Oh my god... You're THAT stupid?

[titanium turtle]

your area is populated by morons- a common and rapidly multiplying breed

 

[Julianking93]

Hmm....

Oh my god... You'r THAT stupid?

My work here is done.

If my teachers were like this, I'd have stayed in school.

OT, that's happened to me plenty of times. I went to public schools and private schools and they were both equally stupid. Here's an example:

Teacher: During the Holocaust, Hitler killed over 6 million Jews
Girl: That's all?

Really? Can you be that dumb to not know 6 million is a lot? Here's another one:

I was having an intellectual discussion with one of my favorite teachers (it was after class). We were talking about how people blindly follow anything that seems to have an answer to every question in life (religion obviously). We both are on the same page, we both agreed with one another and he liked many of the points I brought up. Then a student came into the classroom and wanted to join our discussion. He sat there for about 10 minutes not saying anything, but before he left, he stated, "You can't argue with the bible, no matter how wrong it may be, its still irrefutable since its the true word of God." This was from a kid from a very high level private school.

I was speechless at his stupidity.

 

[Swaki]

been there done that, but in my case the teacher decided to split up the class so that it would make it even more frighting for me, the teacher remained anonymous until the subject of children came up, and when i said that homosexuals should be allowed to adopt or get artificially impregnated (possibly not the correct term) she turned against me too.

the world is kinda stupid, but try to find the amusing parts in it, such as people being so stupid that they think it should be illegal for two people of the same sex to be in love, thats actually kinda funny.

 

[Kpt._Rob]

I hadn't realized that anti-gay sentiment was actually that strong in England. I guess it's one of those misconceptions that I have as an American liberal, to imagine England and other western European countries to be far more progressive than my own. I mean, I live in Oklahoma, which is right in the bible belt, the focal point of conservativism here in America. Hell, we were the only state in which not even a single district went for Obama during the last election. But I rarely ever saw anti-gay sentiment expressed like that in school.

Anyways, as for undefinable stupiditiy. Well, when I was taking World History our teacher was going over Oligarchy (the form of government) with us, and this kid who sat a couple of chairs in front of me just suddenly bursts out "Oligarchy! Is that where they got Olive Garden from?!" I guess the similarity of the words "Oligarchy" and "Olive Garden" had been too overpowering for his mind. Then again, this was the same kid who once ate Miracle Grow to see if it'd make him grow any faster. Needless to say, he wasn't exactly the brightest light in the outhouse.

Outhouse? Crap, I thought it was lighthouse, thanks for that!
On subject, I myself know many people that are not exactly intolerant, but that aren't particularly friendly to homosexuals. Several of them describe anything they do not like as, "gay," for example, "I hate Dan Brown, his books are gay." I disagree with that statement (quoted literally from one of my notreallyfriends) for two reasons:
1: I do not believe that books have sexual desire or a sexual preference.
2: Dan Brown is a good author, that should not receive as much negative attention as he does.

Well, it probably originally was "lighthouse." "Not the brightest light in the outhouse" was a humorous permutation of the phrase I picked up playing SWAT 2 as a kid with my brother. One of the officers who you could put on your team (who just happened to be one of the best in the game) was described in his personell file as being "not the brightest light in the outhouse." I've just enjoyed using the phrase ever since hearing it.

All that aside, I do find it quite disappointing that Britain may not be as progressive as I had believed it to be. Sometimes all one can do as an American liberal is imagine that there's a better place, if that sort of homophobia is common in Britain I may have to cross it off my list places to dream about.

 

[FallenRainbows]

Right hello. Yeah. I was in my English lesson today. It was pretty laid back and due to an earlier incident The topic of Racism and homophobia was brought up. The person sitting in front of me went? Homophobia? what's that. (it gets worse) I explained somewhat shocked he didn't know that. Then he preceded to insist it was "wrong" and should be a crime (homosexuality). Of course that bugged me (not gay) so I went to defend against this complete buffoon. My reward? The entire 30 person class of supposed intellectuals yelling me down because I support gay rights. I mean what? They were saying things like "Yeah well I don't want that up there" supposedly assuming every gay person is a rapist. And that it's a choice. A choice? I mean what?

