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Osama Who? And why is it so good he died?

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Wednesday, May 4, 2011 8:30 PM

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Nit Twits

Clueless teenagers flood search engines to ask: 'Who is Osama Bin Laden?'

It has been an end to biggest terrorist manhunt in recent history.

But it seems that as well as the millions of people who celebrated Osama Bin Laden's death, there were a few who were more than a little confused.

The internet was flooded with searches from confused teenagers under the age of 17 asking the desperate question 'Who is Bin Laden?'

Scores more turned to Twitter to pose the question, before they were quickly embarrassed by other users for their lack of knowledge.

One youngster wrote: 'Who is Osama Bin Laden and why should I care?'

Another added: 'Is he famous?'

A young Twitter user wrote: 'Who is Osama? And why is it so good he died?'

Bizarrely, the eight most popular search term from Yahoo! was 'How tall is Osama bin Laden?'

The figures give a revealing insight into the lack of current affairs and general knowledge among teenagers.

Critics will use the evidence to suggest that young people are spending too much time on 'frivolous' pursuits instead of studying.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1383379/Osama-Bin-Laden-Clueless-teen
agers-flood-search-engines-Twitter.html


Quote:

"There was a survey done in America asking people if they could remember year that 9/11 took place. And get this, 30% of the people polled couldn't remember that it was 2001. "
-The Chasers






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Wednesday, May 4, 2011 9:08 PM

DREAMTROVE


Ah, there's hope for humanity after all...


That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Thursday, May 5, 2011 4:13 AM

WISHIMAY


I'm sorry, you aren't talking about Justin Bieber or Mariah Carey's babies, so you've already lost the attention of %50 of the population...and of the other half, %25 of those can't remember little things like feeding their kids or taking a shower or paying their bills...soooo, what were we talking about again?


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Thursday, May 5, 2011 4:44 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
These James Madison quotes hint at why the USA is troubled.
"Uh, who's James Madison?" asks man on the street.


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Thursday, May 5, 2011 5:51 AM

OLDGUY

What Would Mal do ?


Osama !!! yeah yeah!! hope n change! Osama gonna buy me a new car !! and pay my light bill !

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Thursday, May 5, 2011 6:17 AM

DREAMTROVE


This is all entertaining, but it's a hoax. I just tried to find said teens. I think this mock up was made by some guy. The only references to it on twitter are to this story.

The posts are real, but the screenshot is not, not even a search result. He searched for these far and wide to find them. The girl who asks who osama bin laden is isn't even a teenager, and oh yeah, this is what she posted after that: Θανάσης Βέγγος αν και αυτοδίδακτος κατάφερε να and then she goes on in that vein. That would be because she's also Greek. Should I feel dumb because I didn't know who Θανάσης Βέγγος was? Apparently, he was famous, and he died, and she's very sad about it.

The "people are getting stupider" is on the list of MSM/NWO/TPTB conspiracy propaganda myths being broadcast for a long time. I would think that PN would be on to that one by now.

g2g, OK, l8rz, Kthxbye ^..^

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Thursday, May 5, 2011 6:40 AM

WISHIMAY


Come to Indiana hon, I'm sure I know some of those people! Or Kentucky,or Missouri, there are still many places in this country where banjos play and dipsh$ts roam...

Read the really bad news, the things most people don't wanna look at, and you will know the truth-not only about America, but humanity...

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Thursday, May 5, 2011 6:59 AM

DREAMTROVE


Quote:

Originally posted by Wishimay:
Come to Indiana hon, I'm sure I know some of those people! Or Kentucky



Hey!

Quote:


Read the really bad news, the things most people don't wanna look at, and you will know the truth-not only about America, but humanity...



I have, I've posted much of it here, but no one wants to know.


That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Thursday, May 5, 2011 8:53 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


Quote:

Originally posted by dreamtrove:
This is all entertaining, but it's a hoax. I just tried to find said teens.

