Re: VGA cards are now posted for sale on EBAY

[Poster <poster@nospam.com>]

In article <4a8b6c42$0$24329$b9f67a60@news.newsdemon.com>,
 "Rob" <g8crapachino@comcast.net> wrote:

> Get over yourself and stop pretending you're a better human there everyone 
> else..
>   If Jay Leno were to suddenly walk around a corner, stick a camera in your 
> face, and ask you some completely random question there is a high 
> probability that you'd hesitate and maybe even get the answer wrong. 
> Catching people completely off guard was one of the basic ploy's behind the 
> Jay walking segment.  Additionally, they never bothered to show all the 
> people that actually got the answers correct. (There's no humor in that) 
> Think about it.
> 
> 
> "winstonsmith" <winston19842005@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
> f568dcb2-8f8d-4961-8685-3a449f71a158@c2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com">news:f568dcb2-8f8d-4961-8685-3a449f71a158@c2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com...
> On Aug 16, 8:48 am, "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote:
> > "Poster" <pos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> > >Check that mirror next time you wonder why people have a bad impression 
> > >of
> > >Canadians.
> >
> > Au contraire mon ami! We Canadians have a global perspective and the world
> > at large is comfortable with that fact.
> >
> > Our Country knows much more about Americans in general than they about us
> > and I know about ebay and commerce in particular having done business with
> > the US for almost 60 years.

There is no real reasoning with the self-righteous (especially 
self-righteous Canadians), but just for the record:

1) "A global perspective" -- in other words, you don't care much about 
your own country and you really don't believe in anything besides 
walking on eggshells around others. Uh, bravo?  

2) "The world..." The world perceives Canada as no threat to the status 
quo, nor as any check on the aspirations of individual countries, be 
they good or evil. I sincerely doubt that "the world" thinks much of 
Canada at all. Again, uh, bravo?

And as far as the worn-out "stupid American" conceit...

So are Americans just now stupid, or have Americans always been stupid? 
If the latter, it's pretty freakin' amazing how a nation of dolts went 
from 13 colonies to sole superpower, invented the cotton gin, put a man 
on the moon, and so on and so on. If Americans got stupid somewhere 
along the way, do you have any idea when? Was it just after you hit 
puberty perhaps? 

I've found that people who constantly bray about their own intelligence 
are either faking it, don't have any social skills whatsoever, or 
haven't realized that intelligence alone doesn't really do much for you. 

Finally, just how smart do you think other people are in other 
countries? What, is France a nation of geniuses and we just all missed 
it? Was there a well-kept IQ outbreak in Zimbabwe? The stupidity you see 
in front of you would not change if you were in some other country -- it 
would only be different, and in no way attenuated.

-- 
Poster

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