I love this joke but that's not what average means. It should be median, but average people are so ignorant of arithmetic they wouldn't get the joke if it was factually accurate.
George is using the wrong word. Stupid doesn't mean unintelligent. Nor does stupid mean ignorant. Stupid generally means recklessly ignoring important information to everyone's harm. Especially yours.
@@terrifictomm Well, in today's societies, I would define stupidity as "Knowing what's wrong, seeing the full truth, but still choose to believe in the lies".
Proverbs 9:7-9 New King James Version 7 “He who corrects a scoffer (stupid person) gets shame for himself, And he who rebukes a wicked man only harms himself. 8 Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you; Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you. 9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Frank Zappa once postulated that he disagreed with physicists that the most prevalent element in the universe was hydrogen Frank felt that in reality the most prevalent element in the universe was stupidity and he was absolutely right😂😂😂😂
It's a point of view, but by what measure might be arbitrary but if generally recognised this does provide a simple and easily applied template to consider what one means when it's relevant to want to interrogate what one is dealing with for anyone's hope to lessen the inevitable.
Einstein said there were two things had no end, the universe and stupidity. He said sometimes he doubted that about the universe, but not about stupidity.
These principles can easily be spotted in everyday driving: There are the bully hot-head drivers (lower right), the drivers who are too polite and let people go ahead even though it screws up the rules of driving (upper left), the people who dont know when to turn right on red, how to merge, yield, etc. (lower left), and finally, the drivers who assess the situation calmly: when to over- take, when to hold back, and simply drive safely.
Tailgaters are stupid. They actually slow traffic down, and greatly increase the likelihood of an accident, which REALLY slows down traffic. For NO benefit.
On a highway if people only moved in to the over taking lanes to overtake and then moved back once the manouvre was complete, there would be much less tailgaiting. But unfortunately most stupid drivers fail on this very simple principle. Now add those people that spend more time looking in the rear.view at where they have been instead of the direction they are travelling and finally those that believe they own the road and decide it is their job to police the speed of other drivers instead of simply pulling over when safe and allowing others to pass with minimal fuss. @@soupofpossibilities8537
I recently did something stupid. I worked for a massive company that owns nursing homes. When I found out they were falsifying records to cover up sexual abuse after it happened I complained. When I found out they were covering it up in advance rather than preventing it I told them they were wrong. They told me to get my stuff and get out. Then they made up stuff about me ruining my chances of getting another job like the one I had. People told me that those I was worried about have been hurt, but everyone pretends nothing happened. If i didn't get emotional, I would still be there helping them to stay safe. Plus I wouldn't be unemployed.
@@adrienneanderson-smith2257 Believe it or not I tried. I was told nothing would happen and they were not interested. They said if I filed a complaint without really good evidence I would be arrested for hipaa law violations. The company I worked for Maximus Healthcare, has deep pockets, and a well deserved reputation for buying small facilities and turning them into dumps. They make government contracts to house dangerous people no one else will take in with the other residents. Look into what happened to small nursing homes they purchased like newfane rehab and briody rehab. Check the reviews after they purchased them. Briody was a five star place before Maximus. They have a lot of political pull, and support from unions. Senator Bob Ortt wanted to revoke their license but other politicians protected them. I'm just one of many they canned for not going along with them. I hate to say it but many nurses and other employees just lie for them to keep their jobs and not start over some place new. They always staff management with scum who can act nice when they have to, and everyone just says nothing happened, and make up stories about the person fired. I have actually lost a lot of sleep worrying about the residents. The day I was fired I argued with them because they faked a woman's records to say she could no longer talk. This was done to cut her off from family too far away to visit. They were hiding a man who sexually abused her right across the hall from her, and management and a head nurse agreed to keep her quiet so she couldn't tell her family if he did to her what I was afraid he would. They didn't watch him at night. The head nurse was in trouble and agreed with it to stay the head nurse on her wing.
@@alanroberts6918 I know. The owners were coming that day to complain about the one-on-ones. They were not paying people to baby sit all day no matter who was getting hurt or how they were getting hurt. The man I was worried about actually tried to strangle two men to death, and may have killed one. He died a few months later in the hospital. I tried to tell the owners, they mocked me. I even later told one of the families. The administrator convinced them there sister was attacked because I didn't do my job, and that I was fired for that. I really hope there is such a thing as karma, and a place called hell. I guess I just lost my temper. I should have filed complaints with the state for there falsification of records, but I doubt they would have done anything. Sorry these replies are so long, but it feels good to talk about this.
Good point. And it's easy to call someone else stupid, but to recognize stupidity within oneself requires a special skill. Some would call this maturity and wisdom (recognizing one's own failings and shortcomings). Not enough people out there are going to be able to do this, unfortunately. The ability to self-reflect is a valuable gift we can develop for ourself.
Cippola's "paper" is a classic. I say "paper" because while it's written like a real research paper, he actually wrote it as a joke, then afterwards tried to have it removed. Luckily this failed and it became even more widespread. ;) That said, it's scary how brilliantly accurate it seems. Especially when thinking about groups, such as committees - it's almost like the stupid people gravitate towards each other until they reach a critical mass of utter stupidity, at which point any decisions made become utterly moronic.
Sounds like the democrat party. Notice that I didn’t say ‘democratic.’ One highly noticeable example: Cortez. It’s baffling that New Yorkers are stupid enough to vote for her, but maybe not. I’ve long suspected that modern democrats are never elected, and it would truly be a shame if I’m wrong.
