Amazing displays of ignoranceSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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Bathory's post about cat-nose velvet reminds me......that I once persuaded one of my younger brothers that his favourite cereal at the time, cornflakes, were created from his favourite animal at the time, elephants. All ground up and shredded and toasted. Genuine tears resulted. Granted, he was 7 or 8 at the time, so it doesn't really count as 'staggering ignorance on his part' so much as 'elder brother dickery', but it was still funny dammit. Especially since he still doesn't eat cornflakes at the age of twenty-something. Anyway the name has the word corn in it, so there. He should have worked it out.
Unfortunately, latter day stories of his ignorance are thin on the ground, all three of my parents' foul spawn having grown up to be intelligent, witty and well-adjusted.
For certain values of the terms 'intelligent', 'witty', and 'well-adjusted'.
(, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 17:05, Reply)
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