It's wild that the U.K. doesn't teach the Odyssey, I thought their whole thing was stealing other peoples' culture and pretending they owned it now.

When the only Homer they know is Homer Simpson.

As an American, I am going to dine on this single example as if it disproves the idea that we are insular and provincial hicks for the next decade.

The world doesn't revolve around America, but you'll see idiots in Bumbfuck, Romania talking about Soros and wokeism. It's got to be exhausting.

To be fair, the only people left on Xitter are idiots

Liam’s a tool. UK schools absolutely do teach the Odyssey, and have done so at least as far back as my youth.

The problem is, I have this big bag of stones in my glass house, and I want to throw them at the UK for being dumb, but if I do, I also have to admit the US education system is trash.

I have to admit that I have not read the Illias or the Odyssey in school, either. We were made read books in school intendet to make children shy away from books, so they won't touch any of them after school ever again.

Luckily I had read loads of good books by that time, so I knew that only a few are as horrible as the ones they made us read in school.

Meanwhile on tiktok British people are apparently mad at Americans for not knowing or caring about Robbie Williams

$10 says the dipshit in question did a frantic google, saw 'ulysses' and went james joyce.

The Illiad was like the Bible before the Bible.

Its not even that great of a mini van. You can get better for cheaper!

The Illiad and the Odyssey are classics and hardly American culture. They are western culture as a whole. No idea what the drama is about but some dude not knowing what the Odyssey is, is the same as not knowing any other classic. (There are too many to count, but not knowing the most popular ones are is like not knowing the titanic sank.) (Spoilers)

You haven't experienced The Odyssey until you've read it in its original Klingon.

Wait.. some people don't know the Odyssey?

How are you supposed to enjoy the music of Civilisation 7 without knowing The Odyssey?

On a similar note, you'd think the guy on the right would counter with Beowulf

instead we studied useful things

Have you ever seen any British television quiz game shows? The amount of world geography and history most contestants seem to know is abismal, makes me scratch my head and seriously wonder what many of these people are doing there, in a game show about knowledge. What are they even doing there, in the delusion that they have a shot.

"What is the capital of Denmark?"
"Erm... pass."

This person's comment is just another drop in the bucket in the sorry state of things.

is this why the miniseries is trending on some torrent sites?? haha!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_(1997_miniseries)

What! He never saw Wishbone’s the Odyssey?

"the world doesn't revolve around your country"country Said the user from UK.

Silly anglophone countries, the world actually revolves around the chad mediterranean

I prefer to watch it in its original Japanese.