Nope, I can deal with the others but blatant stupidity is very difficult for me to be present with; I try to just walk away unless they are causing trouble and maybe hurt someone...lol
Great video. Explains why some voters in the US consistently side with ballot initiatives (and candidates) that provide no benefit to themselves or to others. The number of voters who will gladly enact a ban, wipe out a right, or restrict options for themselves to kick down at someone else is staggering. 😮
Scotland's SNP ruled government and it's supporters are really bad for that. They made low emission zones in the centre of the city of Glasgow and hundreds of their own vehicles fell foul of it and had to be scrapped. Smoking bans decimated the pub industry. The sugar taxes and alcohol taxes have pushed up the prices of a few simple pleasures for all of us, who were once trusted as being responsible for our own intake and it won't reduce the problems of alcoholism or obesity because if those people want those things, they're only going to reprioritise their spending habits, in order to still get them. The local SNP run government in West Lothian reduced all the speed limits in towns and villages from the 30mph, that it had been for years, to 20mph and replaced all the speed limit signs with brand new ones. Even though the 20mph speed limits had not been enshrined in law and were actually unenforceable! They just sat around a table and decided to do it, one day. Their thinking: 'well, some people are doing over 30, in the 30 zone, so maybe if we make the speed limit signs 20, and people break that limit, they will keep their driving under 30'. Truth was, lots of people in front of me were doing 20. It increased journey times, increased emissions, hampered deliveries and so hampered business. Oh, and increased public spending on new signs. There must not have been much of a public consultation, other than with other stupid people who were only too happy to take the hit and comply. Thankfully, after it was dropped on us from on high, like a bolt from the blue, some intelligent people must have banded together and took them to court, or something, because it lasted about 3 months and then all of the speed limit signs got put back to 30. A rare case of common sense triumphing over the self-flagellating stupidity of a devolved Scottish government, with 'wee man syndrome' always trying to look like 'the most progressive society in Europe' (which the UK voted to get out of, in a referendum, but the Scottish government would desperately love to rejoin). Modern, stupid, lefty politics sucks. It's crowds of stupid people imposing restrictions, losses and penalties on themselves and everybody else. The Scottish National Party are super nanny-state. Like a bunch of old fart and old granny fascists in cahoots with their totalitarian, revolutionary, grand-kids with ear expanders and blue hair.
That explains everyone who wants gun control. The gun control advocates are all top left, bottom left, or bottom right in the chart with the only ones receiving real benefit being the pillagers (criminals, and politicians).
@@LouisWinthorpe622 "Smoking bans decimated the pub industry" So you think indoor smoking bans are stupid? Can people do whatever they please? Why not just speed 30 through school zones? Why not take a pee on the kid's playground during school recess? Do you think that should not be banned either?
I was naive, always lending money to others because they were in such a so much worse position. Until one day I had no money for myself or a job and no one was there to help me so yeah, don't be naive people.
Any problems with stupidity can be overcome with self-awareness. A certain level of intelligence may be required for self-awareness, but there are plenty of smart people who lack self-awareness. I would counter with personal life experience, that is not the stupidity that's the issue, it's the lack of self-awareness that's the issue. If I'm not qualified for a task, being aware of that will make the situation better for everyone. Finding someone who IS qualified is even better. But stubbornly believing I'm qualified in ways I'm not, hurts everyone.
There Is currently a BBC Radio series about the value of ignorance. It's a good thing in a way. As an old man l believe I've gained a little intelligence based on experience. But I'm still pretty stupid.
True. And sometimes too, it depends on which phase of life one is in. A child or teen might be naive, but wise up in adulthood. Or the other way around. For example, some people choose to poison themselves with drugs and alcohol as adults, but would not have thought their life would collapse like that back when they were younger. Some kids are actually more sensible than some adults are!
I think the intelligent person might do a stupid or naive people quadrant thing once in a while. But unlike the other quadrants they will recognize the stupid or naive thing they did, and regret doing it.
People can be functionally intelligent and still epistemologically stupid. Climate science is a good example of where some people (frequently engineers for some reason) think that some very simplistic reasoning means they know more than the worlds experts. These people refuse to examine the flaws in their responding as their certainty is a matter of identity and not rationality. They conflate knowledge of a phenomenon with a political or technical stance on responses to that phenomenon.
@@hydroponichomesteader6852 - stick to smoking the weed dude. Leave science to the experts. I bet if 2% of experts said weed causes immediate psychosis you’d laugh and cite the 98% who say it doesn’t. You people think you can just pick what you want to be true.
Yup climate environmentalist believe that making money selling carbon credits will stop climate change .. Climate changing every 100,000 years and many other cycles . Climate activists rather than planing to live with change and plan for living deny needed planning!!!
In a room of 100 people there a probably 101 stupid people because everyone is stupid in something and at least one of them will count themselves twice. Always be near a fire exit because if there is someone in the way, they WILL run into the exit, fall into it, and block the exit in a panic. Did I forget something?
I work in retail and may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer. But trust me, there are A LOT more stupid people out there than you realize, and I'm factoring in leaving out mental issues and such.
I'm listening to this again. Personally I don't think I can hear it often enough. Thank you for this thorough assessment of what might constitute the baffling precursors of what appears as stupidity to any reasonable beholder.
It’s an economic point of view. It’s not the only point of view and therefore not a thorough point of view. Stupidity can also be viewed from a cognitive/psychological point of view and a sociological point of view.
2:05 The plural of "criterion" is "criteria", or less commonly "criterions". Is "criteriae" a so-called "double plural"? It appears elsewhere, but it seems like a mistake.
I usually provide for others while a loss to myself but it’s not because I’m stupid, it’s because I feel sorry for others. “Smart ppl appear stupid to stupid ppl.” Albert Einstein
Possibly you mean dumb or ignorant. Stupid means that you actually know what to do and not do and still actively choose to do the opposite. Being aware that you are choosing incorrectly is what makes a person stupid.
Fact: HALF of all the people you see every day are BELOW AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE... Conversely the OTHER half are ABOVE AVG INTELLIGENCE... Now does what you've seen happening for the last few decades in politics, college campuses, world stage, etc... makes complete sense?
There is also situational stupidity (my term). Everybody one time or another does something stupid. Take the guy at 7:52 who tries to jump over the chain. He may be an expert in some field, but his jumping attempt made him look stupid.
Say, fellow, what’s wrong with freedom? Isn’t it the very spirit of life, the lack of which renders life intolerable? It very much belongs in the rational category.
