Morons Everywhere.

[Incman]

This is an old-y but good-y. A Consumerist post today brought it back up, and it reminded me what a classic it is. http://consumerist.com/2010/02/veriz...and-00002.html It shocks me that these people inhabit the planet. How you can go through so many different people who don't have a concept of grade school math. Just listening makes me

cuz I'm sure we've all felt the caller's pain.

G: Do you recognize that there's a difference between “point zero zero two dollars” and “point zero zero two cents”? [pause] M: Point zero zero two dollars? G: Do you recognize that there is actually... M: ...and point zero zero two cents. G: Yes, do you you recognize there's a difference between those 2 numbers? [pause] M: No.

 

[indesertum]

that article made me

way back when. still makes me

 

[zillka]

remember this. it's the equivalent of printing money to pay for debt in order to curtail spending and not seeing the sardonic dichotomy in one's existence.

 

[Piobaire]

LOL, it's a matter of opinion? Jay-Sus. How do people this stupid not **** their pants?

 

[MrG]

I'd never heard this before.

I wonder what it's like to go through life that stupid.

 

[why]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

LOL, it's a matter of opinion?

That's the standard 'I'm too dumb to argue' response.

 

[KnowYourRights]

Originally Posted by MrG

I wonder what it's like to go through life that stupid.
Visit Texas?

– 51 percent disagree with the statement, “Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.” – 38 percent agree with the statement, “God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago.” – 30 percent agree with the statement, “Humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time.” Another 30 percent said they “don’t know” whether the statement is true. http://www.texastribune.org/stories/...t-flintstones/

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by KnowYourRights

Visit Texas?

- 51 percent disagree with the statement, "Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals."

- 38 percent agree with the statement, "God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago."

- 30 percent agree with the statement, "Humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time." Another 30 percent said they "don't know" whether the statement is true.

http://www.texastribune.org/stories/...t-flintstones/

You figured we were so stupid we couldn't read the graphic?

 

[KnowYourRights]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

You figured we were so stupid we couldn't read the graphic?

I thought it obvious that was for the Texans.

 

[hossoso]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

You figured we were so stupid we couldn't read the graphic?

I've wondered which state had the swagger to accommodate you once or twice. Texas seemed too obvious.

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by KnowYourRights

I thought it obvious that was for the Texans.

Originally Posted by hossoso

I've wondered which state had the swagger to accommodate you once or twice. Texas seemed too obvious.

I'm not moving to any state you live in, so Texas is out.

 

[hossoso]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

I'm not moving to any state you live in, so Texas is out.

I thought so. I don't live in Texas either (we have so much **** in common!), I live in Seattle when in the States.

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by hossoso

I thought so. I don't live in Texas either (we have so much **** in common!), I live in Seattle when in the States.

Yeah, I did several months in Edmonds once.

 

[Incman]

Originally Posted by KnowYourRights

Visit Texas?

- 51 percent disagree with the statement, "Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals."

- 38 percent agree with the statement, "God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago."

- 30 percent agree with the statement, "Humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time." Another 30 percent said they "don't know" whether the statement is true.

http://www.texastribune.org/stories/...t-flintstones/

I feel so misanthropic some days.

 

[Milpool]

**** Verizon. I hate that ******* company.