The world has just gotten a bit more stupid

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:52 am

I can't believe this...over a cartoon...

ManyWorlds · Post by **ManyWorlds** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:59 am

I notice they misspelled "furor"...

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:01 am

or DID they?!

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:03 am

Noise Monkey's Guide to Writing English English:

Add an "e" on the end of everything.

Excuse me. Everythinge.

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:35 am

This only illustrates the fact that people get stupid over little things.

Ian Moulding · Post by **Ian Moulding** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:58 am

She didn't quit because of the cartoons. She quit because she ordered a site to be shut down at the same time that the Scandinavian countries were having a big row over the limits of free speech and religious tolerance. Add in the fact that the Foreign Minister shut down a domestic website, and her career was basically over.

"Ms Freivalds was rounded on by the press when a far-right website was forced to close on 9 February, after a foreign ministry official contacted the site's hosting company.

Critics said this was an intrusion on the freedom of speech.

The minister said she did not order the official to contact the company, but a later report from the ministry said she was involved in the decision."

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:05 am

but to kill your career over a cartoon! that's...stupid!

Doukasou · Post by **Doukasou** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:08 am

or a highly effective way to escape from the drudgery of politics.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:09 am

at her age, it's not like she's got a lot of options left. should've just ridden it out to retirement.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:53 am

Noise Monkey wrote:but to kill your career over a cartoon! that's...stupid!

Shutting down a website because you're afraid of a cartoon is, yeah.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:02 am

This is as good a place to put this link as any.

DAMN YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/ ... 5127.shtml

Czar · Post by **Czar** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:13 am

Pretty much the entire foreign ministry and government is under criticism for their percieved lack of response to the Tsunami, and there's been many voices speaking for change since last fall or longer.

This would be the drop that made the barrel overflow.

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:15 am

wimps. imagine if Bush pulled half the shit he has pulled here in Sweden. they'd fillet him.

rkolter wrote: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/ ... 5127.shtml

er... wow.

Czar · Post by **Czar** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:21 am

grabmygoblin wrote:wimps. imagine if Bush pulled half the shit he has pulled here in Sweden. they'd fillet him.

Dunno, if Persson and his cabinet was in Washington, they'd probably been ousted, violently, by now.

But then, they are social democrats (though they seem to keep forgetting that all the time for some reason. I guess all those years in power are getting to them).

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:24 am

sorry to get all political btw. I'm just cranky right now.

Czar · Post by **Czar** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:29 am

grabmygoblin wrote:sorry to get all political btw. I'm just cranky right now.

Hell, I rarely, if ever, get to be political about my own nation with people who doesn't know or care more than me.

I rather like the concept.

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:47 am

grabmygoblin wrote:sorry to get all political btw. I'm just cranky right now.

I don't mind the political, but don't do it cranky, please.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:50 am

politic happy!

or at least on drugs, should you do that sort of thing.

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:52 am

Stupidity is not the problem. It's "manliness."

Yes, that's right. Lack of intelligence is not the issue. It's the stubborn refusal to admit wrong even when the entire world is pointing out the problem.

I think I'll continue calling it "stupid."

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:55 am

Stupid Manliness is Stanliness. Stan is the cause of all our problems.

Seek out and destroy Stan.