Did ya hear Russia invaded Georgia? I hope Atlanta is ok.
(George W. Bush & George H.W. Bush)
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Well, it may be another Bush R Dum joke, but this one is very clever. Props to the creator!
Heh. Fank u, but it was a joke that practially wrote itself
Sad thing is, some Americans truly thought this…
Only one person i told knew it was the country, most didnt even know it existed, i gaurentee that the reason it was number 1 viewed on CNN is becuase everyone clicked it thinking it was talking about “Russia invades Georgia” the state.
I find that rather hilarious…
If Russia had invaded the state, don’t you think that every single media outlet in America (in fact, every single media outlet on Earth) would break off to shout “RUSSIA INVADES THE USA” at the top of their lungs? Watching the news would be like watching the news the day that two planes hit the twin towers. You wouldn’t just get someone saying, “by the way, did you hear that Russian forces are in Georgia? I hope that gets sorted out soon…”
Also, are Russia more likely to have an armed conflict with a nation that they’ve had constant border disputes with, or with a very specific State in America?
or, you guys are just making a huge assumption. Any headline that starts with “Russia invades … ” is going to be a number one story.
Sheesh.
When you hear “Georgia”, you think of the most common use… so what? I have a hard believing that that reaction lasted for more than 1 second for anybody.
You have a hard believing? I think you meant you have a hard ON believing…
hard TIME believing it.
Though some folks here probably DO get a hard-on believing it… enjoying the idea that there are people dumber than they, etc …
I do believe more people in the world speak of Georgia as in it referring to the country and not to a state in the lil US of A
Even if I was speaking of “the world” …. I don’t know that that is even true . The US media industry is HUGE worldwide and formerly-Soviet Georgia has not exactly been prominent on the world stage up ’till now. So Joe Random International Guy might well think of the state of Georgia, depending on his taste in films or video.
But then you shouldn’t forget that in other languages the state and the counry don’t have the same name.
Start the In Soviet Georgia jokes
I think you are assuming most Americans know that Georgia is a state within the union. My experience is that the avg. American can’t tell you which country is North and which is South of the USA.
oh really? what, did you interview a couple of 4-year olds while you were here and base your assertions off of that?
Yes, hobo, and “the most common use”, to those outside the small-minded place called America IS the country of Georgia, and not the place where they hold The Masters once a year.
Your reaction is typical of the sort of person, who, in global chatrooms, when asked the old A/S/L question, invariably put “M/35/OH” – or whatever two-letter abbreviation for their State happened to be appropriate, quite ignorantly assuming that the entire planet was aware of the said abbreviations. My nickname in all the chatrooms I ever visited was the same as this one, and equally invariably I would reply – to the A/S/L question, “M/35/Have a guess
” – and I lost count of the number of times Americans said something along the lines of “I don’t know, that’s why I asked”.
It was ONLY Americans who came up with the classic replies of “Helsinki? In Texas, maybe?”, “Isn’t it somewhere near India?”, “I don’t know, near Europe?”, and “wtf do you mean, have a guess, how tf can I have a guess, it’s a big world”.
Big country – small minds
Right. So in other countries do they sit in front of maps all day and just memorize where cities of the world are? What if I were to just randomly come up to some guy in Finland or something and say “Can you tell me where the town of Raccoon Bend is found? Your intelligence and the general intelligence of the entire population of Finland depends on your answer.” Does a person’s intelligence depend entirely upon how many cities he knows, and where they are located?
Helsinki is in Finland, by the way, and Raccoon Bend is in Texas.
like cnn…anyone else catch that?
