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

[Cutlass]

Sorry, I'd like to confirm that this was during the 21st century in a liberal democracy.

There are many people opposed to both the 'liberal' and the 'democracy' part.

 

[Arakhor]

I'll chalk it up to him triterizing the phrase.

Umm, "triterizing"?

 

[Farm Boy]

I verbed it. I like verbing things. Makes the language feel alive.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I'll chalk it up to him triterizing the phrase.

Him and everyone else. I acknowledge the phrase is current. I just have a higher standard for Constitution thumpers.

Edit: And by the way, FB, the proper closing line is "Verbing weirds language."

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I don't see how a radioactive isotope of hydrogen comes into this.

 

[Cutlass]

"The line 'Make America great again' -- the phrase, that was mine. I came up with it about a year ago, and I kept using it. And everybody's now using it. They are all loving it. I don't know, I guess I should copyright it. Maybe I have copyrighted it."
-- Donald Trump

"Let's Make America Great Again."
-- 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign slogan

 

[Farm Boy]

Now you're onto me Gori. Everything I post is likely half remembered Calvin and Hobbs strips.

 

[Cutlass]

"If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no...I do not think it's targeting gays. I don't think it's discrimination...We're not discriminating against anyone, that's just our belief, and anyone has the right to believe in anything...Why should I be beat over the head to go along with something [homosexuals] choose?"
-- Crystal O'Connor, whose family-owned pizza shop supports Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act. After receiving threats, the family closed the shop. A GoFundMe page in support of their stance has raised over $50,000.

"Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act is gay discrimination, pure and simple. You can frost a dog turd, but it's still a dog turd."
-- Stephen King

 

[Kyriakos]

I have to suppose that the "news" or "debates of the moment" were not always nearly entirely pure trolololing as they now seem to be...

 

[gay_Aleks]

Why is the Stephen King
quote dumb?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

After receiving threats, the family closed the shop.

That's the way to fight for tolerance.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Harass them until they give in?

 

[Cutlass]

Why is the Stephen King
quote dumb?

It's a response to the other that just sort of goes together.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Ramirez! Learn to recognize the other, more widespread uses of tools that can be used as weapons! Also, defend the Burger Town with that bottle of bourbon! 10839 confirmed kills can't be wrong!

 

[classical_hero]

"If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no...I do not think it's targeting gays. I don't think it's discrimination...We're not discriminating against anyone, that's just our belief, and anyone has the right to believe in anything...Why should I be beat over the head to go along with something [homosexuals] choose?"
-- Crystal O'Connor, whose family-owned pizza shop supports Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act. After receiving threats, the family closed the shop. A GoFundMe page in support of their stance has raised over $50,000.

"Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act is gay discrimination, pure and simple. You can frost a dog turd, but it's still a dog turd."
-- Stephen King

The gofundme has raise close to 1/2 million. Well done to those who donated.

 

[Thedrin]

I disagree with the stance taken by that family business (and the argument used seems absurd), but they have every right to refuse to serve customers, and they should not have received any threats for holding that opinion. Being forced to close their business due to threats is a bad situation to be in and I'm glad that people rallied around them (though I may not agree with every donors' reason for coming to their aid).

 

[Farm Boy]

Yea, lots of them are archaic people who are simply bigoted. But they also probably sense that there is a form of malice behind some of the views currently espoused as progress. They'll rally.

 

[Cutlass]

"There's a man-made lack of water in California... It is liberal environmentalists who have brought us this tragedy...A classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people's lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology."
—

former HP CEO and possible GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, on the drought

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Aristotle likes big butts and he cannot lie.
"just as beauty is found in a large body, and small people can be attractive and well-proportioned, but not beautiful."
-Aristotle, 1123b8, Nicomachean Ethics (translation by T.H. Irwin, 1985)

 

[gay_Aleks]

"There's a man-made lack of water in California... It is liberal environmentalists who have brought us this tragedy...A classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people's lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology."
—

former HP CEO and possible GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, on the drought

I can now imagine liberal slaves going out with buckets of water and then throwing them into the ocean or something.