Dumb and Stupid Quotes Thread: Idiotic Source and Context are Key.

[Light Cleric]

Mostly I was reacting to it being put in the "Great Quotes" thread.

Oh that explains why it came here. I was pretty sure she had said it decades ago so it confused me why it came up now. As you said about timelessness the fact that she said it in 1995 where the atmosphere was much different (combined with the fact that she herself is a lesbian) is probably why it didn't cause quite as much of a crapstorm. It almost certainly would have now. hell, I thought about unsubscribing from this thread after C_H's post because I expected it was going to cause a HUGE fight to break out over that.

 

[bhsup]

"offending Muslims is the duty of any civilized person. Especially with a .45." - Gavin Ellzey, vice chairman of the Kansas Republican 3rd Congressional District Committee

Keep it real, Kansas, keep it real!

http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article1160420.html

Update: He resigned.

 

[KMRblue1027]

Update: He resigned.

How unsurprising.

 

[bhsup]

It's Kansas. You never know.

 

[Antilogic]

Seriously, man, Kansas.

 

[jackelgull]

I am afraid of the comments on the article. I wouldn't be surprised if every Islamaphobe with a computer decided to voice his agreement with the sentiment.

 

[Camikaze]

We could actually post everything Tony Abbott and the entirety of his frontbunch have said on here

See, you say that like it's a bad thing.

Joe Hockey, in the context of complaints that an increase in the fuel excise isn't a progressive tax change:

"The poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far in many cases."

He has since both doubled-down, and apologised.

 

[Borachio]

Isn't it true the poorest people don't have cars, then? Still, I suppose in Australia you either have a car or you starve, mebbe. I don't know.

Yet in the context of progressive tax, it is fairly dumb, I guess.

 

[Oruc]

It's normal that across mammals gay rates are like, ~5%, which seems about the rate for humans as well. Her appeal to nature failed, showing how flimsy her great quote is.

Mostly I was reacting to it being put in the "Great Quotes" thread, like really? A poor argument based on aesthetics and a false nature appeal in the great quotes thread? A great quote is like, " 'In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.

'Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.' - Sun Tzu"

Also, a great quote needs to be timeless (or very well timed), but not because it's going to be forever unfashionably bigoted.

You have no authority here.

 

[Camikaze]

Isn't it true the poorest people don't have cars, then? Still, I suppose in Australia you either have a car or you starve, mebbe. I don't know.

Yet in the context of progressive tax, it is fairly dumb, I guess.

There's truth in what he's attempting to say, and I don't even necessarily disagree with it. But I'm not sure he could've possibly made his point in a less artful way.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

This has got to be the dumbest comment I've ever read about the Global Positioning System. Yeah, I know it's YouTube, but come on.

"Did you know that Brahmos uses civilian GPS? The Russian Glonass system is still having problems.

No need for a SM-2 intercept. Maybe the US only needs to turn off the pacific GPS."
-KingLutherQ, comment on BRAHMOS INDO-RUSSIAN SUPERSONIC CRUISE MISSILE TEST VIDEO

 

[Cutlass]

Don't lose too much weight now. I like my girls chubby."
—

unnamed male colleague to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand after she shed pregnancy pounds, as recounted in her new book

 

[Cutlass]

"We cannot just stand idly by as Christian values and morals are trampled... Jerry Jones has betrayed American values, Christian values, and his own city's values. The people of Dallas -- and Christians all across this land -- are about to make him pay a huge financial price. The Cowboys are no longer America's team."
—

press release from group calling itself American Decency, claiming the signing of Michael Sam represents "the deterioration of decency in American sports"

 

[gay_Aleks]

I always cringe when someone vies for "Christian" or "American" values and believing themselves that these things existed at some point.

 

[Light Cleric]

Well he did get one thing right there

 

[gay_Aleks]

That The Cowboys aren't America's team?

 

[cybrxkhan]

I always cringe when someone vies for "Christian" or "American" values and believing themselves that these things existed at some point.

Hear, hear!

Well, any sort of buzzword values, to be honest, gives me a bad impression. Traditional Buddhist values, Muslim values, European values, western values, French values, Japanese values, northeastern Kyrgyz values, etc.

 

[Phrossack]

"Mow down everyone universally, without discriminating between young and old, men and women, clergy and the laity—high ranking soldiers on the battlefield, that goes without saying, but also the hill folk, down to the poorest and meanest—and send the heads to Japan."

-Toyotomi Hideyoshi, issuing orders during the second Japanese invasion of Korea in 1597. As it turns out, his warriors did not follow that instruction to the letter. Instead:

"From early dawn of the following morning we gave chase and hunted them in the mountains and scoured the villages for the distance of one day's travel. When they were cornered we made a wholesale slaughter of them. During a period of ten days we seized 10,000 of the enemy, but we did not cut off their heads. We cut off their noses, which told us how many heads there were. By this time Yasuharu's total of heads was over 2,000."

-Keinen, Japanese monk and participant in the invasion

 

[Cutlass]

"Disingenuous and delusional...This president needs to rise to the occasion before we all get killed back here at home."
—

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Obama's ISIL strategy

 

[Tigranes]

"I've heard he's been called Bush's poodle. He's bigger than that."—discussing former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as quoted by the Sun newspaper, June 27, 2007

"The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear—I'm a commander guy."—Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007

"Iraq is a very important part of securing the homeland, and it's a very important part of helping change the Middle East into a part of the world that will not serve as a threat to the civilized world, to people like—or to the developed world, to people like—in the United States." —Washington, D.C., April 3, 2007

"Trade is an important subject here at Caterpillar, and the reason why is because a lot of the product you make here, you sell to somebody else, sell overseas to another country. That's trade. And yet it's—it's a topic of hot debate."—Speaking to workers at the Caterpillar equipment company, East Peoria, Ill., Jan. 30, 2007