nickel_dime wrote:
JThw8 wrote:
Life is much less stressful when you don't care what other people think of you.
A true statement.
Ignorant people can be trained (if they want to be) but you just can't fix stupid.
^^Troof.^^ It amazes me how many people will say the dumbest things, it's best to just ignore the comment or at most just make a polite noise and keep going. But if you don't just jump right up and agree with them then in their eyes you are being an ass.
Like the guy with the 200 MPH Trans Am many years ago, it was a comment he made in passing that I just let slide on by, did not acknowledge that he had even made the statement because it just wasn't worth arguing about. He returned to it again and again, just would not let it go, wanted me to agree with him. I then made the mistake of saying it couldn't do 200 MPH even if it was dropped off a cliff. That damn near started a fistfight. 
I had a younger guy that worked for me a while ago. He was kind of a know it all type but he would just come up with some crazy off the wall E36 M3. And if you didn't agree with him an argument would begin that would last for days.
One time he was positive that Toyota had bought the rights to the small block chevy and thats the only reason they have v8's in there trucks. He said it several times and I just ignored him. I let him get to me once over him saying that his " 1992 Ford Pony Escort" was rear wheel drive. I said no it wasn't. He said he pulled the driveshaft to replace the u-joints and he knew it was rwd. I argued with him for several days and the only way to make peace with him was he agreed Ford never built a rwd escort in 92 and I had to say that It's possible that sometime in the cars past someone had converted it to rwd.
He finally got to me after a couple months after saying something completely stupid. I flat told him that he was trying too hard to make himself sound smart and all it was doing was showing everyone how ignorant he was. I said he would be better off to keep his mouth shut and let people think he was a fool than to open his mouth and remove all doubt. I thought he was going to cry. He didn't talk to me for three days. I just had enough.
I watched guys put chains on the rear wheels of their Civic in a Canadian Tire parking lot last winter.
I just left them alone. No point in helping to keep the leaves in the gene pool.
I figured out a while ago that we need some large predators cloned and released into the populated areas.
T-Rex should fit the bill nicely.
Intelligent people will get guns and hide.
Stupid people will get cameras and go outside.
I watched this very principle being applied in Jasper National Park while watching the tourists stop, get out of their cars and take pictures of / feed the bears.
Shawn
Curmudgeon wrote:
But they're so CUUUUUTE.
That bear looks like he is saying "hhhmmmmmmm, Ginger!"
