To think a lot of people are completely stupid?

[blaisealex]

Someone posted a photo on a Facebook group of a Fabulosa product that is mean to keep artificial lawn clean and smelling nice. Said product is rammed full of toxic chemicals that are harmful to humans, animals and the environment. Hundreds of comments of people praising the product, tagging their mates in it. Lots of people going to be buying it, damaging the environment, probably harming their cats and dogs in the process. So bloody stupid. This cleaning craze of fabulosa and zeflora is beyond stupid.

Saw another post where people where complaining about paper straws and posting links of where others could purchase plastic straws. I mean, sure, I preferred plastic straws. They didn't go soggy and disintegrate half way through a drink but really, it's a small sacrifice to make. It's stupid and selfish.

Spoke to several people recently, ages varying between 20s and late 50s. None of them aware of who the suffragettes were.

So AIBU to think that so many people really are just stupid?

I might be a bit stupid because I don't really understand artificial lawns. And Zoflora reeks.

But I get points back for knowing about the suffragettes and that single use plastic is not great.

@CiaoForNiao

I don't know if its so much that people are thick as they just don't care. A lot of my close family drive massive cars, use fabulosa/zoflora by the gallon, don't recycle anything. Because as far as they are concerned they'll be dead by the time the planet is ruined so who cares. :(

So maybe the OP should say "To think a lot of people are either completely stupid, or wankers?"

OP - you're not wrong, a large proportion of the population is made up of people who really aren't that bright.

Some things are down to ignorance or lack of exposure to certain information, but other things are down to people lacking the intelligence to have any curiosity about the world. A middle aged woman who has grown up in the UK and has no idea who the sufragettes were is more than just ignorant, she must be someone who doesn't read books, doesn't read the news, and doesn't demonstrate any interest or curiosity about history at all. The suffragettes are referenced in so many cultural sources they're pretty hard to miss (as a pp said - they're in bloody Mary Poppins).

@TheMarzipanDildo

I do think you have to be pretty blind to the world around you not to have heard of the suffragettes. Also I think most people are talking about the suffragettes rather than suffragists when they say suffragettes because the suffragettes were the exciting lot you learn about in school.

Agreed on both counts!

I think the knowledge and intelligence of the average man on the street has actually increased over the past century or so thanks to education being mandated until the age of 18.

However, I do think people in general are quite self-centred (e.g. don't care about the effect plastic straws have on the environment and wildlife). Whether that's changed over the past few decades, I have no idea...

Wow talk about being judgemental

So glad you are not a friend of mine

yes, there are a lot of stupid people and I mean those who excercise willful ignorance.
they seem to be too lazy or thick to learn and can't even accept basic facts, like the Earth is not a flat disc🙄

it's painful to encounter

Off you go to polish your oh so superior halo
OP. You must be so proud of yourself!

@PinkiOcelot

Off you go to polish your oh so superior halo OP. You must be so proud of yourself!

Oh, damn. I wasn't given a halo. Just a set of horns. But I am rather fond of them. They keep themselves polished.

@massiveportion

Yes OP. You're so special and clever and unique. Thank you for blessing this plebeian corner of the internet with your knowledge and wisdom. 🙏

You're very welcome.

@Chicchicchicchiclana

The number of parents on my local FB group who buy helium balloons or even worse massive balloon arches just for bubba's first birthday (or actually any reason at all) honestly shocks me. How can they not know??

Is this an environmental point? Because I totally agree if so. It’s just unnecessary excess and the kind of thing future generations will judge hard.

I have never heard of fabulosa though so maybe I would be one of those people in the unlikely event I ever get an artificial lawn.

@Chicchicchicchiclana

Also, I was at a beautiful place today (English heritage site) and saw an empty pouch of Ella's baby food just left on a path. You don't come more stupid than that.

Oh, that's grim. I work for EH. The litter at the end of the day is always absolutely awful.

Yes, litter and no interest in the environment upsets me

Yep, I agree. Loads of people are thick as mince, and dicks too.

@Chicchicchicchiclana

Also, I was at a beautiful place today (English heritage site) and saw an empty pouch of Ella's baby food just left on a path. You don't come more stupid than that.

@Chicchicchicchiclana

it's lazy and stupid. and terrible manners.

Wait, is zoflora stupid??

I think the Mrs Hinch thing was a bit OTT

Everyone is an ignorant. We just ignore different things. Most of us also have knowledge on specific areas or skills that are above average in certain fields.

People who believe they have above average knowledge on everything tend to be the most ignorant. They have no understanding of their own ignorance.

My mother would not know anything about the examples you mentioned. I am sure you are not more knowledgeable than her. There is so much she has learnt from being a migrant in Franco's time, being a domestic live-in worker in two different countries (speaks three languages too) before she was 30. I am sure she could ask you plenty of questions for which you would have no answer.

You've got several aspects to your complaint.

1. Artificial lawn. Yeah, I judge people who think it's better/cleaner than a lawn without a medical reason for needing it (or living on the 12th floor and want something on the balcony that isn't grey concrete) - but then again, my next door neighbour has one because her garden is permanently in shade from buildings, so grass doesn't actually grow in it and she wants her kids to play on something other than bare earth, occasional dandelions, green alkanet and thistles.

1. Cleaning products - a mixture of not knowing or not caring.

1. Suffragettes. Well, you'd either have had to see Mary Poppins before it was released on video/DVD (which I hadn't until I was an adult, it was all tiny clips on TV on Bank Holidays) or had a teacher who decided to cover the subject out of the options on the History syllabus (which I did).

1. Plastic straws. True, 'normal' people don't need them. But many disabled people do, as they are safe, hygienic, lightweight and not the disgusting texture of paper ones nor do they pose a risk of serious injury as the metal or bamboo ones do. Knowing about one but not knowing about the other doesn't necessarily mean the person complaining about plastic is thick, they just haven't learned about the many varying needs of disabled people.

Not sure if lots of people are stupid. Suspect lots just don’t care, though. Which is worse, really

Yanbu. Every time I begin to have faith in the intelligence of people I come back on the internet and have it snatched away again.

Wait, is zoflora stupid??

Well I tried to teach mine the alphabet, but it was having none of it.

Very brave of you to call them out for their "stupidity" on an entirely different website that they won't read .

Someone blocked me on Instagram earlier today because I said I preferred to get my vaccine info from peer-reviewed medical journals rather than some dude’s blog 👌

I think the Internet has made things much worse in terms of uniting people with stupid ideas.

Cleaning products - a mixture of not knowing or not caring

Or just having a different opinion.