Rage-Inducing Moments of Ignorance and Stupidity

[DrEmo]

I'm sure everyone here has witnessed someone display such a degree of ignorance, that it is almost appalling.

Here's one that happened to me today:

In my English IV class (a class with only seniors, about to graduate, mind you), we were reading "The Rocking Horse Winner" from our British Literature book. In the story, there's many references to British currency. Right in the middle of the reading, one student raised his hand and said something along the lines of "Hey, Mr. [Teacher's name], why can't you say "dollars" and "cents" instead of "pounds" and "shillings", you know, like actual money?". Me and my teacher were absolutely dumbfounded. When my teacher explained that a Pound was British currency, he added to his stupidity by asking "Oh, so a kilogram is money there too?". At that point, my teacher was so mortified, he pretty much stopped the lesson for the day.

Woah...
(The Rocking horse winner was hilarious, IMO)

OT:
My brother was playing on Xbox live, AKA: the cradle of stupidity. He was talking to some dumb chick and she asked my brother "Where are you from?" and he said "Puerto Rico" and she asked "Where's that?" and he said "It's a small island, east of the Dominican Republic"
She didn't know where it is. Can't blame her much, most people don't.

Then she asked "Oh... does it have streets and stuff or is it all sand?"
at that point my brother just laughed, called her a moron, and turned the Xbox off.

 

[MiserableOldGit]

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?

My money's on the gamer- you can burst her eyeballs with your over-developed thumbs...

 

[Sebenko]

Hmm, probably anything Donnyp says on the "Ubisoft Tweaks Assassin's Creed 2 DRM" thread.

I can't believe that guy.

 

[MiserableOldGit]

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.

Pegghead can waste his life if he feels he needs to. As long as hes not preaching on me.

Wow it would seem I've become the fellow of the forum. All I did was put forward that theAmazingAtheist is a bit ignorant and should just keep to his beliefs and let others keep to theirs (And yes the exact same thing can be said about the hundreds of Biblical fundamentalists telling everyone that their way is the only way, this number only being matched by the hundreds of Atheists doing the exact same thing only forcing other viewpoints down peoples throats. Though in a nutshell I'd either have to say the most prominent bigot with an Atheist view [TheAmazingAtheist] or the most prominent bigot with a Christian view [U2ubers, take your pick]. Though in a...pea-pod, the former is a grown man who should be mature enough to not add to the already prominent problem of religious elitism on the web and the latter are either misinformed kids who've been brainwashed by their parents that can't figure out a mouse from a keyboard who have my pity or little wanker trolls who deserve a good clip across the ear)

I have my own reasons for being Catholic (Techinically I am a Catholic but that shouldn't make a scrap of difference) and my own stance on the religion. I also have good mates of various beliefs from Sikh to Atheist, they all have their reasons as do I and I accept that. Here on the escapist there are many good, different people with various stances in politics, religion and even gaming, I'm not going to push my beliefs onto them through some forum on the web so I can sit back and think how fantastic I am for ignoring somebodies opinion when really that would make me a spineless bigot.

It's self-important tossers like both of you who really bring society down, don't think calling me out simply for being a member of the Catholic faith is in any way justified.

You know what? I agree with you. I'm sick of seeing countless 15 year old pseudo-intellectuals raging on and on about how religion is the problem instead of human selfishness and corruption. They're too immature to realize that they're not real atheists, they've just jumped on the "new atheist" bandwagon so that they can be seen as some kind of "rebel". They have NO idea at all how much they get laughed at by the real atheists. It's amazing. Not to mention, the teenage pseudo-intellectual atheist kiddies are in fact only hurting the cause of atheism.

Sean Bedlam even addressed it in his blog.
http://theseanbedlam.blogspot.com/2009/10/free-your-motherfucking-mind.html

That's not to say that all teenagers are bad, though - if you're 15 and you legitimately came to atheism by your own volition rather than being led there by delusions of juvenile rebellion, then there's no problem. It only becomes a problem when you start hating on other people simply because they don't believe in the same thing you do.

Hey 15 year olds, here's a stellar idea: leave the religious debates to the adults. Kthnx.

"Atheism is the default position.
Any other belief just proves you're a tool who has no individuality from the sweeping historical force that is organized religion."

"Uhhm, no, not that simple is it. Your whole decision making process is fucked if you put any faith into religion. No grey areas my friend."

(to an agnostic) "Sit on some more fences you indecisive bell end"

When you see ANY atheist talking like this, it's best to just completely dismiss and ignore them. People who are like this, regardless of whether they are theists or atheists, are a waste of oxygen and I personally consider them beneath me.





