[tee hee]

and 50 State Capitols

That cartoon is technically wrong: our country is called the United Kingdom, not England, Scotland etc.

Why do the Anericans always call our country "England" or "Great Britain" when we've always been the UK?

And Czechoslovakia does not exist any more it became the Czech Republic and Slovakia after 1990.

FFS..... Give me strength

Always thought the country I live in was England ?

As far as I'm concerned I'm English, but my nationality is British, because we are in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Also, that cartoon must be old because Zaire is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

But they are both two great cartoons nonetheless.

Isnt that a contradiction in terms

But that second remark I made is true: I remember when Gordon Brown visited Barack Obama in America and when they gave a press conference, he called us "Great Britain".

Now, we may enter the Olympics as Great Britain, which is a historical thing more than anything, but I can't understand why we're not Team UK, under our proper name, and not Team GB - probably because it sounded better, I don't know.

I believe you can be both English and British at the same time.

For Christ's sake don't let any Americans see that first cartoon; if they try to get their heads round the existence of so many other countries their brains will explode.

Always loved that joke from Eddie Izzard "war is good as it teaches Americans were other countries are". Its acctually shocking when speaking to Americans when I was on holiday how bad there geographical knowledge of the world is. One thought that Bolivia was in Africa and a young lad of about 20 had never heard of the Ivory coast and thought Hawaii was in the Caribbean.

Yet, Americans teach the state capitals to children in their schools.

Sometimes, people don't know what are the county towns in England - maybe that should taught.

I remember in my GCSE Geography class, a fellow classmate asked me where Hartlepool was - he knew I support Hartlepool you see - I had to point it out to him on a map of the UK.

What's an Anerican?

That should taught what? Do they speak English in what?

Sometimes, people don't know what are the county towns in England - maybe that should BE taught.

Sorry for the typo.

Why should they? My grandad drilled all of the countries and capital cities into my head when I was a kid and they've never came in useful except in quizzes and playing the quiz machine.

The cartoon was from an early 90's kids TV show, so you pointing out all the present day 'mistakes' is doing nothing but make you look like a bell end.

I was only doing that though to show how old those cartoons were compared to now.

So you aren't covering the Good Friday Agreement at your tertiary college?

I have less problems explaining this to 10 year old Chinese kids??

Come on then, what's the capital of Mauritania?

Er, Nouakachott?

Dont get him going, I have known him for about 23 years and he never gets one wrong playing the it box on deal or no deal is like watching rain man in a good way