The capital of it is Horseshit City.
Since I’m bored at the moment and can’t do anything other than wait for my students to submit an online quiz which they’re insistently refusing to do, I figure, “What the hey?” Feel free to add in the ones I’ve left blank, or even to add categories I’ve left off.
[ul][li]National fruit: horse apple.[/li][li]National dessert: cow pie.[/li][li]National animal: jackass.[/li][li]National bird: [/li][li]National color: brown.[/li][li]National dance: twist.[/li][li]National dinosaur: [/li][li]National fabric: [/li][li]National fish: [/li][li]National flower: [/li][li]National fossil: [/li][li]National game: liar’s dice/twister[/li][li]National gemstone: [/li][li]National mineral: pyrite.[/li][li]National motto: [/li][li]National nickname: [/li][li]National nut: [/li][li]National song: [/li][li]National sport: [/li]
National tree: [/ul]
Don’t forget this.
National insect: dung beetle.
National bird: parrot
Flower: Dead Horse Arum Lily
National Song: Dare To Be Stupid
It must have stuck because years later in 1969, they didn’t rat us out when when we faked the moon landing.
The Piss-Anus-Saurus. *
- properly, Pisanosaurus
National planet: Uranus.
Speaking of Mensa (and other high IQ societies), I just got this link in an E-mail from Cracked: The Intense and Utter Weirdness of High IQ Societies.
Certainly beliefs you want held by a practicing civil engineer.
I’ve had a couple of people like the OP’s new co-worker in my past. My normal go to line when they showed up to my office was: “I’m sorry, I’ve got to go to the restroom.” and walk out.
Eh, I just have a go-to rule.
I will NOT argue politics with you in my place of employment.
It’s not part of my job, it isn’t ‘work’ and it can cause too many problems.
Second to this is a more obscure rule I rarely have to invoke, but I have in the past.
I will NOT listen to your hate and anger at work or at a work lunch.
Former friend/co-worker wondered why I cut him off cold and stopped talking to him. It was because the asshole very loudly wished that someone would assassinate President Obama while speaking to someone else as I approached. I want NOTHING to do with that kind of hate and I’m not willing to associate with someone who makes public declarations of that kind. For the record, I’d distance myself from someone who loudly wished someone would assassinate Trump too. Not cool and I don’t want anyone thinking I approve or agree with that sort of talk.
I was going the suggest the loon, but yours is better.
Good rule but why should you have to listen to their hate and anger when not at work, either? Especially when not at work.
I wouldn’t waste time fighting with the guy. I’d just go straight to the jugular and tell him your psychodiagnosis for why he believes what he believes. Tell him his theories aren’t really about the Earth or cosmic rays, but instead about his inherent distrust and paranoia of people more powerful than him. He believes these things because they make him feel special. He tells you about them because he wants you to flatter his intellect, not to actually convince you of anything.
Just say those things. Lay bare his true motivations. He’ll be embarrassed, as if you saw him naked. He’ll avoid you from then on. And maybe the explanation will cause a light to turn on that moves him back to the land of the sane.
I wonder how much of having these types of beliefs is insecurity and that the people who hold them think it makes them more interesting.
Both Chessic Sense and dasmoocher are overlooking one very important thing: those clowns want their nonsense to be true.