@@chriskourliourod1651 Freedom is an illusion. Freedom should be only in the virtual world, and it is dangerous to joke with the physical world. Virtuality is a relative concept and is not limited to computers. There is a lot of it in dancing and reading, but in private ownership of housing, etc. few. It can be measured by the degree of influence on the physical world. Freedom is a politically correct term for evil and stupidity. Prison is an example of freedom. There, the inmates can do whatever they want with each other. Dictatorship brings order and security. Freedom gives lawlessness, drunkenness, drug addiction, etc. We live in a world of limited resources with schedules, duties, responsibilities. One slavery is replaced by another. You just need to choose which one is better. By the way, it is possible that there was no better alternative to slavery, and in vain it is so condemned in the United States. The survival rate in the past in the wild has been quite low. It is known that some Ukrainian ataman lived in a pit for quite a long time. Nearly 100 years old. And Nazi criminals lived in prison for quite a long time. Freedom of desire is incompatible with a world of limited resources. Only the virtual world can give such freedom. It is impossible to live without rules and decrees in the hospital and the army. This is an obvious example. In other places it is not so obvious, but the essence is the same. Nowadays, people get more than 99% of the pleasure from virtual entertainment.
@@chriskourliourod1651 In our time, dictatorship is becoming more important than in the past. Before, people were forced to do the right thing in order to survive. Now the West spends more than half of the resources on nonsense and harm. It has already provided itself with what it needs and does not want to develop correctly further. In a sufficiently technological future, dictatorship is indispensable. Pressing the wrong button can lead to a big tragedy. The world will be like a minefield. Even if the tragedy is not big in the modern sense, people's lives will be valued much more than now. Responsibility for themselves and their actions, awareness of the possible consequences for themselves or relatives for violating the rights of others is observed by a minority of people. Responsibility itself is slavery. It does not matter if it is imposed by others or by oneself. For the right people, there will be no difference if responsibility is dictated to them from above. It will be the same. But how professionally people can do it. Experience shows that only 1% of people try to observe proper nutrition, and they do it wrong. Freedom is the ideology of capricious children who do not like to learn lessons, but love to play pranks. A proper dictatorship would give people more leeway than the current one. Dictatorship will be in any case. If you do not create the right one, then it will be wrong. The correct one will give more space and maneuver and people will be freer. Restricting people for a little while is worse than forever. Prevention is better than cure. All people are at least a little bad, even the most correct ones. In humans, apoptosis is laid down, as in any other animals, so that more people die out. And extinction is the driving force behind evolution. Therefore, people must be limited so that they do not die out.
I am part of an ecosystem I have been described as naive whereas those around me as woefully stupid for getting injured ny our antics as the intelligent keep distance but watch for entertainment and the bandits pick ip the pieces later . I have also noticed that these rules tend to apply in most groups with several parties switching roles and I try to be the intelligent one but in anything non technical I seem to be naive .
A lot of this reminds me of myself! Sounds harsh I know. I was pretty stupid for getting married to my wife. I hurt myself and benefited her. She’s a covert narcissist so she did a great job of conning me into thinking she was a good person. Over time I saw what a complete (fill in your favorite insult) she was/is. Maybe naïve is a better word than stupid. There’s only a slight difference between the two.
People become stupid because they focus all their intelligence in one area (pinhole consciousness) while all other areas degrade because of immobility.
The Man with No Name/Blonde played by Eastwood was the good guy in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Tuco played by Wallach was the bandit but he was not the bad guy either. Angel Eyes played by Cleef was the bad guy. None of the three were stupid in my opinion. However, there were lots of stupid people in this movie notably the soldiers that died for a lost cause. It's an interesting analogy.
This is summed up in a simple math equation, when you cross a Dee with another Dee you get a DeeDeeDee! Development of ones senses such as observation and the ability to identify BS when it appears will ultimately lead one to the fact that we see in others what we see in ourselves. So if you are a decent human being and someone you know is always judging you in a light not cast by you. Well that should be all you need to identify them as someone to simply avoid. Life is too short to surround yourself with A-Holes.
Many helpless like good hearted people sacrifice their own well being by doing all for others. Which labels them as stupid. But same could be said of good people as well. I have family member who is a bandit.
What is the threshold of being stupid or not stupid. People behave differently in different situations and throughout their lives. It is easy to recognize a loss someone takes while they may be making gains that are unknown to others.
@@PC-vx6ko To some degree. It's relative. Many people are habitual at it. Very destructive, including themselves and then whine as if they didn't cause their own problems.
@@solarsynapse that is true however, many times I have been surprised at how seemingly “hopeless” or “stupid” people have been able to break habits and make positive changes in their lives. I cannot see the future for anyone or speculate that they will not be able to stop making the same mistakes in the future(bad habits). Furthermore, seemingly intelligent people frequently pick up bad habits of decision making and make their lives worse. I hesitate to label any person as stupid, but this adjective can easily describe a single action. It is easy to label someone when you only see a snapshot of their behavior and life and don’t understand their priorities. Most of us are not nearly as self aware as we believe, nor do we completely understand the world around us, or God’s will, and can easily fall into temptation and “stupid” behavior.
thanks for sharing this… while laughing, I also was profoundly happy that I‘m not wrong or alone in my thinking about the dangers of stupid people around us! 😅
The problem is society sometimes screws over the intelligent person making the intelligent person not be able to do their job. Thus eventually turning that intelligent person into a stupid person. And this really isn't about being smart or dumb, its about making a positive contribution to yourself and to society.
Yesterday I went to post office. An English man in 50s (looking like middle class/meaning he went to good school) was sending two boxes. Then he pulled some foreign notes and asked if can exgange the money. He got reply. Yes. So he counted all the notes and told the Indian guy the ammount and freezed for seconds like he wanted the Indian guy to start counting pounds for hand exchange. .... The cashier FINELY replies that he needs to count the money he holds. I was shocked. How can someone not know this in his 50s? .... Of course if I speak my broken English next to this gentleman fluent middle class I would be considered dumb and inferior. .... This is one of the reasons UK is sliding to a gutter. Too much complacency especially among menagment staff. Like George Carlin once said gold medal for everyone. You are rightly born, you are perfect fit to be CEO.
In a prosperous future, courage, strength, diligence, friendship are not needed. These qualities require implementation. In prosperity, this is unnecessary. Therefore, people unconsciously avoid problem solving and development. These qualities should only be means in our time, like toilet paper or a handkerchief. They do not need to be proud and do not need to make them an ideal. Gradually, they need to be abandoned altogether.
9:54 the better question to ask, given that stupid people are so prevalent, is, in what ways are YOU, listeners of this CZcams, this CZcams’s presenter, everyone on the planet, in what ways am I a stupid person?
People can only become more rational. An egoist will not become an altruist. But if you value health instead of money, everyone will benefit from this, including the connoisseur himself. In addition, altruism brings imbalance, which means chaos. Rationality puts everything in its place like in a machine.
