Original story Lies, damn lies, and statistics I was going to post this under "Serious", but even I can't take it seriously, so into LOLand it goes.
This just in, a new study shows that approximately %40 of British people are, in fact, expert trolls. This study was based on the results of a UKTV poll.
Same IQ, different name Seeing as these "people" don't tend to be the employed kind, they have a lot of time to participate in UKTV (isn't that the network that broadcasts "Dave"?) surveys. I can just imagine it... "Yeah shurluck olms 'e wuz sum kind of detectetiver or summink or nothink aight? Churchill? Who? That a new White Lightning or WKD stuff? Is it good? Can I 'ave sum?" etc...
The scariest part is that these people tend to procreate like locusts. Reminds me of the movie Idiocracy - recommended.
It's earth-shattering isn't it? The fact that we now live in an age where factual knowledge is frowned upon. Up here in Norway we have this thing called "janteloven". It is a number of "laws" which culminate in the statement "Do not think you are something." Which, in a sense tells you not to believe in yourself. Many people (over here at least) seem to live by this rule, or at least apply it to all others.
a quarter of the people in london aren't actually british in the first place but either way that is appalling. The greatest war time leader of modern history and they think he is a myth?! JESUS CHRIST I live in a country full of morons.
Yes. It is quite depressing isn't it? According to the PISA reports I live in a country in which the youngsters can no longer read, write or calculate according to their level of schooling. Also appalling. People seem to be getting dumber with the attention span of a goldfish. Newspapers have adopted the tabloid format with really short articles and lots of pictures. "Who was out on the town this weekend" regularly get first page slots on the web-versions, and are usually also mentioned on the first page of the paper issues. Sports get the most pages and the rest is just about fluff and advertisement. The real, actually interesting and newsworthy articles are few and far between, and the commentaries to these (on the web versions) are generally used to complain to the editors about how un-interesting these articles are. Anyone who think they are interesting, and actually say so, are most often flamed beyond belief and generally told off as being socialists and/or nazis. What the hell is happening to the world?
All too true. I guess it won't be long before "Danger! Sharp edge!" is engraved on all kitchen knives ... or "This side up when opening" is printed on juice cartons. The indentation in my desk from battering it with my forehead in frustration is getting deeper and deeper.
More to do with the company covering themselves if some idiot slips on their product and dies. And LOL at these Statistics.
Incindentally, Sherlock Holmes was based on an ancestor of mine. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it (oh I'm on fire!)
that is too small a group, plus I'd bet they only questioned chavs or surveyed more but left some results out, so they would get a better story. But its still depressing.
