"We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us"

[carmen510]

"Way I see it is," a man in the Tulsa Motel 6 swimming pool told me last summer, "if English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for us."

This is such a lolwut it deserved to be repeated from the article.

 

[Irish Caesar]

This is such a lolwut it deserved to be repeated from the article.

It's also a "people are stupid" statement that springs up from time to time which is conveniently impossible to prove anyone really said.

Not that there aren't people who believe this to be true... but it makes for a nice urban legend.

 

[Gogf]

Some people love to trot out statistics about how depraved Americans are because they own so many guns or are so uneducated or listen to so much country music. I've personally see people do this for years on CFC and I'm sure it's basically been going on since 1776, and yet our country hasn't managed to destroy itself yet.

The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods. H P Lovecraft.

 

[nonconformist]

Champagne tastes like warm, stale cat-piss. And the smell isn't much better. Then again, most wines are variants on the cat-piss taste-scale. No wonder people spit it back in the glass instead of swallowing it. You need the cheese afterwards to get rid of the taste. Ugh.

Why you drinking warm champagne?

 

[Gilder]

Rush doesn't even pretend to be a journalist though

No, but he is a loudmouth.

 

[philippe]

Champagne tastes like warm, stale cat-piss. And the smell isn't much better. Then again, most wines are variants on the cat-piss taste-scale. No wonder people spit it back in the glass instead of swallowing it. You need the cheese afterwards to get rid of the taste. Ugh.

weren't you the guy who never drank alcohol? Beisdes, champagne has to be served in the right condition for the right circumstances. You can't just buy an bottle in a supermarket and then think you can just pour it out. Hell, there are such differentations in champagne, have you tried an brut, an demi-sec, an sec,...?

yeah, generalizing comments on something just shows how uninformed one can be.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Some people love to trot out statistics about how depraved Americans are because they own so many guns or are so uneducated or listen to so much country music. I've personally see people do this for years on CFC and I'm sure it's basically been going on since 1776, and yet our country hasn't managed to destroy itself yet.

The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods. H P Lovecraft.

Just because something has been survived thus far does not mean it can continue to be so.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

No he's right. It's the same reason why so many people are wrong about North Korea. It's still there isn't it? People tell me smoking is bad for me. But I'm still here. So it's not bad at all.

I love this kind of reasoning

 

[Yeekim]

you call that "right-wing?" what's extreme-right wing in your mind then? are you denying that Palin would be seen as extreme-right wing in western europe? or that extreme right-wing parties are populist?

Extreme right-wing would be the Swiss scumbags our another thread is about.

My point is that neither low intelligence or populism is connected with any certain part of political spectrum, but that these are rather individual traits. However, as populism is by definition "trying to appease the masses", I'd say it is the opposite of extremism.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Appeasing to the gutfeeling of a part of the masses can be pretty extremist.

The Nazi's had the support of a large part of the masses as well. (I am not comparing anything US to the Nazis! Just refuting that populism can't be extremist, so don't! )

 

[Yeekim]

Dude, subjective question.

Sorry, no million for you.
The right answer is naturally Alexander II.
The bastard sold Alaska to US, but kept Chukotka!

Spoiler :

Actually, it should be noted that the Chuckhee managed to stay very much independent till XXth century, so they'd have been quite difficult to sell

 

[Yeekim]

Appeasing to the gutfeeling of a part of the masses can be pretty extremist.

The Nazi's had the support of a large part of the masses as well. (I am not comparing anything US to the Nazis! Just refuting that populism can't be extremist, so don't! )

That would lead to shocking conclusion, that Nazis weren't actually "extremist" at their time. Except their racial politics, they probably weren't?

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

That would lead to shocking conclusion, that Nazis weren't actually "extremist" at their time. Except their racial politics, they probably weren't?

At the start, early 30's, no probably not. Late thirties, when they had bombarded the masses with enough propaganda is another story. The opinion of the masses of a country can be quite extreme since the country does not exist in a vacuum.

 

[Sharwood]

It's also a "people are stupid" statement that springs up from time to time which is conveniently impossible to prove anyone really said.

Not that there aren't people who believe this to be true... but it makes for a nice urban legend.

I once met a Muslim guy who was firmly convinced the Bible was first written in English, both Old Testament and New. Stands to reason he also thought Jesus spoke English, since both his predecessors and followers obviously wrote in it.

To make it even more heartbreaking, the guy who 'corrected' him stated it was written in French.

Why you drinking warm champagne?

Accident. Thought it was something else. So you're saying it normally tastes like chilled cat-piss?

weren't you the guy who never drank alcohol?

See above.

Beisdes, champagne has to be served in the right condition for the right circumstances. You can't just buy an bottle in a supermarket and then think you can just pour it out. Hell, there are such differentations in champagne, have you tried an brut, an demi-sec, an sec,...?

yeah, generalizing comments on something just shows how uninformed one can be.

I for one am glad I'm uninformed about alcohol, given how much I have despised every drop of the stuff I've ever had the misfortune of tasting, including the vodka I accidentally took a swig of over New Year's. Why do I regularly accidentally taste this crap? Why must people use the exact same glasses for their alcohol as I use for my drinks, when there are many different kinds of glasses in the cupboard?

 

[philippe]

well then, if you go an automatic "OMG HIS IS DISGUSTING, ALCOHOL"-spree, of course you wouldn't recognise the taste or know how it should taste or know how to make it it tastes as it should.

 

[Sharwood]

well then, if you go an automatic "OMG HIS IS DISGUSTING, ALCOHOL"-spree, of course you wouldn't recognise the taste or know how it should taste or know how to make it it tastes as it should.

And why would I want to? If every time I try something I dislike it, why should I make an effort to force myself to enjoy it? I believe alcohol is positively bloody awful, in all forms I've tried, and have no reason to doubt the others are the same.

 

[philippe]

And why would I want to? If every time I try something I dislike it, why should I make an effort to force myself to enjoy it? I believe alcohol is positively bloody awful, in all forms I've tried, and have no reason to doubt the others are the same.

that's not my point, if you don't like alcohol, then don't single out champagne, cause your statement implies you know the difference between one form of drink and another, while you don't.

 

[Sharwood]

that's not my point, if you don't like alcohol, then don't single out champagne, cause your statement implies you know the difference between one form of drink and another, while you don't.

I know the difference between the forms of alcohol I've tried.

 

[PiMan]

You're one above me then. I've tried midrange wine from a bottle, and beer from a tap. They tasted exactly the same to me. Everyone I know thinks I'm crazy for that.

 

[Oerdin]

The OP is great. So sad and yet so true.