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Old 12-25-2010, 03:56 PM
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Just when I thought things would turn to the better on this OD forum, the level of ignorance takes another abysmal plunge.

I realize, it is time for me to draw a line and get out of here. Ignorance is incapable of recognizing itself and is terribly contagious.

Best of luck to all of you and goodbye!

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Old 12-25-2010, 06:42 PM
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Just when I thought things would turn to the better on this OD forum, the level of ignorance takes another abysmal plunge.

I realize, it is time for me to draw a line and get out of here. Ignorance is incapable of recognizing itself and is terribly contagious.

Best of luck to all of you and goodbye!
Dude, did you ever stop to think that not everyone wants to reply to posts that are written by people that use "Big" words to make themselves look smarter?
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Old 12-25-2010, 07:12 PM
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Dude, did you ever stop to think that not everyone wants to reply to posts that are written by people that use "Big" words to make themselves look smarter?
Not everyone belongs to the anti-intellectual, uneducated semi-literate crowd of millions of adoring fans of Sarah Palin and her fractured English, who lovingly refers to them as the "Real" Americans.
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Not everyone belongs to the anti-intellectual, uneducated semi-literate crowd of millions of adoring fans of Sarah Palin and her fractured English, who lovingly refers to them as the "Real" Americans.
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Just when I thought things would turn to the better on this OD forum, the level of ignorance takes another abysmal plunge.

I realize, it is time for me to draw a line and get out of here. Ignorance is incapable of recognizing itself and is terribly contagious.

Best of luck to all of you and goodbye!
Ciao!
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Old 12-25-2010, 07:27 PM
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Does it say "Americans" in the headline?
Fine, you want to turn into a competition, then let me challenge you on it:

America would not be what it is and how it came about without Germans implementing their culture significantly.
Correct!

25% was the of German extraction recently. Outstanding achievements 'n people, is how well we've influenced my country of America. I'm a very proud German American!
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Yet I thought you were one of the major proponents of the new philosophy of inclusion. Ciao to your resolve, apparently.
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Made - past tense. I doubt they are much use for anything more than parades that are a pale shadow of their formers selves any more.

This probably doesn't matter much since Europe is no longer of relevance in the world. It could be significant in the future should a new threat to Europe arise, however I still doubt they'd amount to much. The discontinuity marked by 1945 is too great.

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Put another way: How many Germans have won Nobel prizes? How many Americans?
120 Germans, if you count the 18 Austrians as Germans..., 328 Americans, though a goodly number of them were born outside the USA, including quite a number whose origin is Germany.

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Just when I thought things would turn to the better on this OD forum, the level of ignorance takes another abysmal plunge.

I realize, it is time for me to draw a line and get out of here. Ignorance is incapable of recognizing itself and is terribly contagious.

Best of luck to all of you and goodbye!

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Not everyone belongs to the anti-intellectual, uneducated semi-literate crowd of millions of adoring fans of Sarah Palin and her fractured English, who lovingly refers to them as the "Real" Americans.
Understood, but one would think that a "REAL" intellectual would have better things to do than to try to make a person like myself feel stupid when everyone here knows that???
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Demanding perfection is par for the course being German. . . . .
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Demanding perfection is par for the course being German. . . . .
Which is why we buy Braun electric shavers, Lang und Sohne watches, Mauser rifles, Zeiss binoculars, cuckoo clocks from the Black Forest, and older Mercedes Benz automobiles.
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Understood, but one would think that a "REAL" intellectual would have better things to do than to try to make a person like myself feel stupid when everyone here knows that???
I am sorry that you took that personally because my remark was directed at the sentiment which was expressed and not at YOU.

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