kind of myself, so i kind of moved around the country alot (i live in america) and it kind of messed up some very basic things for me cause i would be in the 3rd grade and they would start to learn cursive then i would move and they would say we already learned it so i cant read or write cursive, and the same thing kind of happened to me when we were learning our months, i name the months i just cant put them in order
The most extraordinary case of ignorance you have witnessed
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Isn't Ignorant not knowing something in particular? I mean generally it could be ... uneducated I suppose but, isn't everyone ignorant to something? I certainly am ignorant to pop culture... but also astrophysics.
Can't say really. I mean a lot of people I associate with... the majority actually, have no idea who Frege is. In my subject it's a pretty big deal.
Can't say really. I mean a lot of people I associate with... the majority actually, have no idea who Frege is. In my subject it's a pretty big deal.
In high school (in Canada), we were studying the cold war. My teacher felt it was important to draw connections between what happened "back then" and what was currently happening in the world. This was 2006, so somehow both Osama bin Laden and George Bush came up. My teacher made a joke that some Republicans had suggested that in the previous election, if you weren't voting for Bush, you were voting for bin Laden. A girl screeched "WAIT!! Bin Laden the Bush ran against each other election?!? I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!!".
Also, in the interest of full disclosure, I learned a couple weeks ago that a backhanded compliment is something that sounds like a compliment but is in fact an insult. I have lived my entire life thinking it was something that sounded like an insult but was in fact a compliment. My world was irrevocably changed that day.
Also, in the interest of full disclosure, I learned a couple weeks ago that a backhanded compliment is something that sounds like a compliment but is in fact an insult. I have lived my entire life thinking it was something that sounded like an insult but was in fact a compliment. My world was irrevocably changed that day.
yeah a lot of random pedestrians on the street are probably stupid but i guarantee you can do that to a lot of people in a lot of countries, i can also guarantee that they edited out the people who actually got it right.brainslurper said:
I was in middle school (7th grade). It was 2-3 days after 9/11. We were talking about it in class and this girl next to me leaned in and asked me what happened and what all the fuss was about.
Obama, nough said. No but really I did once hear someone ask how many sides of an island touched water... oh and cnn, most forums (no offense) and comments on youtube. I didn't know there were that many mentally damaged people in the world. (again, no offense. they only say stupid things. I'm sure they're all bright people really. haha just kidding, they're all dumb)
Well, to be technical, the M-1 Garand "en-bloc" "clip" Is a clip and a magazine at the same time.Vicarious Vangaurd said:
Oops, double post.
I might as well make it worth it. I hate people who talk about shit they don't know and gain a sense of smugness for pretending to know about it. Zeitgeist in particular. (I dunno what it is but I know plenty of people who pretend to.)
I might as well make it worth it. I hate people who talk about shit they don't know and gain a sense of smugness for pretending to know about it. Zeitgeist in particular. (I dunno what it is but I know plenty of people who pretend to.)
A troll in my class and I were discussing Irish politics,and a very...ignorant girl asked us what we were talking about. When I replied it was nothing she was interested in or knew about, she acted all offended and stated that she knew more about politics than I thought (conservatives at that school had a raging persecution complex for growing up in NorCal).
She immediately mixed up the IRA with the IRS and stated that the only thing that made sense was when the troll jokingly said that maybe the UK should just take Ireland back.
She immediately mixed up the IRA with the IRS and stated that the only thing that made sense was when the troll jokingly said that maybe the UK should just take Ireland back.
I agree with this. In the OP's stories, that's not ignorance. It's funny as hell, but it's not ignorance. If you think it's ignorance you have a lot of growing up to do.Novs said:
A recent case that I had the misfortune to witness was a young girl (about 17) saying that teenage girls that get pregnant are not to blame for it if they are drunk, or out of condoms. She even went as far to say "Sex is great so if you're gonna get some and you're not prepared, I guess all you can do is hope for the best"
Needless to say, the girl is pregnant.
A girl in my class back in Manchester was trying to convince me for an hour that Lithuania was an Asian country located "near Bolivia". Funny on many levels.
My little brother asked me that. He was four at the time tough. He got zapped by an electric fence and thought it "jumped" at him.Princess_Dee said:
On youtube I explained to some commentator about the Afghanistan War and a guy replied to me saying that the Taliban crashed the planes in the WTC and told me Al-Qaeda wasn't around until after we invaded worst part was that he was sure.......I blame the media, when was the last time Bin Laden has been in a headline?
In my world history class a girl thought Russia was on the Central Powers......
In my world history class a girl thought Russia was on the Central Powers......
Eh It's a bit confusing, they're not especially important since they don;t play a big part in the world.Kortney said:
Fun Fact: The Latin decem root you are referring to was correctly named when the modern calender was invented. Rome started their year in March, making December the 10th month.Fronzel said: