BS: A word that means more than stupid

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 22 Dec 12 - 12:47 PM

But at least the cookies have some privacy while they're in there Bert.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bert
Date: 22 Dec 12 - 12:24 PM

To bring this thread back on track.

Kelly bought a new electric stove. Great big oven with a light and a glass window in the door.

Now the whole purpose of a glass door is to see your cooking, so what do these moron designers do? They put TINTED GLASS in the door. So that everything you see in the oven is a dull grey. A great help when you are looking to see if those cookies are just starting to turn golden at the edges.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Frank
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 10:20 PM

"We use the word 'wanker' and the euphemism 'banker', but the latter is now much more of an insult than the former! "

What's the difference between a Wanker and a Banker?

At least the Wanker knows what He is doing!.

(I am qualified to comment - I spent 30 years in the Banking industry.)

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 07:40 PM

Eliza, all those good things you said about our friend LH, ya forgot that quirky sense of humor.

When I typed humor, I hit the o along with the p so it came out as humpor. It seemed so appropriate that I nearly didn't correct it.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupidz to a
From: GUEST,mayomick
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 06:38 PM

Ignorant. Stupidity is an affliction; ignorance is something you have to work at.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 05:36 PM

Thanks. I try my best.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 05:20 PM

I'm glad to read that, LH. You've always seemed to me to be among the quite small but select group of intelligent and fair-minded posters with a balanced, informed viewpoint on Mudcat.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 03:06 PM

Ah... ;-) Well, all I was really doing was pulling Greg F's beard, Eliza. He does that to me now and then, and occasionally I can't resist doing it back to him. I like most people from the UK, in fact.

I have noticed a lot of rancorous hostility amongst some of the UK members on Mudcat, though, specially when they start fighting about domestic politics.

I wouldn't say it's typical of the majority of UK posters. Just a handful of them.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 02:56 PM

Little Hawk, I'm very surprised at the tone of your more recent posts. I've always really enjoyed seeing 'Little Hawk' on the list of posters, and hurried to see what you've said, as you're always so considered, interesting, fair and informative. But now you appear to be rather acid and bitter, and I'm wondering why this drastic alteration? In reply to your points, I don't feel we in UK are tormented by 'deeply suppressed anger and rancorous bitterness'. Our country has its problems, as does any other, but I've always felt we are, on the contrary, a cheerful and tolerant set of folk. That song 'Always look on the bright side of life, de-dah, de-dah-de-dah-de-dah' just about sums us up. The resounding success of the recent Olympics ( as judged by all the visiting nations) were IMO a testament to our national character.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 02:50 PM

Just remembered...the Australians have a word for it too:

"poms"

Better yet, "bloody poms"! (It means Englishmen...but not all Englishmen...just the really obnoxious ones. The fact that it employs the first syllable of the word "pompous" may or may not be coincidental...)

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 02:43 PM

"Tosser" is another popular UK term for it, means exactly the same thing as as "wanker". And another is "prat". Still more, "stupid git". Then again, "pillock" seems to have a bit of a following as well. And there's also "wassock", a related term. Deeply suppressed anger and rancorous bitterness are, after all, essential features of the British culture nowadays, perhaps because there is a surveillance camera mounted on every street corner, the government does whatever it bloody well wants to, regardless of popular disapproval, and the cost of living is far too high, and all these nasty little words such as "tosser", "wanker", and "useless git" serve well to help exorcise (or is that "exercise"?) those pent-up feelings of impotent rage and frustration one may experience in difficult times.

Bit of a rum go, isn't it? Bit of a sticky wicket! We in "the colonies" can only sympathize with your plight...and watch sadly from afar.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 02:30 PM

We use the word 'wanker' and the euphemism 'banker', but the latter is now much more of an insult than the former!

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 07:37 PM

Damn Greg.....You have hit the proverbial nail a mighty blow!

Republican......

Geeziz, that's perfect......LOL


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 06:38 PM

SUBGOOFOUS!

Almost as dumb as.............G..

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Greg F.
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 04:52 PM

Well, Spaw, in addition to Chongo and Crank-El, there's always the perennial favorite "Republican".

