"That Was Deep!" "No, You're Just Stupid."

[Lockstitch]

Being Jewish is more than a religion, a Jew, could be Jewish by religion, or Jewish by race, Hitler, was Jewish by race, at least partly.

This again is false. Hitler was an Austrian born Caucasian raised by Catholic Austrian Caucasian parents. There is again a rumor that somewhere in his ancestry was a Jew, perhaps his grandmother or great-grandfather, but there is no factual evidence.

But say that he was 100% ethnically Jewish. This still would have no affect on the antisemitism spread by the Nazis because they only persecuted religious jews. Proof of this lies in the thousands of religious Jews that were spared their lives due to the pope's issuing of false baptismal papers; if the discrimination had been based on ethnicity rather than religion, these Jews would not have been saved.

And while I don't necessarily agree with your statement about his sexuality, I can agree that him have relations with women and (supposedly) men, would make him Bisexual and not Gay. But, I would imagine that Hitler prosecuted any type of sexuality that went against the beliefs of the time, including Bisexuality.

My argument was that Hitler was most definitely not gay, and that has been proven.

Also, i believe you mean he persecuted them, not prosecuted.

 

[Regiment]

A girl in my high school earth science class (around age 14 or 15) thought:

* The Equator is an actual visible line floating around the planet
* Every city and town in the world is illustrated on any globe
* The continents float on the water
* If the continents don't float, we should cut them loose so rising water levels don't cause problems (I'd hate to be the last guy to kick out the last support under North America)

A few years later, I had to settle an argument between two other doofuses (doofi?). One insisted that Calvin Coolidge had been the first black president (this was years before anyone had heard of Obama); the other insisted that he had been neither black nor a President.

Also from high school: Apparently the Tour de France is one long race with no stops, ever, until the end. Those must be some pretty tough racers.

 

[Snarky Username]

I once made a joke involving inverted pentagrams (long story) and some girl asked me what pentagrams are. I told her that they are five pointed stars drawn upside down i a particular fashion (in less words so that I didn't make her head explode. It's all fun and games until you're cleaning pink goo off your face). She accused me of trying to confuse people by calling them pentagrams instead of "upside-down star thingys"

 

[bleepbloopsheep]

My example

Question asked: What is the closest star to the Earth?
Me: The Sun
That guy: Stupid! He said star not a sun!

Sometimes you're so caught off guard that it stuns you.

Same thing happened to me in a school quiz
I got that question and had to argue down 4 people who thought the sun wasnt a star

Ill say that again 4 F***ING people

 

[captaincabbage]

Just any time this kid in my class remenisces about the halo games, he always talks about how 'deep' and 'involving' the story was and I always reply "noooo, you're just a fucking retard.". Worst part is when I try to give him something that has even a concept of depth like Psychonauts or the like, he always responds with "Hurr, Hurr, you're retarded U liek platformerz, playstashon is ghey, xbox roolz lololololololol"

(Yes he literally says 'lololololololol' out loud.)

 

[Dok Zombie]

"What was Shakespeare's surname?"

She's in UNIVERSITY.

God help us...

 

[mihajelko]

A girl in my school once said that her grandpa was operated on his pneumonia (a lung infection) ... on the plus side we are both from medical school.

 

[rokkolpo]

I know a guy through a friend who seems to spend most of his time in his own little world. We were talking about the show Arrested Development (which is awesome) and at one point in the conversation he blurted out "Who, Superman?".
We actually had to unravel the maze-like path of illogic to figure out what he was talking about:
-Michael Cera is in Arrested Development
-Michael Cera has an online web-show called Clark and Michael
-Clark from the webshow shares the same name as Clark Kent
-Clark Kent is superman

No joke, this was how he came to the conclusion that superman was involved.

autistic right?

 

[Liquid Paradox]

A mate of mine once said red cars go faster. Seriously. We were in Year ten I believe.

He explained it that it was because red paint is lighter.

We have never let him live it down.

was your friend, by chance, an ork?

 

[rokkolpo]

"if a tree falls and no ones around to hear it, does it make a sound???" *deep, wide eyed look of a "wise saying*
... of course it fucking does.

If you ask the people who just took a Sensation and Perception course, they'll say no. Apparently sound isn't sound until the brain processes it as sound.

Psychology can be some trippy shit.

