BS: A word that means more than stupid

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Jan 13 - 11:04 PM

I didn't say the machine made an error, Don. ;-) I said it made a decision...one that was no doubt pre-programmed, therefore devoid of any conscious volition or intelligence to bring to bear on the problem. Machines, as you pointed out, don't normally make errors...unless they're malfunctioning in some respect. Nevertheless they end up doing many things that seriously annoy millions of people. This isn't the fault of the machines. It's the fault of business practices that use machines to replace people, and assume that that will take care of everything "just fine" (and save them having to pay a whole bunch of salaries to living human beings!). Your bank, your grocery store, and every other business around you is looking for ways to expand on that idea and lay off their human staff, if at all possible.

This would be nice if there were good jobs available for their human staff. Often, there are very few such jobs around. They've been taken by the machines...or sent to Asia.

The thing about machines.... They don't ask for any overtime pay. They don't complain about poor working conditions. They don't expect pensions or medical care or civil rights or anything. They don't think! Is it any surprise how popular they've become with management? ;-) It's like having slaves who don't even know they're slaves and who work till they die. Very handy. People are much more difficult to control.

Maybe management should just eliminate 98% of humanity, and have the other 2% live in absolute luxury, served by uncomplaining machines? Hmmm. Sounds like a good plan for the elite to start working on, eh?

Now, how could it be arranged? That's the question.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bert
Date: 09 Jan 13 - 11:55 PM

Ah yes Ed T, Small fonts. The most stupid use of small fonts is on shampoo and conditioner bottles.

The designers are way too stupid to realize that people TAKE OFF THEIR GLASSES when they are in the shower. Uberdumm AND wet.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 10 Jan 13 - 08:48 AM

""This isn't the fault of the machines. It's the fault of business practices that use machines to replace people, and assume that that will take care of everything "just fine" (and save them having to pay a whole bunch of salaries to living human beings!). Your bank, your grocery store, and every other business around you is looking for ways to expand on that idea and lay off their human staff, if at all possible.""

IT WAS A JOKE FFS! I thought the reference to a static clot would make that bloody obvious.

Sheesh
Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 10 Jan 13 - 08:57 AM

Maybe it's the language barrier LH, but in the UK a "clot" refers to a stupid human being as well as coagulated blood.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Jan 13 - 09:02 AM

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

Kierkegaard

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Jan 13 - 04:58 PM

I am well aware of most English slang terms, Don, including "clot". In fact, I think you're a wassock, a prat, and a tosser for implying that I would be ignorant of the meaning of "clot" in the context you used it in. I am gobsmacked at your impudence! ;-D

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 10 Jan 13 - 07:57 PM

And I was convinced you had a sense of humour. I apologise for mistakenly seeing in you either humour or sense.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Jan 13 - 09:56 PM

Only the most recent of a whole long series of mistakes on your part, Don. You probably thought I was being deadly serious in my last post too, right? Wrong again, old chap! I was just "taking the piss" to quote another popular UK witticism. I've never seen a crabbier, meaner lot of people than (some of) the regular UK members of Mudcat, nor more waspish repartee than yon worthies indulge in when regularly savaging each other over their various political differences, etc., and I enjoy taking the piss with such dour chaps whenever I can, just to see if you'll rise to it in the usual snarly form, stiff upper lip and all.

I know what really gets up your noses, though. The French are simply more interesting than you are! ;-) They have more poetry in their souls. And they have superior cuisine. Furthermore, berets are far more stylish than bowler hats. Do you imagine Matisse would have been caught dead wearing a bowler? It doesn't bear thinking about, does it?

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Jan 13 - 10:22 PM

In retrospect, that may have been a bit harsh.

I should have taken into account that Englishmen have to put up with This sort of thing....

Anyone might get a little tense and defensive after a bit under such appalling social conditions, right? And those bloody surveillance cameras everywhere! And the weather! Awful. I should have shown a bit more compassion, given what you all must have to endure just to earn a few miserable quid.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jan 13 - 10:30 PM

'I think you're a wassock, a prat, and a tosser for implying that I would be ignorant of the meaning of "clot" in the context you used it in. I am gobsmacked at your impudence!'

Talk like that in public and you'll be locked up for DDO.

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Q A word that means more than stupid

A What is stupider?