I mean all the totally made up not really funny George Bush jokes. The only president ever with an MBA – from Harvard no less. Those who saw their candidates go down to defeat twice did so fooling themselves thinking GW is an idiot. If they had taken him seriously and recognized his intelligence (versus, say, one of their candidate who flunked out of college the first time) they would be today be close to finishing eight years of Democratic rule and, probably have had time to set up Democratic rule for the remainder of the lives of everyone reading this. It’s an age-old trick to get your opponent to underestimate you. It has worked every time from Napolean (little runt, couldn’t find Russia) to Perry Mason (didn’t you love the last five minutes of every episode when Perry would lower the boom on hapless always a loser district attorney who was so smug until Perry handed his head to him?). After 300 seasons (or whatever) you would have thought the D.A. would have granted Perry the intelligence to tie his shoes JUST ONCE – and won!. Nope, not even once. What a putz!
Boy, if Obama wins the REAL “flub of the week” club members going to have a field day (at least the Conservatie ones). 57 states? Err – corrected to 58 states a moment later. “My Muslim Faith” of today but only carried on the one hapless MSM TV network that couldn’t bleep out the fox pox and all one of the Consrvative networks. It will be a non-stop running list of bloopers of at least of the one percent who will be counting. GW will go back to Texas knowing” I sure fooled them for eight years!”. Think of George Forman. He NEVER would have won if his opponent had judged him properly. Who knows? You’re all so sure “Obama as president” is in the bag you may trip over your shoe laces coming out of the starting gate!
Do degrees really matter when you pay your way through it… First the teachers have pressure because his dad is who he was and he was supposed to be great, so they aren’t supposed to fail him, but when you “donate” all that money to the school every year, that’s even more pressure. In addition, Harvard is becoming famous for being hard to get in (without lots of money), but for grade inflation. That is, teachers feel that students worked hard to get in and give them better grades. I had a friend who went there and had to transfer to a “lesser” school because Harvard was too easy. She says you would have to try our hardest to fail anything, and with some teachers, you cannot even fail.
That aside, the joke was great, many Americans are stupid like that (I can say it, I live there) and thought it was the state (not me, I have friends in the country Georgia and tend to think of it first).
He’s probably worried about the peach crop.
They grow peaches in Atlanta?
Oh, yeah… Giggity!!!
Err, your innuendo is priceless.
Which one of Obama’s 57 states is Georgia?
Arugilastan
The world’s arugula supply will be horribly lessened! I’m not paying more for my freaking salad, dammit!
My coworker came into work the other day believing this exact thing.
The rest of us hadnt seen the news so it was a funny of couple minutes before we worked out what was going on.
I was about to note that most Americans probably had the same thing in mind when they saw the headline.
Your anecdote simply confirms this.
Hmm… maybe your circle of friends just aint that bright?
They are probably Obamaniacs, right ?
If only to prove that Repubs haven’t cornered the market on failed geography?
Well put
Yeah, I’m blonde, and I know it… I rarely watch the news, but at the gym the other day there was this sudden news flash ” Russia invades Georgia”. And I was like, why would they invade georgia? That’s a dumb state to start an invasion with… especially since it’s on the other side of the country where you’d expect… LOL, LIKE i SAID, i KNOW i’M BLONDE. But honestly, I really don’t remember a country named georgia from Geography class…
Is that because you’re blonde or because you haven’t taken a Geography class in 15+ years?
Or maybe she’s just stupid and ill-informed.
At least she admitted her mistake.
Or read a newspaper, or looked at a recent world map, or watched the news or…
Pretty much, the excuse has to be ‘blond’.
I dunno, I mean until now Georgia hasn’t been in the news much, and its relatively small and quite unimportant so it’s not the kind of place you pay much attention too.
Meh, some people just don’t bother with geography.
I knew about Georgia mainly because in high school history class I learned
that’s where Stalin was from. But South Ossetia?? You gotta be kidding me.
Does that mean there’s a North Ossetia? And AFAIK Abkhazia is where all
the prisoners were kept in the Harry Potter books.
Yes there is North Ossetia, and wizard prison is Azkaban, u dumbass!
I believe you should learn to recognise sarcasm in English a little better. And please don’t write ‘u’ – it really degrades your credibility.