Actually no. Sound happens regardless of what is around to percieve it, as sound is vibrations in the air. That's like saying dolphins don't exist because you can't see them right now.

-

actually it's true.
the definition of sound is vibrations being heard by a living creature.

watch as i quote wikipedia:Sound is a travelling wave which is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.

and the dolphin thing is also true with quantum physics i believe.(not sure though so don't ask me about that)

 

[Thyunda]

"if a tree falls and no ones around to hear it, does it make a sound???" *deep, wide eyed look of a "wise saying*
... of course it fucking does.

If you ask the people who just took a Sensation and Perception course, they'll say no. Apparently sound isn't sound until the brain processes it as sound.

Psychology can be some trippy shit.

Actually no. Sound happens regardless of what is around to percieve it, as sound is vibrations in the air. That's like saying dolphins don't exist because you can't see them right now.

-

actually it's true.
the definition of sound is vibrations being heard by a living creature.

watch as i quote wikipedia:Sound is a travelling wave which is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.

and the dolphin thing is also true with quantum physics i believe.(not sure though so don't ask me about that)

Not quite, because the dolphin is technically a sentient being, and is thus able to perceive itself, which is of course the only way we can prove things exist.

 

[rokkolpo]

"if a tree falls and no ones around to hear it, does it make a sound???" *deep, wide eyed look of a "wise saying*
... of course it fucking does.

If you ask the people who just took a Sensation and Perception course, they'll say no. Apparently sound isn't sound until the brain processes it as sound.

Psychology can be some trippy shit.

Actually no. Sound happens regardless of what is around to percieve it, as sound is vibrations in the air. That's like saying dolphins don't exist because you can't see them right now.

-

actually it's true.
the definition of sound is vibrations being heard by a living creature.

watch as i quote wikipedia:Sound is a travelling wave which is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.

and the dolphin thing is also true with quantum physics i believe.(not sure though so don't ask me about that)

Not quite, because the dolphin is technically a sentient being, and is thus able to perceive itself, which is of course the only way we can prove things exist.

by following Descartes his philosophy that's true.

yet quantum physics tends to not care about anything that is logic in this world.
(i'll have to get a friend of mine on this, he studied quantum physics)

 

[NOT WILL]

A mate of mine once said red cars go faster.

no no no red cars don`t go faster you need cars with racing stripes

OT: Science class (the highest level at my school)
girl: Do people fall off the Earth in Australia
me: No because of gravity
her: he is so nice
me: gravity is not a guy
her: ohhhh, she...

She was very serious

 

[quiet_samurai]

Heh, I'm going the spoiler the very first post I ever made here on the escapist. It had to do with this topic exactly... kinda long... but entertaining none the less.

Spoiler

I used to date this girl in college. She was hot, funny, and "book smart", and really sweet. But god I think her mouth would say shit before her brain processed it. The best gems right off the top of my head.

During that whole Passion of the Christ controversy, she was reading a Time magazine or something in class and it had pics from the film of Jesus being led through the streets all bloody and ripped up.

Her - oh god, these pictures are so gnarly. Are they the actual pictures you think?
Girl at same table as us - No, they didn't have color film back then. (sarcasm)
Her - Oh.
I laughed my ass off after that

Another time we were just sitting watching a movie on the couch, I think it was the second LOTR movie. I mention this because it has no bearing on the question she asked me.

Her - Hon?
Me - Yeah?
Her- Do you ever wonder how metal detectors work?
Me- What?
Her - Metal detectors, you know the things you walk through to see if you have metal in your pockets.
Me- Yeah I know what they are.
Her- Its weird don't you think? How it knows you have something metal in your pockets.
Me - Not really, it's a metal detector. It DETECTS metal.
Her - Yeah but how? It can't see it.
Me - It's science don't worry about it.

Another time, my roomate and I were discussing on making a home made BBQ grill out of some recently emptied metal barrels that contained orange glow. (his dad sold the stuff by the pallete)

Her out of left field from the kitchen - That would never work.
Roomate - Why?
Her - Barrels are made of wood.

And just to mess with her I would ask her what happened to tumble weeds when they died. It probably still perplexes her to this day.

 

[Drakmeire]

I know a girl who argued with me for about 15 minutes claiming Europe was a country (ps. it's a continent) and another one who asked me "which color on the sink means hot? red or blue?

