We are doing video projects on a country in my Digital Photo class. The resident idiot/pothead has chosen Amsterdam as his country, and no one sees a problem with it. I fear for the U.S.

Quote from: weenie roast;1295561one pothead = all of america

Of course not, but it is still 20+ people who don't get it. And I'll bet over half the people in the US don't realize it is just a city. I just thought the Dutchies here wouold get a kick out of it.

WHATS GERMANY
THATS THAT LITTLE COUNTRY NEXT TO THE NETHERLANDS


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Europe is one of Amsterdam's smallest provinces.

Quote from: weenie roast;1295569or like most classes there's usually the 1 dumbass who gets everything wrong and it's rather funny when no one else corrects anything he says.

That isn't the case.

Quote from: Audrey2;1295570Europe is one of Amsterdam's smallest provinces.

What? I thought Europe was part of Russia?

Quote from: ButtplugClock;1295565Of course not, but it is still 20+ people who don't get it. And I'll bet over half the people in the US don't realize it is just a city. I just thought the Dutchies here wouold get a kick out of it.

I already knew this. Most Americans I've talked to seem to think Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Holland are all separate countries.

Why is he still allowed to have Amsterdam as his country?

Quote from: ButtplugClock;1295571That isn't the case.

What? I thought Europe was part of Russia?

No, Russia's the capital city of Iraq, where all the commies are reading khorans and blowing up macDonalds establishments.

With laser rockets.

Quote from: DWARFINATORclock;1295573I already knew this. Most Americans I've talked to seem to think Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Holland are all separate countries.

Why is he still allowed to have Amsterdam as his country?

I didn't say anything, he already had his report written up and stuff.

I find it really funny he wrote a reoprt on it and still didn't figure out it was a city.

a while ago they where interviewing an american guy about the low dollar and he referred to our currency as "holland dollars"

Quote from: ButtplugClock;1295556We are doing video projects on a country in my Digital Photo class. The resident idiot/pothead has chosen Amsterdam as his country, and no one sees a problem with it. I fear for the U.S.

I saw a video where they asked americans to name a country starting with a U.

Answers ranged from Utah, Utopia to Yugoslavia (they probably thought it was ugoslavia), and nobody thought of saying "United States of America".

Quote from: Niko Bellic;1295581a while ago they where interviewing an american guy about the low dollar and he referred to our currency as "holland dollars"

Well hell, I don't know what your currency is either.

Quote from: ButtplugClock;1295592Well hell, I don't know what your currency is either.

Try "euros". Also if I had been interviewed and not known what Americans pay with, I would've asked "what do they pay with" instead of saying u.s. euros or u.s. guilders.

What the hell is Amsterdam

Quote from: Scout;1295615What the hell is Amsterdam

I dunno, I was hoping you could tell me. I still can't find Dutch on the map. Is Dutch supposed to be next to Iran or something?

i thought dutch went out with rome or something, only things now is america, japan, china, british and mexico canada doesnt count

and the terrorist badguy countries

Quote from: amy_winehouse_clock;1295595Try "euros". Also if I had been interviewed and not known what Americans pay with, I would've asked "what do they pay with" instead of saying u.s. euros or u.s. guilders.

Dollar is also a general term, though, used in many countries because of it. The pound can be thought of as the British dollar. If your currency was called Netherlands Money you would probably expect the Dutch to say United States Money if they had to refer to the currency that the United States uses without knowing beforehand. It only refers to a specific country's coinage if you state the country. The guilder and euro are specific, distinctively named currencies whose names cannot be applied to economic systems not having to do with guilds and Europe respectively.

The capital of Amsterdam is Paris.

Also, this one time on a TV-show they showed a bunch of people a piece of cloth with random prints on it and pretended it was a map and asked them if they could point out a certain country and some people actually obliged, pointing out a place on the "map" that didn't even resemble the landmass of earth.  

So, any country has its share of topographically obvlious people.