I am poor & I ride my buffalo to skool

I'm taking a break from looking for bloody online international government/NGO policy documents for Anal-Lecturer-Lady's asssignment to blog this out.

Yesterday I was watching Urban Legends on Discovery Channel (yeah I'm a Disco Very Channel freak), and I've been following the program weekly ever since it started about two or three weeks ago. It's really cool, they show you all these urban legends and try to research on its authenticity.

But yesterday I was kinda peeved by a comment the narrator made. Well, they showed this urban legend where this woman was trying on coats in a particular large chain-store selling only coats and a few other apparel. The woman felt a prick on her neck while trying on a coat she liked, but thought it was a needle that the store workers forgot to take out. Long story short, the woman found out later it was a snake bite and the coat was literally crawling with baby snakes from the pockets when she went back to the store to complain. The legend has two ending versions, either the woman survives the bite or dies on the spot. So yeah, the show investigates this story, and they said that the snakes wouldn't have survived the trip from the factory to the store because of temperature and ways of packing.

Then the narrator says that if the story is true, the biggest likelyhood is that the snakes came from "Poor, tropical countries" where they might be manufactured, like, "Malaysia, or Mexico"

Excuuuuuuuuse me?!

I don't live in no jurassic country!

If he mentioned Polynesia, or maybe Malaysia in the 1930s, then yeah... but what the heck, how can they make such ill-informed statements? Who's got the tallest twin towers in the world, huh?

I know I'm not usually the ultra-patriotic type of person, but I feel a bit annoyed and insulted.

I'm not blaming the narrator of Urban Legends here, all the blame goes to the numbskulled scriptwriters. Anyway, the legend is not true, and so is that n00by claim.