Not to mention dickhead, which covers all three.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 04:41 PM

People are very apathetic these days. Give 10 people a shopping cart with a dirty diaper in it and 9 of them will just take it without so much as a peep.
=(:-( 0)

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 11:16 AM

Henry, that's an insanitary health biohazard. If it happened here (which I seriously doubt) people would immediately inform the manager of the store, and the trolley would be withdrawn and disinfected thoroughly. How can people be so disgustingly dirty?? All the words for 'stupid' could be used simultaneously for a thing like that.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Frank
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 10:59 PM

Don't give asses a bad name.
It all seems so puerile to me!

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 10:06 PM

A jadrool whose dick has been broke cannot father any more jadrools.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 09:52 PM

Pshaw!!!!!
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 09:45 PM

Actually, spaw is a one word meaning for "person who doesn't give a half a pink shit about broke-dick jadrools"..........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 08:11 PM

It's very spawish of them.
=(:-( o)

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 07:51 PM

Sounds like the Spirit of Walmart to me! That place stinks. Any town or municipality that's got any sense don't allow Walmart to build there. They are a job destroyer.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 07:40 PM

Eliza, it seems to be something that happens only at Walmart.
Several times a year to me.
Now I make sure there is nothing in the cart before I take it.
They change baby's diaper out in the parking lot before they leave.
Toss it into the cart as they leave.
Store employees just leave it in there for the next shopper.
=(:-( /)

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 07:29 PM

I think spawish would be better.
The government is locked in a spawish debate over the budget and taxes.
=(:-( D)

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 06:45 PM

I would sugggest as a word for more than stupid perhaps "Chongo."
Another excellent choice would be "Krinkle."

"The whole cart thing is totally krinkle."


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Midchuck
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 11:28 AM

Dummer'nasackfullahammers.

P

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 07:01 AM

I think 'asinine' has been mentioned already, Mr Red ~~ by none other than the egregious Chongo IIRC!

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 06:46 AM

You amaze me Henry. I have never ever found a dirty nappy in a supermarket trolley. Has anyone else on here? I sometimes find shopping lists, which I'm nosey enough to read. (I like to know what people have been buying!)

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 05:35 AM

can't believe assinine hasn't been mentioned. Cretinous/Cretin?

I would posit hircine because if they are that stupid they would assume it meant hairsuit - it means: like a goat.
Though come to think of it, maybe not so clever, because GOAT can also mean Greatest Of All Time - an appellation given to Valentino Rossi - with good reason. (by the American motorcycling racer Colin Edwards)

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 01:35 AM

You could always try a few qualifying adverbs-of-extent ~~

very stupid; exceptionally stupid; superexceptionally stupid; world-shatteringly stupid; transcendentally stupid; stupid-to-the-nth-degree; stupid-to-the-nth-degree-and-beyond; stupid-to-∞ ...

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 12:26 AM

My new CD Dictionary (that incidentally hasn't impressed me much) does suggest that if you can't find a better word, you can at least choose from a variety:

stupid
modif.
1. [Foolish]
Syn. senseless, brainless, idiotic, simple, ignorant, shallow, ill-advised, imprudent, witless, irrational, inane, ridiculous, mindless, ludicrous, blind, muddled, absurd, half-witted, funny, comical, silly, laughable, nonsensical, daft, illogical, indiscreet, unintelligent, irresponsible, coquettish, shallow-brained, scatterbrained, crackbrained, addled, inconsistent, flirting, unwary, incautious, misguided, wild, injudicious, imbecile, addleheaded, lunatic, insane, mad, crazy, moronic, touched, freakish, comic, puerile, inexpedient, narrow-minded, incoherent, childish, anile, senile, monstrous, outrageous, far-fetched, extravagant, preposterous, unreasonable, chimerical, asinine, useless, unwise, thoughtless, careless, vain, fatuous, light, light-headed, flighty, madcap, giddy, cuckoo*, dippy*, not seeking for looking*, boneheaded*, goofy*, cracked*, dumb*, half-baked*, in the dark*, having a block for a head*, not knowing what's what*, in darkness*, dead to the world*, in a daze*, knowing nothing*, groping in the dark*, green*, wacky*, harebrained*, tetched*, damn-fool*, block-headed*, not seeing an inch beyond one's nose*, screwy*, bats*, cock-eyed*, loony*, batty*, nutty*.

