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Sep 2nd 2017, 6:19 pm

#6031

zargof

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Re: WTF in America

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Originally Posted by Nutek

Can't cure stupid.

Start putting birth control in the McDonald's, that will help.

Sep 2nd 2017, 6:21 pm

#6032

Nutek

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Re: WTF in America

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Originally Posted by zargof

Start putting birth control in the McDonald's, that will help.

Maybe some kind of vaccination?...

Sep 2nd 2017, 6:33 pm

#6033

Pulaski

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Re: WTF in America

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Originally Posted by Nutek

Maybe some kind of vaccination?...

Stupid is contagious?

Sep 2nd 2017, 6:59 pm

#6034

Nutek

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Re: WTF in America

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Originally Posted by Pulaski

Stupid is contagious?

It would appear so.

Sep 2nd 2017, 7:01 pm

#6035

Pulaski

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Re: WTF in America

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Originally Posted by Nutek

It would appear so.

I always assumed it was hereditary.

Sep 2nd 2017, 7:05 pm

#6036

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Re: WTF in America

No South, no Faulkner.

Sep 2nd 2017, 9:17 pm

#6037

Pulaski

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Re: WTF in America

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Originally Posted by caretaker

No South, no Faulkner.

That's definitely a "WTF"?

Sep 3rd 2017, 3:31 pm

#6038

caretaker

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Re: WTF in America

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Originally Posted by Pulaski

That's definitely a "WTF"?

I was illustrating the fault in the commonly held generalisation that the further south you go, the dumber people get.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner

Sep 3rd 2017, 5:56 pm

#6039

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Re: WTF in America

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Originally Posted by caretaker

I was illustrating the fault in the commonly held generalisation that the further south you go, the dumber people get.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner

That's a bit unfair to our antipodean friends.

Sep 3rd 2017, 7:10 pm

#6040

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Re: WTF in America

this is the pain management care plan from a friend that stayed in a Florida hospital. I am not exactly sure how much praying is required when in pain.

Sep 3rd 2017, 7:39 pm

#6041

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Re: WTF in America

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Originally Posted by mrken30

this is the pain management care plan from a friend that stayed in a Florida hospital. I am not exactly sure how much praying is required when in pain.

Attachment 128486

Pass the Tylenol and praise the Lord

Sep 3rd 2017, 11:38 pm

#6042

zzrmark

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Re: WTF in America

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Originally Posted by mrken30

this is the pain management care plan from a friend that stayed in a Florida hospital. I am not exactly sure how much praying is required when in pain.

Attachment 128486

That'll be The Florida Hospital (I say The but there are about 30 of them) then, run by the mormons!

Sep 3rd 2017, 11:55 pm

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Re: WTF in America

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Originally Posted by chawkins99

That's a bit unfair to our antipodean friends.

Indeed!

Sep 4th 2017, 12:09 am

#6044

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Re: WTF in America

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Originally Posted by chawkins99

That's a bit unfair to our antipodean friends.

It's WTF in America, more antebellum than antipodean.

Sep 4th 2017, 3:42 am

#6045

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Re: WTF in America

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Originally Posted by moneypenny20

Not convinced. They're playing at my local casino next month. $100 a ticket. I've decided it would be too depressing. If they hadn't dug the depths and done a supermarket ad I may have given them the benefit of the doubt.

Admittedly, I haven't heard them since Rick died, so maybe my statement wasn't 100% accurate.

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Originally Posted by Pulaski

I see they have "replaced" Rick Parfitt with a guitar player who was born in 1986, so after the "End of the Road" tour.

I don't know why they didn't just ask me, I've nothing much else going on right now.

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Originally Posted by Pulaski

Early on, more than 80% of my record collection was Quo albums. The balance was Def Leppard albums.

I see nothing wrong with that statement.