# Most people are idiots.  Comments?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-people-are-idiots-comments/33776>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 19, 2000, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-people-are-idiots-comments/33776 "2000-09-19T20:08:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![2sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e47774/32.png) [@2sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2sense)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-people-are-idiots-comments/33776/41 "2000-09-23T06:33:50Z")

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> _Originally posted by manhattan \*  
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> Among the membership of this message board, for example, I’d say a good 98% or better would have known this is not a General Question._\*

At first glance this statement seems undeniable.  
But then I read the responses by the posters here, all of whom have been here longer than **Beetle99**.

Less than 98% of the posters in this thread seem to have a grasp of the simple concept that personal insults are reserved to the Pit.  
Perhaps the membership is less familiar with our customs than one would think.

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**Author:** ![ChromiumGrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@ChromiumGrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChromiumGrin)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-people-are-idiots-comments/33776/42 "2000-09-23T06:39:01Z")

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The ability to do some things is not all that good as a sign of intelligence, after all Apes can use stick tools, learn commands, figure out puzzles but they still sit on the floor and pick their asses!

Not to mention being spotted drinking the urine of another ape as it pees.

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**Author:** ![Easy\_Tokyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71c47a/32.png) [@Easy\_Tokyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Easy_Tokyo)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-people-are-idiots-comments/33776/43 "2000-09-24T04:54:24Z")

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I’d vote with George Carlin:

All the drivers going slower in front of me are idiots,  
and all of those going faster behind me are maniacs.

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