Really Stupid Things You've Heard/Read Someone Say

[BNguyen]

My English class was full of the stereotypical twi-tard, Bieber-worshiping idiots that people associate with today's youth. Here's a few gems:

"One Direction's just like the Beatles, only better!"

"Romeo and Juliet is stupid! Why don't we read Twilight?"

"Why are we even reading this story? Its all sad and depressing!"

I would go on, but I fear that more quotes would infringe on my fellow Escapists' sanity.

The bar's already hit the core, it can't go any lower, try me

 

[bat32391]

At my high school there was this one girl when I brought dinosaurs in a conversation she butted it and said:

"Dinosaur bones aren't real! They're just tricks the Devil put in the ground to steer the faithful away from the truth of Christianity!"

I shit you not, this crazy ***** was serious. Well this is what I get for living Texas.

 

[uneek]

'The first 3 Twilight Films are better than the original Star Wars Trilogy' - Mark Kermode

*headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk*

Well, he is entitled to his opinion. But, I do agree that saying it out loud is pretty stupid.

In fairness Kermode takes things in very relative terms. The genre and what the film was actually trying to do is as important to him as the film itself. He absolutely hates Star Wars, thinking it pussified pulp sci-fi (not his exact words).

TBH I think he's giving the director way too much credit. But Kermode at least backs his opinions up.

To quote Roger Ebert, "It's not what the film is about. It's how the film is about it."

It's actually why Kermode and Ebert are my favourite critics. I disagree with them a hell of a lot but at the same time movies I like that other critics slate (the remake of Arthur for instance) tend to get good reviews from those two for mostly the same reasons I like them simply because they know you don't measure every film by the same metric. Ebert gave American Reunion 3 out of 4 stars for christ's sake. While our own Movie Bob refused to even review it because of what it's about and the kind of movie it is. They're generally where you should go for slightly offbeat or genre films because they won't automatically slate it just for being the kind of movie it is. Also they make me reconsider movies I hated and even if I still don't like it I come away seeing some merit.

Well, Moviebob did review "That's My Boy" on his column last week saying that while he didn't like it, he thought it was good for what it was. He doesn't dismiss movies, he just chooses which ones he prefers to see. Something he doesn't get to do a lot as a critic.

Did you see his review for the Raid? He spends like a quarter of that saying he isn't going to review American Reunion basically because "fuck American Reunion and fuck anything that reminds me high school is a thing." It's not that he didn't like it that bothered me, hell I didn't see it.

Yeah, I saw it. The guy didn't like high school. Therefore, he wasn't going to enjoy it whether he saw some objective value in it or not. Seems like a pretty good reason to avoid it to me.

 

[Grunt_Man11]

"Roleplaying has no place in video games."


Oh yeah, of course. After all, the audience/player isn't given the role of lead character(s), put into control of said character(s), and is asked to directly or indirectly guide the character(s) though the game's story... oh wait.

Someone made a post like that in a WoW forum thread discussing RP servers.

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Captcha: "over cast sky"... Damn it, why is it I always get the boring non-ironic Captchas?

 

[sivloc]

COWS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!

Niether do windmills my man.

OT: I cannot fathom how ignorant some people have to be to ask if ARMA III will be an XBOX 360 exlusive. Seriously?! Very little research is needed to tell you why that will never happen. Everytime I go into the Arma forums there are at least one relatively new user asking if ARMA can be made an XBOX exclusive or will be ported to the system. While this unto itself is not too bothersome, it is the sheer quantity of people creating whole threads asking and weakly trying to justify their reasoning!

Did you just reference Morbo? I love you.

OT: It's hard to match what has been said so far, but let me think...
ahhh yes I've got one: During some random conversations,
forget the context (probably something manly like shark wrestling or lightning boxing),
someone told me they had assumed I was gay.
Out of curiosity I asked them why they thought so.
Their reasoning? "Well you just acted really nice"*

I didn't know gays had a monopoly on niceness.
That seems greedy, I demand some of it back, along with a few rainbows!

