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Mira

(22,380 posts)
Tue Jun 23, 2015, 12:40 PM Jun 2015

Many in Nation Tired of Explaining Things to Idiots - (how can this be satirical) a Borowitz report




MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report)—Many Americans are tired of explaining things to idiots, particularly when the things in question are so painfully obvious, a new poll indicates.

According to the poll, conducted by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute, while millions have been vexed for some time by their failure to explain incredibly basic information to dolts, that frustration has now reached a breaking point.Of the many obvious things that people are sick and tired of trying to get through the skulls of stupid people, the fact that climate change will cause catastrophic habitat destruction and devastating extinctions tops the list, with a majority saying that they will no longer bother trying to explain this to cretins.

Coming in a close second, statistical proof that gun control has reduced gun deaths in countries around the world is something that a significant number of those polled have given up attempting to break down for morons.

Finally, a majority said that trying to make idiots understand why a flag that symbolizes bigotry and hatred has no business flying over a state capitol only makes the person attempting to explain this want to put his or her fist through a wall.

In a result that suggests a dismal future for the practice of explaining things to idiots, an overwhelming number of those polled said that they were considering abandoning such attempts altogether, with a broad majority agreeing with the statement, “This country is exhausting.”

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Many in Nation Tired of Explaining Things to Idiots - (how can this be satirical) a Borowitz report (Original Post) Mira Jun 2015 OP
I see no satire there. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #1
Celestia, the IPU and the FSM know, I am sick of it. hifiguy Jun 2015 #2
K&R Solly Mack Jun 2015 #3
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
2. Celestia, the IPU and the FSM know, I am sick of it.
Tue Jun 23, 2015, 06:55 PM
Jun 2015

Sick to death of it. Even here at DU it is a thankless task.

Borowitz, as usual, is far too truthful to be pure satire.

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