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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/6/2007 11:32:17 AM   
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Seeks, I've been to England, have you been to the States?
We call people from Massachusetts "Massholes".

Lol to Massholes.!

Yes I have spent some time in the US. The highlight was a 30 hour Greyhound trip from New York (cold January midday) arrive Miami ( balmy mid afternoon)
Had some grits in a restaurant somewhere in Georgia.
I still dont know what grits are lol

Reason:I didnt have much money and I wanted to go on a holiday.
Bit of a larf really. Wouldnt do it again tho' ! The long bus trip I mean.

I forgive you NG. We disagree on most things but I think you make some good posts ! At least you are consistant in your errors lol
Holy cow! anything and everything rides greyhound buses!  i took one from PA to CHicago- what a hellish ride that was.

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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/6/2007 11:34:16 AM   
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Re: Sri Lanka- I did not know there were tigers there. [I doubt that post was meant to offend anyone]
I think it floods often there- im guessing it is not too far from India.



Sri Lanka...has jungles...Sri Lanka is off the coast of India...the little tear drop shaped island (no, it's NOT a part of India)...yes, they have tigers....the Tigers i was speaking of were a terrorist organzation akin to al Queda, called the Tamil Tigers...the comparison i was making is that my ethnic group is the Sinhalese....which means "the lion people" in Sanskrit...Tigers...lion people...Tigers...lion people...offensive...yea...very dry humor back...

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Can we still call people from the US Usurians


i can't pronounce that...and i was gonna ask which US but google is so ethnocentric that i can't figure out which other countries once refered to themselves as the united states of ______....its all about 'mericns (thats how the rednecks pronounce Americans) now....



Gosh I am sorry to hear of that terorist group. I thought only Isreal and England had em.

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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/6/2007 11:37:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		Seeks..... Grits taste as they sound, being the good tourist i am i had to try some, last time i was Stateside. They are probably on a par with your burnt sausages.

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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/6/2007 12:08:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		heres your wake up call....there is not a country in the world that does not have terrorists...in 1492...columbus sailed the ocean blue and was the USA's first terrorists....

edited to add....well not him specifically...but...ya know what i mean....


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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/6/2007 12:23:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		Funny thing is I hope its true, I havent double checked, but Columbus never landed on the US mainland.
He arrived at one of the West Indies and actually thought he was in India.
Silly boy.

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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/6/2007 12:24:17 PM   
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heres your wake up call....there is not a country in the world that does not have terrorists...in 1492...columbus sailed the ocean blue and was the USA's first terrorists....

edited to add....well not him specifically...but...ya know what i mean....

  hmm. what a pity. America was fairly safe until 9-11.  and there hasnt been an attack since.[bush touts] come to think of it- Oklahoma city.  -- anyhow biggest fear in the US is our own people. i learned living in Chicago- the guys in the ties were as big of a threat as the gangs were.

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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/6/2007 12:58:20 PM   
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Seeks, I've been to England, have you been to the States?
We call people from Massachusetts "Massholes".

Lol to Massholes.!

Yes I have spent some time in the US. The highlight was a 30 hour Greyhound trip from New York (cold January midday) arrive Miami ( balmy mid afternoon)
Had some grits in a restaurant somewhere in Georgia.
I still dont know what grits are lol

Reason:I didnt have much money and I wanted to go on a holiday.
Bit of a larf really. Wouldnt do it again tho' ! The long bus trip I mean.

I forgive you NG. We disagree on most things but I think you make some good posts ! At least you are consistant in your errors lol
Holy cow! anything and everything rides greyhound buses!  i took one from PA to CHicago- what a hellish ride that was.


Years ago when I was riding a Greyhound Bus while in the military I was drinking a beer and this goofey guy asked me if he could have a swig.
I said; "No, if I'm going to catch something I want to have fun doing it!"
The people around us started laughing.
In those days the late 70's you could drink and smoke in the back of the busses.
Seeks, NYC to Miami is a long ride on a bus!
About 30 hours I reckon.

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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/6/2007 2:20:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes 30 hours is about right and back again 3 weeks later lol
I was a young man, not much money so if I wanted to see Florida that was the only way I was going to do it.
I also remember being shocked at some of the shacks in which people lived, quite close to the highway. Not sure whether that was Southern Georgia or somewhere in Florida. Saw myself as a bit of a road tripping maverick I suppose. I enjoyed it anyway.

