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By wiredog (Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 11:36:52 AM EST) (all tags)

Sometimes, even when I agree with the demonstrators, I can't resist pointing out just how stupid they can be.

As I did 5 years ago at K5, after seeing this.

Severely historically illiterate.

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It's on the right, too by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #1 Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 12:19:05 PM EST

I have a list of right wing bloggers who's response to showing how Chalabi manipulated the cause's for the Iraq War with bad intel is "so, that's in the past".

: Yeah, but. by wiredog (4.00 / 1) #5 Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 12:46:15 PM EST

Stupid (or obfuscatory) blog entries are one thing, carrying signs which show no awareness of history at a demonstration are another.

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please tell me you found that on Fark by clover kicker (2.00 / 0) #2 Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 12:24:31 PM EST

Please?

: The Atlantic by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #4 Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 12:43:24 PM EST

Andrew Sullivan's blog.

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In fairness by Captain Tenille (4.00 / 2) #3 Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 12:32:34 PM EST

The '36 Games were awarded before the Nazis came to power in Germany.

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/* You are not expected to understand this. */

If I drank coffee... by atreides (4.00 / 1) #6 Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 12:57:52 PM EST

...it would be all over my keyboard right now.

_{He sails from world to world in a flying tomb, serving gods who eat hope.}

#SIGH# Ya' know, I usually think I'm pretty stupid by greyrat (2.00 / 0) #7 Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 01:08:07 PM EST

Then somethng like this shows up. I weep for our future.

I just got done reading a random comment by ObviousTroll (4.00 / 2) #8 Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 01:15:13 PM EST

where a redditor was sneering at Bill Kristol for using the word "feckless" in a sentence. The reason the redditor was sneering was because it's elitist to use words that force you to crack open a dictionary.

He wasn't amused when I pointed out that he had quite literally just provided an example of how to be feckless....

... I mean, come on - you expect the red-neck reactionaries to be near-illiterate thugs but if you hold yourself to be the bearers of the intellectual flame, you really should hope your vocabulary exceeds 1500 words.

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Has anybody seen my clue? I know I had it when I came in here.

Reminds me of a Slashdot thread by gazbo (4.00 / 1) #10 Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 06:43:32 PM EST

OK, so they can hardly be accused of being the greatest minds of our time, but I was speachless at the responses to my comment. Well, the first response was just ignorant in a cockish way - it's the responses to my follow up that I just didn't even know how to answer. They seemed so actively proud of their ignorance.

"Engarde!" cried the larvae, huskily. - Scrymarch

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Which reminds me that... by ObviousTroll (4.00 / 1) #11 Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 10:45:23 PM EST

supposedly one of the hallmarks of incompetence is an inability to realize your own inability.

I mean, hell, I pride myself on having a positively brobdingnagian vocabulary, chock full of pentasyllabics and circumlocutions - but when someone hits me with a new word I have no problem with simply whipping out Webster's finest to find out what just hit me.

The idea of complaining because someone used a word you didn't have in your fifth grade spelling class is just, well, alien.

As I said in my last diary - the thing that separates humans from apes is that *we* use tools. Language is just such a tool. If you can't use it...

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ook by clover kicker (4.00 / 1) #13 Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 09:40:12 AM EST

I had to look up brobdingnagian.

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What!?! by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #14 Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 12:47:16 PM EST

Why, that's one of my favorite elephantine neologisms!

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: It's even in Rocky Horror. by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #15 Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 02:37:58 PM EST

I think...

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: nobody ever made me read Gullivar's Travels by clover kicker (2.00 / 0) #17 Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 07:44:33 PM EST

For some reason lilliputian is used more frequently.

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LOL by duxup (4.00 / 1) #9 Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 02:04:58 PM EST

Peace in our time. That is classic! I mean, WOW.

Protest signs (well real signs) stink. They're always too silly.

There was protester sign I really liked not long ago when the Iranian president was visiting. Someone had a sign that said something like Even douchebags deserve free speech! It did a good job of evenhandedly addressing the topic.
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At least it didn't have Bert on it by jayhawk88 (2.00 / 0) #12 Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 08:27:43 AM EST

: Those intarweb bastards blew Bert's Cover! by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #16 Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 02:39:42 PM EST

He finally, after years of work, got All The way Inside Al Qaeda, and those internetting bastards blew his cover!
I don't even want to think about what Osama did to him. Probably bits of muppet spread all over the Kandahar.

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_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}
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Stupid Demonstrator Tricks | 17 comments (17 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback

-	Historically Illiterate.	87%
-	Chinese Plant (Tinfoil hat, anyone?)	12%
-	Failed attempt at subtlety	12%
-	Some other reason.	12%


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