I see stupid people

I don’t know if this should be in IMHO or MPSIMS or the Pit, so here it goes. Mods, feel free to move this.

I see stupid people. Everywhere. They’re all around us. You’ve seen them. Perhaps you are one of them. God help you if you are (seeing as you’re here, odds are you aren’t.)

What do I mean by stupid people? Stupid people are individuals who do not commit to moderation in their existance. Left and right wing radicals, feminazi’s, violent racists, criminals, bible-thumpers, and human excrement of all types (the term that comes to mind in white trash, but I’m not limiting my anger of stupid people to whites. Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics are equally enabled to be stupid as well.)

I live near in the same community as stupid people. I observed a pack of stupid people while waiting in my local Eckerd yesterday. There was a pop special, three Coca-Cola brand 12-packs for $7, with an additional $1 in store coupon. An excellent sale. Indeed, I was drawn into town for the expressed purpose of purchasing these pallate tingling soft-drinks at this wonderful retailer. But then there were the stupid people. A gaggle of them; a proverbial flock of idiocy. Four adult erect slugs and an equally large flock of larvae were standing in line, shopping carts full of pop 12 packs. I must note that on the coupon there was a limit of one special per customer, per day. That would indicate that the total take from these eight sub-humans would be twenty-four 12 packs of pop. No. Of course not, because I’m observing stupid white trash in their natural enviroment! Each of these gargantuan pubic lice have a cart with no less than fifteen 12-packs. While that in and of itself is excuseable (perhaps they did not see the bold-type LIMIT 1 PER CUSTOMER, PER DAY printed on the coupon,) when the matriarch of this clan of stupid was told that she was limited to three 12 packs, she became irate and stormed out of the store without purchasing any. The next individual, the seeming patriarch of Clan Idiota, attempted to purchase the same. And down the line it went until there were twelve carts full of pop and not a sale among them. No shoes, no shirts and they wanted to rip the company off. That’s a pack of stupid.

I serve with stupid people. A squadronmate of mine, who will go unnamed, was passed up for an early promotion to E-4 (called in the USAF a ‘Below The Zone’ promotion.) This fellow, who was black, muttered to me that ‘we’ (I myself am an American, of Korean decent) were passed up because we were of a non-white race. Never mind the fact that I was passed up because the woman in our squadron who did get her third stripe months ahead of us had already been overseas for two years while I only had a single one year short tour, and that this other fellow had been Article 15’ed for passing bad checks. No, it was race! Stuipd.

I hear stupid radio and television ads. The ones that stick out in my mind are the anti-smoking ads put on by such mentally challenged groups as TheTruth (www.thetruth.com) and SC’s very own www.rageagainstthehaze.com, sponsored by my tax dollars. I am a smoker. I have no problems with sitting in a ‘smoking section.’ I have no problems smoking outside. I have no problems with not smoking around others who would not like me to. But, to quote the SCDHEC’s Rage against the Haze (this is its OWN disclaimer) "**The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) maintains this Web site as a service to the public. While DHEC makes every effort to keep this information up-to-date and accurate, the information available here is NOT warranted by DHEC to be accurate or authoritative. ** (emphasis added).

I see stupid people. I wish they’d die.

That type of thinking is stupid, all right. And not just stupid – dangerous.

Oooh, such an easy target.
But I wouldn’t stuip that low.

www.livejournal.com/users/customers_suck

Thought you might like to take a look at the horror that’s spreading.

Stemba, given that you are in the armed forces, are you using your signature line in anything other than a sarcastic way (ie. “Hey everyone, look at this stupid quote!”)?

Stupid people call Coke “pop”.

Lib, I think you’ve just alienated the entire northern half of England at a stroke.

“Bagger chips anna bottler pop, please”.

I’m just waiting for the backlash to start that he dared used the “white trash” term. :wink:

I’m curious, what kind of store these days does not require shoes and shirts of its patrons? If such a store policy were in place, couldn’t the offending parties have been removed from the store before reaching the cashier, or even getting in line?

What does “white trash” really mean, anyway? Is it in reference to poor white people, you know, “trailor trash”? Or is it referencing people who act a certain way, regardless of their wealth (I’ve never seen any wealthy person called white trash, btw)?

Is there such a thing as “black trash”? If there is a white trash, there definitely should be, as well as brown trash, yellow trash, and purple polka dot trash.

  • A Confused Possibly Yellow Trash Dude

Tsk-tsk now, Sentient. Watch out for those affirmations of the consequent! You well know that just because a cow is always a bovine does not mean that a bovine is always a cow. I said that stupid people call Coke “pop”, but I did not say that all people who call Coke “pop” are stupid.

Personally, I find absolutely nothing wrong with the term. I don’t find it racist. I am a white Southern woman and to me the term means a behavior, regardless of their wealth or not. To me, acting “white trashy” means behaving in a poor manner.

I do not think I have ever heard the term “black trash” used. However, I have a close friend from high school who is black and when we are out and she sees someone acting poorly in her opinion she will talk about them being a “triffling black man” or a “triffling black woman.” I assume this is the same.

I am just going on past threads where when ANYBODY dared to use the term “white trash” they were flamed from here to eternity.

Hey…in the South we call EVERY soda a Coke. For example:

Aries: I’m gonig to get a coke, want one?

Other person: Yeah, bring me one.

Aries: What kind do you want?

Other Person: Oh, I don’t know…how about a Dr. Pepper?

:smiley:

If anyone is confused about the group that “white trash” is meant to describe, turn on “The Jerry Springer Show,” where you will see them in all their gap-toothed, mullet-headed glory.

Lib, you slippery rogue: OK, I’ll believe that you might as well have posted “Stupid people breathe oxygen”.

FWIW, I’m a northern Englander who thinks that calling pop pop is stupid.

They’re walking around like they’re normal people. They don’t know they’re stupid.

I always feel cold and can see my breath after lekatt posts about his Near Asleep Experiences.

You spelled “palate” wrong.

This makes me very mad. Fuck DHEC, the useless ass organization that it is. Department Helping Elevate Costs.

This is my new favorite phrase.
And I agree completely with the OP. Except the “wish they’d die” part. I just wish they’d move somewhere else, and leave me alone.

Besides, New Englanders call it ‘tonic’.