On behalf of my country I sincerely apologize...

I think i ll volunteer to tattoo a world map on her tits, because as she says "many souls aren't privy to such luxuries such as maps" - damn shame!

 

The benchmark for wealth of a nation is it's GDP, by which America blows the living fuck out of everything.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-countries-have-the-highest-gdp.htm

Twice as much as China which has roughly 4x the people. So the saying (or fact) goes, 5% of the population of the world control 80% of the wealth (or somethingto that effect).

Right, but it's everyone else that states that. I'm not saying they're wrong, or right, but America is generally seen as the strongest force on the planet. The irony is that it is run by morons.

 

Oh okay, I guess all of these financial implications / data and resources are wrong then?

http://mwhodges.home.att.net/nat-debt/debt-nat.htm

 

I've always ribbed into baseball fans at strategic moments for that one. AFAIK Japan is the only other country as gungho about baseball as we are so it makes some sense.

 

Funny we should mention it , about the game baseball. Around here, the "national sport event" is football, not Americanized rugby. But anyway you have an advanced form of
Brännboll

which we around here play for fun with kids and adult alike every now and then. And we think it is fun, and we are just playing the game for fun. And it is played in school at outdoor "gymnastics" so the kids can run, and have some fun out of the game. And then, when you see as a Dane the game baseball, then you can´t stop and smile. Since it is game kids played in Denmark when they were kids . But in America it is serious buisness, and you know the drill. So in some ways, it is a thing that makes me laugh warmly , because baseball is really not a bad game watching. But it makes me smile, thinking of it at the same time

the "roundball" game (the Danish name is Rundbold, which means roundball and, we don´t normally use a baseball ball, but either a tennisball, or something similar), and there are variants over the rules, and the game. With a "pitcher" or not a pitcher. Around the Danish version, then we have a person who throws the ball up in the air, and then the person with the "bat" tries to hit the ball (the rest of the rules can be read at the link in the name) and the Swedish people can translate the Danish rules for you guys. And I could tell about some Danish variants to the game, and rules.

But I am still weirded out of the video.

 

The Japanese and South Americans love Baseball. Don't discount it as just an American sport.

 

No I don´t, I have just said baseball is a sport that makes me smile

 

Its not exactly unique to there, kids play baseball for fun all the time, hell I do it almost every Wednesday. Same with variants, there are tons of different ways to play.

 

South Carolina ranks near the bottom in quality of US schools. Only the District of Columbia is worse. There's a world map on the wall of most classrooms. A bunch of maps even split Europe and Asia and center the US in the middle. I would like to see where they got their question from actually.

 

Basically, yes. America has always had a huge debt and it gets bigger every year, yet is still the "richest" country in the world.

 

That's not a US phenomenon. Japanese world maps often do the same thing. With Japan in the middle obviously.

 

If you took my post seriously then you are no different than the girl in the video...

 

Okay! I am going to try this one with my bank manager tomorrow lol :drool:

 

thanks for posting the video; this was really funny yet disturbing.

 

Who do you think has more of a chance to get a very large loan?

a) Someone who has a net worth of 1 million dollars and also a debt of 1 million dollars
b) Someone who has absolutely nothing

There is something to be said about being able to "produce" money even though you're down. Debt isn't always bad.

 

The US economy is in dire straits right now though, you can't deny that. In terms of GDP, the US is the richest country in the world by a fairly large margin.

 

I definitely am not saying that it isn't. It will be a long time before it is down-graded as the economic super power though. Even at my young age, I've been through about 3 pretty big tankings that I can remember... and probably that many on the Japanese side of things. Looking around, I am still here, and the world is still spinning.

 

hmmm if you ask about 99.9 % of every third grade pupil in Denmark where USA is on the world map. Then they will probably point exactly where it is. And they will know where Denmark lies, and where the heck this and that is. But 60.000.000 people in the USA can´t figure out where they are on the map. Then something is fucking wrong, or for that matter when 65 % of Americans can´t find Great Britian , then USA has a problem.
Sorry for saying this, but no wonder why there are so many jokes about Americans being stupid. And I do like Americans.

Sorry, I am quite shocked. People if you feel offended by what I am saying right here, then you are offended by the truth in my words. And not anything else.

I know USA is a VERY big country, and Denmark "is nothing than a booger on top of Germany", where 5.000.000 people live, and speaks Danish. But still I feel it is shocking. And the moderators are allowed to kick my sorry arse , and delete my post, but please PM me, if you delete the post.

 

The quote is "20% of kids"...not people. I don't know if that is actually true. If it is, they have really stupid parents.

 

Everyone loves to hate us. Plain and simple.

Every country has their fair share of idiots. I'd understand the number in Denmark or other smaller land mass countries would be smaller than the USA would be, because you'd have to factor in population size, social class spread, and differences in their education system structure.

Southern states in the America tend to have a much dumber pool of people than other states.

But yeh, America is dumb as a brick but that's all due to how good we have it here from the hard work of past generations.