American Stupidity....

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 10:33 PM

Wherever it might be, Shane would qualify for admittance.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Amos
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 10:31 PM

Maybe an island with sharply constrained natural resource would be a good sandbox?


A

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: sixtieschick
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 10:31 PM

I nominate Crawford, Texas.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 10:14 PM

Sounds okay to me. ;-)

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: GUEST,G-Spot
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 10:05 PM

The insanity was attributed to Einstein??

Little Hawk, why not Omaha, Nebraska and surrounding area? The air in Nevada is too nice to waste!

GS

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Greg F.
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 09:59 PM

doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

actually that's a working definition of insanity, attributed to Albert Einstein.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 09:03 PM

Yeah...well, what good is life without a little fun, eh? I really enjoy the Chongo stories, I can tell you. It beats hell out of rehashing the same old political recriminations endlessly.

However, there are some truly interesting discussions here now and then. Amos can be fascinating when he's on a roll. Specially an eggroll. He can also turn your brain to chowder some other times, when he gets a little too arcane and analytical...but we all have our moments, right?

I have met some amazingly stupid people from both the USA and Canada, and I think it would be neat to give them a special area in which to breed and cohabitate. Maybe southern Nevada?

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: GUEST,G-Spot
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 07:31 PM

Little Hawk, what you said makes as much sense as most posts I read, not only in this thread, but in the forum!

GS

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: LilyFestre
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 05:08 PM

Where there are human beings, there will be stupidity.

Michelle

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 03:01 PM

Of course not Fullerton, and I reckon there's not much wrong with your arithmetic either.

Don T.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: GUEST,Fullerton
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 02:52 PM

About 5% of any population are d**kheads.

About 5% of the people in my local pub are.

About 5% of the people in the U.K. are.

About 5% of the people in the U.S. are.

IMHO

ps I am not, of course, in that 5%

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 11:54 PM

I think that Asus/Varsis is actually Mandrake the Mandrill, an archenemy of Chongo Chimp. Mandrake has been pushing genetically altered bananas and running a numbers racket in the Chicago area for years, and is an extremely nasty character who cannot be trusted in the least.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: jacqui.c
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 09:33 PM

FP - just goes to show that marrying an American hasn't made me stupid.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 09:10 PM

Jacqui: I was hoping you wouldn't notice... :-)

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: GUEST,G-Spot
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 07:34 PM

Asus, who created this thread, has not posted here after the initial post.
In fact, Asus has only made two post in his/her entire Mudcat membership.
One of them, of course, is the opening post in this thread, which is rude, insulting and inciting.
And, since making those two post, Asus has changed his/her Mudcat name to varsis.
Which leads me to wonder, is Asus/varsis an agitating asshole.

GS

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 07:27 PM

Tam...you are SURE you've checked with all the Americans and have those numbers correct? I really think some of us can even differentiate between ARC and ARK.....except those who live in Ark., and they are hardly 10%.....

I've heard that 1 in 10 Scots eat the caber and throw the haggis....and those are the bright ones... ;>)

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 01:49 PM

I could go get my emissions tested but the smog and oil from the cars in traffic is too much.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Tam the man
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 01:12 PM

In every country there are silly people. As I said 1 in 10 Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife, now is that not a bit silly.

Amercans tourists come to Scotland where I live, and ask when does the 1 O'Clock go off or why couldn't they have built the castle closer to Edinburgh (waverly) station.

Tom

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: jacqui.c
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 12:50 PM

FP - you're still looking!

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 12:39 PM

No.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 12:34 PM

Good grief, are you morons STILL posting to this? haven't you got
anything better to do?...

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 12:31 PM

Yeah, eh?

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: jacqui.c
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 12:21 PM

Nice one Don.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 11:52 AM

Americans have a short attention spa

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 11:37 AM

Stupidity is being afraid to say "I don't know"

Against Stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 11:17 AM

"...doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

you mean like cutting taxes on the rich? or sending another batch of soldiers to drive around Iraq and play roadside bomb roulette?

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: GUEST, Chief Looking Glass
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 03:42 AM

We were just fine till the arrival of the Europeans but then, we weren't Americans.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: susu
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 01:07 AM

Stupidity IMHO is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Susu

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 10:37 PM

Flippin' A, frogpronce! So, like, why hasnt' my idiot bruther Don posted here yet?

- BDiBR

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 10:30 PM

hah! stupid, are we? Look how clever we are in electing a leader

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: frogprince
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 10:29 PM

It would take a total idiot to post to this thread...

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 09:56 PM

Hey! Do I look stupid? Don't flippin' answer that, eh? Arf! Arf!

Me and my flippin' brother still ain't talkin'. He is a bolthole. So is George Flippin' Bush, and if he invaides Blind River we will KICK HIS ASS!

Mark my flippin' words.

- BDiBR

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 09:09 PM

I really wish Shane would weigh in with a comment or two here...

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: sixtieschick
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 09:00 PM

Hey, last time I checked, America included Canada and Mexico. And that's just North America. C'mon folks, the honor of the entire population of TWO CONTINENTS is being besmirched! Let's get some ire up and running! This is worth at least as many posts, if not blood pressure points, as the MG thread! We're not stupid, are we?

M.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 08:55 PM

And now knowing that you ARE Shatner--well, what can one say?

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 08:50 PM

True. Look at the stereotypes about William Shatner. Or alligators. Disgusting!

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: kendall
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 08:43 PM

Stereotypes afford us the luxury of not bothering to think. But, eventually, they will extract the PRICE of not thinking. (Jean Harris, author of Stranger in two worlds)

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 06:31 PM

I'm a Brit living in the USA and can say with honesty that I have not found this to be so.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 06:26 PM

Stupidity is not the prerogative of peoples. Some individuals however seem to have amounts of it that defy the imagination.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 06:19 PM

"American Stupidity?" Hmmm. BIG friggin' subject we got here...

I think I'll take it on later, when I have more time.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Tam the man
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 08:21 AM

That thing about Joan of Arc is true, so that means that 1 in 10 Americans are silly, I mean they did vote for Bush! the same goes for the ones that voted for Blair and Howard.

Subject: BS: American Stupidity....
From: Tam the man
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 08:19 AM

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: *daylia*
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 08:14 AM

O please - let's save the music section
from this severe BS infection!
Just post your most unkind selection
of brain-dead prose below.

Don't worry it won't pass inspection.
We're so dumb you'll avoid detection!
We'll spew our s*** in all directions
and make a stupid song? Who knows?!?

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Alba
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 08:01 AM

Stupid thread title actually that's only purpose is to bait.

oh and by the way, don't tell me when and where to post Thread originator.

Please don't move this down to the BS section Joe or MudElfs....there have been enough bashing threads down there for the rest year already!:>)

In my opinion better to just remove this Thread completely.

Now moving right along with a Thread drift lol,

Troll Stupidity, if ANYONE feels the need to express an opinion the door is open..feel free to contribute your views or not......

Jude

(A Scot who has seen first hand that Stupidity is a Global epidemic, and to paint any one entire Country with such a sweeping statement is perhaps the best example of what stupidity actually is:>)

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: GUEST,8 ball
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 07:39 AM

How 'bout a bit a homegrown stupidity to liven up this brain-dead thread?

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 07:23 AM

You mean Joan of Arc WASN'T married to Noah?????????

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: JennyO
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 06:56 AM

mind you so are most Australians as well

Well - the ones who voted for little Johnnie Howard, anyway.

Tam, I presume you speak from personal experience?

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Tam the man
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 06:52 AM

However don't critaize the Americans because some of them don't like the truth.

Tom from Scotland

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Tam the man
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 06:50 AM

I agree that Most Americans are daft, 10% of them beleive that Joan of Arc was married to Noah, mind you so are most Australians as well

Tom

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: JennyO
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 06:42 AM

I'm afraid we're not too bright in Oz either. We (definitely not me) have kept putting little Johnnie Howard back into power since 1996!

I'm too am having trouble understanding why this thread is up in the top section, while the thread about musical genius languishes down in the BS section.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: sapper82
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 06:28 AM

We've gone worse than that Lead, we (and I stress not me personally) have now elected the Smarmy Git Tony B'liar three times!

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: alanabit
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 06:17 AM

Yeah, change the title to "human" or international and we can get going...

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Lanfranc
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 06:17 AM

Or at least consigned to BS!

Alan

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 05:04 AM

There is no such thing as American, or British, or Irish stupidity. Stupidity is a failing of some individuals, and it knows no national boundaries.

I am sick to death of reading these threads advancing unwarranted generalisations about groups, national, political, or religious, and attributing to those groups, vices or inadequacies which are applicable only to a few individuals in every group.

This thread, I'm afraid, says more about the originator, than about the Americans, who are neither worse nor better than we are.

IMHO, whether the originator really believes, or is simply a troll, baiting for reactions, this thread should be deleted forthwith.

What say you, Joe?

Don T.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 03:43 AM

Can we amend American to read Human then? (Although, the American lady who enquired about the rather large and very exposed genital organ on the Cerne Abbas Giant did rather get my vote for 'stupidest comment of the Century'..... It's a carving in the side of a chalk hill. He's very..... obviously male.

She asked 'So is it supposed to be a man?')

LTS

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 03:37 AM

well if you lived through the period of the miners strike, you would realise that the English media have virtually no understanding of anything that happens outside flippimg London.

everybody round here just clenched their fists in annoyance throughout every newscast as the London media failed to grasp even the the most rudimentary points every party in the discussion was trying to make.

I suspect that is, in some measure, what is at the bottom of the ugliness in tone of some posters from Northern Ireland - although why they feel more disenfrancised by the London toffocracy than the rest of us, beats me.

leave the yanks alone - most of the ones here are okay, and the tone of this thread is racist and offensive.

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Leadfingers
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 03:31 AM

Agreed there Bob - Tha Americans are no worse with regard to stupidity than any one else . After all , WE elected the tories and Blessed Margaret enough times didnt we ?

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Hovering Bob
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 03:18 AM

I'm not commenting on American stupidity, we Brits have no basis to speak from on that score. What gets me is the arrogance of the yanks in ignoring the rest of the world. I have american friends who love coming over here to the UK and elsewhere (on tour)and hearing the 'world news.'
The mush they are fed at home by the American media is all inward looking and ignores the rest of the world, except for the aspects their media/authorities consider worthy of inclusion. Or so I'm told.

Perhaps that's why they have a 'head in the sand' approach to global warming, 'not their problem' even though it is and they are the worse culprits, (or so I'm led to beieve by our media, and I've no way of knowing how impartial that is, do I).

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 02:44 AM

I'm not.

eric

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: Matt_R
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 02:40 AM

"If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, 'The same as everywhere.'"

- Goethe

Subject: RE: American Stupidity....
From: GUEST,G-Spot
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 01:06 AM

Anyone who agrees that Asus is quite rude, also post here, or better, ignore this thread.

Subject: American Stupidity....
From: varsis
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 12:41 AM

Anyone that agrees that the Americans are not Very Clever post here....

                                                                   -AM