Utopia Talk / Politics / 3 strongest countries win

The Children Member	Fri Oct 22 07:15:33 http://www.gymnastics2010.com/en/ OWNED! 1). China 2). Japan 3). Germany Coincidentally, these are also the three countries with the largest trade balances.
roland Member	Fri Oct 22 07:28:37 are you gay?
The Children Member	Fri Oct 22 07:34:09 Notice how USA is not on the list and how the US men (cheaters from 2004) lost. Why you ask? Because thats what losers do: they lose.
The Children Member	Fri Oct 22 07:34:58 For every winner, there is a loser. If someone else wins, well someone else has to lose. Tough shit. Thats life, sonnie boy. Tough shit indeed.
The Children Member	Fri Oct 22 07:36:06 We cant all be winners, now can we. So that is the realitycheck.
The Children Member	Fri Oct 22 07:43:02 Im talking to you sonnie boy. Whats the matter? Are you hiding in a corner or something. Cat got your tongue? The USA lost and you got nothing to say?
Disclaimer Member	Fri Oct 22 07:57:10 Idiot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Idiocy) Jump to: navigation, search "Numbskull" redirects here. For the comic strip, see The Numskulls. For the American band, see The Numbskulls. For other uses, see Idiot (disambiguation) and The Idiot. Goya's Bobabilicón.An idiot, dolt, or dullard is a mentally deficient person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way. More humorous synonyms of the term include addlehead, blockhead, bonehead, deadhead, dimwit, dodo, dope, dummy, dunderhead, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numbskull, stupidhead, thickhead, and twit, among many others. Archaically the word mome has also been used. The synonymous terms moron, imbecile, and cretin have all gained specialized meanings in modern times. An idiot is said to be idiotic, and to suffer from idiocy. A dunce is an idiot who is specifically incapable of learning. An idiot differs from a fool (who is unwise) and an ignoramus (who is uneducated/ an ignorant), neither of which refer to someone with low intelligence. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Disability 3 United States law 4 In literature 5 See also 6 References 7 External links History Main article: Idiot (Athenian democracy) "Idiot" originally referred to "layman, person lacking professional skill", "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning". Declining to take part in public life, such as democratic government of the polis (city state), such as the Athenian democracy, was considered dishonorable. "Idiots" were seen as having bad judgment in public and political matters. Over time, the term "idiot" shifted away from its original connotation of selfishness and came to refer to individuals with overall bad judgmentâ??individuals who are "stupid". In modern English usage, the terms "idiot" and "idiocy" describe an extreme folly or stupidity, and its symptoms (foolish or stupid utterance or deed). In psychology, it is a historical term for the state or condition now called profound mental retardation.[1] Idiot as a word derived from the Greek ἰδιÏ?Ï?ηÏ?, idiÅ?tÄ?s ("person lacking professional skill," "a private citizen," "individual"), from ἴδιοÏ?, idios ("private," "one's own").[2] In Latin the word idiota ("ordinary person, layman") preceded the Late Latin meaning "uneducated or ignorant person."[3] Its modern meaning and form dates back to Middle English around the year 1300, from the Old French idiote ("uneducated or ignorant person"). The related word idiocy dates to 1487 and may have been analogously modeled on the words prophet[4] and prophecy.[5][6] The word has cognates in many other languages. Disability In 19th and early 20th century medicine and psychology, an "idiot" was a person with a very severe mental retardation. In the early 1900s, Dr. Henry H. Goddard proposed a classification system for mental retardation based on the Binet-Simon concept of mental age. Individuals with the lowest mental age level (less than three years) were identified as idiots; imbiciles (sic) had a mental age of three to 7 years, and morons had a mental age of seven to ten years.[7] IQ, or intelligence quotient, is determined by dividing a person's mental age, as determined by standardized tests, by their actual age. The term "idiot" was used to refer to people having an IQ below 30.[8][9] In current medical classification, these people are now said to have profound mental retardation.[1] United States law Until 2007, the California Penal Code Section 26 stated that "Idiots" were one of six types of people who are not capable of committing crimes. In 2007 the code was amended to read "persons who are mentally incapacitated."[10] In 2008, Iowa voters passed a measure replacing "idiot, or insane person" in the State's constitution with "person adjudged mentally incompetent."[11] In several states, "idiots" do not have the right to vote: Kentucky Section 145[12] Mississippi Article 12, Section 241[13] New Mexico Article VII, section 1[14] Ohio (Article V, Section 6)[15] The constitution of the state of Arkansas was amended in the general election of 2008 to, among other things, repeal a provision (Article 3, Section 5) which had until its repeal prohibited "idiots or insane persons" from voting.[16] In literature This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2006) A few authors have used "idiot" characters in novels, plays and poetry. Often these characters are used to highlight or indicate something else (allegory). Examples of such usage are William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and William Wordsworth's The Idiot Boy. Idiot characters in literature are often confused with or subsumed within mad or lunatic characters. The most common imbrication between these two categories of mental impairment occurs in the polemic surrounding Edmund from William Shakespeare's King Lear. In Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot, the idiocy of the main character, Prince Lev Nikolaievich Myshkin, is attributed more to his honesty, trustfulness, kindness, and humility, than to a lack of intellectual ability. Nietzsche claimed, in his The Antichrist, that Jesus was an idiot. This resulted from his description of Jesus as having an aversion toward the material world.[17] See also Stupidity Idiocracy Euphemism References This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. ^ a b "idiocy". Merriam-Webster online. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idiocy. Retrieved 2007-09-26. ^ Liddell-Scott-Jones A Greek-English Lexicon, entries for ἰδιÏ?Ï?ηÏ? and ἴδιοÏ?. ^ Words, entry idiota. ^ Etymonline.com, entry prophet ^ Etymonline.com, entry prophecy ^ Etymonline.com, entry idiot ^ Zaretsky, Herbert H.; Richter, Edwin F.; Eisenberg, Myron G. (2005), Medical aspects of disability: a handbook for the rehabilitation professional (third edition, illustrated ed.), Springer Publishing Company, p. 346, ISBN 9780826179739, http://books.google.com/books?id=7TZGYRu-_Y4C . ^ Rapley, Mark (2004), The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability, Cambridge University Press, p. 32, ISBN 9780521005296, http://books.google.com/books?id=KdQS5Z_mGbQC . ^ Cruz, Isagani A.; Quaison, Correct Choice of Words' : English Grammar Series for Filipino Lawyers (2003 Edition ed.), Rex Bookstore, Inc., pp. 444-445, ISBN 9789712336867, http://books.google.com/books?id=I2FnOYgu6IsC . ^ "Penal Code section 25-29". State of California. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=00001-01000&file=25-29. Retrieved 2007-09-21. ^ Sharples, Tiffany (5 November 2008). "Ballot Initiatives: No to Gay Marriage, Anti-Abortion Measures". time.com. http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1856820-2,00.html. Retrieved 2009-02-26. ^ Kentucky Section 145 ^ Mississippi Constitution of the State of Mississippi See Article 12, Section 241 ^ New Mexico Constitution, Article VII, section 1 ^ Ohio Constitution, Article V, Section 6 ^ [http://www.votesmart.org/election_ballot_measures_detail.php?ballot_id=64 Arkansas Ballot Measures : An Amendment Concerning Voting, Qualifications of Voters and Election Officers, and the Time of Holding General Elections (Amendment 1) : For the November 4, 2008 General Election], votesmart.org. ^ Nietzsche, Friedrich (1895). The Antichrist. http://www.handprint.com/SC/NIE/antich.html. "To make a hero of Jesus! And even more, what a misunderstanding is the word "genius"! Our whole concept, our cultural concept, of "spirit" has no meaning whatever in the world in which Jesus lives. Spoken with the precision of a physiologist, even an entirely different word would be yet more fitting hereâ??the word idiot." (§ 29, partially quoted here, contains three words that were suppressed by Nietzsche's sister when she published The Antichrist in 1895. The words are: "das Wort Idiot", translated here as "the word idiot". They were not made public until 1931, by Josef Hofmiller. H.L. Mencken's 1920 translation does not contain these words.) External links Look up idiot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dictionary.Reference.Com "Middle English, ignorant person, from Old French idiote (modern French idiot), from Latin idiota, from Greek idiotès, private person, layman, from idios, own, private." Etymonline "c.1300, "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning," from Old French idiote "uneducated or ignorant person," from Latin idiota "ordinary person, layman," in Late Latin "uneducated or ignorant person," from Greek idiotes "layman, person lacking professional skill," literally "private person," used patronizingly for "ignorant person," from idios "one's own". Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot" Categories: Disability | Greek loanwords | Obsolete medical terms | Pejorative terms for people Hidden categories: Articles containing Ancient Greek language text | Wikipedia pages semi-protected against vandalism | Wikipedia protected pages without expiry | Articles needing additional references from October 2006 | All articles needing additional references | Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica | Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica without Wikisource reference | Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with no article parameter | Articles incorporating text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia without Wikisource reference | Articles incorporating text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with no article parameter Personal tools New features Log in / create account Namespaces Article Discussion VariantsViews Read View source View history ActionsSearch Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Donate Interaction About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact Wikipedia Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Cite this page Print/export Create a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguages اÙ?عربÙ?Ø© Ä?esky Deutsch Eesti Español Esperanto í??êµ­ì?´ Hrvatski Bahasa Indonesia Lietuvių Ð?акедонÑ?ки â?ªNorsk (bokmÃ¥l)â?¬ Polski Português РÑ?Ñ?Ñ?кий Sicilianu Simple English SlovenÄ?ina SlovenÅ¡Ä?ina СÑ?пÑ?ки / Srpski Suomi Svenska 中æ?? This page was last modified on 17 October 2010 at 05:27. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Contact us Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Idiot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Idiocy) Jump to: navigation, search "Numbskull" redirects here. For the comic strip, see The Numskulls. For the American band, see The Numbskulls. For other uses, see Idiot (disambiguation) and The Idiot. Goya's Bobabilicón.An idiot, dolt, or dullard is a mentally deficient person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way. More humorous synonyms of the term include addlehead, blockhead, bonehead, deadhead, dimwit, dodo, dope, dummy, dunderhead, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numbskull, stupidhead, thickhead, and twit, among many others. Archaically the word mome has also been used. The synonymous terms moron, imbecile, and cretin have all gained specialized meanings in modern times. An idiot is said to be idiotic, and to suffer from idiocy. A dunce is an idiot who is specifically incapable of learning. An idiot differs from a fool (who is unwise) and an ignoramus (who is uneducated/ an ignorant), neither of which refer to someone with low intelligence. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Disability 3 United States law 4 In literature 5 See also 6 References 7 External links History Main article: Idiot (Athenian democracy) "Idiot" originally referred to "layman, person lacking professional skill", "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning". Declining to take part in public life, such as democratic government of the polis (city state), such as the Athenian democracy, was considered dishonorable. "Idiots" were seen as having bad judgment in public and political matters. Over time, the term "idiot" shifted away from its original connotation of selfishness and came to refer to individuals with overall bad judgmentâ??individuals who are "stupid". In modern English usage, the terms "idiot" and "idiocy" describe an extreme folly or stupidity, and its symptoms (foolish or stupid utterance or deed). In psychology, it is a historical term for the state or condition now called profound mental retardation.[1] Idiot as a word derived from the Greek ἰδιÏ?Ï?ηÏ?, idiÅ?tÄ?s ("person lacking professional skill," "a private citizen," "individual"), from ἴδιοÏ?, idios ("private," "one's own").[2] In Latin the word idiota ("ordinary person, layman") preceded the Late Latin meaning "uneducated or ignorant person."[3] Its modern meaning and form dates back to Middle English around the year 1300, from the Old French idiote ("uneducated or ignorant person"). The related word idiocy dates to 1487 and may have been analogously modeled on the words prophet[4] and prophecy.[5][6] The word has cognates in many other languages. Disability In 19th and early 20th century medicine and psychology, an "idiot" was a person with a very severe mental retardation. In the early 1900s, Dr. Henry H. Goddard proposed a classification system for mental retardation based on the Binet-Simon concept of mental age. Individuals with the lowest mental age level (less than three years) were identified as idiots; imbiciles (sic) had a mental age of three to 7 years, and morons had a mental age of seven to ten years.[7] IQ, or intelligence quotient, is determined by dividing a person's mental age, as determined by standardized tests, by their actual age. The term "idiot" was used to refer to people having an IQ below 30.[8][9] In current medical classification, these people are now said to have profound mental retardation.[1] United States law Until 2007, the California Penal Code Section 26 stated that "Idiots" were one of six types of people who are not capable of committing crimes. In 2007 the code was amended to read "persons who are mentally incapacitated."[10] In 2008, Iowa voters passed a measure replacing "idiot, or insane person" in the State's constitution with "person adjudged mentally incompetent."[11] In several states, "idiots" do not have the right to vote: Kentucky Section 145[12] Mississippi Article 12, Section 241[13] New Mexico Article VII, section 1[14] Ohio (Article V, Section 6)[15] The constitution of the state of Arkansas was amended in the general election of 2008 to, among other things, repeal a provision (Article 3, Section 5) which had until its repeal prohibited "idiots or insane persons" from voting.[16] In literature This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2006) A few authors have used "idiot" characters in novels, plays and poetry. Often these characters are used to highlight or indicate something else (allegory). Examples of such usage are William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and William Wordsworth's The Idiot Boy. Idiot characters in literature are often confused with or subsumed within mad or lunatic characters. The most common imbrication between these two categories of mental impairment occurs in the polemic surrounding Edmund from William Shakespeare's King Lear. In Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot, the idiocy of the main character, Prince Lev Nikolaievich Myshkin, is attributed more to his honesty, trustfulness, kindness, and humility, than to a lack of intellectual ability. Nietzsche claimed, in his The Antichrist, that Jesus was an idiot. This resulted from his description of Jesus as having an aversion toward the material world.[17] See also Stupidity Idiocracy Euphemism References This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. ^ a b "idiocy". Merriam-Webster online. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idiocy. Retrieved 2007-09-26. ^ Liddell-Scott-Jones A Greek-English Lexicon, entries for ἰδιÏ?Ï?ηÏ? and ἴδιοÏ?. ^ Words, entry idiota. ^ Etymonline.com, entry prophet ^ Etymonline.com, entry prophecy ^ Etymonline.com, entry idiot ^ Zaretsky, Herbert H.; Richter, Edwin F.; Eisenberg, Myron G. (2005), Medical aspects of disability: a handbook for the rehabilitation professional (third edition, illustrated ed.), Springer Publishing Company, p. 346, ISBN 9780826179739, http://books.google.com/books?id=7TZGYRu-_Y4C . ^ Rapley, Mark (2004), The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability, Cambridge University Press, p. 32, ISBN 9780521005296, http://books.google.com/books?id=KdQS5Z_mGbQC . ^ Cruz, Isagani A.; Quaison, Correct Choice of Words' : English Grammar Series for Filipino Lawyers (2003 Edition ed.), Rex Bookstore, Inc., pp. 444-445, ISBN 9789712336867, http://books.google.com/books?id=I2FnOYgu6IsC . ^ "Penal Code section 25-29". State of California. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=00001-01000&file=25-29. Retrieved 2007-09-21. ^ Sharples, Tiffany (5 November 2008). "Ballot Initiatives: No to Gay Marriage, Anti-Abortion Measures". time.com. http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1856820-2,00.html. Retrieved 2009-02-26. ^ Kentucky Section 145 ^ Mississippi Constitution of the State of Mississippi See Article 12, Section 241 ^ New Mexico Constitution, Article VII, section 1 ^ Ohio Constitution, Article V, Section 6 ^ [http://www.votesmart.org/election_ballot_measures_detail.php?ballot_id=64 Arkansas Ballot Measures : An Amendment Concerning Voting, Qualifications of Voters and Election Officers, and the Time of Holding General Elections (Amendment 1) : For the November 4, 2008 General Election], votesmart.org. ^ Nietzsche, Friedrich (1895). The Antichrist. http://www.handprint.com/SC/NIE/antich.html. "To make a hero of Jesus! And even more, what a misunderstanding is the word "genius"! Our whole concept, our cultural concept, of "spirit" has no meaning whatever in the world in which Jesus lives. Spoken with the precision of a physiologist, even an entirely different word would be yet more fitting hereâ??the word idiot." (§ 29, partially quoted here, contains three words that were suppressed by Nietzsche's sister when she published The Antichrist in 1895. The words are: "das Wort Idiot", translated here as "the word idiot". They were not made public until 1931, by Josef Hofmiller. H.L. Mencken's 1920 translation does not contain these words.) External links Look up idiot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dictionary.Reference.Com "Middle English, ignorant person, from Old French idiote (modern French idiot), from Latin idiota, from Greek idiotès, private person, layman, from idios, own, private." Etymonline "c.1300, "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning," from Old French idiote "uneducated or ignorant person," from Latin idiota "ordinary person, layman," in Late Latin "uneducated or ignorant person," from Greek idiotes "layman, person lacking professional skill," literally "private person," used patronizingly for "ignorant person," from idios "one's own". Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot" Categories: Disability | Greek loanwords | Obsolete medical terms | Pejorative terms for people Hidden categories: Articles containing Ancient Greek language text | Wikipedia pages semi-protected against vandalism | Wikipedia protected pages without expiry | Articles needing additional references from October 2006 | All articles needing additional references | Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica | Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica without Wikisource reference | Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with no article parameter | Articles incorporating text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia without Wikisource reference | Articles incorporating text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with no article parameter Personal tools New features Log in / create account Namespaces Article Discussion VariantsViews Read View source View history ActionsSearch Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Donate Interaction About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact Wikipedia Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Cite this page Print/export Create a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguages اÙ?عربÙ?Ø© Ä?esky Deutsch Eesti Español Esperanto í??êµ­ì?´ Hrvatski Bahasa Indonesia Lietuvių Ð?акедонÑ?ки â?ªNorsk (bokmÃ¥l)â?¬ Polski Português РÑ?Ñ?Ñ?кий Sicilianu Simple English SlovenÄ?ina SlovenÅ¡Ä?ina СÑ?пÑ?ки / Srpski Suomi Svenska 中æ?? This page was last modified on 17 October 2010 at 05:27. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Contact us Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers
Disclaimer Member	Fri Oct 22 07:57:16 Idiot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Idiocy) Jump to: navigation, search "Numbskull" redirects here. For the comic strip, see The Numskulls. For the American band, see The Numbskulls. For other uses, see Idiot (disambiguation) and The Idiot. Goya's Bobabilicón.An idiot, dolt, or dullard is a mentally deficient person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way. More humorous synonyms of the term include addlehead, blockhead, bonehead, deadhead, dimwit, dodo, dope, dummy, dunderhead, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numbskull, stupidhead, thickhead, and twit, among many others. Archaically the word mome has also been used. The synonymous terms moron, imbecile, and cretin have all gained specialized meanings in modern times. An idiot is said to be idiotic, and to suffer from idiocy. A dunce is an idiot who is specifically incapable of learning. An idiot differs from a fool (who is unwise) and an ignoramus (who is uneducated/ an ignorant), neither of which refer to someone with low intelligence. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Disability 3 United States law 4 In literature 5 See also 6 References 7 External links History Main article: Idiot (Athenian democracy) "Idiot" originally referred to "layman, person lacking professional skill", "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning". Declining to take part in public life, such as democratic government of the polis (city state), such as the Athenian democracy, was considered dishonorable. "Idiots" were seen as having bad judgment in public and political matters. Over time, the term "idiot" shifted away from its original connotation of selfishness and came to refer to individuals with overall bad judgmentâ??individuals who are "stupid". In modern English usage, the terms "idiot" and "idiocy" describe an extreme folly or stupidity, and its symptoms (foolish or stupid utterance or deed). In psychology, it is a historical term for the state or condition now called profound mental retardation.[1] Idiot as a word derived from the Greek ἰδιÏ?Ï?ηÏ?, idiÅ?tÄ?s ("person lacking professional skill," "a private citizen," "individual"), from ἴδιοÏ?, idios ("private," "one's own").[2] In Latin the word idiota ("ordinary person, layman") preceded the Late Latin meaning "uneducated or ignorant person."[3] Its modern meaning and form dates back to Middle English around the year 1300, from the Old French idiote ("uneducated or ignorant person"). The related word idiocy dates to 1487 and may have been analogously modeled on the words prophet[4] and prophecy.[5][6] The word has cognates in many other languages. Disability In 19th and early 20th century medicine and psychology, an "idiot" was a person with a very severe mental retardation. In the early 1900s, Dr. Henry H. Goddard proposed a classification system for mental retardation based on the Binet-Simon concept of mental age. Individuals with the lowest mental age level (less than three years) were identified as idiots; imbiciles (sic) had a mental age of three to 7 years, and morons had a mental age of seven to ten years.[7] IQ, or intelligence quotient, is determined by dividing a person's mental age, as determined by standardized tests, by their actual age. The term "idiot" was used to refer to people having an IQ below 30.[8][9] In current medical classification, these people are now said to have profound mental retardation.[1] United States law Until 2007, the California Penal Code Section 26 stated that "Idiots" were one of six types of people who are not capable of committing crimes. In 2007 the code was amended to read "persons who are mentally incapacitated."[10] In 2008, Iowa voters passed a measure replacing "idiot, or insane person" in the State's constitution with "person adjudged mentally incompetent."[11] In several states, "idiots" do not have the right to vote: Kentucky Section 145[12] Mississippi Article 12, Section 241[13] New Mexico Article VII, section 1[14] Ohio (Article V, Section 6)[15] The constitution of the state of Arkansas was amended in the general election of 2008 to, among other things, repeal a provision (Article 3, Section 5) which had until its repeal prohibited "idiots or insane persons" from voting.