[fooboo]

Yep and I had a couple of ribs taken out...lol

[eLliDKraM]

then i'd have to say yes

[KeyWiz]

Ok I didn't realize you guys haven't heard of the Darwin Awards, this has been going on for years.
http://www.dailykos....1/3/174427/2311

[supersloth]

wait, how was it inferred no one knew about the darwin awards?

[eLliDKraM]

this is the first it was brought up in the thread so far but oh well, i think he likes to be smarter than the rest of us

[fooboo]

I've been reading the Darwin awards for years.
My fav was a guy who made a home made bungee cord but didn't measure the drop so he just hit the tarmac like a pancake...lol

[supersloth]

yeah, we sorta got that, we're just wondering how you put it together that no one else had heard of it.

[fooboo]

Duuhh! Keywiz said that not me!

[Bort]

The Darwin Awards are great. I've just had a quick look, and this jumped out at me.

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August brought us a winner from Brazil, who tried to disassemble
a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) by driving back and forth over
it with a car. This technique was ineffective, so he escalated to
pounding the RPG with a sledgehammer. The second try worked--in
a sense. The explosion proved fatal to one man, six cars, and
the repair shop wherein the efforts took place.

14 more RPG grenades were found in a car parked nearby. Police
believe the ammunition was being scavenged to sell as scrap
metal. If it wasn't scrap then, it certainly is now!

What an idiot, lol.

[Lord Hadies]

Honestly i think people who program are smarter than the majority of people in the world...

what cracks me up is that when those stupid calafornia kids went and shot people ...the president blamed DOOM....god i was so pissed off... thank god my parents are not ridiculous!!otherwise i would have had to hide the games i play...

people are stupid...it doesn't help when the adults are blaming other shit instead of actually pointing out that there son's (or daughters) are retarded and should have been killed at birth... i think by the age of 9 you have enough brains to know that you can't jump from a 5story building etc...

but i think all you people are right...let them die...it serves the world better and atleast they don't take us with them...those fucks who were shoooting people..now thats a problem...

is it me or do american's tend to do stupid things like try to emulate EVERYTHING they see on TV??? the parents upbringing is also damn important...DISCIPLINE...everytime i tried to light sumthing on fire when i was kid brought on a seriuos onslaught beatings....
till the age i realised that fire can kill...so now i just smoke

DISCIPLINE DANIEL SAN!!!!

[fooboo]

Lord Hadies, on 9 Jan, 2007 - 04:35 AM, said:

...thank god my parents are not ridiculous!!otherwise i would have had to hide the games i play...

I thought ypu were going to say otherwise you'd have to kill them in a dungeon shoot out scenario...lol

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people are stupid...it doesn't help when the adults are blaming other shit...

true.

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is it me or do american's tend to do stupid things like try to emulate EVERYTHING they see on TV???

Hmm not entirely fair to lump all Americans together...especially on a predominantly American forum.

There are people doing stupid things the world over.
America has a large population and a massive media engine so you probably hear about them more often than say a Bolivian teen.

[Amadeus]

Lord Hadies, on 9 Jan, 2007 - 06:35 AM, said:

is it me or do american's tend to do stupid things like try to emulate EVERYTHING they see on TV???

I would wager to say that this is just an ignorant generalization - more than 10 of the individuals who have died emulating the hanging of hussein were from countries other than the US - I can provide you with the demographics (or you could do some factual research), but suffice to say that one's nationality has no bearing on the situation.

As an FYI, this is not a knee jerk reaction to an insult to the US - I am not an American citizen.

[Lord Hadies]

Amadeus, on 9 Jan, 2007 - 06:23 AM, said:

Lord Hadies, on 9 Jan, 2007 - 06:35 AM, said:

is it me or do american's tend to do stupid things like try to emulate EVERYTHING they see on TV???

I would wager to say that this is just an ignorant generalization - more than 10 of the individuals who have died emulating the hanging of hussein were from countries other than the US - I can provide you with the demographics (or you could do some factual research), but suffice to say that one's nationality has no bearing on the situation.

As an FYI, this is not a knee jerk reaction to an insult to the US - I am not an American citizen.

i sed that becuase as fooboo pointed out that we hear more about the americans so i formally state that the following statement:

Lord Hadies, on 9 Jan, 2007 - 06:35 AM, said:

is it me or do american's tend to do stupid things like try to emulate EVERYTHING they see on TV???

has been withdrawn because as evidence is proving its all horse shit

still don't like the american general public and when i did visit the country i will say that ALOT of them are ignorant coz just coz i sed i'm from south africa MOST of them asked me if i had wild animals (such as lions,etc) in my backyard...and they were surprised i had internet

[Amadeus]

You will always encounter people that make assumptions based on where you're from. You have done the exact same thing in this thread.

As for not liking the american general public, I submit that you have not met the american general public, or even a significant percentage of it, so are likely basing your opinion on the few that you have met. I'm not sure how many that was was, but I expect it is probably a low enough number that it cannot be considered enough to generate a statistical analysis - sample population is too low.

[eLliDKraM]

Amadeus, on 9 Jan, 2007 - 07:23 AM, said:

Lord Hadies, on 9 Jan, 2007 - 06:35 AM, said:

is it me or do american's tend to do stupid things like try to emulate EVERYTHING they see on TV???

As an FYI, this is not a knee jerk reaction to an insult to the US - I am not an American citizen.

allow me to do that. where the hell do you come off with a question like that? other than this, there aren't a ton of events happening around the country with any sort of abnormal relative frequency that i'd expect to see anywhere else that would provoke such a stupid thought.

amadeus is american though; he works for the cia and being a canadian programmer who likes long walks on the beech during a sunset is his cover story