Ignorance
 

So i'm sitting in my living room with my parents and grandparents(they were over for dinner) and we were watching the news. On comes a report about a shooting that happened. As soon as it's over my grandpa goes on about how it's the video game's fault that it happened. I said "Wait, you think it's video games fault because you THINK they were playing them?" I could have said more on the subject but my mom was staring daggers at me as if to say Don't go on if you know what's good for you. So i dropped it, but i was lauging my ass of inside. It always astounds me how people will go on about things they know nothing about just to sound smart and like they understand the situation. When you actually understand what's going on it makes what the people spouting out ignorant crap look really stupid and funny.

So share your stories of ignorance that you've experienced.

I know a guy who is convinced that every Muslim is evil. Not just the extremist terrorist groups, but every one. Calling someone an Arab is the ultimate insult in his repitoire. I freaking hate that guy.

Are we talking about people who actually believe they know something when they don't, or people who are just pretending to know something when they don't, or both?

Both of them are examples of ignorant people.

Moving on, I live in Mississippi so everywhere you go there are bigots. Is there any group of people who could be more ignorant than bigots?

Mississippi is like Alabama Lite. I've been to both for good lengths of time.

Alabama Lite. Atleast on the Bigots and crappy kinds of people.

I mean, I live here. How much more awful do you need?

Nebraska has no shortage of bigots, let me assure you.
I think that the most ignorant thing that I ever heard was someone standing in front of a Gyro place saying that they didn't want to give any money to the "rag head" running the place.
I was walking by at this point, with a group of people and I may have been a little drunk.
I think that I may have said some fighting words, because my friends were breaking us up a minute later.
So there kids, violence solves every problem, when you're drunk.
*note, violence solves nothing, stay in shcool and never drink*

I work in the complaints department of a major North American manufacturer. We have a world wide support network.

This, I think, was my most horrendous caller. It is in quotations, because it says volumes.

"I`s so glad that you talk American good like me. I called earlier on today an`got some Indjeeunn. I hung up on dem `cause I dint unnerstand dem."

Yes, I am actually fluent in English, French AND ...American? HmmmmMMmm.

Most of the calls I receive are irritated people. Hey, if the damn thing breaks, I`m upset too. Let`s work together to fix it, or replace it.
Kicking my co workers because your brain cannot comprehend a world that has different kinds of people in it? Way too backwards for me.

*Note: I must confess that I used to pretend to be an expert in things I knew nothing about. I have since broken myself of that habit.

I'm wondering, has anyone else ever been in this kind of situation? I have two:

1) My father loves to tell me a story about how he thought that his father had experience repairing cars because grandpa would always talk to a friend using lots of obscure mechanical terms. So, in the name of male bonding, dad learned all he could about car repair and such and tried to engage his father in a discussion about it. Of course, Grandpa had just been talking out of his ass for all those years.

2) My own experience is, well, pathetic and sad. When I was younger (and still a gullible idiot), a friend had me completely convinced that he was a computer genius (He wasn't, not even remotely.). Here's a taste of what I fell for:

• He told me he could make my graphing calculator's cpu faster by running binary code on it. He then programmed it to display a repeating sequence of ones and zeros. And I actually believed it was doing more than just displaying numbers on the screen.
• He told me he could do the same thing for the calculator's memory using hexadecimal.
• He said he was writing a virus that would aggregate and create zombie systems that would initiate a DDoS attack.(It was a great idea. Too bad it had already been done and he was pretty much quoting verbatim from an article he'd read.)

Like the idiot I was, I believed it all. That was when I decided to learn about computers. Three months later I realized just how much bullshit he had fed me.

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Edit (again): I have retracted the comment I made in the previous edit because it was kind of spammy, off topic, and unnecessary.

I hate ignorance with a passion :mad:

'nuff said.