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This truely saddens me..
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"According to a study conducted in late April by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Literacy, 32 million adults in the U.S. can't read. That's 14 percent of the population. 21 percent of adults in the U.S. read below a 5th grade level, and 19 percent of high school graduates can't read.
The current literacy rate isn't any better than it was 10 years ago. According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (completed most recently in 2003, and before that, in 1992), 14 percent of adult Americans demonstrated a "below basic" literacy level in 2003, and 29 percent exhibited a "basic" reading level."
Also,
"Adults Age 20 and Older 2. More than two-thirds (68.8 percent) of adults are considered to be overweight or obese. More than one-third (35.7 percent) of adults are considered to be obese. More than 1 in 20 (6.3 percent) have extreme obesity."
So everyone in American is dumb and overweight..
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Weight is a sign of affluence, we're just showing the world who has all the resources (and doesn't give a fuck if you're starving).
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No no. If a zombie Apocalypse ever happens. The fat ones die first. Don't you remember that movie zombieland? But I bet half of the mothers fuckers out there can't even read this post so what is the point in trying to warn them..
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What percentage are blacks?
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: azur]
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Don't go there. This thread will become a hot one soon if you do that shit.
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: azur]
#22045028 - 08/04/15 10:43 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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azur said: What percentage are blacks?
Rude and totally uncalled for.
Pretty sad statistic though.
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: sh4d0ws]
#22045039 - 08/04/15 10:45 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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My great uncle can't read
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: sh4d0ws]
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azur said: What percentage are blacks?
Rude and totally uncalled for.
Pretty sad statistic though.
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: azur]
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azur said: What percentage are blacks?
Ive had white mericans ask me to to spell words for them . i learned english from watching tv and never made it past the 9th grade..
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: Artnotwar]
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Artnotwar said:
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JustForToday said: This truly saddens me...
Fixed.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Totally ironic. I've been up for 24 hours. Went to meetings, worked out, worked for 9 hours. I'm exhausted.
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: Kinko]
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I once knew a man fron nantucket...
^how about the irony that that was mentioned five or so posts later.
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: Kinko]
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As long as you're not one of them, who cares?
Just keep on keepin' on. Make sure your family stays on the path you're on (unless you're one of "those people").
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Kinko said:
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azur said: What percentage are blacks?
Ive had white mericans ask me to to spell words for them . i learned english from watching tv and never made it past the 9th grade..
What the fuck does any of that mean?
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: twighead]
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What they forgot to tell you is its fucking 32 million illegal Mexicans who should be back in mexico
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: azur]
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azur said: What percentage are blacks?
The educational system has failed us all. It has especially failed the blacks. Almost all the kids that drop out of my high school and get their GEDs are black. Schools just aren't doing anything to invigorate interest in learning and they are especially failing at sparking interest in young black males who fit the less affluent category who are the people we need to have succeeding the most so we can finally see some change in this country.
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: Uzziel]
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Right, they're stealing jobs from all the serf class whites and spending all their money in our churches and walmarts. Those assholes! I say let the status quo bleed out. Use smoke to chase the weaker of us out if you have to, their culture's so much richer.
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Xplicit RelapzZ said:
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azur said: What percentage are blacks?
The educational system has failed us all. It has especially failed the blacks. Almost all the kids that drop out of my high school and get their GEDs are black. Schools just aren't doing anything to invigorate interest in learning and they are especially failing at sparking interest in young black males who fit the less affluent category who are the people we need to have succeeding the most so we can finally see some change in this country.
Systemic racism................................................................... black people are not fucking inferior to white people, it's bull shit. They have the same mental capacity as anybody else. It's not about the colour of your fucking skin, retards.
Fuck.
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: sh4d0ws]
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No shit, turd stain. Wah wah wah. Just read some statistics.
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: sh4d0ws]
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I think he's douche flem too, but he's just posting reality and seeing how many people flip. Dance, fiends, dance!
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: azur]
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I would say that is fairly accurate of my old high school. Bunch of kids could barely read. It isn't like if you are dyslexic and poor people help you either though.
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Quote:
JustForToday said: "According to a study conducted in late April by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Literacy, 32 million adults in the U.S. can't read. That's 14 percent of the population. 21 percent of adults in the U.S. read below a 5th grade level, and 19 percent of high school graduates can't read.
The current literacy rate isn't any better than it was 10 years ago. According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (completed most recently in 2003, and before that, in 1992), 14 percent of adult Americans demonstrated a "below basic" literacy level in 2003, and 29 percent exhibited a "basic" reading level."
Also,
"Adults Age 20 and Older 2. More than two-thirds (68.8 percent) of adults are considered to be overweight or obese. More than one-third (35.7 percent) of adults are considered to be obese. More than 1 in 20 (6.3 percent) have extreme obesity."
So everyone in American is dumb and overweight..
I can see that looking at where I live
Muskegon
Known far and wide as Detroit, minus the redeeming qualities
So, 14% of Americans are illiterate. Do they kill as many as the black 14%? What is the crossover?
Fat tax
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Yeah it's some sad shit. My cousin is 30 and can't read or write...what's even worse is he still has absolutely no desire to learn. I'd be embarrassed at 30 to still have to ask some to read my mail to me.
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: Kongo69]
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This is what I say to faggot ass no brains that reject learning, and there for their own humanity Life is a lot about redemption though, so you'll see where his story takes him
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What happened to USA is #1 at everything?
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What happened to the stick in your ass about the US. Oh wait, it's still there. Never mind.
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: kakashi68]
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We sure used to be. We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reasons, we passed laws, struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chest. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and we cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars, acted like men. We aspired to intelligence; we didn't belittle it; it didn't make us feel inferior. We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election, and we didn't scare so easy. We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great men, men who were revered. The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: shadyy]
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Who is?
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: Amanita86]
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: Shroomslip]
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Shroomslip said: What happened to the stick in your ass about the US. Oh wait, it's still there. Never mind.
Lmao that dude is obsessed. When he goes to sleep, he dreams about the US. When he wakes up first thing in the morning, he's thinking about the US. When he's sitting in the drive-thru line contemplating what dollar menu item he's going to get for lunch, he's thinking about the US (and holding up the line). When he has sex once a year, his dick goes limp before he can get it in because (oops) -- the US slipped in his mind again.
The US owns that poor bastard and he doesn't even realize it.
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: Niffla]
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There is no way that 20% of graduates can't read. How could that be possible? Are they counting the mentally retarded, immigrants, and people with a low IQ.
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: Lophosaurus]
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School is a shit game where they need you to pass, so they give you all sorts of retarded, undeserved breaks. On the flip side, they rarely teach anything in context. WE leaenedAmerican history, sort of. It was a disgusting joke in my opinion, and I have learned more through youtube. Kids should be beyond furious at how the state wastes they youth sending them to these shit factories. It's just the way it is, or whatever dumb ass platitude your parents give you
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Weren't you overweight?
I'm not going to call you dumb but I'll let the pub decide if you fall into that spectrum
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: kakashi68]
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kakashi68 said: What happened to USA is #1 at everything?
We're not even close to number 1 at everything.
Apart from that reading and being intelligent aren't synonymous, I deal with a guy who can barely ready anything and hasn't been in school since 13....and has 84 on the job employees and 14 office people working for him.
Reading can help you get further, but acting like theyre dumb because you can read and they cant comes off as pretentious.
"Haha mayweather and his hundreds of millions can't read, what an idiot" 
Intelligence isn't what you know but how you apply the information you have, one guy can know everything there is to know and amount to nothing, while someone else can't even read and becomes a self made millionare.
I consider the latter much more intelligent...this thread is trash and a piss poor attempt to feel superior to other people.
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JustForToday said: No no. If a zombie Apocalypse ever happens. The fat ones die first. Don't you remember that movie zombieland? But I bet half of the mothers fuckers out there can't even read this post so what is the point in trying to warn them..
And your very next comment suggest you believe corpses without a working circulatory system and well into the stages of rigamortis roaming around is an actual possibility someday....while calling other peopledumb....again....trashthread.
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I can't read...
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Don't worry bout it my friend who still manages to type words he can't read....there's fuck tons of very successful nonreaders
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i hate liz said: We sure used to be. We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reasons, we passed laws, struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chest. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and we cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars, acted like men. We aspired to intelligence; we didn't belittle it; it didn't make us feel inferior. We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election, and we didn't scare so easy. We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great men, men who were revered. The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
I feel like I saw this before  Still a good point though
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How else would the 1% control society if everyone else were well educated
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Psychonautica said: Weren't you overweight?
I'm not going to call you dumb but I'll let the pub decide if you fall into that spectrum
I was but I overcame it. I wish I could teach the whole country about it. That is my passion.
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JustForToday said: No no. If a zombie Apocalypse ever happens. The fat ones die first. Don't you remember that movie zombieland? But I bet half of the mothers fuckers out there can't even read this post so what is the point in trying to warn them..
And your very next comment suggest you believe corpses without a working circulatory system and well into the stages of rigamortis roaming around is an actual possibility someday....while calling other peopledumb....again....trashthread.
That one flew right over your head.
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I feel like I saw this before  Still a good point though
Best video ever. It's in my favorites.
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dionysiandame
Mischievous Maenad


