people who earn less than $50,000 a year say the darndest things
At university some people told me that picking your nose causes brain damage, because it pushes the soft tissue directly onto your brain. Queue me going to the doctor several times over the next few years for the onset of memory loss and early dementia.

The same people told me that NASA was planning to set up a colony on Mars, evacuating all the top people because Earth's ecosystem was going to collapse.

In both cases I believed them because they were science students.

And while I have your attention...

the practical consequences of a trainee hairdresser not knowing how to pronounce 'millenium' are basically zero. The practical consequences of large numbers of educated people stereotyping the economic bottom 60% as mindless shell-suit wearing chavs etc etc are many and severe. Thus most of the people who've posted here are more ignorant than the subjects of their posts.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Mon 10 Jan 2005, 2:50, Reply)