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Taco Rubio
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01-03-2005 10:36
Yup, Americans are really dumb:

I don't really have an example right now, but you'll just have to trust me.
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Sage Beckenbauer
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01-03-2005 10:39
yeah, and so are the british, the canadian, the mexican, the brazillian, the italian, the french, the welsh, the irish, the hungarian, the german, the russian, the chineese, the australian, the indonesian, the japaneese, the taiwaneese, the czechslovokian, the afgan, the iranian, the saudi arabian, the lebaneese, the moroccan, the south african, the nigerian, and pretty much every one else on this planet.

for the love of god, try not to generalize so much- i'm american and i don't drink blood or sacrifice goats either.
Taco Rubio
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01-03-2005 10:43
From: Sage Beckenbauer
yeah, and so are the british, the canadian, the mexican, the brazillian, the italian, the french, the welsh, the irish, the hungarian, the german, the russian, the chineese, the australian, the indonesian, the japaneese, the taiwaneese, the czechslovokian, the afgan, the iranian, the saudi arabian, the lebaneese, the moroccan, the south african, the nigerian, and pretty much every one else on this planet.

for the love of god, try not to generalize so much- i'm american and i don't drink blood or sacrifice goats either.


you spelled taiwanese, chinese, japanese, chzechoslavakian (which are now two countries) afghan, lebanese, and brazillian wrong, you american.
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Siobhan Taylor
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01-03-2005 10:44
From: Taco Rubio
you spelled chzechoslavakian (which are now two countries)


So did you.
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Taco Rubio
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01-03-2005 10:45
From: Siobhan Taylor
So did you.


Yeah, but I'm american :(
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pandastrong Fairplay
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01-03-2005 10:45
How the hell did you do this, Taco? This thread was a true self-fulfilling prophecy!

BRILLIANT :D
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Taco Rubio
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01-03-2005 10:53
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How the hell did you do this, Taco? This thread was a true self-fulfilling prophecy!

BRILLIANT :D


a whut?

I drawed a map to help you dumb americans.
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Candy Bijoux
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01-03-2005 11:11
That must make me even dumber, im Blonde and I am American. lol.
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Alia Peel
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01-03-2005 11:34
I think it'd be more accurate to say that people are dumb. Americans aren't any dumber than anyone else, we just tend to be a bit isolationist at heart, so we don't generally pay much attention to what's going on outside our borders unless we have to. Must have something to do with being surrounded on 2 sides by gigantic oceans, and surrounded by stable and relatively prosperous countries on the other 2 sides.
Xtopherxaos Ixtab
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01-03-2005 11:36
*swims up to the baited hook and sniffs, then swims off*
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01-03-2005 11:40
From: Taco Rubio
a whut?

I drawed a map to help you dumb americans.

My personal view of the world.
Torley Linden
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01-03-2005 11:40
The Dumbians of Dumb Island are dumb. They are so dumb that they make "regular dumb" look like "little dumb". They watch Dumbo all day long, worship the movie Dumb & Dumber, and their mantra is "Dumb is as dumb does". How could they be any dumber? :)
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Siobhan Taylor
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01-03-2005 11:44
As a Non-American, I don't actually think you're any more dumb than anyone else. Except that since there are more of you than the rest of us, the law of averages suggests there'll be more dumb folk over there.

Of course, in the UK, we tend to ignore dumb folk on the whole, with one or two exceptions... Over there, you sort of let them have their own way a bit more... you know, electing them to office, letting them make or star in movies...

Anyway, this was a stupid thread, so I see no reason to be sensible in it either.
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Paolo Portocarrero
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01-03-2005 13:56
From: Xtopherxaos Ixtab
*swims up to the baited hook and sniffs, then swims off*


Smart move, Xtopherxaos! I'm with you.

<grabs X's tail for a free ride to the nearest $1 theater for an encore of Dumb and Dumberer>

:P
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Teeny Leviathan
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01-03-2005 16:32
I am afraid that there is a grain of truth in this. Presenting an incomplete list purely American stupid people, stupid things, and Americans who take advantage of the stupid:

"Reality" programming
The 2004 Presidential election (Not trying to be partisan here. Both sides behaved badly)
Paris Hilton & Nicole Ritchie
City dwellers who drive Hummers
"Thug Life"
People who drive slowly in front of me, chatting on cellphones
Kenneth Lay
People who replace their airbags with LCD screens
The one who first refered to jewelry as "bling"
Credit card dependency
Drunken basketball fans
George W Bush
Peter Popoff
Anyone who watches Jackass
People who believes that "Professional" wrestling is real
Criminals who tape their crimes
The KKK
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Jauani Wu
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01-03-2005 17:19
i agree
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Ardith Mifflin
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01-03-2005 17:37
From: Teeny Leviathan
I am afraid that there is a grain of truth in this. Presenting an incomplete list purely American stupid people, stupid things, and Americans who take advantage of the stupid:

Anyone who watches Jackass


Hey, now. Jackass was actually an entertaining show sometimes. There's something very enjoyable about seeing reckless idiots dance the evolutionary tango with Uncle Darwin.
Dallas Moreau
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01-03-2005 18:14
From: Siobhan Taylor
Of course, in the UK, we tend to ignore dumb folk on the whole, with one or two exceptions... Over there, you sort of let them have their own way a bit more... you know, electing them to office, letting them make or star in movies...


