Category: the Rant Board
Well, hi-I'm sure that every single one of us have come across more than one stupid person in our lives-a person that is simply refusing to use their friggin' mindpower, a person that has not reached there full potential in the area of maturity and who just needs to WAKE? UP? AND GET A? FRIGGIN'? CLUE!!!! Like I said, I'm sure we've all encountered more than one of these annoying, ignorant people, so when they catch you on a really stressful day, know that you can share your stories of them here and be completely understood. I? CANT? STAND? FRIGGIN'? STUPIDPEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!
Unfortunately by posting this you have revealed yourself as one of these annoying ignorant people, dear me, how will you live with yourself.
wildstar, if you genuinely find stupid ignorant people hard to tolerate then i'd strongly suggest that you never return to the zone because, sad to say though it is, this place is full of them!
take goblin as a prime example, there was absolutely no need for a personal attack from him such as the one he just embarked on, if he didn't agree with what you were saying he needen't have responded at all, or he could have said something constructive. instead he pretty much proved what i've just said, the zone is full of this type of behaviour.
all you really can do is try your best to rise above it all and the best of luck to you with that! lol.
hummmmm what are you trying to say, you think you so smart, there are different mentalities in this crazy mixed up world so maybe you can teach them instead of putting them down.
Harp, I completely agree with you. The Zone does have a fair few of the kind of people I'm talking about, and that's being proven as I'm typing this message. Be glad you weren't on here at the time of this post. But on here, I just press the Ignore button and go on about my business. That way, I don't have to put up with it. I know already what some people will say: "Well, you can't do that in real life." Well, in "real life," you also have the freedom, most of the time, to just not associate with people who bring you down-unless you're a minor and the said people are your parents or teachers or something. But otherwise, if you continue to associate yourself with people who you dread seeing, then you're only bringing it on yourself.
Wow Goblin, you really are a judgmental asshole! I held out hope for you when I saw you appologize to LostGirl27 on her "I Want Out" topic, although I was going to post over there and just tell you that that's what happens when you talk crap like that and don't have a clue what you're talking about. But you just proved that you really don't have the ability to stop and be considerate. I'm not worried about you, though, because you don't know enough about me to truely have a worthy opinion of me. I'll tell you, though, just so you'll be clear about what this topic REALLY means. I wrote it when I was having a really bad day and had had to deal with some less than competent people all week. I can let these people's incompetence slide right off me, but when they catch me on a bad day, I vent. I'm sure I'm not the only one. So I figured I'd make a topic for whenever someone has a similar situation. This is, after all, The Rant Board.
Zentar, I wasn't talking about anyone with a mental impairment or some kind of psychological thing that they really can't help. I was just talking about people who are just blatant idiots. People who make fun of blind people, for instance. It has actually happened on my college campus. You'd think that kind of thing would have stopped in, like, elementary school. Or, say, the kind of people everybody despises dealing with at Voc Rehab or SSI. I would never put down anyone with a disability.
It was childish and badly thought out, and by losing the heid so comprehensively the arseholes have won and you have lost some achievement eh? And those childish numpties who take the piss have also got to you and achieved their goal, how do you feel now hmm, knowing you have allowed them to succeed, the way to beat these bastards is to to succeed, I'm constantly being abused but I do not come on here and cry about it.
I totally agree with post 1 here. I find disturbing, the amount of people in developed democracies who are stupid. I'm not talking about the ones who can't help been less intelligent or mature than the rest of us but who try their best and do their best always. I respect all of them. I'm talking about the stupid people who are stupid because they don't care. They don't care about being responsible, they don't care about making the most of their lives. They're usually narrow-minded, easy to make angry because they can't cope with anything complex, they usually have a violent mentality, they're usually immature, and usually have no respect for someone who is different to them. They can't speak properly, they can't construct a simple sentence. They are usually the type: if boys who get girls pregnant then walk away, or if girls, who will get pregnant and be making that possibility more likely at a young age. None of them are capable of being decent parents so they produce more scum for society to deal with. Oh, they usually sponge off society and then claim that imigrants are taking all their jobs. None of these thick scummy idiots have prooved to me that out of all the jobs that were available while they've been on benefits, they've 1 applied and 2 been rejected from everyone of these jobs so that it could be given to an imigrant. I hate thick, stupid, scummy human exgrament which is what these people are. I think that we need more intelligence based societies where you have to have an IQ of 100 at least to be able to vote, get health-priorities, get benefits etc. In fact, usually their stupid "I don't care" attitude starts at school where they take for granted their education. I say ship them abroad to a developing country and replace them with people who will be of more value than them because they'll get educated and appreciate what they have. There's no group of people I hate with a passion more, than stupid lowlifes with no future.
wow wayne, that was a long response, i am annoyed by the existance of George W bush. does that count?