I've been thinking lately, this idea that there is a distinct set of distinctly stupid people and an inverse group of perfectly intelligent to a fault people is one dimensional and flawed. The reality is it is a continuum and also can be situational or contextual. I'm a smart enough person to know when I am in a room full of brain surgeons, and the discussion is about brain surger, I'm going to be the idiot if I try to participate in that conversation. But if the topic switched to something I know more about, suddenly I am the smart guy in a room full of idiots.
I keep on forgetting to take this into account. I hope I can start remembering to do a little intelligence test on people and then get away from them when they fail it.
Stupid greedy people kept complaining about me occasionally getting paid for volunteering at the local mission and ruined it for everyone no no paid work for anyone unless their already full time on payroll...
That would not be a stupid person... For that person to be stupid, they would have had to have a negative impact on those around them, and didn't benefit themselves or even had a negative impact on themselves... If no one this person works with was impacted negatively, then this person doesn't "qualify" to be stupid... If the person got fired for the "whoops" and "swishes" and "pops" and didn't have a negative impact on anyone around them", I think that would put them in the "helpless" section, and the people who fired him in the "Bandits" box...
@@JohnMichael-to8cb [splutters, almost chokes on tea and crumpets] My good fellow, may I assure you I would NEVER say such a vulgar phrase! I am aware of those who would though. [sighs at the disappointment of diversity not being the strength we were told it would be]
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The movie 'Idiocracy' has evolved from a comedy into a prescient documentary...
“Think of the person of ‘average’ intelligence.. and then realize that HALF of the people are stupider than that.”
-George Carlin
I love this joke but that's not what average means. It should be median, but average people are so ignorant of arithmetic they wouldn't get the joke if it was factually accurate.
@@mark9v35What do you mean by mean?
George is using the wrong word. Stupid doesn't mean unintelligent. Nor does stupid mean ignorant.
Stupid generally means recklessly ignoring important information to everyone's harm. Especially yours.
@@terrifictomm
Well, in today's societies, I would define stupidity as "Knowing what's wrong, seeing the full truth, but still choose to believe in the lies".
Proverbs 17:12 “It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than to confront a fool in his foolishness “
Too true , too true indeed !!!
Maybe that could be written in some widely read book of wisdom.
@@manzion7599
That's funny😅
I love it, even Christians can be smart asses!🤣
I know I am😉
"Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly."
Proverbs 9:7-9
New King James Version
7 “He who corrects a scoffer (stupid person) gets shame for himself,
And he who rebukes a wicked man only harms himself.
8 Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you;
Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser;
Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Frank Zappa once postulated that he disagreed with physicists that the most prevalent element in the universe was hydrogen Frank felt that in reality the most prevalent element in the universe was stupidity and he was absolutely right😂😂😂😂
It's a point of view, but by what measure might be arbitrary but if generally recognised this does provide a simple and easily applied template to consider what one means when it's relevant to want to interrogate what one is dealing with for anyone's hope to lessen the inevitable.
Something similar (by Jacques Tati perhaps): There's nothing more equal than common sense - everyone thinks he's / she's got enough.
He should have listened to his doctor.
Yes
Well Zappa was stupid enough to associate with the stupid freaks he hung around with in Laurel Canyon, so he should know.
As Mark Twain said "Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects. "
Ignorance and stupidity are not the same.
@@DenJSmith Ignorance can be treated with knowledge. There is no cure for stupidity.
Ignorance is more expensive than education.
experience is expensive.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
@solarsynapse Yes indeed, thank you, good ol Benjamin Franklin
@@bobbywalter5320problem is, education doesn’t make you not stupid. I know ppl with 2 Masters degrees that are retarded….
Einstein said there were two things had no end, the universe and stupidity. He said sometimes he doubted that about the universe, but not about stupidity.
These principles can easily be spotted in everyday driving: There are the bully hot-head drivers (lower right), the drivers who are too polite and let people go ahead even though it screws up the rules of driving (upper left), the people who dont know when to turn right on red, how to merge, yield, etc. (lower left), and finally, the drivers who assess the situation calmly: when to over- take, when to hold back, and simply drive safely.
Tailgaters are stupid. They actually slow traffic down, and greatly increase the likelihood of an accident, which REALLY slows down traffic. For NO benefit.
Thanks. But stupid from you not to say what the last wise group is voting for. Left or right? Maybe the wise people are divided over left and right...
@aliasreco the wise ones are thinking "none of the above."
Professional driver closing in on 2 million miles driven: you nailed it.
On a highway if people only moved in to the over taking lanes to overtake and then moved back once the manouvre was complete, there would be much less tailgaiting.
But unfortunately most stupid drivers fail on this very simple principle.
Now add those people that spend more time looking in the rear.view at where they have been instead of the direction they are travelling and finally those that believe they own the road and decide it is their job to police the speed of other drivers instead of simply pulling over when safe and allowing others to pass with minimal fuss.
@@soupofpossibilities8537
I recently did something stupid. I worked for a massive company that owns nursing homes. When I found out they were falsifying records to cover up sexual abuse after it happened I complained. When I found out they were covering it up in advance rather than preventing it I told them they were wrong. They told me to get my stuff and get out. Then they made up stuff about me ruining my chances of getting another job like the one I had. People told me that those I was worried about have been hurt, but everyone pretends nothing happened. If i didn't get emotional, I would still be there helping them to stay safe. Plus I wouldn't be unemployed.
You didn’t call the police!
Or, better yet, a news station that LOVES to help solve crimes.
@@adrienneanderson-smith2257 Believe it or not I tried. I was told nothing would happen and they were not interested. They said if I filed a complaint without really good evidence I would be arrested for hipaa law violations. The company I worked for Maximus Healthcare, has deep pockets, and a well deserved reputation for buying small facilities and turning them into dumps. They make government contracts to house dangerous people no one else will take in with the other residents. Look into what happened to small nursing homes they purchased like newfane rehab and briody rehab. Check the reviews after they purchased them. Briody was a five star place before Maximus. They have a lot of political pull, and support from unions. Senator Bob Ortt wanted to revoke their license but other politicians protected them. I'm just one of many they canned for not going along with them. I hate to say it but many nurses and other employees just lie for them to keep their jobs and not start over some place new. They always staff management with scum who can act nice when they have to, and everyone just says nothing happened, and make up stories about the person fired. I have actually lost a lot of sleep worrying about the residents. The day I was fired I argued with them because they faked a woman's records to say she could no longer talk. This was done to cut her off from family too far away to visit. They were hiding a man who sexually abused her right across the hall from her, and management and a head nurse agreed to keep her quiet so she couldn't tell her family if he did to her what I was afraid he would. They didn't watch him at night. The head nurse was in trouble and agreed with it to stay the head nurse on her wing.
