In the video posted on October 26, TikToker Sabriena Abrre asked people not to call her a "stupid American" as she admitted her mistake. "Everybody knows that Alaska is cold," she said. "But did I know that it was connected by land? No. I did not know that."
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Even a quick google search would show summer temps can reach 100° in parts of Alaska. Aimee Pearce needs some journalistic schooling.
ReplyDeleteJust cranky and in need of more coffee. And get off muh lawn!
Does "dumbass-twat American" sound better? I'll wager she can name all the Kardashians. It is disheartening to realize my vote is cancelled out by someone like this.
ReplyDeleteAOC's twin sister. Future politician.
ReplyDeleteRemember when they used to teach geography in grammar school?
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I remember I was expected to learn all 50 state capitols. Not that I did.
Delete"...all 50 state capitols...": me too, but I never learned them, not even now. I might have been reading up on lasers or steam engines, or Von Braun and his rockets during that critical lesson.
DeleteAll 50 state capitols and fill in the abbreviations for each State on a map.
DeleteI do not think I was taught Alaska was not an Island in the 50's. I think I more than likely saw it on a map. I remember reading about a woman that hated to fly and wanted to take the train to Hawaii.
ReplyDeleteMan, I don't remember much of anything about Alaska being taught in school beside the Stuart's Folly kinda stuff but it's been awhile so maybe I've forgotten somethings...
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I could probably find it on a map and knew it wasn't an island even before school, because my Uncle Jack moved to Anchorage when I was four. Two years later, Alaska and Hawaii became states, so there must have been quite a lot taught about them in first grade.
DeleteThen there was a huge earthquake in 1964, with grainy black and white pictures in the newspapers of the ground opening up in Anchorage and swallowing houses, and Alaska was back at the center of Geography class in school. The image that's stuck with me is a glossy full-page color picture of a street splitting apart in National Geographic, but that was months later.
All landline communications were out, of course. (How did the reporters get those first pictures out? I think they were faxed over radiotelegraph.) After a couple of days, ham radio operators relayed a message from Jack to Grandma saying he was OK. We were ever so thankful for that.
But I can see how it would be possible to get confused. If you look at the wrong map (USA-only instead of North America), Canada doesn't exist and Alaska is detached from it's proper position and shoved off into either the Pacific or the Caribbean. Or in many of the books the schools were still using when I was in the lower grades (1958 to about 1965), it might show the land connection but not admit to any route but a dogsled track - the Alaska Highway was only built in the middle of WWII, _after_ they got worried that the Japanese might want to invade more than a few tiny islands.
Now, explain U.S. territories to her...
ReplyDeleteDAB, Dumb Ass Bitch. No wonder there are so many "Flat Earthers"
ReplyDeleteStarker was here.
I never thought it was an island, but I do remember seeing it near Hawaii on a map showing the Continental United States with Alaska and Hawaii.
ReplyDeleteWell, SOME of it is islands, I suppose. Anchorage, for instance. But still...
ReplyDeleteSorry, but Anchorage is not on an island.
Delete"I was a good student." Bull-fucking-shit.
ReplyDeleteAh, the blessings of government monopoly "education." HOMESCHOOL!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is a perfect example of the damage done to the educational system begun by Jimma Cahtah and his brilliant idea to create the Department of Education back in the 70's. Ever since, our kids have become less and less literate, and now we know why companies are importing their workforces from overseas.
ReplyDelete"There goes the next Chief of Police". Name the movie.
ReplyDeleteStay safe
A retired US Army Colonel travels up into northern Saskatchewan every year for hunting and fishing. He says he loves it here because the only other Americans he finds here are ones that know geography beyond their own home State. Judging from where they go hunting, I wouldn't doubt they have joined up with the Nuge who has been known to run through there.
ReplyDeleteI met Ted Nugent at Fort Campbell, Ky, in 1995 or 1996. We had just lost a number of troopers in a helicopter collision. He was a scheduled to do a concert in Nashville, about 50 miles away and decided to come up and do a visit with the troops. My battalion, 2-327 Infantry, No Fucking Slack, was doing EIB at the time. He came out and spent the afternoon with us. He was a tall MF’er and mocked our M-4s (“it’s like a real rifle, only smaller!). One of my soldiers told him, “Mr. Nougat, I love what you’ve done with the Milky Way bar,” after which, Ted put him in a headlock. Overall, great guy, max respect, wish he’d been my commander.
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