As an American, I am going to dine on this single example as if it disproves the idea that we are insular and provincial hicks for the next decade.
nah, it just proves that brits are as stupid as you are, which is, tbh, is not a surprise /s
When the only Homer they know is Homer Simpson.
Fun fact: the voice actor for Homer Simpson also voiced Homer (the Greek one) in the Disney Hercules animated series.
It's wild that the U.K. doesn't teach the Odyssey, I thought their whole thing was stealing other peoples' culture and pretending they owned it now.
Shakespeare invented literature, so clearly there’s no value in teaching anything from before him…
You haven't experienced Shakespeare unless you read it in the original klingon.
Fair point.
Just looked it up, the Odyssey can be taught in the UK but it is rarely chosen because Shakespeare is easier to teach and students who pick Shakespeare get better grades on average.
I've heard of Assassin's Creed Odyssey, does that count?
That translation has fallen out of favor with contemporary scholars but you get the gist.
The world doesn't revolve around America, but you'll see idiots in Bumbfuck, Romania talking about Soros and wokeism. It's got to be exhausting.
I find that people get more ticked off about the woke in non American countries even if it really doesn't involve them (it should) but even then they increase their hostility because of it
Soros is a Hungarian Jew who survived the Holocaust and moved to America afterwards btw, so when someone from the Balkans is complaining about him it's not ignorance, it means something very specific.
"The Jews are trying to replace us." ?
Orban / the party in charge were saying Soros was using his money and power to flood Romania with immigrants.
Meanwhile on tiktok British people are apparently mad at Americans for not knowing or caring about Robbie Williams
instead we studied useful things
Have you ever seen any British television quiz game shows? The amount of world geography and history most contestants seem to know is abismal, makes me scratch my head and seriously wonder what many of these people are doing there, in a game show about knowledge. What are they even doing there, in the delusion that they have a shot.
"What is the capital of Denmark?"
"Erm... pass."
This person's comment is just another drop in the bucket in the sorry state of things.
The Odyssey is an American epic? Wtf, I love America now!
I'm a little mad that Nolan is making the Odyssey. It's gonna be so pretentious and trendy, and I'd be surprised if Anya Taylor Joy, Timothee chalamet and Jeremy Allan White aren't in it, to round it out into the most pretentious movie in history
Edit: Nolan can't film anything but drama. Go watch Batman again and notice how awful the fight scenes are shot and the terrible choreography.
Anya Taylor Joy would do a great circe imo
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