# Can't you people tell when someone is unable to learn from their mistakes? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 18, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876 "2012-08-18T15:36:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/41 "2012-08-18T21:00:32Z")
No. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/42 "2012-08-18T21:01:59Z")
I think I should take that whiskey into my tender care then. I promise, it’s going to a good home! ---
**Author:** ![Crab\_Rangoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Crab\_Rangoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crab_Rangoon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/43 "2012-08-18T21:11:15Z")
Well, I mistakenly read this thread and posted to it even though the OP was Lute. And now look - I opened it again and posted again. I can understand the OP now. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/44 "2012-08-18T21:26:23Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > Jesus Fucking Christ, Lute, you very seriously need to stop posting this shit. I don’t have anything against you; I’m just saying you are fucking up and even if you offer lame excuse #3297, that doesn’t cut it, and even if you are legally retarded, you have to know this. You are not going to garner any sympathy, whatsoever, so there is absolutely no reason for you to do this. Are you looking for a mercy banning? 1. can you read something we can’t read? 2. what’s with the gazebo love? or is it hate? c. Lute! I didn’t meant it, feel free to delete all you like. nice thread.😛 ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/45 "2012-08-18T21:30:42Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > if this means “never mind” I DO mind. don’t go to the trouble of posting and then back out. > > post ON! 🆒 “n/m” in this context meant “no message” - as in the thread title was the only message intended. (Note, there was no edit of the OP.) ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/46 "2012-08-18T22:04:44Z")
I can’t tell. Maybe if lots of Dopers would paypal me money, I could correct this problem. Y’know, by buying some nice luxury item without touching my savings. Yeah, that would help. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/47 "2012-08-18T22:06:56Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > “n/m” in this context meant “no message” - as in the thread title was the only message intended. (Note, there was no edit of the OP.) is that what it means? _blush_ then, in the words of Rosanneroseannadanna never mind! ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/48 "2012-08-18T22:13:31Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Can’t you people tell when someone is unable to learn from their mistakes? I thought I could, but I might be mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/49 "2012-08-18T22:50:50Z")
I’d offer a slightly tentative “Yes”. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/50 "2012-08-18T23:29:08Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Can’t you people tell when someone is unable to learn from their mistakes? Upon further consideration, I realize that the question reduces to an instance of the [halting problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem), so my answer is “no”. I’m unable to decide that which is undecidable. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/51 "2012-08-18T23:57:29Z")
Apparently my Lion King bit didn’t quite sink in. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/52 "2012-08-19T00:05:29Z")
Dude, if you’re unable to learn from your mistakes, get off the computer and get help of the professional variety. Use one of your retirement account **s**. So far, to justify your scam, you’ve claimed 1. Some undefined anxiety problem that made you forget about your multiple retirement accounts while you were trying to mooch money off people to pay for your bunny’s air conditioning. Oh, and somehow your undefined anxiety problem somehow also made your wife join in your scam. 2. Then have some kind of heretofore undiagnosed “double-depression” 3. Some sort of psychic trauma from baking your pet kitty or bunny to the point where it had brain-damage (I don’t remember which) when you were but a tot and this left you scarred, so scarred that you’d try to scam money from fellow dopers. 4. You actually claimed to be mentally retarded…which if true, you shouldn’t be posting here and if false is contemptible. and now 1. whatever the fuck this was. If you can’t learn from your mistakes, you need to be institutionalized because you’re a danger to yourself or others. Even if you’re an anxiety-filled, double-depressive, mentally retarded bunny-lobotomizer who can’t learn from his mistakes, you should be able to grasp the concept that _you’re making yourself look worse with each try_. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/53 "2012-08-19T00:40:30Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > Even if you’re an anxiety-filled, double-depressive, mentally retarded bunny-lobotomizer who can’t learn from his mistakes, you should be able to grasp the concept that _you’re making yourself look worse with each try_. Who are you calling a bunny-lobotimizer? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/54 "2012-08-19T03:06:30Z")
There’s a bunny-boiler joke in there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/55 "2012-08-19T03:23:59Z")
I bitch about my mentally ill friend all the time, and do lots of damage control. Tony wouldn’t do this sort of thing online because of the people who point and laugh at the idiot. Tony might be the nutz, but he does learn from experience. Nowadays, he only uses his comp for porn. If Tony did do this sort of thing, I would not do damage control for him. I’d stop his internet access. I wonder if your sister could do something like that for you. You really need to stop doing this. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/56 "2012-08-19T04:32:43Z")
“_Can’t catch me cause the rabbit done died_.” ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/57 "2012-08-19T04:40:49Z")
So do Pit threads just never get closed or what? ---
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/58 "2012-08-19T04:52:04Z")
The answer is yes! ---
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/59 "2012-08-19T04:53:10Z")
Whoops wrong thread! ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876/60 "2012-08-19T05:06:05Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I know, right? And now the dried milk has loosened up, and is floating around in chunks in my drink. It’s kind of gross. _gag_ Although I assume the whiskey has suitably sterilized the dried milk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-people-tell-when-someone-is-unable-to-learn-from-their-mistakes/631876.md?page=4)