Really Stupid Things You've Heard/Read Someone Say

[uneek]

"Anime is good."

While everyone is entitled to their opinion, I must point out that saying all anime is bad is like saying all western cartoons are bad.

Both of which are wrong, of course.

 

[uneek]

This thread looks more like a bunch of elitist pricks being generally elitist pricks rather than actually discussing stupid things.
Count me in!
Someone once tried to convince me that all these Xbox 720 screenshots. were real. I mean, what the fuck, can't the guy get a little bit more fucking informed? What are worthless piece of subhuman trash he was, obviously it was fucking fan made. Stupid piece of shit thinking it was the new Xbox.

At least it wasn't one girl who I knew. I was in middle school and talking about Metroid Prime was for the gamecube. One girl who saw Drake and Josh said immediatly "Don't you mean a game sphere? Thats a good game right?"

This is a game sphere (What josh is holding):

It does not exist in the real world. Nor does it have the ability to talk to you. Nor does it have games installed on it nor is it given to a person 5 MONTHS BEFORE RELEASE DATE.

That's actually hilarious. Then again, I've seen quite a few episodes of Drake and Josh (enough to say that Josh Peck is an extremely underrated actor), so maybe that colors my perception a bit.

I didn't mind the show, at times it was funny. though to be fair there are times where they could easily make money off of product placement and instead they just parody every single brand by wasting money. Then it annoys me to hear "Pintendo GS" when its clearly a Gameboy Advanced SP.

That's Dan Schneider for you. He still does that with iCarly and Victorious. You seriously see every Apple product with a pear on it.

 

[redisforever]

Also this girl.
There's no way someone that fucking stupid can function properly.

How the fuck does she have nearly 40,000 followers?! I actually tweet about more than one topic, and I have 40!

EDIT: I looked down, and saw this:
""It's everyone's own decision to be that. It doesn't affect me." - Justin Bieber about gays. Okay I don't hate gays anymore, sorry! <3 "
DAFUQ?! NO. No. Fucking. Way.

OT: I tend to forget that dumb things people say, for my own sanity. I did get asked by someone why laptops don't charge while in sleep mode, if they're not plugged in. *headdesk*

 

[Iron Criterion]

'Do girls go to the bathroom together to sync up their periods?'

Yep. It happens just like an iPod.

Also this girl.
There's no way someone that fucking stupid can function properly.

She tweeted this gem around ten hours ago:

"I have nothing against gays, I just don't how you can be gay since it spreads AIDS. Do you want humanity to die out? #SpreadLoveNotAids"

There are no facepalms hard enough.

 

[redisforever]

'Do girls go to the bathroom together to sync up their periods?'

Yep. It happens just like an iPod.

Also this girl.
There's no way someone that fucking stupid can function properly.

She tweeted thus gem about 10 hours ago:

"I have nothing against gays, I just don't how you can be gay since it spreads AIDS. Do you want humanity to die out? #SpreadLoveNotAids"

There are no facepalms hard enough.

No, even better. 8 hours ago: ""It's everyone's own decision to be that. It doesn't affect me." - Justin Bieber about gays. Okay I don't hate gays anymore, sorry! <3 "
WHAT?!

 

[Zeema]

Schindler's list is a black comedy -Girl in class
World War 2 never happened because Germany isn't a country -Girl in my class (yes im serious)
Teacher: Christianity is the only right religion and every other religion is Devil worship
Teacher: Well i asked the kid if he was bullying you, he said no. so you get a Detention for lying

[Reading about the Pol Pot as a class] Why didn't Pol pot have a Twitter --Different girl in another school in my class

 

[redisforever]

My English class was full of the stereotypical twi-tard, Bieber-worshiping idiots that people associate with today's youth. Here's a few gems:

"One Direction's just like the Beatles, only better!"

"Romeo and Juliet is stupid! Why don't we read Twilight?"

"Why are we even reading this story? Its all sad and depressing!"

I would go on, but I fear that more quotes would infringe on my fellow Escapists' sanity.

Ow, ow, ow!!!
That actually hurt to read...

Thing is, I do agree with "Romeo and Juliet is stupid!" Only that part of the sentence. Mainly because I think every character, except the priest, is totally stupid.

