How stupid do you think people are? Poll and Rant

[jaysz2893]

The question of stupidity is not based on Education Level, but more the level (or lack of) common sense that people have. This rant stems from the fact i got a phone call @ 1 AM this morning. It came up as a Seattle WA number. I googled said number and found a blog with 20+ Delaware people that got the same call. I have since reported it to the Do Not Call thingy and to the carrier in WA that owns the number. This got me thinking. For everyone that got the same call last night, there has to be a lot more that did not post it to the blog or report the number. This is where I see the stupidity of the general public. If people do not start using thier heads this kind of stuff will continue. I dont just mean these type of calls. I think telemarketing is a thankless job. I also see them as a scam, but it must work on some people. I am of the mind that if I want a service or good I will make the needed calls. Bill collectors use some tactics that border on illegal and people ususally dont flinch. THe SCAM calls is really what gets me. It is not just calls, but emails, texts, tweets, etc.. How stupid are people that scammers actually get away with this stuff. I posted my wheels on CL one time. My inbox was damn near full of Nigerian Princes want to send me 1000 bucks more in a western union than what i wanted for the wheels. I get ebay scam emails all the time. It is clear that they are not from Ebay as the email address is not anything close to an ebay one. Half the time they want to ask questons about stuff i dont even have for sale. All I "need to do" is log in to the link on the email.. yada, yada, yada. The best ones I see are the Bank Of America phishing scams. THe Email may have legit logo's on them but how stupid are people that will actually put account numberts and even their SSN on an email. All I can figure is this shit must work on some people. I guess it has been going on for a long time. I mean look at all the "cults" that people have joined and died for. How feeble minded do you have to be to be suckered in by a person promising you eternal salvation if you drink the grape Kool AIde?? Evangilists that take money from the elderly, suicide bombers, the local drug dealer that try to hustle you at a shell game. None of these people would exist if it wasnt for the lack of "smarts" the average person should have. How do we fix this, and where do we go as a race of humans? Sorry i rambled a bit, but this stuff has been bothering me for a while...

[Wooshie]

I voted pretty damn stupid. Commen sense isn't so common.

[AChotrod]

Its crazy how stupid people are.

[Chris]

Did you say there would be koolaid?

[CamaroGirl]

haha^^
never underestimate the general public: dumbasses

[94Blackbird]

Never forget the power of stupid people in large groups. Because you always have the one smart one to get them to do thier bidding.

I don't understand how people can be so stupid sometimes. Its mind boggling the amount of stupid that got poured on this world at its creation. Like people who continue to ask for something even after you tell them you don't have it. Or people who didn't see the red light because thier vision was too blurry from the drinks they had an hour before. Or the retards that complain because they can't see a bright ass red horse on the side of the road against a backround of black and white, all because they don't want to slow down. Like the strip club is going to be closing soon at 2-3 in the afternoon or something like that. Or the idiot who got behind me last time I went home and followed me for 30 miles with his brights on. I wonder if it ever struck him that the car on the trailer was blocking the light, and that I didn't even really care, or that if I hadn't had my car on the trailer, I would have stomped on the brakes and put the rear of the trailer into his engine bay for being so retarded as the follow me that close. Go right on ahead little ford exploder, think your going to move 10,000 pounds or better of car, truck and trailer. We'll see how you like it when you got to walk the 20 or so miles back to the next exit in the freezing cold. Or any idiot that follows me real close for that matter. I guess people have a death wish, because it's always the little crush cars that get right on my ass. And I have a hitch in the reciever that'll probablly take thier faces out if the hit me, but they're more concerned with putting on thier make up or wiggling thier thumbs up their asses to realize what a full frame truck is going to do to thier little tinker toy car. How about the retard who tries to weave in and out of traffic when its backed up all lanes for miles thinking he can get clear, what, 30 secs. early? More than likely they just cost themselves, oh, probably a half hour than if they would have just sat down, shut up, and enjoyed the music.

[Camaro_94]

I hate the people that send you the BS messages on craigslist. I am trying to sell my trailblazer to buy my fathers silverado, and I got 4 e-mails within the first hour from scammers. "I've always wanted a 2005 Trailblazer LS - 4WD (coppied the title of the post)"... Blah blah blah....

I let them all know what I thought of them. :D

I learned to just let the stupid people be right and not argue with them, since it would be like fighting a losing battle. You're not going to change their opinions, and you're just wasting your time.

[Formula 350]

I deal with dumb people all the time. Like this one lady came in and tried to return a electrical item. When there was a sign right in front off her that said no returns on electrical items in big bold letters. I just dont get it why dont people pay attention.

[94Blackbird]

Because they are dumb enough to think they can get away with it

[GreenZ96]

Im pissed at all the reading to be done in this thread

[Firebat]

Look around when you walk into any Walmart. That's the general public.

Even look at things that don't seem that bad like fast food restaurants. Not only is it amazing that they still exist because we all know how unhealthy they are but how the fact that every fast food joint doesn't have a help wanted sign on its door. People in there 40s work there and its supposedly the best full-time job they can get.

I really don't like the general public. I work hard and get paid well. However, one way or another I have to pay for a portion of unemployment checks for idiots who don't even bother to look for a job until their unemployment runs out (taxes), the electric bills that never get paid or any unpaid bills (that cause my bills to go up or be high), etc, etc.

[TRIPOD]

I see it all the time as a deputy. One guy came in about a year ago, he bought a 69 mach 1 mustang for 10 grand, sent the check over seas and never got the car. A lady not too long ago, was scammed by sending 7k by western union. It makes you wonder wtf people are thinking. The best story that comes to mind though, two guys were drunk, the one guy bet his friend he wouldn't shoot him in the ass with a compound bow. Well,,,,,,, he did. So here is this poor drunk bastard, smoking a cig, with an arrow strait through his ass (broad head and all) when we arrive. The arrow went into one cheek and came out the other (imagine the gag arrow hat worn on someones ass). Sooo, Yes, I voted pretty damn stupid!!

[chevymec]

I live in the town of "Damn Stupid".

[popo8]

mmmmmmm GRAPE KOOL-AIDE