[16] In literature This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2006) A few authors have used "idiot" characters in novels, plays and poetry. Often these characters are used to highlight or indicate something else (allegory). Examples of such usage are William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and William Wordsworth's The Idiot Boy. Idiot characters in literature are often confused with or subsumed within mad or lunatic characters. The most common imbrication between these two categories of mental impairment occurs in the polemic surrounding Edmund from William Shakespeare's King Lear. In Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot, the idiocy of the main character, Prince Lev Nikolaievich Myshkin, is attributed more to his honesty, trustfulness, kindness, and humility, than to a lack of intellectual ability. Nietzsche claimed, in his The Antichrist, that Jesus was an idiot. This resulted from his description of Jesus as having an aversion toward the material world.[17] See also Stupidity Idiocracy Euphemism References This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. ^ a b "idiocy". Merriam-Webster online. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idiocy. Retrieved 2007-09-26. ^ Liddell-Scott-Jones A Greek-English Lexicon, entries for ἰδιÏ?Ï?ηÏ? and ἴδιοÏ?. ^ Words, entry idiota. ^ Etymonline.com, entry prophet ^ Etymonline.com, entry prophecy ^ Etymonline.com, entry idiot ^ Zaretsky, Herbert H.; Richter, Edwin F.; Eisenberg, Myron G. (2005), Medical aspects of disability: a handbook for the rehabilitation professional (third edition, illustrated ed.), Springer Publishing Company, p. 346, ISBN 9780826179739, http://books.google.com/books?id=7TZGYRu-_Y4C . ^ Rapley, Mark (2004), The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability, Cambridge University Press, p. 32, ISBN 9780521005296, http://books.google.com/books?id=KdQS5Z_mGbQC . ^ Cruz, Isagani A.; Quaison, Correct Choice of Words' : English Grammar Series for Filipino Lawyers (2003 Edition ed.), Rex Bookstore, Inc., pp. 444-445, ISBN 9789712336867, http://books.google.com/books?id=I2FnOYgu6IsC . ^ "Penal Code section 25-29". State of California. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=00001-01000&file=25-29. Retrieved 2007-09-21. ^ Sharples, Tiffany (5 November 2008). "Ballot Initiatives: No to Gay Marriage, Anti-Abortion Measures". time.com. http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1856820-2,00.html. Retrieved 2009-02-26. ^ Kentucky Section 145 ^ Mississippi Constitution of the State of Mississippi See Article 12, Section 241 ^ New Mexico Constitution, Article VII, section 1 ^ Ohio Constitution, Article V, Section 6 ^ [http://www.votesmart.org/election_ballot_measures_detail.php?ballot_id=64 Arkansas Ballot Measures : An Amendment Concerning Voting, Qualifications of Voters and Election Officers, and the Time of Holding General Elections (Amendment 1) : For the November 4, 2008 General Election], votesmart.org. ^ Nietzsche, Friedrich (1895). The Antichrist. http://www.handprint.com/SC/NIE/antich.html. "To make a hero of Jesus! And even more, what a misunderstanding is the word "genius"! Our whole concept, our cultural concept, of "spirit" has no meaning whatever in the world in which Jesus lives. Spoken with the precision of a physiologist, even an entirely different word would be yet more fitting hereâ??the word idiot." (§ 29, partially quoted here, contains three words that were suppressed by Nietzsche's sister when she published The Antichrist in 1895. The words are: "das Wort Idiot", translated here as "the word idiot". They were not made public until 1931, by Josef Hofmiller. H.L. Mencken's 1920 translation does not contain these words.) External links Look up idiot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dictionary.Reference.Com "Middle English, ignorant person, from Old French idiote (modern French idiot), from Latin idiota, from Greek idiotès, private person, layman, from idios, own, private." Etymonline "c.1300, "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning," from Old French idiote "uneducated or ignorant person," from Latin idiota "ordinary person, layman," in Late Latin "uneducated or ignorant person," from Greek idiotes "layman, person lacking professional skill," literally "private person," used patronizingly for "ignorant person," from idios "one's own". 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This page was last modified on 17 October 2010 at 05:27. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Contact us Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Idiot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Idiocy) Jump to: navigation, search "Numbskull" redirects here. For the comic strip, see The Numskulls. For the American band, see The Numbskulls. For other uses, see Idiot (disambiguation) and The Idiot. Goya's Bobabilicón.An idiot, dolt, or dullard is a mentally deficient person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way. More humorous synonyms of the term include addlehead, blockhead, bonehead, deadhead, dimwit, dodo, dope, dummy, dunderhead, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numbskull, stupidhead, thickhead, and twit, among many others. Archaically the word mome has also been used. The synonymous terms moron, imbecile, and cretin have all gained specialized meanings in modern times. An idiot is said to be idiotic, and to suffer from idiocy. A dunce is an idiot who is specifically incapable of learning. An idiot differs from a fool (who is unwise) and an ignoramus (who is uneducated/ an ignorant), neither of which refer to someone with low intelligence. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Disability 3 United States law 4 In literature 5 See also 6 References 7 External links History Main article: Idiot (Athenian democracy) "Idiot" originally referred to "layman, person lacking professional skill", "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning". Declining to take part in public life, such as democratic government of the polis (city state), such as the Athenian democracy, was considered dishonorable. "Idiots" were seen as having bad judgment in public and political matters. Over time, the term "idiot" shifted away from its original connotation of selfishness and came to refer to individuals with overall bad judgmentâ??individuals who are "stupid". In modern English usage, the terms "idiot" and "idiocy" describe an extreme folly or stupidity, and its symptoms (foolish or stupid utterance or deed). In psychology, it is a historical term for the state or condition now called profound mental retardation.[1] Idiot as a word derived from the Greek ἰδιÏ?Ï?ηÏ?, idiÅ?tÄ?s ("person lacking professional skill," "a private citizen," "individual"), from ἴδιοÏ?, idios ("private," "one's own").[2] In Latin the word idiota ("ordinary person, layman") preceded the Late Latin meaning "uneducated or ignorant person."