REPORT: US adults are dumber than the average human

[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

me know no wut dis rtickle men

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

I have seen this on other forums.


Do any of you consider yourself stupid? Why not?

No. I mean yes. I mean--um--can you rephrase the question?

 

[fr33]

I have seen this on other forums.


Do any of you consider yourself stupid? Why not?

I was in the military over 10 years (Asia, Europe and the Middle East), other military forces had our same equipment, but we always kick their ass if they weren't afraid to play. Don't get me started on the French. It still makes me laugh. Usually, to save face, they didn't even want to play.

I did two exercises in Israel. They talk the talk, but were just monitoring our maneuvers. Would not come up and fight us. They fight a bunch of "ragheads" that don't know what the fuck they are doing. I surmise, it was in the Israel's military interest not to fight us in exercises as their front line fighter pilots might lose confidence.

We are stupid enough to fund and contribute to you guys. In your examples they didn't want to "fight us" the same way people try to avoid school yard bullies. Maybe they know about people like Oscar Grant and how dangerous it is.

 

[Danke]

We are stupid enough to fund and contribute to you guys. In your examples they didn't want to "fight us" the same way people try to avoid school yard bullies. Maybe they know about people like Oscar Grant and how dangerous it is.

Sorry to break this to you, but just as a sports team, you strive to better yourself and your team.

With the military it is a matter of life or death. I have 7 friends who died in training mishaps. It is not something we take lightly. The pre and post briefings are intense.

If you want to be the best of the best, you train as you would fight.

To say we are bullies is a non sequitur. Our foreign policy may be that of a bully. But that has nothing to do with training. Every military wants to be the best they can be, with the resources they have available. And many have avoided fight us in training exercises, as I have witnessed. And I think it is because their threats don't pose that big of a threat. And they don't want to have their front line fighters doubt their capabilities.

An example beside the Israelis that I already mentioned is the South Koreans.

It would be a turkey shot if we had to fight the North Koreans.

Without the US support, it still wouldn't be a huge problem, but I guarantee they would want us there.

 

[enoch150]

I have seen this on other forums.


Do any of you consider yourself stupid? Why not?

I was in the military over 10 years (Asia, Europe and the Middle East), other military forces had our same equipment, but we always kick their ass if they weren't afraid to play. Don't get me started on the French. It still makes me laugh. Usually, to save face, they didn't even want to play.

I did two exercises in Israel. They talk the talk, but were just monitoring our maneuvers. Would not come up and fight us. They fight a bunch of "ragheads" that don't know what the fuck they are doing. I surmise, it was in the Israel's military interest not to fight us in exercises as their front line fighter pilots might lose confidence.

 

[Snew]

RIGHT HERE Moronic America... get this, on the frigin: The Learning Channel

pretty much sums it up...

 

[VIDEODROME]

Either they don't want to fight us because we would probably win, or because they think we have an insanely over competetive culture.

A competition is a chance to demonstrate our "Exceptionism" and we would probably go to crazy lengths to win even just a small training exercise. I wonder what it says about prefering to fight terrorists rather than have a so-called training exercise with us?

 

[Danke]

People don't understand that we push the limits daily, why? Because as of right now we can afford it. And people die during training.

Other governments can't afford to lose a fighter jet, as an example. So their training is very scripted. Plus, we grow up with machines, most other countries don't. And we have a system (in the military) were merit advances you, not royalty or family connection.

 

[enoch150]

Might there be a possible alternate explanation? They could expect, at some point in the future, to face the American military in actual combat. Simply observing Americans training, rather than participating in it, might give them some advantage. That's assuming the Americans don't also observe them, or maybe that they put on a show of deliberately false maneuvers.

Not really talking in my comfort zone on this one. Just speculating.

 

[Danke]

Might there be a possible alternate explanation? They could expect, at some point in the future, to face the American military in actual combat. Simply observing Americans training, rather than participating in it, might give them some advantage. That's assuming the Americans don't also observe them, or maybe that they put on a show of deliberately false maneuvers.

Not really talking in my comfort zone on this one. Just speculating.

If you don't train, you can't be expected to out of the blue fight in methods you are not practiced in.

In our military, from experience, we allow individual actions and adaptability. Many die in training as we train as we would fight (because as of now we have basically unlimited resources), speaking from experience, other militaries don't. That has been my observation. Their budgets just doesn't allow what we do in training. And the other factor is we are better innately with manipulating machines, IMHO. You can easily witness this by just driving in any third world county. Funk, even in Korea or Japan, etc.

 

[enoch150]

If you don't train, you can't be expected to out of the blue fight in methods you are not practiced in.

In our military, from experience, we allow individual actions and adaptability. Many die in training as we train as we would fight (because as of now we have basically unlimited resources), speaking from experience, other militaries don't. That has been my observation. Their budgets just doesn't allow what we do in training. And the other factor is we are better innately with manipulating machines, IMHO. You can easily witness this by just driving in any third world county. Funk, even in Korea or Japan, etc.