Not sure the choices add much to suggestions already given here.

John

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 01:12 AM

Eliza: "Guest999, they are actually the very clever ones. They say one thing, mean another and do whatever they like. Pretty intelligent.."

Not exactly....clever and stupid can work well together!
Politicians are very clever at doing stupid things!

Some political ideologues on here, also are very cleverly eloquent and saying stupid things as well......(that's what happens when you pay too much serious attentions to the clever deceptions of politicians, doing very stupid things!!!!!!!!

Example:
2012 elections..Obama vs. Romney..both huge bullshitters!...but that was fitting for the bullshit elections, with no real choice!!..STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 12:17 AM

I wish there was one near me.
I don't have a good selection of stores anymore.
Walmart keeps putting them out of business.
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 12:07 AM

The only supermarkets I know of in the US that use the coin method for returning carts is the Aldi chain, which, I believe, is a German company.

Aldi offers rock-bottom prices and they have several methods of keeping expenses low:

1. You generally don't get a choice of brands of anything. For each item, there is usually only one brand, which might be the store brand or a brand you never see advertised.

2. All their fresh produce is packaged. You don't get to sort through a pile of fruit and pick the best-looking pieces. You can only take a bag, and some of the pieces in the bag will be less than perfect. That means the skin may be discolored or scarred or lumpy but the edible part is wholesome.

3. They don't give you free bags. You either bring your own bags or buy theirs. The bags they offer for sale are sturdy and reusable. They don't bag your stuff for you, either.

4. They tend to be located in the poorer, low-rent sections of town, adjoining a strip mall that has seen better days.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bert
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 09:17 PM

Asinine!!! yes that will do it. Thanks Chongo.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 07:14 PM

Them people, Bee-Dub, just can't believe that the world ain't arranged ONLY to suit their own exclusive convenience...cos they are Number 1 in the world as they see it. Life as they know it revolves around THEM. They wonder why you are botherin' them...why are you botherin' NUMERO UNO and causin' such an unfair inconvenience, but they would not mind a bit if it was someone else you were recoverin' the cart from. In fact, they'd probably think it was funny in that case...specially if it was their neighbour ("the idiot next door").

That kinda attitude is quite common. I think it's got somethin' to do with a little thing called "the human ego".

And...I've noticed dogs act pretty much the same way. Damn good thing they don't carry guns. They're trouble enough as it is.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 06:52 PM

I'm guessin' that you say, "There IS no excuse for you." Be careful about these little confrontations if yer shoppin' in groceries in the USA, though, cos ya never know...that person who cut yer aged mother off may be packin' some heat and they might decide yer a threat of some kind.

- Chongo Chimp

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 06:51 PM

In my younger days, I spent a few years working in the grocery business. Since I also drove an old pickup truck, I was frequently drafted to help the store manager retrieve shopping carts that neighborhood pedestrian shoppers had taken home and not returned. I think "stolen" is the operative term. Most of the offenders would apologize for not returning the cart, but occasionally one or two would get all hot and bothered because we were taking "their" carts. Then we got to explain to them that not only did the cart belong to the store, but it's replacement cost was $125 (probably more like $400 nowadays) which meant they had committed grand larceny by even having it on their property. Then we'd politely ask if they'd rather we take it now or come back later with a sheriff's deputy? I seem to remember the most common reply being something along the lines of "Take the (insert expletive of your choice) thing and get off my (insert another expletive of your choice) property!"

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: gnu
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 06:46 PM

Don Firth... "I sometimes think that people of normal intelligence tend to check their brains at the door of supermarkets"

Nope. Simple fact is (and *I* have complained about such MANY times on threads in Mudcat for years about this crap) it is a pet peeve of GREAT contention for me. These comlpete twits had no brain when they decided to go to the grocery store. It seems few people have any good manners any more. I TOO often ask myself, "Do these idiots drive cars on the roadways too!!?"

Even more burdensome is when they block the entire aisle (one person -one cart!) and then say sorry when they walk in front of my 86 year old almost blind mother at the last second. I sometimes hang back, as she is hard of hearing and say, "No. yer NOT sorry. Yer ignorant and rude. Don't be sorry, just don't treat other people rudely. Have a nice day."

