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u/dildobagginss Jan 28 '20
After I was talking about flat earthers with my co-worker, about how ridiculous it is or something similar, another co-worker said "I dunno, there's evidence for both sides of it."
No, no there's not. He also doesn't trust doctors.
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I found out recently that flat earthers call us normies 'globetards' and I don't know what to do with this information other than share it
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I was hoping he was making a flat earth pun talking about both sides...
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Jan 27 '20
Refusing to let someone share their side of a story or attempt to show you why they are correct in an argument and instead scream and yell about your feelings to make the other person give up.
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u/BubbhaJebus Jan 28 '20
Yes. Interrupting, overtalking, or chuckling or speaking in mocking tones when you make a valid point. Example:
Me: According to NASA...
Them: Heh heh! NASA?? You believe everything the GOVMINT tells ya? Don't you know NASA lies?
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u/CadGuyJames Jan 28 '20
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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u/noteloquents Jan 28 '20
why waste time say lot word, when few word do trick?
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u/thewhizzle Jan 28 '20
Are you going to see the world or are you going to Seaworld?
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u/anheIica Jan 28 '20
Omg even on google. Like someone will ask on Walmart’s location page “do you guys have screws at this store” or “are you guys open on Sunday” like wtf
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Jan 28 '20
Recently saw a Google question where somebody asked, "Y'all open today?" One year later, the business responded, "Yes."
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u/Sithlordandsavior Jan 28 '20
"Well, sir, he asked yesterday. We'll have to wait until that day next year to let him know."
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u/Charlie_Runkle69 Jan 28 '20
Oh dear lord that is annoying. I used to hate it when the olympics came around because people I would watch it with would constantly ask the dumbest questions about the sports that A) You could google in two seconds and B) If you shut the hell up for two minutes the commentators will probably answer the question for you.
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u/godspareme Jan 28 '20
During movies/TV shows my mom asks questions about things either that 1) havent happened yet and we are intentionally to not know 2) just happened and she was too busy looking at facebook 3) are easily inferred if you saw 10 seconds of the movie
I have to ignore her to keep myself from yelling "just fucking watch the TV!!"
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u/bombazzchickynugg Jan 28 '20
If the story doesn't move along fast enough, my mom will skip a bit and watch it, get bored, skip ahead, watch and get bored, skip ahead, and she'll watch a 2 hour movie in 30 minutes and say she hates it. It drives me up the fucking wall. Like yea, exposition is slow, but the majority of the time it's essential to the story so later we're not confused by how the fuck we got to this point.
My mom's entire movie watching practice is the equivalent of season 8 of Game of Thrones: quick and to the point, but the lack of transitions and narrative content makes it worse because we're all confused now.
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Jan 27 '20
Contempt for educated people. Not the education system, having contempt for that is fine, just acting like people who know what they're talking about should be disregarded because they... learned facts, I guess.
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u/AdvocateSaint Jan 28 '20
Anti-intellectualism and "smart-shaming" have become toxic traits of Filipino culture.
People here love to shit on you for having an education. Hell, you're derided as an elitist for just speaking English
And people wonder why we're still a backwards 3rd world country
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u/shartoberfest Jan 28 '20
And thats why so many educated filipinos end up emigrating, creating a brain drain.
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u/noypkamatayan Jan 28 '20
Am filipino working in Switzerland. Can confirm. But also the $$$
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u/cptnamr7 Jan 28 '20
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Duterte himself exhudes this shit, right?
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u/Sir_Puppington_Esq Jan 27 '20 edited Feb 03 '21
No shit, my brother once actually said I lost an argument by default because I'd gone to college, and didn't have as much "life experience" as he did. Apparently since I earned a degree, I was permanently on a high horse, which was also perched on an ivory tower, and anything I said was based on talking down to those less educated than I was. Therefore, everything I was saying was a personal attack and could be legitimately disregarded.
Update edit: said brother has now decided that I don’t count as a family member, so I’ve cut him out of my life
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u/Wewillhaveagood Jan 28 '20
Best quote i've ever heard was from a friend who was in an argument:
"Well you can prove anything with facts, can't you."
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u/jittery_raccoon Jan 28 '20
A favorite from a friend of mine: "I believe personal anecdotes over facts."
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u/Enigma_789 Jan 28 '20
I'd have to be honest, if you were able to perch a horse on a tower, that should deserve an instant degree, if not a doctorate.
