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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 07/08/2008 : 04:25:59
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Link to article
Stupidity is not just an American problem.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/08/2008 : 05:01:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Link to article
Stupidity is not just an American problem.
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What a load! Kids that go "yuck" at foreign foods are not being racist; they are being kids. Evidently, the author has never raised any.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 07/08/2008 : 05:41:36 [Permalink]
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| Because the site linked to in the OP includes a link to Fark, I thought this must be a joke. But UPI carried the story in their "UPI NewsTrack Quirks in the News" section (along with bits about a Walmart shopper getting snakebit, a bride whose dress fell apart, and texting replacing email). |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
Posted - 07/08/2008 : 06:31:42 [Permalink]
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| So what about kids who don't like native foods? This is so silly it's painful. If I don't like Tim Hortons am I an anti-Canadite? |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 07/08/2008 : 07:18:41 [Permalink]
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Or kids that do not like vegetable? Or that do not want to eat anything but yoghurt for weeks?
That IS silly.
Now, I can understand the part about name calling.
Young children recognizing another kid with a different skin tone and taunting him because of it.
I have seen babies being afraid of black people. But only because they are not used to it and are afraid of anything out of the ordinary. It goes away quickly.
That should not be encouraged (or even tolerated), of course, but taunting should not be anyway whatever the reason... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 07/08/2008 : 13:11:56 [Permalink]
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| Whoa! I bet I would find The London-based National Children's Bureau folks kinda yucky... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/22/2008 : 07:29:41 [Permalink]
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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This weeks sign of the apocolypse
