Europe is a country

[QS-Nalle]

Good ones!

When i was visiting the U.S (where else could it happen), I got asked if Finnish
is English but with a different accent.........WTF????
If the concept of there being multiple languages in the world isn't sinking in you should not have the right to open your mouth.

What really bothers me about that Kellie Pickler klip is that she is rewarded for being so IGNORANT, whats all this "you could drop out now and keep 10k$? If your that ignorant you should be beaten with a stick and then be taken to a library and forced to read a book, geography would be nice and physics so that we could finally put an end to such moronic ideas like creationism, intelligent design and all of this nutjob whacco stuff thats being presented as the truth to these poor people just like Kelly, then its time to vote and they do so because they are told to do so, and their leader pretty much tells them whom to vote for......and here we go again..........I don't even have words to describe this situation we're in living on this planet......geeeez.

[Nadz1lla]

I have a fairly good idea what the problem is with stupid people on this planet, but my opinions and those of Terence McKenna are fairly controversial and likely to stir up some haters, hehe.

Before I say this I'd like to point out that I in no way like manmade drugs (such as E, cocaine, heroine etc...) or like the idea of drug use, but in Terence McKenna's book "Food of the Gods" he makes a lot of sense about some natural and un-tampered substances....

Basically, when the world got westernised, we basically lost Shamanistic societies who now only exist in small pockets across the globe. I was sceptical but I have to believe that we stopped evolving and started getting dumber when humans made certain Mushrooms and other psychedelic plants Taboo.

I'm not going to even try and explain this the way he does, as I'm really nowhere as intelligent, but basically there are chemicals in psychedelics and hallucinogenics (natural, untampered with ones) that break down certain thought barriers chemically in your head and make your thought process more open to other ways of going about things. There are certain periods in history where Apes and "Neanderthals" have gone through amazing spurts of progress in less time than it should have taken, and some research shows that certain plants etc were present in their diets and rituals at these times.

There ya go, a different take on things, hehe. One wonders if we should all conspire to plant some extra ingredients in certain world leaders drinks one day and see them all come to some kind of sense and stop all the stupid stuff they do.

Wow. What started out as a dumb-ass bashing thread may have taken an intellectual turn! :roll:

(Back to silly Nadzilla now...) I reckon we should get all the dumb people on the planet and dump them on a big island in the middle of the Ocean and make them go Gladiator style with each other, heh. That dumb people sterilization idea sounds fairly cool. D'oh! That's me stuffed then! :lol:

If anyone is interested, it has some great science, theories and messages in it, it's called "Food of the Gods" by Terence McKenna. It's also kinda his way of screaming "WAKE UP!!!" at the world in regards to the current environmental crisis that has started gripping the planet. So it's effects are multiple and although I need a Thesaurus next to me when I "attempt" to read it, I get the general gist and it's a fairly refreshing read.

[jt]

:D If i remember correctly Terence McKenna`s work has been discredited by every scientist, Sociologist, Economist, Cleaning lady & lunatic as being total & utter bollocks believed only by idiots & fantasists. I could be wrong of course !

What drugs were the inventors of modern medicine taking then ? what drugs were Einstein taking when he came up with the equation E=MC2 ? If you get more intelligent taking drugs then how come most of the young generation dont have brains enough to tie up there own shoelaces & yet constantly take as many drugs as possible ? This falls into the search & believe of  Atlantis being the host of modern civilization or that Space men visited south America 1000yrs ago !

 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

 :D  8)

[Nadz1lla]

I see what your saying, as I said I'm skeptical too. Apparently (and this is something I intend to read more into, as this subject fascinates me as an anti-drugs kinda person) a lot of super intelligent people back in "them days" were usually on something. I even heard that on top of his ADHD, Einstein did some form of psychedelic now and then too.

If you get more intelligent taking drugs then how come most of the young generation dont have brains enough to tie up there own shoelaces & yet constantly take as many drugs as possible ?

It's all the wrong drugs, and it's too much too, heh.

From personal experience, I have a friend who has been a bit of a naughty boy, but he is also fairly intelligent and grounded and likes things to be solidly based in scientific proof. He's used mushrooms a few times and has always said it's "tweaked" his awareness of everything around him up a few notches, and just given him that extra broad kind of mental vision.

I think what people are getting at is that used in moderation, literally just to give that "tweak" that he was on about just gives scientific minds that little extra hook on thinking about things.

Although this is also coming from the guy who, going past the "tweaking" phase and taking a few too many saw sprites attacking his car, so make of it what you will.   :lol:

[noodleplugerine]

It worries me that people like this exist. Makes me want to shoot myself because they are becoming more and more frequent.

Unfortunately it's not just Americans though found this a few weeks back:

"LOTTERY scratchcard has been withdrawn from sale by Camelot - because players couldn't understand it.

The Cool Cash game - launched on Monday - was taken out of shops yesterday after some players failed to grasp whether or not they had won.

To qualify for a prize, users had to scratch away a window to reveal a temperature lower than the figure displayed on each card. As the game had a winter theme, the temperature was usually below freezing.

But the concept of comparing negative numbers proved too difficult for some Camelot received dozens of complaints on the first day from players who could not understand how, for example, -5 is higher than -6.

Tina Farrell, from Levenshulme, called Camelot after failing to win with several cards.

The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE, said: "On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't.

"I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it.

"I think Camelot are giving people the wrong impression - the card doesn't say to look for a colder or warmer temperature, it says to look for a higher or lower number. Six is a lower number than 8. Imagine how many people have been misled."

A Camelot spokeswoman said the game was withdrawn after reports that some players had not understood the concept.

She said: "The instructions for playing the Cool Cash scratchcard are clear - and are printed on each individual card and in the game procedures available at each retailer. However, because of the potential for player confusion we have decided to withdraw the game."

More than 15m adults in Britain have poor numeracy - the equivalent of a G or below at GCSE maths

Almost three times as many UK adults (15.1m) have poor numeracy - the equivalent of a G or below at GCSE maths - than with poor literacy skills, according to the government's Skills for Life survey.

Peter Hall, of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics, said: "The concept of minus numbers is something we would cover with 11 or 12 year olds, and we would expect them to have come across it before.

"The concept of smaller numbers is something that some people do seem to struggle with. Seven is clearly smaller than eight, so they focus on that and don't really see the minus sign. There is also a subtle difference in language between smaller - or lower - and colder. The number zero feels lower.

"There have always been some people who find numbers and basic mathematics difficult. Maybe in the past it was less noticeable because people could find jobs they could excel in without having qualifications in maths."
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I love how she tries to make it look like they weren't clear about the higher / lower numbers, temperature is irrelevant, -8 is still lower in numerical value than -6, dumb bitch, lol!!! :shock:

Just talked to my mate who works in a News Agent - Before I even finished the story he told me.

"This isn't that BLOODY Cool Cash game is it?! For every one we sold, we had 2 people coming in trying to work it out!!!"

I laughed hard. :D

[Nadz1lla]

LOL!!! Yeah, see? Worrying! :lol:

[Philly Q]

I have a friend who has been a bit of a naughty boy, but he is also fairly intelligent and grounded and likes things to be solidly based in scientific proof. He's used mushrooms a few times and has always said it's "tweaked" his awareness of everything around him up a few notches, and just given him that extra broad kind of mental vision.

I can't claim to know anything much about drugs, never having smoked a cigarette let alone anything more exotic.  However, I suspect it's all a matter of perception - like when you've had a few drinks and don't think you're acting drunk.  Oh, hello officer, evenin' all...

People on hallucinogenics may think they're in a state of enhanced mental awareness, but from my outsider's perspective, they either look totally zonked out or they're giggling like tw@ts.  I may be wrong, but I don't think they're going through a process of accelerated evolution.

[jt]

:D Correction : have just clicked onto Amazon & i have confused McKenna with someone else [ Erich Von Daniken to be precise ] so my apologies. But be careful with anyone who tries to perpetrate drugs with gaining knowledge or enlightenment as its not what it appears !

 :D  8)

[38thBeatle]

Space men visited South America 1000 years ago-how cool is that ?  

[MacBeth]

This is so funny, i was laughing my ass of.

sad part is, that some americans are like that. I remember my time back in the us, when people asked me if we got cars and running cold/warm water in Germany... are you kidding me? Ever heard of porsche, bmw or mercedes? I mean its kind of obvious that something gone wrong, when the German is the best student in the US-History class  :lol:

[Elliot]

The US of A doesn't need to worry about history - because it is the future . . .

[jt]

The US of A doesn't need to worry about history - because it is the future . . .

 :D Thanks for depressing us all !

 :D  8)

[blue]

i recently had a conversation with a girl in her mid twenties.  i'm not sure how this came up, but anyway, she thought the second world war lasted about six months, happened in the early sixties and was fought entirely in France. "That's why Paris is all new buildings" she said.  Paris, of course, managed to survive the war pretty much unscathed!  that's the war that lasted from September 1939 to August 1945.  Across most of Europe, Asia and the Pacific.  just in case anyone wasn't sure  

(yes, the Asian part started earlier, for anyone that wants to argue, but i think Germany's invasion of Poland is generally considered as the beginning of WWII)

oh, she's never heard of the concentration camps either, and thought Hitler was a fictional character from a film.

she was thick in plenty of other ways too, but i think that's enough for now.

[samoth2]

The french aren't so smart either  :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0CjrNgK0zw

[maverickf1jockey]

what a pillock.