# Pure, unadulterated stupid. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 22, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030 "2018-03-22T16:59:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/81 "2018-03-27T00:32:44Z")
> [@j666](#): > > Well, you could use her name, that usually works. > > Why would you be referring to someone’s body size, though? Well, you know, if one did not know her name, one might say, “_This is for that fat [epithet] over there_.” Unless one was not a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/82 "2018-03-27T00:52:06Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Well, you know, if one did not know her name, one might say, “_This is for that fat [epithet] over there_.” Unless one was not a jerk. I’d try “the brunette in the blue sweater” first, but that’s me. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/83 "2018-03-27T03:00:26Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > Did you get any return on your $100? No, I ended up selling my dinars over a decade later for nearly the same sum I got them for. With shipping and other expenses, it was a loss. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/84 "2018-03-27T03:48:11Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Did the vacuum have a transparent upper dome, with water swooshing around when it was running? I had a guy come to my house about 10 years ago and demonstrate one of those. It worked well, but wasn’t worth $800 or whatever he said the price was. Interestingly, he wasn’t a high-pressure salesperson either. ---
**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:** [March 27, 2018, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/85 "2018-03-27T05:00:17Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Things I have learned from the radical anti-abortion protestors I’ve talked to: > > 1. All women who have abortions became infertile, and some have three of more (go figure). > [@Filbert](#): > > Well, they do. > > Might take a couple of decades, say, 'til after menopause, mind… 😉 And, for that second part, ISTR reading about low-income women who can’t afford traditional birth control but have access to free (or almost free) abortions, so they use abortions as their birth control. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/86 "2018-03-27T13:12:25Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Um, [_The Federalist Papers_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._46#Military_and_militia)? Eh, not so much - at least for the 2nd amendment. Madison certainly points toward the idea of arming citizens to protect against a Federal government gone rogue, but doesn’t clarify the part about bearing arms only as part of militia or bearing arms, period, which could also be used if case militia is needed. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/87 "2018-03-27T14:27:12Z")
> [@j666](#): > > I’d try “the brunette in the blue sweater” first, but that’s me. Totally. But to prevent further hijacking, I created a [spin-off thread in IMHO](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=851810). ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/88 "2018-03-27T19:33:33Z")
Just this afternoon, in the supermarket. What looked like Grandpa and teen grand-daughter shopping in the crisp (chip) aisle. Grand-daughter is picking up bags and reading out the flavours. I overhear the following exchange: GD: ‘Vegetable crisps?’ (sounding confused) GP: ‘They’re nice, they are, have you tried them?’ GD: ‘No’ GP: ‘Want to?’ GD: (sounding utterly scornful) ‘Course not, I’m not a vegetarian!’ ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/89 "2018-03-28T00:43:49Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Back in the late 1990s/early 2000s I heard a local radio preacher insisting that (nearby city)'s instillation of traffic cameras was to keep track of which people had bibles on the dashes of their cars so that they could be rounded up and put in concentration camps. Maybe not such a bad idea. Once I was driving on the Indiana Turnpike and passed a guy doing 60. My wife glanced over and saw he had a bible resting on his wheel well and was apparently reading it while driving Getting back to the original post, ask the guy if he realizes what a tiny proportion of the human race was literate in those days. And anyway, those early writing systems were boustrophedon–successive lines went in opposite directions, which is why when they settled on uni-directional, they chose different ones. Maybe ask him if the percentage of dyslexic Israelis is any lower than here. When I learned to read Hebrew, the reading direction caused no difficulty at all. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/90 "2018-03-28T02:00:42Z")
Traditional Korean printing is from the “back” as we Westerners view it. Not only that, it was printed in columns, top to bottom, right to left. But \*hangul \*is just as easily read and printed in Western fashion. I have two Korean bibles, one New Testament printed Western fashion, and one complete Bible printed in the old style. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/91 "2018-03-28T02:11:21Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Maybe not such a bad idea. Once I was driving on the Indiana Turnpike and passed a guy doing 60. My wife glanced over and saw he had a bible resting on his wheel well and was apparently reading it while driving :eek: You’re assuming it was a Bible, anyway. Good grief, he could have used a Talking Bible if he wanted to keep up while he was on the road. :smack: Anyway, this made me think of the church sign that has become a meme: “Honk if you love Jesus, text if you want to meet Him.” ---
**Author:** ![Egnu\_Cledge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@Egnu\_Cledge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Egnu_Cledge)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/92 "2018-03-28T04:49:39Z")
Today I learned from a coworker that Jennifer Hudson’s family was not murdered, so much as “sacrificed” to the Illuminati in exchange for making her famous. Beyoncé and Jay-Z are also Illuminatus, but she has yet to figure out which family members they had killed. I work in a library. ---
**Author:** ![Egnu\_Cledge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@Egnu\_Cledge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Egnu_Cledge)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/93 "2018-03-28T04:54:24Z")
This same coworker also once attributed a spate of hurricanes and tornadoes to being the natural result of letting gay people get married. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@MonkeyCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyCat)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/94 "2018-03-28T20:03:32Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > [Here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20861059&postcount=27) is some grade A stupid, right here amongst us. Holy moly. What was he even trying to explain? I actually really tried to understand what his point was, and I couldn’t. “Life is full of coincidences?” Or something more sinister? “Everything is preordained?” ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/95 "2018-03-28T21:35:06Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > Overheard in the bathroom of an all-vegetarian Indian restaurant my husband (who is Indian), kids and I frequent: > > _How can anyone expect children to eat Indian food? So many spices! And almost no protein! Why don’t they have chicken nuggets or something edible on the menu?!_ > > To which my daughter (loudly) hissed, “Mommy, do you think she realizes what vegetarian means? And what does she think Indian kids eat!? If she thinks this is spicy, she’s got another think coming! I could out-spice the crap out of her.” > > I was totally with her until that last sentence, which made me choke-snort. Well, what do Indian children eat? I always assumed the same thing as their parents but less spiced (in all respects) as kids generally have a terrible palate and lower tolerance for complex flavors. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/96 "2018-03-28T22:13:43Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > - Women generally do not produce breast milk until after they have given birth But colostrum is produced before birth. Were they saying women produce breastmilk when not even pregnant? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/97 "2018-03-28T22:25:15Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Well, what do Indian children eat? I always assumed the same thing as their parents but less spiced (in all respects) as kids generally have a terrible palate and lower tolerance for complex flavors. I have had Indian food that was at the 4-out-of-5 level of spiciness (scovillity). I ran out of napkins to wipe my vast forehead. I think they must have a dilution pattern for children, which they gradually ratchet up until the young ones are entirely comfortable with adult food and they no longer feel fire in the ass when they crap. And, of course, there are things like lassi, raita and gulab jamun, which are not at all spicy (although that last one is absurdly sweet – I would rather have kheer). ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030/98 "2018-03-28T23:29:23Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > But colostrum is produced before birth. Were they saying women produce breastmilk when not even pregnant? That’s true about colostrum. Anyway, it’s uncommon for a nullipara to produce breast milk unless she has hyperprolactinemia, or has sufficient nipple stimulation. Some women have been able to breast-feed adopted babies by doing the latter, usually with a breast pump. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-unadulterated-stupid/811030.md?page=4)