Rage-Inducing Moments of Ignorance and Stupidity

[Dancingman]

I hear so many people that think China is still communist that it is no longer funny to me.

What? Officially they are communists, are they not? I know the practise is very different from what a communistic system is supposed to be, but until they change their name officially it seems legit that some people may think China is full of commies.

Yeah but it's officially called "socialism with Chinese characteristics" by the government itself (well, that's the translation of what they call it), socialism is so ubiquitous a term that I wonder how much it really applies any more. What the Chinese do is essentially market socialism, free market, though in a way it's rather ruthlessly capitalist, regulation is low but the nation is growing explosively, this is a bad thing, because the same shit happened with America in the 20's.

 

[Tomster595]

While talking about the gold rush in History Class

Girl: "How did the gold get there"
Teacher: "...What?"
Girl: "Like, who's gold was it?"
Me: /facepalm

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

ya know, I've said something like what you guys posted at some point in my life... then again my prick parents censored me for most of my childhood.

fortunately I caught up to everyone when I reached grade 10.

ANYWAY, a girl in my class in grade 9 couldn't comprehend square roots, you know, the thing we punch into our calculator to find an answer to a question? ya, she didn't even understand that. the sad part was she's the same girl i've been fawning over for a good 3 years.

then again she is slightly retarded.

 

[MattZero]

Moving on, another pet peeve of mine is people that misuse the word 'agonostic'. It does not mean 'sitting on the fence', it means you believe it is impossible to prove or disprove God, you could be an agonostic Christian, Atheist, Hindu or anything really. Agonostic on its own isn't a religous stance.

See I've always called myself agnostic. Technically my standpoint is I've never seen any proof of God, but absence of proof isn't proof of absence so all religions have an equal likelihood of being true and it's equally likely that no kind of higher power exists at all. And ultimately I don't care who's correct and my only interest in religion is mostly academic and historical. So I don't really fit your definition because I don't have a bias towards any one religion, but there really isn't a better word for it either.

 

[Volothos]

Some moron in my physics class:

"Is the sun hot?"

In all seriousness, not a joke. How did I end up in a class with these people?

I got the same but instead it was "Can you put out the sun if you pour enough water on it?"
/facepalm

 

[Riven Armor]

The AmazingAtheist I suppose, I died inside a bit when I found his channel and realized he was the awesome, witty trailer failer (Yes I am a Christian).

*Twitch* Christian? *Twitch* Hating on the amazing athiest? *More violent twitching* Okay... Stay calm.... Dont flame him.....

Well, I raged when I found out Pegghead is ignorant and stupid enough to believe in christianity. Wait, I raged when I found out ANYONE is that niave.

Sarcasm...or genuine attack...the difficulties of inference over the internet...

Really, I'm confused. Was that a joke?

 

[Herr Wozzeck]

I've found plenty of displays of ignorance and stupidity online. Like, this Twilight fangirl for example, who accused Universal of ripping off of Twilight with their Wolfman remake: http://www.latinoreview.com/news/open-letter-to-universal-your-wolfman-ripped-off-twilight-9247

The sheer amount of fail involved is so absurd I swear my brain almost melted when I read that...

And I also met a homeless guy in the US that told me to go back to my country because apparently America doesn't want me here, even though I was born in Florida and spent almost my entire life in the same house in said state. (That, and if I tried to go back to "my country", then I'd be going back to the country that got itself brutally raped by Fidel Castro and not the one that is causing most of our major immigration problems.) And that was for crossing the street before he did. I had to bite back both the urge to punch the guy in the face and to give him an acerbic reply about how I was living proof that the oceans hadn't castrated the US yet...

 

[Riven Armor]

Theory by definition means a solid, well backed up idea (refer to what I said about balls), it dosn't have to be evolution, its when anyone says "its just a theory" about any theory.