Yes, my father fits that description pretty well-narrow-minded, prejudiced against anyone who is different, and easily angered. And, at the risk of turning this into the political rant topic (LOL), yes, George Bush has stupid-people tendencies.
yep, a lot of them...
hi wild star,
I know what you mean. If someone asks me a stupid question, i usually give an obvious answer. I haven't met any stupid people like that, not in life anyway, but i remember a situation at a camp for the disabled, i was 14, and there was this 17 year old girl who was a vounteer counselor, and iwas 14 years old at the time. I was the only blind person there, and she kept asking me, where am i, and i told her she was behind me. she kept on about it, and kept asking me how i knew where she was. I felt behind me and said, there. She asked me how i knew she wasn't a ventriloquist, and i replied, well if you were a ventriloquist, you'd be performing in some night club, and you wouldn't be here, because you aren't here to help people. Well, that sort of shut her up for a few seconds, then after about 2 minutes or so, she said, i just thought that was funy thats all. I told her i didn't.She and i never warmed up to eah other, so i know what you mean.
wonderwoman
Oy-okay people, here goes!-This is my latest Stupid-People rant: It all started last Friday-when I went to the Office of Disabled Student Services here on campus to take my math final. I sat down with my proctor, and I realized that I desperately needed a braillewriter so that I could work out problems on scratch paper. I knew that I was probably going to fail the test anyway, but with the test affecting my final grade, and my final grade affecting my GPA, and my GPA affecting whether or not Voc Rehab sponsors me next semester, or possibly the semester after, every little point counts. So, I asked if there was a braillewriter. They said that there wasn't one. So I asked if I could go to my dorm and get mine. They said no. Not only were they worried that I was going to look at my notes, but they were like, "Why didn't you bring this to our attention before?" That, actually, is the only part that I take responsibility for-I might could have been a bit better-prepared. At the time, both the director and the assistant director were out of the office, but, the way I understand it, one of the workers in the office called the director, and I was presented with the computer and the braille display in his office. They were like, "Can you use that?" I said, "No-this is not a braillewriter; this is a braille DISPLAY." Then they were like, "why can't the proctor work it out for you?" Even the proctor said, "There's no way that she can do some of these problems from memory." I was like, "Why can't I just walk around the corner to my dorm and get my brailler?" I even offered to have my proctor walk with me. I didn't care-I had no plans to cheat. They were like, "No-we have to hold up the integrity of the office." So I talked to my professor, got permission from him to use the brailler-which is what DSS advised me to do if I walked out on the test that day-and got it rescheduled for today. Well, how's this for integrity? I get there today, and the director is accusing me of wanting to go back and read my notes!! He said that there was a brailler on his desk, and it was offered to me, and I said I wanted to use my own! I said, "That's a total lie!" He said, "you can choose to handle this like a professional or not." I said, "A professional wouldn't accuse me of something that's not true." He said, "I'm not accusing you of anything. I'm just looking at the facts." Well, SOMEBODY in that office gave him some screwed up facts. Now whether it was an accident, or whether they did it to cover their own asses once they realized that they had HAD a brailler all along, I don't know. I don't trust the two women who were working at the time, though, because they have a bit of a reputation as gossipers who don't know when to shut their friggin' mouths. I'm not sure what I wouldn't put past them. In any case, I'm going to withdraw from Disabled Student Services, because I don't need ANYBODY accusing me of some crap like that!! So ... yeah ... more STUPIDPEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!
becky. I know lots of these people. It amazes me how they can get away with their childish efforts, and not learn.
lol, I had to bring this back up cause it made me chuckle. wow Becky...hahaha.
lol, wow, you found it. Well, I'm glad to say that my maturity, as well as my writing style, has improved since then. But I gotta tell ya, that brings back some memories! :D
I must say, we are forced to put up with morons everywhere we go. it sucks but that's life.
you are so right. stupid people can be trying at times.
the main stupid people in my life lately have been the maryland department of motor vehicles. after my dad died, we gave his car to my son michael. he and his wife go up there to transfer the title. before going they were asked what forms they needed. when they got there, the shiningj light of jintelligence at the dewsk said why didn't you get the executor to sign form blah blah blah. they said because no one told us we had to. so kari comes over to my work, an hour long metro ride, to have me sign the paper. i had asked if i could have them fax it and i'd return it by the same manner. they said "it has to be an original." so kari gets back there and this same lady says "oops. i gave you the wrong paper." makes you glad to pay taxes eh?
