# The Most God Damned Arrogant/Ignorant People You Have Ever Know

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 30, 1999, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-god-damned-arrogant-ignorant-people-you-have-ever-know/3236 "1999-10-30T08:56:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 1999, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-god-damned-arrogant-ignorant-people-you-have-ever-know/3236/41 "1999-11-15T06:04:00Z")

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Durno: this actually amused me, as its posted by some Brit above (and “we all know how the English are”):

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> will they buggery. (The boys BTW aren’t nearly so bad, unless there are girls with them).

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-god-damned-arrogant-ignorant-people-you-have-ever-know/3236/42 "1999-11-14T19:57:00Z")

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Pretend the “its” above is rendered “it’s” and you’ll have a correct spelling there.

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**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-god-damned-arrogant-ignorant-people-you-have-ever-know/3236/43 "1999-11-14T20:38:00Z")

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\>\>FTR: not every Christian, not every LDS, not every Muslim, not every Jew, not every…not every…not ever…believes that conversion is just a matter of reading the particular book in question.\<\<

Monty, just to be nitpicky, let me point out that Judaism actively _discourages_ conversion. But you’re right, most people know that there is more than just reading the book. I’ve just had that enjoyable experience of having LDS tell me that I should read the book, cause I’d _know_ it was true!

I hope I don’t offend anyone, because I really don’t mean offense.

~Kyla

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-god-damned-arrogant-ignorant-people-you-have-ever-know/3236/44 "1999-11-14T23:06:00Z")

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On the subject of religious books: my friends and I used to read from the Book of Mormon aloud to each other. That is one funny book.

40+ sentences in a row that began with, “And it came to pass…” hehehe…

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 1999, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-god-damned-arrogant-ignorant-people-you-have-ever-know/3236/45 "1999-11-15T02:01:00Z")

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Thanks, Max; now I _ **know** _ I’m going straight to hell! I’m imagining a game of “and it came to pass” along the lines of the 1970s drinking game “Bob.” Y’all remember that one, right? Watch an episode of The Bob Newhart Show and every time someone in the show says “Bob” you down a beer.

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**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-god-damned-arrogant-ignorant-people-you-have-ever-know/3236/46 "1999-12-03T02:07:00Z")

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About foolish american girls/ American tourists being the worst. You know, I used to think that might be possible, but this summer in Amsterdam changed all that. I saw many Americans, and most were fairly well behaved, but Boy oh Boy! Groups of English laddies (many over, say, 40) over with their mates for the weekend to watch the football match! Jesus Christ! I have never witnessed a ruder, louder, more puking-at-their-own-table-and-ordering-another-beer bunch of people in my life.  
Coldfire-- have you witnessed this?

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