# Society for stupid people. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 4, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212 "2004-04-04T18:47:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![agiantdwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8c91f0/32.png) [@agiantdwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agiantdwarf)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/61 "2004-04-05T20:40:33Z")
Oh, I forgot this. Dubbed movies for people who think reading subtitles is hard :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/62 "2004-04-05T20:54:32Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > Please don’t say that you’re one of those people that read off **every fucking movie title** to their SO at the video store! Given that I have 300+ DVDs at home and I subscribe to Netflix and Greencine, you may rest assured that I am not one of those people. > [@](#): > > And you don’t know what rage is until you’re behind some dumb bitch at subway asking her sweetie what he wants on his sub **one fucking ingredient at a time !** These people need to learn some cell phone manners. Or, have their phones rectally implanted by whomever they’re enraging the most. Blame the user, not the technology. There is no device that canot be misuused by a moron. My conversations go like this; I’m heading home on the Metro, the cell phone rings: Cell: Ring! Me: Hello? Cell: Hey sweetie, it’s me. I’m jonesing for Chinese. Why don’t you get off at Ballston and we’ll go to that Hunan place. Me: OK, see you there. That’s two sentences spoken in a low voice–HTF does that annoy anyone? I detest the "Hi, i’m bored, Oh, nothing I’m on the train. . . " chatterboxes. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/63 "2004-04-05T22:06:20Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > One of my other peeves is designer coffees. I’m sure all the fancy coffees that are now available are absolutely scrumptious, but I am still having a very hard time paying $3-4 for a cup of coffee. One thing you have to understand about the coffee trade is that one doesn’t pay $3 to $4 for just “a cup of coffee”. Those prices are more applicable to elaborate lattes and frappes that demand a lot of time and labor from the barista. A cup of straight joe doesn’t run anywhere near that much, even at Starbucks or Diedrichs. As for the “gourmet” varietal coffees, while they do cost a lot more than Yuban or Folgers, they’re still among the cheapest pleasures you can buy if you brew it at home. Given the fact that places like Diedrichs and Starbucks make this stuff available to customers to buy in bulk, why not offer it for consumption on the premises? For some people, some times, the expense is worth it. ---
**Author:** ![labmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@labmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labmonkey)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/64 "2004-04-05T23:24:05Z")
Universities. ---
**Author:** ![mrunlucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@mrunlucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrunlucky)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/65 "2004-04-06T00:25:12Z")
Crustless bread. Come on, how hard it is to just peel the crust off? “When is a diet pill worth $153 a bottle?” When you think that a bottle of diet pills will only work when they cost that much money. Oh, and when you think a non-prescription diet pill is actually going to help you out. Oh, and when you’re just very very gullible. Thomas Kinkaide, painter of light. Uh huh. Some sort of “magical” painting technique was passed down through generations of his family and only _he_ knows about it. Yes, when you dim the lights his paintings change. Yes, well, hate to let you in on a little secret but most paintings change when you dim the lights, because all colors change when you dim the lights! Mediathons! What, there’s some new movie out about Jesus? I haven’t heard of it, good thing the media is running some sort of story on it 24-7, or I’d never know. What, Britney Spears had a bowel movement? Thankfully the media just reported on it, or I’d never have known how much I was suppose to care. What, some attractive white guy may or may not have murdered his attractive white girlfriend over a year ago? Good thing the media is reporting on it every day for the past year or I’d never know that it happened and my life would never have changed so much because of it. “Girls Gone Wild” videos. Too embarrassed to rent/buy porn? Luckily for you, there are these dumb videos. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/66 "2004-04-06T00:41:59Z")
> [@Miss Gretchen](#): > > OK,OK, As for my cheese-beef! Mmmmmmmmm, cheese-beef… ---
**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/67 "2004-04-06T01:05:42Z")
“100% fat free candy” or “97% fat free” cookies. It’s not the fat content that is the problem, it’s sugar people, sugar!! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/68 "2004-04-06T01:55:08Z")
One thing I’m noticing from this thread that for every seemingly stupid idea, there are some people that love it. Which is not to imply that the people who love it are stupid, just that everyone’s mileage seems to be varying. My waste of money is someone else’s little guilty pleasure. (And yes, I _do_ use pre-shredded cheese - it’s actually cheaper than the block of mozzarella at my local Safeway.) ---
**Author:** ![fluffball86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@fluffball86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluffball86)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/69 "2004-04-06T04:23:56Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned bottled water yet. You must live in a city with good water, out here in the country, our water is so hard, that it is impossible to drink without something to cover up the taste; all our drinking water comes in those big cullegan jugs, btw a filter would be clogged in a week tops. I agree completely with the four banger 2WD SUV’s thou. ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/70 "2004-04-06T06:44:14Z")
> [@NailBunny](#): > > Cell phones. Yes, I appreciate their usefulness in an emergency situation, but are you really such a fucking rock star that people need to be able to reach you at EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY? Especially when 90% of every cell phone conversation I’ve ever overheard consisted of: “I’m at the movies! No, I said I’m at the movies! THE MOVIES! Just a sec, I’m going to call you back on the payphone.” :rolleyes: See, I like my cellphone. My parents like it because they can get in contact with me when I have unreliable flatmates or when they don’t know my class schedule. It means it takes five minutes to organise going out with friends - three or four txts and it’s sorted. I can contact people late at night without waking up the house. Hell, I love my cellphone. Having said so, I turn my phone off in lectures, in the library, in movies or in any other situation where it would be inappropriate. People who don’t do that should be made to eat the damn phone… And, returning to the OP… mass produced Che Guevara t-shirts. Seriously dude, it doesn’t make you a revolutionary. You’re not sticking it to ‘the man’. You’re a twerp. ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/71 "2004-04-06T08:23:37Z")
