Why India Will Kick America's Ass
Feb 29th, 2008 by Greg Bulmash
So I read this story today and my head just about exploded. A woman, using a toilet on a train in India, accidentally squeezed out her kid... into the toilet.
Bad enough you say, but the toilets on Indian trains aren't like portapotties with their own little septic systems that get pumped. They're like rolling outhouses: a seat and a hole. The kid fell down the hole, the umbilical cord snapped, and the kid was dropped onto the tracks.
Remarkably she survived. They stopped the train, went back and found her, and got her to a hospital where she is doing just fine.
American kids get killed by toys and cookies. In India, a seconds-old premature baby survives a fall from a moving vehicle none the worse for wear.
We're F'ing doomed.
That's okay. All of the ass-kicking Indians will be colonizing other planets, protected by the Colonial Union, while us American weaklings stay here on Earth.
And in case no one got the joke in Lisa D's comment, she's referring to the novel Old Man's War and its sequels by John Scalzi.