I'll type this slow, so Americans can read it too!

[1337]

http://education-portal.com/articles/Illiteracy:_The_Downfall_of_American_Society.html

[1337]

Setting yourself up for a knockdown?

[Crusty]

You're going to knock me down ?

[1337]

Nope, you posted an irrelevant gif animation to a serious post. With a bowling ball knocking down pins.

Just wondering what signifigance it has to my thread?

[1337]

I guess that link is geared to you as well, and your illiteracy. A question mark at the end of a sentence means the sentence is a question.

So there for, I had ASKED you if you were getting set up for a knock down, I didn't mention anywhere that I have knocked you down.

[1337]

http://www.popular-pics.com/PPImages/Intelligent_Bush.jpg

"I don't see that word in here Sally" George Bush

WHoa! Did that really happen? Or is that a photoshopped pic?

[1337]

NO that actually happened, there is a CNN video, but I can't cut and paste video clips.

Just proves the first link.

[Hans]

I believe that was the classroom he was in when the 911 attack was announced to him. I could be wrong, but the settings look very similar.

[Huggy85]

Actually, it is a doctored photo...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/bushbook.asp

[1337]

Well the clip from CNN had the book upside down, maybe the right side up was faked in order to saved humility?

[Huggy85]

Could be. GWB has proven himself dumb enough often enough.

Ya see, T-Pot, that's one of the many reasons I don't join the anti-American glee club. So much garbage that you seem so easily to believe.. or want to believe.

[1337]

Aydeloof, both Speedy and I know this is more of a fun bickering thing anyway.

He also knows that not all Canadians are beer drinkers, and that we are so proud of that fat beaver he posts, he also knows that the fat people he posts in the pictures aren't Canadian /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Ahh, you're having fun. I get it.

This is the fun part.

[stupefied]

A similar topic was here not too long ago. Canada does not fare much better.

http://www.soonet.ca/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=419154&page=0&fpart=1

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Ottawa – May 11, 2005 – New survey results that point to almost half of adult Canadians having only low-level literacy skills have prompted a call for a more cohesive approach to improving adult literacy.

“In today’s knowledge society and economy, it is unacceptable for 42 percent of Canadians to have only low-level literacy skills,”</div></div>
Source (http://www.ccl-cca.ca/CCL/Newsroom/Releases/11May05-Literacy.htm)

[dancingqueen]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: T-pot</div><div class="ubbcode-body">http://education-portal.com/articles/Illiteracy:_The_Downfall_of_American_Society.html </div></div>

these numbers seem a little exagerated, not too suprising since most of the stats come from adult educational institutes, not exactly impartial...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">50 percent of adults cannot read a book written at an eighth grade level </div></div>
you don't seriously belive that do you...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">3 out of 4 people on welfare can't read. </div></div>
come on now...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">85 percent of juvenile offenders have problems reading. </div></div>
unless by juvinile offenders they could be refering to 8 year olds...

[Return of Too Many Daves]

So which is the fake?

[dancingqueen]

"the" fake??

[Soundbear]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dancingqueen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...50 percent of adults cannot read a book written at an eighth grade level </div></div>
you don't seriously belive that do you...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">3 out of 4 people on welfare can't read. </div></div>
come on now...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">85 percent of juvenile offenders have problems reading. </div></div>
unless by juvinile offenders they could be refering to 8 year olds... [/quote]

I hate to say it, but it seems to me those figures are pretty close. "Problems reading" is subject to interpretaion, I know.

BTW, I know some illiterate businessmen in town, so it's obvious that it takes more than reading to be successful.

[GenX]

Kudos to those of you who take Hans and T-Pot's ridiculous threads, such as this one, with a grain of salt.

Both individuals have been seething with anger the last few weeks, and have drowned the board in mostly useless banter.

Nice to see sanity prevail here.

[DoubleXL]

I am avoiding this thread because it is not my style. My anger lies with the idea of America in general...not specifically those American(s) who post here.

[Soundbear]

Odd how often Speedy sees anger here.

And the only one who comments on it too.

Hmmm.

[1337]

LOL I am not angry, nor do I get angry /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Yet another assumption based on nothing, sheesh. Living up to my expections Speedy.

[Hans]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Speedy the Arrogant Parrot</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Kudos to those of you who take Hans and T-Pot's ridiculous threads, such as this one, with a grain of salt.

Both individuals have been seething with anger the last few weeks, and have drowned the board in mostly useless banter.

Nice to see sanity prevail here. </div></div>

This comes from a guy who does not know me!

/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif

[1337]

BAWK BAWK Speedy want a cracker! BAWK

[GenX]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Hans</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Speedy the Arrogant Parrot</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Kudos to those of you who take Hans and T-Pot's ridiculous threads, such as this one, with a grain of salt.

Both individuals have been seething with anger the last few weeks, and have drowned the board in mostly useless banter.

Nice to see sanity prevail here. </div></div>

This comes from a guy who does not know me!

/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif </div></div>

Well, let's see:

You obsess over who certain people are.

You obsess over the USA

You don't want to talk about your own country, in hopes of hiding its multiple faults.

And, you spend all day on the Internet, even with a newborn at home.

Yup, I'm pretty sure I 'know' you very well, Hans. /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

[dancingqueen]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Barry Morris</div><div class="ubbcode-body">"Problems reading" is subject to interpretaion, I know. </div></div>

good point Barry /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

[stupefied]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Barry Morris</div><div class="ubbcode-body">"Problems reading" is subject to interpretaion, I know. </div></div>
Interpreting what they read is a problem for far too many people.