The "people are getting stupider" is on the list of MSM/NWO/TPTB conspiracy propaganda myths being broadcast for a long time. I would think that PN would be on to that one by now.

The fact that huge numbers of kids are passing through American school systems and not learning basic literacy means that districts need to check to see if the kids are learning anything at all.

There is an underestimation of the extent of really bad learning outcomes. Take this report ( http://cbsdetroit.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/basicskillsreport_final.
pdf
) from the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund which notes “that 47% of adults (more than 200,000 individuals) in the City of Detroit are functionally illiterate, referring to the inability of an individual to use reading, speaking, writing, and computational skills in everyday life situations” and also that “within the tricounty region, there are a number of municipalities with illiteracy rates rivaling Detroit: Southfield at 24%, Warren at 17%, Inkster at 34%, Pontiac at 34%.”

Did all these people go directly from being babies to adults without passing years and years in school? Are there 60,000,000 Jane & Jayne Cobbs in the USA?

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, May 5, 2011 9:21 AM

WISHIMAY


Quote:

Originally posted by two:

Did all these people go directly from being babies to adults without passing years and years in school? Are there 60,000,000 Jane & Jayne Cobbs in the USA?



Kids who have people do homework for them is X %
Bad Homeschooling is X %
Mental disease is X %
Appathy is X %
Undiagnosed reading disorders is X %
Retardation is X %
Low I.Q. is X %
Can't or don't want to be taught is X %
= yep, it is that bad...

Eating healthy is one thing, somebody needs to tell Michelle Obama reading lasts a lifetime...
I'd rather we be country of fat and intelligent than skinny dumbasses, any day...

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Thursday, May 5, 2011 9:26 AM

BYTEMITE


Um... Take any reports from Detroit with a grain of salt. It's a proud city, but parts of it are more like the Gaza strip with gunfire instead of IEDs. Kids in the really bad areas are assumed criminal, and so either thrown in jail as a matter of course or locked up in the maximum security... schooling system.

They're not going to be able to learn much while essentially at gun point. Also, we're probably not looking at a Jayne Cobb demographic here. We're looking at inner city kids living in extreme urban decay. Also watch out for the hefty dose of racism from the normally white city officials.

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Thursday, May 5, 2011 9:35 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


Quote:

Originally posted by Bytemite:
Um... Take any reports from Detroit with a grain of salt. It's a proud city, but parts of it are more like the Gaza strip with gunfire instead of IEDs. Kids in the really bad areas are assumed criminal, and so either thrown in jail as a matter of course or locked up in the maximum security... schooling system.

They're not going to be able to learn much while essentially at gun point. Also, we're probably not looking at a Jayne Cobb demographic here. We're looking at inner city kids living in extreme urban decay. Also watch out for the hefty dose of racism from the normally white city officials.

Let's go south to Houston: 31% of the population is not literate. 31% times the population gives us 90,000,000 Janes and Jaynes. - http://readforhouston.org/READ_for_Houston/Home.html

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, May 5, 2011 10:03 AM

BYTEMITE


Haven't heard as much about Houston politics, so that might be legitimate. Looking at a quick comparison of literacy by city, several Texas cities are in the bottom ten.

But the national trend for literacy appears to be upward.

http://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp

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Thursday, May 5, 2011 10:50 AM

RIONAEIRE

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Sometimes it does feel like people, particularly kids, are getting stupider, they all right in text speak, none of them have an attention span because they're so used to gadgets that are constantly showing different things, constant videogame use, instant gratification, multitasking. I'm someone who thinks that maybe too much multitasking might be bad for our brains/development, now there's a conspiracy theory worth looking at, any thoughts?

My mom told my little brother about Bin Laden so he would know what was going on, it happened six months before he was born.

