People Saying Stupid Things

[frank220]

*Search Bar Nazis, post at your own peril!*
The other day I was in a diner while there was a news cast about a woman who was in a car crash:
News Anchor: "A woman was involved in a fatal car crash earlier today."
Stupid Lady: "Oh God, do you think she's dead?"
Have you heard anyone saying something obvious or dimwitted?

 

[Kuchinawa212]

I can dent the air with a hammer!

I can take a bullet wound to the head, and still kill you with my sword (a sword vs. gun convo)

That guy is an idiot

 

[lxl_c0d3m0nk3y_lxl]

fuck yeah, i heard someone say "so did he live?" after someone told a story about someone comitting SUICIDE by jumping off of a cliff.

 

[Sassafrass]

'So, Agent Orange was a man who went around cutting trees down?'

About 5 seconds after we were told Agent Orange was a chemical which was used to kill trees...
My cousin is stupid.

 

[Valate_v1legacy]

I can dent the air with a hammer!

I can take a bullet wound to the head, and still kill you with my sword (a sword vs. gun convo)

That guy is an idiot

What if that guy is Rasputin?

 

[God's Clown]

90% of the things I say are well calculated, very thought out pieces of stupid. I am quite literally just that good.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

I can dent the air with a hammer!

I can take a bullet wound to the head, and still kill you with my sword (a sword vs. gun convo)

That guy is an idiot

What if that guy is Rasputin?

The kid is short, fat, Hispanic, barely hygienic, perverted kid. Rasputin I think not!

 

[UAProxy]

Ages ago I was an avid reader of the Warrior Cats series, a bunch of books about these cats that lived in organized clans in the woods and dealt with issues between humans, nature, and each other. It's actually a very good series though you wouldn't think so, kind of Watership Down-esque in its nature. Anyhow, so my grandmother, bless her heart, was talking with me about the series and she asks: "So it's like the cats are alive?"

Also from her, holding up a glass of water. "Is this water still good?"

Also. "Who's Sherlock Holmes?" From my old high school. I wanted to slap that person.

 

[chronobreak]

*Search Bar Nazis, post at your own peril!

I just want to say, I'm really getting sick of this term. It has nothing to do with Nazis, it is people trying to uphold a community with good standards. It is clearly outlined where the search bar is, and if you make no attempt at making a search, you are not being a good Escapist by most accounts. All most of us ask is one minute of your time making a search, even with our crappy search bar that isn't that great. Just one minute before making a thread, is that really being a "Nazi", a systematic killer of millions of people? If you have time to make a thread, don't you have time to see if one already exists? Just wanted to get that out there.

On topic, I hear it all the time in video editing. "Can't you just, I don't know, edit that out?" No, I cannot edit one sentence into another without your body motions being noticably jerked around and the whole thing looking weird. It isn't magic, no matter what people think. But, everyone says stupid things sometimes, I see no reason to call everyone out on it, right? Just seems kind of prickish.

 

[bioshockedcriticjrr]

asking a woman if they're pregnant/on their period and you're a guy, not smart

 

[Lexodus]

Well, not quite the same, but up until a few years ago, suicide was illegal in the UK. I can just imagine it now? a man throws himself off an impossibly small cliff, reducing himself to jam concentrate at the bottom. A bobby comes along, scoops him up and puts him in a jar, then puts the jar in handcuffs, saying, "Alright, you're nicked!"

 

[HyenaThePirate]

I can dent the air with a hammer!

I can take a bullet wound to the head, and still kill you with my sword (a sword vs. gun convo)

That guy is an idiot

What if that guy is Rasputin?

The kid is short, fat, Hispanic, barely hygienic, perverted kid. Rasputin I think not!

He's kinda right though..
If you aren't a good shot and you graze his head, or hell sometimes wonky things happen. Ask any ER Surgeon.. there are plenty of stories of bullets rebounding off of skulls and whatnot..
Not to mention the problem that hitting a moving target is actually a great deal harder than it looks contrary to what we've learned from FPS games.

So he's not QUITE an idiot. He's just extremely optimistic...

 

[Datalord]

"Ok, so Hilter may have caused the death of 6 million Jews, 20 million russians, and who knows how many other people, but Bush was still a worse leader because he started the Iraq war for oil from Iran"

i cried, i really did, just because that comment finally and conclusively broke my faith in mankind

 

[DeadlyYellow]

I just want to say, I'm really getting sick of this term. It has nothing to do with Nazis, it is people trying to uphold a community with good standards. It is clearly outlined where the search bar is, and if you make no attempt at making a search, you are not being a good Escapist by most accounts. All most of us ask is one minute of your time making a search, even with our crappy search bar that isn't that great. Just one minute before making a thread, is that really being a "Nazi", a systematic killer of millions of people? If you have time to make a thread, don't you have time to see if one already exists? Just wanted to get that out there.

