Idiot of the day 2014: Your one stop topic for everything dumb.

[The Duck]

Who has time to pay for things nowadays?

Also, sadly, this is a step in in PR for NFL players lately.

[NotMiki]

3 links for ya.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/aei-bizarre-roofies-video

Link to an informational video for conservative feminists who are wondering, how do I not get raped by fratbros?¹

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fraternity-accused-of-marking-students-for-date-rape-drug/article/2553793

Link to article cited in said video.²

http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/uw-milwaukee-fraternity-probed-over-drugs-slipped-into-party-drinks-b99354529z1-275664681.html

Link to article cited in said article.<sup>3

1</sup>Spoilers: the answer is roofies are an urban legend, and so if you get raped it's your fault!  Also probably liberals' fault because they are all about the culture of victimization amirite and rape victims just need to suck it up and reflect on their poor choices.  Take some personal responsibility, y'know?
²Not to be confused with a Real Live News Organization.
³a Real Live News Organization.

[Grefter]

https://news.google.com/news?ncl=daKarlAgpUJKbCMcdFK5lV-7JGCWM&q=gamergate&lr=English&hl=en&sa=X&ei=owpKVPGPE8LbmAW8qYHgBA&ved=0CCcQqgIwAA

We as a species are some of our parts.  Which is to say the parts we are is dicks.

[Fenrir]

[NotMiki]

wow.

[Hunter Sopko]

http://theweek.com/article/index/271041/speedreads-the-washington-redskins-are-now-suing-native-americans

::Slow clap::

[The Duck]

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/jaden-and-willow-smith-exclusive-joint-interview/

[Captain K.]

I will defeat you, Nega-Apple!

[Luther Lansfeld]

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/jaden-and-willow-smith-exclusive-joint-interview/

Lordy be. I guess it's easy to philosophically wax stupidly when you will inevitably succeed because your parents are super wealthy.

[metroid composite]

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/jaden-and-willow-smith-exclusive-joint-interview/

Lordy be. I guess it's easy to philosophically wax stupidly when you will inevitably succeed because your parents are super wealthy.

It reminds me of how I used to think when I was 11.

"I just thought about my thinking.  That's called metacognition!  My vocabulary is indubitably extensive, which is indicated by the number of syllables in the verbiage I am selecting.  Oh, now I'm thinking about my thinking about my thinking.  Oh my goodness, now I'm thinking about my thinking about my thinking about my thinking!"

Those were legit the kind of thoughts I had.

And like most 11-year-olds I made deep philosophical ponderings like:

"Well...the planets orbit the sun, and the electrons orbit the atom, so why is the very small so similar to the very large?  Is our solar system really an atom in a much larger object?"

And naturally when I was a bit older (13) I was reading about Calculus, and would tell as many people as possible.



...But the good news is that I think I turned out alright, so I wouldn't worry too much about these kids.

[The Duck]

It's fairly clear the Smith kids have a disdain for basic education which leads to a weird kind of magical thinking and misunderstanding of causality, but again, their father has the GDP of a small nation so they will be "fine."

WILLOW: Because living.

No I take it back, nobody who says this sentence will ever be okay by any definition.

[Cmdr_King]

Honestly I read it as believing you don't learn anything by going to school, which certainly matches my experiences.

[Grefter]

There is a difference between not learning anything by going to school and not learning anything.

[Sierra]

These days I tend to think the only thing I learned in school was that anything I really wanted to understand I would have to figure out for myself.

But I doubt I would've learned that if I hadn't gone to school and failed at it.

[metroid composite]

I still remember stuff I learned in school, especially in areas like politics and history which I'm glad I know but probably would not research myself nowadays.

[Dark Holy Elf]

I still remember stuff I learned in school, especially in areas like politics and history which I'm glad I know but probably would not research myself nowadays.

This so much. Plus loads of my literature knowledge/appreciation.

[NotMiki]

fractions, man. use 'em all the time.

[Cotigo]

Yeah basically the vestiges of my math and science education from school prooooobably wouldn't have happened without school? Heck, my appreciation for books that aren't juvenile power fantasies probably wouldn't have happened without school either. I mean let's face it I was too busy playing video games and reading trash fantasy literature.

[Grefter]

You still would have been getting classical literature in your face (MobY DICK) with high frequency.

Also man I got a ton out of school and University.  In more than just my political fetishism as well.  I don't go a day without using the more communications related part of my degree.  I work in Databases which I got my ground works for in high school.

I wasn't even a good student.

Also insert rant about the hidden curriculum here.  You all got something out of education even if it was just how to function in society. 

OBEY

[Captain K.]

I teach adult education to apprentice electricians.  You know that trigonometry that you didn't learn in high school because wtf is it good for in the real world?  Guess what, now they have to use it all the time as electricians.  I tell them to go apologize to their high school math teachers.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

The Smith kids would probably gain a lot by having to be in the public curriculum because they'd have to interact with people who aren't in their economic strata, something I doubt they ever do.

[NotMiki]

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/26/campus_suspends_fraternities_after_members_wave_dildos_throw_eggs_at_anti_rape_protesters/

I hope they were all expelled, with the explanation that it was for their own sakes, because they are obviously too stupid for college to do them a damn bit of good.  Maybe that, followed by a "it was totally hilarious, though! really funny guys!" followed by a "p.s. totes laughing at you not with you, still expelled lolol"

It would be funny.

[Hunter Sopko]

Sucks they got hacked again, but holy fucking shit. Sony's marketing department so fucking hard.

http://gawker.com/sonys-embarrassing-powerpoints-are-even-worst-than-thei-1666403941

A friend of mine put it as "They seem like the type of people that would actually request to rasta-fy a cartoon dog another 10% or so with a completely straight face.