To wonder why so many people are so inexplicably stupid?

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I saw a comment by someone in another thread that said ''People don't think that a bank cashier is a banker, do they?'' and it has set me off on a Major League Rant (not aimed at the person who wrote that, but at people who DO think exactly that.)

My fella used to be a cashier at a bank for years before he got promoted. EVERY SINGLE DAY, without fail, he'd get moronic customers moaning at him for being a ''banker on a massive bonus''. He was a cashier on minimum wage, and even the bank managers didn't get the ridiculous sort of bonuses these imbeciles were on about.

I asked around and it seems that cashiers at various banks get this crap all the time.

What sort of moron really believes that a bank cashier is a millionaire banker? Why are so many people so dim?

...AND BREATHE!

As OhSodOff implies, what else would they speak in Norway ?

Well it depends on when in history you are talking, if under Danish rule then Danish, under Swedish rule Swedish.

There is quite a lot of politics in Linguistics, depending on who is in power often defines whether something is a language or a dialect.

Or whether a language is called one thing or another, so a language with very few differences is known as Flemish, Dutch or Afrikaans, for political rather than linguistic reasons.

Officers in the Belgian army speak to each other in English, if you don't speak English you can't be an officer.

yeah, but if you ask a Norwegian what language they speak, they would say "Norwegian" (and would have said that 50 years ago too)

I think there's also a big difference between ignorance and just having those wierd little things you can quite remember never remember/random malpropisms

Like in my first week at university (when obviously, you're still trying to impress people) where I confused coup (d'etats) and kiwi birds. So my seminar group was talking about a coup in Fiji, and I decided to pipe up with 'no the coup comes from New Zealand' (International Relations degree, just to make it even more cringy for me).

this has made me giggle.