Are you really that stupid?

[FourEyedPandora]

It's like someone trying to tell me, an English major, that retardiously is a word. It happens, because people are just that dumb. That's why I only try to comment when I know people are at least somewhat reasonable.

 

[Silent Eagle]

I recently had a troll on me about a physics expieriment,me and like 15 other people.
Won't comment on youtube anymore lol!

 

[MurderousToaster]

Basically 90% of the time spent on YouTube I've had these experiences. I've been in hundreds of these 'arguments' with people who are just plain wrong, but who refuse to believe it. It's quite irritating as these people are annoyingly stubborn. They might state a flat-out incorrect fact (i.e one guy said that the Xbox 360 has two 1Gb graphics cards within it) and refuse to admit that they are the one who is incorrect despite concrete evidence otherwise.

If you have to ask them "are you really that stupid?" 99.9% of the time the answer is "Yes".

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

Hanlon's Razor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_Razor] should be liberally applied to YouTube comments.

I was hoping we could liberally apply a literal razor.

 

[Private Custard]

YouTube is the best place on the web to find people that should really be put down!

I've had so many rows with people over the years. From people claiming the afterburners on jets are an on/off switch to others claiming that centrigual force doesn't exist and that I made it up (from Latin centrum "center" and fugere "to flee").

The list is almost endless. Every time I get a reply to one of my comments on a vid, my heart dies a little bit as 90% of the time, it's a boderline retard claiming 'FAKE' or B.S.

I've seen my fair share of morons as my account currently has 7,987,728 video views!

 

[TurboPanda]

The dumbest thing I ever saw on the internet was on IGN, can't remember what game it was but someone who commented on release dates

Jap- November 07

US- December 07

UK- March 08

first comment "Lol really sucks to be Ukrainian"

 

[Low Key]

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I'm no heroin addict, but brain cells DO grow back [http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/99/0405/brain.htm]. As you can see by the link provided, this has been known for over a decade. You don't have to let your pothead acquaintance know though.

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

This is why I never touch comments on Youtube, ever.

 

[rokkolpo]

It's expected when it's on the internet. When it's in real life, however, it's a different story.

One of the chicks at my school started trying to argue today that her smoking way too much marijuana doesn't actually have negative impacts on her brain because "It's not like brain cells don't grow back, right?"
I, of course immediately responded with "It's EXACTLY like that. Once you lose a brain cell, it doesn't come back!"
She tried to turn it into a "Yes it is!" "No it isn't!" argument.
Me: "What are you basing your argument on?"
Her: "One of my friends is a heroine addict, so she knows all about this, and she says they grow back!"
Me: "Because people you're friends with couldn't possibly be wrong..."
Her: "Shut up, I know she's right!"
Me: *Pulls out iPhone and goes to google to prove it* "Really? Because every scientist in the world disagrees with her."
Some random asshole who decides to join the conversation at this point: "Science isn't right about everything, though!"
Me: "That's the point of science. If it's wrong, it gets fixed. That's how it works."
Him: "No, cause there's this 82 year old man in the hospital who hasn't eaten or drank anything in 70 years!"
Me: "Yeah, I'm calling bullshit on that one."
Him: "Nuh uh, he's been in the hospital for the past 2 weeks, and he hasn't eaten anything!"
Me: "You know this how?"
Him: "It was on the news!"
Me: "Because people on television can't possibly be wrong!"
Him: "Well the news said so!"
Me: "What news was it? FOX?"
*Everyone laughs*
Him: "No! It was just the news!"
Me: "OK, no, this is coming from the same person who tried to convince us that President Obama had shut down NASA?" (2 weeks ago he had come into class, claiming this. We looked it up, and it turns out Obama had actually just voted against funding NASA's next rocket to the moon. We then asked him where he'd heard it, and he told us his mom had told him.)
Him: "That's different! My mom told me that, this is the news!"
Me: "That's not the point! The point is that you've lost your reputation for being accurate."
Him: "No!"
Me: "Yes."
Him: "No!"
Me: *sighs and leaves*

the guy who hadn't eaten anything in 70 years was true though.
apparantly a lot of damp and water collected in his beard thus not letting him die of dehydration.

or something like that.

 

[RanD00M]

Last night, me and a friend had an MSN argument about whether Hentai was porn. She said it wasn't because it was a drawing and she'd seen more porn, meaning she KNEW. Obviously, I said it was and basic definitions backed me up, but she still refused to admit it.

(Looking back at our conversations, we talk about rubbish...) XD

Hentai is pron.It's animate Japanese pornography,simple as that.

OT:If I were to count up all the internet arguments that I have had,I would be stuck here all day.

 

[Riobux]

Like you wouldn't believe it...

Let's just say that when someone shows you that you are wrong on all accounts, the appropriate response is to give up. The inappropriate response is to carry on, pretending that it is actually you who is wrong. The same guy would pull the same thing on everyone, even the moderators of the forum.