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Engineering out the bigot gene? If only it were that simple. Genetics doesn't actually work that way, which is probably a good thing, because I'm told eugenics is a bit of a murky path to tread. (Unless I'm in charge of who gets offed and who gets to breed, of course, but ymmv).

Not sure where I read it, probably Dawkins, but we're just great at respect and treating each other well, but only in small tribe-sized groups. Start dealing with groups as large as countries, and there are just too many people involved for the brain to recognise them all as real people. And respecting a faceless automaton is a bit tricky, really.

I know lots of chantys, can I join the crew? ;-)

You want to see the best in the human race, unfortunatly the law of averages says that yes a lot of people really ARE that idiotic.
Respect IS good, sadly it also appears to be something our species as a whole is not too good at giving.
It might be time to start again, all the smart intelligent people can leave the planet on big spaceships and the morons can blow themselves to kingdom come. I suspect the eventual nuclear holocaust will have some really, really stuipd cause.

I admit I'm rather (very) cynical, but I've seen too many examples of human stupidity.

On the other hand scientists may one day isolate the bigot gene and we can engineer this nasty trait right out of the species!

Why build a boat? I already have brought a tall ship.

Hmmmm, well, books...
One book about cooking in difficult conditions,
One book about how to identify poisonous stuff you don't want to eat/touch/get stung by on a desert island (and how to treat said poison without the aid of synthetic antitoxins),
And probably a collected edition of all Tolkeins work (Including Mr Bliss, which is still one of the funniest childrens books ever).

Movies, probably Ameile, Spirited Away, Bugsey Malone, Sound of Music and Casablanca.

Alternatively a book about how to make a boat and sail around the world in it would be good!

This is rather like the premise of a popular BBC Radio 4 show, except it is three books plus the complete works of Shakespere and the Bible and five pieces of music.

Well, if I can't spork the Watchmen badfic I saw right away, I'll take this one. A pity it only got started. I love the Mary Sue's description, my Agent Krisp would be very happy to kill her. He's the Sue-icide in the group. (well, South would be happy too, he's the Grammar Nazi.)

Even without knowledge of the canon, that one is making me wince repeatedly. The punctuation is screamingly bad, and the author doesn't seem to have heard of the question mark or of ending quoted speech with punctuation.

Also, gratuitous misspellings and overly perfect nonsense in the character description.

Well, you're right. These people are dumb. As I'm not American, I don't really care about what Obama does, I only know it can only be better than what Bush did. And maybe Obama does better because he's a Vulcan. Wait, you didn't know ? lol

Which ones you think look the worst? I found a Suefic here:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4245170/1/Weallhaveoursecrets

Well, I'm not that much into slash, but it's a effective way to get BAD slash.

I don't really mind slash so much (granted, it's not my bag of chips by any means, but I can handle it). What bothers me is the terrible PCGS- Punctuation, Capitalization, Grammar, Spelling- or rather lack of in many places.

It's actually not as bad as most cases, which is doubly irksome in some ways- a simple double-check could have handled all the minor mistakes and given a spotless summary.

And I just outright don't watch TV much, is all.

I brought a tall ship. With ALL my books and DVDs. You can read and watch all you want.

If you love math, you should watch it. If you don't, you should still watch it, because the math is very well explained (well the chars still get their geeky moments)

Well, to find badfic, just go to ff.net, pick any fandom, then ask for M-rated fics featuring two characters of the same gender. Slash ahoy!

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4987171/1/Theabilitytonotsee

Just trying to follow it hurts my brain O_
*facepalms on the behalf of the tMoHS continuum*

My inner Grammar Nazi is taking a chainsaw and jackhammer to my skull. I think he wants to get out and kill someone based off some of the summaries alone.

And I've never actually seen Numb3rs.

and greatly enjoyed the experience.

It's a hypothetical question. No one said it had to be realistic.

You assume that there's something to watch the movies on, I presume...

Okay. Books: LOTR (yes, I count that as one, because its author did), Polgara the Sorceress and Belgarath the Sorcerer, both from David Eddings' Belgariad/Malloreon series.

Movies: LOTR again, Mamma Mia, Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2, 3.

Shamefully, I stole this from an episode of the Office. Scenario: You're trapped on a desert island and stranded there for the rest of your life. Your only luggage is three books and five movies. What would those books and movies be?

On second thought, I'd rather put my Agents in a TARDIS, if that's possible. If not, they'll have to make do with a Response Center.

Considering the fact that both of my agents are human, I'll have to go with a Response Center.

Yeah, you know I didn't know what to expect, or well, I didn't expect people to just be that... idiotic. And I was discussing this with Kgarrett earlier because it really does give an extremely unfavorable light in general in our country as a whole. Without getting into a whole, "not everyone is the stereotype their country presents," lengthy, insanely drawn out with way too many metaphors and well, you probably get it.

In short, our "15 minutes of fame" shows an appalling amount of short-sightedness, arrogance, and high doses of supreme stupidity.

We need a new PR.

He's not "my" president, and I couldn't care less about America or your politics, but I see where you're coming from; it's one thing to have a reasonable stance against something or someone, and quite another to mock it/them for no apparent reason. I have no fondness for America at all, but I don't mock you, and I certainly don't make nasty edited pictures. Do those people have nothing better to do with their time? *sigh*

Good thing is, we don't have to look at their silly pictures. :)