# buttonjockey308 - astounding ignorance **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 30, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttonjockey308-astounding-ignorance/451197 "2008-05-30T21:31:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttonjockey308-astounding-ignorance/451197/21 "2008-05-31T09:32:09Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] I remember tamely teasing **Liberal** earlier this week for having started somewhere around 145 of them. [/QUOTE] Wow, that’s almost half of a tenth of one per day! It’s surprising you could find a thread I didn’t start. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttonjockey308-astounding-ignorance/451197/22 "2008-05-31T09:36:47Z")
Oh you, be nice. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttonjockey308-astounding-ignorance/451197/23 "2008-05-31T09:52:47Z")
What are you weirdos doing up so late? ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttonjockey308-astounding-ignorance/451197/24 "2008-05-31T12:13:31Z")
I work third shift. I don’t know what their excuses are… :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![tokaido-hokuriku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@tokaido-hokuriku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tokaido-hokuriku)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttonjockey308-astounding-ignorance/451197/25 "2008-05-31T12:22:32Z")
[QUOTE=neutron star] I work third shift. I don’t know what their excuses are… :dubious: [/QUOTE] Grad student, off for the summer, just got back from Berlin. Boredom begets late nights, I find. t-h ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttonjockey308-astounding-ignorance/451197/26 "2008-05-31T13:28:06Z")
Now that everobody else showed theirs…I’ve got an important business meeting I need to attend to. Money to be made, my good men. Er, something like that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttonjockey308-astounding-ignorance/451197/27 "2008-05-31T18:52:36Z")
[QUOTE=tokaido-hokuriku] Grad student, off for the summer, just got back from Berlin. Boredom begets late nights, I find. t-h [/QUOTE] Heyz I asked you a question up thread 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttonjockey308-astounding-ignorance/451197/28 "2008-05-31T22:37:13Z")
[QUOTE=tokaido-hokuriku] On this board (in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=468803) thread) I just saw a piece of ignorance and arrogance which motivated me to register… There are no words. Did you know that almost a million Polish people have immigrated to the UK in the last few years, and that we are in the middle of the biggest inward migration in our history? To your credit, you do the old ‘ignorance fought’ thing later on in the thread, but your ignorance here really is culpable, on a par with thinking the Sun revolves around the Earth. How on earth someone can both have a functioning internet connection and believe that noone’s trying to get into England, Paris or Germany is beyond me. It belies a stunning arrogance and closed-mindedness. This quote is from a post where you lament that people don’t sufficiently respect America. Want to know why? Look in the mirror. I’m sure you’re a nice guy, but for fuck’s sake… there’s a whole world out there. tokaido-hokuriku [/QUOTE] I don’t know if I’d pit someone for saying that, but it does certainly indicate that he hasn’t travelled widely. You just have to step off the train at Gare du Nord in Paris and realize in two seconds that there are a huge number of immigrants in that city. Ed ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttonjockey308-astounding-ignorance/451197/29 "2008-05-31T22:47:47Z")
[QUOTE=Terminus Est] [5.5 m Britons live abroad](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6210358.stm). That’s 10% of the population. [/QUOTE] But, as **Dead Badger** notes, that’s not really an accurate indication. The article talks about British citizens, which encompasses a whole range of people. My mother is a British citizen who emigrated to Australia in 1974. While she did, indeed, leave England for distant shores, her departure hardly tells us very much about current rates of emigration. My sister and i both also hold British citizenship and British passports, but not only did we leave Britain over 30 years ago, and had no say in the matter (thus making our departures largely irrelevant to current discussions about emigration rates), but we both spent virtually all our childhood in Australia, speak with Australians accents, and consider ourselves Australian, rather than British. All three of us would be included in those figures you cite, but my mother has now spent over half her life in Australia, and my sister and i spent virtually our whole lives there. I live in the US now, and i tend to consider myself an ex-pat Australian, not an ex-pat Brit. ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttonjockey308-astounding-ignorance/451197/30 "2008-06-01T15:58:05Z")
[QUOTE=Darkhold] Maybe I’m just in a rotten part of England. [/QUOTE] Yup. > [@Jimmy Carr](#): > > It’s a peculiarity of the United Kingdom that people from Manchester think that people from Liverpool are a bunch of Cunts. And conversely, people from Liverpool think that people from Manchester are a bunch of cunts. > > When will they realise… ? ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttonjockey308-astounding-ignorance/451197/31 "2008-06-01T18:00:57Z")
[QUOTE=tokaido-hokuriku] …an expression of shock/surprise/horror at the existence of such ignorance from an apparently-educated citizen of a rich country. [/QUOTE] Right. “Shock/suprise/horror”. Random idiocies are so staggeringly rare in life from citizens of any country, much less mindless blather on a message board. I can see how this would upset your balance of mind, delicate violet that your are. Hey, you’re right, it was a stupid comment, you called him on it, welcome to the board and all that but this Pitting is beyond lame. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttonjockey308-astounding-ignorance/451197/32 "2008-06-01T19:11:13Z")
[QUOTE=essell] > [@Jimmy Carr](#): > > It’s a peculiarity of the United Kingdom that people from Manchester think that people from Liverpool are a bunch of Cunts. And conversely, people from Liverpool think that people from Manchester are a bunch of cunts. > > When will they realise… ? [/QUOTE] Of course, coming from Jimmy Carr, who is himself a bunch of cunts (yes, plural), this is a bit pot/kettle. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttonjockey308-astounding-ignorance/451197/33 "2008-06-01T21:08:53Z")
[QUOTE=neutron star] \but to register for the SDMB specifically to do so. [/QUOTE] Hey, however we can get 'em! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttonjockey308-astounding-ignorance/451197/34 "2008-06-02T03:39:25Z")
As one of those ~6 million Britons living abroad, let me just say I’d move back in a second if global warming would hurry up and make the weather more Floridaish. I’ll probably have to once the whole state is underwater anyway… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buttonjockey308-astounding-ignorance/451197.md?page=1)