Perhaps u need to take ur own advice?
‘ur’ is another one. Just… don’t. And when someone tries to *help* you, don’t make yourself into an unappreciative idiot.
LULZ! U must B close to haveing a stroke when u reads what I writeis nao!
No, you’re pretty much just making yourself look like an even bigger imbecile.
Thanks for the backup, Kai.
And until fairly recently it *wasn’t* a country. It was part of the USSR. How many people around the world could tell you where Rhode Island or Oregon are? Or Oaxaca or Coahuila? Or many of the states or provinces of any large country?
Sadly, I wish I could say the same of my home state of Texas. We seem to only be known for all the wrong reasons
That’s not really a valid comparison.
Most people anywhere in the world could tell you where the USA is. The USA is a country and a nation, as is Georgia. Georgia has been a country for well over a decade. In fact, the fact that it’s a young country is even MORE of a reason to know where it is – the breakup of the USSR happened within our lifetimes and it’s something we should know about!
Rhode Island and Oregon aren’t nations, and it’s about as reasonable to expect a non-American to know where in the USA Oregon is as it is to expect an American to be able to find Birmingham on a map of the United Kingdom.
Not only did Georgia become a state within our lifetime, but I remember right after the breakup of the Soviet Union when fighting just like this was going on. Georgia has been in and out of international headlines for its conflicts for well over a decade-and-a-half now.
Further to the point, Stalin was born there originally. Georgia is to Russia what Austria is to Germany, that is, the original home to its sociopathic, mass-murdering, mid-twentieth century dictator.
Then again, most people probably couldn’t find Austria on a map, either (“don’t they have kangaroos there?”)
Throw some more Mozart on the barbee, mate!
If you read a headline saying, “Terrorist attack in Birmingham!!!” would you think UK or would you think Alabama? Same difference.
No not the same thing at all really, while it’s entirely possible for there to be a terrorist attack in either Birmingham (Or indeed any of the Birmingham’s) it is next to impossible to imagine any possible scenario where the headline ‘Russia invades Georgia’ would not be referring to the nation and not the state.
Yes, if only because Russia wouldn’t be invading Geogia they would be invading the United States and we wouldn’t have to read about it we would be at war.
It is a relatively interesting chess piece though. They have this gigantic pipeline running through southern Georgia, they have substantial mining resources, and they have(had) the promise of the American president that he would back them up. Georgia did see this coming…America didn’t. With as much support as we have been recieving from Georgia in Iraq, this is a horrible loss of face for the USA who claimed Georgia was an ally. So much for America’s international promises. Who will be America’s ally now?
I don’t watch the news, and I live in rural america, where even your mail doesn’t get delivered- you think they’re gonna send out newspapers this far? Nope. But, yeah, it’s been awhile for the geography class…
Thanks, spazz. I’ll except the ill-informed portion of your comment.
um. but you have the internet, and came to a new and political website?
*news
Maybe that’s because Georgia was part of Russia at the time – I’d never heard of them before they broke away from Russia after Russia stopped being Soviet (openly, that is).
There were a couple of funny ones with this picture, but the Obama ones were way funnier… We don’t see much of him anywhere anymore, maybe he is losing popularity?
We can only hope, I believe it’d be a nice change though. ;]
A change we can believe in?
This should make it to the FAILBlog site also
I will admit I LOLed quite hard at this. Then I LOLed even harder at GHWB’s turkey neck.
“See me neckmeats? They’re lucky!”
Hey, living in the US you can’t help but thing of America’s Georgia, because that’s what we’re used to hearing of more often. It’s just naturally what comes to mind first for most of us…..(and I live in GA!)
Yeah, I heard about it over the Internet first, not an actual news source. The tag was ‘Georgia declares war on Russia’ and my first though was ‘I didn’t know a state had that kind of power…’. It wasn’t until a while later before it clicked that Georgia was a country in the Eastern Europe-ish area too.