I understand that from training in football, karate, and other things. I'm just wondering if they only seem to train poorly when the American military is present, as a deceptive measure. Perhaps they train more aggressively when alone or with other allies of theirs.

I'm not saying you're wrong. I don't know one way or the other. Just throwing out a possibility, however remote.

 

[Danke]

I understand that from training in football, karate, and other things. I'm just wondering if they only seem to train poorly when the American military is present, as a deceptive measure. Perhaps they train more aggressively when alone or with other allies of theirs.

No, we monitor all activity. They don't.

 

[NiceGoing]

RIGHT HERE Moronic America... get this, on the frigin: The Learning Channel

^^What on earth is that?!!!
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However, if I post a picture of a Valedictorian, will that prove that my view is the correct one? IOW, your photo is not in any way a logical argument.

 

[thoughtomator]

You need to get out more...

It should be legal to tip these people on their sides and leave them there like that. I bet that is being subsidized (by you) in near every fashion imaginable. If any "work" is done by that individual it's probably related to the filling out of welfare forms.

Don't anybody give me the politically correct BS on these people - this is not genetic. If it were it would not have made it through the gene pool to get this far, because it pretty much requires modern technology to survive at all.

 

[Mani]

It should be legal to tip these people on their sides and leave them there like that. I bet that is being subsidized (by you) in near every fashion imaginable. If any "work" is done by that individual it's probably related to the filling out of welfare forms.

Don't anybody give me the politically correct BS on these people - this is not genetic. If it were it would not have made it through the gene pool to get this far, because it pretty much requires modern technology to survive at all.

Is this the WALMART version of Cow Tipping.

 

[DamianTV]

We asked for Education. They gave us School.

We knew the difference.

We offered money for Education. They sold us School.

Eventually we became so stupid that most did not know the difference.

We wanted Education to be a Right. So they made School Mandatory.

Only some of the people that did know the difference were those that did not attend School to get an Education.

 

[Mani]

At least with our BLOATED department of Education....No child was left behind. Just the ENTIRE COUNTRY...

 

[idiom]

The American Military gets a hell of a lot more practice in than anyone else. Some of it is through coming up with continuous scraps to practice in, and other times its just pure money. American fighter pilots average thousands of more flight hours than any other country.

The upside of continuous engagements is that it weeds out the incompetents who are career military for the pay-cheque. They die, or get people killed.

No other military face the darwinian pressure that the .mil does.

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

And the other factor is we are better innately with manipulating machines, IMHO. You can easily witness this by just driving in any third world county. Funk, even in Korea or Japan, etc.

I'm not sure I see the connection between military superiority and smarts. It's probably more as you suggested: our "expendable" money more than other countries' resources. It's similar to why we excel in the Olympics.

I think however, it is very arguable whether Americans are more mechanical. Asian-Americans are very overrepresented in engineering degrees (e.g., mechanical engineering).

I don't know where the U.S. stacks up with every single country as far as driving, but we definitely have more per capita fatalities than Japan. Philippines also has a lower driving fatality rate than the U.S. Manila has some crazy drivers, but I would not say that New York drivers were any better when I lived and drove there for several years. I might guess Filipino selt belt use is lower too, but could not swear to it. Their speed limit enforcement is also pretty lax, at least when I was there last.

On a personal note, my wife is from another country. She can put on a doorknob twice as fast as I. I grew up on lawnmowers while she never cut grass, but she just showed me a trick about starting our tricky mower this past summer. I don't think she ever shot a pistol before arriving here, but she showed me a couple of unique ways to shoot. People in the remote areas of her country pick up on mechanics pretty fast, despite their experience being limited with some of our machines. Guys there can quickly diagnose problems with their motorcycles, even when they've bought a new one for the first time. American mechanics is limited to whipping out their phones and calling Triple A.

It just my personal observation (backed with some figures) that mechanical and electrical parts are better from places like Japan. Panasonic TVs are just better, overall, than this Vizio garbage sold at walmart. A car that is 100% produced and assembled in Japan is even better than Japanese cars created in America. I had a Filipino 3g phone from the late 90s. I used it here in the mid 2000s and it was still more advanced than the phones here (people here just marveled at the video capability--ha ha).

I think what Americans excel at is manipulating gadgets without have an overview understanding of how a device works. Kids, for example, know how to manipulate their texting fingers, but are clueless when it comes to finding reliable and valid information on the internet.

A lot of Americans also excel at patting themselves on the back. Home grown Americans like to put down the foreigner, but the immigrant will quietly do a better job on something because of superior intuition, previous hands-on experience, or common sense. The Americans who are smart are often just book smart, and even that number is not very large.

I'm not really talking about you, especially since it appears that you might have been making a different point.

 

[tod evans]

REPORT: US adults are dumber than the average human

Well I certainly fit that bill.

With each passing decade I become more stupid.

And there's a fresh crop of youngsters to point it out to me too.