Stupidness

[iwbus]

Does anybody else get wound up by the stupidness of people a) in public b) on the road c) every blooimin where? If not then please tell me how! I know that when someone does something stupid there's nothing I can do but it just gets right on my thruppney bits and makes me mad. Why are people so thick/stupid? GRRRRRRRRRRRR!

[tigga]

yep 100% agreed, dozy people do my head in too, just as much as lazy people who wont work / clean up behind them / do anything at all ! GRRRRRR !!!

[zubianne]

iwbus, I think it's because of the nanny state we live in. Stupid people should disappear through natural selection, but they are so well protected that they just carry on producing more and more stupid people. Intelligent, sensitive people are in the minority and will soon die out, killed by stress, annoyance and disbelief.

Do you have anything to do with the iw? or buses? If so, then I know the people you are talking about.

[jno]

think zen. What's it to you if others are stupid? Concentrate on not being stupid yourself, that's all anyone can do. (I'm not finding it easy myself...)

[Andy008]

I think we all do, to coin a phrase "that's life".

[kazza55]

I heard of a good example of stupidness today. At my local supermarket there was a customer by the salad bar. She was asking the assistant about the fruit and veg "Is this suitable for vegetarians"?

All part of lifes rich pageant?

[mullein3]

yes i hate them in supermarkets..some stand around reading the packets and they wont move..some stand in the middle of the aisles talking with their trolleys and screaming kids running wild..i had a kid dangling on my trolley once..i was not amused..and some walk around so slow like they are on a social day out grrrr..

[qapmoc]

Unfortunately I have to agree with zubianne on this point. The world has always worked in the past as ''survival of the fittest'' (please lets not get into darwin right/wrong or divine rights etc... here) so the stupid would always die out first, but now everybody survives and the most intelligent are having the least children, and the least intelligent are having most children - work it out for yourselves.

But today what does stupidity mean anyway, maybe they are meant to inherit the modern earth, after all if most of your life is spent at a monotonous job and standing in line waiting for things and most of the household gadgets are so intelligent you need to have no idea of how/why it works and the damage to the environment is not your problem - then low IQ and lack of intelligence might be exactly the type of people that the consumer society needs right now. God help the earth though, with people like that in the majority.

[iwbus]

Hi ZUBIANNE - yes I do live on the IW and have a very strong connection with buses. Should I know you??!!

[david small]

IW has more than its fair share of morons, misfitss, dont/wont work. Feel very sorry for bus or other public sector workers. One day they may evolve......one day.

[iwbus]

Pity on my for being a bus driver eh David?

[zubianne]

Hi iwbus, Not me personally, but my partner drives buses on the Island and I get the horror stories every evening.

On the Middle Road there's always and old git in front of you doing 20mph and a lad behind wanting to do 80, all this whilst overtaking a cyclist with no lights and no helmet.

They will risk their lives to get in front of something they imagine to be slower than them - including buses - and then proceed to hold you up. As for roundabouts - hopeless!

Anyway, I must go and take him into work - we'll see what tales he comes back with tonight!

[Kazmc123]

there def seems to be a lack of common sense in society i agree!...so many people dont have a friggin clue and it annoys me at least once a day!

[stanleyman]

Just as well you have a motorway on the IW to burn off your frustrations, unless you drive the Ryde Dotto of course. Now is that a train or a bus, it doesn't run on rails? If we didn't have stupid people we'd have nothing to laugh at now would we.

[zubianne]

That's how my partner remains sane, stanleyman, he tells me what has happened to him during the day and we have a good laugh. If something happens when we're out together, we laugh out loud.

Here's a good one, last night I drove into Newport to collect him at 12.45am and there, walking up the middle of Carisbrooke High Street was a man, stark naked and spotlit by my full beam!

Isle of Wighter's are quite peculiar, but they do provide some good stories.

[iwbus]

Some top answers here, can zubianne give any clues as to who their other half is?

[zubianne]

Hi iwbus, I didn't want to post his full name on here, but he works for Southern Vectis, his name's Ian and we live in Freshwater.

It was very quiet out there today so no GRRR! stories and no naked men!

[iwbus]

Oh yeah I think I know who you mean. I work from Ryde depot

[stanleyman]

I'm very fond of the Island having been going there frequently for 25 years. Sadly, we no longer have any family there as of last year. We had some great times at Springvale where the house overlooked the beach and the Solent. iwbus when you are next on route from Ryde through Springvale perhaps you wouldn't mind giving the old "House" a wave for me, thanks? Start waving at the postbox and stop at the hotel!

[wallis1007]

Conversation I had in B&Q. " Hi, do you sell swarfega" reply, "NO what is it". me " it's hand cleaner" reply. " What do you do with it ".

Sometimes I despair!