"This is what happens when period dramas are your main source of education about the world."

"I'm English and have a half-sister who was born in the US. We were chatting one day, and I said, 'It's our language.' She asked what I meant. She'd never realized the link between England and English. Good ol' American education."

"'Do you get the 4th of July off?' No, I'm British; if we got every former colony's Independence Day off, we'd never work a day in our lives."

"The number of people still clinging to the name Czechoslovakia, even though it stopped existing 33 YEARS AGO, is absolutely baffling. Like, at some point you gotta accept you're ignorant and unable to keep up with what's going on in the world."

"Did they think it was a countdown? Wonder what they thought happened at zero."

"I could forgive not knowing where Portugal is, but not knowing the names of Europe and Asia is way too much for me."

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