So as for discussion. Can you share similar moments when you are over come by a wave of undefinable levels of stupidity by one of even a group of people?

I'm English and in a rather "normal" area

Something strikes me as odd here.

Them not supporting gay rights has nothing to do with how intelligent they are, it's just their personal beliefs and such about morals. Last I checked, morals is a grey area.

That being said, they would've looked more intelligent if they didn't all rise up simultaneously and bleat loudly "no gay, no gay" in your face.

Also, the guy would've looked smarter if he actually knew what homophobia was, but then there are certain things I don't know that most people do know (e.g. my own height). And that has nothing to do with my level of intelligence. It just means I never really had a reason to measure my height. I also didn't know what the word "expendable" meant up until a few years back.

Yes well homophobia is a sign of ignorance. Thus in my eyes stupidity.

 

[team star pug]

Wow. Thats strange. Never had anything like that happen in my school.

yes but you do have a school where a girl does ooow hen being tapped down there.... during assembly. sha wing.


ok ok.

 

[FalloutJack]

Yes, of course I've been among stupid people. I'm inundated by them regularly. That the person you speak of couldn't maturely and objectively discuss homosexuality was indeed a failing on his part. That the rest of your class wasn't berrating his obtuse behavior instead of your willingness to speak on these matters (and you WERE only trying to help, after all) was a classic case of mob-mentality lowering the IQ of your peers. Yes, rally against a thing louder and louder, because heaven help you if you're caught with the flaming topic in your hands. Sad, really. Honestly, I'm straight and I don't mind talking about it. Those folks have some kind of mental disorder, or they're idiots.

 

[Oh That Dude]

I've encountered homophobia and anti-gay sentiments very frequently at my school, but never quite at that level.

I try not to remember stupid things people say/do, they just depress me.

 

[Mrs Garbutt]

Homophobia is still a nasty thing, always has been.
Guys, I must be honest, I think we get the point about grammer, I have bad grammer, am English and if I must be honest barely passed English Litrature and language (These were GCSE's back in 2003) and have been trying to rememdy that. However, if a guy makes a couple of mistakes on his thread after saying he does the class I feel that's better to ignore than to keep rubbing salt into the wound. There, I had to say that.
People aren't always stupid though, often ignorant of things that don't happen in thier inner circle, still not a lot of homosexual men feel comfortable with expressing thier preference openly, no matter how the media puts it. Sadly you will find some people will just pretend not to know to save face at knowing what homophobia is. Often, like your classmates, because it frightens them, its amazing how many people will still sum homosexuality with rape.

 

[El Poncho]

There is this girl in my english class who is a complete **** who I want to kick the fuck out of because when we were talking about WW2 the topic of the holocaust came up and she went haha jews. I seriously could of picked up my table and hit her across the head with it.

 

[Danzaivar]

Homosexuality is conducive to racial purity, so that can't be the link. Try again.

"Hitler believed that homosexuality was "degenerate behavior" which posed a threat to the capacity of the state and the "masculine character" of the nation. Gay men were denounced as "enemies of the state" and charged with "corrupting" public morality and posing a threat to the German birthrate."

Granted, that's from Wikipedia since I cba to look for anything more credible.

I am amazed you don't see the link between people being obsessed with purity and homophobic actions. It's why a lot of religions don't like it either. It's seen as "not right" and therefore a "corruption", corruption and purity are opposites so in comes in gay bashing.

There's more to racial purity and a master race than just who gets to screw and make the new generation. Jesus.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Maybe it's just here, but when in class someone (probably me) says something... well stupid, it's never that they don't understand, it's just that they intend to make fun of it.
And god, is it for the better.

 

[martin's a madman]

Right hello. Yeah. I was in my English lesson today. It was pretty laid back and due to an earlier incident The topic of Racism and homophobia was brought up. The person sitting in front of me went? Homophobia? what's that. (it gets worse) I explained somewhat shocked he didn't know that. Then he preceded to insist it was "wrong" and should be a crime (homosexuality). Of course that bugged me (not gay) so I went to defend against this complete buffoon. My reward? The entire 30 person class of supposed intellectuals yelling me down because I support gay rights. I mean what? They were saying things like "Yeah well I don't want that up there" supposedly assuming every gay person is a rapist. And that it's a choice. A choice? I mean what?

