TLP: Happy Fourth, Dumba**es!
Courtesy of Jr. Deputy Accountant
Sorry, apparently only one-fourth of us are dumba**es about the origins of the holiday we’re about to celebrate. And it’s a pretty safe bet that the percentage of people who won’t get drunk and stupid for the Fourth is far lower than the percentage that is strictly stupid.
CNN:
As Americans get ready to spend a long weekend marking this country’s independence 234 years ago, a new poll suggests more than 1 in 4 Americans don’t know which country America declared its independence from.
According to a new survey from Marist College, 26 percent failed to correctly identify Great Britain as the country the United States fought an eight-year war with to gain its independence.
That percentage of Americans includes the 20 percent who were "unsure" and the six percent who thought the U.S. fought a revolution against another country. Among the countries mentioned were France, China, Japan, Mexico, and Spain, according to the poll.
Now, we’re not all history buffs, just like not everybody is a mathlete. But this is f*^king stunning, especially the list of "coulda-been" countries.
It’s OK to start the holiday drinking now, right?
