Before this QOTW gets too far off track
It may be worth considering a few things.

1) A lack of training does not equate to stupidity.

2) A cultural misunderstanding does not equate to stupidity.

3) Being employed in a job you are not qualified for is more the employers fault for not explaning the role properly than the employees fault for not being able to do it.

4) Delivering an unclear instruction and not having it carried out the way you had expected does not uquate to stupidity.

I thank you for your time.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 14:50, 18 replies)

I assure you that
All of the above are viable reasons for describing someone as stupid.

If we all follow your thinking, we'll end up with that ridiculous claptrap of "hearing what you're saying" "understanding where you're coming from" and "differently abled".

If people are thick, they need to be shot, or, alternatively, mocked until they top themselves.

It's evolution at work.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 14:52, closed)

On the other hand
the guy who said his collegue had got the date wrong for her X-factor audition (or whatever it was), and had caused them all to hire a coach to take them to London. . .

Well, it surely couldn't have been beyong HIS wit to check the fucking date, could it?
( Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 14:57, closed)

Well, actually
I agree in parts

1: Yes there is stupidity, it's on the part of the person not ensuring you are trained.

3: Yes, again, the person doing the employing is justifiably stupid.

4: Yup, I am stupid for not explaining that clearly. There is definitely stupidty in action. In the giving of the instruction.

But 2: Well, now you are just a big ol' racialist.


NB: I know you are not a big ol' racialist.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 15:02, closed)

And
I fucking hate myself for using 'racialist'. Dickhead.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 15:06, closed)

It's racists that
came up with the term 'racialist'. They thought that racist sounds too much like rapist.

Either that, or they were to stupid to learn the correct word, haha!
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 15:14, closed)

I blame the forrins.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 15:42, closed)

And
da Joooooooo's
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 16:19, closed)

Well - I've rather strong opinions on such.
For a significant period in my childhood I lived with someone who claimed that listening to Radio 4 was "intellectualist".
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 15:10, closed)

Which logically
is the opposite of what they actaully meant.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 15:12, closed)

Perhaps he meant "prejudiced against intellectuals"?
They still broadcast "thought for the day" which is pretty offensive to anybody with higher brain function.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 15:20, closed)

No - it really was because she was too thick to understand any polysyllables beyond
"Aura realignment"
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 15:41, closed)

Are you one of those people whose catchphrase is
"It's not my fault", followed by "insert vague reason why it's someone else's fault". Just about every moronic new "safety" rule in the workplace I've had the misfortune to see introduced, has been because some fuckwit has done something really stupid, with obviously forseeable consequences, and then spouted.."it's not my fault, I've never had any training on how to open a door safely" ( or other such simple tasks)
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Sat 5 Mar 2011, 13:48, closed)

The day someone turns up in
my office to train us to open doors . . .
( Not Pineapple anymore, Sat 5 Mar 2011, 21:41, closed)

...is the day you can finally go home.

( 4Q just lurking, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 0:43, closed)

hah.
very good.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 21:16, closed)

Seriously
Safety talks we had had at the company I work for have included issues with doors, and people getting hit by them as someone opens it from the other side. Even to the point where managment put windows in some doors so you see if someone was approaching, and most the doors have warnings on them "caution door may open" .

Also warnings not to flip the dumpster lid up and try to empty the smaller bin in it before the lid fell down again.

Another safety email was regarding "correct use of scissors"

They put "caution trip hazard" signs on 18" round yellow and black flexible aircon ducts that run across the floor.

Unbelievably this company builds aeroplanes.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 7:58, closed)