How Have We Become a Nation of Dumbies?

FreedomFriend | 10/21/01 | Freedom Friend

[Fintan]

"Where's the cigar?

Beats the do-do out of me. It doesn't show up anymore.

I suspect foul play...

[WIMom]

We get new young grads working for us often. They come in with an attitude, expect to start at 70K a year and the rest of us who have experieced life for 20 some odd years don't have a clue. It's not all new grads, but over the last couple years, it has increased dramatically.

[ruoflaw]

FreedomFriend appears to have a high opinion of her/himself and he/she thinks we are all DUMBIES!

[bannie]

I wonder if it's most common with "firsts-in-the-family-to-graduate"?

My parents would have taken any of their kids down several pegs if any one of us gave no credit for experience!!!!

Maybe it's generational...?

[bannie]

I think the boy jumped ship....

I SAID, "SHIP!

...titter...

[nygoose]

Don't let these bastards get you down. It's easy to snipe at people and they seem to enjoy doing it.

[jhny7]

as a dumd newbie do these post renew themselves some how?

[TLI]

Dummies eh...

Yep.  All ya gotta do is look around, watch the news and look in relatively older books, (40's 50's 60's) to see it plain as the nose on x42.  Look at pix prior to OSHA and PC and ATF and "diversity" and "social studies."  Simple things such as a tire swing that can NOW result in a lawsuit that will ruin the lives of families for a couple of generations.  Kids that are NOW too stupid to not put a gun to their siblings head and trip the trigger.  Grown adults that NOW having panic attacks over some spilled coffee creamer and dashing off to the local emergency room screaming "anthrax attack!"  I can literally conceive of a situation in which f@rting on an elevator could earn you an accusation of "hate crime." 

It is not so prevalent in non-urban environments as such individuals need a bit of common sense to get along in their day to day world.  Even in suburb environments there is still some smatterings of reasonable and intelligent people which will not wet their nickers when the neighbors Dodge backfires and will in fact grab an unruly kid by the scruff and haul them off to kiddy gulag for something other than a panty-waist laughable "time-out."

However, beginning at the suburbs and working into deeper urban environments one encounters the totally clueless.  These are the individuals often seen in a "Leno on the street" style spot asking the most elementary, simplistic questions of young adults that are in or graduating from "college" and don't know fourth grade geography or sixth grade history.  They can't make change, tie a shoe, or light a fire without instructions which include LOTS of pix.  They are in fact and by example..  pathetic.

How does this stack up to my/your/the situation?  I don't know about all of you but I am so fed up with dealing with that level of incompetence my reaction usually falls into one of the following categories.

1. Look them straight in the eye and tell them just how stupid they are acting.

2. Cuss them first then look them straight in the eye and tell them just how stupid they are acting.

3. Walk away while telling them just how stupid they are acting.

4. Cuss and walk away leaving them mystified.

5. Cuss and walk away knowing they are too stupid to BE mystified.

6. Hang up (if on the phone) and call later.

7. Leave and go fill up the Blazer with gas.  Thank my lucky stars full service gas stations are history.

8. Remind myself if the whole thing goes to hell the stupid will most likely kill 97% of each other off before I need to go back into town.

9. Fire up FR and converse with the "other" 3% of the population. There is a reason why they will survive.

Well, time to go laugh at the "news."

[WIMom]

I don't know. But it is a disturbing trend.

[bannie]

I'm too much of a dumbie to know...sorry!!!!

(nurses aid comes in and wipes drool from bannie's chin...re-locates bammie's dottering head and exits the padded cell.)

[jhny7]

thanks bannie looks like the reload button does well

[bannie]

bastard??????

baaaastard??????

baaaaaaastard????????????

I'm the FIFTH child of MARRIED parents!!!!!

hrumph!Now, you can legally call billyblythe a "bastard"...and you can call me a "bitch," ok...but never a bastard.

[hole_n_one]

.....yet it's me who's called the dog who won't let go of that bone.

[1rudeboy]

Hey-buh, everybody! It's Fat-buh Albert!

[bannie]

psssssst...."It is I ..."

BE CAREFUL in these-here parts!

;-)

[B4Ranch]

I looked at #1 and when I saw that everyone appeared to be more concerned with the spelling error which I initially took to be intentional, I decided that I wouldn't bother with this thread. That decision remains.

[bannie]

"I looked at #1 and when I saw that everyone appeared to be more concerned with the spelling error which I initially took to be intentional, I decided that I wouldn't bother with this thread. That decision remains."

THE HELL YOU SAY!!!!

You POSTED!!! THAT is "bothering with."

[ruoflaw]

Thank You...this is a great post...and I mean it. ruoflaw