I have low hopes for Generation-Me

[furtech]

I wish there was an "ignorance" ap that prevented me from seeing posts from nitwits. I think it could be popular.

What people know/don't-know continues to boggle me. This is from a post on the fursuit-LJ community:

"... seeing as the US has a trade embargo against Cuba."

"Wow, seriously?"

Someone wanted to know how to ship a costume to Cuba . The scary thing is that the replier above is -not- the shipper who asked the question, but someone else who didn't know about the Cuban-US situation. A third (not)helpful person describes in detail how they ship to Germany and knows this will work shipping to Cuba because they've shipped to Germany twice.

This reminds me of a BBS conversation where a poster stated that the Arab-Israeli conflict was stoopid and they should just sit down and agree not to fight. When it was pointed out that this had been going on for some time, they replied in amazement, "What, like 50 years?!?" Oy.

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[gilmorelion.livejournal.com]

This kind of thing is the reason I don't watch the "Jay-Walking" segments on Leno. It just makes my head hurt.

[chuck-melville.livejournal.com]

Oh, I used to love watching the Jay-Walking segments! My favorite was the one who tried to explain to Jay why you couldn't circumnavigate the globe, and, with the visual aid of an actual Rand-McNally globe, proceeded with an explanation that was as absurd as it was hilarious. (Apparently, he was of the belief that some of the illusionary markings, such as the Equator, were actual physical boundaries.) What was worse, was the girl who was with him when the question was originally posed suddenly understood what he was talking about and agreed with him, which only dumbfounded Leno all the more.

I wish I could find a Youtube of that particular sequence.