Vermont is the only state in the country with the power to declare war, actually. Little known fact!
Living in the US and having a clue that the Country of Georgia is near Russia, you can’t help but think its the country first… But then, too many people in the US can barely place their states, let alone foreign countries, on a map.
Not necessarily, you might think that it was the state and that Russia was “invading” it metaphorically.
Actually, the first thing I thought of was not the state of Georgia but the former Soviet controlled Georgia because that is the only Georgia that is close to Russia and I’m not a complete moron.
But… but… I thought *all* Americans were complete morons! *personal-reality degrading*
I think you’re destroying someone’s world out there, Jane.
Good job! 
I try!
Yeah…… the odd thing is that there’s three places named Georgia in the world thousands of miles from each other. (The other being South Georgia) although I have a feeling the reason Americans have no sense of Geography is because most of our maps are from before the cold war, coincidentally from just before Reagan went into office and changed our Education money into defense spending…..
That right, because the removal of some of the whooping 2-5% of annual school budgets that the feds give to the school districts completely removed funding for post 1991 maps.
Yes, thoseNY janitors need to keep their $100,000 a year jobs, so screw the maps!
and such as
Given that I’ve actually *worked* as a janitor, piss off. The actuality of overpaid personnel in the public school system is a joke.
Janitors hold the school together man, try running one without one, you’ll be begging to pay them more money.
yes, yes…. we all saw Breakfast Club….
Hey, I learned about other Georgias in 7th grade Geography when my teacher gave us blank pieces of paper and a list of countries and told us to draw a map from memory. Over the course of the year we did a map for Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. Our final consisted of taping two pieces of paper together and drawing the entire Eastern Hemisphere. This was in an American school. My dad is currently a Geography teacher, and due to spending most of his career in military intellegence he is well versed and well suited to teaching geography. Yes I think schools have had to face horrible budget cuts and that’s a big problem, but most teacher are trying to do the best they can. One of their biggest problems is students that are not interested in doing their homework or studying and parents who won’t make them and want to blame everyone but their own precious child for their failing grades and school administrators so afraid of a lawsuit they change a students grade because of said parents.
I am now the biggest fan of your 7th grade geography teacher. It’s official.
Yeah, I’m not sure I appreciated it as much at the time, and certainly my knowledge isn’t as good now (I could NOT draw Africa with a blank piece of paper, even though I got an A at the time) but I am grateful that she took the time. The other cool thing about that year is that one of the students was Japanese and his mom came in a cooked us all this Japanese food and tea and stuff, it was awesome.
That’s one thing I’ve always hated – teachers passing kids who weren’t well-equipped to go on to the next grade, just because they’re afraid the parents will make a big to-do about it. And yet it happened in my school, just before I graduated.
One kid was supposed to actually fail, but since they knew his parents would have a cow, they passed him and he ended up being valedictorian. I missed that role by a hair, but still graduated salutatorian. The sad thing is, he probably won’t accomplish much of anything past graduating community college, while I’m going out of state to get my bachelor’s in Psychology and then off to law school.
But corruption in schools is a suckish thing. Good to hear your dad’s a qualified teacher – America (and every other country, actually) needs teachers who are well-versed and passionate about the subject(s) they teach.
It’s not always up to the teacher. My dad is part of a team teaching thing where he and an English teacher work together with the same set of students and overlap lessons and things. They had a student who passed the geography (and only because my dad was on his case every day) but failed the english. The mom complained and the principal changed the grade, didn’t even consult the teacher. Nine times out of ten it’s usually the administrators who do those sorts of things, not the teachers.
Wow, that’s awful…I taught foreign languages in HS for 5 years and never had any pressure to change a grade. Lots of “my child is not a ‘C’ student,” though). I also spent a lot of class time & projects hoping to get them to grasp that Mexico and Spain are not interchangeable, and there are actually other Spanish-speaking countries that have actual people living in them.
I’m sick and tired of Americans not knowing that there’s a country called Georgia. Or most of the other countries, as well. I almost slept through my geography class 2 years ago, and the times I wasn’t sleeping, I felt my IQ going down a point a minute. Every single one of my classmates coudn’t tell you where Mongolia was to save their lives. What did we learn in that class? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, of course.
Sorry for the off topicness. The pic was funny.
Maybe if you’re learning nothing you should WAKE UP AND PAY ATTENTION you half-wit. What I’m sick of is lazy Americans like you who expect everyone to do the work for you and hand you everything you want on a silver platter. You want to know more about Geography, go buy a freaking map!
Why “Americans”? I always see that and I’m sick and tired of THAT. Why not “people” that don’t know, eh? You think perhaps it’s not just these brain-dead cowboys that don’t know every country in both hemispheres? And that perhaps there are plenty that actually do and you’re just missing something in there?
After all, those French only know two places in the world aside from France: Germany and Not Germany.
Cuz if it makes you feel good to pretend to be smarter than SOMEBODY, it will make you feel even better to pretend to be smarter than SOMEBODY NEARBY.
Uh…go Dawgs?
Yellowjackets > Dawgs
(Spread the word.)
Piss on ‘em!
oh thats great
When the going gets tough, Obama goes bodysurfing.
well, aside from bigfoot invading us, we georgians are doin’ just fine.
Also, Russia did not “invade” Georgia. Instead, Georgia invaded South Ossetia, and Russian troops headed there to protect Russian citizens residing in S.O. (basically all of the population), also trying to forcefully stop the agressor, the retarded Georgian president.
The western mass media of course is trying to put it in such a way that Russia is the agressor, and basically the U.S. government in particular is openly wishing for a new Cold War. There is no more freedom of speech or media, unless you use the Internet and are smart enough to check different news sources.
Otherwise, enjoy your Fox News filled with anti-Russian propaganda and bullshit.
Really, so russia granted passports to all of those georgian’s in south ossetia (or ossetians whatever) and then saying we have to protect our citizens isn’t a bit of BS? Come on Russia has lost its mind, but then again we did invade a country within recent memory for no reason what-so ever.
Georgia has a right to combat seperatists with in its borders with out interferrence from russia, as to is this the right course, I would say it is not, as attacking people and then forcing them to stay apart of your country tends to make them blow shit up from time to time
“I’ve run out of ‘reasons’ Dad, and I want to invade Iran and Syria! What should I do?”
As a non-American, I knew Georgia the country and not (or at least almot not :p ) the american state.
By the way, Pete, South Ossetia belong to Georgia. Or Hawaii maybe doesn’t belong to US?
funnny, because Obama DIDNT know where Georgia was. But go ahead make another Bush is dumb joke, if it sooths your broken liberal minds.
You can’t even spell soothes right.
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You people are idiots. Any type of political blog I manage to read has the same crap on it: anti-American comments. Grow up. So what if some people didn’t know that Georgia was also a state? Haha, funny for a second, now move on. I am absolutely positive that there was someone else is this giant world that thought the same thing and they weren’t *gasp* American!!
I have dual nationality in both the UK and the US and yes, I can point out both Birminghams on their respective maps for you. That makes me no better nor any worse than other people out there. The picture was a joke, make your funny, but don’t turn the comment section into hatred. It is your lack of class that puts you in a lower station than someone such as myself, not your lack of knowledge.
As yes, Bush is an idiot, I suspect he DID worry about Atlanta for a moment.
Just out of curiousity, was your rant directed at anyone in particular, or did just whip out your broad brush and have a go?
I’m sure he was told it “the COUNTRY Georgia” to keep him from flipping out.
What does George Bush have to do with the price of tea in China?
bitter troll find someway to blame price of tea of china on bush.
hahah!~
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