# You're not fighting ignorance **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 25, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805 "2012-09-25T18:14:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/61 "2012-09-26T20:31:25Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > Well, being dead is a big timewaster. But you get really good at it. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/62 "2012-09-26T20:35:11Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Bastard. QED was a respected, if somewhat irritable poster on this board who passed a few years ago. How dare you besmirch his memory! Fuck, I didn’t know he’d died. I was just thinking of him the other day. Bummer. ---
**Author:** ![kp\_72110](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e68b1a/32.png) [@kp\_72110](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kp_72110)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/63 "2012-09-27T02:20:49Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > Well, being dead is a big timewaster. You have no real proof of that. It may very well be a full time job with lots of overtime. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/64 "2012-09-27T03:31:07Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > Oh yeah? Well right now I’m getting _paid_ to waste time on a message board! So there. My friggin’ dream job. Why isn’t that a job yet? ---
**Author:** ![kp\_72110](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e68b1a/32.png) [@kp\_72110](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kp_72110)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/65 "2012-09-27T06:17:42Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > My friggin’ dream job. Why isn’t that a job yet? It’s called tech support. Work the night shift to maximize internet time wasting. If that’s not fighting ignorance I don’t know what is! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/66 "2012-09-27T10:39:50Z")
The OP is pretty ironic, yeah? And it proves itself. Clearly, we are failing at fighting ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![qbadger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/fbc32d/32.png) [@qbadger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qbadger)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/67 "2012-09-27T15:23:58Z")
We are not failing - we’ve merely found 7 billion ways that don’t work as well as we originally thought. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/68 "2012-09-27T17:56:55Z")
Nobody said we were winning the fight. My own ignorance has been fought here many times before. You mugs will never fully defeat my ignorance but it assumes me to watch you try. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/69 "2012-09-27T18:04:08Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > \ it assumes me to watch you try. Autocorrect? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/70 "2012-09-27T19:46:00Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Autocorrect? 😃 Sadly, no. Ignorance of spelling. I’ve lost the fight. ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/71 "2012-09-27T20:12:27Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Fuck, I didn’t know he’d died. I was just thinking of him the other day. Bummer. Ignorance fought. This thread is over. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/72 "2012-09-28T02:20:29Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I’m not 100% sure, but I think we’ve all just been schooled, y’all. Or some such equivalent idiom. And shit. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/73 "2012-09-28T19:17:14Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Nah, I’m with samclem on this one. > [@kayaker](#): > > Yep. He nailed it. So you two choosing of your own volition to use your time to come here and post in this thread or respond to any of his posts equals him wasting your time? You know the OP is right. This site seems not to be fighting ignorance but making people retarded. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/74 "2012-09-28T19:28:36Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > This site seems not to be fighting ignorance but making people retarded. Dude, have you seen the _rest_ of the Internet? ---
**Author:** ![Molotok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Molotok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molotok)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/75 "2012-09-28T19:37:56Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > [Like this.](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Flmgtfy.com%2F%3Fq%3D%2522ignorance%2Bfought%2522%2Bsite%253aboards.straightdope.com) > > As for me, I learned that Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis aren’t the same person. Really dodged a bullet there. [http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Thank+you%2C+Autolycus](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Thank+you%2C+Autolycus)! ---
**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:** [September 28, 2012, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/76 "2012-09-28T19:38:22Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > You know the OP is right. This site seems not to be fighting ignorance but making people retarded. Well, about you at least. Don’t presume to speak for or of the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/77 "2012-09-28T20:56:57Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > This site seems not to be fighting ignorance but making people retarded. Me: rubber. You? Glue. Glue, dude. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/78 "2012-09-30T07:41:37Z")
The thing is, we can fight ignorance, but not ignorants. Only people who want to be informed will be. And everything you say fights ignorance a little bit, even if it’s only that people find out that you’d be willing to say what they already know that you already know that they know they believe. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/79 "2012-09-30T13:12:15Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > And everything you say fights ignorance a little bit, even if it’s only that people find out that you’d be willing to say what they already know that you already know that they know they believe. “And now for the winner of the Poet Laureate category _drumroll_ The envelope, please. . .” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/80 "2012-09-30T20:53:16Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > And everything you say fights ignorance a little bit, even if it’s only that people find out that you’d be willing to say what they already know that you already know that they know they believe. You never know. Y’know? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805.md?page=5)