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Title: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: Becky (My pronouns are Assigned/By/God) on February 13, 2017, 05:42:12 PM
http://moonbattery.com/?p=81165


Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: PaulS on February 13, 2017, 06:03:08 PM
If it weren't so fricken dangerous, what is going on, it would be funny or sad depending on whether it is stupidity or mental illness that is causing this.
Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: Bob Noel on February 13, 2017, 06:08:55 PM
http://moonbattery.com/?p=81165

Those must be faked.

No one is that stupid.

Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: jb1842 on February 13, 2017, 06:12:29 PM
Those must be faked.

No one is that stupid.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity-Robert A. Heinlein
 
Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: You Only Live Twice on February 13, 2017, 08:06:33 PM
Comments are hilarious. I LMAO at this:

(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0d855d40656968daa14b5cfe930a2eacefe01514b044584ef1303d9fd813fc7d.jpg?w=600&h=500)
Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: Anthony on February 13, 2017, 08:11:30 PM
Sarah Silverman?  Another "never was" trying to be relevant.  Go to Hell. 
Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: gerhardt on February 14, 2017, 08:46:14 AM
I think a lot of that is her attempt at humor.  I never thought she was funny.  I remember her being on late night tv interview once and saying she grew up in a household where it was okay to routinely use the f bomb.  So I figured that explained a lot.  I don't think we'd know her name if she was a portly man. 

Still, I think this was just her trying to be funny.
Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: Bob Noel on February 14, 2017, 10:55:58 AM
I think a lot of that is her attempt at humor.  I never thought she was funny.  I remember her being on late night tv interview once and saying she grew up in a household where it was okay to routinely use the f bomb.  So I figured that explained a lot.  I don't think we'd know her name if she was a portly man. 

Still, I think this was just her trying to be funny.

That would be one of the dumbest excuses  (I'm not accusing you of being stupid) for completely inappropriate statements.



Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: jb1842 on February 14, 2017, 11:11:03 AM
I think a lot of that is her attempt at humor.  I never thought she was funny.  I remember her being on late night tv interview once and saying she grew up in a household where it was okay to routinely use the f bomb.  So I figured that explained a lot.  I don't think we'd know her name if she was a portly man. 

Still, I think this was just her trying to be funny.

I think she knows she is not funny, and really has no talent in anything, which is why her go to thing is to try to shock people. Keeps her in the news and makes her think she is important.
Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: Number7 on February 14, 2017, 11:12:50 AM
The problem with explaining this type of sickening behavior away, is that it was exactly what the democrats did as Hitler stole power and started slaughtering people.

With the level of vitriol and ignorance coming out of the stupid people these days, I doubt most of them even know what they are saying. Which makes them truly useful idiots for the real fascists.
Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: gerhardt on February 14, 2017, 02:12:40 PM

With the level of vitriol and ignorance coming out of the stupid people these days, I doubt most of them even know what they are saying. Which makes them truly useful idiots for the real fascists.

Oddly, I was taunted yesterday for my belief that most people are stupid.  I still think it's true today though.
Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: Little Joe on February 14, 2017, 02:14:46 PM
Oddly, I was taunted yesterday for my belief that most people are stupid.  I still think it's true today though.
I was one that taunted you.  But I never said you were wrong.  ;)
Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: PaulS on February 14, 2017, 02:58:23 PM
Oddly, I was taunted yesterday for my belief that most people are stupid.  I still think it's true today though.

Most people think they are the smartest people in the room, any room.  Oddly, or perhaps not so oddly, I find that those who point out how smart they are, usually, not always, but usually not the smartest.   Also, remember, that half of people are smarter than average, and the other half are not as smart as average, that's a lot of people.
Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: Little Joe on February 14, 2017, 03:06:42 PM
Most people think they are the smartest people in the room, any room.  Oddly, or perhaps not so oddly, I find that those who point out how smart they are, usually, not always, but usually not the smartest.   Also, remember, that half of people are smarter than average, and the other half are not as smart as average, that's a lot of people.
Are you sure about that?   :)
Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: asechrest on February 14, 2017, 03:31:38 PM
“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”  - J.R.R. Tolkien
Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: PaulS on February 14, 2017, 03:59:34 PM
Are you sure about that?   :)

Nope, not smart enough to be sure.  ;)
Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: Jim Logajan on February 14, 2017, 04:00:47 PM
Most people think they are the smartest people in the room, any room.  Oddly, or perhaps not so oddly, I find that those who point out how smart they are, usually, not always, but usually not the smartest.   Also, remember, that half of people are smarter than average, and the other half are not as smart as average, that's a lot of people.

Half the people are smarter than the median, not the average (or mean).

Helpful example:
The average of the ordered sequence [1, 1, 2, 6] is 2.5 while the median is 1.5.
Half the numbers are less than 1.5 and half are more than 1.5.
But 75% of the numbers are less than the average (or mean.)

(When determining the median of a discrete set of data, if the number of elements is odd then the middle one of the sorted list is taken as the median value while with an even set the data the mean of the middle two elements of the sorted list is taken as the median.)

Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: PaulS on February 14, 2017, 04:26:23 PM
Half the people are smarter than the median, not the average (or mean).

Helpful example:
The average of the ordered sequence [1, 1, 2, 6] is 2.5 while the median is 1.5.
Half the numbers are less than 1.5 and half are more than 1.5.
But 75% of the numbers are less than the average (or mean.)

(When determining the median of a discrete set of data, if the number of elements is odd then the middle one of the sorted list is taken as the median value while with an even set the data the mean of the middle two elements of the sorted list is taken as the median.)


Nope, not smart enough to be sure.  ;)

Lol, see what I mean??     So actually if you want to be more correct, then you have to account for the fact that you will have a percentage of the population right at the median value, whatever that may be, which means that less than half the population will be above the median and less than half the population will be below the median.  Of course, since the median would never be able to be determined to a certainty, my statement is probably close enough for discussion purposes.  ;)
Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: Becky (My pronouns are Assigned/By/God) on February 14, 2017, 07:07:19 PM
Let's just settle this right now. 

In America, 61,201,031 people who voted in the 2016 election are smart.  62,523,126 people who voted in that same election are incredibly stupid.

From this extremely large sample, and really, it's a YUGE sample, we can conclude smartness does seem to occur in half the people.

http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president
Title: Re: If all you have is a hammer ....
Post by: Bob Noel on February 14, 2017, 07:22:44 PM
Let's just settle this right now. 

In America, 61,201,031 people who voted in the 2016 election are smart.  62,523,126 people who voted in that same election are incredibly stupid.

From this extremely large sample, and really, it's a YUGE sample, we can conclude smartness does seem to occur in half the people.

http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president

well, you are assuming no voter fraud...

 ;)