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

[Kozo]

Sitting in our math class, me and a pal were sitting and talking about the Obama visit in Oslo, Norway (thats where I live).. And this girl turns around, looks at us and says: "Is Obama in Oslo? Why? Is he dead?" ... And she was serious... She really didn't know, which is somewhat impossible if she payed attention in our other classes, aswell as in the papers and in the Norwegian news... And even so, what the hell would Obama do in Norway if he was dead anyway?

I was like, "You got to be shitting me."

 

[wolf thing]

i here ya. it seem today you can stand up for what is right without being called gay. its quite sad really. im not gay my self but i respect others. i once spok to a homophob and when i asked him why he hatted them he said "because there gay"
this show an out right stupidity in children today

 

[PxDn Ninja]

Oh, and my roommate told me this one.

During biology, they were talking about reproduction and what not, and it was mentioned that a type of glucose (sugar) was a key component in semen. A girl in class raised her hand (she was probably 15 or 16) and asked:

"Is that why it tastes sweet?"

She was dead serious. She didn't even realize what information she was divulging about herself...

I personally WISH I could have been there.

 

[Zhalath]

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.

Nothing wins an argument like Godwin's Law!

 

[Treblaine]

In england, there is a show called "Russel Howard's Good News" where it pokes fun at news stories from the past week or two

Last week there was a part where he showed the most idiotic answers in the GCSE's from last year, the best one was

Q. Name six animals that live exclusively in the Arctic

A. two seals and three four polar bears


and people say that intelligence levels are going UP in england?

I would have put humans on the list of 6.

They do live there and humans are animals but would I have gotten a mark?

 

[ryo02]

I'll listen. You've got a valid point; language is a method of communicating, and as long as the correct message is being communicated, it doesn't matter if there are a few mistakes here and there.

But my counter-argument is that language communicates more than just its own message. The way a message is written says a lot, too. On an internet forum, it's perfectly fine to make a few spelling/grammar errors; on The Escapist, it's socially stipulated that you at least look like you're making an effort to use correct spelling and grammar, but you won't get banned (and nobody likes the grammar nazis anyway. They're just trying to make themselves feel righteous). On the other hand, if you're submitting a cover letter, you want to communicate respect, and having perfect grammar is a way of communicating that you care about rules. Or in poetry, say you want to break the rules. You have to know the rule in order for people to believe you're breaking it consciously to make a statement; otherwise, it's just an error in something that should be polished.

but why should people feel bound by rules invented before they where born by people they never met or cared about?. (beyond the basic meaning of words so you can actually talk to someone)

can't the method of writing be an expression of character/personality? especially with the invention of typing you no longer have that human element. (like how a signature is unique)

for example I dont really like using full stops (I am here in order to get people to actually consider reading this) I prefer to write in ... chunks I.E. write a line or three then break it with a space. (you can notice it a little in this post)

 

[Eatbrainz]

Your class deserves the "Bunch of Twats" award!

 

[Danny Ocean]

No I basically just said that people have a right to think what they want but if what they think is god damned stupid

Who are you to judge?

There are some things that [footnote]Unless you operate on a much higher level than the common populace. In the whole 1+1=2 argument, it can be argued whether or not it actually does.[/footnote] are irrefutable. 1+1=2, for example, is as certain as the difference between black and white.

Morals, however, are entirely grey.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Spoiler: Challenge Won!

That's a photoshop. Gotta love Snopes. [http://snopes.com/radiotv/gameshows/millionaire.asp]

 

[AdamG3691]

No I basically just said that people have a right to think what they want but if what they think is god damned stupid

Who are you to judge?

There are some things that [footnote]Unless you operate on a much higher level than the common populace. In the whole 1+1=2 argument, it can be argued whether or not it actually does.[/footnote] are irrefutable. 1+1=2, for example, is as certain as the difference between black and white.

Morals, however, are entirely grey.

from wikipedia

With the following assumptions:
0*1=0
0*2=0

The following must be true:
0*1=0*2

Dividing by zero gives:
(0/0)*1=(0/0)*2

Simplified, yields:
1=2


therefore 1+1=4

YAY LOGIC! ^_^

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

oh, could someone please explain where that term came from in relation to lesbian...

