Grade A Idiocy

devoir

What bit of human stupidity gets your goat?

What action indelibly brands a person an idiot in your eyes?

I've just seen a news report about some halfwit who thought it'd be hilarious to use a laser on a news helicopter last night in Sydney.

How the fuck does someone think that's funny?

It's just under cutting a fuel line, in my eyes, in seriousness.

Maybe it's a kind of customer. Maybe it's a kind of guy at work.

Maybe more importantly than what the stupidity is, why do you think it happens in your particular case? Is it on purpose? It is because they just don't know any better? Is it society's fault? Survival of the fittest doesn't apply to the perpetually stupid anymore?

Aldo

http://www.darwinawards.com/

Oh, I saw some guy walking around on the middle of the road in a huge M&M-suit. Apparently he was doing it to get in a fraternity.

Yeah

Look Out it's Sabs!

I saw a guy just randomly stop in the middle of the highway once.

Drez

People that tailgate, people that only slow down (but not stop) at stop signs, people that inch up into a crosswalk well before the light turns green to "scare" pedestrians into not crossing (i.e. if the driver thinks it's going to go green soon),people that don't signal when changing lanes, people that don't signal when making turns, people that go very fast on local streets especially in areas with a large population of children, people that speed like demons on streets that are very difficult to cross as it is occasionally, effectively screwing pedestrians out of a prime opportunity to cross the street, bikers that bike on the fucking sidewalk, bikers that don't respect traffic lights and stop signs even though they are legally required to, motorcyclists that do any of the previously-mentioned things, parents that try to shut their toddlers up when out in public effectively curbing their curiosity, parents that drop their pre-teens off at a store like EB Games as if they are a babysitting service and go waddle around the mall, vindictive people, people that talk in movie theaters, people that bring their small children to movie theaters and think that having children suddenly absolves them from the "no talking" rule of etiquette that non-parents at least try to conform to, people that use the law or our economic structure as moral validation or justification, little 14 year olds that go to the movies and try to ruin the experience for others by acting like assholes, kids that throw shit at packed buses, bus drivers that speed away when someone is inches from their door, people that talk loud and endlessly throughout an entire bus/plane trip, people that don't get the hint when you put earphones in and make a very obvious gesture to raise the volume (this applies to any context or situation), people that call people at 8AM from the bus and talk to other people about their sex life, their drinking habits, or any STDs they might have received as per their social interaction the previous night/weekend, people that do nothing but talk about how much they drank the night/weekend before, people that use the phrase "fuck you harder" as a rejoinder to "fuck you"...

And so on.

mastman

I think Drez got all mine


edit: pre-teens in general piss me off, even the word pisses me off. Everything they do is completely wrong and ignorant

electricitylikesme

Every company which wants to call my home phone during business hours.

senor_x

To add to Drez's automotive idiots - people who tailgate me, pass me, cut me off, and then SLOW DOWN, requiring me to either brake or pass them again.

Also, people who crowd in the Southwest Airlines corrals 2 hours before takeoff. On the other side, people who can't form orderly lines in fast food restaurants and movie theaters, and cannot keep said line moving.

Plus, when sitting outside Starbucks this weekend, there were two cars waiting to go through a 2-way stop at the intersection. Some stupid lady passes them both on the left and blows through the intersection. Apparently traffic laws and common decency weren't applicable to her and her quest to get to the Sprint store.

SanderJK

Willful ignorance, especially regarding anything that directly touches peoples lives. The fact that people are almost completely unaware of how most stuff around them works, especially science, economics, and politics. This culminates in the fact that we now live a society where we elect/believe the person who yells the simplest worded message the most often. This applies throughout the western world.

I can accept not everyone can know everything, and that some concepts are hard to grasp. But to wilfully shut your eyes and ears, and metaphorically go through life yelling NANANANANANANANANANA for years on end, fearful you will hear things that don't agree with your spoonfed social, political or religious views, to refuse to accept the fact that our best understanding of things change constantly...

well this can go on for a long time, but the point is made. The true idiot is the one that's stupid on purpose.

Low Key

I was gonna say I hate anybody who hates people automatically based on their age, but then I realised it was mainly because young people who dismiss slightly younger people are all completely idiotic.

On the other hand, hating old people? Totally ok. Buncha idiots tha lotta them.

Edcrab

Pedestrians who slow down significantly when crossing a road. Especially when I'm crossing behind them and, you know, I urgently want to get off the road before the wanker at the now-green light feels the need to honk at me and/or run me over. Potentially dangerous and inconsiderate, especially considering all the damn blind turns that riddle my home town.