Moving on, another pet peeve of mine is people that misuse the word 'agonostic'. It does not mean 'sitting on the fence', it means you believe it is impossible to prove or disprove God, you could be an agonostic Christian, Atheist, Hindu or anything really. Agonostic on its own isn't a religous stance.

But a theory is still a theory. I'm not saying it has no basis. Like I said, they're usually unstable. I think I get what your saying, but I still don't see how I said it. I was just telling people to stop paying out creationists.

Appreciated, but keep in mind that the theory of evolution has been quite stable over the years insofar as there has never been significant momentum to unseat it in the scientific community ever since its acceptance in the late 1800s. (Another way of saying this would be Olrod's point that the fact of evolution has never been widely challenged ever since its inception.) Hypotheses contained within the theory have risen and fallen, to be sure, but the body of work as a whole has been relatively stable.

I'm not setting out my viewpoint on evolution, just looking at the ground rules.

 

[Brain_Cleanser]

A friend of mine honestly tried to argue that Jesus was a Christian by birth. He is the most religious person in our circle of friends, the rest of the group are either atheists or scientists.

Funny, that is EXACTLY like what happened in MY Circle of friends. What an utterly bizarre and statistically improbable coincidence!

For me, it was my freshman science class, Earth Science, and one girl goes "But I thought the sun was a planet" during the solar system unit.
My friend held my arm to keep me still. She's like twice as strong as me.
Horse wrangler vs tiny gamer. Who do you thinks gonna win?

 

[Riven Armor]

DirtyCommie, it is understandable how people can choose a theistic belief system over another. Humans as a whole are fallible and not particularly self-aware of the intricacies of the universe (or even each other, for that matter) and the idea of a God cannot be proven or disproven as such. From an objectivist standpoint, to refuse to understand one or the other main idea out of the gate is to exclude potentially valid alternatives.

 

[Lord Monocle Von Banworthy]

A (fellow) American coworker spent the whole day swearing to me that we of COURSE don't have to file income taxes while we're out of the country.

For non-Americans/non-expats, it's written in your passport that "All U.S. citizens working and residing overseas are required to file and report on their worldwide income."

 

[Riven Armor]

Appreciated, but keep in mind that the theory of evolution has been quite stable over the years insofar as there has never been significant momentum to unseat it in the scientific community ever since its acceptance in the late 1800s. (Another way of saying this would be Olrod's point that the fact of evolution has never been widely challenged ever since its inception.) Hypotheses contained within the theory have risen and fallen, to be sure, but the body of work as a whole has been relatively stable.

I'm not setting out my viewpoint on evolution, just looking at the ground rules.

Yes but... argh. I'm not disagreeing with evolution -_-

I'm just saying people don't really have much of a right to bash creationists for their beliefs but everyone seems to have ignored that and tried to tell me what a theory is without really listening to what I've been trying to say.

I appreciate the nice gentlemanly manner in which you told me though XD

Lol, right, I see what you were getting at. I pretty much agree due to the far-reaching historical nature of evolutionary theory. Also, if I didn't I'd be a masochist

 

[Lord Monocle Von Banworthy]

A (fellow) American coworker spent the whole day swearing to me that we of COURSE don't have to file income taxes while we're out of the country.

For non-Americans/non-expats, it's written in your passport that "All U.S. citizens working and residing overseas are required to file and report on their worldwide income."

EDIT: Double post due to crappy connection, sorry.

 

[awsome117]

I remember this argument with a girl who is a huge Catholic. She said evolution was just retarded and some scientist was just bored and made it up. Lucky we were talking in text, otherwise I would have smacked her. Also saying that the "Ark" (Noah's Ark for those that don't know) is completely real and has been proven.

I almost crushed my phone.

 

[Olrod]

Some moron in my physics class:

"Is the sun hot?"

In all seriousness, not a joke. How did I end up in a class with these people?

I got the same but instead it was "Can you put out the sun if you pour enough water on it?"
/facepalm

Did they watch Spiderman 2 recently?