Let's get rid of the Electoral College

I accept your criticism: However read the posts I am replying too: no logical content. I have found this with all the Americans on here. Straight to abuse. Refuse to address any point made.

That gratuitous insult material you just posted is more likely to (indeed, probably is intended to) generate the exact kind of reaction you claim to be inappropriate. Insofar as that is the case, it is just as inappropriate.

Why don’t you just knock that stuff off…rather than continually adding fuel to a fire you are complaining about

Which do you think would cause more trouble in blighty? Chavs not being able to get their cider, or change of the election date.

I deny that America ever had a pioneer spirit.

An intelligent an well argued piece: I like the idea of summer elections: and held on a Sunday. This would get more people to vote as nothing happens on a Sunday, Plus summer days are longer (in terms of daylight). This may get more hoi polloi out. But democracy is for everyone, not just the nice British Middle Class. Personally I think Americas obsession with industry and stopping the wasters is what lead to prohibition.
I think I'd rather have the country run by someone who could party than dour puritans. I mean they are so dull.
Americans have been arguing that changing the electoral process would be tricky. This is from a country that banned alcohol. By constitutional amendment. Which do you think would cause more trouble in blighty? Chavs not being able to get their cider, or change of the election date.
I find it surreal that Americans are calling for tradition for the government, but feel free to destroy anything that could be called culture.
I deny that America ever had a pioneer spirit. It was built on slavery, stealing and from the natives. Even the railways were built by Chinese: seem the Irish communities forgot to built stuff once they crossed the Atlantic.

Ignorance is ignorance. You can't defend it.

Spendi, perhaps you can help.

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Mensa is an organisation that only people who have an IQ of 140 plus can join.

That 's not exactly correct.

The problem with that is that there are many I.Q. tests whose
results Mensa recognizes, but thay have different scales of value.
The same number can be good on one test and bad on another.
If a man calls u and says: "I 'm in the middle of the city"
that information is intelligible only if the hearer knows which city.
If a man tells u that: " my car is at is 50 degrees "
that information is only helpful or even comprehensible
if u know whether he means 50 degrees Farenheit, Kelvin, Centigrade,
or 50 degrees of arc, or 50 degrees latitude North or South
or longitude East or West.
Hence, we cannot attribute significance to the number "160"
without knowing to which scale u have reference.

The applicable criterion for membership in Mensa
is your scoring in either of the top 2 per centiles;
i.e., u can join if u score in the 100th per centile
or in the 99th per centile of any I.Q. test that Mensa accepts.

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They gave me an entrance test. I passed it.

Which test did thay give u ?

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Thought better of joining.
One of those "Boring things to do on a Wednesday idea.

I assume that Englishmen are usually suave, urbane, charmingly civilized
and courteous, unless provoked to wrath. Am I incorrect ?
Yet, I infer from the anger of your response,
( telling Mensa "to shove it" ) that a Mensan was impolite to u, thereby
causing u to choose to inflict injury upon his emotions; did that happen ?

Mensa consists mostly of its Special Interest Groups,
in addition to its local social meetings and its Regional Gatherings
and its nationwide Annual Gathering, whose programs are rife
with interesting speakers on many interesting subjects.
In America, any member can begin a Special Interest Group
of his own (assuming that its not against the law, like a bank robbery SIG)
simply advertizing it in his local Mensa newsletter.
Its very libertarian: whoever chooses to attend will do so.
The SIG will thrive or die, depending upon its popularity.
Perhaps the same is true in England.

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Anyone with an IQ of 160 can consider themselves a genius.

I 'll take your word for it.

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Apparently. The argument wasn't wheter I was bright,
but how Americans feel a system that they think no one
understands constitutes a Democracy.

OK, but any statement that any person utters
is included in an on-going credibility analysis;
i.e., if I find that a man has lied to me,
then from that discovery,
I know that this is a man who lies to me
and I will take that into consideration when I hear him in the future.
That applies to everyone.

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I don't believe in God but I have been to church.
Everyone does stuff. Like joining a gym but not going to it.

I don t care whether u join English Mensa or not.
Joining clubs is a personal decision.
If u do, then u can (probably) begin whatever SIGs u like
be thay collecting gold coins, S.C.U.B.A. Diving or baking fine pastry,
fonetic spelling, hunting bear or hunting bare,
and u can also hunt new boyfriends at the meetings; its a social club.





David

Part of being English is we have people telling us what rotters we are, the Scots,The Irish, the Welsh,etc. it keeps us from getting too self important

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Part of being English is we have people telling us what rotters we are,
the Scots,The Irish, the Welsh,etc. it keeps us from getting too self important

There is a lot of truth in that although I think our style of comedy is an important contributor to our sense of our ridiculousness.

Spendious,
is a rotter a person or a thing that rots ?