Grits? Sausages? Is my memory playing tricks but I seem to remember a tasteless white "mess" with bits in lol
It was 3/4 o'clock in the morning.!

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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/6/2007 2:26:43 PM   
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heres your wake up call....there is not a country in the world that does not have terrorists...in 1492...columbus sailed the ocean blue and was the USA's first terrorists....

edited to add....well not him specifically...but...ya know what i mean....



Yeah, you meant 'Spain's terrorist'.. and he wasn't even close to being their first....

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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/6/2007 2:31:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		Seeks.... i recall you getting so engrossed in a thread you burnt the sausages... Ash dust grit, its all much the same aint it 

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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/6/2007 2:37:35 PM   
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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/6/2007 3:52:31 PM   
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With that kind of reasoning why learn anything that you are not actually going to use in life?  Why should kids learn algebra, why not stop at adding, subtracting and percentages?  Why learn great works of literature?  Why learn anything about science?   i personally think it's important for people to have a well rounded education and be able to speak about, and be knowledgable about, a variety of topics. How would a young adult know what they are interested in if they were never exposed to it?  Reading and learning build critical thinking skills.... knowledge builds on itself, if there is no foundtion it's harder to learn. 



I don't know about anyone else but I use a lot of these things in everyday life. Including Geography, which is an interest to me.
 
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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/6/2007 4:51:33 PM   
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I also remember being shocked at some of the shacks in which people lived, quite close to the highway. Not sure whether that was Southern Georgia or somewhere in Florida.


Well shacks are -prevalent. Lewisburg PA, home of Bucknell University and Lewisburg Federal Pennitenary. It is a highly rated place to live- so rt 15, in town is historic- impaccably preserved. Further out is la te da subdivisions. Ok drive 20 miles back-- you will see trailers and shacks. Hard to tell if they have running water etc.

Sadly this is more then one would guess. [in a rich country]

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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/6/2007 9:31:50 PM   
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Funny thing is I hope its true, I havent double checked, but Columbus never landed on the US mainland.
He arrived at one of the West Indies and actually thought he was in India.
Silly boy.


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Yeah, you meant 'Spain's terrorist'.. and he wasn't even close to being their first....


yea yea yea...i know...my historical facts weren't even close to true....but it doesn't rhyme nicely if you say it any other way....

but since umm the evolution of higher thought...man has been killing man for torroristic reasons...and i am so not getting into that tonight...so....you will just have to be happy with that statement...so pfffft

chelle


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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/6/2007 10:31:03 PM   
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heres your wake up call....there is not a country in the world that does not have terrorists...in 1492...columbus sailed the ocean blue and was the USA's first terrorists....

edited to add....well not him specifically...but...ya know what i mean....

  hmm. what a pity. America was fairly safe until 9-11.  and there hasnt been an attack since.[bush touts] come to think of it- Oklahoma city.  -- anyhow biggest fear in the US is our own people. i learned living in Chicago- the guys in the ties were as big of a threat as the gangs were.


It was no safer before 9/11 than after. People seem to forget that Al Qaeda operatives tried to destroy the World Trade Center in 1993 too; while their plan to destabilize and send one tower crashing into the other failed, they did manage to detonate a massive bomb. Sadly, even after the embassy bombing in East Africa and the bombing of the Cole, it wasn't until 9/11 that most of the American public had any idea what Al Qaeda was, where Afghanistan is, and what the Taliban was (and what they were doing to the people of Afghanistan). When Clinton went and declared Operation Infinite Reach in response to Al Qaeda attacks on national television in 1998 it was quickly dismissed by the right-wing and the general public as an attempt to divert attention from the all-important blowjob scandal. The American public isn't simply ignorant of geography; they're willfully ignorant of just about anything outside of pop culture.

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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/7/2007 12:06:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		I really don't see the point of being a person claiming of enlightenment (aka evolved) on any events current or abroad without having at least a mild or vague interest in global knowledge.

What is the point of us creating fire if not to cook, create warmth and to carry that torch elsewhere.  We create the wheel, the wheelbarrow, the bicycle, the car and back to fire to go to the moon and mars.