Registered: 08/27/13
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Loc: Samothrace
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JustForToday said: "According to a study conducted in late April by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Literacy, 32 million adults in the U.S. can't read. That's 14 percent of the population. 21 percent of adults in the U.S. read below a 5th grade level, and 19 percent of high school graduates can't read.
The current literacy rate isn't any better than it was 10 years ago. According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (completed most recently in 2003, and before that, in 1992), 14 percent of adult Americans demonstrated a "below basic" literacy level in 2003, and 29 percent exhibited a "basic" reading level."
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"Adults Age 20 and Older 2. More than two-thirds (68.8 percent) of adults are considered to be overweight or obese. More than one-third (35.7 percent) of adults are considered to be obese. More than 1 in 20 (6.3 percent) have extreme obesity."
So everyone in American is dumb and overweight..
The first bit is very sad and I have personal feelings about it from seeing so many people who lack basic reading comprehension or writing skills. I forget the article, but a professor at a university stated that many colleges are now having to offer writing and reading comprehension courses to first year college students just to get them to the level that they need to be to complete university level work.
I believe there are several factors to play in this but one of the biggest ones may be "social passing" (I don't remember the exact term, forgive me.). It's the practice of passing children to the next grade, even if they aren't ready, so they do not feel ostracized by their peers. It does a severe disservice to the child's education and sets them up for a life time of issues in the future. Furthermore, as more Americans are forced to work longer hours on dual incomes with fewer households containing multiple generations; many kids aren't receiving the kind of after school reinforcement necessary for them to reach their full potential. Couple this with schools slashing budgets and it's a recipe for educational disaster. "Teaching for the test" doesn't encourage learning, but rote memorization and the desire to shoehorn every individual into the same learning style is nothing more than the remnants of our once school-to-factory educational system.
Another interesting observation, this time with regard to the obesity epidemic, is that American children actually participate in as much physical activity as the rest of the developed world and in some cases, MORE. Despite this, most of the food in our diets is appalling. The amount of sugar found in things marketed as healthy or for kids may be the not-so-hidden trigger behind the spike in ADD diagnoses that, unfortunately, is causing many young boys to be placed on medications when really, removing the obscene amounts of sugar from their diets would be more beneficial. (Side note: I'm not saying young girls are not prescribed medications as well but, from my reading, it appears young boys face the brunt of this.)
These really are sad situations indeed.
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Matt87

