America Smarter than Spain [modified]
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fat_boy wrote:
Oh yes, I forgot, carying a gun makes you so free.
It does not make you free, but it does give a population recourse against a tyrannical government. Totalitarian governments always disarm the population, so they dont end up like the redocats did 200 years ago.
fat_boy wrote:
Bollocks.
Clickety[^] Ministers are also proposing to double the sentence for possessing a knife or offensive weapon from two years to four I was partly wrong, the sentence is two years, but they are trying to make it four. 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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Ministers are also proposing to double the sentence for possessing a knife or offensive weapon from two years to four
Partly because the media are screaming for action after a number of recent murders (mainly of teenagers) by knife-wielding gang members (usually other teenagers). In reality, the statistics for knife crime haven't changed much in 10 years, but the current UK government is a master of the "knee-jerk" reaction and, facing plummeting opinion poll figures, are desperately trying to show they are still "in touch". It will probably come to nothing, like most of their policies.
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espeir wrote:
They're not Americans
Except that they live in the US, contribute to the economy, and would get the green card if they could. There would have to be 2.5 million illegal imigrants in spain to get anywhere near the percentage the US has. Go dig up some figures. Nunc est bibendum
fat_boy wrote:
There would have to be 2.5 million illegal imigrants in spain to get anywhere near the percentage the US has. Go dig up some figures.
Actually a quick googling shows that their illegal immigrant figures are roughyl identical with the number of illegal immigrans we have from Mexico and South America.
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Is that America the continent or the USA the in-continent? Hey CIA as a source of facts, this just gets better. Thanks. :-D 'ta luego con~o Andy
AndyKEnZ wrote:
Is that America the continent or the USA the in-continent?
Given that I clearly specified in the text of my post, I'm guessing that you're one of the illiterate Spaniards.
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We don't recognize the Oxford Dictionary in Amuuuurica! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
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OMFG!!!!! Swedes are just as literate as US citizens! I'M SO PROUD TO BE JUST AS LITERATE AS YOU ARE! PLEASE MAKE ME YOUR BROTHER! Whatever.
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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
espeir wrote:
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.
Nice but faked, when I believe in your National Institute for Literacy http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/facts/reading_facts.html[^] Another side in German: http://www.science-at-home.de/referate/analphabetismus.php[^] ------------------------------ PROST Roleplaying Game War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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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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espeir wrote:
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.
Nice but faked, when I believe in your National Institute for Literacy http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/facts/reading_facts.html[^] Another side in German: http://www.science-at-home.de/referate/analphabetismus.php[^] ------------------------------ PROST Roleplaying Game War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
ihoecken wrote:
Nice but faked, when I believe in your National Institute for Literacy http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/facts/reading\_facts.html\[^\]
There's "literacy" and "functional literacy". Both of which contain two separate definitions. The link you specified outlines the latter while the link I specified outlines an equivalent baseline between the US and Spain. I didn't point any fingers at Germany. You guys are smart. And judging by how many good looking women remained within your borders, I'd say you also know how to please.
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This is such crap. In all these stats, like US per capita GDP, the 10 million or so illegal imigrants are not considered. Nunc est bibendum
fat_boy wrote:
In all these stats, like US per capita GDP, the 10 million or so illegal imigrants are not considered.
Well they are not responsible for any illegals, I think. ------------------------------ PROST Roleplaying Game War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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espeir wrote:
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.
Ummm, I'm gonna go ahead and point out the subtle comedy... "Spanish men also don't know how to please a woman" followed by "Perhaps that chauvinism is masking something deeper"... Like a french boyfriend with a big wanker...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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ihoecken wrote:
Nice but faked, when I believe in your National Institute for Literacy http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/facts/reading\_facts.html\[^\]
There's "literacy" and "functional literacy". Both of which contain two separate definitions. The link you specified outlines the latter while the link I specified outlines an equivalent baseline between the US and Spain. I didn't point any fingers at Germany. You guys are smart. And judging by how many good looking women remained within your borders, I'd say you also know how to please.
espeir wrote:
while the link I specified outlines an equivalent baseline between the US and Spain
That's correct. You're right in this point, but I think the number of ensconced illiterate persons might be higher. That's not just a point for the US, but also for Spain. I've got no numbers for Spain, but so I think there might be less than 99% of US-Citizens literated. I was stunned about the high number not about the comparison :) ------------------------------ PROST Roleplaying Game War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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If grouping north and central I do not think the figuras would change much. You are right we are all Americans, so give us your oil and don't fuck with us!
