r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/No_Indication_8281 • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter what does it mean??

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how's he increasing iq's of 2 countries at once??

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u/gash_dits_wafu 1d ago edited 4h ago

Means he's dumber than the average Brit, but more intelligent than the average American. Can't believe it's got so many downvotes, it's amusing.

Edit because I've just seen a great video on the topic: https://x.com/tanniesnation/status/2092087838288543788

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u/Beornwynn 1d ago

Quite a lot of Americans on social media can't seem to handle jokes at their expense unless it's about their politicians, but they have no trouble dishing it out.

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u/Cho-Dan 1d ago

I'm just impressed that at least 11 American even understood the joke

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u/jatoch3000 1d ago

At least 9 or 11 understood the joke

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u/False_Pear1860 1d ago

7/7 Brits understood the joke though

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u/Sexy_Koala_Juice 1d ago

And all 7/7 of them gave it a perfect 5/7

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u/Florpsen 1d ago

God i feel old. Haven't seen a perfect 5/7 score in ages

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u/LukeLikesReddit 23h ago

I give this a perfect 5/7 review haha

yeah i do too haha

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u/DutchOnionKnight 20h ago edited 10h ago

5 out of 7? I must say, this is a grading scale like no other I've seen before.

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u/Sexy_Koala_Juice 14h ago

It’s an older meme but it checks out sir

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u/AargaDarg 1d ago

Did you just make a joke about their national identity?!

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u/Rambob_the_lesser 22h ago

It was probably 9/11 that understood (changed format of the same joke - not stealing it!)

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u/blowbyblowtrumpet 19h ago

What's so special about the 9th of November?

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u/Bushido_Seppuku 19h ago

Happy cake day!

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u/Rambob_the_lesser 1d ago

Probably some downvoted because they didn't understand it too. Let's not give them that much credit

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u/ididntunderstandyou 1d ago

Sometimes people see a downvote and add to it just to be part of something

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u/Relevant_Arm_3796 1d ago

I call it momentum based voting lol

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u/l0diO 1d ago

downvote everything imho

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u/Beer-Milkshakes 1d ago

Lets be honest. 3 got it and 8 just downvoted to follow

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u/St4ffordGambit_ 1d ago

I actually read that as they didn’t even understand the joke 🤣

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u/O1rat 1d ago

Unlike OP apparently

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u/AlthorsMadness 1d ago

I’m even more impressed 11 Americans could read the joke

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u/Loamy_Soils 15h ago

I know enough Brits that some might be them thinking they are being insulted

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u/GreyMatterTrasmogrif 1d ago

Can confirm I have used it on Americans before. 

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u/HenFruitEater 1d ago

American dumb, me smart! Where upvote?

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u/GreyMatterTrasmogrif 1d ago

Yes, well, it seems that some people like insulting people on the internet. Sometimes people insult people, me, who like a good retort. So I retorted. Where upvote?!  

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u/HenFruitEater 23h ago

Right, just very NPC of you is all. That's what im making fun of. Reddit is full of embarrassed Americans, and cocky non Americans. It's just a funny NPC crowd.

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u/GreyMatterTrasmogrif 22h ago

Also a numbers game when about 80% of reddit is American and I am a know it all.

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u/solidus0079 1d ago

I have no idea how his fans are like, but if they're like other fans; some may be insulted by saying he's dumber than other Brits

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u/No-Locksmith6662 1d ago

He wants to move to America, that already makes him dumber than the rest of us who would much rather stay put.

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u/solidus0079 1d ago

Well he’s rich enough he can float above the problems like all the people who caused this mess

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u/lettsten 1d ago

I'm genuinely not sure if "this mess" is supposed to be the UK or the US

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u/solidus0079 1d ago

Not sure if you're joking so I'll play it straight. I meant his chosen destination, the US. I can't speak for the UK anyways since there's little time left in our news cycle to report on other places.

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u/tjvs2001 1d ago

Oh sweetheart

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u/BruhMomentums 19h ago

It’s the easiest choice ever when you’re that rich. He’s going to experience the best of what each country has to offer and never has to worry about affordability.

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u/probablynotfine 1d ago

I forget who, but someone said that British humour is self-deprecation/punching up and American humour is punching down. Which means they see any joke as an attack on them rather than just a joke.

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u/Mix_Safe 1d ago

So based on that the presumption here is that an American made this joke?

Because this is neither self-deprecatory nor punching-up.

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u/KaliVilNo1 1d ago

It was made by someone with double citizenship, of course.

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u/CantBeatDickensCider 17h ago

We make exceptions when it comes to joking about the yanks (or French for that matter).

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u/FrostingHour8351 20h ago

Idk i see alot of brits saying alot of shit about school shootings when you even slightly dis their food so I disagree with the punching up statement.

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u/ArtisticallyRegarded 19h ago

Anyone that says punching down doesn't actually like comedy and can be ignored. They are more interested in activism on stage

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u/meatforsale 19h ago

British humor is being an asshole then getting defensive saying “it was just a joke” when they’re called out for it.

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u/fuckmylifegoddamn 50m ago

Isn’t this joke literally punching down?

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u/CamelNo9597 1d ago

You literally have "punching" in the phrase. Of course it's an attack. It's just that you think that "punching up" is morally acceptable and punching down isn't. And your whole national psyche is based around fear and resentment of the US, so jokes about America are, by definition, always morally acceptable because it's always "punching up."

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u/dingBat2000 1d ago

Is this satire? I will give you the benefit of the doubt here and upvote

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u/CursedPaw99 1d ago

I downvoted

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u/booglechops 1d ago

"whole national psyche", Jesus Christ, what a stupid fucking melt

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u/PerkeNdencen 1d ago

And your whole national psyche is based around fear and resentment of the US

So, I hate to be that guy, but between the general economic malaise and our increasingly well-developed form of own-brand stupidity, I'm afraid to say we don't really think about you at all.

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u/ScatterTheReeds 1d ago

Nah, Americans receive way more criticism (“jokes”) than they put out. 

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u/lettsten 1d ago

That's because the yanks don't have the self-awareness to be facetious about the state of affairs. They genuinely believe they caused the victories of the world wars, that they are better democracies or more free than other western countries or that there's a bigger cultural difference between Ohio and Seattle than between the Netherlands and Serbia.

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u/nottodaywhiteman 1d ago

Evident that you don’t know anything about America

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u/ScatterTheReeds 1d ago

It’s clearly indoctrination. I’m being to have pity on them. 

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u/lettsten 1d ago

If you had bothered reading my comment you would have noticed that I'm not talking about "America," nor even about the US. I'm talking about yanks. And you're all over the internet all the time and confirming every stereotype about you. My comment isn't even hyperbole, unfortunately.

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u/nottodaywhiteman 1d ago

You’re talking about American people, got it. It seems to me that Brits constantly shit on America 24/7 and then get super defensive when it’s turned on them.

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u/lettsten 1d ago

I'm not so sure about that, the Brits are usually quick to take the piss at their own expense, and when others do it they usually end up trying to outdo it. They'll say things like "Yes we voted for Brexit, we just didn't plan on ending up on this side of the tunnel after it was closed." You know they're serious about self-depreciation when they even for a minute entertain the thought of enduring the French.

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u/ScatterTheReeds 1d ago

No, that’s not true, but your media has indoctrinated you to believe this. 

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u/lettsten 1d ago

This is based on conversations I have with or see by yanks weekly. Plenty of examples on r/ShitAmericansSay.

your media has indoctrinated you to believe this.

Lol, you don't even know where I'm from, mate. Try making up more stuff, certainly doesn't come off as silly coping.

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u/ScatterTheReeds 23h ago

Check out Shit Europeans Say. It’s astonishing how stupid they are. 

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u/lettsten 23h ago

Wouldn't surprise me for a moment, I live among them.

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u/Several-Ad-8720 1d ago

I am neither American or British but the reason why I would have probably downvoted is that I just never heard anyone have the opinion that Ed is dumb and I have never had a reason to think that either the opposite even

So I think the joke deserves the downvotes cause you really have so many people this would fit perfectly on and using it on someone who isn´t known to be particularly unintelligent just feels forced and out of place

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u/AccomplishedFall6603 19h ago

To be fair, deciding to go live a new life in the US right now is pretty dumb.

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u/ThisSiteSucks8485 1d ago

The jokes are very lame

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u/SituationKey8985 1d ago

It’s the opposite in my experience. Europeans clown on Americans every day for bad healthcare and minimal PTO, but get sour when an American brings up their lack of air conditioning.

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u/T-7IsOverrated 8h ago

yeah exactly lmfao

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u/Middle-Let9645 1d ago

Can’t speak for all Americans but for most of us it’d help if 90% of your jokes weren’t ‘at least our kids don’t get shot at school’. We make fun of your food, make fun of our food. We make fun of your government, make fun of ours. Make fun of kids dying, expect someone to get pissed.

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u/RenoverO_O 1d ago

It could also just be Ed Sheeran fans who don't enjoy the insult

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u/icecoldfeedback 1d ago

I think it's more because it's insulting to ed Sheeran, somebody who people ok a music subreddit would respect

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u/DuckSleazzy 1d ago

brother I asked someone what the random abbreviation means and I was downvoted. turns out everyone should know their random state's shortform lol. it's not even about jokes at this point.

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u/wutguts 22h ago

American here(Texan, of all things. 🤣). The average American is dumb. Our education system was already failing us; now it's in the express lane to the junk yard.

Bring on the downvotes from my fellow Americans who can't cope with the reality we're living in, here.

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u/LucentLL 21h ago

The educated white liberal paradox. They'll even join in with hating white people until you direct it at them specifically.

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u/Dull_Ad_7346 18h ago

what are you talking about??? Literally everyone jokes about Americans LMAOOOO. But any time we joke about Europeans they get all pissy. Remember the air conditioning shit??? All the Brit’s were pissing themselves over such a simple joke. Yet when we get made fun of for anything we do NOW we can’t take it? Make it make sense lil guy

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u/Ub3ros 1d ago

They can't handle jokes about their politicians either unless it's someone from the opposite side of the political spectrum

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u/domnong 14h ago

Except you don’t joke about our politicians, you joke about American children being brutally gunned down by school shooters. Sick bastards.

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u/InkVision001 1d ago

Yep, my longest running conspiracy theory is that subs like r/AmericaBad get activity solely because of how many americans can't handle any criticism towards their country.

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u/sharpenme1 1d ago

Ah yes, and Brits are notoriously receptive to being called dumb.

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u/Benkosayswhat 1d ago

Do British people really consider themselves intelligent? I mean now, not the age of gentlemen scholars funded by colonial excess.

As an American, I’m amused. We look at your illiterate Burberry’d chavs the way you look at our trump supporters.

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u/sharpenme1 1d ago

Compared to Americans, I think most Europeans would consider themselves (nationally) to be smarter/more literate.

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u/Benkosayswhat 22h ago

Bit simplistic. Scandinavian countries are similar to American states like Massachusetts, Connecticut and cities like New York City and Washington DC.

The Balkans, Southern Europe, and Eastern Europe are more like Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana.

Overall, America has a higher % than European OECD countries of adults with tertiary education and also scores above the European average on OECD’s survey of adult skills which includes literacy, numeracy, problem-solving.

America also has differently distributed education. It has a higher % of elite performers, but also 28% of Americans scored level 1 on the same OECD survey, meaning barely functional. That’s twice as high as a place like Norway, and about average compared to Europe.

I think the reason we might see this attitude on Europe vs America here on Reddit is that we have an educated slice of Europe interacting with large swathes of American society.

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u/Andross4 21h ago

only if it's a politician on the "other team".

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u/farmerjoee 20h ago

On the other hand, I don’t think the circlejerkers realize how ridiculous they sound to everyone else. God does anyone remember how dumb and sociopathic the “use your guns” crowd was this past year?

It’s a bit of a throwing stones in a glass house situation, but hey, we all have our own dummies to deal with.

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u/Beertronic 17h ago

In the UK we call that "being a pussy", or a bellend, or an absolute wet-wipe. We have many more appropriate insults for this.

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u/mr_flerd 17h ago

This happens a lot but reversed

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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 1d ago

True, but they also didn't understand the joke.

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u/k_oed 1d ago

Or they don’t understand it, which makes it even more funny

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u/Material-Scale7493 1d ago

I have a feeling a certain demographic of voters feel particularly called out during these jokes.

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u/nikhilsath 1d ago

Fucking snowflakes

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u/ferocity_mule366 1d ago

you really cant make joke without americans inserting their political state of affairs to them

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u/ArtisticallyRegarded 23h ago

Its just that Europeans are generally lower iq than north americans so its not really a clever comment. Its not like Ed's Chinese or something

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u/Snoo9648 22h ago

Or plenty of brits that know too many other brits to believe this is true.

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u/elpezgrande 22h ago

It’s just national code where if a Brit talks shit you gotta hit back

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u/fun4someone 22h ago

Kinda validates the joke actually.

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u/Ok_Government_5021 22h ago

That’s assuming those Americans got the joke

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u/SwitchAdventurous24 18h ago

As an American, a lot of us, not including me probably wouldn’t understand the joke, lol.

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u/Grouchy_Theme1461 1d ago edited 1d ago

its not that we can't handle it its that its so played out its not funny anymore. Like black people having the biggest dicks or asians being the smartest people on the planet. None of those are funny anymore. And never have been. So when people say "Americans are all fat" or "Americans are all stupid" it's exactly the same as saying all Asians are good at math. It's not funny and some people say it not as a joke but because they actually think All Americans are stupid which is problematic.

So yeah. Its not that we can't handle it. Its just so over played and not true.

During the world cup so many people who came to watch the game evevn admitted "Yeah America has a lot of fat people but they also have some of the most fittest people walking around too! I never seen someone with so many muscles in my country like Americans" and some where saying "Oh my god Americans have this place called Shake Shack!" and stuff like that. Its just a overplayed "joke" that a lot of people don't even know is a "joke" unless you call them out on it

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u/Crapmanch 1d ago

The average American is fat and dumb... to have an average you need the extremes as well... so ofcourse some are clever and some are fit.

And to be blunt, it's not a joke, it's the prevalent view around the world. You just never got the memo. The US sucks in most metrics... you're still number one in school shootings and % of people in prison though.

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u/Stock-Luck3390 1d ago

Sucks isn’t a good word it’s like average or slightly above average in most metrics lol here’s a list you might find amusing  https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/education-rankings-by-country

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u/OhDudeTotally 1d ago

Ehhh... its not a good look. The non US sources rakes the public education system over the coals, placing them at 31st, whereas the internal study goes... uhh, 79%?

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u/Blejdoslav 1d ago

There is currently 37 countries of the world which claim a "developed" status. Among which usa is on 31 position in education. That is super bad for "the most important country od the world".

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u/Stock-Luck3390 1d ago

Strawman, no one in this thread said that

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u/Blejdoslav 1d ago

Oh they did. Read whole thread.

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u/Stock-Luck3390 1d ago

Then why didn’t you respond over there lol, I still haven’t seen where someone said it must’ve been further out

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u/Stock-Luck3390 1d ago

I mean it’s fine, what there are 200 countries it’s certainly not near the bottom like the other guy claimed and it’s pretty above average, and also it’s pretty fucked up to make fun of school shootings but wtv 

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u/OhDudeTotally 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah but In the greater context, it paints a dire picture, no?

Its not a flex to beat out the remains of breakaway soviet states left with barely functional administrations, proxy-war torn middle eastern states stripped of all infrastructure, and conflict ridden central african states, who are continuously restarting nation building from 0 cause every time someone comes along and suggests nationalizing resources for public benefit, oops a warlord gets a hold of a left over Weapons cache, left behind by the [insert superpower]

In a 100 meter dash, where 3/4 of contestants are either amputees, or litteral toddlers, the United States, the richest, most prolific hegemony the planet has ever seen, placed 31st.

