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!

Maybe they don't call him the Bard nowadays. Try The Dude?

I googled, I know where I am not wanted. Maybe I should of back to the " is anyone average thread" although maybe they won't want me either.

"Only 2 things are infinite. The universe and human stupidity."

Yesterday I sat next to two of my colleagues, higher educated, senior, well paid, talking excitedly about I'm a Celebrity - I wanted to fucking shoot myself.

Iknow that people can be just plain daft or just not thinking straight.

My BIL has an interest only mortgage. A number of years ago he got a letter saying that there is likely to be a shortfall so the twit sold the endownment and went on a very nice holiday with the family and is paying much much less now than people with a repayment mortgage.

When I mentioned that if he has interest only with no way of paying back he would have to sell the house or similar he said the GOVERNMENT would sort it out and it wasnt his issue. Sort of a mis selling issue with nice holiday thrown in...

I have never claimed to be intellectual, I clearly fall very short of your standards .

LaQueen - imagine the perplexity of coming across the saying 'to be more Catholic than the Pope'. Don't get paranoid. You're right and morons are wrong.

Oh there are a lot of ignoramuses out there.

Or ignorami (?)

I don't think a bit of general knowledge makes someone an intellectual.

I remember when I was 10 years old, laughing myself hoarse when my childminder's daughter (who was 16 and had just been awarded 7 GCSEs) asked, ''Isn't Austria in Australia?''

When I moved to The States there was no shortage of kids in my class asking me ''What language do you speak in England?'' among other equally daft questions!

I had a colleague (English teacher) who wanted to do a spelling test by writing the words on the board. A parent who refused to come to see the school play "Oliver" because she didn't want to be dragged up on stage for the sing song. (Usual only in Panto). A pupil who asked if a Shakespeare film we were watching had been made in Shakespeare's time (she is 14 and has been studying Shakespeare for at least 3 years).

I really don't think the language thing is all that obvious. I live in a country where we speak a language named for an entirely different country.

'I live in a country where we speak a language named for an entirely different country.'

Austria?

I think stupidity is quite sad.

Stupidity plus nastiness is actually quite chilling and I feel for your DH, OP.

My DP works in a Blockbuster and recently has also had to endure all sorts of stupidity and nastiness. Eg, " you've got to do me a deal ( on this games console where they are already sold as loss leaders) because you are bankrupt.

Erm, yes because my minimum wage earning DP has the authority to make decisions like that all the time, and especially when the business is in the hands of Administrators.

Some people are just insensitive dickheads, stupid or not.

I meant the language Austria.

Scone - I have to disagree with the example given. Norway is close. It's a small but not obscure country. I can't think of many excuses why you wouldn't know they have their own language.

Someone I knew in their last year of a law degree whose dissertation was about medical ethics thought (when I asked her something about the GMC) that it was something to do with genetically modified food.
She also didn't know who Michael Mansfield was.

I saw people abusing the staff in HMV over the gift vouchers not being honoured last year - really not their fault, plus they were all set to lose their jobs.

Sometimes it isn't just stupidity. Sometimes it is being a complete and utter twat.

'She also didn't know who Michael Mansfield was.'

You can't expect her to know every footballer.

I do know Norway has its own language.

I was making a (maybe feeble?) joke about living in a country where the language is named for a different country. Hint: we know who Barack Obama is.

Sometimes it isn't just stupidity. Sometimes it is being a complete and utter twat.

^^That is it really.

Add message | Report | Message poster LCHammer Sat 16-Nov-13 16:49:04
Scone - I have to disagree with the example given. Norway is close. It's a small but not obscure country. I can't think of many excuses why you wouldn't know they have their own language.

So I am not just thick, I am inexcusably thick. I love this place.

claig :o