 

[Devil_Worshipper]

I'd say most user criticisms of Prometheus. Not hatin' just statin'.

 

[BNguyen]

Oh dear Lord, these people are just... wow...

OT: Okay, from Year 9 Geography (that's 13-14 year old schooling in the UK)

Teacher: "Okay, lable the countries listed on your map and explain how music effects them" or something.

The countries were Brazil, Canada, The US, and India.

The girl next to me leans over, points to South America, and says "That's the US right?"
I then say "Okay... what about the others?"
She then says that Canada is where the US actually is, that South Africa is Inda, and that Brazil is China.

I just... I have no words.

I had similar problems in my World History class, none of mine own mind you but on every test our teacher would put up a map and ask us to label the countries we had gone over in class and the people around me could almost never get more than 5 out of 15 correct. Some couldn't figure out where France was, were North Korea was, or Italy. It was so irritating because geography ought to be easier for college freshmen.

 

[cthulhuspawn82]

Here is a story of the dumbest people I ever met.

It was about 12 years ago, in my high school German class. There was one other boy and a girl in my group. The boy asks me, in reference to our German exchange student, "Do you think Regina is a honey?" I joked, "Shes Hun, not a honey." The guy turns around, calls to her, and asks her what a Hun is. I thought I was screwed, but she just said "A Huhn is a chicken". So they guy is like "Hey, he thinks you're a chicken."

Once she was out of earshot I tried to explain the slur to the two in my group. They looked at me confused and said that there was never a group of people called the Huns. When I mentioned Atilla the Hun, the girl says "That was just his name."

I guess I got lucky, having them think I am stupid was probably better then getting expelled for using an ethnic slur

 

[BNguyen]

Hmm stupid things I've heard people say....

The American Civil War was fought over slavery.

I want to strangle people I hear say that. Is it so hard to learn a little history?

Seeing how the slavery issue was a major reason why the South succeeded from the North it's not really that much of a dumb thing to say.

I mean sure there are other reasons for the U.S. Civil War but many of them also have slavery as an underlying factor.

it was for states' rights to be able to independently choose what they want instead of the federal government deciding for them. So slavery was more of a backseat issue

 

[Rawne1980]

Oh oh! Here's one! It's a doozy~

Spoiler: Harry Potter fan says The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are rip offs of Harry Potter and goes on to explain some parallels between the two series.

In case it gets taken down, here's the text by +IMDb user brian__007:

"Overall, I like "Lord of the Rings." However, I do feel that Tolkien kind of rips off "Harry Potter" in many ways. There are several parallels, such as elves, dwarfs, wizards, goblins, trolls, magic (especially invisibility), etc. Sauron is referred to as ?Dark Lord? just like Voldemort is. There is also the elder white-haired bearded wizard who serves almost as a mentor, Gandalf, who is reminiscent of Dumbledore. Some of the character names are similar, such as Wormtongue as opposed to Wormtail, too. There is even a gigantic spider (Shelob) at the end of "The Two Towers" that reminds one of Aragog from "Chamber of Secrets." I even noticed that the plots of both series begin with the protagonists? birthday. Now I see that Tolkien, this unoriginal bastard, is coming out with "The Hobbit" in December. This would be fine, but why didn't he just write this book first to begin with? I still like "Lord of the Rings," though--don't get me wrong--but I wonder if Tolkien has ever said in interviews whether he borrowed elements from Harry Potter. I?ll be watching the extended DVDs later this week and I think he?s featured on the commentary track, so I look forward to that."

Spoiler: And for kicks, not stupid mind you, just fecking brilliant.

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
- Johnny Bravo

I know i'm just pointing out the obvious..but I jsut can't read it...that idiot doesn't get common fantasy clchies...

I think the more amusing part was that Lord of the Rings was penned between 1937 and 1949 so Tolkien was indeed a time traveller that leaped forward in time just to rip off Harry Potter.

Not to mention he died in 1973 so the chances of him doing commentary on the films would be akin to Freddy Mercury turning up at Wembley for "welcome back from the dead" performance .... although if that happens, zombie singer or not, i'm going to watch it.

