Well, just in case they were COBRA, you have the Joes on speed dial, right?
I heard a seventeen-year-old express amazement when told that New Mexico was in the United States. She thought it was a part of Mexico, only, you know…newer.
To add to the FYI:
France has a president, Nicolas Sarkozy, while the head of government is Prime Minister François Fillon. Both are Catholic. Sarkozy is generally seen as the “true leader”.
Italy’s head of government is Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, while the head of state is President Giorgio Napolitano. In this case, Berlusconi (a Catholic) is considered the “top dog”. Napolitano, by the way, is an atheist.
Spain’s head of state is King Juan Carlos. He is a Catholic, as is José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whose official title is President of the Government of Spain. Zapatero is generally referred to as Prime Minister in English-language references, however. He runs the show day-to-day, but Juan Carlos has an important symbolic role as the representative of the restoration of the monarchy (and its accompanying sense of stability) after the rule of Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
Can a G.I. Joe reference ever be stupid?
Because the girl didn’t have a uterus!
cochrane:
Then let me save you some more confusion: Calcutta has been re-named “Kolkata.” And Rangoon, which was the capital of Burma, is now Yangon, which is not the capital of Myanmar.
Also, Madras is now Chennai, and the former is pronounced “Muhdraas”, not “Maddress”, as many Americans seem to think.*
*Yes, that goes for the shirt and the cocktail, too.
Do words we hear in our own heads count? Because as I was walking back to the office in medium-heavy rain, I heard myself say, “God, it’s really humid out.”
Yeah, 100% humidity, dumbass. :smack:
Since it may or may not be muggy when it’s raining, it might not be humid at all during rain. Also, humidity and rain are not the same thing.
Thanks! 
To me, the dumbest thing would be staying in that church with this guy as pastor.
Why don’t you leave?
Note that he said it is his wife’s pastor.
Skald, to the best of my knowledge, is not a congregant.
I’m not a congregant, as kaylasdad says. I attend twice a week because my wife does and wants me to come with her.
Why is this dumb? Are you under the mistaken impression that New York City is a cesspool of crime with rapes, murders & robberies being committed on every street corner? This is 2009, not the 1980s. New York City is the safest large city in the United States. Sure, if you are the wrong person in a bad street at the wrong time, of course a crime could happen to you, but like your ex-girlfriend said, that is the same for anywhere.
I guess if she said that during the heyday of the city’s crime, then OK I can see your point, but crime can happen anywhere. (And I am curious, even when NYC had a lot of crime, were people who did not hang out in the bad areas *actually *at much of a risk?)
My husband has this friend who even he admits is pretty dumb. We were talking about this cat that his ex had left in his house. The cat did not use the litter box, and really pissed him off so… he dumped her off in the woods near his hunting cabin. Several other people were there, and expressed horror that he would do that. His response? “What? It’s a cat. They can live in the woods, right?” No concept.
But, Skald, as dangerous as that kind of “thinking” can be, it’s nothing new. I’s a pretty far-ranging meme, a more of a problem with society, rather than an individual.
Also, it’s possible that he was crafty enough to say such to derail any real discussion.
Consider this non-argument a friend of mine has with a customer. She was adamant that they had screwed up her duplicate keys. He took one look at them and very diplomatically said that his XYZ store could not be her problem, because the keys were clearly stamped UVW. So either she had original keys from UVW in her hand, or duplicates from same. Either way, the bad keys could not be anything his store could be responsible for. (No realtion between the stores, BTW.)
Because of his politeness, he had to go back and forth with her on this. I gathered that she left “defeated” but still not quite convinced.
Now THAT is bizarre! -^
It’s certainly a wide-spread belief in some Pentecostal churches, which have definite tendencies towards obscurantism. I’ve heard this pastor say that his opinion on the interpretation of scripture is not merely equal to, but actually superior to, a person who reads ancient Greek, Hebrew, & Aramaic, BECAUSE he doesn’t speak or read any of those languages. His humility in not seeking out “man’s knowledge” leaves him open to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
Today I had a customer who had moved BACK to dial-up internet. Some hardware had been removed from her house by the previous provider, but she could not tell me what it was.
When I asked her to describe how she connected, she started by giving me a laboriously detailed description of her computer’s power button. No, I’m not stupid, I’m asking what hardware and software you use to connect, because your computer did not come with an internal modem. She responded by carefully describing…the power adapter.
Then the power strip.
Then a vague description of what was on her computer screen, without ever telling me what she actually clicked on to make the dial-up connection work.
37.5 minutes and I never did find out exactly how she claimed to have been connecting to the internet via dialup on a machine without an internal modem.
Yet she claimed to have been working with computers since 1963.
just checking but did anyone else’s head explode while reading this thread? ok thanks bye
Did anyone endure the FOUR hour stretch of the Today Show on NBC Thursday morning… or any of the media vultures now scraping up anything… just ANYTHING… possible about Michael Jackson’s life and or death… now it could be just my hatred for the Today Show… but that and all of this other media BS could have easily won the dumbest things I have heard all week. (ie… ‘Now… Michael Jackson has moved his stuff out of Neverland… but if you could just imagine… this is where the media center might have gone… do you see these cable cords?’ ‘…this is the kitchen… Michael Jackson may or may not have consumed food in this area of the home…’ ‘…this is a wall… a window…’ etc… ) And… it’s… not… over… yet.