You went about it the wrong way.
@@alanroberts6918 I know. The owners were coming that day to complain about the one-on-ones. They were not paying people to baby sit all day no matter who was getting hurt or how they were getting hurt. The man I was worried about actually tried to strangle two men to death, and may have killed one. He died a few months later in the hospital. I tried to tell the owners, they mocked me. I even later told one of the families. The administrator convinced them there sister was attacked because I didn't do my job, and that I was fired for that. I really hope there is such a thing as karma, and a place called hell. I guess I just lost my temper. I should have filed complaints with the state for there falsification of records, but I doubt they would have done anything. Sorry these replies are so long, but it feels good to talk about this.
You should've collected evidence and put it on social media.
Law number 6: you cannot fix stupid. Law number 7: no matter how much you idiot proof a stupid person will find a way to break it.
Husqvarna actually has in their chainsaw manuals to not stop the chain with your genitals. So...somebody did that?
One of my laws on the subject is that emotions make smart people stupid.
Yes, where emotions reside there is no home for rational thought, facts or truth. It's the playbook for cult leaders.
Yes.Exactly. The whole science of heuristics is based on this premise.
People vote on emotion. This explains why people will vote against their own self interests.
Particularly in this day and age, I doubt seriously that I underestimate the number of stupid people, or the serious damage they cause.
*"REMEMBER, ALWAYS HAVE STUPID PEOPLE SPAYED OR NEUTERED!!!!!!!"*
- BOB BAKER.
Or women learn to swallow or even spit more often
😂
@@sylvielalonde8734
:^)
They are aborting themselves and are fighting to abort themselves and don’t want to have kids …
THE PROBLEM SHOULD BE SOLVED SOON !!!!
@@ChasOnErie
SADLY THEN BOB BAKER'S ADVICE WENT UNHEEDED!!!!!!!
Oh trust me; I do not underestimate a person's stupidity. I'm well aware of them!
That’s a stupid statement.
Who exactly are "them"? English 101
"I see dumb people, and they don't know they're dumb!"
I once worked with someone who would say you should be allowed to set snares for people like that
Nice turn on the quote from "The Sixth Sense"
Hard to believe that movie is from 1999.
Never Underestimate the Power of Stupid People in Large Groups. Case in point Washington, DC.
There's a reason its's called a congress of baboons!
Amen. DC has the largest group of stupid people. That effeminate senator who gushes over Trump who called him stupid is one.
ABSOLUTELY!
Early in life I started out as a naive person, but quickly discovered that was unsustainable. Today I'm happily "intelligent".
Intelligence has its limits. Stupidity Knows No Bounds.
"It's," as in your comment above, means "it is." Start with that.
@@13c11a Whoops... Migraine, spots, waviness and a few other things let me miss that.
what is morality without religion?
@@alexcope8142 It's called being human.
Intelligent people do stupid shit all the time.
Isnt it a miracle thar we can be intelligent enough to recognize stupidity?🤔
Good point. And it's easy to call someone else stupid, but to recognize stupidity within oneself requires a special skill. Some would call this maturity and wisdom (recognizing one's own failings and shortcomings). Not enough people out there are going to be able to do this, unfortunately. The ability to self-reflect is a valuable gift we can develop for ourself.
"Two things are infinite: The universe and Human stupidity! But I'm not quite sure about the universe..." (Albert Einstein). 🤔
I'm definitely slightly less stupid after watching this. Thanks! Great video. Made me laugh.
That makes one of us
Stupidity is terminal, incurable. Ignorance, though,can be fixed.
Don't go to stupid places with stupid people at stupid times and do stupid things.
A few decades before Coppola, Bonhoeffer wrote on the Theory of Stupidity referring to Hitler and the his followers.
Cippola's "paper" is a classic. I say "paper" because while it's written like a real research paper, he actually wrote it as a joke, then afterwards tried to have it removed. Luckily this failed and it became even more widespread. ;)
That said, it's scary how brilliantly accurate it seems. Especially when thinking about groups, such as committees - it's almost like the stupid people gravitate towards each other until they reach a critical mass of utter stupidity, at which point any decisions made become utterly moronic.
Sounds like the board of directors at some media companies these days.
This thread is good 👍
Sounds like the democrat party. Notice that I didn’t say ‘democratic.’ One highly noticeable example: Cortez. It’s baffling that New Yorkers are stupid enough to vote for her, but maybe not. I’ve long suspected that modern democrats are never elected, and it would truly be a shame if I’m wrong.
That's exactly what happens. Another good analogy I've heard is $h!t rises to the top when the system is a sewer.
Writing in a tongue in cheek manner sometimes frees you from the social or other limitations, and you accidentally stumble on a truth.
Stupid not the same as ignorance , or mentally challanged or crazy .
Stupid people are willfully ignorant. They have the ability to learn, but refuse to do so because they believe they are smart (Dunning-Kruger effect)
Nope, I can deal with the others but blatant stupidity is very difficult for me to be present with; I try to just walk away unless they are causing trouble and maybe hurt someone...lol
Stupid is relative
They are all in the same family
I like the saying I once saw: 'Never underestimate the power of human stupidity'
Great video. Explains why some voters in the US consistently side with ballot initiatives (and candidates) that provide no benefit to themselves or to others. The number of voters who will gladly enact a ban, wipe out a right, or restrict options for themselves to kick down at someone else is staggering. 😮
Scotland's SNP ruled government and it's supporters are really bad for that. They made low emission zones in the centre of the city of Glasgow and hundreds of their own vehicles fell foul of it and had to be scrapped. Smoking bans decimated the pub industry. The sugar taxes and alcohol taxes have pushed up the prices of a few simple pleasures for all of us, who were once trusted as being responsible for our own intake and it won't reduce the problems of alcoholism or obesity because if those people want those things, they're only going to reprioritise their spending habits, in order to still get them.
