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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed Sep 28, 2005 @ 10:55pm |
 Coolness: 340355 | who knows the capital of New York?
(seems like a simple question about the US, no?) i can bet that 90% of canadians would get this question wrong. better question, what's the official language in Greenland? They're our neighbor to the right.. who knows the answer to that? It's kinda hypocritical of Canadians to say Americans are idiots for not knowing everything about canada, when we're equally ignorrant to anything non-usa/canada.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BeAtJuNkIe replied on Wed Sep 28, 2005 @ 11:43pm |
 Coolness: 49145 | albany? norweigan? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Wed Sep 28, 2005 @ 11:55pm |
 Coolness: 92955 | Originally posted by DJNEOFORM...
who knows the capital of New York? (seems like a simple question about the US, no?) i can bet that 90% of canadians would get this question wrong. better question, what's the official language in Greenland? They're our neighbor to the right.. who knows the answer to that? It's kinda hypocritical of Canadians to say Americans are idiots for not knowing everything about canada, when we're equally ignorrant to anything non-usa/canada.. I wasn't reffering to things like capitols and statistics.. that is honestly stuff none of us should give a rats ass about. I was talking about general way of life. For example I know, even though I've never been there, that not all guys in india wear skirts. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Wed Sep 28, 2005 @ 11:57pm |
| Coolness: 92955 | anyways you are the one who brought up the subject |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» flo replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 5:04am |
 Coolness: 147015 | Originally posted by MOONDANCER...
For example I know, even though I've never been there, that not all guys in india wear skirts. So they actually DID lie to me !! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 7:08am |
| Coolness: 340355 | Originally posted by MOONDANCER...
anyways you are the one who brought up the subject what subject? and statistic, ways of life, skirts.. it's all the same. do you know anything about greenland? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 8:11am |
 Coolness: 56890 | learning capitols I would concur is trivia-- Perhaps, not useless but certainly not needed.
But anyway, you're prolly right neoform that a large chunk of canadians haven't learned or bothered to learn that type of trivia... nor do they teach it in the schools, which if one is to teach us about the capita (o) ls of canada-- why not other countries... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 8:35am |
| Coolness: 340355 | well if you want to consider that trivia, then i suppose any knowledge about anything is trivia.
we know the president of the US is Bush, Americans don't know who our prime minister is, we bitch at them for being stupid. any bets that almost all canadians know close to NOTHING about greenland? Instead of making fun of Americans for being ignorrant for not knowing anything about other countries, prehaps we should start learning a bit ourselves.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BeAtJuNkIe replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 9:01am |
| Coolness: 49145 | useless or not knowledge is power |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nter replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 9:10am |
 Coolness: 93185 | maybe metaphoracly speaking ..
i don't know what planet you live on .. but around here cash is king. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 9:16am |
| Coolness: 56890 | learning the capitals of countries in school, for instance, in and of itself is trivia.
But that people called others stupid for not knowing something that they don't know much more about or calling people stupid because of someone's lack of knowledge, even if it is just trivia.. defeats the purpose. Learning the capitals of countries can be an excercise in considering other places including your own.. You're not trying to argue that learning the capitals of countries is a valuable source of knowledge. Are you? And if you are or will, how is it a valuable source of knowledge, in reference to what? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BeAtJuNkIe replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 9:26am |
| Coolness: 49145 | true...but the more you know the more chances you have at making some serious scratch...and knowing is half the battle...GI JOe!....
the only job in the world were you dont need to know anything is US president. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 9:31am |
| Coolness: 56890 | It might be the only job, you would think, that you don;t need to know anything--but you do need to know something and that's how to keep your job. There's nothing like losing your job.
It's not just the quantity of things you know.. but the quality. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BeAtJuNkIe replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 9:38am |
| Coolness: 49145 | George W Bush=George Bush Sr's Meat Puppet |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» elka replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 9:45am |
 Coolness: 53120 | Originally posted by MOONDANCER...
You'd be surprised how many dumb questions I've been asked by Americans in the south about the rumours they heard about Canada, absolutely ridiculous stuff. That was a long time ago though. On the flippy side, You'd be suprised how many dumb questions I've been asked by Canadians about the rumors they heard about the US. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 9:45am |
| Coolness: 340355 | Originally posted by TO DISCOVER...
You're not trying to argue that learning the capitals of countries is a valuable source of knowledge. Are you? And if you are or will, how is it a valuable source of knowledge, in reference to what? You're right, we shouldn't bother learned geography, cause it's "Trivia". We probably also shouldn't learn history, cause hey, it's in the past.. TRIVIA! While we're at it, fuck math I don't need to know what 5 factorial is.. fuck english and french, i'll just speak my local dialect and work at a bar. Yeah, that sounds good. I'll never learn about anything outside my local community and be happy, cause who cares about anything other than whats going on inside my life, cause i'm all that matter. me me me. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 9:46am |
| Coolness: 340355 | Originally posted by ELKA...
On the flippy side, You'd be suprised how many dumb questions I've been asked by Canadians about the rumors they heard about the US. is it true they teach you guys how kill communists in high school?? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BeAtJuNkIe replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 9:47am |
| Coolness: 49145 | did someone say bar???happy hour at 10am ?im so there its too shitty outside to work today. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 10:05am |
| Coolness: 56890 | Originally posted by ELKA...
Originally posted by moondancer...
You'd be surprised how many dumb questions I've been asked by Americans in the south about the rumours they heard about Canada, absolutely ridiculous stuff. That was a long time ago though. On the flippy side, You'd be suprised how many dumb questions I've been asked by Canadians about the rumors they heard about the US. you might be surprised about the seemingly dumb questions canadians have made about the rumours about canadians. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 10:12am |
| Coolness: 56890 | Originally posted by DJNEOFORM...
Originally posted by to discover...
You're not trying to argue that learning the capitals of countries is a valuable source of knowledge. Are you? And if you are or will, how is it a valuable source of knowledge, in reference to what? You're right, we shouldn't bother learned geography, cause it's "Trivia". We probably also shouldn't learn history, cause hey, it's in the past.. TRIVIA! While we're at it, fuck math I don't need to know what 5 factorial is.. fuck english and french, i'll just speak my local dialect and work at a bar. Yeah, that sounds good. I'll never learn about anything outside my local community and be happy, cause who cares about anything other than whats going on inside my life, cause i'm all that matter. me me me. To merely learn the names of coutries, is like merely learning the name of God. What use is it to have a reference, if you do not KNOW what it refers to. Names of coutries come in a context, and to only learn the names of countries and not the context is not knowledge. It's half truth or something like that. I'm not saying that learning the arts of life is trivial information. But what good are all these subjects, if you don;t put them to good use? Why learn particulars, when you can learn universals? |
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