I've had my share of stupid people encounters, especially in college. I remember three years ago I'd just moved into the dorms at the College of Southern Idaho. I walked over to the Taylor Building, which houses both Financial Aid and the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities to collect my Financial Aid check. Not only did I have my cane in my hand, but I was also going sighted guide, or Guided Travel as some agencies are now calling it, so the situation should have been painfully obvious. So I got up to the counter and told the lady what I needed. And guess what the woman asked? "Do you have a driver's license?"
Then some months later I was working a Work Study position in the campus maintenance department to supplement the pocket change we know as SSI. So there I was wiping tables in the cafeteria when another guy working in the same department came right up behind me and said hi, practically scared the shit out of me. So I turned around and asked him as calmly as I could not to do that again. So then he asked me if I was blind. I said I was. His exact words were"Can you see me better?" "Uhm...no?"
Just... lol.
Yeah. It'd have been even funnier if I'd had a guide dog instead of a cane. I was tempted to hand her my cane across the counter. If it'd been a guide dog I might have tried to get him to jump up on the table. "Here's my driver's license!"
awe, yes, the college of southern idiots
Okay. Here's my opinion. I think there are three kinds of stupid people:
1. the people with a mental disability or some sort of disorder. These are the people that can't help what they do, and how they act, and those who make fun of them or rant about them have no respect for the mentally disabled. I'm not saying that anybody on this board has done that, but it does happen.
2. The annoying but almost funny stupid people. These are the kind of people who you can laugh at behind closed doors, and in most cases, if you want to avoid them, ignoring or blocking does the trick.
3. Cruel people. These are the people who have no life, and therefore, they apparently think it is necessary to mess other people's lives up. In these few cases, ignoring or blocking isn't good enough, because they'll find other ways to get to you, and their actions can actually cause you pain and grief as well as anger. In this case, and in this case only, sometimes revenge is the only way out, and these people are just asking for it.
One thing I will say though is that I think you really need to get to know a person though before you can really call them stupid. Sometimes people who are perfectly fine can make stupid decisions once in awhile. I've made a few of those myself, and then laughed at myself for it later.
Just to clarify? Are you inferring that those who cannot help themselves/behaviors are "stupid?" Perhaps a better term would be infirmed?
Sighted people who don't always use their sight fall into the second category as far as I'm concerned. These are the type of people who walk up to you and have to ask you if you're blind when you've got a cane in your hand or are going sighted guide. "Why no," you say, "I'm a Fairy Godmother. This is my magic wand." That happened to me quite a few times while I was in college. It's amazing how often that, for all their vision, sighted folks don't see what's right in front of their faces.
Yeah, or those sighted people that, for whatever reason, think it's necessary to wave their hand in front of your face, just in case the cane isn't enough to prove it, but that I can laugh at.
No. the people that can't help themselves are not stupid. Now that I think about it a little better, I don't think those people should be categorized with all the other people who are actually stupid.
Or then you have the folks who confuse blindness with being deaf, so they start to talk Real! loud! when they address you. "I can hear ya just fine! Ya don't have to yell!" And, although it hasn't happened to me in a good few years, that lovely gem of sitting with a sighted companion in a restaurant and having the waiter or waitress ask your sighted companion what you'll have.
I hate that! That happens to me so much, and you know what's even worse? When the sighted companion actually answers for you, almost like they're letting the waiter or waitress think you really can't talk. that's why, if I can help it, I don't tell my sighted companion what I'm ordering.
Last time that happened to me I just casually asked I don't know, why don't you ask him?
Yeah. I like it better when companions do that, but not all people will.
when that happens, I speak up and talk to the waiter/waitress myself.
I found myself in this situation on Friday. Only it wasn't in a restaurant, it was at the train station. I'd just left my office to go home, and was being guided back there by somebody who I liaise with as part of my work. Anyway we arrived at the train station, and we went to a room where we could book assistance for me. The person behind the counter asked the person I was with where I was going and whether I needed assistance. Much to my disappointment, she asked the person to ask me instead of answering on my behalf.
I know people are sensitive about matters of this kind but I am not. Why should I care whether I answer the question or somebody else answers it on my behalf? If somebody answers it on my behalf, it means I don't have to answer it, and I get a good indication of how good the person is at speaking on my behalf.
Anyway the best was yet to come. The man (no not that man) arrived to assist me. He said "Where is he"? referring to me but looking in another direction and asking if I was the man with a suitcase. It was one of those "behind you" panto moments, and it went on for some time before the man's colleague successfully explained to him that I was in the room. I think earlier he said the man should be looking for a man with a cane, but still he looked out instead of in.
Anyway I still got my train and I found the episode amuzing. Talking of trains, does anybody know why the 14:31 to Dewsbury arrived before the 14:27 but set off after the 14:27? Answers on a railcard please.