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Actually in a separate poll (which I don't have handy), the US actually lead the world in an international poll for both quality and quantity of sex. So I guess your assumptions are wrong.
Of course, this could have been an "international" poll, like the "World" Series. Or maybe it was like the pre-War polls, where the US had the clear and committed support of other countries, but those other countries turned out to be Liechtenstein and Nepal. Or it actually demonstrated that the US is the world leader at manipulating polling data. So many possibilities...
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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?
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?
well, he would have jumped on France (as usual), but unfortunately, they also have 99% literacy. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/fr.html[^]
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
big wanker
:wtf: That's the second time I've heard an American refer to someones trouser-snake as a "wanker". Is this common? Because, as you know, "wanker" is used in a slightly different context over here. :)
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fat_boy wrote:
Oh yes, I forgot, carying a gun makes you so free.
But not being allowed to have a gun doesn't make you free? So you're free because you have the freedoms that your government allows you to have? :confused:
fat_boy wrote:
Bollocks.
It's true according to another Brit on here.
fat_boy wrote:
And we dont in the UK? In fact the whole of europe?
Per his example, you don't have free speech.
espeir wrote:
not being allowed to have a gun doesn't make you free
What the fuck have guns got to do with freedom. Guns are about self defence and living in a dangerous environment. Fortunately in Europe, we are civilised enough not to need to carry guns.
espeir wrote:
So you're free because you have the freedoms that your government allows you to have
Dont forget who invented democracy, and gave it to you. We happen to have made guns virtually illegal because we dont want 1.5 thousand deaths a year dus to guns, like you have.
espeir wrote:
It's true according to another Brit on here.
Post the link or rertract. Nunc est bibendum
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espeir wrote:
while the link I specified outlines an equivalent baseline between the US and Spain
That's correct. You're right in this point, but I think the number of ensconced illiterate persons might be higher. That's not just a point for the US, but also for Spain. I've got no numbers for Spain, but so I think there might be less than 99% of US-Citizens literated. I was stunned about the high number not about the comparison :) ------------------------------ PROST Roleplaying Game War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
ihoecken wrote:
I've got no numbers for Spain, but so I think there might be less than 99% of US-Citizens literated. I was stunned about the high number not about the comparison
Yes, I'm 99% sure that by "literate" they mean that a person has fundamental reading capabilities, but they can't necessarily read anything above SuperFudge.
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In all fairness to Oxford's Dictionary, it does mention the american spelling. On the other hand, the american spelling for similar words is smarter, because it conveys the actual pronounciation better than the british counterparts. Definately more foreigner friendly. ;)
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
Definately more foreigner friendly.
Sssshhh. They are having an argument. You don't wanna go and ruin it now do you? ;P Jeremy Falcon
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fat_boy wrote:
Oh yes, I forgot, carying a gun makes you so free.
It does not make you free, but it does give a population recourse against a tyrannical government. Totalitarian governments always disarm the population, so they dont end up like the redocats did 200 years ago.
fat_boy wrote:
Bollocks.
Clickety[^] Ministers are also proposing to double the sentence for possessing a knife or offensive weapon from two years to four I was partly wrong, the sentence is two years, but they are trying to make it four. Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
If we wanted to change our government we would do it in a calmer fashion than running around shooting people.
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I was partly wrong, the sentence is two years, but they are trying to make it four.
You were completely wrong. You stated a kid had been sent to jail for 4 years for carrying a knife. Nunc est bibendum
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Well, I suppose some people have standards so low they are easially satisfied. Nunc est bibendum
fat_boy wrote:
Well, I suppose some people have standards so low they are easially satisfied.
That's where the Spanish come in. Btw, you're acting no better that espeir. But I guess it's ok to be hypocritical here as long as it's against the US. And yes I voted this down and his up to balance it out. Jeremy Falcon
