Absurdity This Week In America
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
You think he's gonna rise from the dead to kick my ass because I spelled his name wrong?
Gandhi may have helped India get freedom, but he's no Jesus Christ :rolleyes: Regards, Nish
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The Ultimate Grid - The #1 MFC grid out there!Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Gandhi may have helped India get freedom, but he's no Jesus Christ
Give it a couple of thousand years - you never can tell how these things will turn out. :-D I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended. I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended. Dave
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- Paris Hilton is being considered for the role of Mother Theresa in an upcoming film. My ability to suspend belief has finally been overwhelmed. First, she can't act worth spit. Second, casting her as Mother Theresa would be almost as plausible as casting George W. Bush as Ghandi. 2) A key DHS official was caught red-handed trying to seduce what he thought was a 14-year old into having sex. I wonder why that propensity didn't surface during his security background check for his top-secret clearance? This leads me to ask why it costs the government $100,000 to conduct just one of these security clearance checks if this kind of crap slips through. 3) School CHILDREN protesting proposed immigration reform. Where do they get off? They have no clue as to the intricacies or financial repercussions of making such changes. They've not experienced the burdon on their local healthcare infrastructure, and are shielded from detrimental effects on their education system. Vincente Fox has publicly stated that he wants to "take back" most of the southwestern United States, and he's doing it by re-populating the region with Mexicans, implcitly encouraging illegal border crossings by doing nothing to help the US to prevent it. If I see a Mexican flag flying at any public facility here in San Antonio, I will personally bring it down. I won't burn it or anything like that, but I will not tolerate a foreign country's flag being flown over U.S. soil. It doesn't belong here. Finally, if these people are so enthralled with their country of origin, then by god, go fuckin back there. [edit] 4) A woman purposely walks AROUND metal detectors and security staff, ignores REPEATED warnings to stop, and when a police officer attempts to restrain her, she PUNCHES HIM. The fun doesn't stop there. It turns out she's a congresswoman who forgot her identifying lapel pin and was not recognized by the security guards. Then hilarity ensues - she actually accuses the cop of ASSAULT, calls everyone involved racists, and the black community rallies behind her as if she was just pressed into slavery. First, NOBODY should get a free pass through a metal detector - NOBODY - even if they're wearing a super-secret lapel pin and decoder ring! Second, she knew the freakin rules, yet she IGNORED them. Lastly, she overtly challenged the authority of the police officer when he attempted to exercise a reasonable level of physical restraint to prevent her from proceeding further into the building. What kind of message did THAT sen
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ihoecken wrote:
So you don't eat French fries because they are Belgian (they are not French )? And you don't eat Hot Dogs because they are German? You don't eat Pizza because they are Italian? You don't eat Rice because they are Asian? And you don't eat Hamburger? Well what do you eat, when you don't eat something from other cultures?
Damn straight! I only American foods: Turkey, Corn, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Biscuits, and of course, Apple Pie. :-) Alvaro
... since we've descended to name calling, I'm thinking you're about twenty pounds of troll droppings in a ten pound bag. - Vincent Reynolds
Alvaro Mendez wrote:
Damn straight! I only American foods
English apple pie recipes go back to the time of Chaucer 1381. Turkey is North American in origin, but is it really fair to credit America for the idea of eating fowl meat? Especially for a bird that is named for its presence in Europe through importing to Turkey, thus crediting Turkey for the origin of the bird. People ariving in the Americas thought it was an African bird the African Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) and this is why Turkey is credited with the bird, not the Americas where it originated. Corn is actually a generic term for any fruit of a grain, the correct term is actually Maize, if you are referring specifically to the north american "corn on the cob" or its fruit once removed. A cornfield could be a field of wheat, rye, oats or another grain. Mashed potato (mashed potatoes in American English) or puréed potato is a common way of serving potato in many countries, including Argentina, Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. But even closer to the subject at hand... corn, if you prefer the term, is actually a hybrid domestication of several wild grains, origin... Mexico. "The process is thought by some to have started from 7,500 to 12,000 years ago (corrected for solar variations). Archaeological remains of early maize cobs, found at Guila Naquitz Cave in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico, date back roughly 6,250 years (corrected; 3450 BC, uncorrected); the oldest cobs from caves near Tehuacan, Puebla, date ca. 2750 BC Little change occurred in cob form until ca. 1100 BC when great changes appeared in cobs from Mexican caves: maize diversity rapidly increased and archaeological teosinte was first deposited." Maize began spreading to the rest of the land in the Americas sometime near 1500BC. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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ihoecken wrote:
And you don't eat Hamburger?
AFAIK, hamburguers are American, (and not from Hamburg). :)
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Luis Alonso Ramos wrote:
AFAIK, hamburguers are American, (and not from Hamburg).