There are essentially two problems I see about the search bar subject. The first being that the search bar itself is rather cumbersome to navigate. Starting general and narrowing still leads through hundreds of unrelated posts. The second is that the term "search bar approved" and the like have become established at opening fodder. You see it at the top of most posts, but do you ever take the time to actually check? Maybe you do, and if so I salute your thoroughness.

As for myself I find the posting of "Report" or "Report and move on" to also be in questionable taste, if only because the one time I did so I was reprimanded by a mod for doing so. I agree with your final point.

But, everyone says stupid things sometimes, I see no reason to call everyone out on it, right?

Sums it up well, but I come from an environment where nearly everything can be interpreted as one innuendo or another.

 

[lxl_c0d3m0nk3y_lxl]

I can dent the air with a hammer!

I can take a bullet wound to the head, and still kill you with my sword (a sword vs. gun convo)

That guy is an idiot

What if that guy is Rasputin?

LOL but seriously, that fucker didn't die

 

[Valate_v1legacy]

I can dent the air with a hammer!

I can take a bullet wound to the head, and still kill you with my sword (a sword vs. gun convo)

That guy is an idiot

What if that guy is Rasputin?

LOL but seriously, that fucker didn't die

Yea he did, the source of his unholy power was his brothers drowning, that's the ONLY way he could have died... I mean he had sex with like every woman in Russia, and DIDN'T die from an STD?!

 

[Kuchinawa212]

I can dent the air with a hammer!

I can take a bullet wound to the head, and still kill you with my sword (a sword vs. gun convo)

That guy is an idiot

What if that guy is Rasputin?

The kid is short, fat, Hispanic, barely hygienic, perverted kid. Rasputin I think not!

He's kinda right though..
If you aren't a good shot and you graze his head, or hell sometimes wonky things happen. Ask any ER Surgeon.. there are plenty of stories of bullets rebounding off of skulls and whatnot..
Not to mention the problem that hitting a moving target is actually a great deal harder than it looks contrary to what we've learned from FPS games.

So he's not QUITE an idiot. He's just extremely optimistic...

No trust me. Kid is fucking retarded. On a straight on duel sword versus a gun. He says that he can beat me at range of 50 yards. Charging right at me. I say I'd shoot him, and he'd deflect the bullet

"BUT KUCHINAWA" I hear you say, 'You can deflect a bullet with a sword' Ok fine, steel> lead. Fine. Can you deflect two bullets that fast. No. So I'd wound. Which would cause him to stagger and I can fire into his head. No he says. A shot between the eyes is livable. since 'he saw it in a anime'

Kid is stupid. No defending him *wags finger*

 

[Gaderael]

A couple of weeks ago a woman came up to me at work and asked where the Savory was, while I was stocking the Savory and holding a package in my hand, which was eye level to her.

 

[badgersprite]

Oh, I've heard plenty of gems. I usually try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but, sometimes, there's no excuse.

(At school, while looking for candles during a blackout)
Student: "I don't get it. Why don't we just use the light from the projector?"
Me: "...The projector that plugs into the wall?" oO

(After spending three months studying the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Modern History, Israel's bombing of Gaza is all over the news)
Student #1: "What's Hamas?"
Student #2: "They're the Israeli secret service."

(In response to talking about somebody's blindness in The Dark Ages...Can't remember who it was right now...)
Student: "Why didn't they just wear glasses?"
Me: "You seriously think they had 'Lens Crafters' back then?"

Bleh. I have a crappy memory for things people say, but those are the ones I haven't forgotten. =P

 

[HyenaThePirate]

I can dent the air with a hammer!

I can take a bullet wound to the head, and still kill you with my sword (a sword vs. gun convo)

That guy is an idiot

What if that guy is Rasputin?

The kid is short, fat, Hispanic, barely hygienic, perverted kid. Rasputin I think not!

He's kinda right though..
If you aren't a good shot and you graze his head, or hell sometimes wonky things happen. Ask any ER Surgeon.. there are plenty of stories of bullets rebounding off of skulls and whatnot..
Not to mention the problem that hitting a moving target is actually a great deal harder than it looks contrary to what we've learned from FPS games.

So he's not QUITE an idiot. He's just extremely optimistic...

No trust me. Kid is fucking retarded. On a straight on duel sword versus a gun. He says that he can beat me at range of 50 yards. Charging right at me. I say I'd shoot him, and he'd deflect the bullet

"BUT KUCHINAWA" I hear you say, 'You can deflect a bullet with a sword' Ok fine, steel> lead. Fine. Can you deflect two bullets that fast. No. So I'd wound. Which would cause him to stagger and I can fire into his head. No he says. A shot between the eyes is livable. since 'he saw it in a anime'

Kid is stupid. No defending him *wags finger*

In this scenario are we to assume that he is a master swordsman and you are a expert marksman with a pistol? lol