Also, Does this mean I have to be a douche if I don't want women to assume I'm gay?

*Mild paraphrasing due to an inaccurate memory.

 

[mrdude2010]

"What's the chance of that happening?"
"Well, I'd say about 50% because it'll either happen or it won't."

 

[Dangit2019]

My English class was full of the stereotypical twi-tard, Bieber-worshiping idiots that people associate with today's youth. Here's a few gems:

"One Direction's just like the Beatles, only better!"

"Romeo and Juliet is stupid! Why don't we read Twilight?"

"Why are we even reading this story? Its all sad and depressing!"

I would go on, but I fear that more quotes would infringe on my fellow Escapists' sanity.

The bar's already hit the core, it can't go any lower, try me

"This Invisible Children thing is horrible! Why would I want to support child slavery?"

"Video games are so stupid, its just the same thing over and over!"

"All metal music sounds the same. It's just a bunch of idiots screaming into a microphone."

That one almost made me crack.

"If Justin Bieber's so untalented, then how can he play the guitar and sing at the same time?"

"Who's the Grateful Dead? Is that one of those Screamo bands?"

 

[Clearing the Eye]

"If we stop homosexuals from having children, there won't be any more homosexuals."

 

[solemnwar]

"If we stop homosexuals from having children, there won't be any more homosexuals."

..... but... that... NUUUUUUUUH
[sub]Hold me....[/sub]

 

[Clearing the Eye]

"If we stop homosexuals from having children, there won't be any more homosexuals."

..... but... that... NUUUUUUUUH
[sub]Hold me....[/sub]

Makes perfect logical sense, huh. Lol.

 

[[REDACTED]]

A while ago in science class, a student raised his hand during an explanation of the geocentric model and asked "So, uh, is this the system we've got now?"

I have no words.

 

[Alternative]

ooh i have a good one

in a different thread a user claimed that "Counter strike, portal, HL2, team fotress 2 and Left 4 Dead are all exactly the same game with some differences"

Spoiler: the actual quote

The problem i encounter with Valve? What do TF2, portal, half-life, counter strike and left 4 dead have in common. THEY ARE THE SAME DAMN GAME WITH 1 OR 2 DIFFERENCES.

 

[Saulkar]

Did you just reference Morbo? I love you.

I would never lower myself to that level PUNY HUMAN!

 

[R0cklobster]

In every single video on Youtube that references COD in anyway (paraphrasing here): "As a BF3 player I'm sooo much better and more mature than every single person who plays COD"

 

[Andy Beaumont]

I know a girl who genuinely thought that drinking alcohol every night meant you would not get pregnant. So at parties and on a holiday she is going on she is getting more drunk than usual, to try to stop getting pregnant. She doesn't like using condoms because they "feel funny" She won't even believe me about how wrong she is. Bear in mind she if going to Zante, for all you non-British this is an island in summer that just becomes dedicated to sex and alcohol by British teenagers...

The same girl also had an anorexia crisis recently when she didn't realise that the suggested calorie intake of 2000 was burned off by your body in daily life by things like walking, keeping yourself warm etc... She was going to the gym and getting very depressed because she was only losing like 150 calories an hour.... She actually collapsed at college.

 

[android88]

Also this girl.
There's no way someone that fucking stupid can function properly.

I started to read through her twitter posts, i have never hated a person that ive never met before except her.

she inspires rage in me like never before, if i ever met her i would kidnap her and torture her to death, slowly.

I thought it was just a troll but she put pictures up of herself in a room covered in Bieber posters and holding the CDs that she's bought.
Either it's a really determined troll, or they're using someone else's pictures.

Either way, she'd going to be so embarrassed when she looks back on this.

Its a troll aparantly, a lady gaga fan trying to give bieber fans a bad name.

