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Staggeringly ignorant Housemates.
Thad
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How monumentally ignorant do you have to be to not know who the prime minister is?
I assume these people attended school? Their general knowledge is so woeful it borders on willfull ignorance.
Maybe ignorance is bliss, but I would hate to go through life not knowing anything.
I assume these people attended school? Their general knowledge is so woeful it borders on willfull ignorance.
Maybe ignorance is bliss, but I would hate to go through life not knowing anything.
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They all always answer "June".
I know. And it's the almost bored, eyes rolling way they answer, "June".:D
Was Mark genuine when he said he didn't know there were 3 political parties (Matthew obviously didn't want to overload him with the other parties) and he remembered the Conservatory party? He said it twice, so it wasn't a slip of the tongue.
I knew who the current Prime Minister was from when I was 10, and I'm not hugely invested in 'politics'.
It's a ****ing shame - these idiots are the future of our country
Not anyone with any intelligence who can read the question carefully
Can't argue with that.
This. DS can we have a like button please?
I agree there does seem to be a worrying trend in that direction. If you comment on some of the dreadful spelling, punctuation even syntax of some posts on here people will react in exactly the same way as if you make a racist or a homophobic comment. It is beginning to seem like having bothered to take advantage of a free education system is something you should be ashamed of and being ill educated is something people have no choice about and we shouldn't draw attention to it. Meanwhile the developing world are grasping education with both hands.
What was that question?
Everything is at your fingertips, but it seems many are embarrassed by knowledge? I find it hard to fathom.
Not just embarrassed but seemingly offended by other people's. I don't get it either. But I suspect its why so many are only able to express themselves, vaguely, using tired clichés such as thrown under buses, up people's arses, 100%, tell it how it is etc.
Actually, BB got one wrong. What does kangaroo mean? They're supposed to say, "I don't know" to get it right but that's an urban myth. Nobody's 100% sure what kangaroo means but the closest they've got is,'large, black/grey edible thing'.
Pretty much like In It To Win It then?
Well to be fair I don't know who the Australian PM is either.
I know who it was; Julia Gillard but don't know who succeeded her. Kevin Rudd maybe?
I don't know if they are intelligent or not, not without seeing an IQ test, but they are without doubt ignorant. You can be highly intelligent but have not had access to knowledge and so are ignorant. I'm not sure what the housemates excuse is though.
I remember when people were embarrassed about their lack of knowledge. I often find myself saying please forgive me for my ignorance. But how has it got to a place where ignorance is celebrated?