why do people believe stupid things

03-09-2010 10:00AM #1

You know the kind of thing i am talking about

Example Polish people kill and eat swans.

Black people were given money by the government to buy cars/become taxi drivers/socialize and so on...

why are people so thick.

WindSock · 03-09-2010 10:02AM

Why do people believe that people believe things that are said mosltly in jest?

Lando Griffin · 03-09-2010 10:03AM

mariaalice wrote: »

You know the kind of thing i am talking about

Example Polish people kill and eat swans.

Black people were given money by the government to buy cars/become taxi drivers/socialize and so on...

why are people so thick.

GOD!

Adam · 03-09-2010 10:03AM

God created the heavens and the earth. FACT. ¬_¬

Adam · 03-09-2010 10:04AM

Lando Griffin wrote: »

GOD!

you ruined my incredibly witty joke. you have just been added to "the list"...

Hasmunch · 03-09-2010 10:04AM

Adam wrote: »

God created the heavens and the earth. FACT. ¬_¬

i read it in a book, it must be true.

bijapos · 03-09-2010 10:04AM

Because they want to. Sometimes to make up for their own insecurities, sometimes to confirm their own prejudices and sometimes because the truth is not as exciting or too hard to take.

bonerm · 03-09-2010 10:05AM

mariaalice wrote: »

Black people were given money by the government to buy cars/become taxi drivers/socialize and so on...

Really? When?

Owwmykneecap · 03-09-2010 10:10AM

Adam wrote: »

God created the heavens and the earth. FACT. ¬_¬

And he made you a **** toy out of your own rib because you were "lonely" Adam.

Gay.

Protip: don't eat the fruit.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 03-09-2010 10:11AM

Ignorance, laziness and the media capitalising on it.

Banned Account · 03-09-2010 10:15AM

I find that people generally believe stupid things because they are stupid.

Kimono-Girl · 03-09-2010 10:21AM

Like the moving statues in the 80's

people as a group aka the general public are IDIOTS! they will believe anything!

topper75 · 03-09-2010 10:31AM

But we're all clever, right?

vibe666 · 03-09-2010 10:35AM

in the words of mr garrison "there's no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid people"

03-09-2010 10:37AM

No we are not all clever...but i hope enough of us posses reason and common sense and have the intelligence to question what we here and don't lap up everything we come across in the media.

mickoneill30 · 03-09-2010 10:39AM

candlelover wrote: »

Like the moving statues in the 80's people as a group aka the general public are IDIOTS! they will believe anything!

80s??? Wasn't there some tree a couple of years ago that had the face of Mary that drew thousands of worshipers.

Abelloid · 03-09-2010 10:43AM

vibe666 wrote: »

in the words of mr garrison "there's no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid people"

..and stupid answers, unfortunately.

Pherekydes · 03-09-2010 10:44AM

My father-in-law got a flyer in the door from a right wing group claiming that if we didn't stop Nigerian immigration now, all 110 million* of them were going to land up on our doorstep! He swallowed that ****e, but we'll excuse it as he was in his dotage.

*Pop now approx 159 million.

King Felix · 03-09-2010 10:52AM

mariaalice wrote: »

No we are not all clever...but i hope enough of us posses reason and common sense and have the intelligence to question what we here and don't lap up everything we come across in the media.

One cause is known in sociology as ingroup/outgroup bias. You love your ingroup, you hate the hate group.

It's the basis for racial inequality and tribal warfare, an unfortunate leftover from primative psychology.

bluefinger · 03-09-2010 10:56AM

why do people post stupid threads?

example
This one

orourkeda · 03-09-2010 10:58AM

Because people are stupid. No great mystery

sealgaire · 03-09-2010 10:59AM

I saw a Polish guy kill a swan in the Claddagh in Galway about 3 years ago and he just walked off with it. I can only presume to butcher it.

mariaalice wrote: »

You know the kind of thing i am talking about

Example Polish people kill and eat swans.

Black people were given money by the government to buy cars/become taxi drivers/socialize and so on...

why are people so thick.

_feedback_ · 03-09-2010 11:00AM

sealgaire wrote: »

I saw a Polish guy kill a swan in the Claddagh in Galway about 3 years ago and he just walked off with it. I can only presume to butcher it.

Did you report it?

thebigbiffo · 03-09-2010 11:03AM

mariaalice wrote: »

You know the kind of thing i am talking about

Example Polish people kill and eat swans.

Black people were given money by the government to buy cars/become taxi drivers/socialize and so on...

why are people so thick.

technically - these things are/can be true

Banned Account · 03-09-2010 11:03AM

sealgaire wrote: »

I saw a Polish guy kill a swan in the Claddagh in Galway about 3 years ago and he just walked off with it. I can only presume to butcher it.

elviscostello wrote: »

Did you report it?

"Hello, is that the Gardai? I'd like to report the crime of swanicide. ...

... A discription? ...

... sure, he was wearing a t-shirt which had large lettering saying "I am Polish" on it ..."

:rolleyes:

Thread proved.

rhythm90 · 03-09-2010 11:05AM

It's like the old saying goes...

"Common sense... sadly aint all that common..."

mailforkev · 03-09-2010 11:06AM

Most people are idiots, that's why.

This is a small parochial country, so there are a lot of people around whose only view of the world is the little town that they live in, very little in life will ever stimulate their brains into action so it's easier to go with the flow than actually form an educated opinion of most things.

WindSock · 03-09-2010 11:12AM

Fitzcaraldo wrote: »

"Hello, is that the Gardai? I'd like to report the crime of swanicide. ...

... A discription? ...

... sure, he was wearing a t-shirt which had large lettering saying "I am Polish" on it ..."

:rolleyes:

Thread proved.

They'd ask you to come down to the station for your cygneture on the report too.

Abelloid · 03-09-2010 11:15AM

Fitzcaraldo wrote: »

"Hello, is that the Gardai? I'd like to report the crime of swanicide. ...

... A discription? ...

... sure, he was wearing a t-shirt which had large lettering saying "I am Polish" on it ..."

:rolleyes:

Thread proved.

He must have been Polish; he was seen killing a swan for his dinner.

biko · 03-09-2010 11:17AM

People believe stupid things because it befits them to do so.
Either they are stupid (most people are stupid on some level) or it's convenient to believe that foreigners get free cars and eat swans because it makes it easier to dislike them.

WindSock · 03-09-2010 11:17AM

JustinOval wrote: »

He must have been Polish; he was seen killing a swan for his dinner.

It could just have easily been the Queen* disguised as a Polish man.

* Of England. Yes, your Queen.

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