Word: stupidity
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GNHBA: Sure, maybe some people are tolerating others. But one usually "tolerates" 9 a.m. classes or bad restaurant service. I think it's a safe bet that the majority of the people who use this word are doing more than just tolerating whatever the "issue" is. (There's another stupid word...
...Buchanan is not Ross Perot, and more important, 2000 is not 1992. Above all, "it's the economy, stupid." In general, relatively high unemployment and low growth (such as we saw in 1992) help two kinds of candidates, the liberal and the extremist. One promises that the government will help, the other promises to find a scapegoat for the problem. And, of course, the incumbent tries (usually somewhat unsuccessfully) to deny that there's a problem...
...should have known it was only a matter of time before someone administered a midterm exam. And at other moments during the week, when he veered off text, the words just sort of floated out there, untied to any actual ideas. The implicit charge is less that he's stupid than that he's incurious, proudly anti-intellectual. Yet he is applying for a new and very demanding job--and it was hard for Bush to attack this as a media ambush when his education philosophy hinges on testing what students know before allowing them to advance to the next...
...fact. Chandler, who retired as publisher in 1980, sent his message directly to reporters, to the dismay of the newspaper's management. Read aloud as more than 100 staff members gathered in the newsroom, his words were stunningly direct. His successors, he said, had been "unbelievably stupid" and caused "the most serious single threat to the future" of the paper his family had bought in 1882. People gasped in surprise, then applauded as the shock wore off. Said a veteran reporter: "It was like a thunderbolt from Zeus...
...Laughs). I don't like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch. I like girls that wear nothing at all! Those A&F girls are just waiting to break my stupid heart. Actually, that's really funny because we played a show recently with LFO and Joey MacIntire. I played the show with a Joey MacIntire shirt on the whole time. I think we are the only band fucked up enough to do a show with...