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**Nurglitch**

For years I've been puzzled by the way people from Britain seem to have the worst English grammar, spelling, and composition of the English-typing world. Now it's been somewhat explained: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4548943/British-teenagers-have-lower-IQs-than-their-counterparts-did-30-years-ago.html

Apparently the British Isles are devolving into an island of Epsilon semi-morons.

**Orkeosaurus**

USA! USA!

**NannyNidNooNoo**

With chav culture this is absolutely no suprise. I've dealt with teenagers sending me letters/emails that are written in "txt speak". These were supposed to be formal letters for use in my college..

**whatwhat**

The telegraph, for those of you in other countries. A politically conservative broadsheet who like their tabloid counterpart, the daily mail, are fairly straight in there belief that the british youth is full of knife wielding hooligans who spk lk ths. fail.

+ the article makes no comparisons to other countries so as far as declaring this as a victory for foreigners, fail.

**Orkeosaurus**

whatwhat wrote:The telegraph, for those of you in other countries. A politically conservative broadsheet who like their tabloid counterpart, the daily mail, are fairly straight in there belief that the british youth is full of knife wielding hooligans who spk lk ths. fail.

+ the article makes no comparisons to other countries so as far as declaring this as a victory for foreigners, fail.

I'd like to believe you, but it's already been proven that you have no IQ points.

**Vandez**

I would dearly love to refute this in an angry fashion, but that would be burying my head in the sand.

On the whole, British kids are idiots. Can't say I think much of people in general, though, so I might be biased there.

**whatwhat**

Orkeosaurus wrote:
whatwhat wrote:The telegraph, for those of you in other countries. A politically conservative broadsheet who like their tabloid counterpart, the daily mail, are fairly straight in there belief that the british youth is full of knife wielding hooligans who spk lk ths. fail.

+ the article makes no comparisons to other countries so as far as declaring this as a victory for foreigners, fail.
I'd like to believe you, but it's already been proven that you have no IQ points.

but that's like ten ahead of you?

**JD21290**

Nurglitch, i take it you needed some attention so decided to start a thread you knew would snowball.

on a side note, britsh troops can tell the difference between friendly and enemy troops, so please dont go talking about IQ.

also, as i remember an american sub was ready to fire at a lighthouse unless it moved for them lol
they seemed to think it was another ship at the time, but when the lighthouse owner refused to move he was faced with threats of being shot at.

**Orkeosaurus**

Vandez wrote:i wud rly <3 2 refut but im 2 ary w san.

i hol britsh are idoit bt i/mb bisd!!!!!! :^(

whatwhat wrote:bt thts leik 10???????!!!!!1

JD21290 wrote:nrgt are you a snobal?

on sid not the trops are brt s dnt t abot IQ!!!!!!!!111

als i membr my sub samch i 8 it / it was gud smch bt my hose had lites on it :0

Does anybody know what Vandez, whatwhat, and JD21290 are trying to say?

I fear they've already lost too many IQs.

**whatwhat**

**Orkeosaurus**

Lighten up, whatwhat!

::EDIT:: I had an image of a smiling cow, but it was really creeping me out, so I got rid of it.

**Reaper6**

Orkeosaurus wrote:
whatwhat wrote:The telegraph, for those of you in other countries. A politically conservative broadsheet who like their tabloid counterpart, the daily mail, are fairly straight in there belief that the british youth is full of knife wielding hooligans who spk lk ths. fail.

+ the article makes no comparisons to other countries so as far as declaring this as a victory for foreigners, fail.
I'd like to believe you, but it's already been proven that you have no IQ points.

Care to try that excuse on me Orkeosaurus ? I'm a year away from 40, with a verified IQ above 140, so good luck if you do

Nurglitch wrote:Apparently the British Isles are devolving into an island of Epsilon semi-morons.

Nice reference to Brave New World, Nuglitch. Perhaps it was, indeed, a view of the UK's future currently worth considering.

**Orkeosaurus**

Reaper6 wrote:Care to try that excuse on me Orkeosaurus ? I'm a year away from 40, with a verified IQ above 140, so good luck if you do

Of course not!

The little flaggy in the corner of your post is America.

