Unfair advantage, England is the worlds leading cause of independence days.
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europeans dominating when they get into a naming countries competition with the not educated in the field of naming countries competition competition that they have.
Is she a right wing personality? Not remembering much about Nicaragua is a serious career booster in those quarters. They should have had Oliver North on the show. No one doesn't remember more about Nicaragua than him.
...no one is going to get this one.
Lots of ancient elderlies on lemmy! We get you!
Sorry, best I can remember is Peter North.
Most of us aren't 60 years old or are going to remember every detail of every major GOP scandal. The short version, Ollie North took the fall for Reagan's Iran-Contra weapons sales, is sufficient without knowing that the Contras were Nicaraguan.
Ollie North took the fall
I'd hardly call that a fall.
Oh I got it, but then, I wasn’t schooled in America
This has little to do with American vs British schooling and a lot more to do with the specific people involved. The UK has lots of comedians dumber than Noel and the US has plenty smarter than Chelsea
As someone totally ignorant about a lot of pop culture, who is that lady?
Chelsea Handler
She's a football manager?
Thank you. I still didn't know who she was, but I looked her up. She's clearly ignorant, but it seems like her heart is in the right place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Handler#Political_views
I consider myself ignorant of only about 2/3rds of pop culture and I still have no idea who any of these people are.
The two at the bottom are British comedians Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, most famous for a very weird, partially-improvised show called The Mighty Boosh, which has quite a cult following. But I have no idea who the lady is.
Isn't the left one the goth guy from IT Crowd?
He was. He’s a boss now.
Yes. He also is one of the current hosts of The Great British Bake-Off.
Best part of the show imo. His stints on 8/10 cats are also top tier
There's nothing I don't like about bake-off. I hate reality shows because everyone is mean to each other... except bake-off, where everyone's friendly and nice and encouraging. It's so refreshing to see.