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

[Borachio]

"1. In particular, the State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved.
2. The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home."
-Section 2, Article 41, Constitution of Ireland

Hmm. Yes. It is a bit out of date, I think.

Isn't current thinking that an infant needs the attention of one full-time care-giver, but that it doesn't matter what the gender of that care-giver is?

Even though it's nearly always a woman, and most frequently the mother.

So, with "woman" and "mother" replaced by "care-giver", the sentiment expressed in the Article does still make some sense?

 

[Tee Kay]

So, with "woman" and "mother" replaced by "care-giver", the sentiment expressed in the Article does still make some sense?

Definitely. I like how it's enshrined in the constitution that a person's worth is not merely their income. It's actually very progressive.

Well, aside from the sexism.

 

[Cutlass]

That first clause is utter nonsense. Is this another case of "what the Bible says, clearly my enemies do too"?

Palin is just an idiot. How someone that stupid came to such prominence is beyond belief.

 

[Cutlass]

"It would make Obama cry."
—

robocall to Kansas voters on why they should vote for Pat Roberts

 

[Light Cleric]

That's actually pretty funny

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

And probably quite effective too.

 

[tetley]

"I wish my name was Todd. Because then everyone would say, 'Hey, there's that kid Todd Blankenship.' Oh yeah, and I also wish my last name was Blankenship."

-- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

 

[Antilogic]

Deep Thoughts was awesome.

"I guess of all my uncles, I liked Uncle Cave Man the best. We called him Uncle Cave Man because he lived in a cave and because sometimes he'd eat one of us. Later on we found out he was a bear." -Jack Handey

 

[Traitorfish]

I looked up some of this guys stuff, and I'm definitely getting a sense of where John Hodgman gets his humour and delivery from.

 

[Borachio]

"If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity 'happen.'"

Deep, very deep.

 

[tetley]

"Getting raped is like bad weather. If it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it."

-- Clayton Williams, in his campaign for Texas governor. He lost.

 

[bhsup]

“While Sen. Roberts won tonight, we didn’t lose." - Greg Orman

Yes, yes you did. Roberts got 53.26%, you got 42.48%. That's the very definition of losing. You lost. Dummy.

 

[Antilogic]

For an independent candidate, though, that's pretty good.

 

[bhsup]

No denying that (though his "independence" is a farce) but that isn't what he said. He didn't say "we gave it a hell of a run, especially for being independent" but rather said, "we didn't lose." But he did lose.

 

[Thedrin]

"Getting raped is like bad weather. If it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it."

-- Clayton Williams, in his campaign for Texas governor. He lost.

Took me a while to realise he was also taking a shot at anthropogenic global warming.

 

[Flying Pig]

“While Sen. Roberts won tonight, we didn’t lose." - Greg Orman

Yes, yes you did. Roberts got 53.26%, you got 42.48%. That's the very definition of losing. You lost. Dummy.

It's fairly accepted terminology in sports and most other competitive fields to mean that both sides campaigned well and without major blunders but one side won by virtue of having done particularly well, as opposed to saying that 'Orman lost the race rather than Roberts won it' meaning that Orman lost because he was particularly bad, as opposed to as a result of something that Roberts did. It may also mean that the losing party still benefited from taking part.

 

[Gori the Grey]

"Getting raped is like bad weather. If it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it."

-- Clayton Williams, in his campaign for Texas governor. He lost.

Or did he?

“While Sen. Roberts won tonight, we didn’t lose." - Greg Orman

Perhaps he just hasn't met Greg Orman yet.

Sorta like the thread juxtaposition thread; this was an interesting post juxtaposition.

 

[Borachio]

"Getting raped is like bad weather. If it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it."

-- Clayton Williams, in his campaign for Texas governor. He lost.

It is a very crass thing to say.

However, it's also true (especially about bad weather and other natural disasters). In a very crass way. But I don't think it needed saying.

Starving to death, or being tortured, or having a terminal illness is like bad weather. If it's inevitable, you might as well lie down and enjoy it... if you can.

Hmm. It's not the sort of thing I'd like to have been recorded saying in public.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I'm offended because it implies one should enjoy bad weather.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Or that rape is enjoyable, but hey.