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Jan 13 - 10:33 PM

DDO? Really? Okay....I'll keep that in mind. But what if I'm in Sri Lanka at the time?

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Jan 13 - 10:35 PM

GUEST post was me.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Jan 13 - 10:38 PM

In Sri Lanka (Ceylon) they will understand.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 04:47 AM

Oh dear LH, I hope (as a Brit) that I'm not crabby, mean, dour snarly or waspish. Agree about French cuisine and the weather though.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 09:58 AM

Hey, LH, you forgot wanker, a somewhat surprising omission on your part if you ask me...:-)

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,roderick warner
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 07:09 PM

'Folkie' does it for me...

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,999
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 12:16 AM

Is that the 1954 definition of folkie?

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: olddude
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 12:27 AM

A word that means more than stupid ... "olddude"

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: DMcG
Date: 13 Jan 13 - 05:05 AM

My smartphone had a pretty good SatNav that I pay a little for a month. On new years eve I was taking my daughter somewhere and discovered that they had disabled it entirely and I had to upgrade to a new improved version - discovered 10mins before I left, naturally. I also discovered the link they provided didn't work on my Brand of smartphone.

All of that is everyday irritation, not full grown stupidity.

No, the stupidity comes from the new enhanced features, which first of all removed some of the useful SatNav features, but added in for example a Twitter feed. Hello? You think it a good idea to post live TwitterNoise in front of people while they are driving? Even though I can turn it off, I don't really want the people who are too stupid to disable it in cars coming towards me, thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bert
Date: 12 Apr 13 - 09:25 AM

Full grown stupidity is posting a link without telling us WHAT THE HELL IT IS.

Why is that stupid?

For one, it is not wise to follow a link to an unknown destination. You could end up is one of those endless pawn loops and have to shut your machine down to escape.

Two, most of us have better things to do than bother following an unknown link. If you really want us to go there, have the courtesy to tell us something about it.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bert
Date: 11 Aug 13 - 06:58 PM

In an email that I received from Netflix.

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Please click the link below to contact corporate communications:

https://signup.netflix.com/MediaCenter/ContactPR

**Please note that this email address is not actively monitored by Netflix staff and any replies will not be answered.

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How's that for customer service?

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: kendall
Date: 11 Aug 13 - 07:22 PM

I like Pillock or Cretinous dipshit.

When two dipshits block the aisle I simply ram one or both carts out of the way.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 12 Aug 13 - 10:43 AM

Shopping carts, phone apps...these can be irritating, sure. But there are times people do things so outrageously brainless that I long for a more bitter word than 'stupid.'

For example: a young woman just drove her car into running floodwaters, drowning herself and her 4-year-old son. Here in the Midwest, TV, radio, weathercasters, and the National Weather Service tell people again and again not to do that. Where was her brain?

A little girl known to the public as LP was rescued from her abusive (half-crazy) mother, who'd locked her in a closet and hardly fed herfor several years. LP went to Children's Hospital for a good while, then was given to a foster family. The doctors told the family to keep her calorie intake under 1800 a day, because her body was not yet ready to process large amounts of food.

The foster family ignored that, and LP was taken to McDonald's etc and allowed to eat far more than 1800 a day. The result: LP has been sent to St Louis and has had to have a heart transplant, because her foster parents thought they knew more than pediatricians.

We need a word for people who weren't just born stupid, they are bound and determined to be stupid.

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Aug 13 - 11:20 AM

My wife laughed, but was appropriately appalled at the Netflix update to the thread...

I, on the other hand, was fascinated by seeing two replies after that that seemed to not notice the update, but were still replying to the original post. *grin* Needs to be a word for "knee jerk replies" (Not that the replies were uninteresting, and certainly not stupid...they just reflect the hurry we get in trying to cope with information overload)

(I have wished for years that there would be an automatic red **update**
added to any any thread that is refreshed more than, say, 2 months after its last post.)

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: treewind
Date: 12 Aug 13 - 01:02 PM

Not a word as such, but only last week I first heard a nice expression covering the same topic, something like:

"If his brains were dynamite, he wouldn't have enough to blow his nose"

Subject: RE: BS: A word that means more than stupid
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 12 Aug 13 - 04:04 PM

"Chinga"

WAY more than stupid!

- Chongo