Registered: 01/03/15
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Anyone catch that key&Peele where they made fun of the NFL draft? They were drafting and trading the best teachers in the country based on their stats(test scores)
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Niffla



Registered: 06/09/08
Posts: 46,489
Loc: Texas
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JustForToday said: That one flew right over your head. 

That dude needs to throw his sarcasm meter in the trash, asap.
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SirShroomsAlott
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Registered: 05/15/14
Posts: 6,945
Loc: United States
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Re: This truely saddens me.. [Re: Niffla]
#22054067 - 08/06/15 03:16 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I just quit cigs this week and was in a bad mood at the time 
edit: sorry justfortoday, feel like I was being a dick all day to everyone.
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JustForToday
New Life, New Beginnings


Registered: 09/08/14
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SirShroomsAlott said: I just quit cigs this week and was in a bad mood at the time 
edit: sorry justfortoday, feel like I was being a dick all day to everyone.
It's all good my dude! That's actually impressive. Did you cold turkey or use the patch?
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SirShroomsAlott
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Registered: 05/15/14
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Loc: United States
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Bought a vaporizer for when I get real desperate because I at least wanted something healthier because I knew I'd slip, but I'm trying to use it as little as possible because I don't want to smoke anything. Haven't had one since early Sunday and have only been hitting the vape maybe like twice a day if the cravings get real bad. Was up to two packs a day so this is the best effort I've made so far.
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JustForToday
New Life, New Beginnings


Registered: 09/08/14
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SirShroomsAlott said: Bought a vaporizer for when I get real desperate because I at least wanted something healthier because I knew I'd slip, but I'm trying to use it as little as possible because I don't want to smoke anything. Haven't had one since early Sunday and have only been hitting the vape maybe like twice a day if the cravings get real bad. Was up to two packs a day so this is the best effort I've made so far.
You know something. I only started being around vapes when I came to Florida. And then I stopped smoking through the patch so there was no point for me to use it. I wonder what it's like though. I've had people offer for me to try it but I'll start doing that shit again and I can't afford it. LOL
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SirShroomsAlott
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Registered: 05/15/14
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You're better off with nothing. I can see why people rave about them, even while using it my sense of smell is starting to come back and I'm already noticing a difference in my breathing already 4 days later, and they taste better, but it seems to me like vapes can be even easier to get hooked to than cigs because they even feel cleaner but it's almost definitely better to smoke nothing than something.
You did good by just quitting all together and not going back, hopefully in another week or two I'll be at a point where I don't have to rely on the vape to get me passed bad cravings and be able to quit all together. Good on you man for actually going through with it, it's hard as shit to give it up, and you're better off not looking back haha.
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madmodder
Trip More Drink Less


Registered: 08/26/14
Posts: 15,144
Loc: fuk zone
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This truely saddens me.. Hypocrisy [Re: JustForToday]
#22054410 - 08/06/15 04:36 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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JustForToday said: So everyone in American is dumb and overweight..
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