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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: RiGS on Sun, 03 July 2011, 17:47:26
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According to a new poll by Marist, more than a quarter of Americans couldn’t correctly identify the country from which the United States declared its independence...
26 Percent Of Americans Don’t Know U.S. Declared Independence From Great Britain (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/07/01/259417/americans-dont-know-independence-from-great-britain/)
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(http://deskthority.net/download/file.php?id=432)
Do you see the green spot in the middle of Europe?
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Yes, Italy.
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gotta blow something up on July 4th! Fireworks!
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First of all Italy is not middle Europe.
Second, you really need these handy glasses.
(http://i.pinger.pl/pgr177/27f409480026244e4d922b41/Pink+glasses.jpg)
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First of all Italy is not middle Europe.
Roma caput mundi.
Everything else is off center by default.... :)
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Meanwhile in Hungary:
(http://thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/reagan-statue-e1309389124400.jpg)
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Do you see the green spot in the middle of Europe?
You do know that that map are based on self-reporting?
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Roma caput mundi.
You mean città dei ladri?
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[video=youtube;oa-q-ztyZZw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa-q-ztyZZw[/video]
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Remember to be safe with your fireworks!
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How do you light them at that point?
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You mean città dei ladri?
ha ha ha
Looks like you loose the British domination, but also the British humor...
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As a speaker of Queen's english I would have spelled that humour.
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As a speaker of Queen's english I would have spelled that humour.
I' speck just a president's Italian, piky grammar and easy spelling, rather than easy grammar and random spelling...
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Google translate?
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Google translate?
Just a browser, made in Oslo and not in Oxford (and with the US English dictionary installed).
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Happy 4th! Beer and BBQ here... proper celebration.
Though, I celebrate it a few times week living in Austin and all.
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Some photographs.
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6021/5903051817_f5325eb072_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10037058@N08/5903051817/)
Fireworks (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10037058@N08/5903051817/) by Pylon757 (http://www.flickr.com/people/10037058@N08/), on Flickr
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6058/5903060225_f9d2f27018_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10037058@N08/5903060225/)
Happy July 4th! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10037058@N08/5903060225/) by Pylon757 (http://www.flickr.com/people/10037058@N08/), on Flickr
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6006/5903052101_a2fa750da3_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10037058@N08/5903052101/)
Fireworks (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10037058@N08/5903052101/) by Pylon757 (http://www.flickr.com/people/10037058@N08/), on Flickr
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/5903051495_4fd95f70c4_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10037058@N08/5903051495/)
Exploding transformers...err...fireworks (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10037058@N08/5903051495/) by Pylon757 (http://www.flickr.com/people/10037058@N08/), on Flickr
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Nice photos. I really like the 2nd one, it has a good composition.
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Haha. The last one is the best.
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[video=youtube;Ims4woMN2p4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ims4woMN2p4[/video]
How can anyone think that he is a nutcase?
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What I would like to know is how many simply "weren't sure", and of those that didn't give that answer, what the other choices were. At least 74% correctly identified the country.
Just getting "England" or "the United Kingdom" mixed up with Great Britain, though, shouldn't really count.
Of course, if anyone thought that the movie "Independence Day" was based on real, historical events, then they would really have problems.
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How can anyone think that he is a nutcase?
Well, when he says good things about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, he is telling the truth. When he says that TIME magazine and the major TV networks are trying to tell Americans that religious freedom and other basic rights are out of date, that's when he goes wrong.
Yes, things have changed since the days of the Founding Fathers. In our large, crowded, anonymous cities, and with the police being tasked with protecting women and children from domestic violence, as well as having to deal with the extreme violence of drug pushers, it's not surprising the Second Amendment is being questioned. And the realities of national defense in a nuclear world have meant that Americans pay more taxes than they once did, and that America has a standing army in peacetime.
But the solution isn't an absolute rigidity in running the country as if it were 1800. The answer is for Americans to ensure that their politicians and Supreme Court justices understand the principles behind the Constitution, so that such amendments as are needed from time to time won't have the cumulative effect of eroding away the liberties of Americans.
His concern is legitimate. How he presents it, and the details of his position, are what are doing his concern a disservice.
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we had seafood bbq on the 4th and my dad does the cooking (when i visit home), so never having done seafood i wanted to cut up and kill the lobster myself and my dad showed me how he does it. My nephew heard this and wanted to do it too, luckily we had 3 lobsters so it was perfect. ripping the head off while it's alive was a bit nasty, the scary part was cutting the lobster in half (raw) too. Cuz i guess when you stick a meat cleaver into it, it reacts and "pushes up" i was like "whoa, the knife went up, you didn't tell me that dad". He also had us cutting the claws in half, damn those claws are near impossible to cut in half.
Didn't want to bring fireworks from pa to ny, for obvious reasons so it was a celebrationless day.
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Well, when he says good things about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, he is telling the truth. When he says that TIME magazine and the major TV networks are trying to tell Americans that religious freedom and other basic rights are out of date, that's when he goes wrong.
Yes, things have changed since the days of the Founding Fathers. In our large, crowded, anonymous cities, and with the police being tasked with protecting women and children from domestic violence, as well as having to deal with the extreme violence of drug pushers, it's not surprising the Second Amendment is being questioned. And the realities of national defense in a nuclear world have meant that Americans pay more taxes than they once did, and that America has a standing army in peacetime.
But the solution isn't an absolute rigidity in running the country as if it were 1800. The answer is for Americans to ensure that their politicians and Supreme Court justices understand the principles behind the Constitution, so that such amendments as are needed from time to time won't have the cumulative effect of eroding away the liberties of Americans.
His concern is legitimate. How he presents it, and the details of his position, are what are doing his concern a disservice.
I suggest you to read this article (http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-elite-are-not-even-trying-to-hide-how-much-they-hate-the-u-s-constitution-anymore).
It pretty much summarizes where I stand.