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In reply to the discussion: I know a dittohead who’s dumb beyond belief [View all]Hugabear
(10,340 posts)46. Someone like that could be really fun to fuck around with
Here in Orlando, we have a popular talk show host (Jim Phillips, WTKS "Philips Phile" who sometimes likes to spin elaborate stories for his more naive listeners.
One of them involved a "Keyunnel" - an underwater tunnel connecting Fort Myers, FL to Key West (would be a few hundred miles long). He's actually gotten a few people to believe that. Would be very interesting to see if you could get this idiot to fall for this.
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when i meet someone that stupid, and i have met a few, i wonder how they remember to keep breathing
KG
Mar 2012
#1
That's why evolution made it involuntary. They were stupid enough to forget.
The Wielding Truth
Mar 2012
#17
It's like the "you can't find a fish turning into a frog in nature" argument against
brewens
Mar 2012
#7
Rush Limpballs repeats himself all the time. Why the fuck is he still on the air?
HopeHoops
Mar 2012
#19
Repeating yourself over and over is how most political commentators make their living
RZM
Mar 2012
#57
Rush Limpballs repeats himself all the time. Why the fuck is he still on the air?
HopeHoops
Mar 2012
#58
This kind of ignorance is almost scary. It does, however, explain why they are so easily
Arkansas Granny
Mar 2012
#13
As I said in the OP, sharing this planet with people like that really frightens me.
Cyrano
Mar 2012
#30
It's part of the reason I'm an agnostic. What kind of "Supreme Being" would have created dumbness?
Cyrano
Mar 2012
#37
my dad's cousin was visiting with his wife and we went to the 'mall', where a busker was swallowing
certainot
Mar 2012
#31
I wish someone could take a poll and see how many rw wackos still believe that Saddam Hussein
jillan
Mar 2012
#44
I may in fact be a "liberal know-it-all meanie." But at least I didn't make his head explode.
Cyrano
Mar 2012
#49
Now, now, let's not get judgemental here. After all, I was talking to a dittohead who
Cyrano
Mar 2012
#61
But there are enough of these buffoons to make Limbaugh and Fox the highest rated shows by far.
Kablooie
Mar 2012
#67