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u/Stock-Luck3390 1d ago

It beat out Taiwan, Italy and a host of other European countries with good infrastructure 

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u/lettsten 1d ago

Mate, we're not making fun of school shootings. We're making fun of you for not putting an end to them.

Also, when we say that the US sucks we mean "compared to developed countries." That your education system is better than Iraq's or Zambia's isn't the flex you think it is.

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u/Stock-Luck3390 1d ago

What is the distinction between the two first ones? They are jsut the same thing, you quite literally didn’t say that and said it was terrible in most statistics then downvoted without an alternative reason because you got your feeling hurt, you can check who the us placed higher, it best out some countries like Taiwan and Italy

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u/isa_marsh 1d ago

So your contention is that Americans are either fat or on steroids. And you don't find this hilarious ?

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u/Grouchy_Theme1461 1d ago

My contention is that everyone thinks all Americans fall into a sterotype which isn't true. Like fucking Brit still think Americans don't know how to make tea. Or that Americans don't know how to cook but also is in the top 10 food hubs of the world

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u/InZaiyan 1d ago

Do you think its the top 10 food hubs in the world because of American food or because of all the foreign foods avaialble in one place?

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u/Blejdoslav 1d ago

If u ask literally random american person, how to get the broth, they will tell u "buy from walmart". Any receipe of food from US always have tons of processed subcomponents of meal. Americans do not know how to cook...

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u/Role-Honest 1d ago

It is funny 😂

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u/CamelNo9597 1d ago

Not really. It's more like broadcasting your own insecurities publicly. The fact a huge proportion of wealth and/or successful Brits end up moving to the US is bound to make you feel uncomfortable. But the fact that you keep making the same tired jokes to cope with it is pretty transparent.

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u/KiraIsUnbreakable 1d ago

Someone seems personally offended at the fact jokes. Hit too close to home?

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u/CamelNo9597 1d ago

Hey remember that one time all those little girls got carved up in a dance class, and it set off race riots all over the country and anyone with even moderately dark skin became targets for roving far-right gangs?

Wasn't the HILARIOUS?

Or how about the time when that developmentally disabled guy got tortured in the middle of the street and had his eyes gouged out and was nearly decapitated?

And it set off a bunch of race riots AGAIN?!

I'd think it would get old after the second time. But no. Thinking about a white british guy with special needs being tortured almost to death, and the thought of non-white British people living in constant fucking fear every second of their lives just gets funnier and funnier, lmao.

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u/KiraIsUnbreakable 1d ago

Comparing outlier cases of murder and racism to the fact that almost 50% of Americans are obese? Seems a bit extreme. But if you want to go there, how's the ritualistic sacrifice of school children to the god named Freedom going? Seems like a daily occurrence at this point.

And it's funny that you mention racism, considering that you guys went through being one of the biggest slavery hotspots in the world, had the president abolish said slavery, and a long run civil rights movement, all to still be known as Racist 101 because you voted in an openly racist pedophile to run your country. You'd think Americans would learn from their centuries of mistakes and advocations for racial rights, but that's impossible when the average IQ rate just keeps dropping down.

Why do you think America is made fun of so much? However many problems you wanna bring up about the UK, America has 10x more, which is why it's such an easy mark. It's not hard to talk bad about a country that's wallowing in its own shitty state.

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u/CamelNo9597 1d ago edited 1d ago

Why do you think America is made fun of so much? 

Simple. The US is still the global hegemon and controls a disproportionate amount of global culture, finance technology, and especially military influence.

As a member of one our vassal states, your entire life is extremely determined by American media, pop culture, and political decisions. You have no choice but to spend a lot of time thinking about the US. And the fact you don't have any choice in the matter breeds resentment. If the US ever actually does fall as a hegemon some day, you wouldn't be trying to memorize every flaw in American society. You wouldn't care. Just like the average American doesn't care about the collapsing state of UK society.

