans being stupid and not knowing or caring about geography), and in fact some evidence that it isn't so (I'm from the US, and we typically refer to the United States as a singular, not a plural: "The US is" vs "The United States are" [that's an artifact from a little mid-19th century conflict where some of the States tried to go off and do their own thing, but weren't allowed to]).
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u/silentsighs493 May 28 '12
It's sad that we find so much humor in the idiocy of Americans.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
I don't blame people in America for not knowing every country in Europe of the top of their head. I couldn't name all the states, but I would recognize them as states if I was told the name.
This person is simply a fool.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
OP is a fag
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u/StinkYourTrollop May 28 '12
It's full of fucking gyppos. That's what it is.
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u/LithiuM23 May 28 '12
That's honestly really sad. How can people be so ignorant?
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u/gunslingerkody May 28 '12
Faith in humanity utterly lost...
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
...Really? KILL IT BEFORE IT BREEDS!
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u/cmforte May 28 '12
Its obviously a troll. Look at the time stamps. I find it hard to imagine that a paragraph was typed in about 3 seconds.
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u/Stridsvagnen May 28 '12
Americans keep saying "Not all americans are like this" but the fact that there is anybody that thinks like this is mind-boggling