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 beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so too is stupidity.

Laughing my ass off at the posters who think that being intelligent is something they achieved rather than were given, and that makes them somehow superior.

The brilliant thing about mumsnet is in about ten minutes a linguistic genius will come on and say 'ACTUALLY Norwegian is one of the only indo-Germanic languages to contain elements of Sanskrit so it's actually not a language of its own so to speak, but is actually a derivative of Lithuanian, so Norwegian as a discrete language doesn't actually exist per se. So you're ALL fucking wrong, thick bastardos'.

I am not googling again. Do they speak Norwegian? If so I can join the clever bench because that it was what I would say. But did someone not lost above that there was no such lanaguage.

I am starting to get obsessed, I may have to call eldest DS down from his bedroom because he will know this.

Or some such bollocks.

We do get rather a lot of Scandinavian visitors up this way but these days they come on the ferry instead of in longships.

I always think people who live in the outer Scottish Islands sound Scandinavian.

I always though Magnus magnusson was from Norway not Scotland because of is.

HANG ON. Is he? I don't know. He could be the King of Oslo for all I know.

Pippi - is that the Swedish for PippiLongstocking?

He is fucking ICELANDIC!

Well now I need to shut the fuck up and go to Asda.

Yes, 99.99% of people would agree that they speak Norwegian in Norway.

There might be 0.01% of people that believe what ohsodoff descibes above :)

I am a Geordie, should I now feel more ashamed.

Norwegian is the language spoken in Norway. Unlike the other Scandinavian languages, it has two official written forms; bokmål and nynorsk. So there is some extra Norwegian trivia for you...

Are Norwegian jumpers from Norway? What about Norwegian wood? Norwegian scabies?

Phil they do speak norgwegian, I don't know any Norwegian words though.

I do speak bloody good Danish though.

Tak!
Troels!
Nanna Birk Larssen!

A surprising number of people in the UK seem to believe that in Denmark they speak Dutch...

But people should google stuff. We can't all know everything and while I'm sometimes annoyed by people's ignorance, I realise there are things I don't know too.

What does my NUT in is perfectly intelligent, computer-literate people emailing me or generally bugging me to ask me questions that they could simply fucking google!

"How do you spell pionneer, it is pioneer or pionneer?" in a blardy email that took far longer to write than simply GOOGLING it or even look it up in a dictionary if you must!

"It's not my fault I got lost, you said the west side of the square and I don't really know what west means" Look it up you idiot, it would take 30 seconds on your phone!

"Uhhhh, how do I find a painter and decorator? How do I get referred to a specialist for blah de blah? What is that song that goes "blah this or that" that I heard on the radio in a shop, do you know?" FFS. Is my name Mrs Oracle? No! But there is this wonderful thing, called Google, that can help you!

And people phoning me to bemoan that they haven't got my email address. Then not listening and getting it wrong them phoning me again. I have a work website. My email address is on there. They all know this. I have an unusual name. If they google me the first page that comes up is my website and they simply need to click on my email address and not even have to type it out. So GOOOOOOOGLE IT!!!!!

Gahhhhhh.

I TOLD YOU in ten minutes someone with specific knowledge of the Norwegian language would come on this thread and wow us all.

see!

SEE!

Norwegian jumpers are indeed from Norway. But they should not be confused with Icelandic jumpers or Faroese jumpers, for that matter.

Norwegian Wood is a music festival in Oslo in June every year.

Norwegian scabies I have no confess ignorance about.

to not no

My ex thought Pakistan was in India. We had a row about it cos he thought he was right and was calling ME stupid.

My 14 year old was , Even he knows basic geography.

Ex is not very bright!

In fairness, I worked with a Norwegian guy for years and I'm starting to doubt what language he spoke now

How do you ask for a Danish pastry in Copenhagen?

Or a Swiss roll in Zurich?

Do they call duvet farts a Dutch oven in Antwerp?

You were right!

Phil, I'm a kind of Geordie.

wienerbrød

Add message | Report | Message poster Pippilangstrompe Sat 16-Nov-13 18:54:56
Norwegian is the language spoken in Norway. Unlike the other Scandinavian languages, it has two official written forms; bokmål and nynorsk. So there is some extra Norwegian trivia for you...

is I was right in my assumption that people in Norway spoke Norwegian, so I am an intellectual. Do I get a badge and everything?

I found the bokmal and Nynorsk facts on my google search. I feel the need to go to a pub quiz now.

Wiener brod?

Is that Vienna bread?

What about Viennese whirls then smartarse