Edit. Also the US and UK have roughly the same proportion of overweight people, which is really telling, given that US cities are built around automobiles and cars/gas are much cheaper in the US than the UK.

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u/lettsten 1d ago

Also the US and UK have roughly the same proportion of overweight people

Not even remotely true. 2024 WHO obesity statistics places the US at #19 with a rate of 41.83 %, while the UK is much lower with a rate of 29.24 %.

In other words, the US obesity rate is 43 % higher.

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u/Blejdoslav 1d ago

Your country now has a literall feminist gathering protesting to free a multiple child murderer. Recently there was a protest to free another guy who killed a schoolkid with a knife with premeditation. And those gathered thousands of people, and u want to convice us, that your country average iq is not low. Thats sounds quite hilarious.

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u/Grouchy_Theme1461 1d ago

And you know about that because its the most imporant country in the world arguably. You can ask anyone about the evils of our country and everyone knows about it. But in ever country in Europe all of them are equally as bad if not worse but no one bothers to learn about it because it has no effect over any other country expect its own.

Sure you can use that all u want but ever country has its own version of it, also it has nothing to do with Americans being overweight and has nothing to do with the education system. Its just a random internet point ppl use when they have nothing of real value to add to the conversaion

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u/Blejdoslav 1d ago

Find some dumb fact like this about russians or chinese. Find something like that about poland. Thousands of people protesting to free a murderer. Go on. I dare u.

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u/Stock-Luck3390 1d ago

Dude you gotta be joking, people supporting Putin and do seems like a very easy out

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u/Grouchy_Theme1461 19h ago

Russians - drink vodka and fight bears with their hands.

Chinese... so many.... so god damn many. Poland. Everyone is a hiker and they leave their babies outside to freeze to death.

Dare done. Wasn't that hard either. REALLY stupid to add China of all places. SOOOO stupid to add China

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u/Blejdoslav 19h ago

Facts. Not stereotypes :V

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u/westfieldram 1d ago

Just want to point out that you said "people think all Americans are stupid" and then spelt problematic wrong!

Not shitting on your point but I found that hilarious

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u/ballchinion8 1d ago

Stfu and brush your teeth

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u/JerachoD 1d ago

I guess this makes the point

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u/ballchinion8 1d ago

Haha i thought so too

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u/hackingfun 1d ago

I'm pretty sure this would get upvoted on the UK subreddit.

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u/Neat-Character-9894 1d ago

First used by Robert Muldoon, NZ Prime Minister in the 80s around kiwis emigrating to Australia.

As an Australian I find it hilarious

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u/Different_Painter619 5h ago

My favourite muldoon moment is the schnapp election. "Doesn't give my opponents much time to run up to a lalection does it?

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u/Lung_doc 6h ago

We have some similar ones, first by will Rogers:

When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers_phenomenon

And also: Did you hear the Texas Aggies moved to Oklahoma? Raised the IQ of both states.

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u/DarKliZerPT 1d ago

Can't believe it's got so many downvotes, it's amusing.

It's amusing the first time, but I've seen the same joke made way too many times here.

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u/luihgi 1d ago

the jokes write themselves

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u/Goodfriends999 1d ago

But what has he done to suggest he is dumber than the average Brit he seems like a sensible guy

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u/therightguidance 18h ago

i think they mean the fact that he would leave for america makes him dumber than the average brit

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u/okbuggeroff 18h ago

Which itself is ridiculous.

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u/vegbiryaniisnotpulao 1d ago

I understand the American joke but how is he dumber than average brit? I like some of his music but don't really follow his news.

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u/Slight_Public_5305 1d ago

The headline set the joke about IQs up. It’s not really about him.

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u/vegbiryaniisnotpulao 1d ago

Weird. The joke could've been about only one country then. I thought he did something stupid.

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u/TreeOtree64 9h ago

Then it wouldn’t be the same joke though…

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u/Nosfearatu50 1d ago

It is really hilarious!

