# 200 girls kidnapped from physics class in Nigeria **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 26, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076 "2014-04-26T21:39:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/101 "2014-05-08T20:54:43Z")
There are lunatics everywhere. So many of them very narrow-minded people who are VERY quick to point fingers and call others “narrow-minded.” It’s very sad. All we sane people can keep doing is try to keep up the good fight against the weirdos of the world. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/102 "2014-05-08T20:59:13Z")
> [@OurLordPeace](#): > > Indeed, and [there’s also a lot of good information](http://antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=7889) about why our word choices matter, if you’re interested in learning a bit more about why it’s a bad idea to refer to the ruling class/government as “we” and their decisions/actions as “ours.” You and Mr. David R. Henderson are welcome to distance yourselves from the actions of your own duly elected government using whatever terminology gives you the most comfort. I rather doubt those in Africa will afford us the same distinction. Like it or not, in the eyes of the world, _we_ invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, _we_ kill people with drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, and _we_ are going to do whatever the hell it is we’re going to do (or not do) in Nigeria. Speculation about which is what this thread, which you so characteristically beshat, is in part about. If it allows you to rest easier, consider this a formal acknowledgement that you, **OurLordPeace** of the Straight Dope Message Board, will not personally be involved in any attempts to rescue the kidnapped girls, by force or otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/103 "2014-05-08T21:23:31Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > We weren’t “helping” Iraq and Afghanistan, we frankly invaded them. Again, I’m not one for euphemism. We went into Afghanistan because they were harboring a group that had hijacked four airplane and turned them into poor man’s cruise missiles, wrecking 16 acres in Manhattan, busting up part of the Pentagon, and leaving a hole in a field in Pennsylvania You say you’re not one for euphemisms, but you sure are one for dumbfuck, rank stupidity, aren’t you, you stupid douche? I’m sure that the families of the roughly 3000 people who were murdered on 9/11 would be thrilled to have their loved ones described as “16 acres in Manhattan, …part of the Pentagon, and…a hole in a field in Pennsylvania”. Please cut your fingers off and stuff them up your ass before you type something that idiotic again. You’re an ignorant, loud, belligerent, bellicose jackass and you’ve been proven to be a damned liar on multiple occasions\*. Why don’t you just shut the hell up and quit polluting the entire internet with your aggressive stupidity? \*The karate kick to the hit man’s femur that exerted 1900+ lbs of pressure, the call center where you worked where they point blank told you to make random shit up rather than say “I’m sorry, but I don’t know the answer to that question”, and many, many other occasions etc. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/104 "2014-05-08T21:27:29Z")
> [@Ramira](#): > > \*\*This I doubt very greatly. \*\* > > That is because you know nothing about Africa. > > The continent is more than your horror stories, and countries like the Ghana, the Côte d’Ivoire, the Senegal, the Botswana have made great progress in economic growth. Even Nigeria, in the south principally. It is the north, suffering from poverty corruption and drought that is in great trouble. > > The highest levels of durable real economic growth are now happening in Africa, this is not the continent of your musicians famine conferences of 20 years ago. > > Keep your drones to yourselves. We do not need you coming to Africa and blowing up village weddings because it is like a video game to kill the brown people. :mad: - I don’t really care what you think. I’m probably more open-minded about stuff like this than most people are, or certainly most people YOU KNOW are, but…I will grant you that most of the news we here in the “West” get on Africa isn’t particularly positive, but I don’t appreciate you questioning my open-mindedness about matters such as these. Not one bit. :mad: Apparently you never learned that “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/105 "2014-05-08T21:52:13Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > I’m sure that the families of the roughly 3000 people who were murdered on 9/11 would be thrilled to have their loved ones described as “16 acres in Manhattan, …part of the Pentagon, and…a hole in a field in Pennsylvania”. Usually it’s described as “the twin towers” or “world trade center” which reduces the impact further. There really were 16 acres of Manhattan wrecked, and the other locations I mentioned, that is indisputable truth, and yes, just shy of 3,000 people were killed that day as part of that, just as others were left maimed and still others crippled by toxic dust during the clean up and all the children traumatized by losing parents and… But you, know, it’s an internet post and not a dissertation. > [@](#): > > You’re an ignorant, loud, belligerent, bellicose jackass and you’ve been proven to be a damned liar on multiple occasions\*. Actually, no, never proven. [Apparently Kevin Ware can snap his lower leg merely landing after a routine jump](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Ware#Injury) but no other freak bone-breaks can possibly exist. Not quite as stupid as the person who wanted facebook posts and video documenting something that occurred in the 1970’s, though. As for the call center - hey, maybe you’ve never worked for a dishonest or bad employer. If not, good for you. Funny, in a world of employers who are sued or jailed for breaking the law, phishing scams, and your dead relatives in Nigeria offering to send you an inheritance via e-mail I fail to see why my statements in regard to an unethical employer are met with such doubt. But I don’t give a fig if you believe in me or not. Really, I don’t. I get that the current fashion is to prove everyone and everything on line as false, lying, deceitful, etc. and I suppose it’s inevitable a few of us get swept up in the frenzy because we have unusual tales to tell. At the end of the day, what you think of me affects me not at all. > [@](#): > > Why don’t you just shut the hell up and quit polluting the entire internet with your aggressive stupidity? Because I enjoy the sound of my own voice. Also, I enjoy pissing you off. Am I succeeding yet? Seriously, you think telling people to shut up on the internet will have any effect? Do you spend much time spitting upwind and trying to argue with a brick wall? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/106 "2014-05-08T21:58:15Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Actually, no, never proven. [Apparently Kevin Ware can snap his lower leg merely landing after a routine jump](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Ware#Injury) but no other freak bone-breaks can possibly exist. Not quite as stupid as the person who wanted facebook posts and video documenting something that occurred in the 1970’s, though. Hey dummy, Kevin Ware broke his tibia. Try harder. You and Northwest Indiana deserve each other. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/107 "2014-05-08T22:01:53Z")