 

[BNguyen]

My English class was full of the stereotypical twi-tard, Bieber-worshiping idiots that people associate with today's youth. Here's a few gems:

"One Direction's just like the Beatles, only better!"

"Romeo and Juliet is stupid! Why don't we read Twilight?"

"Why are we even reading this story? Its all sad and depressing!"

I would go on, but I fear that more quotes would infringe on my fellow Escapists' sanity.

The bar's already hit the core, it can't go any lower, try me

 

[bat32391]

At my high school there was this one girl when I brought dinosaurs in a conversation she butted it and said:

"Dinosaur bones aren't real! They're just tricks the Devil put in the ground to steer the faithful away from the truth of Christianity!"

I shit you not, this crazy ***** was serious. Well this is what I get for living Texas.

 

[uneek]

'The first 3 Twilight Films are better than the original Star Wars Trilogy' - Mark Kermode

*headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk*

Well, he is entitled to his opinion. But, I do agree that saying it out loud is pretty stupid.

In fairness Kermode takes things in very relative terms. The genre and what the film was actually trying to do is as important to him as the film itself. He absolutely hates Star Wars, thinking it pussified pulp sci-fi (not his exact words).

TBH I think he's giving the director way too much credit. But Kermode at least backs his opinions up.

To quote Roger Ebert, "It's not what the film is about. It's how the film is about it."

It's actually why Kermode and Ebert are my favourite critics. I disagree with them a hell of a lot but at the same time movies I like that other critics slate (the remake of Arthur for instance) tend to get good reviews from those two for mostly the same reasons I like them simply because they know you don't measure every film by the same metric. Ebert gave American Reunion 3 out of 4 stars for christ's sake. While our own Movie Bob refused to even review it because of what it's about and the kind of movie it is. They're generally where you should go for slightly offbeat or genre films because they won't automatically slate it just for being the kind of movie it is. Also they make me reconsider movies I hated and even if I still don't like it I come away seeing some merit.

Well, Moviebob did review "That's My Boy" on his column last week saying that while he didn't like it, he thought it was good for what it was. He doesn't dismiss movies, he just chooses which ones he prefers to see. Something he doesn't get to do a lot as a critic.

Did you see his review for the Raid? He spends like a quarter of that saying he isn't going to review American Reunion basically because "fuck American Reunion and fuck anything that reminds me high school is a thing." It's not that he didn't like it that bothered me, hell I didn't see it.

Yeah, I saw it. The guy didn't like high school. Therefore, he wasn't going to enjoy it whether he saw some objective value in it or not. Seems like a pretty good reason to avoid it to me.

 

[Grunt_Man11]

"Roleplaying has no place in video games."


Oh yeah, of course. After all, the audience/player isn't given the role of lead character(s), put into control of said character(s), and is asked to directly or indirectly guide the character(s) though the game's story... oh wait.

Someone made a post like that in a WoW forum thread discussing RP servers.

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Captcha: "over cast sky"... Damn it, why is it I always get the boring non-ironic Captchas?

 

[sivloc]

COWS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!

Niether do windmills my man.

OT: I cannot fathom how ignorant some people have to be to ask if ARMA III will be an XBOX 360 exlusive. Seriously?! Very little research is needed to tell you why that will never happen. Everytime I go into the Arma forums there are at least one relatively new user asking if ARMA can be made an XBOX exclusive or will be ported to the system. While this unto itself is not too bothersome, it is the sheer quantity of people creating whole threads asking and weakly trying to justify their reasoning!

Did you just reference Morbo? I love you.

OT: It's hard to match what has been said so far, but let me think...
ahhh yes I've got one: During some random conversations,
forget the context (probably something manly like shark wrestling or lightning boxing),
someone told me they had assumed I was gay.
Out of curiosity I asked them why they thought so.
Their reasoning? "Well you just acted really nice"*

I didn't know gays had a monopoly on niceness.
That seems greedy, I demand some of it back, along with a few rainbows!

Also, Does this mean I have to be a douche if I don't want women to assume I'm gay?

*Mild paraphrasing due to an inaccurate memory.

 

[mrdude2010]

"What's the chance of that happening?"
"Well, I'd say about 50% because it'll either happen or it won't."