I love stories like this one, which details how 1/4 of the British public thinks Winston Churchill never existed and 60% of Brits think Sherlock Holmes did. I get so tired of reading news reports in the foreign and domestic press and watching TV shows ridiculing Americans for their stupids responses to basic questions about history and literature and other areas of general knowledge. It seems like every week there's some story out about how "72% of Americans think Jesus rode a dinosaur to have lunch with King Arthur" or something like that.
Don't get me wrong, Americans are stupid. It's just that they're not exceptionally stupid. Everyone is stupid. Especially when you surprise them on the street, shove a microphone in their face and give them 10 seconds to answer a question like "who were Reagan's Supreme Court nominees?"
Anyway, it's nice to see that Great Britain, a country regarded by my own countrymen as a nation of intellectuals, is just as full of dummies as the rest of the world. Bravo.
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