Do you know any STUPID people?

[Philosoraptor]

Main Entry: 1stu·pid
Pronunciation: 'stü-p&d, 'styü-
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle French stupide, from Latin stupidus, from stupEre to be numb, be astonished -- more at TYPE
1 a : slow of mind : OBTUSE b : given to unintelligent decisions or acts : acting in an unintelligent or careless manner c : lacking intelligence or reason : BRUTISH
2 : dulled in feeling or sensation : TORPID <still stupid from the sedative>
3 : marked by or resulting from unreasoned thinking or acting : SENSELESS <a stupid decision>
4 a : lacking interest or point <a stupid event> b : VEXATIOUS, EXASPERATING <the stupid car won't start>
- stu·pid·ly adverb
- stu·pid·ness noun
synonyms STUPID, DULL, DENSE, CRASS, DUMB mean lacking in power to absorb ideas or impressions. STUPID implies a slow-witted or dazed state of mind that may be either congenital or temporary <stupid students just keeping the seats warm> <stupid with drink>. DULL suggests a slow or sluggish mind such as results from disease, depression, or shock <monotonous work that leaves the mind dull>. DENSE implies a thickheaded imperviousness to ideas <too dense to take a hint>. CRASS suggests a grossness of mind precluding discrimination or delicacy <a crass, materialistic people>. DUMB applies to an exasperating obtuseness or lack of comprehension <too dumb to figure out what's going on>.

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Going by the above description, I apparently know a whole shit load of stupid people.

Where would we be without the stupid? Stupid people make the world go round, there wouldn't be an "American Idol", or a president bush, without vast, roaming herds of stupid people.

Sometimes I think I'm surrounded by and under siege from the stupid. The stupid are your neighbors, your relatives, your congressmen and senators, the stupidest man ever born on U.S. soil is our president for God's sake.

This is the time of the stupid. The stupid are in ascendance. These are the stupid ages.

[tenshi816]

1. Yes.

Unfortunately several of them are related to me. In addition to stupid, they're rabid fundamentalist right-wing bigots. When I was a child, I was absolutely convinced I was adopted.

[Control-Z]

8. Damn

You made me spray my coffee. I know that probably wasn't meant to be funny but I'm still on the floor - convinced you were adopted - never heard it couched like that. Sorry you felt that way but I understand.

[tenshi816]

26. It's true too.

I'm so different from the rest of my family and even by the time I was about 9, I thought like a Democrat (although I didn't know there was a name for it at the time). I remember telling one of my cousins that I thought I must be adopted but then she went and pointed out how very much I look like my dad.

You know what's funny (in the not ha-ha way)? On my dad's side of the family we're related to both LBJ and Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. There was a time "my people" used to be Democrats too (I remember my father saying when I was a teenager that LBJ was an SOB but he had still voted for him in 1964 because he was family). They were always crazy fundies though, and as time has passed most of them have elevated stupid to a whole new level.

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[Control-Z]

32. I was not that bright as a child.

Or maybe I was too busy ducking for cover to think that deeply. I don't know. I didn't agree with much of anything my daddy believed in. He was a card carrying Bircher. He was intelligent but a bigot and abusive. He raised my sister and me by himself after my mom died when I was 7.

He used to take me to his Bircher meetings with him. When we arrived they would put me in a room by myself with a TV and then hold their meeting in whispers out where I couldn't hear. I knew there was something very different about my father even beyond the violent temper. He was so filled with hate and anger. Everyone was a commie or a pinko fag and a threat to our country.

What is really scary though, is when I get angry and say things like "I hate *" and talk about how * is destroying our country. I sound just like him.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Yes

and some claim to be Dems.

[tularetom]

3. Are you shitting me?

I live in a very red part of a blue state. I'm retired from the construction business. I hunt, fish and play golf for recreation. My family (except for Grandma and myself) are ALL repukelickans. A better question for me would be "Do you know any people who aren't stupid?"

[unblock]

4. we're ALL stupid. every one of us.

we all have areas that we're brilliant about, and other areas we're stupid about.

the moron who cuts me off on the freeway might know more about fixing cavities, yankees box scores, or fixing carburators than i'll ever know.
and he, equally, thinks i'm a moron no matter what my sat scores are.

of course, the difference is, i try to avoid pretending that i'm knowledgeable about art history, 15th century french literature, and cricket. whereas, some people who know absolutely nothing about health care other than it's expensive insist that they know the way to fix the crisis is to let the people who have been ruining it have even more free rein to do their damage.

but i wouldn't call that stupidity. arrogance or hubris, perhaps, but not stupidity.

[mikeyj84]

9. Stupidity!

The difference between a stupid man and a smart man is that the smart man learns from his mistakes and moves on, the stupid man just continues to make the same blunders over and over, ie : George Bush and his group of clowns!

[tabasco]

18. Stupid people don't realize their ignorance.

Smart people do. Some dead Greek dude said that.

[reichstag911]

13. "The moron...on the freeway"...

...may well know better how to spell carburetor, also." ;)

[unblock]

14. see? we're all morans!

DOH!

[reichstag911]

28. here's a pic for ya:

[TAPat]

5. Stupid is as stupid does...

and there sure are a whole lotta folks doing stupid things.
Stooopid Rules!
Ack...

[BlueJazz]

6. Not Personally...but ...last Election, there were 51 Million of them. n/t

[midnight]

16. Ooops I just want to let you know that

Kerry won.