Technically, this was flaming. Just saying. [/quote]

I take Bedlam's point, but he brushes over one important difference between science, the scientific method, and say, spiritual beliefs, and that's the arse load of research and hard work that goes into reaching such a strong opinion, an opinion which is only formed after the facts are in, not before (anyone wanting to poke holes in the theory of evolution should look to Darwin for help-in origin of Species he spends most of his time drawing attention to the then weaknesess and holes in the theory)
You've got a job on your hands refuting the existence of evolution when you have repeatable, verifiable experiments that will show you the existence and mechanics of genes, and the links between species, not to mention the plethora of mutually supporting evidence from other areas of learning. If someone comes up wih something more robust that disproves it, like an irreducably complex organism, fair enough. Till then, I'll go with a scientist over a stand up comedian, same as I'll go with a doctor over a priest if I find an alarming lump anywhere.
While I can't conclusively prove there is no God, you only have to look at what the yes camp have been up to over the last few centuries, and how their point of view has developed (or not), and what the No camp have been up to. God's running out of places to be and things to be responsible for. I know where I'd bet the housekeeping...

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Ladies and Gentlemen, for your consideration: The general public.

"Can I have a Playstation 360?"

"Where are your Intendos?"

"That game won't work on a DSI!" (whilst pointing at a game that says 'will work on DSI')

"So you won't trade in my broken PS2?"

"This won't work on my PC." (holds a 360 game)

"If I don't get a warranty on my playstation 3, will you make it cheaper?"

and my personal favourite;

"Do you price match supermarkets/the internet?"

Which gets the award general lack of common sense.

 

[infohippie]

We were discussing Australian wildfires in my Geography lesson, and Hotgirl McMoron pipes in with an insightful question;

"Sir, are there trees in Australia??"

D:

Did you at least tell her "Not any more"?

 

[Eggsnham]

In a debate I had with a friend on something vague and ridiculous, another person I know chimes in with "You should totally gas your house with bleach!" It wasn't necessarily ignorant as it was stupid and random.

 

[Gimelbub]

I get these every day in my Computer Studies class. Just the other day we were answering the review questions for the chapter we were supposed to have read, and I heard the questions "What's a footnote?" and "How do I make one?" at least five times each. Now, this isn't ignorant or stupid by itself, but the thing is, it was discussed in detail in the chapter. Inexcusable.

 

[A Pious Cultist]

A friend of friend was giving me a physics lecture on how glass is a really viscous liquid, I mentioned that I'd read about old church windows being thicker at the bottom than at the top because they have been slowly pouring for centuries, to which he replied:

'There can't be any windows that old, glass wasn't invented untill the 1890's, around the end of the Tudor period.'

Actually... glass isn't a liquid. Church windows are thicker at the bottom because their glass-making techniques weren't perfectly refined so having the thicker part at the bottom would be more structually stable.

 

[Lieju]

"It's just a theory"

Congratulations, you have just demonstrated you don't understand what the word "theory" means in a scientific context.


And a lot of stuff I hear and read about evolution... Even people who aren't opposed to it often get it wrong.

Also people believing in some old myths, like the global flood. Seriously, how can people like that exist today?

 

[dokasu]

All china has to do is stop exporting goods, computers, cars, chinese food I digress, I would say one of the leading causes of stupidity is ignorance, nothing makes me more furious when someone uses a word do describe some negatative or "stupid" with words that mean nothing of the sort, example... (man that's soooooo gay) when they meant to say (that really sucks)
(man that's soooo retarted) when they mean to say (that's really stupid) the words gay and retarted are to be used for other things, for instance I wouldn't tell some gorgeous woman she smells like a painted hotdog because that would "retard" our relationship and she might actually think I was gay.

retard is also a musical term meaning slow

stupid is a cinnonym for dumb

p.s. you can really be retarted and be smarter than the person mocking you

 

[Space Cowgirl]

My junior year of high school, this twit of a girl actually asked the following in the same class period:

"Hey, are you going blind?" (To a friend of mine who is, I believe, legally blind but she can still see somewhat. She had her cane beside her, a small magnifying glass in her hand and had her entire face about an inch away from her paper.)

Her: "Did you dye your hair a different colour?"
Me: "Yeah..."
Her: "Oh, yeah, cause your roots are showing."
Me thinking: "No shit Sherlock! I actually do spend a couple minutes looking at myself in the morning." (I had dyed my hair black and my hair was growing out but couldn't be asked to touch it up.)