Author Topic: Idiot of the Day (Read 251642 times)

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #900 on:** September 19, 2009, 06:34:35 AM »

There's an idea. Spring a citizenship test on the bottom 50% of high school gradating classes. If they fail, they get deported to Mexico.

Dhyerwolf · « **Reply #901 on:** September 19, 2009, 06:49:43 AM »

Like Mexico would want them either! That said, at least the graduating high schoolers finished; the test would be better sprung on those who don't want to finish.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #902 on:** September 19, 2009, 06:52:22 AM »

Hey, we already take Mexico's poorest citizens, they can take our dumbest.
And that's a fair point. I guess we'd have to hold it Freshman year, when the kids are almost certainly under 16 and thus can't legally drop out.

Dhyerwolf · « **Reply #903 on:** September 19, 2009, 06:58:22 AM »

Unfortunately, given regional drop out rates up to 75% in some parts of the country, I have a feeling that Mexico would soon be overwhelmed by the sheer numbers.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #904 on:** September 19, 2009, 07:07:15 AM »

Nah, they wouldn't last two weeks in Mexico. Granted, the stink of the corpses might become a bit much.

NotMiki · « **Reply #905 on:** September 19, 2009, 08:02:41 AM »

http://whythefuckdoyouhaveakid.com/

warning: nsfw

warning to people featured: nsfdss

that would be Not safe for Dept. of Social Services.

Sierra · « **Reply #906 on:** September 19, 2009, 11:10:12 AM »

Quote from: Dhyerwolf on September 19, 2009, 06:33:32 AM

Maybe we don't need a high school exit exam, maybe we need a high school citizenship reaffirmation exam.

What kind of commie talk is this? It's the right of every proud American to be completely ignorant about things and still act as if they're an authority.

metroid composite · « **Reply #907 on:** September 19, 2009, 05:03:46 PM »

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/09/dumbass_picture_of_the_day.php#more

NotMiki · « **Reply #908 on:** September 20, 2009, 07:43:42 AM »

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/world/africa/20cairo.html?hp

today's lucky winner: the Egyptian government.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #909 on:** September 20, 2009, 11:31:41 PM »

Level 317.25 gj there.

Shale · « **Reply #910 on:** September 20, 2009, 11:59:04 PM »

Quick, somebody name the next big-scare disease "moron flu."

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #911 on:** September 21, 2009, 12:16:23 AM »

That's what the last three scare diseases were called, though.

metroid composite · « **Reply #912 on:** September 21, 2009, 12:36:03 AM »

Quote from: Shale on September 20, 2009, 11:59:04 PM

Quick, somebody name the next big-scare disease "moron flu."

My goodness Shale! Are you advocating intelligence-based eugenics?

Shale · « **Reply #913 on:** September 21, 2009, 12:41:52 AM »

Look, I'm just saying, if there happens to be a wave of well-intentioned suicides among Egypt's ruling class, it might end up for the best.

NotMiki · « **Reply #914 on:** September 21, 2009, 03:14:44 AM »

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/20/carter-chavez-becoming-au_n_292697.html

I suppose when I link something someone says in IotD it should be, at the very least, wrong. I'll make an exception in this case.

Carter: Hugo Chavez becoming "Increasingly authoritarian."

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #915 on:** September 21, 2009, 04:53:37 AM »

The art of downsizing retardation is not a subtle one.

Grefter · « **Reply #916 on:** September 21, 2009, 08:32:23 AM »

If it was that easy do you think I would still be here? Idiots.

superaielman · « **Reply #917 on:** September 21, 2009, 10:23:46 PM »

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/10105188/Redskins-rookie-apologizes-for-'dim-wits'-tweet?GT1=39002

This could belong in the football thread as well, but it's stupid enough to deserve mention in this thread.

NotMiki · « **Reply #918 on:** September 22, 2009, 12:24:25 AM »

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/21/hood_case/

I hate to say it because I know some of you are from there, but...

Warning: Texas.

This one's kind of a downer, so be forewarned.

Cotigo · « **Reply #919 on:** September 22, 2009, 01:39:45 AM »

blog.peta.org

Not anything Peta's posted in particular, though I'm sure all of it belongs here. Just... the name. Did they even bother saying it aloud before choosing it?