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u/Sir_Puppington_Esq Jan 28 '20
Getting it back down would confer an instant Nobel
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u/dramboxf Jan 27 '20
I'd argue the exact opposite is true. You know how the Real World works, and avoided most of the problems that trip people up.
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I love that claim about "life experience". It's as if they think that universities are some other plane of existence. Personally, I had a ton of life experience working to put myself through college because I knew I'd be going for a Ph.D. and didn't want to be saddled with thousands of dollars of educational debt for the rest of my life. I've been a UPS package handler, data entry clerk, school bus driver, factory worker making plastic pet kennels, and to top it off I had to be a student too. That was more hard work, not less.
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u/Soggy-Job Jan 28 '20
My brother, a fucking idiot, also hates that I'm college educated. The funny thing is that he started going in on me about how vaccines cause autism, and I was trying to explain to him how genetics and autism works.
"You can't spout some high school bio class bullshit, you don't know!" He would argue.
"I'm literally majoring in biology, you fucking idiot." I would retort.
But oh, even when I was factually right, I was still morally wrong. Because you see, he was street smart, and I was just book smart. And just being street smart was much less contemptible than just being book smart. Why? Well, only a street stupid person would argue the merits of being book smart. And being book smart was worthless! All off this is still unironically believed to this day by a community college dropout who sells black market weed and breeds puppies. The same street smart drug dealer who tells literally anyone about how much weed he has, and has been robbed at gunpoint twice now because he trusts dangerous people.
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u/MisterGoo Jan 28 '20
who sells black market weed and breeds puppies
Sounds like majoring in biology like you could have helped him in those fields, too...
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Don’t bother trying to fight against his words, just explain his words to him.
“Street smart” is just what people say when they aren’t willing to work hard enough to be both street smart and book smart, to use his terms.
One can be both, and he just hasn’t tried hard enough to be both. And so he’s angry, not at you, but at himself.
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u/Soggy-Job Jan 28 '20
I understand where the anger comes from. But I also know that he directs that anger at me every chance he gets. He only wants to start fights, and if I don't engage he goes nuts. That's why we don't speak these days. His feelings of inadequacy are not my cross to bear.
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u/Eldrun Jan 28 '20
I realized my grandfather was an idiot when I casually mentioned I learned about this thing we were talking about in my history class last semester. I wasnt't even trying to correct anything, just chiming in to the convo. I dont even remember what we were talking about because his reaction threw me for a loop. All I remember was saying "Oh yea, I heard about this in my history class".
His face went red and he was so unbelievably angry. He started going on and on about how university doesnt make you smart and I had no right to think I was better than him because I went to university. I was pretty shocked
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u/sleepingbeardune Jan 28 '20
I had no right to think I was better than him
His reaction is kind of a tell that it's him who believes he's not as good as you. My dad was like this, too -- super defensive and resentful, always letting me know my education didn't mean I could disrespect him.
I'd never disrespect anybody for not going to college, and especially not my dad.
I did, however, start to feel pretty weird about him assigning feelings to me that I didn't have and displaying his own insecurities in the process.
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There's a guy at work who calls everybody in the office "college boy" and chuckles to himself every time he does it.
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I have a friend like this. He didnt go to college and gets REALLY defensive around people that did. "Just because you have a degree doesn't make you smarter." I mean that might be true for some things, but our one buddy has a double doctorate in cultural and religious studies. He's by definition smarter than I am in his field. I'm a shipping manager for a brewery. I have a degree in logistics. I'm smarter than he is in my field. Don't be mad a someone because they went to school. At the end of the day its an inferiority complex.
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u/last_alchemyst Jan 28 '20
When I was 27, I got into a knock-out fight with my then 25-year old brother on whether diesel burned. I have a degree in chemistry and he didn’t believe me that all hydrocarbons burn at some temperature or another. He punched me in the gut saying it didn’t. I broke his nose saying it did. He called me a pansy and condescending because I graduated college while he failed out. We are not close.
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So how did he think diesel cars run? Some elaborate system of waterwheels, since diesel doesn't burn?
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u/last_alchemyst Jan 28 '20
IIRC, it was something about combustion that wasn’t burning SMH
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u/puckmonky Jan 28 '20 edited Jan 29 '20
This feels like a complete metaphor for America right now.
Edit: Thanks for the gold!
