Stupidity

boo boo · 07-31-2010, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt

"Wait, what's a Nazi again?"

Wow.

I had to explain to someone what an Inuit was the other day:

Me: "You're such an Inuit!"

Them: "What's an Inuit?"

Me: "Eskimo."

Them: "Oh."

Not on the same level as explaining what a Nazi is though.

Actually I wouldn't consider someone stupid at all if they didn't know what an Inuit was. I wasn't aware of the word until a few years ago, before that I just called them eskimos.

It's not really a word that pops up in everyday conversation. People I know rarely use specifics like that when referring to eskimos they're just eskimos.

TheCunningStunt · 07-31-2010, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

Actually I wouldn't consider someone stupid at all if they didn't know what an Inuit was. I wasn't aware of the word until a few years ago before that I just called them eskimos.

It's not really a word that pops up in everyday conversation. People I know rarely use specifics like that when referring to eskimos they're just eskimos.

Yeah, the girl I had the conversation with is pretty smart so it's not THAT stupid of her to not know, as like you say - it doesn't pop up a lot in conversation.

I thought it was slightly stupid though, I thought everyone knew what an Inuit was.

Dr.Seussicide · 07-31-2010, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Sounds like her and my ex-girlfriend should hang out.

+1 For intelligent conversion

mr dave · 07-31-2010, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

People probably just assumed I was stupid and well yeah, I am, but there's a biological reason for it. I'm pretty much mildly brain damaged.

now the real question is will you show the strength of character to overcome the disability and establish control over the issues they present to you? or will you just use it as a carte blanche to keep being a social misfit / instigator?

LoathsomePete · 07-31-2010, 12:51 PM

This is just kind of rubbing salt in a bloody gaping and potentially infected wound but I just found the timeline of when the mainstream radio faction went from "mostly sucking" to "sucking big time".

All you need to do is look at the track listing on the Big Shiny Tunes releases from 1996 to 2009. For those not aware, Big Shiny Tunes is a yearly Canadian compilation of what was most popular on the radio for that year. Because it's a Canadian publication there are a lot of bands who mostly got famous on Canadian radio but it's not exclusively Canadian.

Big Shiny Tunes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just look at the tracklistings on the wiki, from 1996 to 1999 it was pretty good, even 2000 was decent, but then look at the one from 2001...

**Janszoon** · 07-31-2010, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

This is just kind of rubbing salt in a bloody gaping and potentially infected wound but I just found the timeline of when the mainstream radio faction went from "mostly sucking" to "sucking big time".

All you need to do is look at the track listing on the Big Shiny Tunes releases from 1996 to 2009. For those not aware, Big Shiny Tunes is a yearly Canadian compilation of what was most popular on the radio for that year. Because it's a Canadian publication there are a lot of bands who mostly got famous on Canadian radio but it's not exclusively Canadian.

Big Shiny Tunes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just look at the tracklistings on the wiki, from 1996 to 1999 it was pretty good, even 2000 was decent, but then look at the one from 2001...

It looks fairly consistent to me.

LoathsomePete · 07-31-2010, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

It looks fairly consistent to me.

Consistently bad?

**Janszoon** · 07-31-2010, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

Consistently bad?

Consistently mediocre. It looked like there were a few okay songs and a bunch of crap on each one.

Raust · 07-31-2010, 01:01 PM

One of my friends is deathly afraid of spiders and we were playing hacky sack and it landed outside of this pine tree and we were freaking him out tell him there were spiders there and he said "You gotta dress like a spider, so they think your one of them..".

TheCunningStunt · 07-31-2010, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Raust

One of my friends is deathly afraid of spiders and we were playing hacky sack and it landed outside of this pine tree and we were freaking him out tell him there were spiders there and he said "You gotta dress like a spider, so they think your one of them..".

Isn't that just him making a joke? Rather than him being stupid.

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Raust Music Addict Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1,411	One of my friends is deathly afraid of spiders and we were playing hacky sack and it landed outside of this pine tree and we were freaking him out tell him there were spiders there and he said "You gotta dress like a spider, so they think your one of them..".