[izzie]

7. Besides doing some pretty stupid thing in 70 plus years YES

I do not like to even think of some of the stupid things I have done and to think of what stupid things people have done who have a lot of power is just off the wall.

[Philosoraptor]

10. I too have been stupid.

And I didn't mean to sound too elitist, but yes, stupid affects us all. I believe that the neo cons have used this fact as their number one weapon of mass distraction.

[izzie]

12. Well they keep doing one thing and saying other.

If you do not believe what they do over what they say one has to think we are stupid. They must think that as they keep doing it.

[KharmaTrain]

11. One That Shows Up On The Tube Every Day Now

It used to be Rove kept his boy on a leash...but it didn't work, the asshat still would stay stupid things and look like a fool. Rove doesn't seem to care now...he figured those who love boooosh will watch him kill a baby on live TV and applaud, thus they overlook how arrogant, ignorant and boorish this asshat is. The rest of us either shudder at this fukstick's sight or cringe at the manure that flies out of his pie hole.

[CrispyQ]

15. Interesting.

In another thread I discussed how so many people I know have bought into the "global warming is not caused by human activity" crap. I have family members who have. How fucking convenient for them, huh? "I'm not causing it so I don't have to do anything to reverse it."

I think there is a big percentage of the backwash who are decent American types for the most part, but they are having issues coming to terms with the reality that America is no longer the best in the world, & not the best in many categories. In an effort to hang onto the illusion of being the best, just a little bit longer, they are stomping their feet & demanding that yes, 'we are actually the biggest & baddest' & they are behaving like little kids who don't want to beleive that Santa Claus is not real.

[LibDemAlways]

17. "vast roaming herds of stupid people"

That sums it up.

And stupid isn't confined to lowlife freeper "morans" either. Some "morans" wear prada.

Over the July 4th weekend I spent some time with the wealthy parents of a friend of my daughter. They own three homes and two Mercedes Benzes. He's the Chief Financial Officer for a Hollywood production company. They both cheerfully admitted that they pay no attention to current events except for "entertainment" news, but they vote "R" because they believe the "R's" are looking out for their financial interests. And, when the husband got wind of my politics, he came up with this gem: "Well, say what you will, but you have to admit you were grateful for the leadership shown by President Bush on 9/11." I laughed out loud and tried to explain about the August 6th memo and "My Pet Goat" and Bush's bizarre flying around the country that day and reluctance to investigate 9/11 and failure to capture Bin Ladin (all for starters), but the guy couldn't be budged. He doesn't know and he doesn't want to know - which perfectly sums up the American mentality. "Please don't force me to think" should be the national motto and the symbol of modern America might as well be a person with fingers in their ears trying to block out the truth.

[KitSileya]

27. That's a good way to put it!

"Please don't force me to think" should be the national motto and the symbol of modern America might as well be a person with fingers in their ears trying to block out the truth.

Not only is it so very true, it is also so very frustrating for those of us who try to think!

[niyad]

19. hmmm, I live down the road from fungus and new life, in a heavily repuke

area. . . . . .so I would say the answer is . . . YES.

seriously, the brain-dead are everywhere around here, but I don't have to encounter a lot of them, except when I am dealing with the city council--a true collection of the brain-dead as living, breathing wastes of oxygen.

I am fortunate, though, to be without family, so at least I don't have THAT problem to deal with, and I just don't bother associating with the brain-dead if I can possibly avoid it.

[lonestarnot]

20. Fuck a bunch of stupid. No I personally have no use for the stupid.

But yes of know a few.

[lonestarnot]

21. How about the people who think they know everything like know-it-alls?

They can be stupid at the same time, only they don't recognize they're own stupidity. They are worse than stupid ever thought about being. Demonstrations of their not-a-clue can be down right embarrassing, but funny thing is, they never get embarrassed. Overbearing, gloating and gluttony is right in their circle of friends too.

[Philosoraptor]

22. I too have been stupid.

Actually so have we all. I'm not immune to being stupid in the future either.

[lonestarnot]

25. Well you admit it, but there are those that are in the permanent state of

stupid. Transient stupid is not a condition but a temporary state, and yes we have all been there.

[sallyseven]

23. The ones I know are all republicans.

[slackmaster]

24. Sure, I don't allow relationships with them to elevate to "friend" status

I can't handle being in a conversaiton with them for more than a couple of minutes.

[Javaman]

29. I hate people.

Here is my solution to the problem of stupid people.

When I'm elected ruler of the universe, I will put a law into effect that will stamp the word stupid onto to various people's heads that prove to the general population that they are indeed stupid.

So this way when you are walking down the street and you need to ask directions or any other information, you will see the stamp on the forehead and generally respond with something along the lines of, "oh, excuse me do you have direc...Oh I'm sorry, you're stupid".

Now you would think, how would this be maintained? Well, the carrot is this: you tell the stupid people that if you are good, don't do anything stupid to anyone, anything, to yourself or just in general, then the tattoo would be removed. But the reality is this: By just trying to stop doing stupid things or being stupid, they will still invariably do stupid things. Human nature.

Just think how streamlined life would become. Ahhh I can dream.

[msmcghee]

30. It has nothing to do with intelligence . .

People make bad decisions because of the strong emotions produced by their beliefs. These emotions can easily overpower the relatively weak emotions of reasonable conclusions.

The only possibility for a better world is one where people's strongest belief is in reason itself.

[lpbk2713]

31. Now take my president ......

PLEASE