"The hamburger as ground meat can be traced back to the time when the Mongols (c. 1209) carried flat patties of lamb or mutton as a food source. The saddle would tenderize the meat and the meat would be eaten raw. It gave the Mongols the ability to carry food, and eat it all without dismounting from the horse. When the Mongols invaded Moscow, the hamburger was also brought and in turn was adopted as a cruisine named "steak tartare" after the invading Mongols (who were also known as the Tatars). Later the German port of Hamburg had ships that visited a Russian port and thus brought with it the new "tartare steak" as they would later call it. Ships from Hamburg, Germany coincidently shipped to New York also and brought by now was known as the Hamburg steak." _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) -- modified at 13:58 Wednesday 5th April, 2006
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Luis Alonso Ramos wrote:
AFAIK, hamburguers are American, (and not from Hamburg).
"The hamburger as ground meat can be traced back to the time when the Mongols (c. 1209) carried flat patties of lamb or mutton as a food source. The saddle would tenderize the meat and the meat would be eaten raw. It gave the Mongols the ability to carry food, and eat it all without dismounting from the horse. When the Mongols invaded Moscow, the hamburger was also brought and in turn was adopted as a cruisine named "steak tartare" after the invading Mongols (who were also known as the Tatars). Later the German port of Hamburg had ships that visited a Russian port and thus brought with it the new "tartare steak" as they would later call it. Ships from Hamburg, Germany coincidently shipped to New York also and brought by now was known as the Hamburg steak." _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) -- modified at 13:58 Wednesday 5th April, 2006
"Food's origins cannot be attributed to humanity as the concept actually dates back hundreds of millions of years. For example, Germans proudly assert their invention of the sausage, but in fact pork products have been around since the triassic when the ancestor of the modern pig, the allocite, scurried along the hot desert plains of pangaea. The first allocite was consumed by a small carnivore named the composaur, in what is now upstate New York, thus making all pork products and their derivatives a distincly American food."
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Gandhi may have helped India get freedom, but he's no Jesus Christ
Give it a couple of thousand years - you never can tell how these things will turn out. :-D I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended. I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended. Dave
DRHuff wrote:
Give it a couple of thousand years - you never can tell how these things will turn out.
Good point :) Regards, Nish
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Alvaro Mendez wrote:
Damn straight! I only American foods
English apple pie recipes go back to the time of Chaucer 1381. Turkey is North American in origin, but is it really fair to credit America for the idea of eating fowl meat? Especially for a bird that is named for its presence in Europe through importing to Turkey, thus crediting Turkey for the origin of the bird. People ariving in the Americas thought it was an African bird the African Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) and this is why Turkey is credited with the bird, not the Americas where it originated. Corn is actually a generic term for any fruit of a grain, the correct term is actually Maize, if you are referring specifically to the north american "corn on the cob" or its fruit once removed. A cornfield could be a field of wheat, rye, oats or another grain. Mashed potato (mashed potatoes in American English) or puréed potato is a common way of serving potato in many countries, including Argentina, Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. But even closer to the subject at hand... corn, if you prefer the term, is actually a hybrid domestication of several wild grains, origin... Mexico. "The process is thought by some to have started from 7,500 to 12,000 years ago (corrected for solar variations). Archaeological remains of early maize cobs, found at Guila Naquitz Cave in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico, date back roughly 6,250 years (corrected; 3450 BC, uncorrected); the oldest cobs from caves near Tehuacan, Puebla, date ca. 2750 BC Little change occurred in cob form until ca. 1100 BC when great changes appeared in cobs from Mexican caves: maize diversity rapidly increased and archaeological teosinte was first deposited." Maize began spreading to the rest of the land in the Americas sometime near 1500BC. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Um, thanks for all that Jeffry. I did my best to extend my "tongue-in-cheek" remarks, but I obviously failed. :^) With the exception of avocados, bananas, beets, squash, pumpkins, and liver, I eat anything. :-) Regards, Alvaro
... since we've descended to name calling, I'm thinking you're about twenty pounds of troll droppings in a ten pound bag. - Vincent Reynolds
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You should author the Code Project insider. Marc Pensieve Functional Entanglement vs. Code Entanglement Static Classes Make For Rigid Architectures Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
By the time I knew the job existed, they'd already signed up the hottie. Besides, I don't think the vast majority of CodeProject users are ready for my style of news delivery. On the other hand, I now know how to spell "buttocks" in hinducowese. This skill will be added to my ever-growing reservoir of otherwise useless trivia. Top dat Jordon!!! I bet she's afraid to even come in here... evil:) ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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- Paris Hilton is being considered for the role of Mother Theresa in an upcoming film. My ability to suspend belief has finally been overwhelmed. First, she can't act worth spit. Second, casting her as Mother Theresa would be almost as plausible as casting George W. Bush as Ghandi. 2) A key DHS official was caught red-handed trying to seduce what he thought was a 14-year old into having sex. I wonder why that propensity didn't surface during his security background check for his top-secret clearance? This leads me to ask why it costs the government $100,000 to conduct just one of these security clearance checks if this kind of crap slips through. 