Captain K. · « **Reply #920 on:** September 24, 2009, 05:15:10 AM »

http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=442602

Wait, something advertised as being random is really random? No way!

Grefter · « **Reply #921 on:** September 26, 2009, 01:27:24 AM »

http://www.mmo-champion.com/general-discussion/best-gaming-console-ever!/

Ladies and gentleman. MMO-Champion forums finally spat out something generically retarded enough to link here instead of normal WoW fail.

It gives you guys like this

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OFC The Microsoft fanboys are in here trolling, and voting 360

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With the PS3 Sony skipped a generation, eventually Microsoft will be forced to make their own blu-ray console to match the PS3. That's when the PS3 is going to pwn just about everything.

Sure it is just NEOGaf shit, but whatever.

metroid composite · « **Reply #922 on:** September 26, 2009, 05:15:30 AM »

Quote from: Grefter on September 26, 2009, 01:27:24 AM

http://www.mmo-champion.com/general-discussion/best-gaming-console-ever!/

Ladies and gentleman. MMO-Champion forums finally spat out something generically retarded enough to link here instead of normal WoW fail.

It gives you guys like this
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OFC The Microsoft fanboys are in here trolling, and voting 360

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With the PS3 Sony skipped a generation, eventually Microsoft will be forced to make their own blu-ray console to match the PS3. That's when the PS3 is going to pwn just about everything.

Sure it is just NEOGaf shit, but whatever.

...No, that's all kinds of special above the level that console wars usually get.

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When it comes to pure strength, the PS3 wins out on everything.
It's much much much more powerful than the Xbox 360. The reason why it doesn't look as amazing for most games is because Microsoft has this policy of forcing game developers to make PS3 and Xbox 360 games equal in graphics, because their weak console can't handle the kind of graphics the PS3 can.

Let's ignore for the moment the "PS3 is more powerful" stuff. Lots of people get that wrong.

"Microsoft made them do it", though, is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read. Since when has any console manufacture had control over the content of a multiplatform game on a rival system? Does Microsoft have this kind of power over Sony first-party studios too?

SnowFire · « **Reply #923 on:** September 27, 2009, 05:40:34 PM »

Follow up on "Are Oklahoma students completely brain-dead:" Quite possibly not. Nate Silver of '08 election fame thinks that the pollster who did that poll basically isn't really a polling outfit but rather people who make up plausible-sounding numbers (since they never release polling methodology or deeper results or anything). Strategic Vision, LLC was in fact the people that did the Oklahoma poll.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/09/are-oklahoma-students-really-this-dumb.html

Basically, the killer: While I could conceivably imagine that Oklahoma schools critically fail and perhaps only 23% of students know that George Washington was the first president... the fact that *no one*, 0 students, got 8 or more questions right? Nobody who had good parents, or read from a book? These questions were not exactly hard.... there should be at least a few nerds in Oklahoma who know this basic stuff by *high school*.

So there's still an idiot of the day, just a new one: Strategic Vision. (See Silver's earlier posts for why he thinks they're cooking the books and saving valuable money by cutting out the "polling" part of polling.)

NotMiki · « **Reply #924 on:** September 27, 2009, 09:29:29 PM »

Quote from: SnowFire on September 27, 2009, 05:40:34 PM

Follow up on "Are Oklahoma students completely brain-dead:" Quite possibly not. Nate Silver of '08 election fame thinks that the pollster who did that poll basically isn't really a polling outfit but rather people who make up plausible-sounding numbers (since they never release polling methodology or deeper results or anything). Strategic Vision, LLC was in fact the people that did the Oklahoma poll.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/09/are-oklahoma-students-really-this-dumb.html

Basically, the killer: While I could conceivably imagine that Oklahoma schools critically fail and perhaps only 23% of students know that George Washington was the first president... the fact that *no one*, 0 students, got 8 or more questions right? Nobody who had good parents, or read from a book? These questions were not exactly hard.... there should be at least a few nerds in Oklahoma who know this basic stuff by *high school*.

So there's still an idiot of the day, just a new one: Strategic Vision. (See Silver's earlier posts for why he thinks they're cooking the books and saving valuable money by cutting out the "polling" part of polling.)

Nice catch.

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