# \*sigh\* Rampant Stupidity

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-rampant-stupidity/624407>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 7, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-rampant-stupidity/624407 "2012-06-07T17:30:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-rampant-stupidity/624407/1 "2012-06-07T17:30:56Z")

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Stupidity, just total [stupidity](http://www.futilitycloset.com/2012/06/07/homecoming-2/).

If the dude had done his duty, stayed with the supply column, he would probably survived and gone home after the war and his family wouldn’t have had to look out the windows to see his corpse.

Dude needed to learn impulse control.

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**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-rampant-stupidity/624407/2 "2012-06-07T17:42:53Z")

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And did you hear how many Confederates were taken prisoner at Piedmont? What morons!

And the dress Belle Boyd was wearing during her arrest? HELLO! The 50s ended four years ago!

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-rampant-stupidity/624407/3 "2012-06-07T18:29:39Z")

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I hate it when that happens.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-rampant-stupidity/624407/4 "2012-06-07T18:31:12Z")

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Very sad. If he’d stopped to think, he might still be alive today.

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-rampant-stupidity/624407/5 "2012-06-08T01:23:17Z")

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> [@Marley23](#):
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> Very sad. If he’d stopped to think, he might still be alive today.

Exactly my point.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-rampant-stupidity/624407/6 "2012-06-08T01:33:25Z")

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A comment that applies to so many people every day.