Quite right.
I only know who Don Imus is because I watch the news quite a bit (BBC, CNN, Sky and Fox) when I'm not watching the Disney Channel. To presume people should know who some decrepit old fart is just because he's an American, shows a certain level of arrogance and ignorance to the rest of the world.
Pud
> Haha, good. But actually I didn't give a shit that this
> particular piece of American current affairs is not on my
> radar and wasn't asking for an explanation (and to be
> honest I basically deduced all that from the commments so
> far anyway).
>
> Simply pointing out that to think you have to be under a
> rock to not know this news,, to a guy who lives in Germany
> for christs sake, is like me saying to people here they're
> living under a rock cause they didn't know that south east
> queensland is currently under Level 5 water resitrictions,
> or who the federal Minister for Education is.
>
> -- G.
>
>
> >
> >
> > > Oh come ON, you don't reallly think that every little
> > > piece of meaningless sensationalised shit that goes on in
> > > America is headline news around the world do you?
> > >
> >
> > Catch-up time: Don Imus, a very longtime DJ who I don't
> > listen to, but who has been famous for his "Imus In The
> > Morning" talk show on the radio, gets fired every now and
> > then. This apparently is one of those times. He isn't very
> > easy to listen to in the first place in my opinion, but
> > every now and then says just the right something to make
> > just the right people just the right amount of mad, and
> > they fire him. Then, a few weeks later they bring him back
> > on the air. Ho Hum.
> >
> >
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