To think some people are so thick it’s almost beyond parody

[Annecydrone]

Photo on local history Facebook group. A beautiful Georgian mansion, taken in the 1930s. The post clearly explains that the mansion was demolished in the 1950s after a devastating fire destroyed most the structure, at which time it was in private hands. There’s a second photo of the shell of the building post-fire, clearly showing all but one wall standing.

Comments underneath include people
blaming the council for not preserving the mansion, demolishing it for “profit” at the behest of “developers” (despite the council not owing it, selling it or giving permission to build on it); how the failure to preserve the mansion was “woke” and shows the left’s disrespect for our heritage; several entirely serious posts about the land probably being used for a Mosque.

The land where it stood is still empty and still privately owned (as far as I can see).

Are people genuinely this stupid or are they keen to shoehorn their political views into literally anything?

Even on the Apprentice...they are meant to be budding entrepreneurs and half of them.cant do basic maths, dont know how to spell, don't have a clue sometimes about things that I would consider general knowledge.

Some people do not have the ability to read and article to the end. They see photos, read a bit and then construct a narrative. It's the curse of the smart phone .......

There's alot of thick people currently residing in prison.

I was behind a well dressed middle aged woman in the self checkout in Waitrose, she was getting help first to scan her thing, then couldn't find where to pay, literally a big button saying PAY NOW and kept pressing other buttons for gift vouchers etc. Ok it's fine, sometimes you can be a bit in your own world, but she was very entitled and pretty short with the staff who helped her.

I have not watched The Apprentice for years, but had to sit through an episode earlier this year because I had someone staying with me who wanted to watch it. It did very much seem like the intelligence and calibre of the contestants has dropped significantly as the show has became successful. There were certainly no Ruth Badgers in the current crop.

It’s rage bait to increase traffic

But that doesn't make her 'thick'

Maybe she just got confused with the technology. I was recently flummoxed at the Boots self checkout I was trying to SCAN my Boots card as per instructions and getting nowhere - when the assistant finally came to my rescue it seemed I had to insert my card in the device, not SCAN!

I have the card on my iPhone but it didn't recognise it 😬

I had a group of online friends who were all pretty educated and would have considered themselves intelligent. Covid exposed the extent to which they were totally unable to hold two ideas in their head at the same time. It horrified me tbh - these are people who are generally tasked with quite responsible jobs and yet their ability to reason something out seemed extremely limited.

We can poke fun at people who struggle to read all we like but to me it's the people who society bigs up as 'intelligent' who can be the more serious problem.

I know a lot of people who, on the face of it, are very intelligent with good degrees and great jobs, but they have absolutely no common sense at all, and can't even do basic things like their own laundry without it turning into a comedy of errors.

I suppose there are many different kinds of intelligence.

Apparently, 70% of activity on social media now is done by bots in bot farms. They generate huge amounts if money for the farms. The most profitable comments are hate comments.

sad.

The pick the candidates according to whether or not they will be good entertainment, though. There are always a lot of people with delusions of competence on that programme.

My favourite is online reviews when people say things like "not had it yet" or "it was a present for my next door neighbour's cousin's dog so don't know if it's any good" or comment on something completely different, i.e. "item is fine but the delivery driver called me a baldy twat so I've put 1 star" Okay that's unpleasant but also completely irrelevant to any of the people who are interested in purchasing the product and are highly unlikely to have it delivered by the same person!

It'll cant work out whether it's insane arrogance, i.e. the assumption that whatever they have to say is of interest even if completely irrelevant, or if they somehow feel that, if asked (by an automated email) they have to give a response rather than just ignoring it!

Exactly. It has nothing to do with business acumen. It's a reality TV programme with vaguely business-related comedy tasks. It is to business as Taskmaster is to 'navigating day to day life'.

I used to work with someone like this. She tried to mock me because I was catching up with what was in the budget speach on my break - her wxact words " Why are you looking at that shite, it doesnt concern you "

… but the pile on was right?

I genuinely don’t get your point.

I think the poster's point was that she was correct. 50% of the population are of below average intelligence. That's how averages work.

You're not wrong and Facebook is rife with comments like this.

You don't have to look long on a for sale page to find a "chester draws" 😂

We should have a separate thread- "What's the stupidest thing you've heard or read recently?"

You don’t have to look far on here for people calling drawers, draws.

But more useful than the published opening hours on the Post Office website.

Is that them just being too lazy to read the post? Happens hundreds of times a day on here "AIBU to give X punishment to my 16 year old DD who stayed out 15 minutes after her curfew"

First post: how old is your DD.

Second post: how long did she stay out after her curfew.

And on and on and on

I love ‘delusions of competence’!

They won’t have read it. People like that are only ever interested in shouting their views and happily ignore nuance and context to do so.

Yes I imagine so!

I couldn’t stand relying on a shop owner like that.

We've got some of those, there was a recent post about "immigrant mums on my road who do not talk to their babies in English, how will they cope when they start school" and ended with these words of wisdom "come on foreign mums talk to your babies in English". As if all these mums are going to be reading her post and think "oh I must do as Agnes on Facebook says" There was quite a pile on from people pointing out that a lot of children are bilingual which was reassuring to read but the OP responded by saying she was being picked on because she was disabled!

I don’t think some people have great general knowledge anymore or no interest in history