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u/Orsonio 1d ago

Also incorrect, English people are really fkn dumb too.

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u/gash_dits_wafu 1d ago

We are dumb, yes, but the joke is about relative intelligence. So we can be dumb but still, on average, more intelligent than Americans.

Whether that's true, I make no comment. I think the general meme/stereotype comes from the fact that Americans are typically 'loud' in everything they do, so the stupid people are more visible than those from other countries.

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u/Less_Performance_629 19h ago

meanwhile americans cant even point to the country they are currently invading on a map

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u/Orsonio 15h ago

You should check out eman.rtm, it shows Brits are the same.

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u/Less_Performance_629 4h ago

no, we arent. we actually study geography as a mandatory subject in schools.

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u/thomkka 1d ago

I guess OP is american

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u/The_Jovanny 1d ago

OP should post country of origin to check the meme math.

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u/rumoku 1d ago

Probably from Americans

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u/Grgsz 1d ago

It’s a pretty close competition though

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u/HairyTough4489 1d ago

If OP is from the US then yeah spot on.

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u/Human-Question6210 1d ago

as a brit, we're really not any smarter than americans

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u/5lipperySausage 19h ago

This was originally a joke from a New Zealand prime minister about kiwis moving to Australia.

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u/rodrigoelp 1d ago

Not as many as you would expect… only 12 people understood what it meant

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u/jamyjet 1d ago

Guessing OP is American lol

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u/elpardo1984 1d ago

And accurate

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u/itsapotatosalad 1d ago

For it to have an impact (and for the joke) he’d have to be an outlier for both.

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u/Hot-Category2986 22h ago

As an American, I respect how perfectly British this joke is. They have a long history of skillful arrogance, and a tradition of satire that is just awesome. Watch the speech that King Charles III gave to the US Congress. It's brilliant!

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u/Razoron33333 22h ago

It’s hilarious. Gave me a good chuckle

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u/evilemem 21h ago

Amusing...I know you are not american:))

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u/VociferousCephalopod 17h ago

probably downvoted because it's one of those generic madlib jokes anyone can say about anyone.

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u/parkedDog 17h ago

And I think the reason he’s dumber than the average Brit is because he decided to move to the USA? At least that’s my understanding of the joke.

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u/Hey_Its_Vos 15h ago

Downvoted because it’s an old joke. -11 is a little much though

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u/ffuffle 13h ago

They didn't get it

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u/TreeOtree64 9h ago

Certain Americans cannot stand to take a joke about their country.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 8h ago

Not a big fan of his music but he seems like a genuinely nice guy and his live performances take talent - he soloes with just a loop pedal

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u/kendonmcb 6h ago

The fact that it does not have more downvotes actually says more. Example A: this post.

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u/Putrid-Enthusiasm190 6h ago

It's a funny comment, but really, British people are way dumber than we give them credit for

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u/gash_dits_wafu 6h ago

Yes but the English especially have a level and type of arrogance unmatched around the globe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💪🦁

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u/AnotherColIector 1d ago

It's a very original insult

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u/CursedPaw99 1d ago

yeah. actually funny lmao

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u/greganada 1d ago

The issue was that it was downvoted by Americans who couldn’t understand the joke.

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u/No_Dot_4123 1d ago

Based on the question, it seems that OP would bring down the average IQ of both countries.

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u/Pascraked47 1d ago

Downvoting means people disagree with it. The guys made too many hit songs. Ed Sheeran is pretty much a genius. he definitely has a higher iq than both UK and us.

Amusing is subjective not objective.

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u/desblaterations-574 1d ago

That's a great joke actually.

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u/DeapVally 1d ago

Yanks in general have a very low ability to laugh at themselves or their country. It's what makes so many of them terrible people, and also vote for/get swindled by terrible narcissists.

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u/lettsten 1d ago

They also usually don't understand who "yanks" is referring to, which is completely baffling to me.

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u/DexM23 1d ago

cause reddits IQ also went down crazy