 

[the_dancy_vagrant]

Some US guy on the internet went on an Australian TF2 server then started asking us questions then it eventually came up to a part where he started calling us idiots for not knowing every state in the US, okay, I thought he was a bit stupid then but nothing really worth caring about.
Then we asked him about Australia and he thought we lived in old brick houses, mud huts, had heaps of farms and pretty much all the stuff he saw on the simpsons, haha. He wasn't stupid, just stupid at history. O_O either the t.v he watches isn't good or he doesn't have a great history teacher

I can practically guarantee that his only exposure to Australia comes from the episode of the Simpsons you already mentioned, Crocodile Dundee/Paul Hogan , The Crocodile Hunter/Steve Irwin, and possibly The Road Warrior/Mad Max. You should have asked him if he knew that germs came from Germany.

 

[Eggsnham]

Being Jewish is more than a religion, a Jew, could be Jewish by religion, or Jewish by race, Hitler, was Jewish by race, at least partly.

This again is false. Hitler was an Austrian born Caucasian raised by Catholic Austrian Caucasian parents. There is again a rumor that somewhere in his ancestry was a Jew, perhaps his grandmother or great-grandfather, but there is no factual evidence.

But say that he was 100% ethnically Jewish. This still would have no affect on the antisemitism spread by the Nazis because they only persecuted religious jews. Proof of this lies in the thousands of religious Jews that were spared their lives due to the pope's issuing of false baptismal papers; if the discrimination had been based on ethnicity rather than religion, these Jews would not have been saved.

And while I don't necessarily agree with your statement about his sexuality, I can agree that him have relations with women and (supposedly) men, would make him Bisexual and not Gay. But, I would imagine that Hitler prosecuted any type of sexuality that went against the beliefs of the time, including Bisexuality.

My argument was that Hitler was most definitely not gay, and that has been proven.

Also, i believe you mean he persecuted them, not prosecuted.

Whatever, I'm done arguing the antics of Hitler, I don't care if he was Gay, or Jewish, or both , or not, he's dead and the only thing that he did that really matters was the unjustified killing of 6,000,000+ Jews and minorities.

And yes, I did mean persecuted

 

[McNinja]

"if a tree falls and no ones around to hear it, does it make a sound???" *deep, wide eyed look of a "wise saying*
... of course it fucking does.

If you ask the people who just took a Sensation and Perception course, they'll say no. Apparently sound isn't sound until the brain processes it as sound.

Psychology can be some trippy shit.

Actually no. Sound happens regardless of what is around to percieve it, as sound is vibrations in the air. That's like saying dolphins don't exist because you can't see them right now.

-

actually it's true.
the definition of sound is vibrations being heard by a living creature.

watch as i quote wikipedia:Sound is a travelling wave which is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.

and the dolphin thing is also true with quantum physics i believe.(not sure though so don't ask me about that)

Regardless who or what is around to perceive them, the vibrations in the air occur.

I couldn't care less about quantum physics. An animal is still an animal, and it exists regardless of what perceives them.

 

[rokkolpo]

"if a tree falls and no ones around to hear it, does it make a sound???" *deep, wide eyed look of a "wise saying*
... of course it fucking does.

If you ask the people who just took a Sensation and Perception course, they'll say no. Apparently sound isn't sound until the brain processes it as sound.

Psychology can be some trippy shit.

Actually no. Sound happens regardless of what is around to percieve it, as sound is vibrations in the air. That's like saying dolphins don't exist because you can't see them right now.

-

actually it's true.
the definition of sound is vibrations being heard by a living creature.

watch as i quote wikipedia:Sound is a travelling wave which is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.

and the dolphin thing is also true with quantum physics i believe.(not sure though so don't ask me about that)

Regardless who or what is around to perceive them, the vibrations in the air occur.

yes but the question is not if vibrations occur.
the question is does sound occur.

and it does not.

 

[Cpu46]

A mate of mine once said red cars go faster. Seriously. We were in Year ten I believe.

He explained it that it was because red paint is lighter.

We have never let him live it down.

Wait that isnt scientific fact? Its the Char custom rule, red goes 3 times faster.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LawOfChromaticSuperiority

/sarcasm


OT: our science teacher used sarcasm a lot, however one girl took everything he said as fact. That was taken advantage of so many times.