Welcome to my world. I can't argue with a word you say. I tend to run into a better cut of folks living in a university town (University of California at Berkeley). When I travel it often feels as though I'm in the movie Deliverance. Hell, I don't really have to travel to connect with the wee minded people. I have only to phone a relative. My older brother hated W Bush for being a pussy, converted to Mormonism and has the same level of curiosity about the world as a box of hammers. A cousin home schools her kids in order to control their access to non-biblical influences.

So how are things in the UK? Is dental hygiene, indigenous cuisine and the level of tobacco smoking showing any signs of improvement? Being the motherland of gardening I have of course been there and met loads of fine people. All kidding aside, thanks for the BBC news. You should check out The News Hour on PBS and Frontline if you ever get stranded here again.

(July 24, 2012 at 4:11 pm)jackman Wrote: how you measure anything you said, i have no idea.

one way to measure education doesn't have you doing so well ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/...ce-reading

edit: sorry, that study is for 2010. this one is for 2012.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ranking...2012-05-10

I'm basing this on forum posts(accuracy of research, and asserted opinions), time in America(nyc) talking to the citizens, Americans i know over here, and the media. Of which i have seen untold hours of verbal bullshit, lies, propaganda, half-arsed chat claiming to be reporting, but it's not. It is not journalism, it is only opinion dressed up.

Your links are on higher education. I said your higher education is ace, as that is obvious. I stated that it was pre-university education.


Shell, I actually miss Waldork too.

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(July 24, 2012 at 4:27 pm)whateverist Wrote: Welcome to my world. I can't argue with a word you say. I tend to run into a better cut of folks living in a university town (University of California at Berkeley). When I travel it often feels as though I'm in the movie Deliverance. Hell, I don't really have to travel to connect with the wee minded people. I have only to phone a relative. My older brother hated W Bush for being a pussy, converted to Mormonism and has the same level of curiosity about the world as a box of hammers. A cousin home schools her kids in order to control their access to non-biblical influences.

So how are things in the UK? Is dental hygiene, indigenous cuisine and the level of tobacco smoking showing any signs of improvement? Being the motherland of gardening I have of course been there and met loads of fine people. All kidding aside, thanks for the BBC news. You should check out The News Hour on PBS and Frontline if you ever get stranded here again.

Dental hygiene blows, but it's not expensive thank fuck. The cuisine....... is awesome, the reputation is undeserved.

The BBC is amazing.

Ah, I have seen pbs, but not much. Romney wants rid, doesn't like dem here sesame street.

Not seem frontline, but have heard of it, will google.

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(July 24, 2012 at 4:14 pm)popeyespappy Wrote:

(July 24, 2012 at 4:01 pm)5thHorseman Wrote: I just don't get why it's allowed to happen.

It's not so much that it being allowed to happen as it is being encouraged to happen.

Yeah, i see that too. Saw a Santorum speech where he was appearing anti College education(how hypocritical), talking about more likely to lose faith at college etc, saying Obama was bad for encouraging kids to go to college!! wtf, i practically tell my 16yr old everyday that college education is a neccesity these days to get any job.

Quote:I honestly almost miss Statler Waldorf.

Oh, puhleeeze...not that dick head. He's the embodiment of everything wrong with America. Some asshole at the creation institute says his fucking god is real and he swears its all true.

Unless this country tosses jesus in the shitter it is going straight downhill.


BTW, Brits. Romney is going to your country real soon. Kindly piss on him and tell him its still raining.

Haha, I prefer an idiot creationist to an idiot atheist without no excuse for their zealotry.

(July 24, 2012 at 6:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: BTW, Brits. Romney is going to your country real soon. Kindly piss on him and tell him its still raining.

Why the fuck is he coming over?

Is he going to be saying hello to wallace and gromit character Ed Milliband whilst he's here?

(July 24, 2012 at 3:57 pm)5thHorseman Wrote: TThank fuck the universities(at the higher level at least) are excellent.

Those that are good, mostly won't be for long.

While they eek out their last remaining period of excellence, they would become ever more unaffordable to many whom they could have made less stupid.

Those who could still barely efford our remaining university of excellence will be increasingly distracted by an ever growing thicket of for-profit diploma mills that don't even bother to disguise their contempt for genuine education.

Quote:Why the fuck is he coming over?

He probably heard there are some jobs in Britain he can export to China.

(July 24, 2012 at 6:41 pm)Minimalist Wrote:

Quote:Why the fuck is he coming over?

He probably heard there are some jobs in Britain he can export to China.

Are there still jobs in Britian to export to China?

Romney is coming to the UK to raise funds for his campaign from the US billionaires and millionaires who live here.

Oh, RBS pays congressmen too, so no doubt the Royal Bank of SCOTLAND will donate too, as they're the same as a US citizen according to Scalia, Roberts and the other cunts on that non-democratically elected, politically motivated judges.

Freedom of speech works better if you're RBS who are actually older than America(1727), is based in UK, never travels to the US, not even for its holidays, and is not a person, despite SCOTUS's bullshit.......... then it does for any of you.

I've decided in the last month that the US constitution now sucks and needs seriously redrafting/amended. It no longer serves the purpose it used too, unsurprisingly given it's age and the context it was written in.

SCOTUS needs to have terms, say 4 years, and a maximum of 2 terms, not this life bs.

I don't know. I had a decent experience in public schools, but I did a lot of independent learning too. My friends made fun of me all the time for reading in my free time. Who knows how dumb I'd be if I was one of those people who had given a shit.

I grew up in a place that's very proud to be "The Athens of the South". You won't find a place with more top-notch schools/universities. Considering the general intellect around this place, that makes me really, really sad.