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| May 22nd, 2015 at 6:13:27 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18764 | Everyone is watching everyone else.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cartel-surveillance-cameras-found-mexican-border-city-31244188 You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| May 23rd, 2015 at 4:53:45 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18214 | Americans think 1 in 4 people are gay. Limbaugh joked about this once, saying especially the millennials think the number is 30% or something. At the time I figured they do estimate way high, but saying 30% was just Limbaugh's brand of satire. But in the poll, that group estimates 28%, a bulls-eye for Limbaugh's estimate. Curiously, social liberal/conservative or Dem/GOP don't skew much outside the mean. So the mis-information is not polarized. That is a huge surprise to me, I would have expected more polarization. The same poll shows people overestimate the portion of the black and hispanic population by a factor of 2. This explains a lot. I always had the feeling that the average person, not just the LIP, overestimated it. Largely because so many people think TV is reality and base their opinions on that. But to over estimate by a factor of five to ten? Shows how uninformed most of the nation is. The President is a fink. |
| May 23rd, 2015 at 11:39:48 AM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | It is often a situational belief: a young girl who complains all the men she meets are either married or want to do her hair knows she is exaggerating. I know one young flight attendant who moved to Los Angeles when she got her pilot's license and she chose to live in "boystown" (West Hollywood) because it was close to LAX, Van Nuys and Burbank and with her erratic hours she wanted to live somewhere that had streets full of men at all hours of the day or night but none of them particularly interested in her. In Key West, in San Francisco and in the Russian River area its likely to be a great majority. Some communes restrict not just members but even visitors by their sexual orientation. |
| May 23rd, 2015 at 12:06:12 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Often when I had Blacks in my cab, I would ask them what percentage of the US was Black. Not one of them was even close. The most common answer was 50%. Others ranged from 25-40%. When I told them it was 13%, some of them said I was lying. When I told them there were almost as many Latinos as Blacks, they would get pissed at my lying. Ignorance is thing of awe when it's on display. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| May 25th, 2015 at 7:17:19 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18764 |
That's a lot of bugs. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/25/7-suspects-face-charges-in-senior-prank-that-released-swarm-ladybugs-in-high/ You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| May 26th, 2015 at 2:36:45 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18214 |
Ah, senior prank time. The school neighboring mine had a pig released by the seniors I was told, meanwhile my senior class was like me just waiting to get out. The President is a fink. |
| May 26th, 2015 at 11:38:22 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | I was sad to leave HS. I liked reading and wasn't real fond of working for a living. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| May 26th, 2015 at 11:58:23 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18214 |
When I was a kid the adults mainly my maternal grandmother said, "when you are out working you will wish you were back in school!" Well I did like college, but I never missed grade school or high school for one second. Prussian education model designed to make obedient people who will sit in place and do as they are told all day. The President is a fink. |
| May 26th, 2015 at 12:32:18 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | HS was better than college. In HS they don't expect much, college was too much like having a job. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| May 27th, 2015 at 9:41:44 AM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11807 |
The story gets better. Jim Duggar ran for senator. His platform "Rape and incest represent heinous crimes and as such should be treated as capital crimes." http://web.archive.org/web/20030210014933/http://www.jimbob.info/position.html Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |