So basically anything that is not WASPY is tacky?

[Anonymous]

Mechanical Genius,
Al-Jazari (1136–1206), the most outstanding mechanical engineer of his time. Al-Jazari is credited as a pioneer of some 50 mechanical devices, including water clocks, the use of a crankshaft in machines, a double-action pump that could raise water to a height of 12 meters and lamination of timber to reduce warping. These and many other inventions are described in scrupulous detail in his Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices, which enabled future craftsmen to reproduce them.

Abbas Ibn Firnas and his successful 9th-century flight


http://www.muslimheritage.com/article/uncovering-thousand-years-science-and-technology

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do not knock it. Wasps are great! As my kids already realize, look around you. If it was not created by God - it was created by a Wasp or another European

Well the Greeks and the people of the Middle East actually invented most everything we attribute to the "whites" including MATH and if they did not invent it then the Chinese probably did.

First of all, you know Greeks are white right?

Second of all:

Antibiotics.
The steam engine.
Electricity.
The light bulb.
The printing press.
Automobiles, bicycles, airplanes, horse-drawn carriage.
Cameras, televisions, cell phones, computers, essentially all modern modes of communication.

I could literally go on and on.

Let's see what we got from China . . . noodles and gunpowder.

First of all, you know you are a dick, right?

You got so much wrong on your list. Where did you go to school, Trump University?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, PP, you obviously missed the National Geographic's tour of 1001 Inventions:

http://www.1001inventions.com/discover
From the 7th century onwards, men and women of different faiths and cultures built on knowledge from ancient civilisations making breakthroughs that have left their mark on our world. Arab, Persian, Indian, Turkish, North African, Spanish, Sicilian and other nationalities and cultures formed this large area of Muslim Civilisation that included men and woman scholars of Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Sabean, Hindu and other faiths.

Knowledge from Assyrian, Babylonian, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Persian and Roman civilisations was highly prized in the Muslim Civilisation. Scholars advanced science by building upon ancient wisdom, making breakthroughs that have had a huge but mostly unknown influence on our world.

This ‘golden age of discovery’ took place during the so-called ‘dark ages’ of Europe.

The Arabs invented the first camera:
Ibn Al-Haytham’s EyeScura

A huge but mostly unknown influence? Reminds me of when I open a jar and my kid says I loosened it for him.

Uh-huh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to DCUM the only way to not be tacky is to born WASP. Everyone else is tacky.

One of the prerogatives of being a WASP is not caring what others think of you. Adopt that attitude for a happier life, OP.

Not OP but I'm quite happy not being a WASP. Seems so constricting when you have to worry about etiquette and traditions and elegance and tackiness. I'll take my loud Jewish family any day.

+1. Mrs Simpsons prodigies eat your hearts out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do not knock it. Wasps are great! As my kids already realize, look around you. If it was not created by God - it was created by a Wasp or another European

Well the Greeks and the people of the Middle East actually invented most everything we attribute to the "whites" including MATH and if they did not invent it then the Chinese probably did.

First of all, you know Greeks are white right?

Second of all:

Antibiotics.
The steam engine.
Electricity.
The light bulb.
The printing press.
Automobiles, bicycles, airplanes, horse-drawn carriage.
Cameras, televisions, cell phones, computers, essentially all modern modes of communication.

I could literally go on and on.

Let's see what we got from China . . . noodles and gunpowder.

First of all, you know you are a dick, right?

You got so much wrong on your list. Where did you go to school, Trump University?

I am a dick because???

Not Trump University, I was waitlisted and went to Columbia instead.

BTW -- What did I get wrong?

Who do you think invented the automobile and the airplane? The lightbulb? The telephone? Essentially every modern convenience that you take for granted. Hint: it rhymes with White Man.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren't 50% of DCUMers WASPS?

I think so - white anglosaxon protestant.

And when I say protestant, I mean born to christian heritage, even if you were not raised "religious." Like, you celebrate christmas, and your parents are not Catholic, Orthodox, Hindu, Jewish, B'nai, or Muslim.

Indeed, that must be half of DCUM.

Look at the names you all pick in the name threads.

I am in the other 50%: poor white trash with money and pretensions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mechanical Genius,
Al-Jazari (1136–1206), the most outstanding mechanical engineer of his time. Al-Jazari is credited as a pioneer of some 50 mechanical devices, including water clocks, the use of a crankshaft in machines, a double-action pump that could raise water to a height of 12 meters and lamination of timber to reduce warping. These and many other inventions are described in scrupulous detail in his Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices, which enabled future craftsmen to reproduce them.

