Oh, and football is like a religion in Texas. Growing up there baseball was my thing. But I've never seen people worship a sport until I went to the UT Austin campus.
In a small southern town there was a "Nativity Scene" that showed great skill and talent had gone into creating it. One small feature bothered me.
The three wise men were wearing firemen's helmets.
Totally unable to come up with a reason or explanation, I left. At a "Quik Stop" on the edge of town, I asked the lady behind the counter about the helmets. She exploded into a rage, yelling at me, "You stupid Yankees never do read the Bible!" I assured her that I did, but simply couldn't recall anything about firemen in the Bible.
She jerked her Bible from behind the counter and ruffled through some pages, and finally jabbed her finger at a passage. Sticking it in my face she said "See, it says right here, the three wise man came from afar."
In a small southern town there was a "Nativity Scene" that showed great skill and talent had gone into creating it. One small feature bothered me.
The three wise men were wearing firemen's helmets.
Totally unable to come up with a reason or explanation, I left. At a "Quik Stop" on the edge of town, I asked the lady behind the counter about the helmets. She exploded into a rage, yelling at me, "You stupid Yankees never do read the Bible!" I assured her that I did, but simply couldn't recall anything about firemen in the Bible.
She jerked her Bible from behind the counter and ruffled through some pages, and finally jabbed her finger at a passage. Sticking it in my face she said "See, it says right here, the three wise man came from afar."
I've generally had the opinion that they're lazier than stupid. That pretty much meets the disability stereotype head on. Not all of them fit either stereotype though, and I'm sure we have some hard working Southern ATOTers down there, living next door to lazy stupid people.
Marlin1975 said:No, they are stupid as well. I was born in GA and grew up in NC....
Wait, so you're saying EVERYONE from the South is stupid?
The 5 year old kid is obviously smart and has a bright future if his parents continue whatever they've been doing.
However......
Memorization and math does not make a person intelligent.
Intelligence is creation and understanding. Intelligence is being to mentally grasp the world around you and answer the "whys" not answering the "hows." Tell me why, that's what philosophers always have wanted to know, not "how." Some math whiz will always figure out the "how." The "why" is what's important.
Einstein was intelligent because he could hypothesize things he could not observe or demonstrate. It was not about just running numbers. He imagined it. He understood it.
Society and childhood experiences has led us to this false notion that just being an human calculator makes a person intelligent. It doesn't. Most of those "math genuises" I knew in HS didn't and won't amount to anything except maybe Google engineers, which is unimpressive to say the least.
I'm going to repost my own joke...
You're such an enormously stupid douchebag.
He's right, though. Blindly bleating things because you've memorized them most certainly doesn't make you intelligent.
That's part of what is so wrong with our school system. They promote memorization, while the actual learning aspect leaves something to be desired..
He also stupidly thinks that maths has no connection to intelligence. Maths is the foundation to the future of high-tech jobs.
Intelligence notwithstanding, southern states have--by far--the most attractive female undergraduates of any region in the country. As an added bonus, they're often very nice as well.
I don't think when these folks are saying southerners, that they mean New Zealanders.
Rank Country IQ estimatePeople from TX are just a tad smarter then people from NZ, while people from KY are just below NZ
:hmm: Where does that put people from Colorado?
Ok I was just making a stupid joke, but if you really need this shit explained to you I shall oblige. If TX is above NZ, KY is below NZ and NZ is above USA, the question was where does that leave CO? Do you not understand the question? Are you simple?If you don't know that Colorado is part of the USA by now... then you really are stupid.
Are you simple?