The odd time, they say something like, "Well! Excuse me!" I think you can guess what I reply in such circumstances.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST, Chongo Chimp
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 06:45 PM

By the way, I think I got the word you wanted.

Asinine!!!   (works best with several ! symbols after it)

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 06:42 PM

That is what I am sayin', Bert. Take action. "Actions speak louder than words." It was Richard the Lionheart that said that. (I don't know if he was the first to say it, but he did say it.)

Bust that damn arm right off the shoppin' cart and wheel yer groceries out into the parkin' lot like Jesse James and Richard the Lionheart would do. They was both men of action, see?

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 05:53 PM

Very few do. Very very few.
I noticed no one mentioned the dirty diapers people leave in them.
Or the fact that babies with dirty diapers have been riding in the little seat made just for babies with dirty diapers.
=(:-( P)

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 05:43 PM

So don't stores in the States have coin-in the slot trolleys? I'd always assumed that was a idea imported from America.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bert
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 03:47 PM

Jim Dixon, by doing that you are also giving yourself a chance to try out the cart before you get to the store. If it has a wonky wheel then you can trade it in for a good one inside the store.

Grishka, re the profit and loss thing. A thrift store gets all of its product for free, so they don't have as much to lose as the grocery stores.

Chongo, Jesse James would have broken the arm off and galloped away in the shopping cart.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Don Firth
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 02:55 PM

Ever try to negotiate a grocery store in a wheelchair?

In one aspect, shopping carts are not a problem because I'm my own shopping cart.

But from my own observations, a large part of the problem is that, after the store has provided shopping carts for peoples' convenience, most people are too damned lazy to take the cart back into the store for someone else to use. They pile the stuff in their cars and leave the shopping cart sitting there in the parking lot for other people to steer around or back over.

Some stores put the shopping cart frame outside in the parking lot near the door, but people still can't be bothered to return the cart to the frame.

As far as seat belts for children on the carts, IF the person returns the cart to its rightful place, THEY could take a few seconds to make sure the belts don't get tangled with the other carts.

Contemplate for a moment how much of a hassle shopping carts are for a store.

Many customers are not exactly the shiniest dimes in the till.

Case in point:    I'm in my electric wheelchair (capable of 6.5 mph, which is a fair jogging speed) moving down the aisle of a supermarket, heading toward a particular section of the store at a pretty fair walking speed when some gink behind me decides I'm not moving fast enough for him. So he tries to shove past me. But there isn't quite room for a passing lane in the aisle.

I wasn't aware he was there until one of my power wheels ran over his foot!

He did quite a little dance, holding the foot with the tire mark across the instep in two hands while he hopped up and down on his other foot and howled!

I was tempted to applaud.

I sometimes think that people of normal intelligence tend to check their brains at the door of supermarkets. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Raedwulf
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 02:53 PM

Well, Bee, either of that or he'd have ridden straight out, shooting the checkout clerk on the way... You're wrong about 2) as well. If the trolley corrals have rough flooring (they don't necessarily in the UK, thought the entrance of them likely will), it's so that the store doesn't have to worry about slope i.e. it's primarily to stop carelessly parked trolleys following gravity & rolling wheresoever they will. Maybe not. It's certainly not what you suggested, anyway! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Grishka
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 01:56 PM

The managers have to estimate the expected profit against expenses and expected loss. They may be wrong with their estimate, or erroneously neglect some factors (which may qualify as stupid), or neglect their duty altogether, but I do not think any non-insider can tell for sure.

Homeless people love those carts, and the managers' sense of charity tends to have limits.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 01:42 PM

Jesse James wouldn't be pushing a shopping cart through a thrift store. He'd have ridden his horse in and stuffed his purchases in his saddlebags. Then, as he was leaving, he'd stop at the checkout counter and toss a $100 gold piece he'd obtained in a recent train robbery to the clerk and say, "I'm sure this will more than cover my purchases. Keep the change."

Jesse James don't need no steenking shopping carts.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 01:29 PM

Bert, you gotta ask yerself, "What would Jesse James have done in this situation?"

- Chongo