[3] Its modern meaning and form dates back to Middle English around the year 1300, from the Old French idiote ("uneducated or ignorant person"). The related word idiocy dates to 1487 and may have been analogously modeled on the words prophet[4] and prophecy.[5][6] The word has cognates in many other languages. Disability In 19th and early 20th century medicine and psychology, an "idiot" was a person with a very severe mental retardation. In the early 1900s, Dr. Henry H. Goddard proposed a classification system for mental retardation based on the Binet-Simon concept of mental age. Individuals with the lowest mental age level (less than three years) were identified as idiots; imbiciles (sic) had a mental age of three to 7 years, and morons had a mental age of seven to ten years.[7] IQ, or intelligence quotient, is determined by dividing a person's mental age, as determined by standardized tests, by their actual age. The term "idiot" was used to refer to people having an IQ below 30.[8][9] In current medical classification, these people are now said to have profound mental retardation.[1] United States law Until 2007, the California Penal Code Section 26 stated that "Idiots" were one of six types of people who are not capable of committing crimes. In 2007 the code was amended to read "persons who are mentally incapacitated."[10] In 2008, Iowa voters passed a measure replacing "idiot, or insane person" in the State's constitution with "person adjudged mentally incompetent."[11] In several states, "idiots" do not have the right to vote: Kentucky Section 145[12] Mississippi Article 12, Section 241[13] New Mexico Article VII, section 1[14] Ohio (Article V, Section 6)[15] The constitution of the state of Arkansas was amended in the general election of 2008 to, among other things, repeal a provision (Article 3, Section 5) which had until its repeal prohibited "idiots or insane persons" from voting.[16] In literature This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2006) A few authors have used "idiot" characters in novels, plays and poetry. Often these characters are used to highlight or indicate something else (allegory). Examples of such usage are William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and William Wordsworth's The Idiot Boy. Idiot characters in literature are often confused with or subsumed within mad or lunatic characters. The most common imbrication between these two categories of mental impairment occurs in the polemic surrounding Edmund from William Shakespeare's King Lear. In Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot, the idiocy of the main character, Prince Lev Nikolaievich Myshkin, is attributed more to his honesty, trustfulness, kindness, and humility, than to a lack of intellectual ability. Nietzsche claimed, in his The Antichrist, that Jesus was an idiot. This resulted from his description of Jesus as having an aversion toward the material world.[17] See also Stupidity Idiocracy Euphemism References This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. ^ a b "idiocy". Merriam-Webster online. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idiocy. Retrieved 2007-09-26. ^ Liddell-Scott-Jones A Greek-English Lexicon, entries for ἰδιÏ?Ï?ηÏ? and ἴδιοÏ?. ^ Words, entry idiota. ^ Etymonline.com, entry prophet ^ Etymonline.com, entry prophecy ^ Etymonline.com, entry idiot ^ Zaretsky, Herbert H.; Richter, Edwin F.; Eisenberg, Myron G. (2005), Medical aspects of disability: a handbook for the rehabilitation professional (third edition, illustrated ed.), Springer Publishing Company, p. 346, ISBN 9780826179739, http://books.google.com/books?id=7TZGYRu-_Y4C . ^ Rapley, Mark (2004), The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability, Cambridge University Press, p. 32, ISBN 9780521005296, http://books.google.com/books?id=KdQS5Z_mGbQC . ^ Cruz, Isagani A.; Quaison, Correct Choice of Words' : English Grammar Series for Filipino Lawyers (2003 Edition ed.), Rex Bookstore, Inc., pp. 444-445, ISBN 9789712336867, http://books.google.com/books?id=I2FnOYgu6IsC . ^ "Penal Code section 25-29". State of California. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=00001-01000&file=25-29. Retrieved 2007-09-21. ^ Sharples, Tiffany (5 November 2008). "Ballot Initiatives: No to Gay Marriage, Anti-Abortion Measures". time.com. http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1856820-2,00.html. Retrieved 2009-02-26. ^ Kentucky Section 145 ^ Mississippi Constitution of the State of Mississippi See Article 12, Section 241 ^ New Mexico Constitution, Article VII, section 1 ^ Ohio Constitution, Article V, Section 6 ^ [http://www.votesmart.org/election_ballot_measures_detail.php?ballot_id=64 Arkansas Ballot Measures : An Amendment Concerning Voting, Qualifications of Voters and Election Officers, and the Time of Holding General Elections (Amendment 1) : For the November 4, 2008 General Election], votesmart.org. ^ Nietzsche, Friedrich (1895). The Antichrist. http://www.handprint.com/SC/NIE/antich.html. "To make a hero of Jesus! And even more, what a misunderstanding is the word "genius"! Our whole concept, our cultural concept, of "spirit" has no meaning whatever in the world in which Jesus lives. Spoken with the precision of a physiologist, even an entirely different word would be yet more fitting hereâ??the word idiot." (§ 29, partially quoted here, contains three words that were suppressed by Nietzsche's sister when she published The Antichrist in 1895. The words are: "das Wort Idiot", translated here as "the word idiot". They were not made public until 1931, by Josef Hofmiller. H.L. Mencken's 1920 translation does not contain these words.) External links Look up idiot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dictionary.Reference.Com "Middle English, ignorant person, from Old French idiote (modern French idiot), from Latin idiota, from Greek idiotès, private person, layman, from idios, own, private." Etymonline "c.1300, "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning," from Old French idiote "uneducated or ignorant person," from Latin idiota "ordinary person, layman," in Late Latin "uneducated or ignorant person," from Greek idiotes "layman, person lacking professional skill," literally "private person," used patronizingly for "ignorant person," from idios "one's own". Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot" Categories: Disability | Greek loanwords | Obsolete medical terms | Pejorative terms for people Hidden categories: Articles containing Ancient Greek language text | Wikipedia pages semi-protected against vandalism | Wikipedia protected pages without expiry | Articles needing additional references from October 2006 | All articles needing additional references | Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica | Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica without Wikisource reference | Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with no article parameter | Articles incorporating text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia without Wikisource reference | Articles incorporating text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with no article parameter Personal tools New features Log in / create account Namespaces Article Discussion VariantsViews Read View source View history ActionsSearch Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Donate Interaction About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact Wikipedia Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Cite this page Print/export Create a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguages اÙ?عربÙ?Ø© Ä?esky Deutsch Eesti Español Esperanto í??êµ­ì?´ Hrvatski Bahasa Indonesia Lietuvių Ð?акедонÑ?ки â?ªNorsk (bokmÃ¥l)â?¬ Polski Português РÑ?Ñ?Ñ?кий Sicilianu Simple English SlovenÄ?ina SlovenÅ¡Ä?ina СÑ?пÑ?ки / Srpski Suomi Svenska 中æ?? This page was last modified on 17 October 2010 at 05:27. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Contact us Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Idiot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Idiocy) Jump to: navigation, search "Numbskull" redirects here. For the comic strip, see The Numskulls. For the American band, see The Numbskulls. For other uses, see Idiot (disambiguation) and The Idiot. Goya's Bobabilicón.An idiot, dolt, or dullard is a mentally deficient person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way. More humorous synonyms of the term include addlehead, blockhead, bonehead, deadhead, dimwit, dodo, dope, dummy, dunderhead, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numbskull, stupidhead, thickhead, and twit, among many others. Archaically the word mome has also been used. The synonymous terms moron, imbecile, and cretin have all gained specialized meanings in modern times. An idiot is said to be idiotic, and to suffer from idiocy. A dunce is an idiot who is specifically incapable of learning. An idiot differs from a fool (who is unwise) and an ignoramus (who is uneducated/ an ignorant), neither of which refer to someone with low intelligence. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Disability 3 United States law 4 In literature 5 See also 6 References 7 External links History Main article: Idiot (Athenian democracy) "Idiot" originally referred to "layman, person lacking professional skill", "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning". Declining to take part in public life, such as democratic government of the polis (city state), such as the Athenian democracy, was considered dishonorable. "Idiots" were seen as having bad judgment in public and political matters. Over time, the term "idiot" shifted away from its original connotation of selfishness and came to refer to individuals with overall bad judgmentâ??individuals who are "stupid". In modern English usage, the terms "idiot" and "idiocy" describe an extreme folly or stupidity, and its symptoms (foolish or stupid utterance or deed). In psychology, it is a historical term for the state or condition now called profound mental retardation.[1] Idiot as a word derived from the Greek ἰδιÏ?Ï?ηÏ?, idiÅ?tÄ?s ("person lacking professional skill," "a private citizen," "individual"), from ἴδιοÏ?, idios ("private," "one's own").[2] In Latin the word idiota ("ordinary person, layman") preceded the Late Latin meaning "uneducated or ignorant person."[3] Its modern meaning and form dates back to Middle English around the year 1300, from the Old French idiote ("uneducated or ignorant person"). The related word idiocy dates to 1487 and may have been analogously modeled on the words prophet[4] and prophecy.[5][6] The word has cognates in many other languages. Disability In 19th and early 20th century medicine and psychology, an "idiot" was a person with a very severe mental retardation. In the early 1900s, Dr. Henry H. Goddard proposed a classification system for mental retardation based on the Binet-Simon concept of mental age. Individuals with the lowest mental age level (less than three years) were identified as idiots; imbiciles (sic) had a mental age of three to 7 years, and morons had a mental age of seven to ten years.[7] IQ, or intelligence quotient, is determined by dividing a person's mental age, as determined by standardized tests, by their actual age. The term "idiot" was used to refer to people having an IQ below 30.[8][9] In current medical classification, these people are now said to have profound mental retardation.[1] United States law Until 2007, the California Penal Code Section 26 stated that "Idiots" were one of six types of people who are not capable of committing crimes. In 2007 the code was amended to read "persons who are mentally incapacitated."[10] In 2008, Iowa voters passed a measure replacing "idiot, or insane person" in the State's constitution with "person adjudged mentally incompetent."[11] In several states, "idiots" do not have the right to vote: Kentucky Section 145[12] Mississippi Article 12, Section 241[13] New Mexico Article VII, section 1[14] Ohio (Article V, Section 6)[15] The constitution of the state of Arkansas was amended in the general election of 2008 to, among other things, repeal a provision (Article 3, Section 5) which had until its repeal prohibited "idiots or insane persons" from voting.[16] In literature This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2006) A few authors have used "idiot" characters in novels, plays and poetry. Often these characters are used to highlight or indicate something else (allegory). Examples of such usage are William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and William Wordsworth's The Idiot Boy. Idiot characters in literature are often confused with or subsumed within mad or lunatic characters. The most common imbrication between these two categories of mental impairment occurs in the polemic surrounding Edmund from William Shakespeare's King Lear. In Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot, the idiocy of the main character, Prince Lev Nikolaievich Myshkin, is attributed more to his honesty, trustfulness, kindness, and humility, than to a lack of intellectual ability. Nietzsche claimed, in his The Antichrist, that Jesus was an idiot. This resulted from his description of Jesus as having an aversion toward the material world.