European Bieber fans almost caused a national emergency in Nor way, almost forcing him to cancel one of his concerts. I think they are doing just fine on their own.

 

[Evilpigeon]

That's not how it works at all, and it will never work like that.

"Disarming the innocent does not protect the innocent". Or as I like to say, "DUH!"

Except that it does work like in many other countries, criminals are mostly disorganised and to get hold of a weapon with sufficient control and enforcement you have to be very well organised. And, you know what unless in your society is carrying around a handgun at all times, it's more likely that the attacker is going to be the one armed. You stand a much better chance of getting away from someone with a knife than a gun.

I understand that the US is perhaps too far down the rabbit hole for an immediate ban on guns to be effective but phasing them out over a long period of time could work.

There's a little less gun crime in places like here in Britain, but there's plenty of knife crime to make up for that.

I'd much prefer a situation where everyone is encouraged to have carry guns, with an amount of mandatory shooting, safety and situational training. A prospective criminal would think twice, because chances are every target is armed. People say that would just cause more death overall, but that's not necessarily true. If it's the common knowledge that everyone around you can protect themselves, it makes crime as a whole far, far less inviting and over time, there's a good chance it could lower hugely.

Plus I've always held the view that once someone (e.g. a mugger or rapist) puts someone else's base human rights secondary to their own personal wants, they sacrifice priority for their own rights. Fair is fair, after all.

And I have had many conversations with people who, if it weren't for carry weapons, wouldn't be able to safely go out alone at night. One of whom is an escapist here I won't mention because it would probably be quite rude to randomly throw her into this.

With or without weapons, people will find ways to at least have the ability to kill each other. Hell, I know how to kill someone with a damn newspaper. With that in mind, I much prefer a world where your bogstandard guy can protect himself.

Knife crime is much less deadly and it's much easier to escape, there's also less risk of your mugger simply attacking you (if you get caught by surprise, being armed is not a good thing, making the person with a weapon jumpy is in fact a very bad thing)

Hrmm how is the best way to explain this...

Okay, your first premise: Everyone is armed and trained in the use of a weapon. This means everyone with access to a gun, so both sides of the law. Or, in fact unless you make it mandatory to own a gun it'll go more like this; Your mugger will have a gun and there will be a % of the civilian population who're likely to be armed.

Now, how does premditated violent crime work?
You take your opponent by surprise, get the situation under control, get what you came for and get out.

So now, still on the criminal:

Your target is probably armed.

Your target is probably not armed.

Shooting someone and using a gun is a risk because it's loud and cam leave evidence so you aren't going to shoot someone lightly. But if they're armed then you have a risk that you probably need to take. Unless you're some sort of soldier or expecting the attack you're safer if your attacker thinks you're unarmed, hell scratch that, everyone is safer if the attacker thinks you're unarmed.

Guns are not good for self defence, it makes them too widely available and only the person who gets the jump on his opponent gets to make use of the weapon's range. Simply put, you can't run away from someone with a gun and honestly, from the defender's point of view a gun isn't going to be much more useful than, say a knife or pepper spray.

It's irrelevant that you can kill people anyway, deadliness is not black and white, it's more of a scale. A gun is an order of magnitude more deadly than necessary, arming both sides with something so powerful leads to unnecessary escalation and dramatically increases the chance that someone is going to die, essentially for reasons of history and national pride.

Your bogstandard guy stands a much, much better chance when weapons aren't involved.

 

[GenericAmerican]

The idiots saying that Arma should drop all the military stuff, and focus solely on DayZ. I've never seen a mod this popular, and I've never seen one draw in this many dumb players.

 

[MrHide-Patten]

"Why are you doing Psychology? Its a stupid science. Now lets look at your star signs." - My mum.

 

[Stuntcrab]

"Canadians aren't from Canada they're from Canadia."

I should listen to blondes more often, I might have something later.

"Wheres the ironsights?" -TF2 Free to plays mostly in a nutshell