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!

or indicators???

One of my (most highly) educated friends managed to lose his car! He forgot where he parked it. I think sometimes common sense trumps intellectualism .

This seems the time to trot out my much-used anecdote of the client of DH's who when I fumbled printing out an invoice commented casually 'Don't worry. I usually find I am the smartest person in any room'.

And 'misspelled', LaQueen?

I think I'm relatively intelligent. I know plenty of people who are more clever than I am and plenty who aren't.

You're struggling with that one, try BOGOF.

Absolutely mind-blowing.

It may have been the " am I average thread" - I fit in a little better there.

DH was watching football once and I asked him if it was live. He said it was recorded. So then I asked him if it was live at the time of recording. (I had an off day, OK?)

Come on philoslothy. As claig says, that's s clever name. Surely you know what language they speak in Norway, you're just being disingenuous.

I get riled up by people on talk forums (no I am not saying fora, fuck off) saying que or cue when they mean queue. And the thickos who type should of, could of, would of.

I had someone in her 30s ask me once what happened to make people in first world war footage etc walk so jerkily, did they wear funny shoes or summit. I just looked at the silly cow.

Oh don't worry about it Phil, LaQ is plenty used to missing with thickos really.

We had a lovely intellectual chat earlier about the geography of England

I think I saw the name on another website, so not that clever - not that it is anyway.

I have never been to Norway , don't spend that much time thinking about Norway. I don't have an interest in linguistics - not modern languages anyway - so I didn't know.

Lots of people in Boots think they are getting something free and it's all fantastic bargain when they get those dozy 3 for 2 talcum powder sets.

They perhaps haven't thought that each individual set has been priced accordingly and that nobody is really getting anything 'free'

Well it's bloody obvious they don't speak Greek.

I thought 3 for 2 was buy three pay for 2. I clearly am very stupid .

I never said they spoke Greek.

Even someone as intellectually challenged as me knows that.

It has just struck me that when I googled " what language do they speak in Norway" that I actually didn't read the answer.

I have had the other side of the 3 for 2 - I wanted one thing. The counter assistant told me it was 3 for 2. I said I only wanted one. She didn't get it at all. Why would I pay for another item that I don't want just to get something 'free'?

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

I'm also assuming that they speak Swedish in Sweden and Danish in Denmark.

I also, like most people, know the capitals of countries that I've never visited or studied.

Some stuff everyone (or perhaps not after reading this thread) just knows, but can't say exactly how they know - it's called general knowledge.

I love that this has become about what language they speak in Norway.

Re: the reverse of 3 for 2. I was buying an Estée Lauder perfume. The shop assistant was pushing a £50 hamper of other stuff that 'really costs in excess of £200' etc. No! I told her the lipsticks and blusters are not my colours, I'm not interested.