People buying the most awful rap CDs imaginable and blasting the stuff across the entire damned block or road. Several minutes of “Go to sleep, ho!” or “Move, bitch, get out the way!” can be funny the first time, but one inevitably wonders why the hell people listen something of that sort. ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/72 "2004-04-06T08:25:27Z")
> [@Paladud](#): > > People buying the most awful rap CDs imaginable and blasting the stuff across the entire damned block or road. Several minutes of “Go to sleep, ho!” or “Move, bitch, get out the way!” can be funny the first time, but one inevitably wonders why the hell people listen something of that sort. Bleh, it’s late as hell. I meant to type “purchase” instead of “listen” ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/73 "2004-04-06T10:53:20Z")
> [@labmonkey](#): > > Universities. What’s wrong with universities? ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/74 "2004-04-06T11:51:16Z")
\*\*Hotel mini-bars \*\* where you pay three times the normal price for anything from a packet of nuts to a bottle of wine. Most hotels advertise these bars as part of the “services” they offer together with such as king-size beds or air-conditioning. The mini-bar is not a service, it is a way of extracting as much money from the guest as possible. You might as well say that a slot in the bed-side cabinet where you can drop all your loose change , never to see it again, is a “service” ---
**Author:** ![htns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@htns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/htns)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/75 "2004-04-06T11:59:06Z")
> [@manx](#): > > And, returning to the OP… mass produced Che Guevara t-shirts. Seriously dude, it doesn’t make you a revolutionary. You’re not sticking it to ‘the man’. You’re a twerp. Especially when “the man” is profiting from those shirts being sold. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/76 "2004-04-06T15:54:49Z")
> [@Rayne Man](#): > > \*\*Hotel mini-bars \*\* where you pay three times the normal price for anything from a packet of nuts to a bottle of wine. Most hotels advertise these bars as part of the “services” they offer together with such as king-size beds or air-conditioning. The mini-bar is not a service, it is a way of extracting as much money from the guest as possible. You might as well say that a slot in the bed-side cabinet where you can drop all your loose change , never to see it again, is a “service” I’ve stayed in very few hotel rooms with a mini bar, but whenever I do go to a hotel room, I bring my own drinks. It’s so much cheaper to stop at a convenience store and buy a 12-pack of diet Pepsi, even if the price is higher than it would be at my grocery store. The same goes for liquor, if I’m so inclined. With the free ice and cups, I can’t imagine why I’d pay $1-4 for a drink I can get for pennies. And I always buy shredded cheese. Cleaning a cheese grater is one of my least favorite cleaning activities in the world. ---
**Author:** ![vasyachkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c5a1d2/32.png) [@vasyachkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vasyachkin)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/77 "2004-04-07T07:57:47Z")
infomercials for Bose and Sharper Image. makes me wanna choke somebody. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/78 "2004-04-07T08:04:09Z")
What about pre-cooked bacon? ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/79 "2004-04-07T14:28:42Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned bottled water yet. > [@fluffball86](#): > > You must live in a city with good water, out here in the country, our water is so hard, that it is impossible to drink without something to cover up the taste; all our drinking water comes in those big cullegan jugs, btw a filter would be clogged in a week tops. Ok bottled water, I understand the need in some situations for bottled water, the last place we lived it was a necessity. however that being said I would like to mention that in the town I live one of the biggest selling items in local supermarkets is “bottled water.” And why is this? Well a couple of years ago(maybe 4 years) our town entered the [“International Bottled Water”](http://www.bottledwaterweb.com/) competition. In this competition our town won the gold medal for “Municipal water” (read, “tap water”). So they build a water bottling factory and now we sell water. This is a very hot item in our local supermarkets and it amazes me because I can get the same water out of the tap at my kitchen sink. We won the category of best tasting tap water so why would I want to buy it? Seems a lot of people like to buy it in case they run out of tap water at home. Very confusing indeed. ---
**Author:** ![TaxGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TaxGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TaxGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212/80 "2004-04-07T14:56:19Z")
Jesus, life must be really hard for you people. Chill the fuck out already. Sheesh. OK, here’s my contribution to the actual topic of the thread: I hate stupid people who think just cuz they don’t like something or have no use for something that (1) it’s a dumb thing that shouldn’t exist or (2) those who do like it or have a use for it are inferior. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-for-stupid-people/238212.md?page=5)