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Thursday, May 5, 2011 10:52 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


Quote:

Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Haven't heard as much about Houston politics, so that might be legitimate. Looking at a quick comparison of literacy by city, several Texas cities are in the bottom ten. But the national trend for literacy appears to be upward. http://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp] "In the US, adults with a high level of literacy are at 19%, a low level of literacy are at 49.6% and a moderate level of literacy at 31.4%." - www.caliteracy.org/rates/

Using that 49.6% rate gives the USA 150,000,000 Jane and Jayne Cobbs. The more you look, the worse it seems - perhaps half the USA knows not who Osama is. And feel no need to know.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, May 5, 2011 10:59 AM

BYTEMITE


Scientifically substantiated, plenty of studies about impact of multitasking on function, including mental deterioration.

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Thursday, May 5, 2011 3:19 PM

DREAMTROVE


Sorry, gotta shoot a skeet here: Gaza aint so bad. Its not really a terrorist ridden third world pile of rubble, and unlike detroit, almost everyone can read.

Part of my feelings about Gaza come from here: if it were myhome, i wouldnt want to give it up. Detroit is more like Ciudada Juarez headed towards being Basra.

Some nice real estate in detroit though.

Did i mention that this thread belongs in RWED? Thats why Frem hasnt weighed in i guess, but I'm definitely going to get out of the way on this one as it has to do with kids being dumb AND the degeneration of detroit?!? I think he'll go nuclear when he sees it.


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Thursday, May 5, 2011 3:37 PM

INVADERCHAT


Well regardless of the reportedly fake screenshot, I just went and typed 'who is' into Google and the third option was 'who is Osama Bin Laden' so there's obviously some truth. Pretty sad.

Won't these people get a shock when they arrive in New York to find the twin towers have mysteriously disappeared.


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Friday, May 6, 2011 11:11 AM

DREAMTROVE


Sorry, i search twitter for "who is osama" the only constant string in this screenshot, so clearly the poster's search. I could not get anything but references to the story. The only posts i could find of this nature were the ones posted, and they were non-consecutive and you can only find them by searching on these people's usernames, which was nice of him not to block out.

When you review the posterrs you realize that some of them were likely born after bin laden waswidely reported to have died in 2001, and are not americans, so they live in a world where his death was a fact. Who today talks about Zarqawi? No one talks about dead terrorists. Esp. Not to eight year olds. In greece. Considering the goal here was to prove people are dumb, And they have 200 million twitter accounts to draw from, and they searched on deliberately things, this is a pretty poor showing to support the argument,

ETA

Just scan through pages and stick 'em together. Osama was hardly an important person to most of the world, just to US politicians and reporters, and maybe some islamic radicals, depending on how much of the story we buy.

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Friday, May 6, 2011 12:08 PM

LWAVES


Quote:

Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Considering the goal here was to prove people are dumb, And they have 200 million twitter accounts to draw from, and they searched on deliberately things, this is a pretty poor showing to support the argument.



Well considering that PN's 'source' for the picture was his favourite Daily Mail newspaper, here in the UK, then it's hardly surprising that it's fake or at least presented to show what they want. They see doom and gloom in everything. I'd call them 'alarmist'. If someone catches a bad cold in one part of the country then we are all going to die from a new strain of the flu virus. Apparently our next door neighbours could be terrorists so according to the Mail they all are terrorists.
The columists are usually spouting their own thoughts so much that it can be difficult to find any real news in the articles.



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Friday, May 6, 2011 5:16 PM

DREAMTROVE


Thanks for the context. Here we just call that fearmongering segment "the media" im serious though, even though ive met the Mail before of course and they are a dubious source, I only run into it in passing, and a more familiar attention is worthy input.

Our news sources are also not created equal.


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Saturday, May 7, 2011 8:18 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by dreamtrove:

The "people are getting stupider" is on the list of MSM/NWO/TPTB conspiracy propaganda myths being broadcast for a long time.



I enter the following exhibit in the Court of Public Opinion:


LED license plate install going horribly wrong
http://dragonaters.blogspot.com/2011/05/holey-mother-of-god.html

Scary thing is, these folks went to the same school I did, and I was put in charge of nuclear weapons on supersonic aircraft...

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