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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I sort of see your point.But not knowing that there is a place called Bologne isn't really _that_ ignorant, surely? I mean, how many people know what the capital of Pakistan is or that Mad Alice Lane is a street in york (for example)?
(, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 17:47, 1 reply)
erm is that not the whole point of being ignorant?!Most people, in my opinion, when hearing a word like bolognese, neapolitan, bengali, burmese, marinara, bavarian, catalonian etc etc when used to describe something else would wonder a) why it was called this and b) what this term meant. Ignorant people just accept what they hear and don't bother to question the things they don't understand, because, well they're ignorant!
I would hope most educated people over the age of say 12 in the UK to know that Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan, the same way as I would expect most educated people of other countries to know that London is the capital of the UK. Sadly as poor general knowledge amongst younger people in this country is not only tolerated, but even worn as a badge of honour as I told in a previous answer to this question, I imagine this is not the case.
As for the street in York you mention, there is a difference between not knowing something because you haven't heard of it before(lack of knowledge) and not knowing the meaning something you hear regularly, like the term 'spaghetti bolognese'(ignorance)
(, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 20:33, closed)
I'm lacking a suitable noun...I tend to agree with you, but unless you know that the ending "ese" may mean from you're pretty stumped. I wish I could recall a not so obvious noun which turns out to be an adjective.
I suppose what I was getting at is that some of us are lucky enough to know that these names come from places so we take it for granted.
In a reverse of the above, I wouldn't think much less of someone because they didn't know chicken Kiev was from M&S and not the Ukrain.
(, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 17:56, closed)
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