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[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 17 points 2 hours ago

Having grown up in both countries, the joke here is about colonialism more than American stupidity.

The British know everywhere spices, sugar and coffee come from innately

[+] Wanderer@lemm.ee -7 points 2 hours ago

It's absolutely not.

What's Nicaragua got to do with British colonialism? It's about Americans being ignorant of other countries.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

Nothing specifically, but they had a hot interest in the "Americas" for a whiiiile, as did all European countries

Edit, do a quick search lol

[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee -5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

That's the biggest stretch in the world.

The joke is about education systems. If it was about British interest overseas he would have said something like "Yes, we are English. We take a lot of interest in far away lands".

I'm not saying he wouldn't make that joke, it's a normal enough joke for Brit to make. But he is certainly joking about quality in education in this case as he mentions it. You are just imagining the world as you want it to be, not seeing it for how it is.

Let's wait for the Brits to wake up and see what their view is.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago)

Ok, none of this matters.

You're totally freaking out about a joke they got MILDLY turned around and it's a super cool look.

"Just wait until my friends get here"

To be clear:

most of America has shit geography because most Americans never go anywhere. (It's a big country, where most citizens don't need to leave to find work or make lives)

Most of Europe (including the UK) have a much better understanding of "the colonies" because it was a huge part of their history for longer than America was a country.

I lived in Surrey from age 5-18 so I think I have a passing, but shallow view of the situation.

Edit if you actually think Britain and Nicaragua have no colonial relationship, maybe learn your geography lol

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_settlement_in_Nicaragua

[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee -4 points 40 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

Of course none of this matters.

If you were making a joke then it was poorly constructed and I missed it. Pyrflie made the same joke but better and I laughed when I read that. Yours comes across as factually incorrect "acktually".

We seem to have a disagreement about what the joke is about and I'm willing to be proven wrong by Brits. That's all I'm saying. Short of Noel himself showing up other British people are going to know the meaning of the joke best. Until then I think you are misleading people.

Christ alive. Look jokes works because of peoples understanding of it. If you think English involvement in Nicaragua is common knowledge enough for a joke on colonialism then fucking hell you must think more of the education of the general public than me. As fair as I know American involvement in Nicaragua is way more common knowledge than English involvement there which breaks the joke.

But it is all meaningless anyway because the joke isn't about that.

This website is weird at times. Joke about American's education gets turned into a history of colonialism and the breakdown of a what makes a joke, a joke. I'm going to the pub.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 33 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

The whole premise of the joke is the relative "common knowledge" of Nicaragua, or any other central/south American country. Be it to Americans or Europeans

Im not competing with any other commenter, or anyone else. It's just a fuckin life experience.

Don't make jokes if you can't take jokes

Edit further if living in the UK for a decade across the "formative" years where geography is taught doesn't count, then I'm not sure where the lesson about countries lands.

[-] pyrflie@lemm.ee 102 points 5 hours ago

I will give them this, England is great at geography. Can't colonize if you can't get there.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 hours ago

It's all still on the curriculum from when everything was part of the Glorious Empire

[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

That doesn't excuse the Americans though

USmilitarybasesaroundtheworld.jpeg

Edit: this one might be better

[-] fishos@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago

Military bases != Colonization.

One is an outpost. The other is making the people there subservient to you. I get the point you're making, but it's not the same and it trivializes actual colonization(which yes, the US does do). India wasn't just a military base for the British. They ruled over them and collected taxes and imposed laws. Same with Ireland. It's be offensive to compare their plights to placing a military base.

[-] pyrflie@lemm.ee -2 points 3 hours ago

YEP!

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

I own that, I own that.

[-] pyrflie@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

How could I not upvote Robin.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 37 points 5 hours ago

I love Noel Fielding

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 6 points 2 hours ago

Man I wish they still made The Mighty Boosh. So brilliantly surreal.

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

Noel has no chill

[-] pyrflie@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago

Me too man.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago

Wow, Richmond looks so joyful there.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net -1 points 3 hours ago

As an American, I get surprised by US states. Like, wtf, you telling me Arkansas is a state? You mean there's a NEW Mexico? Rhode Island?

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