What's it like to be stupid?

[Helvete]

I know this is probably not the right place to ask, most people here seem to be of above average intelligence. But do stupid people know they are stupid? Do they feel slow in the head when it comes to working things out? Or is ignorance bliss for them and they are happy being stupid?

I know lots of stupid people and they all seem to be perfectly happy with it, I could never imagine being comfortable with this. I think I'd just kill myself if I turned stupid(er) one day yet could remember my better days.

But seriously, it must be torture trapped in a slow mind. You can't learn intelligence, but then that also raises the point of intelligence being nature or nurture.

[b i o n i c]

im pretty sure ignorance is bliss

[Freebasser]

Stupid people are taking over the earth because they are all having stupid babies at 14 and those stupid babies will go on to have stupid babies at 14 too.

I dread to think what the world will be like when it's run by stupid babies. It will probably be stupid. And full of nappies.

[Bob]

stupid babies need the most attention!

[Helvete]

Yeah, smart babies be going to the supermarket by themselves and shit. Stoopid babies don't even know!

[Guy Incognito]

Yeah, smart babies be going to the supermarket by themselves and shit. Stoopid babies don't even know!

smart babies do internet shopping

[Dorothy Wood]

I think some stupid people think they're smart. they're too stupid to realize they're stupid.

I know someone who I think is kinda dumb. he is decently successful and does well at his job, keeps getting promoted. he's not the dumbest person in the world, but some of the things he says are absolutely baffling. and he frequently breaks things when he can't figure out how they work. not on purpose, he breaks them while attempting to use them because he is incapable of stopping to think logically about how simple machines work. like bike pumps and tongs.


and I'm continually surprised when people don't know that ibuprofen is advil and advil is ibuprofen. the person above and another person I know will be like "do you have any advil?" and I'll be like, "sure, it's over there" and they'll be like, "this is iboo...prof..an." and I'll be like, "yeah, same thing, asshole, get a brain please."


and this other chick I know who is soooo sooo dumb, who once kept trying to talk about politics and was convinced that John McCain ran for president against Al Gore. and we tried to explain that he ran for the republican nomination, but lost it to GW. she was super confused and somehow thought that they both ran. :eek:

this is a 31 year old woman. she's a pill head though, so maybe she wasn't born dumb.

[Helvete]

My sister is kinda dumb. When I was moving out to Germany, she asked "Are we still fighting the Germans?!" And another time on the telephone she was spelling out a word phonetically, "that's A for apple, B for bee..." She is a girl and they seem to get away with it more though.

That doesn't bother me so much, it's funny at least. The people who bother me are the ones who have absolutely no desire to gain any knowledge above the absolute minimum and think it's pointless to learn things. Again, I can't fathom this as I am constantly wanting to learn things and find out more.

Oh, and people who ever try and challenge my intelligence when I know I am right, I won't stop until I have proved them completely and utterly wrong (all the time), but people still don't get it.

Yes, I am rather big-headed but sometimes it's hard not to be, and surely intelligence is a desirable trait. It's basically the only thing I have, so please forgive me for dwelling absolutely on it.

[b i o n i c]

grandpa always said:

there are stupid people and smart people

there are people who think they're smart and are actually stupid
there are people who think they're stupid and are actually smart
there are people who are stupid and think they're smart

and then there are people who are stupid and know they're stupid
.. and they may be the smartest of all.

[camo]

I dread to think what the world will be like when it's run by stupid babies.

Errm Bush?

[Helvete]

Now that's just silly because what about the people who know they are smart and continually prove it? Your grandpa's logic fails, he obviously fell into one of his own catergories.

[b i o n i c]

you're supposed to figure that one out yourself, genius.

besides, MY GRANDFATHER IS DEAD, OK?!?! DEAD.

[paul jones]

there's that song by Connie Francis that goes 'Hey hey,set me free *springy boingy noise* stu-pid cu-pid stop pickin' on me'

So I think she meant that love was stupid.When you think about it's she's right,in a way.or not.

[Nuzzolese]

I feel rather stupid most of the time. I think that I am rather stupid and I just try to come off as smart by seeming frustrated and angry all the time. If you seem quietly annoyed, people assume you're smarter than you really are, and that you're simply annoyed by everyone else's ineptitude.

Growing up, I assumed I was exceptionally smart, so much so that I didn't bother trying to learn anything. I only recently started to consider that all those years when my dad had been calling me "genius" he might have been being facetious.

Just last night, for example, I turned on a fan but I wanted it to be angled slightly diffferently, so I clicked the oscillation option and it started to oscillate, but in the opposite direction. I was going to just wait for it to come back around again but before that happened it started to blow my boyfriend's music compositions all over his desk and onto the floor. I wailed "oh no!" and scrambled to pick them up. In-so-doing, I tripped over the fan's cord and unplugged the computer and the lamp.

He proceeded to unleash a calm and in-depth explanation on the extent of my stupidity. It was quite a speech, there were examples, impersonations, he cited outside sources...

[Fern]

It's fairly easy.

[TAL]

What's it like to be stupid
What's it like to be dumb
What's it like when you word means nothing at all


[inspired by carpets]

[skra75]

Stupid people usually scare the shit out of me. I'm actually very intimidated by them. Very often the ppl I've met who are either burned out/ or are just not smart have a very thin barrier between rationality and violence, and they fly off the handle.

Or their eyes glaze over when you speak to them, that always weirds me out. :eek:

[skra75]

ALSO

I hate it when folks who aren't so bright subsidize their dimness by saying "knowhatimsayinnn" and "chafeelme" every four effing words. It's drives me bonkers.

No, you douche, I don't know what you're saying. How about using words to tell me instead?

[sab0tage]

I don't claim to be the smartest person but I'm not stupid. I went to secondary school (11 years old) having got great grades all through primary school without having to try.
When I started secondary school I just fooled around and coasted through. I didn't try very hard and left school with grades probably a little above average.

I was carrying out an appraisal at work the other day and the guy I was talking to (who is very good at his job) said "I'm happy doing my job but I know I could have gone so much further if I could read and write better".

It made me feel pretty small and I actually came close to tears. I had the ability and didn't bother my ass when here he was knowing fine well he didn't have the ability but really wished he did.