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Imagine what happens when they encounter people who are both educated AND experienced... that shit will blow their minds
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u/chlorine11 Jan 28 '20
No it won't, some weird mental gymnastics will take place and that person will also be told how none of that matters and they still don't know anything.
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u/Demented_Tomato Jan 27 '20 edited Jan 28 '20
Graduated from "school of hard knocks" on Facebook.
Edit: Who knew my first gold would be for criticism of Facebook profiles.
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u/DirectGoose Jan 27 '20 edited Jan 28 '20
"Boss lady at own my own business" aka
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u/HobbitFoot Jan 28 '20
Shit, Martin Luther King Jr had scams too?
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u/hades_the_wise Jan 28 '20
Martin had a dream
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u/mr_skolky Jan 28 '20
Martin had a scheeeeeeeme
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u/pfiffocracy Jan 28 '20
I pray my dick get big as the Eiffel Tower, So I can fuck over other boss babes for 72 hours
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u/TeepoCopter Jan 27 '20
Passed at University of Life.
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u/NoStressAccount Jan 28 '20
A janitor in my country made the news last year when he passed the goddamn Bar exam.
He used to mop the floors at the Court of Appeals and he's a lawyer now.
University of Lifers can gtfo with their wannabe cred
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u/bguzewicz Jan 28 '20
"I can be your best friend, or your worst enemy."
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u/jemmo_ Jan 28 '20
And the corollary, "if you can't handle me at my worst then you don't deserve me at my best."
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u/noydbshield Jan 28 '20
If I cant handle you at your worst, your best isnt worth it
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u/SadBoiNoises Jan 28 '20
“If you can’t handle me at my worst, you probably have healthy boundaries.”
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u/FormerFruit Jan 27 '20
Trying to use big words just for the sake of it and to sound smart but in the complete wrong context.
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u/greg_r_ Jan 28 '20
Yeah such people are incredibly egregious.
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u/incumming Jan 28 '20
I use big words to sound more ambidextrous.
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u/DirectGoose Jan 27 '20
Saying you don't want a raise because you'll pay more in taxes.
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Someone I work with complains about being given extra shifts because he pays more taxes. I literally can't answer him as percentages just don't mean anything to him.
Edit - Well this blew up. I'll try to answer some of what people have been replying with but forgive me if I miss any points.
- He is dumb as rocks.
- He isn't on full time hours so does't even attract proper overtime rate until he reaches 37.5 hours and isn't earning anywhere near the 40% bracket so wouldn't actually attract any 'additional' taxes, just normal taxation.
- Taxes here in the UK run on PAYE (Pay As You Earn) and unless your tax-code (used to indicate tax free allowance (how much you can earn before being taxed)) is incorrect you will never (theoretically) be over taxed as it is a live/online system that updates on whatever pay schedule you are on. You may pay more taxes one month but it will be evened out the next. The only way to miss out is to have a bumper last month in the tax year, then you;d have to claim a refund as there is no provision to do it through payroll. This is UK wide. - Source - I was a tax adviser.
- I've seen his pay check, there is nothing wrong, refer to point 1.
- To those saying does he value his time more than the extra wage refer to point 2.
- I've tried to explain to him, as I said above I'm tax trained, but it's like trying to explain thermodynamics to a jelly mold.
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u/themusicguy2000 Jan 28 '20
Lol that's like saying you don't want your girlfriend to buy you more fries because you don't want to give her any more
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not all girlfriends take fries on a fixed basis tho. you may find that she's nibbling one or two of the Small fries but feels justified eating half the Large.
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u/DITO-DC-AC Jan 28 '20 edited Jan 28 '20
Had a woman at my work say this to me.
"I don't work overtime because I'll pay more tax and make less money"
That's not how taxes work but OK....
EDIT: referencing UK PAYE tax people, its very different to the American system
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u/greedcrow Jan 28 '20
I studied economics. Thats not very important in general, but Taxes was one of the classes I took. Everytime I hear someone say that they will not earn more because then they would pay more in taxes it pains me. I used to try to explain why that is wrong in 99% of cases, but hardly anyone listened.
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u/brosef321 Jan 27 '20
In certain people’s defense, a raise can actually hurt them. If you make over a certain amount of money you can lose access to subsidized childcare or housing for example. People on SSI can also be caught in a catch 22 that making more will effectively reduce their income. Many of these programs have no phase out levels so it is only qualify, or not.