Abbas Ibn Firnas and his successful 9th-century flight


http://www.muslimheritage.com/article/uncovering-thousand-years-science-and-technology

Kind of sad that they are now taxi drivers if they're from poor countries or no show jobs if they're from oil rich countries

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't believe in waspiness. I think it is a fiction.

"Summering," blah blah blah. I think this is just wanna be important talk by white people who lived north of the mason dixon line, or who wish they did. and it is so bizarre to self-proclaim it.

Lol what ?

[Anonymous]

Antibiotics--Fleming, likely WASP. But wife from Country Mayo in Ireland so maybe Catholic and not WASP.

The steam engine--Watt, WASP.

Electricity--Much stuff going back to ancient Middle East. Many post-enlightenment contributors, many Catholic. Some consider Tesla the true father of electricity--Serbian Orthodox, not WASP.

The light bulb--Edison (some dispute)--WASP.

The printing press--Gutenberg, Catholic, no Anglo, not WASP.

Automobiles--de Rivaz--French, Catholic not WASP

Bicycles--Drais, German--can't find religion but with no Anglo, not WASP

You get the idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do not knock it. Wasps are great! As my kids already realize, look around you. If it was not created by God - it was created by a Wasp or another European

Well the Greeks and the people of the Middle East actually invented most everything we attribute to the "whites" including MATH and if they did not invent it then the Chinese probably did.

First of all, you know Greeks are white right?

Second of all:

Antibiotics.
The steam engine.
Electricity.
The light bulb.
The printing press.
Automobiles, bicycles, airplanes, horse-drawn carriage.
Cameras, televisions, cell phones, computers, essentially all modern modes of communication.

I could literally go on and on.

Let's see what we got from China . . . noodles and gunpowder.

First of all, you know you are a dick, right?

You got so much wrong on your list. Where did you go to school, Trump University?

I am a dick because???

Not Trump University, I was waitlisted and went to Columbia instead.

BTW -- What did I get wrong?

Who do you think invented the automobile and the airplane? The lightbulb? The telephone? Essentially every modern convenience that you take for granted. Hint: it rhymes with White Man.

For inventions in the last 150 years you may be right that most of those now in use were done by white Westerners, but no one invented an automobile or a light bulb out of thin air. They built on knowledge of science and mathematics that originated with other cultures. That is what PPs are telling you. If you went back 700 years, you would find that Europe was a cesspool of ignorance and disease and it was East Asia and the Middle East that were enlightened and relatively sanitary.

[Anonymous]

Well what have WASPs done lately, beyond giving us Donald Trump for president and a ton of anti-immigration rhetoric and anger at their falling status.

DCUM - the WASPs' last gasp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do not knock it. Wasps are great! As my kids already realize, look around you. If it was not created by God - it was created by a Wasp or another European

Well the Greeks and the people of the Middle East actually invented most everything we attribute to the "whites" including MATH and if they did not invent it then the Chinese probably did.

First of all, you know Greeks are white right?

Second of all:

Antibiotics.
The steam engine.
Electricity.
The light bulb.
The printing press.
Automobiles, bicycles, airplanes, horse-drawn carriage.
Cameras, televisions, cell phones, computers, essentially all modern modes of communication.

I could literally go on and on.

Let's see what we got from China . . . noodles and gunpowder.

First of all, you know you are a dick, right?

You got so much wrong on your list. Where did you go to school, Trump University?

I am a dick because???

Not Trump University, I was waitlisted and went to Columbia instead.

BTW -- What did I get wrong?

Who do you think invented the automobile and the airplane? The lightbulb? The telephone? Essentially every modern convenience that you take for granted. Hint: it rhymes with White Man.

For inventions in the last 150 years you may be right that most of those now in use were done by white Westerners, but no one invented an automobile or a light bulb out of thin air. They built on knowledge of science and mathematics that originated with other cultures. That is what PPs are telling you. If you went back 700 years, you would find that Europe was a cesspool of ignorance and disease and it was East Asia and the Middle East that were enlightened and relatively sanitary.

Exactly. Just b/c you don't know the history takes nothing away from what other cultures contributed.

Already posted that the first camera and airplanes invented by Arabs.

Antibiotics
Penicillin was "discovered" by an Englishman who didn't know what it was and developed by a European Jew and an Australian:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/antibiotics/history.htm

Just so you know the contributions for modern medicine:
Jabir ibn Hayyan (722-815), known as the father of chemistry, worked in Iraq devising and perfecting the processes of sublimation, distillation, crystallization, purification, oxidation, evaporation filtration and others.

