Rude B@st@rds 'reloaded'

[T_Bone]

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/247/region/Audience_boos_as_Bush_offers_bP.shtml

"What are the signs of a sick culture?

[snip bunch of stuff]

"I think you have missed the most alarming symptom of all. This one I shall tell you. But go back and search for it. Examine it. Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms as you have named... But a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than a riot."

"This symptom is especially serious in that an individual displaying it never thinks of it as a sign of ill health but as proof of his/her strength. Look for it. Study it. It is too late to save this culture - this worldwide culture, not just the freak show here in California. Therefore we must now prepare the monasteries for the coming Dark Age. Electronic records are too fragile; we must again have books, of stable inks and resistant paper."
--- Friday and Dr. Baldwin in Friday, Robert Heinlein

Not that I'm a Clinton fan, but we sure have become a bunch of rude {bleep}s. When else in American history would this have ever happened? Now it's acceptable, and seems pretty common.

[T_Bone]

Although I hear from foreigners that Americans are liberal with "Thank you's"

We say thanks for every little insignificant thing someone does for us. The waiter brings a napkin, we say thank you. Someone holds the door for us we say thank you. An Officer gives us a ticket, we say thank you. Someone tailgates us? we give them the finger and shoot them. :lol:

@Fade

Yea, it's kind of rediculous. The news has been full of reports of unruly audiences booing everything and everyone lately (in speeches by both parties), and has critisized Bush's efforts to keep it from disrupting the presentations, but now he's responsible for the disruptions too.

[edit] Now I hear it didn't happen! :lol: