WOOHP vs Iberians

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

But why don't we stop feeding the troll. I don't actually think he's a troll, he's genuine. He missed his calling. Coulda been a master trollier.

I like to argue and see how people come to their conclusions, even if it is a troll. I had a million arguments with Mary and she's queen troll. But WOOHP is so yesterday. Butlerking is the new fun fad.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

High PISA but low IQ. Meaning that they are not that smart. They study hard, just are not that bright. Sorry, but it's true.

Don't you have to be intelligent to remember what you study? You could try to study all day but if you don't understand what you're studying it's pointless.

[Smeagol]

Butlerking is the new fun fad.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

He words it that way on purpose. Haven't you noticed that when he voices his "opinion" he makes into a statement - pretending it's a fact? It's a ploy to deceive people. If he says "Why do Iberians distance themselves from Italians and Meds?" He knows that a random person will get riled up and attack us as well - and actually, if you look through the thread, that did end up happening. Weaselly ways that one has.

I remember you posted a Battlestar Galactica clip. Did you see this spin off show, Caprica? I thought it was pretty good but they only had one season.

[Atlantic Islander]

I remember you posted a Battlestar Galactica clip. Did you see this spin off show, Caprica? I thought it was pretty good but they only had one season.

I've only watched the first two episodes.

[Philo]

This is what I have been suggesting all along about recent developments on TA.

Seriously, why would anyone be so upset / obsessed about something known as the "Atlantic facade?" WOOHP just keeps repeating that the AF doesn't
exist and he associates it with racial / ethnic distancing by Iberians, yet knows nothing about it's history, socio-cultural patterns, etc. - the funny thing is that the British and Irish on here recognize that there is something to the AF. The guy assumes this narrow - rather ignorant - stance because he cannot associate Iberian culture and ethnicities with anything but the Med world and its population groups. I consider one of his ailments to be a form of distorted perspective - something is not clicking cognitively, among other things.

WOOHP is a perfectly normal individual compared to some Spaniards here. He's also normal compared to you. Not every day you hear someone come up with such a ridiculous concept as you managed to do.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

Don't you have to be intelligent to remember what you study? You could try to study all day but if you don't understand what you're studying it's pointless.

Anybody can learn with enough effort. That's the point. If they have good grades and still score crap you can't pretend they are just uneducated or whatever. They don't score well on nonverbal intelligence, and it's not immigrants dragging them down or anything, as the immigrants would drag the PISA scores down a lot more than IQ scores.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

Anybody can learn with enough effort. That's the point. If they have good grades and still score crap you can't pretend they are just uneducated or whatever. They don't score well on nonverbal intelligence, and it's not immigrants dragging them down or anything, as the immigrants would drag the PISA scores down a lot more than IQ scores.

Your user name reminds me of Buckethead.