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1. Marq said,

   January 28, 2006 at 8:00

   Maybe we could drop Rupert Murdoch on “North korea” and “France,” just to get back at them.

2. Ianua Ditis said,

   January 28, 2006 at 8:42

   Wow. I’m not sure whether that is funny or depressing.

3. The tECHIDNA said,

   January 28, 2006 at 9:12

   That’s it!
   We’re invading French Iranian South-of-South-Korea-North Korean Australia!

   …well, as soon as we figure out these concepts of “East” and “West” you speak of…THEN IT’S ON!!

4. Matt T. said,

   January 28, 2006 at 9:25

   Ow. That…hurt.

5. a.j. said,

   January 28, 2006 at 9:40

   the best is that guy who wants to invade north korea because of “their attitude”. it sure doesn’t take much these days does it?

   i’m liking the idea of occasional video. very cool.

6. GuinnessGuy said,

   January 28, 2006 at 9:46

   Thanks for puffing up this History major’s ego while simultaineously depressing me as to America’s future.
   Damn…

7. Pinko Punko said,

   January 28, 2006 at 11:25

   I am now even more depressed than I was before.

8. Pinko Punko said,

   January 28, 2006 at 11:26

   The best part was clearly the announcer having an Aussie accent, and the fact that Australia is one of the more obvious conutries, being a whole continent and all. Oh, South Korea as Tasmania is AMAZING.

9. Pinko Punko said,

   January 28, 2006 at 11:28

   You know what I mean.

10. Bistroist said,

    January 28, 2006 at 12:11

    Doesn’t seem to work in Opera. Looks groovy in Firefox, though.

11. Brad R. said,

    January 28, 2006 at 13:37

    OK, the guy who though Australia was Iran had to have been a set-up…

12. LACJ said,

    January 28, 2006 at 13:45

    What I wanna know is the story in the ticker-tape at the bottom of the screen “Man clearly thinking of ex-girlfriend during sex”…and??

    Bistroist, Opera doesn’t handle video well at all. Sometimes it will crash the application, other times do nothing. I usually use Opera but for video Firefox is the way to go.

13. Strange Forces said,

    January 28, 2006 at 14:23

    The video is a hit fuzzy, but it seems that Australia was usually mislabelled as some other country people were likely to choose. I think I saw it as “Iran” at one point and at the end as “North Korea.”

    Still shows stupidity.

14. dave128 said,

    January 28, 2006 at 14:34

    If you want to be even more depressed you should watch the one where the Americans don’t know how many sides a triangle has (I kid you not), or the one where they struggle to name a country that begins with the letter “U� (“You’re in one now, the United States!�). Or then there’s the one where a group of Americans pick new Iraqi flags.

    If you laughed at that video (instead of crying), I highly suggest the DVD of the CNNNN TV show. CNNNN DVD It’s kind of like an Australian Daily Show (except that it was weekly) and the “news hosts� play it straight. Just a warning though, it’s Region 4 and PAL, so you need a multi-region DVD and a TV capable of displaying PAL images. I don’t know if it’s been released outside of Australia, but it’s very funny.

    This is also very funny: Chaser

    (This also reminds me of The Ice Dream, an aussie comedy making fun of the Salt Lake Olympics. They had a daily weather report, and they got Americans to read out the forecast. They moved the major cities around (Sydney where Perth is, Darwin where Melbourne is etc.) and also made up ridiculously hard to pronounce fake places.) ;)

15. Hysterical Woman said,

    January 28, 2006 at 14:37

    AJ: Not even North Korea, just “Korea”. Which one?

16. Random Guy said,

    January 28, 2006 at 16:46

    Aah, CNNNN.

    I watched it on TV. A great parody of cable-type news shows.

    Someone was asking about the ticker text – they were just one sentence jokes that scrolled across the screen. A lot of them just played on stereotypes/common occurences – the joke being they weren’t news because they were so common.

    Examples: “High school debater thinks he knows everything”
    “Guy convinced he could convert most lesbians “

17. Marq said,

    January 28, 2006 at 18:05

    Ooh, looksie, looksie! I have stumbled across the gross, so I had to share! Mmmmm! Arthropodolicious!

18. Woodrowfan said,

    January 28, 2006 at 19:15

    GuinnessGuy: No S**T. I feel the same way. Just remember, if you actually KNOW anything you’re a damn elitist!

19. mdhåtter said,

    January 29, 2006 at 0:40

    Damn aussies can take the piss out of someone.

    the mislabling was brilliant!

20. Timmah420 said,

    January 29, 2006 at 1:47

    I’ve seen that one before. That was about a year ago, and I don’t think i’ve ever been so depressed about the public.

21. LACJ said,

    January 29, 2006 at 5:51

    Thanks for the explanation Random Guy

22. Kathleen said,

    January 29, 2006 at 21:54

    wow that is depressing.

23. Ron Mexico said,

    January 30, 2006 at 3:34

    the best is that guy who wants to invade north korea because of “their attitude”

    France has been lookin’ at us funny too. I say we invade them next.

24. d said,

    January 30, 2006 at 23:42

    Oh please save us from ourselves.

25. Jordan said,

    February 28, 2006 at 8:51

    iffyfyakzug bqmibu

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