Are you really that stupid?

[Gigaguy64]

This is why i try not to argue with people.

It doesn't even matter if you prove their wrong sometimes you cant fix Ignorance, stupidity, or just pure Bullheadedness.

Its the internet...

Spoiler: what are you gonna do?

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

It's expected when it's on the internet. When it's in real life, however, it's a different story.

One of the chicks at my school started trying to argue today that her smoking way too much marijuana doesn't actually have negative impacts on her brain because "It's not like brain cells don't grow back, right?"
I, of course immediately responded with "It's EXACTLY like that. Once you lose a brain cell, it doesn't come back!"
She tried to turn it into a "Yes it is!" "No it isn't!" argument.
Me: "What are you basing your argument on?"
Her: "One of my friends is a heroine addict, so she knows all about this, and she says they grow back!"
Me: "Because people you're friends with couldn't possibly be wrong..."
Her: "Shut up, I know she's right!"
Me: *Pulls out iPhone and goes to google to prove it* "Really? Because every scientist in the world disagrees with her."
Some random asshole who decides to join the conversation at this point: "Science isn't right about everything, though!"
Me: "That's the point of science. If it's wrong, it gets fixed. That's how it works."
Him: "No, cause there's this 82 year old man in the hospital who hasn't eaten or drank anything in 70 years!"
Me: "Yeah, I'm calling bullshit on that one."
Him: "Nuh uh, he's been in the hospital for the past 2 weeks, and he hasn't eaten anything!"
Me: "You know this how?"
Him: "It was on the news!"
Me: "Because people on television can't possibly be wrong!"
Him: "Well the news said so!"
Me: "What news was it? FOX?"
*Everyone laughs*
Him: "No! It was just the news!"
Me: "OK, no, this is coming from the same person who tried to convince us that President Obama had shut down NASA?" (2 weeks ago he had come into class, claiming this. We looked it up, and it turns out Obama had actually just voted against funding NASA's next rocket to the moon. We then asked him where he'd heard it, and he told us his mom had told him.)
Him: "That's different! My mom told me that, this is the news!"
Me: "That's not the point! The point is that you've lost your reputation for being accurate."
Him: "No!"
Me: "Yes."
Him: "No!"
Me: *sighs and leaves*

good god...

i would have gotten violent at that point...

then again, i put pencils in my shoelaces and kick people for a laugh. so yeah...

also, no particular memory, but splice violence, google, and a generally abnormally observent personality, you get me, the king of arguments.


[sub]i also use my watch to strap pencils to my arm, for a similiar effect to the shoelace thing.[/sub]

 

[Highbrow]

fake
totally photoshopped

 

[Striker501]

Sometimes its enough to make you lose faith in the human race

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Some asshole on PSN sent me a message saying that my end was nigh when I killed him with an M60. He then clarified that an update was coming that would wipe out noobs like me.

I told him that's why I was using the M-60 in the first place.

He called me a douchebag.

I told him that A) I didn't program the game, I was just using the damn guns, and B) that I didn't even like the gun, because I don't like the look or who you can't move and shoot effectively.

He said "I'm sorry, all I hear is "I'm a noobtard"".

I asked him why his mom let him live in her basement with such alow literacy level, my whole message had been read as "I'm a noobtard."

End game. And yes, my argument skills deteriorate when I'm trying to blow up M-COMS.

 

[GrinningManiac]

Today, it's elitist athiests who think their evidence-supported decision (whilst correct) allows them shit on the religious. At best that's being a sore winner, and at worst it's just being an obnoxoius, pubescent prick with a superiority complex

And whilst I wouldn't go so far as "stupid", there are a lot of things a lot of my friends do that I cannot get my head around. Some are technical, such as lacking in a basic skill or one I assumed was basic, and others are "other", such as thinking that having the literal last word in an argument, even if it's "oh yeah?" wins said argument

Lotta private facepalming

also, this week, I've began noticing that I'm secretly flipping annoying people "the bird" from behind my/their back or when my hand is concealed. It's slightly cathartic

 

[cyber_andyy]

Its like when i was talking to my friend:

ME: "It's creepy, but Chris has balls for taking the part of a peadophile, hes gonna get such a good mark."
JESS: "Oh god, your one of those people."
ME: "What?"
JESS: "You spell pedophile peadophile."
ME: "Thats the correct way to spell it. (link to wikipedia, english and americanisums article It's like medieaval

You know, as done by the english. Te english speakers. The people who invented the language."

JESS: "Well whatever...its still right"
ME: " But its not."
JESS:

Its fucking retarded.

 

[Kinguendo]

Today, it's elitist athiests who think their evidence-supported decision (whilst correct) allows them shit on the religious. At best that's being a sore winner, and at worst it's just being an obnoxoius, pubescent prick with a superiority complex

And whilst I wouldn't go so far as "stupid", there are a lot of things a lot of my friends do that I cannot get my head around. Some are technical, such as lacking in a basic skill or one I assumed was basic, and others are "other", such as thinking that having the literal last word in an argument, even if it's "oh yeah?" wins said argument

Lotta private facepalming

also, this week, I've began noticing that I'm secretly flipping annoying people "the bird" from behind my/their back or when my hand is concealed. It's slightly cathartic

Nah dude, its still stupid people... the problem was stupid people thousands of years ago and the problem is still stupid people today.

