Do you believe in the Zelig syndrome?

Does stupid wear off on other people?

Be concise.

I have become more stupid since I started posting on the Org..

surprisingly, this isn't specifically in reference to the org.

I think stupid attracts stupid.

Though to answer the question...Yes, I think to some degree stupidity can wear off on others just like other personalyity traits. It does depend on who does the influencing and how "cool" they seem to others. Also stupidity comes in different flavors, like ignorance or arrogance which can lead someone to do or say stupid things.

Anx said:

Ok, yes then.. I worked with a girl and she used to get her words mixed up and would say them in any old way.. Like: Lever Arch File = Archie Lever File and shit like that

It was really confusing

but when I spend time with intelligent folks, then I seem to come across more intelligent - its just natural I suppose

me no sure what mean thread?

in the physical world i communicate with grunts and pheromones.

althom need brain

I think there is something to it.

I think it's a Cloquet thing (the city we live in) to say "them things", the girl I work with...lived in/graduated from Cloquet and says it all the time. My hubby never did till he started working @ the paper mill in Cloquet and now I catch him saying it all the time (works with lots of Cloquet people). DRIVES ME BONKERS!! Thankfully it drives me nuts enough that I haven't started saying it myself.

sinisterpentatonic said:

ummm... btw i'm pretty sure a ain't a 'pheromone', pal. (at least, if it is, then prince's song 'pheromone; takes on an entirely different and much less appealing nuance). just thought someone should tell you

XxAxX said:

sure it is, you can often tell what someone had for dinner when they break wind.

smartypants!

sinisterpentatonic said:

hey! YOU'RE the fartypants!

huh ?

I think it's telling...judging by the responses on this thread.

what's this thread about again?

Around here people say "yous" all the time. My favorite is when a waitress comes over, looks at your plate and says "Are yous still working on that?"

minneapolisgenius said:

what the hell?

shellyevon said:

Alot of Australians say "yous" an it irritates me.

bkw said:

Yous shut it!

althom said:

as for me, no. i've got too high of a comprehension of the english language to start using bad grammar because of other people using it. i've been like that my whole life. yeah, i use the word "ain't" and stuff like that, but i just can't do it all the time.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

That's how I am. I told ya'll before, I use proper english and get called "white" what kind of bullshit is THAT? Hearing the way people talk FORCES me to use correct english. I can't stand it at my job, a black man will come to me and I'll say "Hello" and he'll say "whatsgoingonwhatspoppinhowulivinwassupmynigga" and I'm standing there looking at him like that MUTHAfuckin hell did you just say to me? Then when I "continue to talk white", they look at me like I have an attitude problem, then tell me I need to loosen up and get a sense of humor. No, YOU need to learn how to fucking talk. Thank God I can get my point across with just a look. My OTHER best friend is in college, VERY educated, yet he sounds so fucking stupid when he talks and I asked him one time why he talks "different" because we're from York. We don't have accents and all that, so I noticed. And he said "cuz, na mean, all mah boiiiiieeeezzz is from Philly and shit, and I picked up they accents and shit cuz I be chillen wit 'em" all I could say to him was "Nigga, Please." and he said "you sounded MAD white when you said that."

After you became my boo, my threads started resembling slow motion train wrecks.

no, but if you have become stupid after hanging around stupid people, then you were stupid from the beginning...

missfee said:

reinforced stupidity, I like that. Either that, or you're just a big ole' flaming conformist.

AsianBomb777 said:

as opposed to high speed jetliners crashing into a mountain?

superspaceboy said:

Now that's just fucking stupidity. How in the WORLD can an airline pilot miss a mountain? Like it just moved itself in front of the damn plane.

AsianBomb777 said:

DynamicSavior said:

Um have you heard of Patsy Cline? And I was j-o-k-i-n-g. You know funny...ha ha.