I have low hopes for Generation-Me
Jun. 9th, 2010 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
furtechI 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.
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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Date: 2010-06-10 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-10 06:34 am (UTC)But it wasn't that critical or personal, just cranky-old-man stuff. I did take the note off, though! (And thanks for pointing it out-- if I was talking about embarrassing stuff, I'd be all-over it).