People often think that because they have a few more bits of paper than the rank and file, university-educated people must all be intelligent.
Often, they are wrong. Higher education is a safe haven for those whose total lack of common sense would give them a life expectancy of five minutes in the outside world - indeed, university was where I encountered the most stultifyingly stupid people I've ever had the misfortune to meet. Highlights included:

- The girl who didn't like the Killers because they were "too weird".
(Though you could argue this was the result of extremely conservative tastes rather than ignorance.)
- The lad who thought Germany was "somewhere near the North Pole".
- The lad I lived with who kept all his bank statements in the kitchen drawer. Not somewhere that's, y'know, private or secure, the kitchen drawer. It was a rough neighbourhood too, and there were often reckless skagheads hanging around trying people's back doors looking for something worth nicking - well done there, Einstein.
- The girl who thought World War II ended in 1966.
- The lad who dated one of his housemates, then when it all went tits-up, whined about hostile atmosphere that resulted. Ever heard the phrase "don't shit in your own nest"?
- Several other specimens who couldn't relate their income to their expenditure and constantly whined about being skint after splurging on designer clothes and expensive nights out.

And these people are our future social elite!
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 19:31, 6 replies)

When I went to uni
one of the people in my tutor group dropped out before Christmas because he'd run out of money.
( Bob Todd whee, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 21:11, closed)

stupid, yes
but I can understand thinking WWII ended in 1966. The amount people go on and on about us beating the Germans, you'd think it was a war and not just some blokes kicking a ball around.
(Spidge New sig needed, donations gratefully accepted., Fri 19 Mar 2010, 12:53, closed)

You just said what I was going to

(bill, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 13:41, closed)

i worked with a bloke
Who thought Coldplay were much too left-field to listen to. If I remember rightly, I discovered that when I ridiculed him for saying how great Darius's album was.
(Sammyhaswoefullyneglectedyou, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 18:53, closed)

Christ on a bike.
I recently broke up with a lass who adored Coldplay because they were "so cool". I lost all respect for her the moment she said that (though several weeks elapsed between this moment and the actual breakup.)
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 23:28, closed)

I work in a student halls. One of the students is the encyclopedia definition of gullable (she probably would look that up too). My favourate (of many many yarns we spun at her expence):

"OMG! You're from Yorkshire?? Wassit like 'over there'" Yes ladies and gentlemen, I couldn't resist it, she honestly believed that The Democratic Peoples Republic is on the Ugandan boarder, and we speak 'Tyke', a derivative of Finnish which came over with the vikings.

She now works as part of my team at work. . . But she won't believe a word I say, even when it's the truth, such as the office is labeled 'surgery' because we used to have a doctors practice on site. I must be the boy who cried wolf. . .
(Spiked_Rycroft The Prodigal Son, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 11:32, closed)