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This is a question Ignorance

I once was in a programming class where the task was "build a calculator". A student did one with buttons 1, 2, 3 all the way up to about 25 and then ran out of space on the screen. We've asked this before but liked it so much we're asking again: What's the best example of ignorance you've encountered?

(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 12:30)
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I've seen a metric fuckton of folk on here this week who are ignorant of the meaning of 'ignorant,' thinking it actually means stupid.

(, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 20:56, 40 replies)
WAAH! WAAH! WAAH!
GENERIC ANGRY POST FROM BRAYNDEDD BITCHING ABOUT OTHER SITE USERS! WAAH! WAAH! WAAH! BRAYNDEDD!

Just wanted to get in there with the sad, self-important, humourless, hypocritical and generic post before TMT does.

I hope you understand.
(, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 21:27, closed)
If only he could see this.
You're denying him a right chub on, here.
(, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 21:47, closed)
I had a little wank to this, if that helps?

(, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 22:12, closed)
see, I got this from a dictionary
ignorant  
Example Sentences Origin
ig·no·rant   [ig-ner-uhnt]
adjective
1.
lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
2.
lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject or fact: ignorant of quantum physics.
3.
uninformed; unaware.
4.
due to or showing lack of knowledge or training: an ignorant statement.

and yet I feel it misses the central point, where people have the opportunity to learn new ideas but choose to 'ignore' them, thus preserving their own idea of how the world works, then chooses to insist on their version of events in the face of contrary evidence. See Creationists, Racists, Trekkers vs Trekkies.... (EDIT also, how I recall the middle section of 'Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun' from when I saw it on TV aged 10, versus the DVD I got a few years ago from ASDA for £3. I prefer my remembered version. Maybe it was a special 'ASDA' video edit..... but I digress.)

I hope this will help and inform people who are cross at your post and come looking for evidence as to why they shouldn't tell fun stories about dumb people because the semantics of the original query mean they're too stupid to know what ignorant means :-)
(, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 22:21, closed)
Zing!

(, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 22:33, closed)
it was an online dictionary though
so maybe shouldn't be trusted in a court of law.
(, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 22:38, closed)
Still it is a very palpable Zing! RWH.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 0:54, closed)
There's a good body of evidence out there that says 'TL;DR'
actually could come down to 'looks too hard to bother trying to read, therefore it must be shit'.

So, I declare 'LTHTBTTR,TIMBS' as the legitimate accurate successor to those without an attention span of OOH LOOK THEY DO CHIPS!
(, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 22:36, closed)
Clearly you're having a bit of trouble with "irony" as well...

(, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 23:19, closed)
That's something about spoons, isn't it?

(, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 23:24, closed)
You love spoons don't you bd?
It means you can cry while being bummed.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 0:56, closed)
This actually makes less sense than a Ringofyre post.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 8:24, closed)
I like that you use me as the benchmark AB.
That warms my cockles.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 8:28, closed)
Then do you really understand the sentence or it's structure fatty fucker?
You probably don't know about spooning as your missus takes up the whole bed.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 12:47, closed)
So to summarise.
BD is gay because he likes cutlery and my missus is fat?
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 17:11, closed)
That's what I got from it too.
I think MT should've concentrated on the fact that you are both annoying, super-critical, divisive non-contributors.

But that's just me.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 18:46, closed)
With more posts in last week's 'best of' than the pair of you put together.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 19:47, closed)
Wah

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 20:20, closed)
Gutted.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 20:26, closed)
Aint you the dogs danglies AB
Most people still think you are a pillock though.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 20:21, closed)
So, you're basically admitting to being less popular than me here, what with no people voting you up ever?

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 20:25, closed)
No, I am just saying you are a pillock.









Pillock
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 20:38, closed)
Cause that's my goal in life too.
When I reach that pinnacle - I can die a happy man.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 23:18, closed)
Yeah, but if TMT ever once made sense or said something witty the universe would implode.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 19:57, closed)
And wah
Well I get enough mails saying people like what I am doing so I wont stop.

Plus your impotent rages are so gratifying to watch.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 20:20, closed)
I get mails saying what a massive penis I've got and how I'm totally handsome and I should leave WW and have a meaningless fling with them and everything.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 20:26, closed)
Yeah sorry about that.
It was just a phase I was going through.

Although I think they were meant to say what a massive penis YOU ARE not Have.


*I've got to go ENJOY MY LIFE ™ for a while offline, please leave your impotent rages until I am back.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 20:27, closed)
and those ones are in between all the ones I get telling me how I'm totally better than you and I should run b3ta and not Rob.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 20:28, closed)
Well your not as racist admittedly.
But would you have time doing it with the amount of your day you are spent crushed below WW or lost in her folds?
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 20:30, closed)
And then of course there's the gazzes I get from the mods saying 'go on, see how upset you can make Ringo and MT today'
They're mostly from Scaryduck, mind.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 20:32, closed)

The Goat told me that you and Scary are the same person and that he uses the AB account to vent his frustrations on b3tans at having a small winkie.

You use the upset online card again and again you old one trick pony you.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 20:34, closed)
It's a good job you haven't mentioned my missus being fat, otherwise this might look like a massive case of Self Awareness Failure here.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 20:47, closed)
To the tune of "My Bonny lies over the ocean"
The lurkers support me in email,
I'm clearly correct they agree!
The lurkers support me in email,
just nowhere that others can see.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 21:53, closed)
Actually it turns out I'm half-remembering something from Usenet
barb.velvet.com/humor/lurkers.html
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 21:55, closed)
I do all the time Ringo.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 20:40, closed)
The word is "fucktonne", not "fuckton"
How ignorant.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 9:06, closed)
Not at all. Depends if it's a metric or imperial measure of fuckweight.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:38, closed)
OP specified "metric".
So my gag stands. Ner.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 11:04, closed)
I thought
Luke blew up the imperial fuckton so there's only the metric one left.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 13:53, closed)
Well played, there.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 17:17, closed)

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