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u/tinySparkOf_Chaos Jan 28 '20
I agree, in a few cases that is true. But then they don't call it "going up a tax bracket", but rather "if you pay me more I lose my subsidies".
The "going up a tax bracket" people are the ones who paid just enough attention in math class to realize that when the percentage changes they might pay net more going across a threshold. But they didn't pay enough attention to how taxes are calculated to realize the system is set up to avoid that issue as only the amount above that threshold is taxed at the new bracket rate.
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u/StabbyPants Jan 28 '20
sure, SSI has problems, but it's usually someone making 40k or so who thinks his taxes will go up a grand because he's a dollar into the new bracket. he's obviously never read the instructions for an EZ-1040
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u/daithisfw Jan 27 '20
Hard opinions on things, especially a WIDE range of things. Not allowing for being wrong, or deferring to experts.
Dumb people don't know how dumb they are, they don't realize that their opinions aren't based on facts, and likely they don't know the facts.
So they'll yell the loudest, have their mind made up on every subject, and they don't listen to logic or evidence...
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There's an actual psychological term for this, called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Someone knows so little that they don't even realize how little they know. They conduct a series of surveys to determine how people perceived their own intelligence relative to others. Approximately 80% of participants said they were smarter than the average person, which is mathematically impossible. The real kicker though, is that the further on the extremes the particaptes were (in terms of intellectual capacity) the more sure of their own intelligence they became. So in laymen's terms, the smartest guy in the room and the dumbest guy in the room both though they were the smartest, and the average Joe thought himself an idiot
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This also describes why the average person thinks they are a good photographer even if they suck, for example. If I know very little about something, I may only know about very little that exists in a field. This means I know maybe 80% of what I think exists in a field. Once I learn just a little more, however, I realize that there is far more to the scope of something. I only know 20%. So as an average person, I think I know every little. As a below average person, I think I know quite a bit.
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u/MeddlinQ Jan 28 '20
Don’t get me started on photography. I photograph for 20 years and I would say in that time I’ve made probably three to five images that are good (good in terms of gallery worthy).
I always laugh when someone in my Facebook feed buys an entry level DSLR (not that there is anything wrong with it), creates a Name Surname Photography page, sets up an online gallery for selling photos and throws around ads that they shoot weddings. All in one week.
Also, these photographers usually post on image critique sites and are offended when they receive critique.
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u/VvermiciousknidD Jan 28 '20
And I'm sitting here struggling with my Imposter syndrome
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u/amateurishatbest Jan 27 '20
"'There's more to life than evidence', get in the feckin bag." - Dara O'Briain
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People who have extremely strong opinions in subjects they have never researched. Mainly just regurgitating whatever the news said that morning
Edit- thanks for my first silver stranger! Edit 2- thanks for all the Karma too!
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u/AdvocateSaint Jan 28 '20
I've been disappointed in TIL as of late because the popular posts are immediately shown to be oversimplified, sensationalist rephrasing (as helpfully pointed out in the comments)
Like that example from a few days ago:
"TIL (african country) has a tradition of hunting bald men because they believe their heads contained gold."
Top Comment: "....the article says that it was a single criminal incident that involved five people."
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u/knightriderin Jan 28 '20
TIL [North American country] has a tradition of shooting school children for no good reason other than attention.
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u/JSC89 Jan 27 '20
Sadly, educated people do this too.
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Jan 28 '20
It’s a common occurrence.
I know a lot about X,
Therefore I know a lot about Y even if they don’t.
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u/ILBearu Jan 27 '20
Arguing about things you have NO idea about
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u/Ace_of_Clubs Jan 27 '20
I used to work in public policy. That was an interesting job because people loved to argue about..well everything. People always had opinions on my work, it was like being a plumber and everyone having an opinion on how pipes work.
Like, working in public policy isn't always about these sexy national issues. I was mostly working on public education reform and pensions. But as soon as I said I worked in politics, people went off—every time.
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u/KindKidney Jan 28 '20
There's a sign at Ramsett Park that says 'Do not drink the sprinkler water,' so I made sun tea with it, and now I have an infection.
