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What automatically makes you think people are idiots?

965 replies

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 05/02/2026 16:00

For me it’s:

people who think that Michael Jackson isn’t a pedophile.

people who say things like “Londanistan” “Bradfordistan”

People who say “If the Holocaust is real, why do the tattoo numbers only go up to 5 digits”

OP posts:
dizzydizzydizzy · 05/02/2026 18:39

FlyingApple · 05/02/2026 18:23

When posters keep attacking one person and there's several joining in. Gross.

Yes that happened to me. It was 6 or 8 against 1. It was nasty. I wouldn't have minded if the replies had been calm and factual but they were all emotionally-charged, mocking and implying I was stupid. It's amazing how nasty people can be behind the anonymity of their user names.

Womaninhouse17 · 05/02/2026 18:40

Massive lips due to lip fillers.

BigAnne · 05/02/2026 18:40

People who drink/phone and drive
Leery men
Not picking up dog shit
Not using sun cream
Racists
Exists
Love Island fans

BigAnne · 05/02/2026 18:41

BigAnne · 05/02/2026 18:40

People who drink/phone and drive
Leery men
Not picking up dog shit
Not using sun cream
Racists
Exists
Love Island fans

*sexists

FairKoala · 05/02/2026 18:42

mindutopia · 05/02/2026 16:04

Conspiracy theorists

Transphobia

I have a few friends who home educate and are very vocal about it on social media. They can just about form a sentence. I despair for their poor children being denied a decent education by parents who can’t even use punctuation.

Tbh I pulled DS out of school because he wasn’t actually getting an education in school.

What you have to realise about quite a few Home Ed parents is they have tried school and if your child needs extra help because of SEN then getting a school to help them can be a losing battle.
The school will deny and deny there is an issue
Going to school doesn’t equal getting an education.

I know that for some parents school is great and has helped their SEN child but for a lot of parents this isn’t the case.

Ds’s teacher told me it was unfair on ds being in a main stream primary
They told me he needed a Special School and he would never be able to look after himself and would need 24 hour care.

This was based on DS’s end of year 3 exams where he scored 0

Because he couldn’t read the questions

Apparently not being able to read wasn’t an excuse for not answering the questions on the test.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 05/02/2026 18:43

BowLeeBee · 05/02/2026 18:36

People who wear white gym socks over leggings. Looks dumb.
People who wear the massive black glasses in vogue now. Looks cartoonish and dumb.
People who have big feet (especially men with hairy feet) who wear sandals. Looks like Hobbit feet and dumb.
People who lift weights so that they develop huge bum and thigh muscles (mostly women). Looks dumb and cartoonish.

Edited

You seem very concerned about how others look.

MaidOfSteel · 05/02/2026 18:44

People who call others stupid or thick, uneducated etc etc simply because they have different opinions to their own.

Bertiebiscuit · 05/02/2026 18:44

And people who wear those annoying black and white scarves like some badge of right-on ness but couldn't possibly tell you why

sofiamofia · 05/02/2026 18:44

People that say "me thinks"

Posters who say "ok OP, I'll bite" on pg 3 of a thread.

People who decide something doesn't work in their life and so is a complete disaster for the whole world, e.g people who don't like electric cars

RhubarbCrumble12345 · 05/02/2026 18:44

Currently it's the amount of people spelling "aisle" as "isle" .... I have seen it from people who work in the music industry playing wedding music and a primary teacher influencer recently. It is driving me beyond insane!!

BitOutOfPractice · 05/02/2026 18:45

People who say “I’m voting reform next time”

AJTommo · 05/02/2026 18:45

Blacked out windscreens & popping exhausts

PonkyPonky · 05/02/2026 18:47

People that write no when they mean know.
Anyone who gets their/there/they’re wrong.

pinkpanther84 · 05/02/2026 18:48

Reform supporters
brexit voters
daily mail readers
People who watch Mrs brown’s boys
basically my parents in law then!

HonoraBridge · 05/02/2026 18:48

People who;

  • get information from the TV/MSM
  • are fully jabbed
  • believe there is real democracy in the UK
  • think that the Labour Party cares about working people
  • believe in the climate change scam and net zero
  • declare their pronouns
  • believe that women can become men and vice versa
  • think that drag queen story time for children is all innocent and lovely
  • think that Biden and Obama were great presidents and that Harris would have been super

The lists goes on and on. You get the idea.

dannyufcfan · 05/02/2026 18:48

Anti Vax

SidewaysOtter · 05/02/2026 18:49

Pronouns in email signatures.

pictoosh · 05/02/2026 18:49

Horrible thread really but I'll bite, seeing as I'm in a black mood.

Blending families after dating for six months.

Being sucked in by an MLM scheme.

Believing in ghosts and general woo.

Women with soldier/Armed Forces fetishes.

Passing on unsubstantiated gossip as though gospel truth.

Looking up to the Royal Family.

Changedmynameagain20 · 05/02/2026 18:49

People who accuse theists of believing in a "sky fairy".

Widowwith2 · 05/02/2026 18:50

Drink drivers
People who support trump
Snobs who think they are better than everyone
Mean girls at school who continue it in to the primary school of there kids

Abhannmor · 05/02/2026 18:50

People who can't spell paedophile. Only kidding. But American spelling annoys me ... irrational I know.

Lifeomars · 05/02/2026 18:50

People who think London is a violent hell hole despite not having been there for years if at all. I have family who live there and I visit regularly and have never been robbed or stabbed, neither have any of my relatives. There are areas I would aviod but that is equally applicable to all cities.

Womaninhouse17 · 05/02/2026 18:51

@HonoraBridge People who aren't fully jabbed are the idiots. Fancy not taking advantage of something free that not only benefits you but also benefits the whole community. (And has probably already benefitted you if you haven't caught polio.)

Frugalgal · 05/02/2026 18:51

HonoraBridge · 05/02/2026 18:48

People who;

  • get information from the TV/MSM
  • are fully jabbed
  • believe there is real democracy in the UK
  • think that the Labour Party cares about working people
  • believe in the climate change scam and net zero
  • declare their pronouns
  • believe that women can become men and vice versa
  • think that drag queen story time for children is all innocent and lovely
  • think that Biden and Obama were great presidents and that Harris would have been super

The lists goes on and on. You get the idea.

Christ 🙄

AInightingale · 05/02/2026 18:52

Anyone using the phrase 'non-binary'. I mean, if there's a third option, it's not a fucking binary.