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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP is more ignorant than the people she is mocking. They are going out to explore the world, while OP prides herself on trivia.

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https://fs.blog/richard-feynman-knowing-something/[/quote]

OP here. As others have pointed out, knowing the names of the two oceans that border our country is not trivia (or trivial), but just basic information that any fully functioning American adult (or child for that matter) should know. But you’re right, I’m sure she could have delivered a lecture on ocean currents, tidal basins and other matters related to oceanography. [/quote]

Why would it have to be oceanography?  Maybe she could have delivered a lecture on the soil food web, or the different classifications of curly hair types, or performed open heart surgery, or told you the best cleaning agents for every possible stain on every possible surface.  But she couldn’t remember if the ocean she has never seen before is called the Atlantic or the Pacific, so she’s stupid and you’re smart.  Congratulations.  Here’s your prize.[/quote]

Because everyone who graduates highschool should know the names and locations of continents and oceans FFS. [/quote]

Why?[/quote]

Why know anything? Why even learn your own name?  [/quote]

Why not respond to a very simple question with rhetorical questions rather than take the time to think about it?[/quote]

Why can't you respond to questions? It cuts both ways.[/quote]

I asked the question first.  And, more importantly, I asked the person making the claim to explain their reasoning.  You are asking the equivalent of “well how do YOU know God DOESN’T exist?!”

You (or a different PP) said that “everyone who graduates high school should know the names and locations of continents and oceans”.  Can you even explain what a continent is?  Where does one continent end and another begin?  What an ocean is?  Where does one ocean end and another begin?  What is the purpose of these designations?

And then explain why those of us who graduated high school 20 years ago would have named four oceans while those graduating high school now will name five?  And yet, at the time of graduation, we were all “correct”?  Did a brand new ocean spring out of the ether?[/quote]

I graduated from HS in '94 and could have definitely named the Atlantic, maybe the Pacific, and wouldn't have known two others. I could not have named the continents. Public school on Long Island, NY. [/quote]

Off the top of my head, Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, and Indian. Upon reviewing a modern Mercator projection, I see we now have a Southern Ocean. It arrived in around 2002. [/quote]

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