Are people stupid or am I getting old?

He was the voice of optimus prime.. from your favorite 21 year old straight razor shaver (born in summer of good ol' 1989 ;D ) and Educated student at the University of Houston Communications major.

he sang "the ballad of bilbo baggins"... and NO i did not google that....

Hmm, let's see: You cain't fix stupid.

Never argue with a fool, he'll drag you down to his level then beat you with experience.

Stupid as stupid does (since movies came up.) But it exemplifies the fact that intelligence does not have anything to do with how either smart or dumb people behave, sometimes.

The ideal of a Jeffersonian republic was founded on an educated voting populace. Someone has already noted that we have an under educated democracy.

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Originally Posted by paco664

i remember at the age of 37 i was moving to florida with a young lady i was dating she was 19 *(don't ask... call it a midlife crisis)... anyway as we were driving east on I10 the song "cashmere" came on the classic rock station we were listening to....

she said...



apparently a rapper had "rapped" *(or raped) over this song around that time...... she was disappointed to find out that in fact "puff daddy" was not the author of the song....

needless to say our relationship was very short after that moment because the generation gap was huge....

and she was dumb... as a rock.....

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My dumbest this year was a young heavy metal band came into my recording studio, the guitar player was looking at my wall pictures and asked who Keith Richards was. He had no clue and he was the guitar player

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My dumbest this year was a young heavy metal band came into my recording studio, the guitar player was looking at my wall pictures and asked who Keith Richards was. He had no clue and he was the guitar player

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lol. all i listen to is classic rock. i have a pretty good collection of vinyl..

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My dumbest this year was a young heavy metal band came into my recording studio, the guitar player was looking at my wall pictures and asked who Keith Richards was. He had no clue and he was the guitar player

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I'm not what you'd call a music buff ... AT ALL ... and I STILL know who Keith Richards is. I don't know how he's still alive, but I know who he is.

My concern for kids (I'm 40 btw) isn't the variance in popular knowledge (which we really should expect) but the seeming inability to think critically and reason, as well as the consideration that everything they think of is somehow "new and original". My Dad used to say, "there's nothing new under the sun" and in essence he was pretty right.

For most kids today there wasn't anything interesting about the Civil war, not even the outcome. Maybe if you had asked him how to sync up an IPad and a laptop to download tunes off an encrypted WiFi you'd have gotten a more interesting response.

From what I can gather reading this thread, Parents and Teachers are failing their children?

The other day some young punk did not know about when the germans bombed pearl harbor!!!! THE AUDACITY!!!!

There's a difference between stupidity and ignorance.
I don't think people are dumber.
I do think people may be ignorant of some things, but there's probably a balance. I'm sure I am ignorant of some things that would be important to other people.

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From what I can gather reading this thread, Parents and Teachers are failing their children?

The other day some young punk did not know about when the germans bombed pearl harbor!!!! THE AUDACITY!!!!

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It is not germane that Pearl Jam got bombed while swimming in the harbor. But, now, if Lindsey Lohan was with them . . .