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!

Yes, I like to think the best of people. It is sad if they believe this for real.

Not everyone working for charities rakes in millions, people do need to live though. Also, accountants, social workers, etc studied hard. Why should they work for free?

If it's full-time employment, you should get paid.

Hellokitty - what, no workhouse? No working for 'the experience'? Tell that to Davey and his lot.

Agree, Sooty.

The young are no longer giving as much to charities. They don't explain the reasons why.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2206972/Young-charity-Call-donations-30s-grandparents-continue-hand-most.html

I was behind a woman in my local Tesco Metro yesterday who was ranting at the cashier about the price of cigarettes - really ranting. "WHY are they more expensive here? WHO put the prices up? Absolutely disgraceful..." and so on.

I don't know the answers to those questions - but I know who it wasn't. The cashier behind the till.

People are very stupid and very unfair.

Perhaps 'the young' don't have the cash? What with paying for their education and stuff?

Yeah some people really are that thick. Actors who play nasty characters in soaps often get abused in the street by people who can't separate fiction from real life.

If you "work for the experience" for 2 hours per week, fine.

Try 7 years, 7 days per week. Not easy at times, but I don't regret it.

'Perhaps 'the young' don't have the cash?'

I don't think that is the reason. I doubt that contributions will go up as these young people age and become wealthier.

The world has a limitless supply of stupidity.

People say "I don't follow the news or anything like that..."
but they all follow some of it and are not as unaware as they pretend.
Blair was disliked by many people who say "I don't follow the news or anything like that..."

Some people are just irredeemably stupid: like the ones who say teachers should have their training days in the holidays and stop causing childcare problems.

My mum says that. She was a teacher for 30 years, so I respect her opinion on the subject. My husband agrees with her. He is a teacher (although he would rather get rid of the inset days altogether, to be fair).

I really can't see the problem with the statement so I guess my family are irredeemably stupid. I blame the teachers

Yes, most people really are stupid. I'm amazed some of them can remember how to breathe.

Having had some experiences recently of incredibly stupid people, I've started having some sympathies for the pioneers of Eugenics. It really is quite worrying that some of these people will have children.

Claig - so perhaps more cynical only? We don't know how they'll grow up to be in the future but if the older generation don't look after the younger ones, can you blame younger ones doing the same? Again, see paying for education.

Fanjo

Are you aware there is an extremely offensive word in your OP. I haven't reported as I believe you are unaware.
Nothing to say about bankers, but please don't use the word Im*** again. Many thanks

Anyone who was a teacher for 30 years should be aware that INSET days came out of teachers' holidays in the first place and pupils' time in school was unchanged.

LCHammer, I was going to say the same thing. I know many backpackers who volunteer though.

Reminds me of another thing I hear constantly. People think being an expat is the same as traveling... Believe me, it isn't!

Sorry, wrong word, but the m word is just as offensive.

Yes, the young are more cynical because they know more. They says "I don't follow the news or anything like that...", but they read enough to know what is going on with politicians and society etc. Very few of them are really stupid. There is more information available now with the internet, there is more communication and chatting with forums and facebook and the word about what is going on spreads much faster.

People now know more and the scales have fallen from their eyes and that is why they are more cynical and less trusting because they know what is in the papers and in the news and on facebook.

Yes indeed some people really are that stupid. I have worked for charities all my working life and have been told that I ought to be working for free and that people will not give to charities because of the overheads. FFS, I was a specialist and never worked much over the average salary.

I am ashamed to admit that someone close to me who I love thinks that public sector workers are net diminishers not net contributers to the tax system, because their wages are paid for out of tax. Sigh. It is a fight we have had many times and it depletes me.

I had to sit in the office at work yesterday listening to a very stupid loud relative proclaim that the victims of the Philippines disaster shouldn't receive any help because if somebody lost their home in this country, it wouldn't be replaced for them!

How I stopped myself from going out and ripping his hair out I don't know

Anyone who was a teacher for 30 years should be aware that INSET days came out of teachers' holidays in the first place and pupils' time in school was unchanged.

But not get them all done in a week during the school holidays & not cause disruption in term time & inconvenience to working parents & their children? Sorry, not seeing the stupidness of resenting inset days in term time.

When did INSET days start. I don't remember them when I was at school. But that was in 1906 mind!