I like to be asked if it concerns me. I prefer to answer for myself rather than having someone answer for me. I do not like to be treated like I cannot speak for myself just because i'm blind. I've handled this one of two ways. I'd either start signing to them to be funny--I'm fluent in sign language--or I'd say, "Well, I can talk. Would you like to ask me the question?" Or, I'd just answer whatever question they asked. None of my sighted friends or family will answer for me, though, when this happens because they have too much respect for me. They'll simply tell whoever it is to ask me since they want to know about me/my preference/whatever it is. I'm thankful for that.
I had a funny experience in March while I was on the way to visit my brother in Seattle. Twin Falls, Idaho is a small enough city that it has no real public transportation, though it does have both a small Greyhound station and an airport. But if you fly right out of Twin Falls you have to take one of those puddle jumpers and catch a connecting flight to your destination. So I get into Seattle at around midnight after a two-hour layover in Salt Lake City, and we'd arranged in advance for me to get assistance when I got into Seattle. Well for starters the person assisting me up to the baggage claim to meet my brother was about fifteen minutes late. And then when she finally got there she brought a wheelchair and seemed surprised, I might even say a little upset, that I could actually walk. I was polite about it but I almost wish I'd tried the humorous approach and thunked my laptop onto the seat of the chair, thanked her profusely for sparing me the necessity of carrying this heavy bag and started wheeling the chair down the corridor. I knew a blind guy who did that. Plunked his suitcase in the wheelchair, took hold of it and started wheeling it along while the lady tried to explain to him that that wasn't what she'd meant.
Hahahahahahahaha! I'll have to try that one, as I am flying across the continent in less than two weeks. That actually happened to me as well the last time I flew. It's funny how many people just assume you need a wheelchair just because you can't see. I must say, it's rather annoying as well.
There was another time where I was flying with my nana. She needed a wheelchair, and I needed a guide. Well, the wheelchair arrived, twenty minutes late, but the guide did not. We asked the guy with the wheelchair where the guide was, and he said they were coming with another wheelchair. I explained to him, for the third or fourth time, literally, that I didn't need one, so he finally called them on his radio and asked them to come without the wheelchair. Well, we waited five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes, and then finally, at twenty minutes, I informed him that we had a flight to catch, just in case he didn't know that that's usually what people are in an airport for. He said we should wait, so I unfolded my cane and told him I would just walk behind him. All he needed to do was talk, but he refused because he said it was unsafe for a visually impaired person to walk on their own. Technically, I wasn't on my own, but he didn't seem to get the picture. Ten more minutes passed, and the second assistant showed up, with a wheelchair. By this time, I was pissed, so I asked him right out why he was so late. He said it was because he had to track down a wheelchair, which took him awhile. I asked him why he had shown up with a chair when we had been telling him for the past...whatever that I didn't need one. He said he knew that, but it would be easier and safer if I did have one.
I'm almost surprised they didn't try to arrest you for trying to stand up for yourself. Believe it or not I actually remember hearing a story, although I forget now the person's name or the location of the incident, where a blind person was actually arrested and thrown in jail for refusing to pay the special handicapped discounted fare for a Greyhound bus ticket. He wanted to pay the full price and they kept refusing. Finally the police were called in and he was thrown in jail for a short time.
Are you serious? It's really amazing the things you get arrested for these days. My stepdad isn't allowed into states at all, all because he mouthed off to a police officer back in 1971.
I love the using-the-wheelchair-as-a-cart thing. I'm so trying that! You know, I used to attribute the assumption that all blind people need wheelchairs in airports to ignorance on the part of the airport staff, but now that I've heard so many stories, I'm beginning to wonder if it might be policy. I hate to think it, but ya never know. I think I'll check into it and report back what I find.
Namaste,
Becky
I think it's ignorance on the part of sighted people in general. If it was policy then several airport staff I've met would have to have been fired for violation of it. Actually most of them. It's only occasionally that I've had someone bring me a wheelchair. And I think if it was actually policy they would either have forced me into the wheelchair on my last air trip or arrested me like they did the guy at the Greyhound station. And yes Ocean Dream I was serious about that. Like I said I forget the location or the guy's name but he was actually arrested for continuing to refuse to pay the discounted fare.
Wait... Grayhound states explicitly that they don't have a discount for people with disabilities. That was the case last I knew anyway.
Well I know it was something along those lines, if not Greyhound then Amtrack. I just know the man was travelling and whatever his form of transportation they offered I believe a half-off discount for tickets to those with disabilities. He didn't feel like taking advantage of the discount but when he tried to stand up forhis rights he was arrested and thrown in jail for a short time. All I can say is I don't imagine the public backlash was very pleasant for the company involved.
yeah. I can imagine it probably wouldn't be.