Look at videos that arent about religion and you will see stupid sh*t all over the wall like a metaphorical mad house. Also, you see some pretty stupid sh*t on religious videos too. I had a guy call me a scientologist BECAUSE I was an Atheist and believed science over christianity. That was an aggrevating discussion, even AFTER I told him that he was wrong and how he was talking about scientology he brought it up again... except this time he decided he would tell me what I believe... he said "You believe that aliens colonized earth and their ghosts got into monkeys.", then he continued to support his claims by saying "If ghosts, demons, angels, aliens and monsters exist then why cant God?"... I was bewildered by this statement, I just said "NONE OF THOSE THINGS EXIST! You just completely destroyed your own argument you tool.". Havent heard from him since.

EDIT: You secretly flip people off? I do it to their face and say "F*CK YOU!". No time for pussyfooting around in an argument, you have to get the point across in the most direct way you can.

 

[Kinguendo]

You have just proved that that troll is successful.
(well i like to think he was a troll, if anyone is THAT stupid then we have a problem on our hands)

I dont accept the excuse "I am trolling.", why? Because I leave knowing I just proved that person wrong... whether they were being wrong on purpose doesnt matter, they were still wrong.

Its like the excuse "It was a joke.", I dont accept that unless the thing they said was funny. And most of the time (I am talking huge majority here) it was really unfunny and was obviously a serious statement which they now dont want to take responsibility for.

 

[Legion]

Last night, me and a friend had an MSN argument about whether Hentai was porn. She said it wasn't because it was a drawing and she'd seen more porn, meaning she KNEW. Obviously, I said it was and basic definitions backed me up, but she still refused to admit it.

(Looking back at our conversations, we talk about rubbish...) XD

Well the word 'Hentai' in Japanese merely means 'strange' or 'pervert' depending on context, so it could be argued that it isn't.

However, if you are referring to Hentai animation then yes, it is porn.

Its like the excuse "It was a joke.", I dont accept that unless the thing they said was funny. And most of the time (I am talking huge majority here) it was really unfunny and was obviously a serious statement which they now dont want to take responsibility for.

That one pisses me off a lot when people do it. The problem is that you can't prove it and arguing usually makes people assume you are being a prick.

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

It's the internet. When I find myself confronted by idiocy of such amazingly low calibre I usually close the "argument" (and refuse to be provoked further on the issue) with the short and simple "You're wrong, I'm right, you're stupid, shut up, the end."

Its like when i was talking to my friend:

ME: "It's creepy, but Chris has balls for taking the part of a peadophile, hes gonna get such a good mark."
JESS: "Oh god, your one of those people."
ME: "What?"
JESS: "You spell pedophile peadophile."
ME: "Thats the correct way to spell it. (link to wikipedia, english and americanisums article It's like medieaval

You know, as done by the english. Te english speakers. The people who invented the language."

JESS: "Well whatever...its still right"
ME: " But its not."
JESS:

Its fucking retarded.

Uh, dude, I hate to bring this up... but it's spelled "paedophile" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paedophile], not "peadophile".

Now to put theory into practice.

 

[Dok Zombie]

YouTube is for videos, for your own sanity just ignore the comments.

 

[XJ-0461]

Yeah, Youtube is like that. You've really got to ignore the comments on there.

 

[RJ Dalton]

So here's the story, escapists. I just got a response to a comment I made on a youtube video. Somebody referred to "periphreal vision" in their comment to a video. I responded, saying "it's not periphreal, it's peripheral." They then responded with the following comment:

"A periphiral is a piece of office eqiptment dumbass, whereas a Perphreal is ones vision to the front and side!"

In response to this display of unbridled stupidity, I had this to say:

"@Phr33kSHoTz Peripheral has two meanings. It can mean a device used to supplement another piece of equipment, usually a computer, or the vision to the side of one's center of vision. They are spelled the same way. I'm not the dumbass here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_vision"

This experience has left me frustrated, to say the least. Has anybody else had a similar experience like this, dealing with somebody who's incredibly stupid and doesn't even know it?

Welcome to the internet. I take it this is your first time visiting?

 

[not_the_dm]

on the internet? nooooooooooooo neeeeeeeeeeeever

This wins the topic.

I second this.

I third this... wait... meh. That'll do.

OT: Once met a lass who didn't know what a top-heavy fraction was. She was 17.

 

[Maphis]

It´s the internet, don´t try to go in depth with these people ignore them or troll along.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

I hate people completely misinterpret what I say, then expect me to respond to their unrelated babble. So I ignore them. I then get a message later along the lines of "haha pwned joo" or something along those lines.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Welcome to the internet? The fact that there are basically PSA's about how to use proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling just goes to prove that you're not consistently dealing with the most enlightened of individuals, and often that they may be the rarities to be found.

 

[WitherVoice]

Hanlon's Razor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_Razor] should be liberally applied to YouTube comments.