Streetalk: Why do some people think you’re stupid?
August 23, 2009 at 8:23 am by Jeff Slate in Streetalk
Ed: Because I hate the Beatles. Ringo’s music is terrible. The Monkees were way better. Their haircuts were better, their outfits were way better, and did the Beatles have a TV show? No, I don’t think so. The Monkees, dude. How could you deny my little Davy [Jones]? John Lennon partied too much. Yoko brought them all down. I don’t listen to them because of Yoko. She was the ninth Beatle, dude. I really loathe them. “Daydream Believer” by the Monkees — the Beatles never had a song like that.
Victoria: Because I’m an 18-year-old college student. People think we’re really dumb. People who have children — and whose children are grown — now think their children were the best little angels in the world. But they think the rest of us 18-year-olds are stupid. We’re young. We’re trying new things. But when we try new things, people think we’re stupid. They don’t think we hear what they say. We hear, and we don’t forget. And the media makes us all out to be stupid most times.
Danielle: Old Southern traditions die hard, and the way to deal with a woman with a mind is to look at her and treat her like she’s stupid, because they don’t understand. They don’t understand my sarcasm. I get that blank stare. They have their mouth gaping, looking at you like they’re waiting for something more — but there is nothing more. It’s usually older Southern men with really big mouths with small teeth. Fuck the South. I don’t like the bugs here. I don’t like the trees here. I like snow.
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August 23rd, 2009 at 10:46 am
I’m sure Ed also thinks Journey rules, that Victoria likewise suspects that she’s smarter and hipper than everyone over 30, and that Danielle has been spending way too much time talking to old farts for reasons known only to her.
August 23rd, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Do stupid people realize they are stupid? I have never met someone who admitted they were not that bright.
August 23rd, 2009 at 12:30 pm
… and I have met a LOT of dumb people.
August 23rd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
These three didn’t give real answers. Ed knows better. He’s obviously just working on his stand-up routine. And neither Victoria nor Danielle offer anything resembling self-examination. On the contrary, reading between the lines, all they’re really doing is calling others stupid. So yeah, no one ever really admits a lack of intelligence. Well, except me. I’m as dumb as a bag of hammers.
August 23rd, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Everyone is a stupid bag of guts, except me.