(OT) Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people...
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Norfleet
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I have come to believe that searching for intelligent life in the universe is a fruitless endeavor. It's hard enough to find it on Earth, and given the trend where stupid people rapidly outbreed smart people, I've concluded that intelligence has absolutely no survival value and the fact that humans evolved at all is a complete and utter fluke. Only one species on the Earth has evolved to this level, and is rapidly going for a "back to basics" approach.
I suppose this trend could be slowed somewhat if we took the warning labels off of everything. Many people really are just too stupid to live. I laugh at the sheer absurdity of it when I hear somebody blather about how human life is precious, and how trading lives for a certain non-renewable resource is a bad idea. People are a renewable resource, one which we clearly have too much of. The amount of intelligence in the universe clearly grows at a slower rate, if at all, than the population of people does.
I suppose this trend could be slowed somewhat if we took the warning labels off of everything. Many people really are just too stupid to live. I laugh at the sheer absurdity of it when I hear somebody blather about how human life is precious, and how trading lives for a certain non-renewable resource is a bad idea. People are a renewable resource, one which we clearly have too much of. The amount of intelligence in the universe clearly grows at a slower rate, if at all, than the population of people does.
Marius Delphus
Adventurer
Too many would survive long enough to whine and moan about the whole warning labels thing though, and we'd be back to square one. 
Otherwise, I nod in agreement. (nods in agreement)
Otherwise, I nod in agreement. (nods in agreement)
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Eosin the Red
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If you think morons call up tech support frequently with queer problems - you should try providing medical advice to the general public on the phone.
"Yes sir, that is correct. You may not use deep heating rub in your rectum. I believe that medically we do consider that internal use....so that part about internal use, you should read it as "Do Not Stick in Rectum or any other orafice for that matter."
"I will try to explain this as simply as I can sir. You have shot up bad ****. It is contaminated with lye or another base material and it is destroying the tissue in your arm - that is why it is as big as your leg. It could be really, REALLY serious. I know that you said you do not want to visit the hospital but there is nothing to do at home.."..."What?" "No sir, tylenol is not really going to help."
I won't even touch some of the real weirdos who are worthy of our nations fine mental institutions but have somehow managed to survive and elude them into adulthood.
I often say, "My job is standing between Darwin and the huddled masses."
Having knocked them - I will add, most people have honest questions and legitimate concerns --- that wacky 5% can really get to you once in awhile.
"Yes sir, that is correct. You may not use deep heating rub in your rectum. I believe that medically we do consider that internal use....so that part about internal use, you should read it as "Do Not Stick in Rectum or any other orafice for that matter."
"I will try to explain this as simply as I can sir. You have shot up bad ****. It is contaminated with lye or another base material and it is destroying the tissue in your arm - that is why it is as big as your leg. It could be really, REALLY serious. I know that you said you do not want to visit the hospital but there is nothing to do at home.."..."What?" "No sir, tylenol is not really going to help."
I won't even touch some of the real weirdos who are worthy of our nations fine mental institutions but have somehow managed to survive and elude them into adulthood.
I often say, "My job is standing between Darwin and the huddled masses."
Having knocked them - I will add, most people have honest questions and legitimate concerns --- that wacky 5% can really get to you once in awhile.
orbitalfreak
Explorer
We're not always sharp, are we? A few years back, my mom showed me an e-mail joke she had received entitled "You know you're from Louisiana if...", in a similar vein to Jeff Foxworthy's famous "You might be a Redneck if..." routine. Anyway, the "Louisiana" joke included the following snippet:
I (having graduated high school a week before) turned to her and said, in absolute sincerity, "It's not?"
Oh well, I still laugh at the people who staple the labels to their floppys.
I (having graduated high school a week before) turned to her and said, in absolute sincerity, "It's not?"
Oh well, I still laugh at the people who staple the labels to their floppys.
barsoomcore
Unattainable Ideal
Being at least as stupid as the next guy, and generally about twice as ignorant, I don't usually get involved "aren't people stupid" discussions, but the Bram Stoker/Anne Rice one reminded me of something the director of "Dracula 2000" said in an interview.
Now, D2000 is not by any stretch of the imagination the worst film it could possibly have been. Frankly, it's not even as bad as it arguably SHOULD have been, with a title like that. It's not great, but it has a sense of humour, some clever bits in the fight scenes, a couple of solid performances and a genuinely new idea about everybody's favourite Transylvanian. Which makes him, er, Jewish, but never mind.
Thing is, I didn't get the impression when I watched the film that it was made by morons. Rather, it feels like it was made by reasonably intelligent people with some talent, not a lot of money and maybe not quite as much attention to detail as the film really needed. But anyways. I digress.
So on the DVD there's the obligatory "behind-the-scenes" "featurette" (whoever came up with that word needs to be locked in a room with Martha Stewart reading Ayn Rand novels) with all the breathless hoo-hah about how visionary they all are and such (I want my first DVD's "featurette" to feature my wife and sitting in our PJ's saying things like, "Nah, we didn't have any vision. Universal offered us 2 million so once that was gone we realised we had to shoot something to give them, so we made something up and... hey, are there any more Twinkies?").
And so the director comes on and he's babbling, I mean, just outright babbling about nipple piercing and goth clubs and he says, "And so I realised, you know, that really, this has become a huge cultural phenomenon."
He's talking about Dracula. He thinks Dracula has become a huge cultural phenomenon. Really.
What could have tipped him off, I wonder? Maybe the fact that a novel written 150 years ago remains popular today? Or perhaps there's the endless run of movies about this character? Plastic fangs for Hallowe'en? Honestly.
Dracula's a huge cultural phenomenon. Go tell your friends.
Now, D2000 is not by any stretch of the imagination the worst film it could possibly have been. Frankly, it's not even as bad as it arguably SHOULD have been, with a title like that. It's not great, but it has a sense of humour, some clever bits in the fight scenes, a couple of solid performances and a genuinely new idea about everybody's favourite Transylvanian. Which makes him, er, Jewish, but never mind.
Thing is, I didn't get the impression when I watched the film that it was made by morons. Rather, it feels like it was made by reasonably intelligent people with some talent, not a lot of money and maybe not quite as much attention to detail as the film really needed. But anyways. I digress.
So on the DVD there's the obligatory "behind-the-scenes" "featurette" (whoever came up with that word needs to be locked in a room with Martha Stewart reading Ayn Rand novels) with all the breathless hoo-hah about how visionary they all are and such (I want my first DVD's "featurette" to feature my wife and sitting in our PJ's saying things like, "Nah, we didn't have any vision. Universal offered us 2 million so once that was gone we realised we had to shoot something to give them, so we made something up and... hey, are there any more Twinkies?").
And so the director comes on and he's babbling, I mean, just outright babbling about nipple piercing and goth clubs and he says, "And so I realised, you know, that really, this has become a huge cultural phenomenon."
He's talking about Dracula. He thinks Dracula has become a huge cultural phenomenon. Really.
What could have tipped him off, I wonder? Maybe the fact that a novel written 150 years ago remains popular today? Or perhaps there's the endless run of movies about this character? Plastic fangs for Hallowe'en? Honestly.
Dracula's a huge cultural phenomenon. Go tell your friends.
