To be concerned about education when

[careeristbitchnigel]

The 18 year old i'm working with (english)

• could not tell me the name of the Queen
• did not know that the UK was an island
• did mot know that London is our capital city

My colleague and i were literally

I just asked my 6yo and she knew the answers to all of them, I fail to see how someone can get to 18 without knowing that.

Op

Given that your short post contains two grammatical errors and a factual error , I wouldn't be too smug/judgemental.

ex was talking to dd and saying how nice it would be to live on an island.

I was: ermm we do live on an island

What is the name of the Queen?

I'm sure she was taking the piss. Even 5 year olds find this kind of quiz annoying but at least it's appropriate to grill them on what they've been learning. She's 18 for christ's sake!

A lot of young girls seem to think that being stupid is endearing and fake it. God knows why.

What is the name of the Queen?

Dave

What's a Kardashian?

hidden I gave this problem. I know that Kardashians exist and feature in Heat and tabloids, but no one can explain why or how they are famous, other than one of them has a big arse and her dad got OJ Simpson off a murder rap.

They're aliens off of Star Trek.

They have acid for blood and can change their body shape seemingly at will.

I'd be concerned about her education and her motivation an interest in general knowledge and affairs but education doesn't start or end with school.

TBF a lot of young people girls especially know more about kim kardashian than the queen quite sad really

What's the difference between one celebrity and another?

I'm going to compound issues further....

So, is England (or Scotland, Wales, NI) a country in it's own right? And then the UK is therefore not a country, but a collective of countries under common government?

Excuse my ignorance, I've just always wondered.

Agree clash. I'm wondering if there are any other countries in the world that are as confusing as ours! The individual countries that make up our sovereign state are mainly known internationally in football, cricket etc. not politically. Do you describe yourself to a foreigner as Scottish, English etc or British? Is a Northern Irish person British? And why is our currency GBP and not UKP? How do the Northern Irish feel about that? I'm not surprised an 18 year old can't answer questions about our heritage when so many of us can't!