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23 Feb 2010, 3:38 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0vPNDrTajI[/youtube]

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23 Feb 2010, 10:29 pm

What baffles me is how many stupid people there are, out there.

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24 Feb 2010, 8:09 am

All of the stupid people are working in labs making prescription glasses for customers who have ok vision, good vision or poor vision.

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24 Feb 2010, 2:22 pm

A general lack of knowledge stemming from either a lack of desire to aquire knowledge or a lack of opportunity to aquire knowledge.

Some people are just plain dense, though.

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24 Feb 2010, 2:30 pm

watching the news/celebrity gossip/politicians

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24 Feb 2010, 4:32 pm

I guess that it's the fact that many people can't see past the tips of their noses. :lol:

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26 Feb 2010, 12:40 am

Excess alcohol consumption
Peer pressure
Poor parenting/discipline/education

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27 Feb 2010, 8:12 am

Peer pressure is a big one. I was never influenced by peer pressure.

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27 Feb 2010, 1:54 pm

blue_bean wrote:

Excess alcohol consumption
Peer pressure
Poor parenting/discipline/education

aside from these things, it must be noted that everybody, no matter how intelligent, has their stupid moments. even somebody as sharp as bill gates, has moments where foot must be removed from mouth - back in the early 90s during one of the early anti-MS lawsuits, bill said words to the effect that he could put a ham sandwich in his OS and not violate antitrust laws- whether or not it was true it was certainly an inpolitic thing for him to say at that time, and it didn't make his case versus the feds any easier to defend. plus it made him sound uncharacteristically stupid, like a legalist intellectual thug.

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28 Feb 2010, 6:49 pm

50% of people are of above average stupidity.

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01 Mar 2010, 5:24 pm

Ignorance can be considered
another factor of stupidity.

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01 Mar 2010, 5:28 pm

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:

Ignorance can be considered
another factor of stupidity.

This.

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01 Mar 2010, 6:52 pm

'Luck of the draw', and genetics, mostly.

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01 Mar 2010, 8:43 pm

jawbrodt wrote:

'Luck of the draw', and genetics, mostly.

Agreed.

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02 Mar 2010, 2:55 pm

Evidentally it is a lack of interconnectiveness in the brain causes stupidity. This is based on recent research that shows highly intelligent people have brains that have a very high level of interconnectiveness.

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02 Mar 2010, 3:05 pm

I'm going to say ignorance, a lack of willingness to learn, and a willful disregard of facts.

For me, being stupid is very different from not being intelligent. I know people who are in the borderline ret*d/ret*d range who I would not consider stupid, and some incredibly stupid intellectuals.

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