Geezer Test - Page 6

MaggieL · 01-31-2006, 06:49 PM

So, "how or why"...

one Socialist country twice the size of New Jersey with a population comparable to metro Philadelphia

and

one Communist country with five times the population of the US (in slightly less land area)

...have done what they've done to "protect the public" aren't germane to your version of the discussion, and that one is Socialist and the other Communist is irrelevant too (presumably because there's obviously no connection between Socialism and Communism).

My sense is "the attitude in the country nowdays about protecting the public" is that people should plan and provide their own protection as much a possible, rather than relying on "the government" to protect them. Of course, that's the attitude prevailing amongst the crowd *I* run with; *your* peeps obviously have a different view.

I think centralized planning and provisioning for emergencies sucks rocks; a distributed approach is much more robust. I suppose we'll find out how effective the centralized approach is if one of those systems you cite is ever called upon to perform, since they've "solved it as well as possible".

capnhowdy · 01-31-2006, 09:00 PM

this is good

capnhowdy · 01-04-2009, 09:51 PM

I'm an even bigger geezer now. I had completely forgotten this thread.

TheMercenary · 01-04-2009, 10:04 PM

17, but you only need a good background in social history to get most of them.

Radar · 01-04-2009, 10:46 PM

I got 15.

1. B
2. C X
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. A
7. C
8. C X
9. A
10. C
11. C
12. C X
13. B X
14. C
15. C X
16. A
17. B
18. C
19. A
20. A

spudcon · 01-06-2009, 12:52 PM

I got 20, even tho I had a problem with a couple of answers. Number 16 had a misnomer, calling ditto, or spirit duplicators mimeos. Mimeo sheets usually stunk, but dittos, which have been banned from classrooms here, have that nice smell of alcohol. I didn't use it to get high, and neither did anyone else I knew. It just smelled good.
Number 19 I only heard sang by the Mills Brothers. The answer says the Ink Spots were a fifties group, but they were around long before the fifties.
Okay, it's just details, but I'm geezer enough to be allowed to be crotchety.

DanaC · 01-06-2009, 01:12 PM

I got 15...and most of them I lied/guessed. Very little relevant to Brits.

Cloud · 01-06-2009, 01:59 PM

13. boy do I remember those air raid drills!

capnhowdy · 01-08-2009, 08:29 PM

They're geezers.

01-31-2006, 06:49 PM	#1
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	So, "how or why"... one Socialist country twice the size of New Jersey with a population comparable to metro Philadelphia and one Communist country with five times the population of the US (in slightly less land area) ...have done what they've done to "protect the public" aren't germane to your version of the discussion, and that one is Socialist and the other Communist is irrelevant too (presumably because there's obviously no connection between Socialism and Communism). My sense is "the attitude in the country nowdays about protecting the public" is that people should plan and provide their own protection as much a possible, rather than relying on "the government" to protect them. Of course, that's the attitude prevailing amongst the crowd I run with; your peeps obviously have a different view. I think centralized planning and provisioning for emergencies sucks rocks; a distributed approach is much more robust. I suppose we'll find out how effective the centralized approach is if one of those systems you cite is ever called upon to perform, since they've "solved it as well as possible". __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."

01-31-2006, 09:00 PM	#2
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	this is good __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

01-04-2009, 09:51 PM	#3
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	I'm an even bigger geezer now. I had completely forgotten this thread. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

01-04-2009, 10:04 PM	#4
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	17, but you only need a good background in social history to get most of them. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-04-2009, 10:46 PM	#5
Radar Constitutional Scholar Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Ocala, FL Posts: 4,006	I got 15. 1. B 2. C X 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. C 8. C X 9. A 10. C 11. C 12. C X 13. B X 14. C 15. C X 16. A 17. B 18. C 19. A 20. A __________________ "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." - George Carlin

01-06-2009, 12:52 PM	#6
spudcon Beware of potatoes Join Date: May 2007 Location: Upstate NY, USA Posts: 2,078	I got 20, even tho I had a problem with a couple of answers. Number 16 had a misnomer, calling ditto, or spirit duplicators mimeos. Mimeo sheets usually stunk, but dittos, which have been banned from classrooms here, have that nice smell of alcohol. I didn't use it to get high, and neither did anyone else I knew. It just smelled good. Number 19 I only heard sang by the Mills Brothers. The answer says the Ink Spots were a fifties group, but they were around long before the fifties. Okay, it's just details, but I'm geezer enough to be allowed to be crotchety. __________________ "I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

01-06-2009, 01:12 PM	#7
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	I got 15...and most of them I lied/guessed. Very little relevant to Brits.

01-06-2009, 01:59 PM	#8
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	13. boy do I remember those air raid drills! __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

01-08-2009, 08:29 PM	#9
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	They're geezers. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

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