So as for discussion. Can you share similar moments when you are over come by a wave of undefinable levels of stupidity by one of even a group of people?

I'm English and in a rather "normal" area

Well, that is their opinion. I wouldn't say simply not liking homosexuality would make them stupid. Also, not knowing what homophobia doesn't make him stupid either.

I personally think gays should be able to have anything a straight person does but just because you have conflicting morals (morals being something removed from the intellect) I can't see how that makes him stupid.

 

[A Raging Emo]

Oh my god... Your THAT stupid?

Should be:

Oh my god...you're THAT stupid?

Honestly if you didn't rant about how this was in an English lesson I'd have left it. =P

On topic tho, you really should have pointed out that Hitler had a similar view on Homosexuals. Usually shuts people up when they realise they're pushing Nazism.

Huh what? I see no mistake?

Oh my god... You're THAT stupid?

Fixed that for you.

Then he preceded to insist it was "wrong" and should be a crime.

He insisted that homophobia should be a crime?

Again what is the imaginary slip of the mind? And yes. He did.

Oh my god... Your THAT stupid?

Should be:

Oh my god...you're THAT stupid?

Honestly if you didn't rant about how this was in an English lesson I'd have left it. =P

I was actually thinking the same thing.

On Topic: What's wrong with that? I mean, sure, some people are going to support Gay Rights like you do, and some people are going to be against homosexuals alltogether.

What's wrong with that? It boils down to racism. You are not honestly going to defend that are you?

Oh, I'm not defending racism, I'm simply saying that people are always going to have different opinions on various subjects. It's why we're able to function as a society; we have to learn to accomodate (Sp?) others so we ourselves can live a comfortable life.

 

[HT_Black]

Der Copypaste from the last time someone asked this:

Spoiler: Der copypaste

Listen-- I didn't design it, and I have no idea how it got bunged up the way it is. I left it years before my time for homeschool, despite repeated assertions that I was damning myself.

I finished my second novel this week and sent it over to Dark Horse.

Back at school, in the nightmare that is Alabamian public education:
So, I'm playing Assassin's Creed II with one of my friends (still in school) today, and I stop by Da Vinci's workshop. He absent-mindedly asked if Leonardo was Italian.

After a moment of stunned silence, I answer his question and tell him to go read a book.

He then oggles at me for a second before explaining that his school has a policy that prevents students from reading or borrowing non-fiction books until they've read at least ten school-owned doorstop fictions.

Guess what's at the top of the required reading list.

Go on. Guess.

Little Women? No.

Flowers for Algernon? No.

Lord of the Rings? No.

Umm...Crazy in Alabama? No.

Well, what is it then?

Eragon.

Mother. F**king. Eragon.

I shit you not.

Your thoughts?

 

[conmag9]

I would like to point out that using the argument that HItler did it isn't a sound logical argument. Yes, he did it. Yes, he was a very bad person. He also did other things that were not considered bad by the majority of people (eating, sleeping, taking baths). It's a poor trick to try and transfer the negative feelings on Naziism onto a completely separate topic. There's a term for that, although I can't recall it at the moment...Regardless, it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine.

 

[PxDn Ninja]

I recently picked up a fun hobby of trolling some forums on some random website where people talk about how right they are and that Homosexuals and Obama are destroying "The pure traditions and morals of America."

This shit pisses me off, but they are SO fucking stupid on the site (and making an account was free), that I get to release my anger and have fun at the same time.

On person inparticular made my day with the following comment (Quoted from the site):

"We used to have corruption of a minor laws, What happen to them? Why are people forced to except homosexuality ? when was it normalized to commit sodomy?"

I simply replied:

"Why are people forced to accept that blacks are equal to whites, that women should have the same rights as men? Who someone choses to take to their bed has absolutely nothing to do with you, and is none of your damn business anyhow unless it is YOU they are taking."

They (nor any of their high and mighty friends) had nothing to say to that.