# Let's pretend to be dumb **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 28, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572 "2020-06-28T19:55:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Obama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7bcc69/32.png) [@Obama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obama)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/1 "2020-06-28T19:55:03Z")
There is a social signaling game where people pretend to be dumb to show how dumb they can be and still survive. Let’s play that. Its unsustainable because eventually the actual competent people win and the fake dumb people become actual dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/2 "2020-06-28T20:18:20Z")
I’m so dumb, I read your words and I can’t understand the game. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/3 "2020-06-28T21:04:47Z")
What? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/4 "2020-06-28T21:28:00Z")
What is ‘social signaling’? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/5 "2020-06-28T21:37:54Z")
I’m what you call a visual learner. So can you explain the rules of this game using pictures? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/6 "2020-06-28T23:33:00Z")
I can’t even read. What the hell’s going on here? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/7 "2020-06-29T00:28:45Z")
Is this a game of virtual “Madlibs”? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/8 "2020-06-29T04:22:38Z")
Sorry, my CORVID mask is cutting off my oxygen and killing me so I don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/9 "2020-06-29T09:24:54Z")
I don’t have any ID. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/10 "2020-06-29T12:54:48Z")
Pertend? ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/11 "2020-06-29T12:57:31Z")
Let me watch some Fox News and I’ll let you know my response later. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/12 "2020-06-29T12:58:34Z")
Everybody’s dumb on the SDMB, cause there’s no sound. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/13 "2020-06-29T13:08:54Z")
I’m so dumb I can’t even pretend I’m surviving. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/14 "2020-06-29T13:16:52Z")
Hey, you wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/15 "2020-06-29T15:13:11Z")
Pass the mustard. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/16 "2020-06-29T20:26:09Z")
…'pon the left hand side. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/17 "2020-06-30T03:03:44Z")
When I looked in the mirror, my feet were at the top and my head at the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/18 "2020-06-30T03:14:43Z")
I don’t know ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Crap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.crap/32/3131_2.png) [@Dr.Crap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Crap)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/19 "2020-06-30T03:31:20Z")
Drivers think you’ll yield to them if you look both ways before crossing a road. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-pretend-to-be-dumb/913572/20 "2020-06-30T03:38:55Z")
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