Rampant Stupidity

[Pachyderm]

www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=5030&nl=2

If that doesn't work, go to Konraband and type

"idiot on game show phone in" in the search box.

I have never been to Australia. I am sure there are many products I would not be familiar with. But, still....


Can I have a culling license, please?

[Swatopluk]

Don't know the brand either (it was the same with sellotape just a few years ago for me) but wiki tells me that it is effectively the generic name for this type of stuff (i.e. used whether it is the actual brand or not) in the US and Down Under.

But game shows seem to attract room temperature IQs these days

[Aggie]

'saran wrap' is the brand-generic equivalent up here.  But most people also know Glad as a brand (more for garbage bags).

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

This reminded me somehow of this nice little movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE

[Opsa]

That made me slap my forhead so many times I think I  forgot what religion Buddhist monks practice.

[Aggie]

How about some "Talking to Americans"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLXRVvA6T9k

Heh, hope you have a few minutes....   although it's more about Canadian in-jokes that actual stupidity.

[Bluenose]

OK, I give up.  I am sitting behind a corporate firewall that won't let me see the link (adult material, apparently) and I suspect that my 28K connection at home will not be up to the job, so how about a hint as to what its all about... 

BTW, if its an australian term that you don't know, DaveL or myself will no doubt be able to help out.

[Pachyderm]

game show. fill in the blanks. two spaces.

gl_d wr_p.

woman fails to get it. despite being given multiple attempts. even presenter is stunned.

never heard of the brand name, but can guess.

woman fails to win thousand bucks....

[Bluenose]

Yeah, that qualifies as rampant stupidity, Glad Wrap is the almost completely ubiquitous name for any form of plastic film wrap used in the kitchen in Oz.  It is a brand name of the first major brand of this product over here.  I wonder if the contestant came from Dapto?

[anthrobabe]

I am a blond
an an American
I would have won the money!

(course anyone on the continent is technically an American(even Canadians!)

[Aggie]

No, you're reading your continental map wrong.

You are 'America'.
We are 'North'.

[anthrobabe]

No, you're reading your continental map wrong.

You are 'America'.
We are 'North'.

OH! right -o

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

So depending on how the letters are printed I would be from 'So'(uth) and the Chileans, Argentinians, Paraguayans, Uruguayans and half Brazilians are also America?

[Swatopluk]

As Ephraim Kishon used to say, Israel is so small that on most maps the country is abbreviated to Isr. but the capital Jerusalem is always spelled out as if Isr. was part of J. not the other way around. He also opined that one reason not to give back the occupied territories is/was that it would allow space for the -ael.

[beagle]

game show. fill in the blanks. two spaces.

gl_d wr_p.

woman fails to get it. despite being given multiple attempts. even presenter is stunned.

Perhaps it's "The Office" style irony. The contestant was re-enacting that bit from the Father Ted game show:

Presenter:   What is the capital city of England?
...

(Increasingly desperate) Presenter:  You live there...