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  • R Red Stateler

    Dan Bennett wrote:

    I am honoured

    It's spelled "honored". ;P

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    Both spellings are acceptable. See here[^]. Steve

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    • R Red Stateler

      America's* Literacy rate (link[^]): 99% Spain's literacy rate (link[^]): 97.9% so Spain is about twice as illiterate as the United States. Not only that, but they elected communists in order to appease Al Qaeda. What a bunch of wussies. *Note that this figure has been adjusted to only include the United States. Venezuela was not counted. -- modified at 9:10 Thursday 22nd June, 2006

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      I fart in your general direction


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      • R Red Stateler

        Dan Bennett wrote:

        I am honoured

        It's spelled "honored". ;P

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        Dan Bennett
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        You're not getting me on that one: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/honour?view=uk[^]

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          I fart in your general direction


          Some of us walk the memory lane, others plummet into a rabbit hole
          Tree in C# || Fold With Us! || sighist

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          Your mother was a hampster, and your father smelt of elderberries! "The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass." - Martin Mull

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            You're not getting me on that one: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/honour?view=uk[^]

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            Red Stateler
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            We don't recognize the Oxford Dictionary in Amuuuurica! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

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            • R Red Stateler

              America's* Literacy rate (link[^]): 99% Spain's literacy rate (link[^]): 97.9% so Spain is about twice as illiterate as the United States. Not only that, but they elected communists in order to appease Al Qaeda. What a bunch of wussies. *Note that this figure has been adjusted to only include the United States. Venezuela was not counted. -- modified at 9:10 Thursday 22nd June, 2006

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              The people who vote down any post positive about America are just jealous about our freedom. Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir

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                The people who vote down any post positive about America are just jealous about our freedom. Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir

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                Red Stateler
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                And our literacy!

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                • R Red Stateler

                  And our literacy!

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                  Allah On Acid
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                  espeir wrote:

                  And our literacy!

                  Yeah, just think how many more 1-voters there would be if more europeans could actually read. :laugh: Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir

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                  • A Allah On Acid

                    The people who vote down any post positive about America are just jealous about our freedom. Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir

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                    Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                    :wtf: That post did not highlight something positive about the US. It was shitting on Spain! :wtf:

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                      espeir wrote:

                      And our literacy!

                      Yeah, just think how many more 1-voters there would be if more europeans could actually read. :laugh: Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir

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                      Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                      Spain is not Europe, and Europe is not Spain you twit.

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                      • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                        :wtf: That post did not highlight something positive about the US. It was shitting on Spain! :wtf:

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                        Red Stateler
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                        Saying that America is smarter than Spain doesn't highlight something positive about the US? Hmmmmm...Must be my "red-necked pig-ignorance" showing through.

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                          Spain is not Europe, and Europe is not Spain you twit.

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                          But Spain is in Europe, so if more Spaniards could actually read, it would increase Europe's literacy rate.

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                            Spanish men also don't know how to please a woman. The average woman in the US has 2.09 children and in Spain they only have 1.28. Perhaps that chauvinism is masking something deeper.

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                            So American men only please their women 2.009 times in their life? Nunc est bibendum

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                              Your mother was a hampster, and your father smelt of elderberries! "The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass." - Martin Mull

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                              You dirty english pig trough wapper! Nunc est bibendum

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                              • R Red Stateler

                                Saying that America is smarter than Spain doesn't highlight something positive about the US? Hmmmmm...Must be my "red-necked pig-ignorance" showing through.

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                                Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                                Had you really wanted to convey something positive about the US, you would've said that the US is twice as literate as Spain, and you wouldn't have called them commies and wussies. What made you jump on Spain like that? Did you get turned down by a hot spanish girl? Did she call you fat, ugly, bald american bastard?

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                                  Had you really wanted to convey something positive about the US, you would've said that the US is twice as literate as Spain, and you wouldn't have called them commies and wussies. What made you jump on Spain like that? Did you get turned down by a hot spanish girl? Did she call you fat, ugly, bald american bastard?

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                                  Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:

                                  Had you really wanted to convey something positive about the US, you would've said that the US is twice as literate as Spain, and you wouldn't have called them commies and wussies.

                                  But by illustrating the commie and wussy nature of Spain, I am only intending to positively illustrate the brave and democratic nature of the US through contrast.

                                  Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:

                                  What made you jump on Spain like that? Did you get turned down by a hot spanish girl? Did she call you fat, ugly, bald american bastard?

                                  I honestly think that it may have been my "red-necked pig-ignorance" shining through.

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                                    We don't recognize the Oxford Dictionary in Amuuuurica! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

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                                    Should'nt that be Oxfurd? "You get that which you tolerate"

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                                      But Spain is in Europe, so if more Spaniards could actually read, it would increase Europe's literacy rate.

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                                      But by the soame token, you lot should be lumped in with Canada (a bonus) and all the south american countries (not so much) - well you're all in the Americas aren't you....wonder what THAT would do to the literacy figures :) "Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......" Christian Graus At The Soapbox

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                                        So American men only please their women 2.009 times in their life? Nunc est bibendum

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                                        Red Stateler
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                                        No, it means that American women are just 38.7% more eager to reproduce with American men than Spanish women are eager to reproduce with Spanish men. Clearly it's due to our ability to please.

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                                          But by the soame token, you lot should be lumped in with Canada (a bonus) and all the south american countries (not so much) - well you're all in the Americas aren't you....wonder what THAT would do to the literacy figures :) "Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......" Christian Graus At The Soapbox

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                                          RichardGrimmer wrote:

                                          But by the soame token, you lot should be lumped in with Canada (a bonus) and all the south american countries (not so much) - well you're all in the Americas aren't you....wonder what THAT would do to the literacy figures

                                          We're not part of a unified economic and political unit like the EU.

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