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7 Apr 2005, 01:16
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so f*cking zen
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A chance to increase your post count by one
Im actually interested in knowing how widespread this knowledge is so ...
WITHOUT GOOGLING do you know:
1.) Where venezuela is
2.) What the expression "having a cross to bear" means
Just put a "yes" or "no" after the number of the question in your reply.
It's as easy as that people.
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7 Apr 2005, 01:24
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Miles Teg
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
yes
yes
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7 Apr 2005, 01:28
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Yes
Yes
I also know what the capital of Venezuela is!
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7 Apr 2005, 01:31
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so f*cking zen
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
No showing off now Mark, you've got your post count, be content with that.
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7 Apr 2005, 01:35
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Next goal wins!
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
yes yes...
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7 Apr 2005, 01:37
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BlueTuba
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
yes
yes
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7 Apr 2005, 01:42
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mmm lambs
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Yes
Yes
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7 Apr 2005, 01:51
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dace
No showing off now Mark, you've got your post count, be content with that.
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Caracas! (Although I did have to google to make sure I spelt it correctly)
I know that because of a private eye cartoon, which followed on from the headline "Random tests for cattle". It was a scientist, in a field, with a clipboard, next to a cow. "You! What is the capital of Venezuela?" was the pun involved.
It remains with me in the same way that the episode of 3rd Rock From the Sun where the kid whos name I've forgotten is going to get into an exclusive school but deliberately ballses it up.
"It's called THE CORONA. You know that! You've BEEN THERE!"
That and
"I too have a dream. And in that dream I'm naked on a ferris wheel."
I only remember those things about that show, other than that guy who was in that film with a doppelganger and also in Cliffhanger was in it. John Lithgow.
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7 Apr 2005, 01:57
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WANNASEEMYNEWCHAINSAW
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
yes
****ing yes
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7 Apr 2005, 02:20
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Insomniac
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
yes
no - though im sure i will in a few moments as i google it...
edit : Argh i wish i was still clueless about it now
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7 Apr 2005, 02:33
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
1) Yes.
2) Yes. And I'd be surprised if someone I met didn't know it.
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7 Apr 2005, 02:37
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Cynical Optimist
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Yes
and Yes
...I think
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7 Apr 2005, 03:05
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I dunno...
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Yup.
Yup.
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7 Apr 2005, 03:24
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Insanity Prawn Boy!
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Yes
No EDIT: after re-reading it Yes. i thought it read "having to cross a bear" at first
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7 Apr 2005, 03:44
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Klaatu barada nikto
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
1) Yes
2) Yes
I think self-selection bias will be the big winner here
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7 Apr 2005, 03:59
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
1) No
2) Yes
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7 Apr 2005, 07:20
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Rawr rawr
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Yes, b'cause it's on a RISK board
Yes... I think... I know a lot of Dutch sayings, my English ones aren't as good but I can guess what "bear a cross" means.
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7 Apr 2005, 08:22
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
yes
yes
why are you asking dace?
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7 Apr 2005, 08:26
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Rawr rawr
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Find the link...
Isn't this big Jezus(-like) bloke on the rock in Venezuela?
Or are there rumours that the new pope will be from Venezuela?
Knowing Dace, these two must be related somehow.
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7 Apr 2005, 08:31
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Clerk
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Yes
Yes
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7 Apr 2005, 08:32
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
yes yes
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7 Apr 2005, 09:09
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Lucky
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
- yes
- i think so
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7 Apr 2005, 09:10
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Dum Di Dum Di
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Anybody not being able to place Venezuela on a map should be ashamed.
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7 Apr 2005, 09:22
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Pretty sure
Yes
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7 Apr 2005, 10:09
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
yes, yes
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7 Apr 2005, 10:22
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Registered Awesome Person
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
yes, yes
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7 Apr 2005, 10:42
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Love's Sweet Exile
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Yes, Yes.
Though misreading the 2nd as "having a bear to cross" did confuse me slightly :|
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7 Apr 2005, 11:00
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-Retard-
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
aye
aye
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The most powerful man in the world who regularly faces some of the toughest questioning in the world by the best journalists answered........
