From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Snag"  wrote in message news:vemfvd$1qs7e$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 10/15/2024 9:13 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > Our urbanites have become used to thinking that the world is safe and not   
   > staying alert or taking precautions.   
   >   
      
      Sounds like a good way to cull the incurably stupid among us ... our   
   culture has pretty much eliminated natural selection .   
   Snag   
      
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   It's not stupidity, they are street-smart in their own environment, just not   
   in the wilderness. I had to stay alert, learn fast and dress to become   
   invisible when the Army stationed me in New Jersey and I had the chance to   
   explore New York City on weekends. I knew I had succeeded when the hookers   
   around 42nd St stopped noticing me. In Mensa NH, MA and sometimes NY and   
   Quebec mingled at functions and learned the rules of each others' turf.   
      
   The biggest cultural divide I've experienced was between French and English   
   speakers in Canada. I made the mistake of speaking French when I hadn't   
   noticed that we (black-leather bikers) had passed from Quebec into New   
   Brunswick, and the store clerk was very rude until I switched to American   
   English.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)