Al-Zahrawi (936-1013), a physician and surgeon from Muslim Spain, wrote a 30-volume medical encyclopedia, giving detailed accounts of dental, pharmaceutical and surgical practices. He designed more than 200 surgical instruments such as syringes, droppers, scalpels and forceps.

Steam Engine
The first recorded rudimentary steam engine was the aeolipile described by Heron of Alexandria in the 1st century AD.
Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 18 July

Yeah, Guttenburg invented moveable type in 1454, but where do you think the paper/linen came from that he used?
That's right, paper mills in Iraq, Syria, and Palestine: http://www.1001inventions.com/paper
Printing started in the Arab world in 1311: http://www.muslimheritage.com/article/arabic-and-art-printing

Here's how information spread from the East to the West:
http://muslimheritage.com/article/transfer-islamic-technology-west
http://www.1001inventions.com/node/717

Philo Farnsworth invented TV. He was an American and a Mormon, so I don't think he'd appreciated being referred to as a WASP:
http://www.biography.com/people/philo-t-farnsworth-40273

Hedy Lamarr, an American actress born in Austria to a Jewish father and a Hungarian mother, was a pioneer in cell phone technology:
http://www.women-inventors.com/Hedy-Lammar.asp

The first computer was the Chinese abacus.
Yes, Charles Babbage was a WASP. You got that one right:
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/1998-99/babbage/bio.htm

But watch the video clip on the history of mathematics from the 7th century:
http://www.1001inventions.com/media/documentaries/maths
India and the Middle East are responsible for developing what Babbage studied like algebra.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, PP, you obviously missed the National Geographic's tour of 1001 Inventions:

http://www.1001inventions.com/discover
From the 7th century onwards, men and women of different faiths and cultures built on knowledge from ancient civilisations making breakthroughs that have left their mark on our world. Arab, Persian, Indian, Turkish, North African, Spanish, Sicilian and other nationalities and cultures formed this large area of Muslim Civilisation that included men and woman scholars of Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Sabean, Hindu and other faiths.

Knowledge from Assyrian, Babylonian, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Persian and Roman civilisations was highly prized in the Muslim Civilisation. Scholars advanced science by building upon ancient wisdom, making breakthroughs that have had a huge but mostly unknown influence on our world.

This ‘golden age of discovery’ took place during the so-called ‘dark ages’ of Europe.

The Arabs invented the first camera:
Ibn Al-Haytham’s EyeScura

A huge but mostly unknown influence? Reminds me of when I open a jar and my kid says I loosened it for him.

Uh-huh.

Being ignorant doesn't make you correct. I feel sorry for your kid to have such an ignoramus for a parent. Just b/c you weren't taught, don't remember, or facts were altered, doesn't mean the truth doesn't exist.

Cars were mentioned as a European or WASP invention.
"In 1864, Siegfried Marcus created the first gasoline powered combustion engine, which he placed on a pushcart... But his place in history was all but erased by the Nazis during World War II. Because Marcus was of Jewish descent, the Nazi propaganda office ordered his work to be destroyed, his name expunged from future textbooks, and his public memorials removed."



None of the cars would have been possible without this guy who invented the crankshaft.



Motorized boat: http://www.muslimheritage.com/sites/default/files/islamic_automation_06.jpg
(You don't need cars for the desert when you had camels.)

[Anonymous]

what the heck- they thread got derailed completely

also person who is so sad that all the 'brown' people are taxi drivers- have you ever been to a doctors office/hospital/ silicon valley/little 'amazon' in Seattle/San Jose/ New England

a lot of brown people not driving cabs- like alotttttttttt- brown people not from Latin America i might add.

Don't forget Jonas Salk

also google and apple and microsoft are the historical innovators of our time- not white people yo- go look at their campuses and the founding group- not white people/WASPs, same with fb- not WASPs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to DCUM the only way to not be tacky is to born WASP. Everyone else is tacky.

One of the prerogatives of being a WASP is not caring what others think of you. Adopt that attitude for a happier life, OP.

Not OP but I'm quite happy not being a WASP. Seems so constricting when you have to worry about etiquette and traditions and elegance and tackiness. I'll take my loud Jewish family any day.

When you are raised a certain way you don't "worry" about etiquette and traditions, they are simply a part of your life. Its the non WASPS who worry about that stuff because they innately know that they can't keep pace.

Gross. Go be a boring snob somewhere else.