"It is White"
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7 Apr 2005, 11:02
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Bored
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
yes and yes
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7 Apr 2005, 11:09
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Aardvark is a funny word
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
yes yes
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7 Apr 2005, 11:16
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J to the C to the A G E
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
yes, yes
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7 Apr 2005, 11:26
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This is bat country
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
I thank you for this wonderful chance to improve my postcount.
Thank you Dace
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7 Apr 2005, 12:18
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
yes
yes
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7 Apr 2005, 12:21
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
I was born there, so yes
And yes
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7 Apr 2005, 12:28
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Not Dark or Handsome
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Quote:
Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
Yes
Yes
I also know what the capital of Venezuela is!
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7 Apr 2005, 12:31
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Not Dark or Handsome
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Quote:
Originally Posted by Structural Integrity
Isn't this big Jezus(-like) bloke on the rock in Venezuela?
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Thats Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), isn't it?
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7 Apr 2005, 12:33
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Rawr rawr
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Quote:
Originally Posted by Apothos
Thats Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), isn't it?
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Oh yeah...
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7 Apr 2005, 12:33
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so f*cking zen
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Quote:
Originally Posted by Apothos
Thats Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), isn't it?
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yup
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7 Apr 2005, 12:36
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so f*cking zen
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
OK a chance to increase your post count by a further one post.
Again just a simple "yes" or "no" answer will suffice.
- Do you think somebody who doesn't know the answer to those questions is stupid (or is liable to be so)?
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7 Apr 2005, 12:36
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Yes. I can go into further detail if required!
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7 Apr 2005, 12:38
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so f*cking zen
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
OK go into further detail Mark.
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7 Apr 2005, 12:39
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Aardvark is a funny word
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
yes i suspect
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Efficiency, efficiency they say
Get to know the date and tell the time of day
As the crowds begin complaining
How the Beaujolais is raining
Down on darkened meetings on the Champs Élysées
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7 Apr 2005, 12:42
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Rawr rawr
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
No...
Because knowledge and intelligence are two completely different things. And being able to answer those questions falls under knowledge in my opinion.
edit: for clarification, being stupid is a lack of intelligence, not knowledge.
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7 Apr 2005, 12:45
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so f*cking zen
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Fair enough SI but on the second original question what if the person was a catholic?
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7 Apr 2005, 12:53
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Miles Teg
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
John Lithgow is funny.
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7 Apr 2005, 12:57
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Rawr rawr
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dace
Fair enough SI but on the second original question what if the person was a catholic?
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Point still stands.
Perhaps you should change "stupid" to "ignorant" or "poorly informed".
However, assuming the saying "having a cross to bear" has been uttered to the individual on many occassions, and has been explain too, then perhaps one COULD conclude the person is stupid.
But it's also possible the person is just forgetfull, which is not a sign of stupidity in my opinion.
In short, you can't label a person stupid by asking questions that only require knowledge to answer.
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7 Apr 2005, 13:03
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dace
OK go into further detail Mark.
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Whilst it is true that intelligence =! knowledge, you made it explicit in your question that you were talking about general trends rather than hard and fast laws. In my experience, it is a perfectly evidenced trend that more intelligent people will tend to know more, and are more likely to be able to infer the meaning of something (such as the 2nd question) from information they already have, if they haven't been explicitly told the "answer".
Obviously there are some cases where this doesn't apply; the classic example of the idiot savante, but genetic disorders and other similar things tend to exaggerate the number of outliers (such as dwarfism or giantism when you're looking at a distribution of heights), and are in such comparatively small numbers that they can be safely ignored.
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7 Apr 2005, 13:19
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Dum Di Dum Di
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
I think quite alot of non-stupid people without english as first language would have problems with nr.2.
Bear is not a common word.
Not knowing where Venezuela is means you're ignorant, which means you're most likely pretty stupid though.
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7 Apr 2005, 13:21
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Spelling is for pussies
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
No,
Yes,
Yes.
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7 Apr 2005, 13:24
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Aardvark is a funny word
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Re: A chance to increase your post count by one
Quote:
Originally Posted by hyfe
people without english as first language
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Efficiency, efficiency they say
Get to know the date and tell the time of day
As the crowds begin complaining
How the Beaujolais is raining
Down on darkened meetings on the Champs Élysées
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