Dumb and Stupid Quotes Thread: Idiotic Source and Context are Key.

[SS-18 ICBM]

Well that's just unacceptable that the Monroe Doctrine only applies to European countries

Well that's they get for thinking light of the Oriental powers.

Please don't mention Zheng He please don't mention Zheng He

I was actually horrified to see the book I read about tea have 1421 in it's bibliography. Thankfully it was just quoted for the voyages that actually did happen.

 

[gay_Aleks]

"Columbus, da Gama, Magellan and Cook were later to make the same ‘discoveries’ but they all knew they were following in the footsteps of others, for they were carrying copies of the Chinese maps with them when they set off on their own journeys into the ‘unknown’."

~Gavin Menzies

"Terra Australis? I think we shouldn't have bought maps from that Venetian merchant."
-a probable conversation at some point.

 

[Cutlass]

"We all know that one of the things the Senate is best at doing is not doing much. Why don't we get started?"
—

Sen. Mitch McConnell

 

[Arakhor]

At least it's honest!

 

[madviking]

"We all know that one of the things the Senate is best at doing is not doing much. Why don't we get started?"
—

Sen. Mitch McConnell

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Link to video.

 

[Flying Pig]

Where's that chap from? He sounds more like he's from the Midlands than the Midwest.

 

[Arakhor]

According to Wikipedia, he's from Birmingham.

 

[Flying Pig]

Ah, that would be why he sounds like a Brummie then. I wondered what part of America had that accent...

 

[Kyriakos]

Watched that video. He appears to not be seamless, to put it lightly :\

 

[Arakhor]

Also, that video is fairly horrifying. Always have law-making lunatics where you can see them!

Kyriakos, what do you mean "he appears to not be seamless"?

 

[Kyriakos]

^He just seems to be trying to be 'american' (?). I don't recall british comedy being so "as a matter of fact"-ish

 

[Arakhor]

Maybe it's because his topics are comedic just in relating them.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

This is what is commonly known as "cherry-picking". Instead of a trip to the Apple Store, why not consider a customer-service call to Comcast?
"Government does a few things well (the military, building and providing some public goods) but most things poorly.

All you need to do is compare the experience of going to the DMV or interacting with the TSA to going into an Apple store and buying a MacBook."
-GeorgeOrwellGeorge, comment on "The Left's Unpopular Populism"

 

[Cutlass]

"Europe is finished...In Britain...there are actual cities, like Birmingham, that are totally Muslim, where non-Muslims just simply don't go in. And in parts of London there are actually Muslim religious police that actually beat and actually wound seriously anyone who doesn't dress according to religious Muslim attire."
-- Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism on Fox News

"I checked whether this was some kind of early April Fool spoof, and then I thought he was talking about Birmingham, Alabama, but then I realized he was just utterly and completely wrong."
-- Birmingham's Member of Parliament Gisela Stuart

"A complete idiot."
-- British Prime Minister David Cameron

#foxnews tweets:
"The city is now called Birming because Ham is not halal...The local death squads go by the name of Quran Quran...Birmingham has a chain of fast food restaurants called 'Burqa King'...Viewed from above, the M26 spells out 'Death to the West' in Arabic...Nottingham is 99% Jedi..."

 

[Arakhor]

Even better still, the BBC's report actually described him on-screen as:

STEVE EMERSON
Terrorism "Expert"

 

[Kyriakos]

^Hm, nevermind the usual drool, but Cameroon actually called that tv person as 'an idiot'?

I mean...Cameron? The soon-to-be Lord Cameron after the new elections?

Politicians should be at least a bit more reserved, particularly when they are scum and crooks and likely not that much about the intellectual level of renard news either..

 

[gay_Aleks]

Once you have absolute power, you don't have to care what you can say. Of course, last time some idiot tried to take all the power in England, he got a Civil War, you got Cromwell, the Irish got conquered.

My God. Farage is Cromwell, and Cameron is Charles I. My mind is blown.

 

[Kyriakos]

Farage has no chance in England, his surname is too foreign

 

[gay_Aleks]

He always can rename himself to Windsor.

 

[Flying Pig]

Farage has no chance in England, his surname is too foreign

The last PM with a surname that didn't give away his immigrant heritage was Lloyd George...

EDIT: Actually I'm pretty sure 'George' is derived from Greek via Latin, so there might not actually have been any.