Where are all these "stupid people" that supposedly exist?

[Easton Dark]

People in my college class don't know Europe.

They were asked to point out Portugal. They pointed to Ireland.

Switzerland went to Poland.

I was one of two who knew what a "Lithuania" was.

 

[Product Placement]

Stupidity is often enough confused with differences in opinion.

I mean, how can you not support free health care? Are you stupid?

Alternatively:

You honestly want to waste tax money on a sub-par, government regulated, health care? How stupid can you get?

Both examples have reasonably good arguments to support cases. Allot of people feel it's grossly unfair to design a health care system that favors those that can afford an insurance, while there are those that don't trust that the government will do a good enough job to provide good service for everyone. Where you stand on the matter is usually based on personal experience, rather than actual intelligence.

P.S. Please don't use my post as an excuse to hijack this thread and turn it into a health care debate. I only picked that topic because it's something allot of people are familiar with and I kept it ambiguously neutral for a reason.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

Thats because I am the stupid people.
Yep. I'm all ofthem, at the same time.
Being everywhere is a tough job and I can't get to everyone sometimes. I'll be sure to visit you at east once in your lifetime.
Don't worry, plenty of stupid to go around.

Now to go complain about how government pollution is causing light diffraction.

 

[Dangit2019]

Maybe you're looking at this the wrong way. Maybe the reason you haven't seen/met any stupid people is because... YOU ARE THE STUPID PEOPLE!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!

IMPOSSIBEL!1

I R NOT STOOPID11!1!

OT: I've been wondering the same thing my whole life. I've assumed that I'm just living in an area devoid of absolutely stupid people, and that they're living somewhere else. So far that's my only guess.

 

[youdontbelong]

Have we so quickly forgotten G W Bush?

 

[lacktheknack]

Thats because I am the stupid people.
Yep. I'm all ofthem, at the same time.
Being everywhere is a tough job and I can't get to everyone sometimes. I'll be sure to visit you at east once in your lifetime.
Don't worry, plenty of stupid to go around.

Now to go complain about how government pollution is causing light diffraction.

So YOU'RE responsible for this?!

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SHAME ON YOU. D:<

 

[jollybarracuda]

Yah, there's not nearly as many complete idiots as society in general likes to act like there is. The problem is that, like a bad memory, a stupid person sticks out in our minds more than the countless people we come in contact with on an average day. Most people are fairly smart and many of the people that we like to call stupid are simply people with a different opinion than our own.

 

[uchytjes]

There really aren't that many "stupid" people out there, its just that when you see them, you REALLY see them. Most people block out your normal, everyday, mundane person but when we see someone who is acting stupid, we take notice and remember it. Its all just a matter of standing out.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

Thats because I am the stupid people.
Yep. I'm all ofthem, at the same time.
Being everywhere is a tough job and I can't get to everyone sometimes. I'll be sure to visit you at east once in your lifetime.
Don't worry, plenty of stupid to go around.

Now to go complain about how government pollution is causing light diffraction.

So YOU'RE responsible for this?!

<youtube=_c6HsiixFS8>

SHAME ON YOU. D:<

You sir, get a cookie.

What can I say? Spreading stupid is a hard job and making videos on the internet takes a load off of my work load.

I am also all of the lazy people in the world. Think you're lazy? Well then I'm sorry to say that you aren't really you, I';m really you. I'm/we're just too lazy to notice.

 

[SD-Fiend]

I forgot most of it but here is a line i remember from a kids book i ead years ago:
If you ask a scientist if they know how to pop a wheeie and they sayvno does that mean that they're stupid?
I say that because some people seem to bi in tbat school of thought.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

The Escapist forums.

You kidder, you.

OP: The weird thing is, you never really meet "stupid" people in real life very often. You mainly just hear about them on the news or on the internet.

My advice: keep that anti-stupid force field going. You don't want to put yourself through hell in order to meet a real stupid person. You're better off not knowing what they're like.

 

[Verkula]

Search for any movie that just came out in theaters, on torrent sites. You can find the stupid people there, downloading the "DVD/BD rips" of movies.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Spend some time working in tech support, you'll encounter a lot of stupid people there.

 

[Baron_Rouge]

I think it's just a whole group of people who want to feel better than average. That's why sites like Failbook exist, in my opinion. So we can all laugh at someone using the wrong "they're" or something and don't have to spend time realising "hold on, I'm wasting my time laughing at the grammatical errors of people I'll never meet". They're designed to play up and home in on stupid behaviour, so they probably give the impression that there's more out there than there is. In reality, it's just a lot of average people trying to feel like more by lowering the bar. Sad, but it's impossible that the majority of the population could be stupid; intelligence is kinda relative anyway, the way we measure it.

 

[Rack]

Most of the people in my office are quite bright, or at least average with moments of stupidity. But they're mostly graduates with good degrees so it's to be expected. My friends are quite bright but that's why they're my friends. Day to day I don't meet many people who are truly stupid. Doesn't mean they aren't out there though, go to the right places and I will see them in droves.

 

[pearcinator]

Stupid? Not really...

lacks common sense? Yes definitely.

shallow-minded? Yes.

doesn't understand things no matter how simple you explain it? Yes.

To me the above people are 'stupid' or 'dumb' but they aren't stupid people because they are clever in other ways...

 

[Charli]

...Probably off playing Farmville without a care in the world.