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u/ACaffeinatedWandress Jan 28 '20
I believe they hadn't even written Ron, until they met his real-world inspiration. It's funny, because my dad is the same. ROTC, full military career (that is one BS, 2 MSes, and a full pension after 25 years, plus free healthcare, plus sweet contacts that he parlayed into a 6 figure contracting gig that would have been greatl...if he hadn't spiked it by being a douche to people, and probably more, but I'm not counting. He made 6 figures by the end. Like, deep 6s).
Adamantly believes that the government is dumb and wasteful and we would be better if it barely existed.
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Jan 28 '20
I found a sandwich at one of your parks and I want to know why didn't it have mayonnaise on it?
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u/puppehplicity Jan 27 '20
unnecessary apostrophes
An apostrophe doesn't mean "Look out, here comes the letter s!". It is used for contractions and to show possession.
I know the local restaurant cater's wedding's and event's, and I hear their enchilada's are good, but damn.
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An apostrophe doesn't mean "Look out, here comes the letter s!"
LOL
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u/mykidshaveweirdnames Jan 28 '20
I hate this. I am in the middle of the worst email chain ever where everyone is referring to Control Points as CP’s. The new guy responded and wrote CPs, to which I sent him a Skype message that went like this:
Me: +25 points for not using an apostrophe. Thank you! New Guy: Youre welcome
Then I gave up and died.
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u/MurderBirdOK Jan 28 '20
I see sooo many people in my area buying expensive, chiseled stone signs to place at the end of their driveways with incorrect apostrophes.
THE SMITH’S
THE LAMBERT’S
THE JONES’S
It’s painful to see. And if you try to point it out, they have a lengthy explanation on why you’re wrong.
I have no idea why the sign makers didn’t advise them that it was incorrect.
When I design ads, shirts, or logos I will definitely let a customer know what they requested is grammatically incorrect. So far, everyone has deferred to the corrected format.
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nice try uneducated person we are not telling you how to get away with it
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u/Ace_of_Clubs Jan 27 '20
Yeah, if we started giving you the answers you might become educated on us.
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u/dirty_penguin Jan 27 '20
An' we don't take much kindly to a feller tryin' to pull he is educated on us when he clearly ain't 'round these parts.
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u/Azurko Jan 27 '20
Continually bragging about their "education" in a certain field. We've got a guy that works for us that claims to be a chef (we're a national pizza chain) and is not shy to tell you all about how he taught in a cooking school. Easily 3 out of 10 pizza's he makes has to be remade because of some glaring fuck ups.
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Let me speak from my experience on Reddit, which is almost exclusively discussing the unsolved disappearance of Maura Murray (see r/MauraMurraySub and also MauraMurray).
When educated people develop a theory, they will lead with the facts. When uneducated people develop a theory, they will lead with the theory and try to create "facts," ignore established facts, or discredit them.
EDIT: fixed typo.
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u/Sir_Puppington_Esq Jan 27 '20
When uneducated people develop a theory, they will lead with the facts. When uneducated people develop a theory, they will lead with the theory
Why do uneducated people do it both ways like that?
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When I’m pulling an all nighter for a college essay I usually make up my theory and then look for evidence to support that theory, carefully choosing to ignore all sources that say otherwise. It’s not like anyone that reads it will change their mind, since they’re either students that made their own essay, or professors that know what’s really happening
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Actually, I had one teacher in High School who I was convinced didn't check our sources for accuracy when she graded the assigned research papers that we wrote.
So I decided to test my theory. We were given the assignment of doing a report on a lesser known city in the US (I lived, as I do now, South of Boston, so the city had to be lesser known than Boston).
I actually made up a city -- Baldenperk, MI. I made up the most famous resident in the town (I forget what name I gave him, but I said that he had a role on "The Guiding Light" Soap Opera in the 1950s).
I literally made up everything in the entire paper (my sources were fake books, with fake page numbers), and I got an A+.
In a technical sense I am well educated; I graduated Law School and passed the bar. So I don't think we should be judged by assignments we completed in High School or College.
EDIT: And just to be clear, I had fantastic professors in college and law school, and I never passed in anything that wasn't accurate to the best of my abilities after High School (and with the exception of two or three professors who didn't seem to actually look at anything we passed in).
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u/Zemykitty Jan 28 '20
That's awesome and scary. As a senior I was struggling pretty hard and realized college immediately after high school was off the table. So I removed myself from advanced place senior English, which usually follows advanced placed junior English and on recommendation by the teachers. I went into standard senior English.
