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mindmetoo
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 Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:15 am Post subject: Are you smarter than a 5th grader |
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| This is really embarrassing. A marine captain doesn't know that FDR is the only president to get elected 4 times. Do they not educated the officer corp in the USA on WWII history? |
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Jizzo T. Clown
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| I saw that. Teddy Roosevelt was the only president to be elected four times. Most of the military seems a little undereducated anyway (like most of the population). |
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Tjames426
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:33 am Post subject: |
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Yeap...
Almost as embarrassing as uneducated morons believing all the conspiracy theories on 9/11. |
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sjrm
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:39 am Post subject: |
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| Jizzo T. Clown wrote: |
| I saw that. Teddy Roosevelt was the only president to be elected four times. Most of the military seems a little undereducated anyway (like most of the population). |
Ummm.......it was his cousin Franklin that was elected four times. Teddy was around at the turn of the century, not during WWII. |
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:42 am Post subject: |
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| sjrm wrote: |
| Jizzo T. Clown wrote: |
| I saw that. Teddy Roosevelt was the only president to be elected four times. Most of the military seems a little undereducated anyway (like most of the population). |
Ummm.......it was his cousin Franklin that was elected four times. Teddy was around at the turn of the century, not during WWII. |
I've heard of HDR.. who was FDR.
joke joke. |
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Jizzo T. Clown
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| sjrm wrote: |
| Jizzo T. Clown wrote: |
| I saw that. Teddy Roosevelt was the only president to be elected four times. Most of the military seems a little undereducated anyway (like most of the population). |
Ummm.......it was his cousin Franklin that was elected four times. Teddy was around at the turn of the century, not during WWII. |
You obviously didn't watch the show tonight.  |
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GreenlightmeansGO
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:27 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I watched that. I, however, am not American and have never bothered about American history.
What bugs me is that the show seems awfully easy. Granted, I would have to guess a lot of that stuff, but I wouldn't say remembering those facts is a measure of intelligence.
And I hated the clapping. 'Oh, look, you're a dumb@$$'- clap, clap |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:31 am Post subject: |
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| i'm sure there must be at least one fifth grader out there that i'm smarter than. |
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periwinkle
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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Every damn year my history teachers spent too much time fing around with the Revolutionary War/ 1700's, and the Civil War/ 1800's, so by the time we got to the 20th century, it was mid-May. School ended around Memorial Day, so we spent MAYBE 10 days studying the 20th century. I didn't know there had even been a war in Korea until after I graduated high school (I didn't watch MASH, btw- always thought that had been about Vietnam)...
  So yeah, I didn't know the answer to that question, and I'm not surprised he didn't know either, military or not. |
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safeblad
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| i'm probably not smarter than all fifth graders but i am significantly more educated |
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kimchi_pizza
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Location: "Get back on the bus! Here it comes!"
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| GreenlightmeansGO wrote: |
Yeah, I watched that. I, however, am not American and have never bothered about American history.
What bugs me is that the show seems awfully easy. Granted, I would have to guess a lot of that stuff, but I wouldn't say remembering those facts is a measure of intelligence.
And I hated the clapping. 'Oh, look, you're a dumb@$$'- clap, clap |
You're not American and you don't know our language, history, geography, etc.?! That's just F'n unforgiveable!
I once met a Canadian that could play the U.S. national anthem on the piano. Hell, Americans have become so lazy that foreigners even play in American "patriotic" movies. If you don't believe me then check out Black Hawk Down (I'm surprised the whole movie wasn't spoken in a British accent!), The Patriot (Australians), 3:10 to Yuma (British and Australian), etc. That's just embarrassing...and now we have ignorant yahoos leading soldiers and flying Apaches, Cobras, bomber aircraft (nukes over the U.S.). I had a platoon leader (officer) relieved for getting her groove on with the platoon sergeant (also relieved) and another platoon leader repremanded for losing a top secret code book, thankfully it was a training mission and a fictitious code book. It's a sad state of affairs... |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: Re: Are you smarter than a 5th grader |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Do they not educated the officer corp in the USA on WWII history? |
With a sentence like that you'd think they don't educate ESL instructors either! |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject: Re: Are you smarter than a 5th grader |
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| djsmnc wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Do they not educated the officer corp in the USA on WWII history? |
With a sentence like that you'd think they don't educate ESL instructors either! |
You're right. I made a typo. Happens. But I would really hope that an officer in the American military would have a grasp about WWII history and recent history about the C&Cs of his military. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:08 am Post subject: Re: Are you smarter than a 5th grader |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| djsmnc wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Do they not educated the officer corp in the USA on WWII history? |
With a sentence like that you'd think they don't educate ESL instructors either! |
You're right. I made a typo. Happens. But I would really hope that an officer in the American military would have a grasp about WWII history and recent history about the C&Cs of his military. |
After watching that show once or twice I lost interest, because I really thought it was rigged or a set up. Something in my mind makes me want to think that grown men and women can't feasibly be that dumb. Especially an officer in the military.
Granted, there are a few question that come out of parts of textbooks that you may overlook, such as "What party was Henry Clay affiliated with?" that are tricky for everyone. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:04 am Post subject: Re: Are you smarter than a 5th grader |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| djsmnc wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Do they not educated the officer corp in the USA on WWII history? |
With a sentence like that you'd think they don't educate ESL instructors either! |
You're right. I made a typo. |
Just one? |
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