The local SNP run government in West Lothian reduced all the speed limits in towns and villages from the 30mph, that it had been for years, to 20mph and replaced all the speed limit signs with brand new ones. Even though the 20mph speed limits had not been enshrined in law and were actually unenforceable! They just sat around a table and decided to do it, one day. Their thinking: 'well, some people are doing over 30, in the 30 zone, so maybe if we make the speed limit signs 20, and people break that limit, they will keep their driving under 30'.
Truth was, lots of people in front of me were doing 20. It increased journey times, increased emissions, hampered deliveries and so hampered business. Oh, and increased public spending on new signs.
There must not have been much of a public consultation, other than with other stupid people who were only too happy to take the hit and comply.
Thankfully, after it was dropped on us from on high, like a bolt from the blue, some intelligent people must have banded together and took them to court, or something, because it lasted about 3 months and then all of the speed limit signs got put back to 30. A rare case of common sense triumphing over the self-flagellating stupidity of a devolved Scottish government, with 'wee man syndrome' always trying to look like 'the most progressive society in Europe' (which the UK voted to get out of, in a referendum, but the Scottish government would desperately love to rejoin).
Modern, stupid, lefty politics sucks. It's crowds of stupid people imposing restrictions, losses and penalties on themselves and everybody else.
The Scottish National Party are super nanny-state. Like a bunch of old fart and old granny fascists in cahoots with their totalitarian, revolutionary, grand-kids with ear expanders and blue hair.
That explains everyone who wants gun control. The gun control advocates are all top left, bottom left, or bottom right in the chart with the only ones receiving real benefit being the pillagers (criminals, and politicians).
Voting against their own self interests.
@@LouisWinthorpe622 "Smoking bans decimated the pub industry"
So you think indoor smoking bans are stupid? Can people do whatever they please? Why not just speed 30 through school zones? Why not take a pee on the kid's playground during school recess? Do you think that should not be banned either?
I was naive, always lending money to others because they were in such a so much worse position. Until one day I had no money for myself or a job and no one was there to help me so yeah, don't be naive people.
Stupid is as stupid does. - Forrest Gump
Hilarious video. Laughing at myself. Not as stupid as I used to be, I hope! 😁😁
Any problems with stupidity can be overcome with self-awareness. A certain level of intelligence may be required for self-awareness, but there are plenty of smart people who lack self-awareness.
I would counter with personal life experience, that is not the stupidity that's the issue, it's the lack of self-awareness that's the issue.
If I'm not qualified for a task, being aware of that will make the situation better for everyone. Finding someone who IS qualified is even better. But stubbornly believing I'm qualified in ways I'm not, hurts everyone.
There Is currently a BBC Radio series about the value of ignorance. It's a good thing in a way. As an old man l believe I've gained a little intelligence based on experience. But I'm still pretty stupid.
Aren’t we all in any of the quadrants from time to time? I guess which quadrant one dwells in the most is what makes the difference.
True. And sometimes too, it depends on which phase of life one is in. A child or teen might be naive, but wise up in adulthood. Or the other way around. For example, some people choose to poison themselves with drugs and alcohol as adults, but would not have thought their life would collapse like that back when they were younger. Some kids are actually more sensible than some adults are!
I think the intelligent person might do a stupid or naive people quadrant thing once in a while.
But unlike the other quadrants they will recognize the stupid or naive thing they did, and regret doing it.
People can be functionally intelligent and still epistemologically stupid. Climate science is a good example of where some people (frequently engineers for some reason) think that some very simplistic reasoning means they know more than the worlds experts. These people refuse to examine the flaws in their responding as their certainty is a matter of identity and not rationality. They conflate knowledge of a phenomenon with a political or technical stance on responses to that phenomenon.
@@hydroponichomesteader6852 - stick to smoking the weed dude. Leave science to the experts. I bet if 2% of experts said weed causes immediate psychosis you’d laugh and cite the 98% who say it doesn’t. You people think you can just pick what you want to be true.
Yup climate environmentalist believe that making money selling carbon credits will stop climate change ..
Climate changing every 100,000 years and many other cycles .
Climate activists rather than planing to live with change and plan for living deny needed planning!!!
Almost all of them have a drivers license and/or own a car. All by itself itself, the perpetual mayhem that causes is inescapably evident.
And they’re allowed to vote.
@@kellydalstok8900 Yes, Kelly, a problem that is as bad or worse.
@@kellydalstok8900voters don't matter, vote counters do.
In a room of 100 people there a probably 101 stupid people because everyone is stupid in something and at least one of them will count themselves twice.
Always be near a fire exit because if there is someone in the way, they WILL run into the exit, fall into it, and block the exit in a panic. Did I forget something?
Pretty stupid
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I work in retail and may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer. But trust me, there are A LOT more stupid people out there than you realize, and I'm factoring in leaving out mental issues and such.
I'm listening to this again. Personally I don't think I can hear it often enough. Thank you for this thorough assessment of what might constitute the baffling precursors of what appears as stupidity to any reasonable beholder.
It’s an economic point of view. It’s not the only point of view and therefore not a thorough point of view.
Stupidity can also be viewed from a cognitive/psychological point of view and a sociological point of view.
For some reason I'm thinking that Mae West said that intellectuals know everything and suspect nothing.
2:05 The plural of "criterion" is "criteria", or less commonly "criterions". Is "criteriae" a so-called "double plural"? It appears elsewhere, but it seems like a mistake.
This explanation has given a clear clarity right at the needful moment. Thank you sir 🙏
I usually provide for others while a loss to myself but it’s not because I’m stupid, it’s because I feel sorry for others.
“Smart ppl appear stupid to stupid ppl.” Albert Einstein
6: Stupid people likely don't know it. I could be stupid. You could be stupid. Are you sure you're not? That's a sign of stupidity.
Possibly you mean dumb or ignorant. Stupid means that you actually know what to do and not do and still actively choose to do the opposite. Being aware that you are choosing incorrectly is what makes a person stupid.
"In what ways are you an intelligent person?" I watched this video, didn't I?
