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LONDON (The Borowitz Report)Across the United Kingdom on Friday, Britons mourned their long-cherished right to claim that Americans were significantly dumber than them.
Luxuriating in their superiority over Americans intellect has long been a favorite pastime in Britain, surpassing in popularity such games as cricket, darts, and snooker.
But according to Alistair Dorrinson, a pub owner in North London, British voters have done irreparable damage to the most enjoyable sport this nation has ever known, namely, treating Americans like idiots.
When our countrymen cast their votes yesterday, they didnt realize they were destroying the most precious leisure activity this nation has ever known, he said. Wankers.
In the face of this startling display of national idiocy, Dorrinson still mustered some of the resilience for which the British people are known. This is a dark day, he said. But I hold out hope that, come November, Americans could become dumber than us once more.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/british-lose-right-to-claim-that-americans-are-dumber
BlueMTexpat
(15,365 posts)I will share this with a British friend, but in a few days. Right now, the pain is too raw.
Hopefully, WE will NOT prove to be dumber in November - which is a possibility.
peace13
(11,076 posts)...our friends from PA called at three a.m. wanting to know what the &ell was wrong with Ohio? We still ask ourselves that from time to time!
bemildred
(90,061 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Canada had Rob Ford. GB has Brexit. At the very least, we're in good company once more.
Bad Thoughts
(2,514 posts)seriously, though...I think we already won the Darwin Award just because Trump is the Republican nominee.
roomtomove
(217 posts)This is good for Britain and an example for others....
NOT good for globalism and corporate rule.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)call us idiots for having an orange moron anywhere near the WH. They just proved their majority is with the likes of him.
Maybe we can do a tabloid with a variation on the one that had the photo of Dumbya saying how can this number of millions be so stupid!
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)beastie boy
(9,237 posts)If history teaches us anything, it's the potential we Americans have for reaching previously unimaginable highs (or lows) in idiocy.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)gordianot
(15,234 posts)Warning Trump approves and he was giddy.
lark
(23,065 posts)it's almost a given that the intelligent move is to be against it.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,766 posts)gordianot
(15,234 posts)Trump means what he says when he courts financial ruin it does appear that is the financial model he prefers. How that works for an entire country? Donald I am sure sees this as an opportunity to work out some acquisitions. He makes Rmoney look almost ethical in comparison.
still_one
(92,061 posts)wallyworld2
(375 posts)It's still a very valid claim
Kablooie
(18,612 posts)I hope we don't but beware of underestimating the gullibilty of the American conservative voters.
enid602
(8,598 posts)The joke in London this AM is that Nigel Farage's teeth face deportation becase they are not white.