Word: stupidity
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...denominator. Higher numbers are good: it means your witnesses don’t know or care who you are. Lower numbers are bad: it’s like posting to your news feed—everyone will know.Assume “sketchiness” to equal awkward, bizarre, generally stupid, embarrassing, and all manner of party foul behavior. Let’s look at some examples.Taking off your shirt on the dance floor is pretty dumb (haven’t you seen As It Were?), but not exactly sketchy, so it’s pretty safe even if everyone knows...
...Harvard in 1967, with a B.A. in English. What did you imagine yourself doing at the time? What most surprises you when you look back on your trajectory?TK: I wanted to be a writer—either Ernest Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald, but I made a pretty stupid mistake and went into the army and into Vietnam. Fortunately it didn’t turn out too badly for me. The way it turned out, it surprises me that it’s worked and that I’ve been able to write for a living...
...into this thing by the business development people," he wrote in one e-mail to top executives, according to the court document. "You are going to have to go into the margin - either commit to spending the money, or pull the plug on this now before ArmorGroup looks more stupid than a box of rocks." (See pictures of British soldiers in Afghanistan...
...workplace. With his new film “Extract,” the writer/director (“Office Space,” “King of the Hill”) serves up his signature dish of nine-to-five disenchantment with a hearty helping of general human stupidity. Unfortunately, somewhere in the mix, Judge forgot a vital step of the recipe, and instead of an understated cult classic a la “Office Space,” we’re teased with a film that could have been delicious but now just tastes undercooked...
...offering a long-overdue invitation to up-and-comers to test the waters of innovation, noting on “D.O.A.,” “I don’t be in the project hallway / talking about how I be in the project all day / that sounds stupid to me.” On “Off That,” Jay-Z even pairs up with newcomer Drake to denounce some of the ostentatious antics rappers are best known for, including “steady chasing the fame,” “oversize clothes...