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re: Subtle ways in which you can tell someone is dumb/pet peeves thread
Posted on 4/11/14 at 1:53 pm to CheeseburgerEddie
Posted on 4/11/14 at 1:53 pm to CheeseburgerEddie
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Posted on 4/11/14 at 1:55 pm to genro
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There's a lot more I'll get to later.
Oh boy
Posted on 4/11/14 at 1:56 pm to Eric Nies Grind Time
I'm gonna assume you're being genuine 
Posted on 4/11/14 at 1:56 pm to OBReb6
Same here. If I drink 4 beers I go from a running nonsmoker to the Marlboro man.
I'm good until buzzed and someone else lights up
I'm good until buzzed and someone else lights up
Posted on 4/11/14 at 1:57 pm to CheeseburgerEddie
Yeah you can't make a legitimate post without a page full of cliches and memes. It's made me largely give up trying to be a decent poster. Sucks.
Posted on 4/11/14 at 1:58 pm to OBReb6
With the rant there is really no point in trying to be good/creative. The only threads that get a lot of responses are generic flame threads.
You could start a thread saying Rebels going to beat that Bulldog arse Tonight and it would get to 10 pages.
You could start a thread saying Rebels going to beat that Bulldog arse Tonight and it would get to 10 pages.
Posted on 4/11/14 at 2:01 pm to Hardy_Har
I can't stand cigarettes when I'm sober, but drunk they are the absolute best thing ever. I realize this isn't groundbreaking stuff.
Posted on 4/11/14 at 2:03 pm to Eric Nies Grind Time
Yeah they only time I'll even start threads on the rant anymore really is during football season and then just to make flame threads basically. If I'm gonna do it I usually try to bring the wood though.
Posted on 4/11/14 at 2:05 pm to OBReb6
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Having concrete views on complex issues
This, and it's inexorably tied to this
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Speaks in absolutes, sees the world as black and white
I find close-mindedness to be the true color of the stupid.
Posted on 4/11/14 at 2:07 pm to Feral
I'm largely apathetic and indifferent. That might not be much better.
Posted on 4/11/14 at 2:08 pm to OBReb6
I get annoyed when people don't listen to me. Not necessarily on here, but in real life. Time after time I am proven to be correct in my assessment and ultimate decisions on course of action but nobody will listen. Ultimately we end up saying oh ya I guess we should have (insert whatever it was I told them to do) instead.
Posted on 4/11/14 at 2:09 pm to OBReb6
Being too open minded is pretty dumb as well. I see a lot of college students and liberals like this. They don't wanna step on anyone's toes. But the fact is, some things are stupid and half-baked.
This post was edited on 4/11/14 at 2:10 pm
Posted on 4/11/14 at 2:12 pm to genro
It's not that I'm too open minded, there's just a lot of issues that I don't care enough about either way to take a stance.
Like gay marriage. I don't care if they are granted the right to marry, it's not gonna bother me. But I also don't care about the issue enough to try and use my time to argue for it. I just see it as not my problem.
It might be insensitive, and maybe I'll come around one day.
Like gay marriage. I don't care if they are granted the right to marry, it's not gonna bother me. But I also don't care about the issue enough to try and use my time to argue for it. I just see it as not my problem.
It might be insensitive, and maybe I'll come around one day.
Posted on 4/11/14 at 2:15 pm to boddagetta
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Not even on a vacation to the beach? OBReb would say she is dumb then.
Not even then. Guess a few too many times passing by the Lagos open air market will do that to you.
What about other traditional Nigerian foods you ask? Well she doesn't want to eat dog or rat either.
Posted on 4/11/14 at 2:15 pm to cokebottleag
Do they eat bush meat in Nigeria?
Posted on 4/11/14 at 2:17 pm to OBReb6
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Do they eat bush meat in Nigeria?
No idea. She did say they would pass by all sorts of dudes roasting dog or rat or something else on the side of the road when she rode the bus to school every day. She lived in an oil compound, but the American School was in downtown Lagos.
Posted on 4/11/14 at 2:18 pm to OBReb6
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Being too open minded is pretty dumb as well. I see a lot of college students and liberals like this. They don't wanna step on anyone's toes. But the fact is, some things are stupid and half-baked.
In this scenario, you're conflating open-mindedness with political self-loathing. I was speaking more to the concept of not closing yourself off to taking a stance on something different from yours on practically everything because you deal in absolutes and see complex situations as simple.
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It's not that I'm too open minded, there's just a lot of issues that I don't care enough about either way to take a stance.
^^^^this is how I feel on several issues as well.
This post was edited on 4/11/14 at 2:20 pm
Posted on 4/11/14 at 2:19 pm to OBReb6
I'm talking about the people who think every cause and every lifestyle is legitimate. You could go to Harvard University and shave you eyebrows off, and tell people you're doing it for Darfur and people will support you and think that's awesome. I'm not joking. I've seen it.
Posted on 4/11/14 at 2:21 pm to genro
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I'm talking about the people who think every cause and every lifestyle is legitimate. You could go to Harvard University and shave you eyebrows off, and tell people you're doing it for Darfur and people will support you and think that's awesome. I'm not joking. I've seen it.
Yeah, but that's not open-mindedness, that's just being an obnoxious self-loather.
Posted on 4/11/14 at 2:23 pm to genro
Yeah it's gotten ridiculous. It's not "brave" to show up to school decked out in your brony gear, it's willingly putting yourself on the front lines of ridicule.
That doesn't give anyone an excuse to bully people, but don't glorify the kid either.
That doesn't give anyone an excuse to bully people, but don't glorify the kid either.
This post was edited on 4/11/14 at 2:24 pm
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