Yaa, you tea-sippers take your dumb ones and put them in a palace and call them monarchs....

Or sit them down on green benches in a rectangular room, call 'em Parliament, and let them slavishly follow American foreign policy.
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Taco Rubio
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01-03-2005 18:55
From: Siobhan Taylor
As a Non-American, I don't actually think you're any more dumb than anyone else. Except that since there are more of you than the rest of us, the law of averages suggests there'll be more dumb folk over there.

Of course, in the UK, we tend to ignore dumb folk on the whole, with one or two exceptions... Over there, you sort of let them have their own way a bit more... you know, electing them to office, letting them make or star in movies...

Anyway, this was a stupid thread, so I see no reason to be sensible in it either.


One time I tried to watch "As Time Goes By" and i couldn't. then I tried to watch "Waiting for God", and I couldn't either. I don't know if i'm too dumb or they were, but i think we mutually loathed each other.
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Einsman Schlegel
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01-03-2005 22:14
*eyes the drama thread suspiciously*
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Siobhan Taylor
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01-04-2005 01:54
From: Dallas Moreau
Yaa, you tea-sippers take your dumb ones and put them in a palace and call them monarchs....

Or sit them down on green benches in a rectangular room, call 'em Parliament, and let them slavishly follow American foreign policy.


I said there were one or two exceptions, lol
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Daemioth Sklar
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01-04-2005 04:26
*losing brain cells reading this*
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Dallas Moreau
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01-04-2005 04:41
From: Siobhan Taylor
I said there were one or two exceptions, lol


Glad you're laughing out loud because I was when I wrote that, lol. ;)
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Siobhan Taylor
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01-04-2005 04:43
From: Dallas Moreau
Glad you're laughing out loud because I was when I wrote that, lol. ;)


Of course... :) I have huge problems believing this is a sensible thread.
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Ursa Falcone
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01-04-2005 05:15
Isn't that a song??
By that Guy on a tiny Island??


They pulled in just behind the fridge
He lays her down, he frowns
"Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too DUMB?"
He kissed her then and there
She took his ring, took his babies
It took him minutes, took her nowhere
Heaven knows, she'd have taken anything, but

All night
She wants the DUMB American
DUMB American, DUMB American, she wants the DUMB American
All right
She wants the DUMB American

Scanning life through the picture windows
She finds the slinky vagabond
He coughs as he passes her Ford Mustang, but
Heaven forbid, she'll take anything
But the freak, and his type, all for nothing
He misses a step and cuts his hand, but
Showing nothing, he swoops like a song
She cries "Where have all Papa's heroes gone?"

All night
She wants the DUMB American
DUMB American, DUMB American, she wants the DUMB American
All right
She wants the DUMB American

All the way from Washington
Her bread-winner begs off the bathroom floor
"We live for just these twenty years
Do we have to die for the fifty more?"

All night
He wants the DUMB American
DUMB American, DUMB American, he wants the DUMB American
All right
He wants the DUMB American

Do you remember, your President Nixon?
Do you remember, the bills you have to pay
Or even yesterday

Have you been an un-American?
Just you and your idol singing falsetto 'bout
Leather, leather everywhere, and
Not a myth left from the ghetto
Well, well, well, would you carry a razor
In case, just in case of depression
Sit on your hands on a bus of survivors
Blushing at all the afro-Sheilas
Ain't that close to love?
Well, ain't that poster love?
Well, it ain't that Barbie doll
Her heart's been broken just like you have

And
All night
You want the DUMB American
DUMB American, DUMB American, you want the DUMB American
All right
You want the DUMB American

You ain't a pimp and you ain't a hustler
A pimp's got a Cadi and a lady got a Chrysler
Black's got respect, and white's got his soul train
Mama's got cramps, and look at your hands ache
I heard the news today, oh boy
I got a suite and you got defeat
Ain't there a man you can say no more?
And, ain't there a woman I can sock on the jaw?
And, ain't there a child I can hold without judging?
Ain't there a pen that will write before they die?
Ain't you proud that you've still got faces?
Ain't there one damn song that can make me
break down and cry?

All night
I want the DUMB American
DUMB American, DUMB American, I want the DUMB American
All right
I want the DUMB American
DUMB American
DUMB American, DUMB American, I want the DUMB American
(I want with you, I want with you want)
All right
(You want it, I want you you, you want I, I want you want)
DUMB American, DUMB American, I want the DUMB American (I want to want, to want, to want , to want I, I want you)
All right
(Lord I wanted the DUMB american)
(DUMB american)
DUMB American, DUMB American
I want the DUMB American
Mmmmmm mmm
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