Is this country really full of stupid people?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 07:46
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H. L. Menken once said, "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."
David
"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de
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If there was some great move akin to peer preesure working it's way to a gestalt to get people to constantly think harder, more and smarter we would be much better off. Sometimes the developementantaly idsabled are smarter than the public. I used to drive a schoolbus once upon a time. The "slow" kids weren't that bad, I have no problem with them, but the people who have perfectly good brains and choose not to use them I have a problem with. I blame television for a lot of it. The public is too obsessed with their reality shows or sports teams to give half a care about the state of the world, their government and what is really happening around them.
Scorpion Regent
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the fact that people go to a pizza buffet and eat 4-5 plates of pizza and chug two glasses of Diet Pepsi still amazes me... if you didn't understand that, see the original post...
anyhoo, the fact that Arrested Development had such poor ratings solidifies as fact that most people can't understand a joke unless you explain it
oh oh, and the fact that everyone is bitching about the gas prices but the sidewalks haven't gotten any crowdier... shit, that's not a word
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Here's a basic physics lesson as applied to automobiles that I see every day and I seem to be the only one who gets it.
Every second spent at a red light is a second that your engine is burning gas that isn't aquiring mileage. The fuel burnt while waiting is wasted. Every time time brakes are applied all the kinetic energy of your car in motion is converted to heat by creating friction. If you bring your car to a stop you have to burn more fuel to bring it back up to speed again.
I'm driving down the road and I see the traffic light I'm approaching has turned red. So I take my foot off the accelerator and slow down and coast into a stop at the light. The guy behind me, driving a Hummer moves into the other lane and speeds up, passes me and then pulls back into my lane and jams on the brakes so he can be first.
So this guy has burned extra fuel to get ahead of me so that he can sit and burn extra fuel for a longer amount of time. Then final twist of the screw is that when the light finally turns green he is too busy talking on the phone to notice and wastes not only more of his time and money but mine as well. I have friends of mine over in Iraq being shot at to secure oil reserves so that this moron and thousands more like him can burn them up thoughtlessly. I guess that you could say that there is a tax for this guy's stupidity in the form of more money that he has to pay at the gas pump, but that money isn't going to the government to be spent on something decided on by our congress. It's going into the pockets of a bunch of greedy oil executives.
Anybody reading this has the power to make this situation better. One, don't drive like a idiot. Two, don't let your friends drive like idiots. Three, get my friends out of Iraq while they are still alive. Four, if you don't like the way congress is run tell your represenatives what you want them to do, they work for you, it's their job to represent your interests. If they don't represent your interests vote for some one that does. If you can't find some who does then run for congress yourself.
Okay so I got off of physics and into politics, it's a free country, for the moment. I said it now because come monday I might not be around to say this.
Scorpion Regent
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Quote:It's monday, are you here?
Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:
Okay so I got off of physics and into politics, it's a free country, for the moment. I said it now because come monday I might not be around to say this.
Totally agree w/all, btw.
Chrisisall, here
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Originally posted by JuTin:
oh oh, and the fact that everyone is bitching about the gas prices but the sidewalks haven't gotten any crowdier... shit, that's not a word
I can't speak for anyone else but when I had my first job I lived 30 miles away on top of a hill, I'm not walking that. My second job is much better, I still live on top of the hill, but now it's only 15 miles...
P.S. I live with my parents and don't have any money (yet) which is why I am on the hill, I intend to remedy that situation but it is slow going.
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I live in a busy little town... I don't have a car so I walk to everything in this town... 20 minute walk to the movie theater... 40 minute walk to Wal-Mart... 15 minute walk to the library... 5 minute walk to Giant
I guess that I wasn't really speaking about the entire country... most small towns aren't blessed with two Wal-Marts and five grocery stores
I was only saying that 90% of the people on the road in this town need to go live on the North Pole... I hear it's getting pretty nice up there.
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Quote:
Originally posted by JuTin:
I live in a busy little town... I don't have a car so I walk to everything in this town... 20 minute walk to the movie theater... 40 minute walk to Wal-Mart... 15 minute walk to the library... 5 minute walk to Giant
I guess that I wasn't really speaking about the entire country... most small towns aren't blessed with two Wal-Marts and five grocery stores
I was only saying that 90% of the people on the road in this town need to go live on the North Pole... I hear it's getting pretty nice up there.
What would you do with all your extra time if you got a bicycle? Very soon the north pole will all be open ocean.
Scorpion Regent
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Originally posted by safeat2nd:
Hey Chris I counter your Brittany Spears card with a Celine Dionne card.
Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny
HAH! I laugh at your puny Britney Spears and Celine Dion!
We have Jade Goody! Beat that!!!
Dubya don't count!!!
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Its humanity my friend, it has little to do with this country. I hate quoting the bible but:
Judge not less ye be judged...
this is more my speed:
Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
Only the half mad are wholly alive!
E.A. 
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