And Drez, you've encountered a lot of idiocy in your time, eh? Nice selection you've got there. Put me down for a side order of hating 40% of the entire cinema-going population.

electricitylikesme

Low Key wrote: »

I was gonna say I hate anybody who hates people automatically based on their age, but then I realised it was mainly because young people who dismiss slightly younger people are all completely idiotic.

On the other hand, hating old people? Totally ok. Buncha idiots tha lotta them.

Why you gotta sell out the best part of not being a teenager?

Proto

Drivers who see a bicycle on the road and instantly become a retard. Drivers who speed up to pass you on the left and then immediately make a right turn in front of you (the dreaded "right hook"). Drivers who take offence to being passed on a bicycle and speed past you at the next opportunity.

The majority of SUV drivers are morons. They dont need large vehicle, they certainly can't drive it, and they endanger everyone else on the road.

Aldo

People who only help someone else when that someone is pretty looking.

Low Key

electricitylikesme wrote: »

Low Key wrote: »

I was gonna say I hate anybody who hates people automatically based on their age, but then I realised it was mainly because young people who dismiss slightly younger people are all completely idiotic.

On the other hand, hating old people? Totally ok. Buncha idiots tha lotta them.

Why you gotta sell out the best part of not being a teenager?

When people out of Uni manage to show even half the sense of some of the teenagers I know, then they can start reveling in their years of maturity and extra frontal lobe capacity.

Look Out it's Sabs!

Aldo wrote: »

People who only help someone else when that someone is pretty looking.

How many times has that happened to you?

devoir

Bogans (urban rednecks) who take their young children to graphically violent/sexual films. At the movies.

Inquisitor

Any motorcycle driver who wears shorts, or a t-shirt, or flip flops and doesn't wear a helmet, and leathers, or who drives recklessly, or weaves between cars, or pops wheelie on the freeway is an utter moron.

Any combination of the above acts like some kind of stupidity multiplier for their over all stupid score.

Aldo

Saburbia wrote: »

Aldo wrote: »

People who only help someone else when that someone is pretty looking.

How many times has that happened to you?

I never need help, for I am perfect.

But you know, when an ugly girl falls to the floor people will just giggle or look the other way and when a pretty girl falls, half the room will rush forward to help her get up.

Morons.

Look Out it's Sabs!

Aldo wrote: »

Saburbia wrote: »

Aldo wrote: »

People who only help someone else when that someone is pretty looking.

How many times has that happened to you?

I never need help, for I am perfect.

But you know, when an ugly girl falls to the floor people will just giggle or look the other way and when a pretty girl falls, half the room will rush forward to help her get up.

Morons.

I ignore both, what does that make me?

Inquisitor

Saburbia wrote: »

Aldo wrote: »

Saburbia wrote: »

Aldo wrote: »

People who only help someone else when that someone is pretty looking.

How many times has that happened to you?

I never need help, for I am perfect.

But you know, when an ugly girl falls to the floor people will just giggle or look the other way and when a pretty girl falls, half the room will rush forward to help her get up.

Morons.

I ignore both, what does that make me?

An equal opportunity asshole? :P

Look Out it's Sabs!

Inquisitor wrote: »

Saburbia wrote: »

Aldo wrote: »

Saburbia wrote: »

Aldo wrote: »

People who only help someone else when that someone is pretty looking.

How many times has that happened to you?

I never need help, for I am perfect.

But you know, when an ugly girl falls to the floor people will just giggle or look the other way and when a pretty girl falls, half the room will rush forward to help her get up.

Morons.

I ignore both, what does that make me?

An equal opportunity asshole? :P

I'm fine with that.

Tube

The guy that suggested that the bible was the most historically accurate document ever written, "including the odyssey" pretty much blew my mind. I mean you read that shit but meeting someone who thinks it is a little different. Also claiming that evolution is bullshit because dalmations are more susceptible to disease now "than when they were perfect, in the garden of eden"

Tube

I also think it's stupid that like 20 people have that stupid fucking kitten avatar.

Look Out it's Sabs!

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

I also think it's stupid that like 20 people have that stupid fucking kitten avatar.

You should go ban all the copiers.

I'm the original just so you know.

Low Key

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

The guy that suggested that the bible was the most historically accurate document ever written, "including the odyssey" pretty much blew my mind. I mean you read that shit but meeting someone who thinks it is a little different. Also claiming that evolution is bullshit because dalmations are more susceptible to disease now "than when they were perfect, in the garden of eden"

Is this guy someone vaguely famous, or a dude who you saw yelling at the bus stop?

KalTorak

Saburbia wrote: »

Aldo wrote: »

Saburbia wrote: »

Aldo wrote: »

People who only help someone else when that someone is pretty looking.

How many times has that happened to you?

I never need help, for I am perfect.

But you know, when an ugly girl falls to the floor people will just giggle or look the other way and when a pretty girl falls, half the room will rush forward to help her get up.

Morons.

I ignore both, what does that make me?

Consistent?

Also sort of a dick. But I ignore both too. Let's hang out.

Tube

Low Key wrote: »

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

The guy that suggested that the bible was the most historically accurate document ever written, "including the odyssey" pretty much blew my mind. I mean you read that shit but meeting someone who thinks it is a little different. Also claiming that evolution is bullshit because dalmations are more susceptible to disease now "than when they were perfect, in the garden of eden"

Is this guy someone vaguely famous, or a dude who you saw yelling at the bus stop?

The missus invited some people from the pub back for a nightcap and this dude started ranting about astrology and how atheists were stupid because "if you can't believe in god what can you believe in". He eventually left when I described his beliefs as "stupid on a staggering scale"

Aldo

Tube bans people IRL as well. Awesome.

devoir

You can both be sure that neither of you will help the other out if they fall, too.

Preacher

devoir wrote: »

Bogans (urban rednecks) who take their young children to graphically violent/sexual films. At the movies.

My father exposed me to violent films as a child, I am mostly well adjusted. Mostly.

I hate people who throw around racial insults like they are candy. I am looking at you xbox live cretins!

mastman

In college, that guy who sat on the popular corner of campus screaming that we were going to hell for not accepting Jesus... and having his young kids out there also holding signs when they should be in school.

Tube

People who throw in terms like "chav" "bogan" or "redneck" when they're just talking about stupid people, so as to tar an entire class of people (poor people, natch) with the stupid brush. Just say poor people. It's ok to hate poor people. Tornados hate poor people.

devoir

Bogan is a lifestyle, has little to do with money, the way I mean it.

Look Out it's Sabs!

KalTorak wrote: »

Saburbia wrote: »

Aldo wrote: »

Saburbia wrote: »

Aldo wrote: »

People who only help someone else when that someone is pretty looking.

How many times has that happened to you?

I never need help, for I am perfect.

But you know, when an ugly girl falls to the floor people will just giggle or look the other way and when a pretty girl falls, half the room will rush forward to help her get up.

Morons.

I ignore both, what does that make me?

Consistent?

Also sort of a dick. But I ignore both too. Let's hang out.

Dicks hanging out. Alright.

Tube

why specify bogan at all? It's the behaviour you find stupid. Is it alright if some dude in a tweed jacket and spats does the same thing? It's like "I hate it when chavs start fights on the bus", why chavs? Why are they the only ones forbidden from fighting on busses?

Drez

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

why specify bogan at all? It's the behaviour you find stupid. Is it alright if some dude in a tweed jacket and spats does the same thing? It's like "I hate it when chavs start fights on the bus", why chavs? Why are they the only ones forbidden from fighting on busses?

I personally like when yuppies fight on the bus but not when, say, latino gang members do. One is funny, the other is just cliche and uninteresting. I can't speak for anyone else on this point, though.

Low Key

For some reason, the idiocy of Gavin Menzies shits me off more than it should. The man's a complete turd.

emnmnme

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

The guy that suggested that the bible was the most historically accurate document ever written, "including the odyssey" pretty much blew my mind. I mean you read that shit but meeting someone who thinks it is a little different. Also claiming that evolution is bullshit because dalmations are more susceptible to disease now "than when they were perfect, in the garden of eden"

Maybe that guy was talking about comparing the modern Bible to the Dead Sea scrolls and, after so many centuries, scriptures and the Dead Sea scrolls matched up pretty well.

....

Or maybe he believes the earth is 6, 000 years old. I don't know. Tell us more about this nut, tube.

Tube

Not much more to say, he was just an idiot. He'd "read a lot of books" about astrology and believed it to be solid and undeniable fact. He also claimed that because I didn't believe in astrology I must "believe in the war on terror" and "have money as my god"

Nova_C

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

Not much more to say, he was just an idiot. He'd "read a lot of books" about astrology and believed it to be solid and undeniable fact. He also claimed that because I didn't believe in astrology I must "believe in the war on terror" and "have money as my god"

....isn't Astrology kinda....not compatible with Christianity?

Proto

Nova_C wrote: »

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

Not much more to say, he was just an idiot. He'd "read a lot of books" about astrology and believed it to be solid and undeniable fact. He also claimed that because I didn't believe in astrology I must "believe in the war on terror" and "have money as my god"

....isn't Astrology kinda....not compatible with Christianity?

..or reality.



"At least my god can buy me a Slurpee"