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Gene363 Offline
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Year After year...
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Buckwheat Offline
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Applause Applause Applause
victor809 Offline
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I'm not necessarily a fan of daylight savings time... but that statement is pretty dumb.
It doesn't really take into account fixed hours vs variable daylight.

To use the poorly implemented metaphor above (which I'm sure was not actually said by an indian)... you only can use 1/3 of the blanket at any time. That usable area tends to shift. At some points that usable area shifts to the bottom of the blanket, and by moving a foot off the top and sewing it to the bottom, you can use the entire 1/3.

It's a dumb saying.
It's an outdated concept (for the most part)....

but most importantly... the irony of such a dumb statement being likely falsly attributed to an "old indian" to make it sound pithy, and put on a meme from some place like "free your mind and think" is just so very sweet.
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Let’s look at this logically, oh wait, that would mean intelligence, something that is becoming a rare thing upon this planet. Time for a Beam me up Scotty Moment.
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Technically the blanket will be shorter because of seams and stuff... Mellow
dstieger Offline
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My memory is hazy, but it seems there was a time when Victor debated (and sometimes argued) from a position of some reason.....what happened? Seems he's become the guy my Grandpa used to talk about ....'that guy'....who'd 'argue with ya, iffn ya said the sun would rise in the east tomorrow'...


Victor....it's a joke...lighten up, Francis
DrafterX Offline
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He must really hate old Indian blankets... Mellow
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dstieger wrote:
My memory is hazy, but it seems there was a time when Victor debated (and sometimes argued) from a position of some reason.....what happened? Seems he's become the guy my Grandpa used to talk about ....'that guy'....who'd 'argue with ya, iffn ya said the sun would rise in the east tomorrow'...


Victor....it's a joke...lighten up, Francis


I am arguing from a position of reason. The meme is based on a faulty premise (that every hour in the day is equal).

I am tired of seeing dumb quotes and pretend pithy sayings dressed up to sound intelligent. People paste that crap all over facebook or twitter or any other social media location and don't bother actually thinking about the statement.

We are getting dumber, each and every one of us, because we're allowing someone to feed words to us to re-distribute to others, which have no logical meaning behind them.

I can't possibly be the only one tired of seeing these types of things everywhere.

Hell, if gene had just posted a thread "I dislike daylight savings time"... I wouldn't really have a reason to disagree. It isn't really necessary any longer. But posting something that makes no sense as an argument, and pretending it's a sage saying.... that's just dumb. It doesn't make sense as a joke either, unless we're making fun of the dumb indians who think an hour in the middle of the night had just as much value as an hour in the middle of the day in the early 1900s....
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I bet if Abe Lincoln had said this you would have laughed and forwarded to all your friends... Not talking
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DrafterX wrote:
I bet if Abe Lincoln had said this you would have laughed and forwarded to all your friends... Not talking


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DrafterX Offline
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Not gonna do it... Not talking
banderl Offline
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victor809 wrote:
I am arguing from a position of reason. The meme is based on a faulty premise (that every hour in the day is equal).

I am tired of seeing dumb quotes and pretend pithy sayings dressed up to sound intelligent. People paste that crap all over facebook or twitter or any other social media location and don't bother actually thinking about the statement.

We are getting dumber, each and every one of us, because we're allowing someone to feed words to us to re-distribute to others, which have no logical meaning behind them.

I can't possibly be the only one tired of seeing these types of things everywhere.

Hell, if gene had just posted a thread "I dislike daylight savings time"... I wouldn't really have a reason to disagree. It isn't really necessary any longer. But posting something that makes no sense as an argument, and pretending it's a sage saying.... that's just dumb. It doesn't make sense as a joke either, unless we're making fun of the dumb indians who think an hour in the middle of the night had just as much value as an hour in the middle of the day in the early 1900s....



It's all a part of the stupidization of America.
Ewok126 Offline
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But you do have to admit, it is funny as hell when someone that falls for the ignorance and says "This Native American many years ago once said......"

Easy on the "Dumb indians" I resemble that remark.

"We are getting dumber...."

What's this WE chit Tonto (No, I do not mean the spanish word)
tailgater Offline
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victor809 wrote:
I'm not necessarily a fan of daylight savings time... but that statement is pretty dumb.
It doesn't really take into account fixed hours vs variable daylight.

To use the poorly implemented metaphor above (which I'm sure was not actually said by an indian)... you only can use 1/3 of the blanket at any time. That usable area tends to shift. At some points that usable area shifts to the bottom of the blanket, and by moving a foot off the top and sewing it to the bottom, you can use the entire 1/3.

It's a dumb saying.
It's an outdated concept (for the most part)....

but most importantly... the irony of such a dumb statement being likely falsly attributed to an "old indian" to make it sound pithy, and put on a meme from some place like "free your mind and think" is just so very sweet.



Is this plagiarized from that famous book: "How to make sure you have no friends as you reach the midpoint of your life"

tailgater Offline
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Ewok126 wrote:
But you do have to admit, it is funny as hell when someone that falls for the ignorance and says "This Native American many years ago once said......"

Easy on the "Dumb indians" I resemble that remark.

"We are getting dumber...."

What's this WE chit Tonto (No, I do not mean the spanish word)


Not dumb.

Drunk.


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I'm wondering: why a blanket?
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Ummmm, daylight savings time shifts the time frame of daylight. So the above poster is really a WTF. Though I find no value in debating it. I wonder if it is hanging in the oval office or the living quarters?
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Speyside wrote:
Ummmm, daylight savings time shifts the time frame of daylight. So the above poster is really a WTF. Though I find no value in debating it. I wonder if it is hanging in the oval office or the living quarters?

we've been doing it like 100 years, so no old Indian ever said this.
It is quaint though.
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Some Indian in Arizona took this to heart and said....."**** this DST,remember the blanket story Tonto"
Ewok126 Offline
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DST brings more business to medical field with work related accidents, car accidents, heart attacks. Every year a boost in income for Big Pharma for a day or so. Also population control for 100 years.

The Injuns felt it was a conspiracy put together by the pale skins so they made the photo of Chitting Bull with his famous saying poking fun at the pale skin's mentality and making fun of their blankets. Little did the Injuns know 75 years later this would be viewed as a meme and become a racial thing.

That's my factual story and I am going on my wifes facebook and Twitter page to spread them facts around to see how many fish I can catch.

Why? Cause I am a prick and I am bored.

Gon' Fishing
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Indians and palefaces both have it wrong:

Cut the sides off the blanket and sew them on ends....day is longer but it goes much faster.

Cut a hole out of center and sew on end......day is longer but you have a siesta.

Get blanket wet, put it on a rack and stretch it. You have extra benefit of being taller too.
Gene363 Offline
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victor809 wrote:
I'm not necessarily a fan of daylight savings time... but that statement is pretty dumb.
It doesn't really take into account fixed hours vs variable daylight.

To use the poorly implemented metaphor above (which I'm sure was not actually said by an indian)... you only can use 1/3 of the blanket at any time. That usable area tends to shift. At some points that usable area shifts to the bottom of the blanket, and by moving a foot off the top and sewing it to the bottom, you can use the entire 1/3.

It's a dumb saying.
It's an outdated concept (for the most part)....

but most importantly... the irony of such a dumb statement being likely falsly attributed to an "old indian" to make it sound pithy, and put on a meme from some place like "free your mind and think" is just so very sweet.


Looks like the FOG transition is starting early.Frying pan

The meme is dumb, it's supposed to dumb, like the concept of getting more daylight by changing the hands/digits on a clock. It does feature a nice old photo of a Native American.
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Now you understand, Two Dogs F*cking? Anxious
victor809 Offline
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tailgater wrote:
Is this plagiarized from that famous book: "How to make sure you have no friends as you reach the midpoint of your life"



If you're willing to suffer stupidity around you just so you can have friends then I feel sorry for you.
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Gene363 wrote:
Looks like the FOG transition is starting early.Frying pan

The meme is dumb, it's supposed to dumb, like the concept of getting more daylight by changing the hands/digits on a clock. It does feature a nice old photo of a Native American.


The funniest part about all this....

I was doing a few quick searches of the meme to try to figure out where it came from. I was largely unsuccessful, but found it posted in at least two native American news sites.

So likely at least one old Indian has forwarded it on to their friends, essentially making the meme true after it's creation.

Life imitating art?
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frankj1 wrote:
I'm wondering: why a blanket?



Because it has the smallpox bug on it?
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It was prolly started by the Russians... Mellow
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frankj1 wrote:
I'm wondering: why a blanket?

Why not? Think ........no tarps?
frankj1 Offline
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I dunno. Coulda said to cut the bottom off a teepee
Gene363 Offline
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victor809 wrote:
The funniest part about all this....

I was doing a few quick searches of the meme to try to figure out where it came from. I was largely unsuccessful, but found it posted in at least two native American news sites.

So likely at least one old Indian has forwarded it on to their friends, essentially making the meme true after it's creation.

Life imitating art?


Sometime Karma is nice. Beer
MACS Offline
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dstieger wrote:
My memory is hazy, but it seems there was a time when Victor debated (and sometimes argued) from a position of some reason.....what happened? Seems he's become the guy my Grandpa used to talk about ....'that guy'....who'd 'argue with ya, iffn ya said the sun would rise in the east tomorrow'...


Victor....it's a joke...lighten up, Francis


Victor seems bound and determined to make a bunch of fat, old, white guys (as he is so fond of calling us) think he's smart.

It's okay, man. My resource development teacher, Mr. Saunders, told me I was destined for a job with my name on my shirt. He was right... I was in the Navy for 20 years, and with the sheriff's dept for 10. I'm just not sure he realized I'd be making well over what he made, while never going into debt for the education he had.

Keep on keepin' on, Vic.

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MACS wrote:
Victor seems bound and determined to make a bunch of fat, old, white guys (as he is so fond of calling us) think he's smart.

It's okay, man. My resource development teacher, Mr. Saunders, told me I was destined for a job with my name on my shirt. He was right... I was in the Navy for 20 years, and with the sheriff's dept for 10. I'm just not sure he realized I'd be making well over what he made, while never going into debt for the education he had.

Keep on keepin' on, Vic.


my name on a shirt across my back would have been so cool, if it said Red Sox or Celtics across the front.
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frankj1 wrote:
my name on a shirt across my back would have been so cool, if it said Red Sox or Celtics across the front.


Too short, too slow, too unathletic... too many reasons my name was on the front.
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MACS wrote:
Too short, too slow, too unathletic... too many reasons my name was on the front.

well, there's that.
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MACS wrote:
Victor seems bound and determined to make a bunch of fat, old, white guys (as he is so fond of calling us) think he's smart.

It's okay, man. My resource development teacher, Mr. Saunders, told me I was destined for a job with my name on my shirt. He was right... I was in the Navy for 20 years, and with the sheriff's dept for 10. I'm just not sure he realized I'd be making well over what he made, while never going into debt for the education he had.

Keep on keepin' on, Vic.



You also didn't have $90k+ in college loan debt.
MACS Offline
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frankj1 wrote:
well, there's that.


Good news is... I did really well with a HS diploma. Senior Chief in the Navy and Sgt in the new job.

Since I retired... making 6 figures. Still got my Navy pension. I think I whooped him, good.

Look at me go, with my bad self... still 4 lower division classes shy of my BS in criminal justice administration.

And smarter than 98. 2% of my professors. Dumbasses. BigGrin
MACS Offline
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That was blatantly self congratulatory.

I'd apologize, but screw all those dbags who doubted me. And thank you for the motivation!
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frankj1 wrote:
I'm wondering: why a blanket?



I know right?

In your case would it have been a Loincloth? Gonz
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MACS wrote:


And smarter than 98. 2% of my professors. Dumbasses. BigGrin


Community college, eh?
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MACS wrote:
Victor seems bound and determined to make a bunch of fat, old, white guys (as he is so fond of calling us) think he's smart.




Maybe he's trying to make us miss Bloody....might even work...Sunshine2
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dstieger wrote:
Maybe he's trying to make us miss Bloody....might even work...Sunshine2


To be fair, I've never excluded myself from the descriptor of "fat old white guys"...
It apparently hurt MACS's feeling though. Damn snowflakes are everywhere these days... must be climate change.
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victor809 wrote:
To be fair, I've never excluded myself from the descriptor of "fat old white guys"...
It apparently hurt MACS's feeling though. Damn snowflakes are everywhere these days... must be climate change.


Fat or F'ing Old Guys? Discriminating against scronsters is unacceptable.
MACS Offline
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Thunder.Gerbil wrote:
Community college, eh?


Worse. UoP.
tailgater Offline
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victor809 wrote:
If you're willing to suffer stupidity around you just so you can have friends then I feel sorry for you.


Hey, they let ME hang around with them.
You do the math.

tailgater Offline
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A quaint meme.
Not based on logic, but on how (pun intended) an Indian chief might speak.
Doesn't have to make sense.
It's what the would call "cute". Or cutesy. take your pick.


Meanwhile at CBid, we have a bunch of self aggrandizing blow hards who feel compelled to ridicule the "logic". As if they're somehow smart in doing so.

You're the guy who jumped up during Forrest Gump and shouted "Just look at the back of the chocolate box to see where the caramel is!"

Technically correct.
And technically an idiot.

All at once.
Ewok126 Offline
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I thought it was cute and it got the point across to me!

I jumped up during Forrest Gump and shouted "Where the phug is the price tag on that Box of Choco-lates"

I am still wondering to this day how much he paid for it considering the timeline the movie was set in! Confused
Gene363 Offline
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Bump
bs_kwaj Offline
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FYI

It's not Daylight Savings Time.

It's Daylight Saving Time.

I can't 'splain the difference right now, just gotta look it up. BigGrin

Beer
tailgater Offline
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bs_kwaj wrote:
FYI

It's not Daylight Savings Time.

It's Daylight Saving Time.

I can't 'splain the difference right now, just gotta look it up. BigGrin

Beer


Victor will be around soon to explain how you're not really saving any daylight.
He's a joy a parties.

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Unless....unless you tell him that 'we're not really saving any daylight'.....if that's the case, he'll be around soon to argue that we are
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