Originally Posted by Frownland

I bet TNH would do really well in the South or cop conventions.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

JWB here reporting live from the bible belt, bringing you breaking news that in fact every stereotype you've ever heard about southern people is in fact true

so... this is basically a a thread to quote irl people that you interact with in one way or another dropping some jewels of non-wisdom... since i'm currently living in the south, i bring you a harvest of home grown southern ignorance.. but anyone living anywhere and interacting irl day to day with people who say dense ****, feel free to post them here for our amusement

i heard these today:

"i'm pretty sure that obama is actually osama bin laden" and yes he was serious, i inquired further and he said with a dead serious face that it would be the perfect way to take america down if you got a terrorist as president, and he even was talking about how if you take a picture of obama and a picture of osama the features match up perfectly, he said all this to a table full of seemingly sane adults, and nobody seemed to take issue or disagree with this idea, except one guy who noted the obvious height difference and the fact that "all middle easterners look the same"


"people say he's the first black president but he aint got a drop of black in him, he's middle eastern" my coworker assures me
i said his dad is from kenya, africa. and he was like it don't matter if it's in africa, he's still middle eastern. once again the table full of sane adults all seemed inclined to agree that obama is in fact middle eastern.


"very little of the civil war was about slavery" that's another one. they don't like people taking down that rebel flag. they think the whole incident was a govt set up specifically to dismantle their southern heritage. and take their guns, of course.


"i wouldn't be surprised if that boy (the SC shooter) is laid back at some island somewhere, a paid govt agent"

Originally Posted by Two Spirit

"It's 2015. Why don't you get with the times and stop living in the past?"

This is my biggest pet peeve statement in political arguments, because it bases the morality of a political position solely on the passage of time, regardless if the opinion is right or wrong.

It's also used by people who believe in the notion that society is always progressing and becoming better through passing of time, so if you hold an "outdated" position according to this argument, you must be an "old dinosaur conservative living in the past."

Keep in mind I'm fairly liberal, but this argument by many on the left has always rubbed me the wrong way, and is not a great way to convert opponents to your position.