# Ever run across ignorance that just wasn't worth fighting? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 9, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188 "2003-07-09T07:03:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/62 "2003-07-14T00:31:55Z")
[I think I just did](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3694330#post3694330). ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/63 "2003-07-14T02:04:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kwaheeijy \* > \*\* > > They: “That movie is all fantasy, you know? Dinosaurs never excisted…” > > \*\* Well, if dinosaurs really had existed, wouldn’t they be mentioned in the Bible?🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rodrigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Rodrigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodrigo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/64 "2003-07-14T02:11:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Super Gnat \* > \*\*I thought it reinforced the immune system or something 😕 . \*\* At best is lessens the effects on a few people, generally it only makes your urine very expensive, ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/65 "2003-07-14T02:29:49Z")
The idea behind vitamin C being a preventative measure against viral infections is that it is an oxidant, and its charged molecules will supposedly bind with oppositely charged viral molecules, rendering them ineffectual. That’s the idea behind it; I don’t know doodely about if it works or not. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/66 "2003-07-14T02:53:19Z")
Radio talk show hosts. Their job is to make people call so they act like assholes. They can’t change their mind on issues because that would ruin their image of asshole. Even if you call in with the best agrument ever they can side-track you with unrelated questions (“Just how gay are you?”) or hang up on you. :Sigh: The good news is in theory they are just being assholes for the show. The bad news is some are completely serious. ---
**Author:** ![jesleigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jesleigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesleigh)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/67 "2003-07-14T03:30:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Earl of Sandwhich \* > \*\*Well, if dinosaurs really had existed, wouldn’t they be mentioned in the Bible?🙂 \*\* The Bible mentions dragons and great sea monsters in many places. Makes sense that it could be references to dinasours 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rayray5884](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@rayray5884](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayray5884)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/68 "2003-07-14T04:05:53Z")
Theres a guy I work with. Not the brightest guy in the world. Says to me one day that pop-rocks were taken off the market because if you mixed them with soda you’d explode. I wanted to correct him but I just walked away. ---
**Author:** ![Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji_Kitakyusho)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/69 "2003-07-14T04:33:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TeaRoses \* > \*\*Also my friend who kept insisting that the f-word is an acronym. Sigh, no it’s not, but finally I said, “Oh what do I care if she thinks it.” \*\* For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge? -FK ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/70 "2003-07-14T05:15:29Z")
Yeah, my co-madre (which I believe is Spanish for my son’s mother-in-law). \*If you knew the right people, you could buy Original Coke, that is to say, with cocaine as an ingredient, in Oklahoma in the 1950s. Her father bought it all the time. (Sure he did.) \*Paragoric was sold over-the-counter as a treatment for colic and she gave it to her babies when they were infants. (In the late '70s. Well, she may have _had_ some, and she may even have bought it OTC, but it would have been pretty old. Maybe like the antique Coke.) \*Satanists are behind the cat-killings in Denver and SLC. (Somebody had to say this, right?) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/71 "2003-07-14T11:21:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wolfian \* > \*\*Radio talk show hosts. Their job is to make people call so they act like assholes. They can’t change their mind on issues because that would ruin their image of asshole. Even if you call in with the best agrument ever they can side-track you with unrelated questions (“Just how gay are you?”) or hang up on you. :Sigh: \*\* Of course, they’re not all like this. Some, like the ones on [KTRS](http://www.ktrs.com/), do listen to their callers. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/72 "2003-07-14T14:46:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rodrigo \* > \*\*At best is lessens the effects on a few people, generally it only makes your urine very expensive, \*\* That’s okay, I get all my urine for free. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/73 "2003-07-14T23:57:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rayray5884 \* > \*\*Theres a guy I work with. Not the brightest guy in the world. Says to me one day that pop-rocks were taken off the market because if you mixed them with soda you’d explode. I wanted to correct him but I just walked away. \*\* See, this is where you pick up some pop rocks and soda on the way to work, and then consume them together in front of him. ---
**Author:** ![jesleigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jesleigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesleigh)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/74 "2003-07-15T03:10:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*See, this is where you pick up some pop rocks and soda on the way to work, and then consume them together in front of him. \*\* AAAHHH…but what if he’s right :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/75 "2003-07-15T05:29:33Z")
> [@](#): > > I was very much joking. The purple bird comment is meant to be read tongue-in-cheek. But I see why this concerns you, Cardinal , being a red bird yourself Good point. But the little bird in front of whom I am currently doing the hoppy-hoppy dance of enchantment has black tufts, not blue. ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/76 "2005-08-03T22:14:30Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > The arguments that are not worth fighting are the ones where the other person makes an imaginary world where they are always right. I mean, come on, how the hell am I supposed to conquer your delusion when you make yourself out to be infallable? My dad pulls this all the time and has since I was little. “I’m older than you. Therefore, I am right. The only reason you think differently from me is you haven’t had time to acquire all the information I have.” To be fair, the guy does outstrip my knowledge of American History by leaps and bounds. But I’m pretty sure my meager supply of chicken knowledge beats out his. And he just can’t admit it. Not worth fighting. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/77 "2005-08-03T22:29:26Z")
Someone get the shotguns, there’s zombie threads about. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/78 "2005-08-03T22:29:36Z")
I accidentally did the same thing in a Pit thread last week, but mine was just a couple of months old. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/79 "2005-08-04T01:16:36Z")
> [@Pay Toll $1.00](#): > > My nephew, dissecting frogs in biology at college, makes these incredible statements about how animals can’t feel pain, at least not as we know it. that’s actually pretty logical. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188/80 "2005-08-04T01:30:47Z")
Two years in the grave… Back to the dirt condo. Veb [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-run-across-ignorance-that-just-wasnt-worth-fighting/187188.md?page=3)