Since when did people become so stupid?

[Billy-Klubb]

Ah, so it'd be like me saying I've never seen a Moose in real life.

I have seen plenty of their knuckles.

my mom says hi.

 

[Rockn_M]

more & more I'm thinking that idiocracy movie isn't so silly.

I think somebody from the future came back in time and made that movie to serve as a warning.

 

[Zuljin]

I want to pet all the animals.

Interesting live wild creatures I have pet
Alligator
Water moccasin
Vinegaroon
Black fin shark
Trigger fish
Eel
String ray
Honey bee
Some kind of fish that would school around our supply boat and let us pet them while they ate lettuce from our hands.
Gar
Spoonbill catfish
Skunk. Didn't get sprayed.
Armadillo. Didn't get leprosy.
Snapping turtle


Animals I have rode
Horse
Cow
Bull
Camel
Your mom
Elephant
Sheep dog. I was a baby.

 

[MaxStout]

I want to pet all the animals.

Interesting live wild creatures I have pet
Alligator
Water moccasin
Vinegaroon
Black fin shark
Trigger fish
Eel
String ray
Honey bee
Some kind of fish that would school around our supply boat and let us pet them while they ate lettuce from our hands.
Gar
Spoonbill catfish
Skunk. Didn't get sprayed.
Armadillo. Didn't get leprosy.
Snapping turtle


Animals I have rode
Horse
Cow
Bull
Camel
Your mom
Elephant
Sheep dog. I was a baby.

A stingray? Crikey!

 

[1977Brewer]

A stingray? Crikey!

Dude. Too soon.

 

[Schmoltsbeer]

I thought this would be appropriate for this thread...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/04/us/texas-alligator-attack/

I had to laugh when I read this story the first time.

 

[Michigan_Wolfman]

Because he said it best........

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I want to pet all the animals.

Interesting live wild creatures I have pet
Alligator
Water moccasin
Vinegaroon
Black fin shark
Trigger fish
Eel
String ray
Honey bee
Some kind of fish that would school around our supply boat and let us pet them while they ate lettuce from our hands.
Gar
Spoonbill catfish
Skunk. Didn't get sprayed.
Armadillo. Didn't get leprosy.
Snapping turtle


Animals I have rode
Horse
Cow
Bull
Camel
Your mom
Elephant
Sheep dog. I was a baby.

dude. who hasn't? that's no exotic animal.

 

[EcuPirate07]

I love this site I always find a good laugh at people's demise

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html

 

[b-boy]

All wild animals are unpredictable and potentially dangerous.

There's a grey squirrel in my back yard that intimidates the **** out of me. That thing hisses and squawks every time I go in my own back yard. I give him lots of free bird seed and a wide berth. Even though he's just a squirrel, I'm pretty sure he can do some damage.

 

[ffaoe]

Regarding people being stupid and thinning the herd, just look at the Darwin Awards.

 

[Michigan_Wolfman]

All wild animals are unpredictable and potentially dangerous.

There's a grey squirrel in my back yard that intimidates the **** out of me. That thing hisses and squawks every time I go in my own back yard. I give him lots of free bird seed and a wide berth. Even though he's just a squirrel, I'm pretty sure he can do some damage.

My grandmother once had a red squirrel find its way into her basement and take up residence. Every morning, she would hear this squirrel running along the plumbing between the floor joists to stash walnuts. She wanted to waste several hundred dollars to hire an exterminator to come and take care of the problem. My Dad and I told her "Give us $20, we'll get rid of the squirrel." We went to the hardware store and bought a rat trap and a spool of thin wire. We tied the rat trap using some wire to part of the plumbing between the floor joists, and baited it with walnuts. The next morning, Mr. Red Squirrel met his demise due his baser instincts.

 

[Magnus314]

I recently heard that the average human brain has shrunk 10% since the Stone Age.

Those scientists said they thought it was because ancient Man needed to know more and more difficult skills just to survive...

I think it's because people with half the brains don't fall out of the gene pool as often and are dragging the average down with their constant and prolific breeding.

 

[Natdavis777]

Regarding people being stupid and thinning the herd, just look at the Darwin Awards.

