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26 Jun 2010, 9:29 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLGXUIM_dvo[/youtube]


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26 Jun 2010, 9:32 pm

I would like to point out that a geographical region cannot be intelligent or unintelligent because it is inanimate.


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26 Jun 2010, 9:48 pm

I think that every country in this world, has both a brilliant side, and a stupid side. :)


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27 Jun 2010, 1:08 am

book_noodles wrote:
I would like to point out that a geographical region cannot be intelligent or unintelligent because it is inanimate.
It's an acceptable phrase if it accepted it's a form metonymy.

Anyway, similar stories to what we're discussing here are not uniquely American, so while American has particular problems and ways of dealing with the security of the State, I can see clear parallels to what I've experienced in England.

The sad thing is that I'd so much like to travel to the USA, but feel unable because some official or other might acted stupidly.


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27 Jun 2010, 12:35 pm

Okay, Homeland Security is stupid. (Rhetorical devices are beyond my logical comprehension :silent: )


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27 Jun 2010, 12:42 pm

Janet Napolitano is stupid.



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27 Jun 2010, 1:05 pm

book_noodles wrote:
Okay, Homeland Security is stupid. (Rhetorical devices are beyond my logical comprehension :silent: )


Hey book_noodles. I hope you did not read my comment as a criticism because I was just being a bit playful! :) .

Anyway we can agree that homeland security is stupid - but that's not uniquely American! And I can't help but feel its all there to stop me visiting. :wink:


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27 Jun 2010, 1:13 pm

let's just say that sometimes it sure seems like america has more than its share of stupid.



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27 Jun 2010, 9:13 pm

Euclid wrote:
book_noodles wrote:
Okay, Homeland Security is stupid. (Rhetorical devices are beyond my logical comprehension :silent: )


Hey book_noodles. I hope you did not read my comment as a criticism because I was just being a bit playful! :) .

Anyway we can agree that homeland security is stupid - but that's not uniquely American! And I can't help but feel its all there to stop me visiting. :wink:

I can take a wordplay joke :lol:
I do hope you aren't on the no fly list :) It's not so bad here. Believe it or not there are better things to eat here than hamburgers :lol: I actively seek alternatives..


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28 Jun 2010, 4:02 am

book_noodles wrote:
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book_noodles wrote:
Okay, Homeland Security is stupid. (Rhetorical devices are beyond my logical comprehension :silent: )


Hey book_noodles. I hope you did not read my comment as a criticism because I was just being a bit playful! :) .

Anyway we can agree that homeland security is stupid - but that's not uniquely American! And I can't help but feel its all there to stop me visiting. :wink:

I can take a wordplay joke :lol:
I do hope you aren't on the no fly list :) It's not so bad here. Believe it or not there are better things to eat here than hamburgers :lol: I actively seek alternatives..
I'll get there for sure one day. And my girlfriend even has family in sunny New Jersey - that great holiday destination (or not) :lol: .

When I get there I eat nothing but unicorn meat, grits and 'squeezy cheeze'! !!


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28 Jun 2010, 9:52 pm

Euclid wrote:
book_noodles wrote:
Euclid wrote:
book_noodles wrote:
Okay, Homeland Security is stupid. (Rhetorical devices are beyond my logical comprehension :silent: )


Hey book_noodles. I hope you did not read my comment as a criticism because I was just being a bit playful! :) .

Anyway we can agree that homeland security is stupid - but that's not uniquely American! And I can't help but feel its all there to stop me visiting. :wink:

I can take a wordplay joke :lol:
I do hope you aren't on the no fly list :) It's not so bad here. Believe it or not there are better things to eat here than hamburgers :lol: I actively seek alternatives..
I'll get there for sure one day. And my girlfriend even has family in sunny New Jersey - that great holiday destination (or not) :lol: .

When I get there I eat nothing but unicorn meat, grits and 'squeezy cheeze'! !!

Ah.. "The Garden State" ..although I think it's mostly industrial 8O


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28 Jun 2010, 9:57 pm

We're all stupid in one way or another. The running of the bulls in Paloma is pretty stupid IMO.



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28 Jun 2010, 10:53 pm

We really need to get rid of the no fly list (in it's current form) and the patriot act. The no fly list should be limited to people on trial for or convicted of terrorist related activity as well as people who cause problems on planes, but make sure they aren't banning everybody with common names like they do now. My dad knows a guy named Richard Reed (like the shoe bomber) who got taken off a flight and grilled by airport security. The thing is, this Richard Reed my dad knows is a pasty white readhead, still wears his dog tags from his time in the navy, and most telling of all that he's not the same guy as the terrorist, he's not in jail. :roll:


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28 Jun 2010, 11:29 pm

I don't know, I never fly the plane mainly because of the price and the crap I'd have to go through to get by security untracked. :bom:

But yeah I guess most of us our pretty stupid. Maybe if I lived in another country I wouldn't risk facing this mentality as badly. I sure hate our government, that's for sure.


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28 Jun 2010, 11:29 pm

Prove to me that that adorable little girl is not a terrorist.


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29 Jun 2010, 9:14 am

Epilefftic wrote:
Prove to me that that adorable little girl is not a terrorist.


wait prove to you she is not a terrorist, lol yes she could be a terrorist in a sense as bad, like most kids maybe she is. but she is not going to kill any one.