3) School CHILDREN protesting proposed immigration reform. Where do they get off? They have no clue as to the intricacies or financial repercussions of making such changes. They've not experienced the burdon on their local healthcare infrastructure, and are shielded from detrimental effects on their education system. Vincente Fox has publicly stated that he wants to "take back" most of the southwestern United States, and he's doing it by re-populating the region with Mexicans, implcitly encouraging illegal border crossings by doing nothing to help the US to prevent it. If I see a Mexican flag flying at any public facility here in San Antonio, I will personally bring it down. I won't burn it or anything like that, but I will not tolerate a foreign country's flag being flown over U.S. soil. It doesn't belong here. Finally, if these people are so enthralled with their country of origin, then by god, go fuckin back there. [edit] 4) A woman purposely walks AROUND metal detectors and security staff, ignores REPEATED warnings to stop, and when a police officer attempts to restrain her, she PUNCHES HIM. The fun doesn't stop there. It turns out she's a congresswoman who forgot her identifying lapel pin and was not recognized by the security guards. Then hilarity ensues - she actually accuses the cop of ASSAULT, calls everyone involved racists, and the black community rallies behind her as if she was just pressed into slavery. First, NOBODY should get a free pass through a metal detector - NOBODY - even if they're wearing a super-secret lapel pin and decoder ring! Second, she knew the freakin rules, yet she IGNORED them. Lastly, she overtly challenged the authority of the police officer when he attempted to exercise a reasonable level of physical restraint to prevent her from proceeding further into the building. What kind of message did THAT sen
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
why it costs the government $100,000 to conduct just one of these security clearance checks if this kind of crap slips through
Hey, someone has to pay the bribes. :)
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"Food's origins cannot be attributed to humanity as the concept actually dates back hundreds of millions of years. For example, Germans proudly assert their invention of the sausage, but in fact pork products have been around since the triassic when the ancestor of the modern pig, the allocite, scurried along the hot desert plains of pangaea. The first allocite was consumed by a small carnivore named the composaur, in what is now upstate New York, thus making all pork products and their derivatives a distincly American food."
espeir wrote:
a distincly American food."
which by the same logic makes all humanity the same, therefore you cannot attribute anything to anyone as we all came from the same source. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Flying a foreign flag above the native flag in any country is an act of invasion that should not be tolerated. Is is the symbol of conquest. I would expect any Americans who attempted the same in Mexico to experience the same repercussions.
Why the low vote on this? 5 from me.
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espeir wrote:
a distincly American food."
which by the same logic makes all humanity the same, therefore you cannot attribute anything to anyone as we all came from the same source. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Do not question my logic. It is infallible.
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Um, thanks for all that Jeffry. I did my best to extend my "tongue-in-cheek" remarks, but I obviously failed. :^) With the exception of avocados, bananas, beets, squash, pumpkins, and liver, I eat anything. :-) Regards, Alvaro
... since we've descended to name calling, I'm thinking you're about twenty pounds of troll droppings in a ten pound bag. - Vincent Reynolds
If it grows on land, or walks on land, chances are I will eat select parts of it.... There are a few exceptions too.... I used to say if it walks on land I would eat it, negating all the water critters, but then someone asked if I was going to eat gater while I was in New Orleans. So there are excepts to every rule. :) ;) _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I will not tolerate a foreign country's flag being flown over U.S. soil. It doesn't belong here. Finally, if these people are so enthralled with their country of origin, then by god, go fuckin back there.
So, does that mean I should go around and take down the flags of the US flying in Scotland? Like the one over the US Consulate (although admittedly their building has been remarkably low key in the last couple of years), the ones flying over major hotel chains, the ones flying over various buildings that have an American connection.... What about the flags of other countries? Should I take them down also?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog -- modified at 10:42 Wednesday 5th April, 2006
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
So, does that mean I should go around and take down the flags of the US flying in Scotland? Like the one over the US Consulate
Any US Embassy or Consulate and any US vehicle marked with diplomatic plates is sovereign US territory. Even in Scotland. Just as any other Embassy or Consulate or appropriately marked vehicle in the United States is sovereign territory of the respective country. -Sean ---- Shag a Lizard
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
So, does that mean I should go around and take down the flags of the US flying in Scotland? Like the one over the US Consulate
Any US Embassy or Consulate and any US vehicle marked with diplomatic plates is sovereign US territory. Even in Scotland. Just as any other Embassy or Consulate or appropriately marked vehicle in the United States is sovereign territory of the respective country. -Sean ---- Shag a Lizard
What about hotels? Or any other place that a US Flag may be flown in Scotland? Should that be taken down. According to the OP it must be insulting to me!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog
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Flying a foreign flag above the native flag in any country is an act of invasion that should not be tolerated. Is is the symbol of conquest. I would expect any Americans who attempted the same in Mexico to experience the same repercussions.
espeir wrote:
Flying a foreign flag above the native flag in any country is an act of invasion that should not be tolerated.