The truth is nobody knows exactly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyke_%28slang%29]. The term always puts me in mind of the old story about a kid plugging a hole in a dike with his finger (and thus saving his town, etc), and given the word similarity and the specific arrangement of the female anatomy in relation to lesbian relationships, I find some parallel to that to be as plausible of an explanation as any for why 'dyke' is used to refer to lesbians.

 

[AdamG3691]

In england, there is a show called "Russel Howard's Good News" where it pokes fun at news stories from the past week or two

Last week there was a part where he showed the most idiotic answers in the GCSE's from last year, the best one was

Q. Name six animals that live exclusively in the Arctic

A. two seals and three four polar bears


and people say that intelligence levels are going UP in england?

I would have put humans on the list of 6.

They do live there and humans are animals but would I have gotten a mark?

*facepalm*

 

[Daveman]

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

be honest, is it newcastle?

I've never had anything like that, I'm from Brighton, we like-a dem gays. mostly. although I have to say I am never ever attending gay pride. just makes me feel ill.

erm, any idiocy... I once went to my friends bible group and they posed the question why did adam and all the others live so long and we all had to come up with an idea. I couldn't bring myself to say to my newly found friends that it's clearly bollocks so I said "maybe they measured time differently back then?" and the group leader sneered at me and everyone looked at me condescendingly and said, "I guess it's possible" (that was the gist of it). I mean COME ON! like it's any less believable than the shit you're plucking straight out of the bible.

 

[Kimjira19]

I once asked, in the middle of a History lesson, if Stalin was still alive because I'd seen him on Red Alert. THAT was stupid.

What you described was a different opinion. One I don't agree with, but still not stupid, so we can stop with the elitist dickery now. Sorry.

It is not so much that the opinion is stupid but the way they expressed it. Bellowing about being ass-raped to support your anti-homosexual views is not a logical, mature response.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

 

[Danny Ocean]

With the following assumptions:
0*1=0
0*2=0

The following must be true:
0*1=0*2

Dividing by zero gives:
(0/0)*1=(0/0)*2

Simplified, yields:
1=2

therefore 1+1=4

I'm pretty sure you just proved my point; however, I was under the impression that you can't divide by zero.

 

[Bookshelf]

A very similar thing happened in my U.S. History class in 10th grade, keep in mind you this was in southern Georgia and the teacher is very much so a Neo-con. This was about the time Brokeback Mountain was released in theaters, and we happened to be going over cowboy-ish part of American History. He decided to throw this little gem into the lecture. "We should all boycott Brokeback Mountain, because, if we go to see this movie, it's telling Hollywood we support the notion that there were gay cowboys. It's saying that America, as a whole, accepts homosexuals, and that it's okay to be gay."

I was oh-so tempted to say a few things that probably would have gotten me sent down the principle's office, but I was utterly flabbergasted. I'm very surprised that that man still has his job.

 

[ThatsBitch3n]

Well, almost everyone at my lunch table is a homophobic/racist/Republican fanatic. (I'm not saying that i dont like Republicans.) It gets incredibly annoying. Whenever i stand up for gay rights, "fag" is screamed from all over the table. They also have gone as far as hanging swastikas in their rooms and referring to themselves as neo-nazis. When will people learn?

 

[Internet Kraken]

Yeah and Hitler was also a vegetarian. So therefore all vegetarians are pushing nazism too huh?
You are suffering from Hitler Ate Sugar [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlerAteSugar] syndrome.

I get where you are coming from, but he didn't send people to concentration camps for being omnivores. (They wore a pink triangle if they was sentenced for being homosexual, according to the Auscwitz museum in Poland)

There's a difference between being intolerant of gays and wanting to have them all killed.

A pretty big difference.

 

[AdamG3691]

With the following assumptions:
0*1=0
0*2=0

The following must be true:
0*1=0*2

Dividing by zero gives:
(0/0)*1=(0/0)*2

Simplified, yields:
1=2

therefore 1+1=4

I'm pretty sure you just proved my point; however, I was under the impression that you can't divide by zero.

it isn't really dividing by zero, it is cancelling out, check wikipedias page for dividing by 0