Fact: HALF of all the people you see every day are BELOW AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE... Conversely the OTHER half are ABOVE AVG INTELLIGENCE... Now does what you've seen happening for the last few decades in politics, college campuses, world stage, etc... makes complete sense?
I use the parent/dependent oxygen mask analogy all the dang time. Great video!
Our dad would say "you don't know nothing" so we'd retort "then we must know Something" ha.
I'd add a sixth: 6. We are all stupid sometimes and in some ways.
Please change your screen name to ‘Bruce man.’ That’s exactly how grown-ups think.
Thanks for the video.
Well, now I feel stupid!😂
Sometimes providing benefits to other people, and not to one's self
Is providing benefits to yourself,..
This guy telling us dumb people that we bring everything down. Yet I see so many miserable rich smart people?
Stupid people always rise to the top ... of politics.
There is also situational stupidity (my term). Everybody one time or another does something stupid. Take the guy at 7:52 who tries to jump over the chain. He may be an expert in some field, but his jumping attempt made him look stupid.
False values (illusions)
01) Prestige
02) Grovelling
03) Swindling
04) Whim
05) Money
06) Fortune
07) Freedom
Rational values
01) Safety
02) Health
03) Longevity
04) Creativity
05) Clean environment
06) Progress
Say, fellow, what’s wrong with freedom? Isn’t it the very spirit of life, the lack of which renders life intolerable? It very much belongs in the rational category.
@@chriskourliourod1651 Reason is the absence of freedom. The infinite set is limited only by correct solutions.
@@chriskourliourod1651 Algorithms are dictatorships, and freedom is randomly chosen outcomes.
@@chriskourliourod1651 Freedom is an illusion. Freedom should be only in the virtual world, and it is dangerous to joke with the physical world. Virtuality is a relative concept and is not limited to computers. There is a lot of it in dancing and reading, but in private ownership of housing, etc. few. It can be measured by the degree of influence on the physical world. Freedom is a politically correct term for evil and stupidity. Prison is an example of freedom. There, the inmates can do whatever they want with each other. Dictatorship brings order and security. Freedom gives lawlessness, drunkenness, drug addiction, etc. We live in a world of limited resources with schedules, duties, responsibilities. One slavery is replaced by another. You just need to choose which one is better. By the way, it is possible that there was no better alternative to slavery, and in vain it is so condemned in the United States. The survival rate in the past in the wild has been quite low. It is known that some Ukrainian ataman lived in a pit for quite a long time. Nearly 100 years old. And Nazi criminals lived in prison for quite a long time. Freedom of desire is incompatible with a world of limited resources. Only the virtual world can give such freedom. It is impossible to live without rules and decrees in the hospital and the army. This is an obvious example. In other places it is not so obvious, but the essence is the same. Nowadays, people get more than 99% of the pleasure from virtual entertainment.
@@chriskourliourod1651 In our time, dictatorship is becoming more important than in the past. Before, people were forced to do the right thing in order to survive. Now the West spends more than half of the resources on nonsense and harm. It has already provided itself with what it needs and does not want to develop correctly further. In a sufficiently technological future, dictatorship is indispensable. Pressing the wrong button can lead to a big tragedy. The world will be like a minefield. Even if the tragedy is not big in the modern sense, people's lives will be valued much more than now. Responsibility for themselves and their actions, awareness of the possible consequences for themselves or relatives for violating the rights of others is observed by a minority of people. Responsibility itself is slavery. It does not matter if it is imposed by others or by oneself. For the right people, there will be no difference if responsibility is dictated to them from above. It will be the same. But how professionally people can do it.
Experience shows that only 1% of people try to observe proper nutrition, and they do it wrong. Freedom is the ideology of capricious children who do not like to learn lessons, but love to play pranks. A proper dictatorship would give people more leeway than the current one. Dictatorship will be in any case. If you do not create the right one, then it will be wrong. The correct one will give more space and maneuver and people will be freer. Restricting people for a little while is worse than forever. Prevention is better than cure. All people are at least a little bad, even the most correct ones. In humans, apoptosis is laid down, as in any other animals, so that more people die out. And extinction is the driving force behind evolution. Therefore, people must be limited so that they do not die out.
I am part of an ecosystem I have been described as naive whereas those around me as woefully stupid for getting injured ny our antics as the intelligent keep distance but watch for entertainment and the bandits pick ip the pieces later .
I have also noticed that these rules tend to apply in most groups with several parties switching roles and I try to be the intelligent one but in anything non technical I seem to be naive .
A lot of this reminds me of myself! Sounds harsh I know. I was pretty stupid for getting married to my wife. I hurt myself and benefited her. She’s a covert narcissist so she did a great job of conning me into thinking she was a good person. Over time I saw what a complete (fill in your favorite insult) she was/is. Maybe naïve is a better word than stupid. There’s only a slight difference between the two.
People become stupid because they focus all their intelligence in one area (pinhole consciousness) while all other areas degrade because of immobility.
Stupidity: 98%. Thank Zeus I'm smart
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Did he invent the Lightbulb..
No, Laura! God did!
Oh!
I often remind myself that we are all stupid in somebody's eyes.
But that is different than actually being stupid.
cigarette: Destroys you as it destroys itself!
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SUCH TRUTHS
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DON'T Allow yourself to be shackled to them!
i WAS A STUPID PERSON ONCE !
The Man with No Name/Blonde played by Eastwood was the good guy in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Tuco played by Wallach was the bandit but he was not the bad guy either. Angel Eyes played by Cleef was the bad guy. None of the three were stupid in my opinion. However, there were lots of stupid people in this movie notably the soldiers that died for a lost cause. It's an interesting analogy.
Soldiers that were probably drafted and compelled to fight or else. The real stupidity is the politicians who started the war in the first place.
This had me in stitches
2:33 I think he just said a stupid person is someone who cuts off his nose to spite his face.
Interesting video. So, how do you avoid a stupid person before misfortune falls on you?
Somewhere out there someone just did something stupid or is just about too.
This is summed up in a simple math equation, when you cross a Dee with another Dee you get a DeeDeeDee! Development of ones senses such as observation and the ability to identify BS when it appears will ultimately lead one to the fact that we see in others what we see in ourselves. So if you are a decent human being and someone you know is always judging you in a light not cast by you. Well that should be all you need to identify them as someone to simply avoid. Life is too short to surround yourself with A-Holes.