[17] See also Stupidity Idiocracy Euphemism References This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. ^ a b "idiocy". Merriam-Webster online. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idiocy. Retrieved 2007-09-26. ^ Liddell-Scott-Jones A Greek-English Lexicon, entries for ἰδιÏ?Ï?ηÏ? and ἴδιοÏ?. ^ Words, entry idiota. ^ Etymonline.com, entry prophet ^ Etymonline.com, entry prophecy ^ Etymonline.com, entry idiot ^ Zaretsky, Herbert H.; Richter, Edwin F.; Eisenberg, Myron G. (2005), Medical aspects of disability: a handbook for the rehabilitation professional (third edition, illustrated ed.), Springer Publishing Company, p. 346, ISBN 9780826179739, http://books.google.com/books?id=7TZGYRu-_Y4C . ^ Rapley, Mark (2004), The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability, Cambridge University Press, p. 32, ISBN 9780521005296, http://books.google.com/books?id=KdQS5Z_mGbQC . ^ Cruz, Isagani A.; Quaison, Correct Choice of Words' : English Grammar Series for Filipino Lawyers (2003 Edition ed.), Rex Bookstore, Inc., pp. 444-445, ISBN 9789712336867, http://books.google.com/books?id=I2FnOYgu6IsC . ^ "Penal Code section 25-29". State of California. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=00001-01000&file=25-29. Retrieved 2007-09-21. ^ Sharples, Tiffany (5 November 2008). "Ballot Initiatives: No to Gay Marriage, Anti-Abortion Measures". time.com. http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1856820-2,00.html. Retrieved 2009-02-26. ^ Kentucky Section 145 ^ Mississippi Constitution of the State of Mississippi See Article 12, Section 241 ^ New Mexico Constitution, Article VII, section 1 ^ Ohio Constitution, Article V, Section 6 ^ [http://www.votesmart.org/election_ballot_measures_detail.php?ballot_id=64 Arkansas Ballot Measures : An Amendment Concerning Voting, Qualifications of Voters and Election Officers, and the Time of Holding General Elections (Amendment 1) : For the November 4, 2008 General Election], votesmart.org. ^ Nietzsche, Friedrich (1895). The Antichrist. http://www.handprint.com/SC/NIE/antich.html. "To make a hero of Jesus! And even more, what a misunderstanding is the word "genius"! Our whole concept, our cultural concept, of "spirit" has no meaning whatever in the world in which Jesus lives. Spoken with the precision of a physiologist, even an entirely different word would be yet more fitting hereâ??the word idiot." (§ 29, partially quoted here, contains three words that were suppressed by Nietzsche's sister when she published The Antichrist in 1895. The words are: "das Wort Idiot", translated here as "the word idiot". They were not made public until 1931, by Josef Hofmiller. H.L. Mencken's 1920 translation does not contain these words.) External links Look up idiot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dictionary.Reference.Com "Middle English, ignorant person, from Old French idiote (modern French idiot), from Latin idiota, from Greek idiotès, private person, layman, from idios, own, private." Etymonline "c.1300, "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning," from Old French idiote "uneducated or ignorant person," from Latin idiota "ordinary person, layman," in Late Latin "uneducated or ignorant person," from Greek idiotes "layman, person lacking professional skill," literally "private person," used patronizingly for "ignorant person," from idios "one's own". Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot" Categories: Disability | Greek loanwords | Obsolete medical terms | Pejorative terms for people Hidden categories: Articles containing Ancient Greek language text | Wikipedia pages semi-protected against vandalism | Wikipedia protected pages without expiry | Articles needing additional references from October 2006 | All articles needing additional references | Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica | Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica without Wikisource reference | Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with no article parameter | Articles incorporating text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia without Wikisource reference | Articles incorporating text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with no article parameter Personal tools New features Log in / create account Namespaces Article Discussion VariantsViews Read View source View history ActionsSearch Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Donate Interaction About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact Wikipedia Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Cite this page Print/export Create a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguages اÙ?عربÙ?Ø© Ä?esky Deutsch Eesti Español Esperanto í??êµ­ì?´ Hrvatski Bahasa Indonesia Lietuvių Ð?акедонÑ?ки â?ªNorsk (bokmÃ¥l)â?¬ Polski Português РÑ?Ñ?Ñ?кий Sicilianu Simple English SlovenÄ?ina SlovenÅ¡Ä?ina СÑ?пÑ?ки / Srpski Suomi Svenska 中æ?? 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Sstrickland New Member	Fri Oct 22 08:08:29 What about the special olympics? Everyones a winner in the special olympics!
roland Member	Fri Oct 22 09:52:18 "Why you ask?" because why would a guy watch result of a gymnastic competition?
The Children Member	Fri Oct 22 09:57:40 "why would a guy watch result of a gymnastic competition?" >> I didnt. I just posted the results. OWNED.
roland Member	Fri Oct 22 09:59:48 who the f*ck care about gymnastic? PWNED!!
The Children Member	Fri Oct 22 10:00:59 "who the f*ck care about gymnastic? PWNED!! " >> says the losers. Rofl
roland Member	Fri Oct 22 10:05:41 Good for you, king of the queens :p
Canadian Member	Fri Oct 22 13:34:41 "http://www.gymnastics2010.com/en/" - "Uchimura Succesfully Defends Menâ??s All-round Title" The name sounds very non-Chinese.
The Children Member	Fri Oct 22 13:53:51 It sure as hell dont sound anglo saxish. Owned.
earthpig GTFO HOer	Fri Oct 22 13:59:46 really? you are going to use male gymnastics to prop up your masculinity?
Canadian Member	Fri Oct 22 14:18:40 "It sure as hell dont sound anglo saxish." - True, but then again the Anglo-Saxons didn't get Nankinged either.
Dakyron Member	Fri Oct 22 14:18:55 "Coincidentally, these are also the three countries with the largest trade balances. " Elaborate? What exactly is a "large trade balance"?
habebe Member	Fri Oct 22 14:21:00 " really? you are going to use male gymnastics to prop up your masculinity?" Right... LOL
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