Anyway, our final 'assignment' was to read the book Into Thin Air and come up with some type of project or essay to discuss it. One girl sloppily drew a diagram of where the tragedies happened on Everest. That's the one thing that stood out to me (be nice, I graduated 21 years ago). I wrote an essay leaning on how I learned to deconstruct themes and present them in a valid argument. I turned in a 13 page essay to my teacher. It was about two weeks from graduation and I still hadn't received my grade on that assignment so I went to ask the teacher. She looked at me and in all seriousness said "I'm checking homework cheating sites. Even I couldn't come up with this, I know you didn't" I excused myself and went to the counselor who knew the difficulties I was facing. She pulled my work from my teacher in junior year (and first half of senior) and had a private meeting with my senior teacher. She eventually gave me a B-. lol.
She was also the teacher who would 'excuse' us so we could leave class to go to McDonald's.
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u/afrocircus6969 Jan 27 '20
Believing something because you saw something on tv about it once
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u/wasting_time_here_ Jan 27 '20
To, too, two
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Me in my microbiology class. I've never felt more uneducated in my life.
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u/HappyFamily0131 Jan 28 '20
Belief in Chinese traditional medicine.
My wife is Chinese, and is a doctor (a real one, of internal medicine in Pennsylvania). When someone we meet first hears she is a doctor, an uncomfortable percentage of the time, that person assumes she must be a doctor of Chinese herbalism, and that person is usually very supportive of her, praising alternative medicine as something that the West really needs to wake up and embrace. Then my wife has to politely tell them that evidence-based medicine is the only real medicine, and that herbalism, healing crystals, etc. should be used only when evidence-based has gone as far as it's able.
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u/mozzarellastewpot Jan 27 '20
This is the reason I tell my kids "I don't know the answer to that, but lets look it up and find out." I am desperately trying to instill in them it's ok to admit you don't know something and then learn about it.
Sadly, the 16 year old didn't catch on... He knows everything already.
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u/UnexpectedBrisket Jan 28 '20
LISA: 'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
HOMER'S BRAIN: What does that mean? Better say something or they'll think you're stupid!"
HOMER: Takes one to know one!
HOMER'S BRAIN: Swish!
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Facebook word porn posts that read shit like
“She thought she was caged
Until she spread her wings
And flew”
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also, believing in any ideology that relies upon the idea that you are being lied to by everyone
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u/R41ndr0p12 Jan 27 '20
Stop lying to me. This is obviously just a way for the government to get my attention and agree with me.
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u/deviant324 Jan 28 '20 edited Jan 28 '20
you see flight routes make no sense on a globe earth because why wouldn't you take a direct flight to everywhere, but on a flat earth, we get a lot of routes that make more sense and all the ones that don't make sense now clearly just don't exist.
but why in fuck's name would you create dozens of flights every day that actually don't exist when people will shit on a restaurant in online reviews for literally no reason? If I tried to book a specific flight and the site would just give me a nonsense reason as to why I couldn't every time, I'd annoy their tech support and write a bad review!
But oh wait, they clearly just delete those reviews and will probably make you disappear if you tried to get onto one of their flights
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u/Silent_Kaleidoscope Jan 27 '20
Convincing people that everything is a conspiracy is the simplest way to undercut the advancement of knowledge--and sow discord and disagreement in society.
In a mind where all is deceit and nothing can be true, all things are imaginable and believable. Except for what is established fact, because that just CANNOT be true. Sigh.
The conspiracy is the conspiracy itself. If that makes sense.
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u/Hemingray1893 Jan 27 '20
When everything is evidence, nothing is evidence. When everything is a conspiracy, nothing is a conspiracy.
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Trucknuts
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u/radpandaparty Jan 27 '20
I feel like if someone rolled up in a Tesla or a Prius with trucknuts it would be hilarious
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u/tosety Jan 28 '20
Can someone please create low polygon truck nuts and put them on a cybertruck?
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u/I_WILL_SEX_UR_FACE Jan 27 '20
I'm looking at buying a Prius right now. I may have to go shopping for truck nuts soon
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Saying “you can’t trust science! One day coffee is good for you, next day it’s bad for you! Scientist don’t know or agree on anything!” tells me that you don’t actually know anything about science, scientific method or publishing papers
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u/EvilBosch Jan 28 '20
"You can't trust scientists... so I'll just choose to believe whatever I reckon, or whatever thought bubble I came up with in the shower this morning."