Come to Scotland and you'll see it on most government buildings.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog
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What about hotels? Or any other place that a US Flag may be flown in Scotland? Should that be taken down. According to the OP it must be insulting to me!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog
I suppose if it offends the sensibilities of the Scottish go for it. It's your country. :) -Sean ---- Shag a Lizard
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I suppose if it offends the sensibilities of the Scottish go for it. It's your country. :) -Sean ---- Shag a Lizard
It doesn't! That is my whole point. Why should it offend the sensibilities of anyone. Flying another country's flag on a hotel is, as far as I can see, a welcome to the foreign traveller. My school flew a French or German flag when exchange students were across as a welcome. In the student areas of Edinburgh you can see flags of all nationalities flying and it looks great. I think what a wonderful cross cultural society I live in. When I did a Spanish language course a while back the student flat I was in was decorated with Swedish flags intertwinded with Spanish flags in a display of friendship. (My flat mates were Swedish) I have sets of lapel badges with 2 flags each (the Scottish Saltire with other countries flags) as a signal of fraternité
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog
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It doesn't! That is my whole point. Why should it offend the sensibilities of anyone. Flying another country's flag on a hotel is, as far as I can see, a welcome to the foreign traveller. My school flew a French or German flag when exchange students were across as a welcome. In the student areas of Edinburgh you can see flags of all nationalities flying and it looks great. I think what a wonderful cross cultural society I live in. When I did a Spanish language course a while back the student flat I was in was decorated with Swedish flags intertwinded with Spanish flags in a display of friendship. (My flat mates were Swedish) I have sets of lapel badges with 2 flags each (the Scottish Saltire with other countries flags) as a signal of fraternité
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog
I agree with what you're saying, but what really matters is the intent behind the action. Friendly = Good. Taunting = Bad. -Sean ---- Shag a Lizard
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- Paris Hilton is being considered for the role of Mother Theresa in an upcoming film. My ability to suspend belief has finally been overwhelmed. First, she can't act worth spit. Second, casting her as Mother Theresa would be almost as plausible as casting George W. Bush as Ghandi. 2) A key DHS official was caught red-handed trying to seduce what he thought was a 14-year old into having sex. I wonder why that propensity didn't surface during his security background check for his top-secret clearance? This leads me to ask why it costs the government $100,000 to conduct just one of these security clearance checks if this kind of crap slips through. 3) School CHILDREN protesting proposed immigration reform. Where do they get off? They have no clue as to the intricacies or financial repercussions of making such changes. They've not experienced the burdon on their local healthcare infrastructure, and are shielded from detrimental effects on their education system. Vincente Fox has publicly stated that he wants to "take back" most of the southwestern United States, and he's doing it by re-populating the region with Mexicans, implcitly encouraging illegal border crossings by doing nothing to help the US to prevent it. If I see a Mexican flag flying at any public facility here in San Antonio, I will personally bring it down. I won't burn it or anything like that, but I will not tolerate a foreign country's flag being flown over U.S. soil. It doesn't belong here. Finally, if these people are so enthralled with their country of origin, then by god, go fuckin back there. [edit] 4) A woman purposely walks AROUND metal detectors and security staff, ignores REPEATED warnings to stop, and when a police officer attempts to restrain her, she PUNCHES HIM. The fun doesn't stop there. It turns out she's a congresswoman who forgot her identifying lapel pin and was not recognized by the security guards. Then hilarity ensues - she actually accuses the cop of ASSAULT, calls everyone involved racists, and the black community rallies behind her as if she was just pressed into slavery. First, NOBODY should get a free pass through a metal detector - NOBODY - even if they're wearing a super-secret lapel pin and decoder ring! Second, she knew the freakin rules, yet she IGNORED them. Lastly, she overtly challenged the authority of the police officer when he attempted to exercise a reasonable level of physical restraint to prevent her from proceeding further into the building. What kind of message did THAT sen
1 - this can't be true ? 2 - he THOUGHT she was 14 ? How old was she ? 3 - This is obviously a case of kids doing what thier parents tell them. When I was in Texas, we saw lots of Mexicans on street corners, I Was told they are illegal, and they stand there waiting for people to pick them up for work. My mate said he uses the facility at times, I said 'how do young people find work ?'. He didn't seem to have thought about it. US society relies on illegal immigrants, that needs to change, or they deserve rights, as far as I can see. I agree with the rest of your comments, tho. 4 - This woman is an idiot. Do you have a link ? Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
