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1sikbITCH said:
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...zes-after-couple-forced-to-prove-to-clerk-new

Being an American is completely embarrassing on a daily basis:

"She thought New Mexico was a foreign country," he said of the clerk. "All the couples behind us waiting in line were laughing."

There are no words for how stupid people are. Retarded does not begin to capture it.
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Yeah find a different word. This doesn’t sound like it’s a deficiency caused by genetics or anything else biological.
 
Guy I used to know lived in New Mexico, he had similar problems all the time.

“We only ship stuff to the US”

I knew him pre-internet order shit from Amazon time
 
MomentsofSanity said:
Yeah find a different word. This doesn’t sound like it’s a deficiency caused by genetics or anything else biological.
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Retard is a french word.

It means slow.

This person sounds slow.

It works.

It is NOT a biological word.


Before the word was commonly known in America doctors decided to use it when talking to parents cuz it sounded nice. They didnt wanna call their kids slow, so they came up with something nice.

The problem is the medical community used it too much, it became part of the regular American lexicon, and eventually an insult and slang.

You dont have to be born slow. You can get smashed in the skull and find your brain doesnt track like it used to.
 
Oh I forgot to comment on the article:

Many people who work in the government were born and raised in DC.
DC has absolutely horrible public schools. I am not surprised some of the employees dont know most of the 50 states.
 
I've experienced the same when I lived in NM. I've also talked to large international companies recently who aren't sure North Dakota is a State. Most seem to think the U.S. ends about 4 States West of the East coast and 2 States East of the West coast.
 
My sister lives in New Mexico. According to her this sort of stuff happens all the time-maybe not to the same degree (two bozos here, the counter person and the supervisor).

Sad thing is that clerk probably has her mind full of all sorts of trivia, like the names of everyone who has appeared on The Voice for the past three seasons.
 
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See my sig. A currently serving, for 10+ years, congressman asked if Guam would tip over if we put too many troops on the island. This guy helps create and votes on legislation we live by. Let that sink in.
 
MagnusTheBrewer said:
I've experienced the same when I lived in NM. I've also talked to large international companies recently who aren't sure North Dakota is a State. Most seem to think the U.S. ends about 4 States West of the East coast and 2 States East of the West coast.
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That many?
 
I don't know what's more sad: that several D.C. government employees don't know their geography, or that Gavin Clarkson, a recent candidate for New Mexico secretary of state, decided this was the piece of news he was going to ride back into the temporary spotlight. I hope this final 90 seconds of his 15 minutes of fame were worth it to him.

If only he'd been elected then he could have been the one to finally return New Mexico to it's rightful place of glory on elementary classroom maps across the country, and even in far flung Washington D.C.
 
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Paladin3 said:
I don't know what's more sad: that several D.C. government employees don't know their geography, or that Gavin Clarkson, a recent candidate for New Mexico secretary of state, decided this was the piece of news he was going to ride back into the temporary spotlight. I hope this final 90 seconds of his 15 minutes of fame were worth it to him.

If only he'd been elected then he could have been the one to finally return New Mexico to it's rightful place of glory on elementary classroom maps across the country, and even in far flung Washington D.C.
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Gavin’s an ass. My native scholar friend says betrayed the natives he was supposed to be a part of.
 
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DarthKyrie said:
This is truly pathetic, I have been able to identify every state in the Union since I was like 8.
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I've been able to name every state capital since about that age, though I wouldn't hold anyone else up to my nerdy standards.

Then again, not recognizing any of the 50 states as a state is pretty mind boggling to me. If the person in question is not, in fact, developmentally disabled, then it has to be an issue with the educational system they went through.
 
MagnusTheBrewer said:
I've seen herds of antelope there. It always strikes me as a little surreal even though I know they're indigenous.
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There may be more antelope than people in Wyoming. It's freakin' huge & very sparsely populated. The trout fishing can be correspondingly excellent, btw.
 
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