I don't think that I've ever been asked a profoundly dumb question. I mean, my brother asks me questions about math that seem pretty simple to me, but he only asks the question because he wishes to further his understanding in that subject. Stupid questions are hard to come by.
I work in a store. I have a big red sweater with a white print spelling out "Ask me if you need any help." on the back and I got the corporate logo on my shoulder.
Do you realize that when you belittle people for asking "stupid" questions, you destroy their ability to keep asking questions?
I dislike threads that ask about stupid, ignorant questions other people ask. They are belittling and low. Self-congratulatory people who snicker and roll their eyes at others, are the reason people stop asking questions: because you make them feel stupid. They're trying to learn something, and you're pooping all over them because you come into the situation with the benefit of having greater prior knowledge than them, or the benefit of a mind better at rational examination.
I'm going to have to paraphrase Carl Sagan here:
There is no such thing as a stupid question. Many people say that, but it really is true. Every question, no matter how ill-formed or ignorant of knowledge, is a request for knowledge, a request for information. It is an effort to understand better. Every time someone asks an honest question, it is an interrogation of nature, an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe.
Now we're back to me. You guys are who drive people away from science. You're the people who consign them to never understanding, because they're afraid of being made fun of for asking the questions they need to ask in order to understand... because when they did try, you laughed at them and made them feel stupid for trying to understand. Nobody wants to feel stupid, and "better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." Many of us condemn the jock and cheerleader stereotypes that made it uncool to enjoy or be good at science or school in general, but you who laugh at the ignorant people are no better.
So go ahead and complain about how stupid your peers are. Weep for your generation or engage in further hyperbolic hyperventilation about how screwed everything is because some of us are dumber. And don't say "this is a forum", because that's the attitude you have in real life. In a very real way, when you laugh at these people and when you masturbate your own intellectual egos over the stupidity of people not so fortunate as you, you make it all worse.
Someone, at a critical juncture, makes a decision to try to understand and they get laughed at. Humiliated. Shamed. All for ... what? Having the audacity to want to understand, or offer a suggestion that seems reasonable to their limited understanding?
Instead of laughing at these people and letting them go through their life unvalidated and their thirst for information suppressed, why don't you recognize that they have a fundamental deficiency of knowledge and help them yourself. Just the tiniest bit of validation, even later, can mitigate the embarrassment that he or she feels, and just might result in one less person you would later consider a mindless drone.
TL;DR: Laughing at an ignorant person for asking questions is like laughing at a fat person for being at the gym.
You do realize that this thread is for fun, and it's for stupid questions like, "would you like a table". Questions like, "Can you help me with this problem," aren't stupid. They're people wanting help.
You do realize that this thread is for fun, and it's for stupid questions like, "would you like a table". Questions like, "Can you help me with this problem," aren't stupid. They're people wanting help.
Maybe these questions you're mentioning are stupid to you, but not to them. They don't have such understanding as you do. And more, when they ask actually important questions, they'll fear it, because when they tried to simple things, people made them feel stupid for trying to understand.
I'm a snowboard instructor, so when I teach people a basic move more than 10 times, and they ask me "AM I DOING THIS RIGHT" it kinda gets on my nerves...
~ Maruki Konkuro
Founder of Kelacao
Queue: "Excuse me, do you work here?"
Venit, quessit, induravit.
"Yeah, it's really fun."
"What is your username?"
You should really put your questions into context, because that on its own is not a dumb question.
Ok i got back home from school and one of my moms friends were there and she goes what school do you go too?
Even with my uniform on she couldnt fogure it out :/
Just doing this so you know who it is
I dislike threads that ask about stupid, ignorant questions other people ask. They are belittling and low. Self-congratulatory people who snicker and roll their eyes at others, are the reason people stop asking questions: because you make them feel stupid. They're trying to learn something, and you're pooping all over them because you come into the situation with the benefit of having greater prior knowledge than them, or the benefit of a mind better at rational examination.
I'm going to have to paraphrase Carl Sagan here:
Now we're back to me. You guys are who drive people away from science. You're the people who consign them to never understanding, because they're afraid of being made fun of for asking the questions they need to ask in order to understand... because when they did try, you laughed at them and made them feel stupid for trying to understand. Nobody wants to feel stupid, and "better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." Many of us condemn the jock and cheerleader stereotypes that made it uncool to enjoy or be good at science or school in general, but you who laugh at the ignorant people are no better.
So go ahead and complain about how stupid your peers are. Weep for your generation or engage in further hyperbolic hyperventilation about how screwed everything is because some of us are dumber. And don't say "this is a forum", because that's the attitude you have in real life. In a very real way, when you laugh at these people and when you masturbate your own intellectual egos over the stupidity of people not so fortunate as you, you make it all worse.
Someone, at a critical juncture, makes a decision to try to understand and they get laughed at. Humiliated. Shamed. All for ... what? Having the audacity to want to understand, or offer a suggestion that seems reasonable to their limited understanding?
Instead of laughing at these people and letting them go through their life unvalidated and their thirst for information suppressed, why don't you recognize that they have a fundamental deficiency of knowledge and help them yourself. Just the tiniest bit of validation, even later, can mitigate the embarrassment that he or she feels, and just might result in one less person you would later consider a mindless drone.
TL;DR: Laughing at an ignorant person for asking questions is like laughing at a fat person for being at the gym.
*Sees me carrying heavy object and struggling* "Do you want help with that?"
You do realize that this thread is for fun, and it's for stupid questions like, "would you like a table". Questions like, "Can you help me with this problem," aren't stupid. They're people wanting help.
Maybe these questions you're mentioning are stupid to you, but not to them. They don't have such understanding as you do. And more, when they ask actually important questions, they'll fear it, because when they tried to simple things, people made them feel stupid for trying to understand.
Have you ever had a girlfriend?
Etc.
And no, I'm not gay dangit.
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Venit, quessit, induravit.
Stupidity doesn't ask questions. That's what makes it stupidity.
Waitress: "Would you like cheese on that?"
Now that is a dumb question. XD
How many fingers am I holding up?
/Facepalm of Epicness
...er, sorry, I'm just being skeptic.
ME: No.
"Japanese?"
ME: No.
"Thai? Vietnamese?"
ME: No.
"Korean?"
ME: Yes.
Stuff I have to go through a lot.
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