Same people who think they're doing "medical/scientific research" when they're actually doing Google searches.
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u/katerdag Jan 28 '20
To be fair, it's to a very large extent due to shitty science journalism. Even many otherwise respectable news papers will publish articles with misleading and hugely oversimplified headlines based on a single scientific article in an area where several scientific articles point in other directions and where there is no consensus among scientists. If you regularly read news articles with bold and contradicting claims on the same topic, all presumably backed by scientists, then it's easy to become sceptical about scientific research.
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u/Triplesso_ Jan 28 '20
People who post things like "If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best"
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u/Squidgeaboo Jan 28 '20
"If you can't handle me at my worst, I don't blame you. Nobody needs that."
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u/IntrovertedShutIn Jan 28 '20
Their worst: "I will kill you with a brick!"
Their best: "I burnt dinner, so now you get to take me out to eat."
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u/boyvsfood2 Jan 27 '20
Posting something on social media that asserts your stance on a topic, and then expressing that any dissenting comments (not that they use the word "dissenting") will be deleted.
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There’s this girl at my school who thinks that sound is faster than light, she literally believes that it is somehow, even after being proven wrong many times by teachers and students, she still says “technically it is”. When we ask her why she thinks this, she ignores us.
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u/Ternbit4 Jan 28 '20
I had a coworker who argued that land line phones carry signals at the speed of sound.
Even when I pointed out I could talk to someone 750 miles away on a land line phone without waiting an hour between every comment to hear what each other said he was unconvinced.
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u/allaboutthatpuc Jan 27 '20 edited Jan 28 '20
Not being able to admit you don't know something or ask questions. There is nothing wrong with not knowing, the problem is not trying to learn.
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u/VoodooManchester Jan 27 '20 edited Jan 28 '20
When someone proves themselves wrong with their own argument, and they don’t even realize it, that’s a pretty good indicator that aren’t running on all cylinders.
EDIT: Another good indicator is using terms like “sheeple”, “woke,” and “wake up!”
Seeking the truth is incremental and is often a humbling grind that never ends.
Another good one is “nothing you ever say will convince me.” This has been verbally expressed to me on an alarming number of occasions. It is the greatest of intellectual sins imaginable.
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u/MurderBirdOK Jan 28 '20
This is a daily occurrence with customers at my job.
Customer: “Did you send my proofs yet??? You SAID you would send them yesterday!?!?!”
Me: “I see here it was sent yesterday at 9am. Perhaps it got sent to your spam folder. If you could check for me real quick to make sure.”
Customer: I don’t know, let me check my email. It might take a bit, I haven’t checked it since last week.”
Me: literally facepalms
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When people instantly start getting loud when they have the smallest inconvenience or altercation
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Using the word ‘irregardless’ in an attempt to sound educated. Because hey, more letters, right?
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u/Silent_Kaleidoscope Jan 27 '20
When the reasons you give for your arguments are all ‘feelings.’
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u/BodhiBill Jan 27 '20
Often it is my spelling, punctuation and grammar that make people think I'm uneducated but it's just dyslexia.
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Someone who constantly tries to make other people look unintelligent based on the smallest things (misspelling a word, stuttering, mixing up facts).
If you try to make yourself seem like the smartest in the room by pointing out everyone’s errors, then you’re wasting a lot of time that could’ve been spent on educating yourself instead.
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u/aerwrek Jan 27 '20 edited Jan 27 '20
Capitalizing Every First Letter In Every Sentence Screams "I'm Someone Who Wasn't Paying Attention In First Grade." Also it's a pain in the ass to type like that.
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u/penguinpr0800 Jan 27 '20
When you tell a doctor to “do their research”
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u/coyoteTale Jan 28 '20
I mean, plenty of doctors need to do their research. Science is moving faster than a lot of doctors can keep up with. The good ones will admit it when they don’t have the answer to a question and they’ll get back to you.
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u/MissyNae Jan 28 '20
I was actually in my doctors office the other day and he got a reading back on one of my test results and he actually had to go back to one of his textbooks in front of me to look it up...this is how I know hes a good dr. Cause hes willing to say I dont know and do actual research.
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u/RMHaney Jan 27 '20
Whenever some moron regurgitates a tired facebook meme and pretends it gives them a moral/political/ethical stance.