Have we figured out whom to bomb yet so we can “help”? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/108 "2014-05-08T22:06:13Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Have we figured out whom to bomb yet so we can “help”? Nuke em from orbit…it’s the only way to be sure… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/109 "2014-05-08T22:12:29Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > [Apparently Kevin Ware can snap his lower leg merely landing after a routine jump](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Ware#Injury) > [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Hey dummy, Kevin Ware broke his tibia. Try harder. [😕](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibia) ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/110 "2014-05-08T22:25:22Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > :mad: Apparently you never learned that “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” Yeah, everybody, stop being buttholes you bunch of buttholes. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/111 "2014-05-08T22:31:36Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [😕](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibia) Mr. Ducca is more intent on proving me wrong than in being correct himself. If anyone is having that much trouble with my veracity they are free to contact the mods about my being a fraud or imposter or whatever. Since I am still here I can only presume the mods either don’t care or aren’t impressed by the protesters. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/112 "2014-05-08T22:33:30Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Mr. Ducca is more intent on proving me wrong than in being correct himself. I’m wondering where he thinks the tibia _is_. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/113 "2014-05-08T22:57:12Z")
I’m wondering why he and Fenris think dredging up an alleged falsehood from years ago is more important than the kidnapping and slavery of several hundred young women in the present. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/114 "2014-05-08T23:48:38Z")
> [@A\_nice\_guy\_with\_an\_opinion](#): > > Let the muslims do as they please. It is the will of allah. > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > And what about the other half of Nigeria’s residents? They should stop oppressing the faithful by trying to corrupt their young women with blasphemous ideas designed to destroy Islam. (:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:) ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/115 "2014-05-09T00:43:53Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I’m wondering where he thinks the tibia _is_. I think the point is that **Broomstick** claimed to have broken a guy’s femur, not tibia. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/116 "2014-05-09T01:04:41Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I’m wondering where he thinks the tibia _is_. > [@lorene](#): > > I think the point is that **Broomstick** claimed to have broken a guy’s femur, not tibia. Precisely. She claims to have broken a femur, as a child or young woman, with a kick. The amount of force that would require is just not possible the way she tells it. But she keeps telling it. I guess if you tell yourself something enough times you start to believe it. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/117 "2014-05-09T01:15:57Z")
And this is relevant to the thread topic, 250+ young Nigerian girls being kidnapped, exactly how…? Seriously, Mr. Ducca, why would you bring this totally irrelevant thing up in a thread about modern slavery and a bunch of thugs murdering across Nigeria? Is your hate for me that overwhelming, that nothing else could be as important? Let me repeat my stance here - kidnapping several hundred young women and selling them into slavery is absolutely abhorrent and I sincerely hope the international community is able to do something to stop this sort of thing from happening again. Even more, I hope they can retrieve these girls and those girls can get on with their lives. Compared to what they’re going through the bad things that have happened to me in my life are pretty minor. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/118 "2014-05-09T01:30:57Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Usually it’s described as “the twin towers” or “world trade center” which reduces the impact further. There really were 16 acres of Manhattan wrecked, and the other locations I mentioned, that is indisputable truth, and yes, just shy of 3,000 people were killed that day as part of that, just as others were left maimed and still others crippled by toxic dust during the clean up and all the children traumatized by losing parents and… > > But you, know, it’s an internet post and not a dissertation. Of course, you stupid twit, because typing “about 3000 people” instead of “wrecking 16 acres in Manhattan, busting up part of the Pentagon, and leaving a hole in a field in Pennsylvania.” would turn it into a dissertation. How’d your Ph.D. committee feel about it? > [@](#): > > Not quite as stupid as the person who wanted facebook posts and video documenting something that occurred in the 1970’s, though. Really? Cite the post where someone wanted Facebook posts or video? I can cite where you implied femur, not tibia [Just for the record - I hit him a bunch of times, but what made him drop me long enough for me to run like hell was the kick that broke his leg. The pity is, I’d been aiming for his testicles and missed, hitting his leg instead.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11563632&postcount=49) So…you were aiming for his balls and hit like 18 inches below? Uh…huh. Surrrre you did, you lying moron. > [@](#): > > ``` > I'm wondering why he and Fenris think dredging up an alleged falsehood from years ago is more important than the kidnapping and slavery of several hundred young women in the present. > > ``` To minimize you as a poster so others reading the vomit you spewed about how we attacked Afghanistan because of property values will understand what a worthless bucket of chum you are. You derailed the thread by minimizing the death of ~3000 people to make yet another dumbass belicose point. Don’t blame people for calling you on it, jerkass. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/119 "2014-05-09T02:03:55Z")
> [@tnetennba](#): > > And now for the remix [Moderating] **tnetennba** , altering another posters words like this inside the quote box is against board rules. Don’t do this again. No warning issued. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076/120 "2014-05-09T02:16:51Z")
Mrs. Stick - Try harder at reading also. My first post in this thread was to correct you on your Ware analogy, I didn’t bring up jack and or shit. Go cobble something. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-girls-kidnapped-from-physics-class-in-nigeria/687076.md?page=7)