What IS the deal with the Tea Party and signs?

[quade 4]

Taken by me at a stoplight over the weekend.

I simply can not fathom what goes on with the Tea Party when they're making their signs. Do they intentionally do goofy stuff? Is it like the Luddites and the rejection of knowledge? I'm nearly certain that whoever made the sign thought they were quoting something significant said by one of the founding fathers. The reality is, the phrase is nothing more than a typing exercise and even at that, they got it wrong.

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[jgoose71 0]

So, if you don't like the sign, don't do anything to aide your country. It's a free country you know.

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[mirage62 0]

+1 lame

Kevin Keenan is my hero, a double FUP, he does so much with so little

[BIGUN 1,419]

Bastards!!! They stole that whole sign protest thing from the tree-hugging, save the spotted owl, gay pride, million-man march, kids along the side of the road watching a parade idea.

C'mon... you got better rocks to throw at them than that.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[wmw999 2,541]

I think a large part of his comment was on the misspelling of aid; I don't recall all the hippies having so many misspellings back in their protest days.

Personally, I think a misspelled sign speaks in more than one way.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[rushmc 23]

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I think a large part of his comment was on the misspelling of aid; I don't recall all the hippies having so many misspellings back in their protest days.

Personally, I think a misspelled sign speaks in more than one way.

Wendy P.

Which is just another demonstration of liberals thinking anyone who cant be smart enough to know that they (the liberals ) are correct, needing to talk down to them. (the un-learned)

THAT says alot

dont you think?

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[ChasingBlueSky 0]

There is no proofreading on cardboard. Nor is it limited to just the Tea Party.
http://www.moronswithsigns.blogspot.com/

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[SkydiveJack 1]

I wonder if they bought that Toyota in order to come to the "aide" of their country's economy?

[JohnRich 4]

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I simply can not fathom what goes on with the Tea Party when they're making their signs. Do they intentionally do goofy stuff? Is it like the Luddites and the rejection of knowledge?

First of all, you seem to be suggesting that this was some kind of mass-produced sign generated by a Tea Party headquarters and sent out to lots of people, and that no one in the organization who produced it was smart enough to recognize the two mistakes. The reality is that is probably just one sign made by just one person.

Second, you shouldn't extrapolate a couple of grammatical mistakes by one person to a larger population as a whole. You don't like it when people do that to Muslims, so you shouldn't do it yourself against Tea Party members.

And third, just because someone misspells a word, doesn't mean that their opinions on how the country is being run are automatically invalid.

For typing exercise, my Dad, who was a typewriter salesman, always used the word "neighbors" instead of "country". Personally, I always liked "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy yellow dog", since that uses every letter in the alphabet.

[JohnRich 4]

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I wonder if they bought that Toyota in order to come to the "aide" of their country's economy?

Toyota has made 15 million cars right here in America. I'm guessing that this probably requires the employment of a lot of Americans.

[CanuckInUSA 0]

Did you tell them that you were the "Copy n' Paste" nazi and that you disapproved of their message and disapproved that it was not original material?

So much for freedom of speech when the "Copy n' Paste" nazi sees something you wrote that they do not like. When this occurs, you know a camera will be produced, a picture will be taken and you will be ridiculed on the internet. Don't you have better things to do with your time? What's next?

Did you Tweet about this? Is it on your Facebook page yet? What are you? 13 years old?

What a absolutely ridiculous thread ...

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

[wmw999 2,541]

No, but when people make fun of the President for a speak-o (like the "60 states" gaffe) they should expect their own mistakes to be fair game.

It doesn't take that much longer to make an intelligible sentence, or to check spelling, when you're doing it for public display. Email and forum postings are one thing (although personally I think they should be intelligible and actually express a thought), and people communicating outside their native language get leeway.

But dang -- if you're making something for public display, shouldn't you at least try? Do they pay that much attention to their jobs?

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[rushmc 23]

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No, but when people make fun of the President for a speak-o (like the "60 states" gaffe) they should expect their own mistakes to be fair game.

It doesn't take that much longer to make an intelligible sentence, or to check spelling, when you're doing it for public display. Email and forum postings are one thing (although personally I think they should be intelligible and actually express a thought), and people communicating outside their native language get leeway.

But dang -- if you're making something for public display, shouldn't you at least try? Do they pay that much attention to their jobs?

Wendy P.

I know
conservatives and republicans are all stoooooopid for not knowing libs are far smarter

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[wmw999 2,541]

Did I say that?

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[rushmc 23]

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Did I say that?

Wendy P.

Feels like it

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[wmw999 2,541]

I didn't. I'm just saying that I don't think it's that hard to make sure that what you do for public is reasonably accurate, and that yes, I don't think that people who don't seemingly put any effort at all into how they say things might not put as much effort into what they're saying either.

Grammar and writing aren't liberal values, or at least they shouldn't be. They're how you make sure you're not misinterpreted.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[rushmc 23]

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I didn't. I'm just saying that I don't think it's that hard to make sure that what you do for public is reasonably accurate, and that yes, I don't think that people who don't seemingly put any effort at all into how they say things might not put as much effort into what they're saying either.

Grammar and writing aren't liberal values, or at least they shouldn't be. They're how you make sure you're not misinterpreted.

Wendy P.

I dont deny most of this but, this is not how the issue is being USED on this site, is it.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[wmw999 2,541]

I can only speak for how I use it.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[rushmc 23]

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I can only speak for how I use it.

Wendy P.

That is a cop Wendy
and you know it

In any event
I started a new thread in light of our discussion

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[Andy9o8 2]

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I always liked "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy yellow dog",

That is so partisan!! You're clearly glorifying Fox News and taking a snotty swipe at Yellow Dog Democrats and "quick brown" people who jump the border fence.

Subliminally, of course.

[billvon 3,073]

>Which is just another demonstration of liberals thinking anyone who
>cant be smart enough to know that they (the liberals ) are correct . . .

Actually I think it's more an indication that those protesters are so fucking lazy that they can't be bothered to check. It takes almost zero intelligence to operate a spellchecker, so the "who's smarter" game doesn't even enter into it.

[skipbelt 0]

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>Which is just another demonstration of liberals thinking anyone who
>cant be smart enough to know that they (the liberals ) are correct . . .
Actually I think it's more an indication that those protesters are so fucking lazy that they can't be bothered to check. It takes almost zero intelligence to operate a spellchecker, so the "who's smarter" game doesn't even enter into it.

other explanations have been overlooked . but when an explanation fits a template , why keep looking ?

[billvon 3,073]

>other explanations have been overlooked . but when an explanation fits
>a template , why keep looking ?

Occam's Razor, my friend, Occam's Razor.

[wmw999 2,541]

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other explanations have been overlooked

What other explanations? Are teachers deliberately teaching children poorly who are likely to become conservative later?

No one is perfect. But when you (this is the rhetorical "you", not the skipbelt "you") know you're not all that good at something, then you should find ways to overcome that difficulty, rather than simply declaring it irrelevant.

I'm not good at details; I spent a lot of years as a programmer in an incredibly detail-intensive environment. I made good and sure that someone who WAS good at details was inspecting whatever I produced, in addition to whoever was inspecting it anyway. Yeah, they'd probably find any errors I'd missed. But that was my way of helping to make sure.

I virtually never use spell-check; I inherited the spelling gene. But for presentations I'm giving outside, yes, I do. I don't misspell much, and most typos self-correct these days, but it's embarrassing to have something displayed that's wrong.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[mirage62 0]

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don't recall all the hippies having so many misspellings back in their protest days.

LOL, WENDY you aren't OLD enough to recall how "hippies" spelled

Kevin Keenan is my hero, a double FUP, he does so much with so little