"And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I don't have to know $%^#!"
Yesterday was the last day before her vacation of someone who works in my division; she's flying back to the Philippines to visit family.
Her supervisor, a woman who's really old enough to know better, asked her why she wanted to go back to the jungle. The Pinoy's family doesn't come from a jungle any more than we here in metro Detroit do. (Well, maybe in the Guns N' Roses sense; but in the Mowgli / Rima / Tarzan / Bomba / Ka-Zar / Sheena sense? Not so much.)
One of her co-workers, someone whom she used to be casual buddies with, asked what "her people" did for recreation in the Philippines if they didn't have tv.
This co-worker got a cold shoulder; the supervisor got a nearly-snarled, "Why don't you look it up on Wikipedia?" in response to her query.
Damn. Forget the Tea Party, the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, the Green Party, the Libertarian Party, etc.: the real major political party in the U.S. is the Know Nothing Party.
I mean, ignorance must be bliss, 'cause there are so effin' many people who practice it. Sheeeeesh.
Her supervisor, a woman who's really old enough to know better, asked her why she wanted to go back to the jungle. The Pinoy's family doesn't come from a jungle any more than we here in metro Detroit do. (Well, maybe in the Guns N' Roses sense; but in the Mowgli / Rima / Tarzan / Bomba / Ka-Zar / Sheena sense? Not so much.)
One of her co-workers, someone whom she used to be casual buddies with, asked what "her people" did for recreation in the Philippines if they didn't have tv.
This co-worker got a cold shoulder; the supervisor got a nearly-snarled, "Why don't you look it up on Wikipedia?" in response to her query.
Damn. Forget the Tea Party, the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, the Green Party, the Libertarian Party, etc.: the real major political party in the U.S. is the Know Nothing Party.
I mean, ignorance must be bliss, 'cause there are so effin' many people who practice it. Sheeeeesh.