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Mon 25 Jun, 2007 08:28 am
How can we expect any better of a society who needs laws for everything from shooting a water pistol to where to tie your alligator. We as adults are no longer allowed to think. We are taken care of by government officials and law makers. It will only get worse until that sweet someday when we get to be grown ups and decide for ourselves that we should wear a seatbelt for our own safety rather that just to avoid the fine.
Amazing! Most of the American public is uninterested in trivia! ;p (To say nothing of the vapidity of the questions...)
all that information is useless, why would anyone care who bernanke is? (even thought that was the only question i knew LOL)
OGIONIK wrote:all that information is useless, why would anyone care who bernanke is? (even thought that was the only question i knew LOL)
This post, written on a bulletin board called Able2Know, caused me to spit up some of my coffee.
Joe(wha'd'ya'know.)Nation
He could be named mr x for all i care, it doesnt change much...
A nugget. Morning, Joe and all.
Several people on the USA, knowing I was a foreigner from Scotland, congratulated me on my command of their language.
I read a (bit of a ) book last week about an Englishman touring the USA in a Winnebago. Several people wanted to know if he had driven it from England.
LOL i didnt read the geography part, who the hell hasnt looked at a map of the world? holy **** thats the only part of the questions that i would consider useful.
Just sayin', even I wouldn't have nailed all those questions, and I mean, I'm a top .001%er with a college degree.
Of course, some of the answers are quite reasonable - if you live in the US, of course you think heart disease is a bigger killer of women than childbirth; everybody knows people with heart trouble, but hardly anyone knows a woman who died in labor.
McTag wrote:A nugget. Morning, Joe and all.
Several people on the USA, knowing I was a foreigner from Scotland, congratulated me on my command of their language.
I read a (bit of a ) book last week about an Englishman touring the USA in a Winnebago. Several people wanted to know if he had driven it from England.
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Maybe because
Quote:"we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender our Winnebagoes.
Churchill, 4, June, 1940
but its true, things do get lost in translation, even from English to 'Merkin.'
I still subcribe to the theory that states that the total intelligence of the planet is a constant, and the population is continually expanding.
That's a good one, CowDoc.
It used to be "survival of the fittest", but now just about everyone survives, barring disasters.
But that leads to eugenics.
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