This has to be a joke?

[mel_zoom]

From the bbc news website -

"Many British people are unaware that the ingredients for produce such as bacon, porridge, bread and beer come from farms, a survey suggests."

Here

How can such a large proportion of people in a first world country with free access to education be so ignorant of something so obvious?

[AJS]

 :lol: I couldn't believe it myself when I read that in the Paper today, who on earth did they ask? 3 year olds? :crazy:

[Wilse]

mel_zoom wrote:
From the bbc news website -

"Many British people are unaware that the ingredients for produce such as bacon, porridge, bread and beer come from farms, a survey suggests."

Here

How can such a large proportion of people in a first world country with free access to education be so ignorant of something so obvious?

The article is very poorly written.
Nowhere does it say what questions were actually asked.
For example, you could ask where bacon comes from. The answer could be a choice between a)pigs or b)farms.
The resulting stats could feasibly be used to imply ignorance.

Having said that, I would not be in the least surprised if the stats turn out to be robust. We are a country of many, many incurious idiots.

[mel_zoom]

Wilse:

"We are a country of many, many incurious idiots."

I hate to say it but I seem to run into them constantly :-(

[motorollin]

Where do they think it comes from then?

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moto

[Vincent]

mel_zoom wrote:
How can such a large proportion of people in a first world country with free access to education be so ignorant of something so obvious?

You do notice the large amount of chavs don't you? :-P

Part of that page says 16-24 year olds.  If that applies to the main question aswell then that's the reason right there.  If they included adults of 30 or over then the result would be drastically different.

Not surprising to me at all.  Most of them are too busy with their trendy mobile phones speaking to Chantelle or Wayne about their new Ford Escort/fake orange tan/new bird they're shagging.

[Doobrey]

motorollin wrote:
Where do they think it comes from then?

Tesco's ?

[Karlos]

Not surprising to me at all. Most of them are too busy with their trendy mobile phones speaking to Chantelle or Wayne about their new Ford Escort/fake orange tan/new bird they're shagging.

Confessing to Buddy Christ, eh? ;-)

[TiredOLife]

Depressing if there is any accuracy, but not surprising.

[Vincent]

Doobrey wrote:
Tesco's ?

:lol:

But most chavs I've seen shop in Asda :-P

@Karlos
I thought of that after posting.  Shame that Wayne is a chav name now.  Along with Darren.

I know a Wayne that lives round here and he's got a chav haircut but that's it.  He's a pure classic Dundonian :-D

[CannonFodder]

Vincent wrote:

Doobrey wrote:
Tesco's ?

:lol:

But most chavs I've seen shop in Asda :-P

Blimey, you must have a higher class of chav up there.  The chavs round here shop at Aldi/Lidl/Netto/Kwiksave. ;-)

[Vincent]

Well, we don't have an Aldi (well, I haven't seen one here anyways), we have a few Lidls but Tesco is always nearby and Kwiksave's have declined here.  Same with Iceland.  We do have a few Farmfoods though.

You should see the chav Asda we have in the Kirkton area here.  You can't move for the buggers.  I'm sure Kirkton is the local sex spot for chavs.  And because it's filled with chavs no-one else wants to live there.

Everything is cheap in Asdas aswell.  About the same price as Lidls but with a bigger selection.  And Asda sell baby stuff, Lidls don't ;-)

[Doobrey]

Vincent wrote:
 And Asda sell baby stuff, Lidls don't ;-)

Ooh, do they stock the new Burberry Pampers range ? ;-)

[Vincent]

Doobrey wrote:
Ooh, do they stock the new Burberry Pampers range ? ;-)

:lol:

Now that that's been said you'd better make sure you get commission when they do start selling them.

[motorollin]

23% did not know bread's main ingredients came from the farm

What the fk is wrong with these people?

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moto