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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 04/09/2005 : 07:57:58
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You'd think that it was impossible for people to be so stupid....
http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/2054/Two_Dollar_Man_jailed_in_Baltimore_County
Hope this guy gets a lawyer and drops some civil grief on the cops and bestbuy.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 04/09/2005 : 08:25:58 [Permalink]
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I haven't seen a duece since I left the service. They used to round out our pay with them. Makes me a tad nostalgic, it does.
I too, hope for a vigorous lawsuit. Damnation upon all assholes!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 04/09/2005 : 09:36:50 [Permalink]
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| Maybe there was a problem with the bills he was using? |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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Posted - 04/09/2005 : 12:12:06 [Permalink]
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| Yikes! I go to that Best Buy sometimes! Note to self: never pay with $2 bills... |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 04/09/2005 : 13:27:42 [Permalink]
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So this guy decides to print up some $7 bills as a gag, but being the perfectionist he is, he works on them really hard, and winds up with a beautiful piece of currency with a completely bogus amount on it. It's so good - he thinks to himself - that it ought to fool anyone. He decides he's gotta test his funny money.
So he drives hours into the mountains, to find a tiny little hick town with a tiny little general store with good highway access (just in case). He walks into a promising store, picks out a candy bar, and takes it to the clerk. "That'll be a buck," the clerk says. The guy opens his wallet, pulls out one of his seven-dollar bills, and hands it over.
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- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 04/09/2005 : 15:27:28 [Permalink]
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 04/09/2005 : 18:04:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
What's wrong with America these days?
We've turned into a bunch of idiots led by sick fucks!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 04/09/2005 : 19:34:13 [Permalink]
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What's wrong with America these days?
There are a couple of fundamental problems, all of about the same level of importance, imo.
People are not taught to think critically. In fact, the opposite is true. Accross all political divides people are actually encouraged to be credulous.
Lack of personal responsibility. Why take responsibility for your problems when you can blame somebody else?
and several others.... but they stem from those two.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2005 : 19:46:44 [Permalink]
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| A friend had a good comment about "what's wrong with America", with saying that the country is full of lazy thinkers. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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GeeMack
SFN Regular
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Posted - 04/09/2005 : 21:45:24 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
People are not taught to think critically. In fact, the opposite is true. Accross all political divides people are actually encouraged to be credulous.
And it's not a new phenomena. One of my personal experiences with the discouragement of thinking was when I was in high school in the early 1970s. During that time I had an occasional disciplinary run-in with the dean of boys. I clearly recall one particular time when he looked me in the eye and said, "Young man, you are a thinker, and thinkers make waves." Although I secretly took it to be a compliment, it was abundantly clear that he did not intend it as such.
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 04/10/2005 : 19:52:00 [Permalink]
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For Baltimore County police, said spokesman Bill Toohey, “It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world.”
What an asinine self serving excuse. Since when does a terrorist threat have anything to do with counterfeiting?
I would most definitely sue for false arrest both the store and the cops. And I'd expect Best Buy to settle out of court with something that was the equivalent of the inconvenience but I'd want the cops to all have to go through counterfeit money training.
I have seen 5 dollar bills quite smeared so I took them to the bank. They said it was normal. Since then I've noticed lots of smearing. It can be disconcerting. |
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