My retort to all of the heroin ODs that I see.

Honestly though, I feel like the majority of people literally morons. My wife says I am super smart, but I think that is to shut me up.

 

[jafo28]

http://nypost.com/2015/07/05/man-dies-instantly-after-launching-firework-off-head/

 

[cantrell00]

Looks like we all lose our mind again in 2016 too.

 

[Murphys_Law]

I was just there! If that lady decided to do stupid on Monday instead of Tuesday I may have seen it!!

 

[JonM]

So there is a mountain lion loose in Milwaukee, and it's in a location that's really, really far from anything remotely rural. It was just confirmed; for the last week, people mostly dismissed it as a crazy rumor.

Anyway, it's only a matter of time before someone tries to catch it. Someone already shot a dog thinking it was a lion. (The dog is going to be okay.)

 

[kh54s10]

No link or story but if you want to find out how stupid people are these days - just get a job in RETAIL......

 

[gratus fermentatio]

No link or story but if you want to find out how stupid people are these days - just get a job in RETAIL......

Or drive in Missoula, MT around noon.
Regards, GF.

 

[Michigan_Wolfman]

George Carlin said it best.... Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize, half of them are even stupider!

 

[Tin4]

Post any articles you've recently seen as examples as how stupid people are like this one with a woman and a Buffalo...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bison-injures-woman-posing-for-selfie-at-yellowstone/ar-AAdlv0i

To answer the question... always and forever.

We just didn't have the internet to share that stupidity.

I think you can see steep rise in stupidity with every invention that connects us. It was already there, it's just easy to share so we do.

When you're writing a letter that may or may not make it back to your Motherland that may or may not make it you have less of a tendency to let them know all the stupid crap your friends/neighbors have been up to.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Or drive in Missoula, MT around noon.
Regards, GF.

I remember doing that. well, riding with my step-mom. she's one of the stupid ones.

 

[flars]

Arrive in Missoula at 2:00 AM, dead tired. Cab to dispatch to pick up a vehicle. Dispatcher tells you to take a left from the parking lot, then a right. Take "local name for a road which appears on no street/highway signs by that name" to get to fire camp 80 miles away.

Sleep in truck until morning.

 

[JonM]

Aye aye aye.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rattlesnake-selfie-results-in-a-153k-medical-bill/

 

[QuadConPana]

Apparently, people have been stupid for quite awhile.

A little over 30 years ago, my sister had a summer job as a live in nanny for a well to do couple in Hilton Head, SC. The mother was a real estate agent and came home one day with a story from the office.

One of the other agents in her office was showing a home on the water to a couple with a small baby. The agent and the husband walked out into the back yard just in time to stop the wife as she was about to place her baby on the back of an alligator that had entered the yard. She thought it would have made a cute photo.

 

[Homercidal]

Apparently, people have been stupid for quite awhile.

A little over 30 years ago, my sister had a summer job as a live in nanny for a well to do couple in Hilton Head, SC. The mother was a real estate agent and came home one day with a story from the office.

One of the other agents in her office was showing a home on the water to a couple with a small baby. The agent and the husband walked out into the back yard just in time to stop the wife as she was about to place her baby on the back of an alligator that had entered the yard. She thought it would have made a cute photo.

It would have if cute meant horrifying and tragic.

 

[JonM]

Have you heard these repeated stories about people flying their little quad copter things into wildfire areas so they can get pictures/video? The dummies interfere with flight paths and make it so that the firefighters can't drop water from airplanes or helicopters.

 

[Dixon9717]

Bison are pretty docile creatures... at a distance. around the Black Hills (my home land) I would see people get out of their cars because they wanted to "pet the buffalah" or take pictures next to one. those fences are not meant to keep them in, they are meant to keep you out. a bison can walk right through those fences. an angry bison can go through walls with ease as well as turning your fancy F350 dually over. don't get close to the "buffalah"!

I've seen buffalo fight up closer then a comfortable distance. Since then I have the upmost respect for wild animals that are 2000lb+

 

[Dixon9717]

The problem is that the total global IQ seems to remain the same but the population keeps growing.

That'd be funny if it wasn't so sad and true........