Idiot's Facebook Conversation About the Word 'Suffrage' Is Delightful

[trotsky]

http://jezebel.com/idiots-understanding-of-suffrage-is-delightful-and-i-1521607853

Posted here because certain people will get a good laugh about whom this reminds them of.

"I don't have to agree with it, that is my right as a human being."

[skepticscott]

1. Yes, I'm also reminded of

The thinking by some here that they can put anything they want in quotes and attribute it to someone else, even though that person said nothing like it, simply because it is their right to substitute any meaning they'd like to invent for what the speaker actually meant.

[trotsky]

2. Well, when there are evil, terrible, nasty, rotten fundie atheists to defeat...

I guess lying and being a raging hypocrite is perfectly fine.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. Suffrage - the gastrointestinal pain resulting from too many green leafy veggies.

[Hissyspit]

5. Just as I read your comment

There was a commercial for Fiber One bars on the TV.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. beware the fiber one bar. not even your dog will stay in the room with you.

[Hissyspit]

11. Oh, I know. I ate two at one sitting once.

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Never again.

[Heddi]

12. Once I got a bag of prunes and I had forgotten how delightfully sweet they were

so sweet, like a little fruit candy. Doing my mindless-eating-while-studying thing I ate, oh, like half the bag of prunes.

THat was possibly *the* worst mistake I've ever made in my entire life.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. Zatarains Red Beans and Rice...

luckily I don't have wallpaper in the bathroom.

[Heddi]

16. oy

We went to a little restaurant we visit often and I got the calamari appetizer special. $5 for calamari!! What could possibly go wrong???

About 4 am I could not figure what was left in my body to be expelled. There was NOTHING left. It was like getting a high colonic for the low low price of $5.

Mr. Heddi's like "sweet. Next time we go can I have the whole plate???" :-/

[Warpy]

4. And the dumbass keeps doubling down instead of correcting the post

That's the really funny part of the exchange.

The comments are pure gold, too.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. The parallels here are interesting.

Well not here as in this forum, but here as in DU and one particular forum. The echo of certain familiar posting stylings is downright weird.

[progressoid]

6. Sweet Baby Jesus.

That hurts my brain.

[frogmarch]

9. When they read their Babbles,

I cringe when I think of what "Suffer the little children to come unto me" means to them.

Suffer: allow

Women's suffrage: Women's rights!

It's depressing to realize how ignorant many people are.

[Act_of_Reparation]

10. Arbitrarily changing the definitions of words to suit your own argumentative needs?

Damn, there's a lot of that going around these days. Sounds like You Know Who's bowling team just got a new player.

[Heddi]

13. "The Spocks" vs "the Normal People Who Have Feelings Unlike YOU, Spocky McSpockerton"

I think that's the current name of the bowling league....

[Act_of_Reparation]

19. I was thinking something along the lines of...

"We Take Issue with Your Claim"

And they show up to the alley without shoes or balls, and declare victory because the "other team can't play them".

[Heddi]

20. Stop using big concepts, Spocky

and when I say "concepts," I mean "I will change the meaning of concept to mean whatever I want it to mean, whenever I want to change the meaning."

Take that! AND STOP BEING PERSONAL ABOUT MY DEEPLY HELD BELIEVES!! hater.

[Heddi]

14. Have we found the facebook of one of our most loved posters

I'm sure we have. The "I'm always right, even when I'm wrong, now shut up" is just so...so...familiar.

[onager]

17. Why, WHOEVER could you possibly mean?

[Heddi]

18. here

[onager]

22. You're mean.

And I love that. Keep up the good work!

Long as I'm here...I enjoyed all the comments about re-defining words and doubling down.

I seem to be seeing that all over the web, not just on DU. Or at least those parts of the web where Certain Kinds of People hang out:

"Well, no, that word doesn't mean what you're saying. See, right here in the dictionary..."

"DICTIONARY!!! OMG!!! Dictionaries are a tool of the Materialist-Fascist Conspiracy! Words can mean whatever I want them to mean!"

I hope none of these idiots ever run a restaurant. I'd probably order a cheeseburger and get a plate of asparagus. And be told it's the New Redefined Cheeseburger. And that I will eat it and like it.

[mr blur]

21. "I just don't think it should be limited to that form of usage."

So this is where they hang out the rest of the time!