1 in 10 of Brits do not know where Ireland is.

[dermotdermot]

Yes it's true. According to an article in the Independent. They couldn't identify it on a map. We must be overtaking Americans in the thickosphere. Most never knew where Cambodia was when they were fighting in Vietnam. They thought that it was somewhere in South America. Now they apparently know predominantly where Slovakia is when most Brits are clueless.

[ElectroClaret]

Dummies.
Everybody knows it's a very cold island up near Greenland.
It's where Bjork comes from.

[ontario claret]

Most Americans don't know where Canada is, even those who live close to the border. Spent a weekend in Cleveland once (seemed like a week), and the ignorance was just appalling. It's not just their president who is so ill-informed.

[ontario claret]

And Bjork's from Iceland. That's a smaller place than Greenland, but with many more people.

[FCBurnley]

Canada is part of France I think

[biggles]

i haven't seen him for ages, neither. is he still at man city?

[ElectroClaret]

And Bjork's from Iceland. That's a smaller place than Greenland, but with many more people.

Whooosh!!

[yTib]

i reckon one or two off the mo farah thread struggle to wipe their own arses.

[Stalbansclaret]

Biggest Whooooosh ever there from ontario !!!

[COYC73]

1 in 10 Brits is around 6.5 million people......I wonder how many of that number are under the age of 5 years old? Probably around half of it....then not to mention the few million people who emigrated over here, brought over by their husbands and children and haven't learnt the English language because they were refused education in their country of Birth due to Religion.....those people have probably never seen a map book and if they had they couldn't read it.....

So I can see why 1 in 10 people don't know where Ireland is on a map....

[ontario claret]

Missed a sitter.

[ontario claret]

Ireland/Iceland. Puns are the lowest form of humour.

[Walton]

It's not even a pun

[Bin Ont Turf]

4 mins 40 secs in...........

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[ontario claret]

It's a play on words, which is the definition of a pun.

[ontario claret]

Why does he have such a stunned look on his face, BoT? Is he from Blackburn? I've never heard of the bloke.

[LeadBelly]

For surveys to have much meaning, they need to use a REPRESENTATIVE sample of the population considered.
There's no indication here of how the sample was drawn up, it maybe just a number of visitors to the GoCompare site (who could be arsed to do the survey?
Given the achingly abysmal ads GoCompare do, the site probably attracts an atypical cross section of visitors.

The fact that The Independent don't seem to have bothered to explain how the "sample" was drawn & whether it's representative, but quote the findings anyway; reflects poorly on them.

[bedfords]

Canada is part of France I think

Only part of it.....

[ontario claret]

Je ne se quoi.

[piston broke]

Puns are the lowest form of humour.

Chucking buns is the lowest form of humour.

[gandhisflipflop]

I blame dumbed down tv

[KRBFC]

I think the majority of the thickos are on here

[yTib]

yes krbfc. and i suspect the majority of them are oblivious to just how 'thick' they truly are.

[Bin Ont Turf]

I think the majority of the thickos are on here

I think that you have a very small penis, and the inadequacy manifests itself on here.

[mickleoverclaret]

Yes it's true. According to an article in the Independent. They couldn't identify it on a map. We must be overtaking Americans in the thickosphere. Most never knew where Cambodia was when they were fighting in Vietnam. They thought that it was somewhere in South America. Now they apparently know predominantly where Slovakia is when most Brits are clueless.

Did you mean Slovenia?

[Pstotto]

1 in 10 brits are from Asia. They don't even know where England is.

[IanMcL]

Yes it's true. Now they apparently know predominantly where Slovakia is when most Brits are clueless.

It's at the end of Czecho silly!

[IanMcL]

Ireland is on a boat ride from Holy Island...no Hollywood....no Holyrood...no Holyhead. That's the one. Norn is a boat ride from Stranraer. It is, evidently, a plane ride from Latvia too.

[dermotdermot]

Did you mean Slovenia?

I might have done. Even I'm confused.

[cricketfieldclarets]

I wish our scouts didnt know where it was... to be sure!

[geopancake]

Apparently it's close to a place called Eire, where little people with ginger beards play on harps.

[boiledclaret]

Those little people can cast spells with those harps.

Every 17th March they turn hardened English types into salt of the earth Guiness drinkers.

[Silkyskills1]

Apparently, one of the most misspelled words by people living in Massachusetts is Masachusetts. People living in Wisconsin struggle with Wiscisin.

[boiledclaret]

I'd shake my head and tut at them Silky. That's if I'd known how to spell Guinness.

[Wexford_Claret]

Apparently it's close to a place called Eire, where little people with ginger beards play on harps.

I think you mean Éire.

[Foshiznik]

As it's the typical red top label of "Brits", does that mean that it's also 1 in 10 in Norn Iron too?

[ontario claret]

Everybody knows that Erie is in Pennsylvania, home of the Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League. How a team from Pennsylvania got into the OHL......don't ask.

[ontario claret]

Foshiznik, have you received your free pint from the Bristol Manor Farm clubhouse yet?