Sounds like the intersectionality of altruism and problem solving
The ideal of strength must be changed to the ideal of longevity. Trouble is needed to show strength. In prosperity, strength is not needed.
RON WHITE, COMEDIAN SAYS: YOU CAN'T FIX STUPIDS!
Many helpless like good hearted people sacrifice their own well being by doing all for others. Which labels them as stupid. But same could be said of good people as well. I have family member who is a bandit.
What is the threshold of being stupid or not stupid. People behave differently in different situations and throughout their lives. It is easy to recognize a loss someone takes while they may be making gains that are unknown to others.
REPEATING the same mistake over and over and over.
@@solarsynapse so most everyone is stupid?
@@PC-vx6ko To some degree. It's relative. Many people are habitual at it. Very destructive, including themselves and then whine as if they didn't cause their own problems.
@@solarsynapse that is true however, many times I have been surprised at how seemingly “hopeless” or “stupid” people have been able to break habits and make positive changes in their lives. I cannot see the future for anyone or speculate that they will not be able to stop making the same mistakes in the future(bad habits). Furthermore, seemingly intelligent people frequently pick up bad habits of decision making and make their lives worse. I hesitate to label any person as stupid, but this adjective can easily describe a single action. It is easy to label someone when you only see a snapshot of their behavior and life and don’t understand their priorities. Most of us are not nearly as self aware as we believe, nor do we completely understand the world around us, or God’s will, and can easily fall into temptation and “stupid” behavior.
Stupid people always over-estimate their own intelligence.
thanks for sharing this… while laughing, I also was profoundly happy that I‘m not wrong or alone in my thinking about the dangers of stupid people around us! 😅
Did you get the mRNA 'vaccine'?
This was hilarious AND profound...
Stupid people ROCK!!!
Don't criticize stupid people. Pity them. (they can't help themselves)
@gerryboudreaultboudreault2608 : I wasn't criticizing them. I'm pretty stupid, and I ABSOLUTELY ROCK!!!
Great presentation...hilarious!
The problem is society sometimes screws over the intelligent person making the intelligent person not be able to do their job. Thus eventually turning that intelligent person into a stupid person.
And this really isn't about being smart or dumb, its about making a positive contribution to yourself and to society.
Wow, this guy is underrated
Yesterday I went to post office.
An English man in 50s (looking like middle class/meaning he went to good school) was sending two boxes. Then he pulled some foreign notes and asked if can exgange the money. He got reply. Yes.
So he counted all the notes and told the Indian guy the ammount and freezed for seconds like he wanted the Indian guy to start counting pounds for hand exchange.
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The cashier FINELY replies that he needs to count the money he holds.
I was shocked. How can someone not know this in his 50s?
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Of course if I speak my broken English next to this gentleman fluent middle class I would be considered dumb and inferior.
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This is one of the reasons UK is sliding to a gutter. Too much complacency especially among menagment staff.
Like George Carlin once said gold medal for everyone. You are rightly born, you are perfect fit to be CEO.
100% of the people that watched this video think that the stupid person is someone else not them.
Brill Yant!
In a prosperous future, courage, strength, diligence, friendship are not needed. These qualities require implementation. In prosperity, this is unnecessary. Therefore, people unconsciously avoid problem solving and development. These qualities should only be means in our time, like toilet paper or a handkerchief. They do not need to be proud and do not need to make them an ideal. Gradually, they need to be abandoned altogether.
The most unfortunate part is that very often it takes some time to identify stupid characters in our life.
A very good and informative video.
The only problem at the end. the music is too damn loud.
I cóuldn't hear or understand what he trying to say.
I would perpos that intellectuals are attracted to the same mind of others
Stupid to the left intelligent to the right, always.
9:54 the better question to ask, given that stupid people are so prevalent, is, in what ways are YOU, listeners of this CZcams, this CZcams’s presenter, everyone on the planet, in what ways am I a stupid person?
No way to prepare for them 😂
People can only become more rational. An egoist will not become an altruist. But if you value health instead of money, everyone will benefit from this, including the connoisseur himself. In addition, altruism brings imbalance, which means chaos. Rationality puts everything in its place like in a machine.
I've been thinking lately, this idea that there is a distinct set of distinctly stupid people and an inverse group of perfectly intelligent to a fault people is one dimensional and flawed.
The reality is it is a continuum and also can be situational or contextual.
I'm a smart enough person to know when I am in a room full of brain surgeons, and the discussion is about brain surger, I'm going to be the idiot if I try to participate in that conversation. But if the topic switched to something I know more about, suddenly I am the smart guy in a room full of idiots.
I keep on forgetting to take this into account. I hope I can start remembering to do a little intelligence test on people and then get away from them when they fail it.
3.40 is where i learned im not intelligent, im naive.
James 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Consider all this before voting this time.
Stop watching corporate media.
The whole story/spilled drinks/burning restaurant would make a great video. Don't stupid people provide a benefit by giving us script ideas?
Stupid greedy people kept complaining about me occasionally getting paid for volunteering at the local mission and ruined it for everyone no no paid work for anyone unless their already full time on payroll...
Who was the stupid person that decided to had distracting audio “whoops”, “swishes” and “pops” to this video?
That would not be a stupid person...
For that person to be stupid, they would have had to have a negative impact on those around them, and didn't benefit themselves or even had a negative impact on themselves...
If no one this person works with was impacted negatively, then this person doesn't "qualify" to be stupid...
If the person got fired for the "whoops" and "swishes" and "pops" and didn't have a negative impact on anyone around them", I think that would put them in the "helpless" section,
and the people who fired him in the "Bandits" box...
What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? Don't know, don't care. 🤣
Americans not realising how ironic they sound every time they say 'stupid' as 'stooo-pid'.
-Native British English speaker
Except that isn't how most of us pronounce it. Most of us don't go as far as "styoopid," however. Sorry for your inability to perceive subtleties.
Says the one from the U.K. who probably says 'MY bruvuh from anuvah muvah.' 😉
@@JohnMichael-to8cb [splutters, almost chokes on tea and crumpets] My good fellow, may I assure you I would NEVER say such a vulgar phrase! I am aware of those who would though. [sighs at the disappointment of diversity not being the strength we were told it would be]