Cyrano (7,873 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
I know a dittohead who’s dumb beyond belief
My neighbor’s cousin is visiting her here in Florida. This cousin thinks Limbaugh is “brilliant,†he watches Fox “News†to “stay informed,†and he’s a fundamentalist “Christian†who thinks science is made-up myth.
A few days ago, we went over to the beach and I decided to find out exactly how far his non-belief in science went.
There was a cargo ship out toward the horizon and it was sailing south. I asked him if he knew that ships going south moved faster than ships going north. “Really?†he said. “How come?†I told him to look at any map or globe and that it was obvious that ships sailing south were going downhill and ships sailing north were going uphill. Nodding his head he said, “That’s interesting. I never realized that.â€
This is a true story and, quite honestly, I find it frightening to have to share the planet with people this incredibly stupid. It might be proof positive that listening to Limbaugh and watching Fox “News†rots your brain.
lastlib (205 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. Of course, it's the other way around below the equator.....
Cyrano (7,873 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
4. No, it's the same. Look at any map or globe.
csziggy (11,716 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
32. AH - Gotcha! Ice floats, so Antarctica HAS to be uphill from the Equator!
Of course, the reason there is more ice in Antarctica than at the North Pole is there are more oceans to freeze in the Southern Hemisphere than in the Northern one.
PCIntern (12,223 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
38. Very small rocks float too...
Cyrano (7,873 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
39. I'm not sure you're right about this. Human excretion also floats, but
it doesn't all end up in Antarctica.
Demonaut (3,357 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
26. I cant belive he dint no that
lol, you shouldn't screw with his head like that or he may think you're an idiot now
Cyrano (7,873 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
29. There was the possiblity that he wouldn't have bought my explanation. For all I knew, he might have believed the world was flat.
lonestarnot (66,802 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
28. How can you stand to be around that?
Just wondering.
Cyrano (7,873 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
30. As I said in the OP, sharing this planet with people like that really frightens me.
lonestarnot (66,802 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
33. So it frightens you, is that all?
Cyrano (7,873 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
37. It's part of the reason I'm an agnostic. What kind of "Supreme Being" would have created dumbness?
whistler162 (4,412 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
36. I will have to assume that 20 years ago it was dump N***** or P**** stories that caught your fancy.
Cyrano (7,873 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
40. I don't understand what you're saying, wistler162. It sounds insulting.
Pam Dawson's bouncies are intertaining.
The big nosed ones, are just stupid lies.
Pam +1
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It's so stupid, this primitive contention that religious people can't be scientific.
I know a lot of religious people, practicing Christians mostly, who understand and use science every day, every hour, of life.
To those for whom science is the end-all, the know-all, of all things, it reminds me of someone embarking on a walk to eternity, and then stopping, refusing to go any further, after ten miles.
Reality is Infinite; the human cerebral capacity to understand, the human eyes to see. is finite.
I believe I would agree with any DUmmie...just so they would shut up.
This explains why lazy, DUmbass yankee liberals are coming south....it's downhill and they just roll down hill and are to lazy to go back up the hill. :-)
...but I have a plan. It involves the Gulf Stream flowing north and shit floating.