ffaoe
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Regarding people being stupid and thinning the herd, just look at the Darwin Awards.
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.
Regarding people being stupid and thinning the herd, just look at the Darwin Awards.
No link or story but if you want to find out how stupid people are these days - just get a job in RETAIL......
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
Or drive in Missoula, MT around noon.
Regards, GF.
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.
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"!
The problem is that the total global IQ seems to remain the same but the population keeps growing.
I heard recently on a podcast, cant remember which one. They had said that part of the reason we still have morons is that all the smart people left the cave every day to go hunt and explore, they would leave the dead weight idiots behind cause they would scare the animals away or eat up all the food while they were traveling. So the idiots would stay at the cave, spending all their time making additional idiots.
To stay on the Yellowstone theme since that attracts morons. When I went there with my dad around 10 years ago, we were driving around on some of the scenic roads in the park and saw a big bull elk in a clearing. We slowed down, stayed in the car, and took pictures, probably 100 yards off the road. Some dink stops behind us, gets out, with his child (couldn't have been more than 6-8 years old) and starts walking out into the field towards the bull elk. Other people pulled up and stopped so we drove off since we didn't want to see a child get gored (I assume elk are more docile than bison and would rather flee than fight unless its breeding time, but thats not a good assumption to make without a large rifle and having your child right next to you).
I thought this would be appropriate for this thread...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/04/us/texas-alligator-attack/
At 4pm on a Saturday last July, a guy running an excavator in the neighborhood digging the hole for a basement for a new house hit the underground power line. All of the houses past that point loose power. Our next door neighbors return home from camping both have masters degrees from the University of Michigan Masters. She asks us what happened and proclaims that they want to take showers after camping but can't because "the lights are out"... at 4pm in July!
At 4pm on a Saturday last July, a guy running an excavator in the neighborhood digging the hole for a basement for a new house hit the underground power line. All of the houses past that point loose power. Our next door neighbors return home from camping both have masters degrees from the University of Michigan Masters. She asks us what happened and proclaims that they want to take showers after camping but can't because "the lights are out"... at 4pm in July!
At 4pm on a Saturday last July, a guy running an excavator in the neighborhood digging the hole for a basement for a new house hit the underground power line. All of the houses past that point loose power. Our next door neighbors return home from camping both have masters degrees from the University of Michigan Masters. She asks us what happened and proclaims that they want to take showers after camping but can't because "the lights are out"... at 4pm in July!
Maybe their bathroom is contained within only interior walls and they don't have windows to the outside?
I mean, sure, they could shower by candlelight if necessary, but that's a bit of a hassle.
The problem is that the total global IQ seems to remain the same but the population keeps growing.
Actually, it seems to me the IQ of Americans is suffering the most.
Back to stupidity..
In finland we celebrate the Longest day of the year(juhannus), by going to cottages, drinking way to much..etc etc.
Every year, several people are found floating upside down with their zipper open next to their boat.....
Exhibit A: Anywhere asia.
Anywhere else in Asia (I actually saw this all over the place in Beijing):
Is that stupid? That looks freakin' GENIUS!
But how do they manage to get it anywhere?
Alligators thoughts: Ohhh I always wanted to try one of these......
I'd say that people were stupid since the day one stuck a hand in fire to learn it's hot. And then did it again to be sure.
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