We watch the news, we watch a moon landing 'one giant step....' yet don't even know the leader of the country to the left of us or the capital city of the right? Where is the giant leap for mankind itself if we cannot even name or put a bulletin pin on an area of a map that we hear about?  How can one not help but feel out of touch or distant if the world feels larger than it actually is? 

It is a necessity to know the five estates: who, what, where, when and why. To deny yourself and our future offspring of such is sheer neglect of human principle; survival.    


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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/7/2007 1:03:01 AM   
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Bufotenin
The American public isn't simply ignorant of geography; they're willfully ignorant of just about anything outside of pop culture

This is true in the UK too. Many just take no interest in the world about them Odd.
You can see this on TV quiz shows. A relatively simple current affairs question. Answer : blank.
Asked about a pop group, their eyes light up and they confidently give the correct answer.
Subtract 24 from 75 kills 95 % of contestants. lol


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Columbus never landed on the US mainland. He arrived at one of the West Indies and actually thought he was in India.
Silly boy.

What a super collossal achievment tho'. EH? 
The Health and Safety PC brigade would try to stop it today ! Someone would delay it to ensure that the crew was socially "inclusive" Checks would be made for wheel chair access to the crows nest
Dietary experts would interfere to ensure that all crew members had access to the right daily quantity of fruit balanced diet etc
Groan.... the list goes on lol

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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/7/2007 6:26:49 AM   
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heres your wake up call....there is not a country in the world that does not have terrorists...in 1492...columbus sailed the ocean blue and was the USA's first terrorists....

edited to add....well not him specifically...but...ya know what i mean....

  hmm. what a pity. America was fairly safe until 9-11.  and there hasnt been an attack since.[bush touts] come to think of it- Oklahoma city.  -- anyhow biggest fear in the US is our own people. i learned living in Chicago- the guys in the ties were as big of a threat as the gangs were.


It was no safer before 9/11 than after. People seem to forget that Al Qaeda operatives tried to destroy the World Trade Center in 1993 too; while their plan to destabilize and send one tower crashing into the other failed, they did manage to detonate a massive bomb. Sadly, even after the embassy bombing in East Africa and the bombing of the Cole, it wasn't until 9/11 that most of the American public had any idea what Al Qaeda was, where Afghanistan is, and what the Taliban was (and what they were doing to the people of Afghanistan). When Clinton went and declared Operation Infinite Reach in response to Al Qaeda attacks on national television in 1998 it was quickly dismissed by the right-wing and the general public as an attempt to divert attention from the all-important blowjob scandal. The American public isn't simply ignorant of geography; they're willfully ignorant of just about anything outside of pop culture.


yes- the magic word is pop culture.  seemingly this can be said about other western countries...  cattle are easier to move is they have illusions-- they have no clue they will be slauterred.
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the 1993 WTC bombing failed- in that it did not change America forever. Even Oklahoma City failed as it did not Change America forever. We figured we had a home grown nut go awrye.

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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/7/2007 10:29:04 AM   
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Bufotenin
The American public isn't simply ignorant of geography; they're willfully ignorant of just about anything outside of pop culture

This is true in the UK too. Many just take no interest in the world about them Odd.
You can see this on TV quiz shows. A relatively simple current affairs question. Answer : blank.
Asked about a pop group, their eyes light up and they confidently give the correct answer.
Subtract 24 from 75 kills 95 % of contestants. lol


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Columbus never landed on the US mainland. He arrived at one of the West Indies and actually thought he was in India.
Silly boy.

What a super collossal achievment tho'. EH? 
The Health and Safety PC brigade would try to stop it today ! Someone would delay it to ensure that the crew was socially "inclusive" Checks would be made for wheel chair access to the crows nest
Dietary experts would interfere to ensure that all crew members had access to the right daily quantity of fruit balanced diet etc
Groan.... the list goes on lol



Well, the Vikings and the Irish were in N. America hundreds of years before Columbus set sail.
I lived in Hampton, N.H. right on the coast and right down the boreen was a street named "Viking Lane" where they had found Viking artifacts while excavating for a house from a thousand years earlier.
Also there was a study done of the bones of Native American Indians and 40 % of them had Celtic DNA in them.
Evidently those Irish and Viking Sailors got around pretty good long before Columbus.

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RE: Americans ignorant to geography - 10/7/2007 11:13:04 AM   
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Ignorance is bliss. You may want to read the book that is a quote from........

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