Man I just got a perfect 350 out of 350 at http://www.dontvote.org

They ask you to identify certain people to see if you're someone who should be voting. They said, not only should I vote, I should consider a career in politics. :D

212 out of 350
(D - You Should Not Be Voting)

Not bad for a furriner I reckon.
And at least I know how to spell Angelina Jolie's surname.

280 of 350.

Well, I knew Boehner, who was the next most missed after Ban ki-moon (who I missed.) :p

Also didn't know Nouri al-Maliki.

Interesting. You only get one point if you correctly ID Angelina Jolie, but if you know who Ahmadinejad is, you get 10 points.

288 out of 350 possible points, or 82.29% - B

349/350 -- I had no idea who Lindsey Lohan was.

You scored 342 out of 350 possible points, or 97.71%

A
You should definitely vote.

missed PM Israel.

they misspelled Jolie :nyah:

Implicit in their plea is a kind of assumed superiority that makes me extremely uncomfortable.

One of them accidently mentioned the 2nd Amendment in a good way.

??

are you guys in the wrong thread? What comment? what "one of them"?

oh. sorry. my bad. I was not referencing the op vid. only the quiz thingy. sorry.

At first I was kind of annoyed at the whole tone of the piece, but as I watched it I began to be a little charmed by the delivery and comedy of the people. I only recognized about half of them, I'm not much on stargazing or pop culture. In fact almost everything I know about pop culture I learn here. This is really the only portal I have to culture, such as it is. We never watch TV, rarely listen to radio. The only news we read is the New York Review of Books. (Kind of like literary cliffnotes)

The thing about the message is that it isn't directed at any party. They say "if you care about these issues" you could care either way. Obviously they aren't saying "I'm Leo diCrapio and I think you should save the ice caps" The whole script was obviously written and directed by one or two people. it is coherent and simple. They happen to be people who are pretty to look at who can deliver a line in one or two dozen takes.

Wold the message have been received any differently if the heads had been off off off Broadway actors whom no one knows? Sure some people might perk up when so and so is speaking, but even if Helen Hunt got up there and told me "Footfootfoot, you need to eat this broken glass." I wouldn't do it. But if she said she'd cover me in whipped cream and do me like I've never been done before, well I'd still pass but I'd have an awesome visual to remember the whole thing by.

So vote or I'll rickroll you.

That's the kind of incentive we need!

But discarding the message out of hand, because they are celebrities, isn't wise. I'm not saying you did that, because you didn't say one way or the other, I'm just saying it's not wise.

Maybe it's the polished delivery that comes from being a pro, that gives you that impression, more than their confidence in their position?

It seems like scolding to me which you can't do except from a superior position.