**captain.gordino**

This may be the most I have laughed at any thread on Dakka, asides from the Soulgrinder-With-Penis thread. This is hilarious.

On the one hand, I'm backing Orkeosaurus, but then again I don't know who he is to talk about IQs since he's from the Land of Ten Thousand Retards.

@Orkeosaurus; if you don't have a copy of Our Dumb World (by The Onion), get a copy before you do anything else. It's the funniest book ever written, and I'm not even kidding.

**Reaper6**

Orkeosaurus wrote:The little flaggy in the corner of your post is America.

If you take a look through the Nuts & Bolts forum you'll find the flag generator isn't perfect, that's why I made sure my general location is displayed below my avatar.

**Orkeosaurus**

captain.gordino wrote:but then again I don't know who he is to talk about IQs since he's from the Land of Ten Thousand Retards.

The Games Workshop design studio?

Ba-dum Ksh!

if you don't have a copy of Our Dumb World (by The Onion), get a copy before you do anything else. It's the funniest book ever written, and I'm not even kidding.

I may just have to do this.

Reaper6 wrote:If you take a look through the Nuts & Bolts forum you'll find the flag generator isn't perfect, that's why I made sure my general location is displayed below my avatar.

Ah. I just thought "Location: Wiltshire, UK" was a joke.

You know, like "Wiltshire lol!"

Something like that.

**warpcrafter**

Lots of people who think they're so smart become arrogant and end up abandoning any common sense they might have once had, so IQ is not everything. It's probably the same here in the USA, since most college graduates here have only learned what they need to know for their specific career path.

**Mattlov**

SHOCK! People who don't read enough and spend too much time watching TV and sending text messages aren't as smart as people who didn't have these distractions when they grew up!

Pardon me while I go sit in a corner and cry.

<Sarcasm turned back down to normal levels>

**Reaper6**

warpcrafter wrote:Lots of people who think they're so smart become arrogant and end up abandoning any common sense they might have once had, so IQ is not everything. It's probably the same here in the USA, since most college graduates here have only learned what they need to know for their specific career path.

A valid enough point as far as it goes. I know several people who are an absolute genius in their field but total dimwit's in most other regards.

My comment including my IQ was in response to a specific statement by Orkeosaurus, intended to establish that I would be beyond it's scope before agreeing with whatwhat's description of The Telegraph and The Daily Mail as conservative press with less than optimistic views on British Youth Culture.

**reds8n**

Orkeosaurus wrote:Ba-dum Ksh!

NO NO NO ! For future reference it's : ba dum tish

or perhaps waa waa waa waaaaa

Clearly foreign eduction is lacking in these vital areas.

**Kilkrazy**

It is a demonstrable fact that British IQs have been increasing steadily every year for several decades, otherwise how can the ever-increasing pass rate of O (GCSE) and A levels be explained?

**Lint**

This is awesome.

When I went to London I noticed a bunch of rude ignorant bastards who walked and drove on the left side of the road. I was glad to come back stateside and be among some rude ignorant bastards who have the sense to drive/walk on the right.

(edit) Oh yeah, and what is with the metric system? Everything in multiples of ten? Wussies.

**stonefox**

What are IQs and where must I journey to find more of them? They sound p cool if people are hoarding them.

**sebster**

Vandez wrote:I would dearly love to refute this in an angry fashion, but that would be burying my head in the sand.

On the whole, British kids are idiots. Can't say I think much of people in general, though, so I might be biased there.

Meh, kids are stupid. Always have been, always will be. Intelligence is something that happens over a long period of time as we learn more about the world.

Meanwhile, that article is pretty standard Telegraph stuff. Notice all the experts giving answers implying or outright stating 'it's one survey and it's just IQ so it's pretty unreliable and not even really measuring anything particularly definable so lets not go jumping to conclusions'... while the Telegraph happily quotes them then goes off jumping to conclusions.

**P4NC4K3**

In my region of the UK (the mighty North-East WEY!), it seems that for every 15 or so dense people (my favourite adjective EVER) there is one intelligent person (like me) these are the people born to lead, and eventually cull their idiotic counterparts

**Frazzled**

My only regret in locking this thread is that I don't have my cool tombstone avatar to insert here.

This thread never had a chance and I applaud the Uk'ers for not rising to the flame bait.