I couldn't watch the whole thing; seems like one of those rants intended to make people stupider. Did he ever mention the meat labeling WTO case that the US lost, which made the new law the only alternative to a trade war?

Republicans hate smart voters, smart voters do not vote for them. So they do what they can to make people stupid

Your right fire makes people stupid and panic for no reason most of the time. Funny story I was working as a fry cook at a Buffalo Wild Wings in my home town in Texas when one night one of the guys pulled the fryer out to clean behind it well he yanked on it too hard and it ripped the gas hose off the connection to the wall. I swear to god 6 guys saw fire spurt out of the valve and immediate dropped everything and ran for the hills. I saw that the valve wasn't damaged in anyway so I calmly walked over and turned off the valve the fire went out and the disaster was averted. I couldn't believe how everyone else just panicked instead of taking the logical easiest path to put out the fire. I'm just glad no one pulled the Ansul fire foam system that would have cost the store 20k and we would have spent two days cleaning the inside of the kitchen out.

>> ^kceaton1:

>> ^PlayhousePals:
>> ^Stingray:
Fire extinguishers: Not just ornaments

It appeared that the guy near the end was using the contents of a gas can to extinguish the flames. A fail all around if that were true =oD

I'll assume this is sarcasm that didn't translate well across the Internet--it was water, the stuff you use to wash off your windows with--which is ALSO found RIGHT NEXT TO all the man-made flames and fuel for cars--BTW did you know fuel vapor is pretty nasty--I swear eia is just not enough sometimes.
Fires (and any other such similar event were an emergency is involved) while active creates apparently, an atmospheric anomaly that causes--from what I've noticed in these situations--a strange and sudden affliction that seems to afflict the human nervous system in roughly 95% of the population (some of you may think I'm being TOO generous) it has these noticeable effects: mass stupidity, mass standing comatose adult/children (like deer in headlights), GRABBING THEIR FUCKING cellphone to video it, calling anyone but 911, calling 911 when the situation could have been averted for atleast a minute (sometimes more, MUCH MORE--it can get ridiculous) by them doing a small innocuous measure--but the measure is: beneath them, might get them dirty, they may get close to "the action", they could injury themselves requiring a band-aid; and so, so, so, so, so, many other things that could be listed, but you really can just go to the Failblog and look around and find one thousand examples I don't have here. But this 95% always does the things I listed above and do similar ridiculous actions OTHER THAN stopping the problem! It really is quite amusing and it's also why we've got the term "hero". Hero really should read:
Hero: The person that finally decided to resolve a problem when everyone else decided it was better to journal about it. You get my drift... Yes, there is the "real" hero out there, but they typically have other things that show that they are, like undying loyalty from their followers or getting the Medal of Honor--that type of thing.
This window washing water can be found in large containers, like the one he was carrying to put the fire out, around EVERY single station (typically, sometimes there are even WATER HOSES in the middle). Atleast ONE person was paying attention and put the fire out on both the fuel hose and the gas tank (it looked like he got them out--with a little bucket of water...well used if I might say). He is a minor hero, but he's one of those people that solves an emergency put before a group of people, and decidedly did not take photos first.
Just felt like the man deserved some credit, so I decided to have someone say something good about him (me ); since it's mostly about the idiot eia douche who RAN to find help from the store manager, running RIGHT PAST the fire extinguisher--fucking poetic and on camera. That guy will NEVER live this down...
I'm ALSO assuming he did panic and run into the store to find the clerk, rather than just running away, BUT people HAVE done that... ((Benefit of doubt for this eia, I guess...)

>> ^westy:

This is so fucking retardedon multiple levels .
In the end Terrorists can always and will always find a way to blow stuff up if they realy want to .
thankfully there are hardly anny terrorists in the world ( or people that actualy want to kill other people first hand) weather that be amercan or of anny nationality ( bare in mind that most terrorists in usa have actual been american) .
allso more people die on a daily basis from car accidents or cancer from smoking , obesity, or other general shit that would be greatly reduced if you spent the money that's been spent on TSA to used elsewhere.
Granted I'm not saying we don't need basic security at air ports, ultimately a passport check , luggage scan , basic metal detector , bomb sniffing dogs, and having a general awareness and education of what to look out for , Is likely to provide as much security that you need.
Also its worth baring in mind that the number of people that died in 911 was pretty much entirely due to governmental failing. Typically if a plane is hijacked and flying into a city it is shot down. I'm pretty sure that plane that crashed in country side was actually shot down and I have no idea why the us government would cover that up.


the National Safety Council notes:

-- You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack

-- You are 12,571 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack

-- You are 11,000 times more likely to die in an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane

-- You are 1048 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack

--You are 404 times more likely to die in a fall than from a terrorist attack

-- You are 87 times more likely to drown than die in a terrorist attack

-- You are 13 times more likely to die in a railway accident than from a terrorist attack

--You are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocation in bed than from a terrorist attack

--You are 9 times more likely to choke to death on your own vomit than die in a terrorist attack

--You are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist

--You are 8 times more likely to die from accidental electrocution than from a terrorist attack

-- You are 6 times more likely to die from hot weather than from a terrorist attack

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/fear-of-terror-makes-people-stupid.html

>> ^NetRunner:

Well, I for one and glad you've gone from not understanding the point of the video, to thinking the point the video makes is so obvious that it's stupid to make a fuss about it.
I blame lots of people for lots of things, but "being stupid" isn't one of them. It's the smart people who know better, but are doing shit like this I'm mad about.
They're working very hard to make sure the stupid stay stupid, and sometimes it's so obvious it just makes me sick.

Maybe you don't get the point of this video. Or any cable news video for that matter. Cable news is television. Not journalism. Television is driven by stupid people. If that needs clarification just check the amount of highly rated "reality TV" shows. Cable news is a ratings driven industry. It is solely, completely, 100% reliant upon ratings, period. Everything that is broadcast is based upon ratings, which directly impacts upon revenue. Is this shocking news for anyone?

So what's the problem? The vast majority of people watching are idiots. The news isn't making people stupid, they are giving a product to their audience (a.k.a. stupid people). Apparently people love reality shows. They love drama and bullshit and worthless crap and could hardly comprehend a complex job bill, assuming they could even read one. So the "news" has become a reflection of it's viewers, a bunch of fucking zombie-eyed, vote-texting, self-involved twittering imbeciles with an attention span of 10 seconds or less.

Can't blame the "smart" people in the "news" for doing exactly what they are supposed to do, keep the drooling masses from changing the channel. That's show business for ya.

Maybe all the "smart" viewers should write a letter of complaint and then just stop watching. Maybe then it would change. Until then, it's just supply and demand.

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if every fail is epic, no fail is epic.

if every mistake is a fail, no mistake is a fail.

failblog makes people stupid, and killed the "fail" word.

>> ^bleedmegood:

What, are you daft? The scale of fail here is pretty fuggin epic....this is no minor demolition snafu, it's a full-fledged fuck-up....just ask Mike Hawk ...

Seriously, what is wrong with people? Pull the plugs on all the cable news networks, they do nothing but make people stupid.

Agree with those above. It's not religion that makes people stupid and ignorant. If religion was removed, they still would be and we'd simply have another scapegoat. Besides that are religions and religious or spiritual people who are a benefit to society. Few to none of them are monotheistic however and some (such as Buddhism,) do not include the worship of a deity.

Now to comment on the video.

1: How can Ben Stein be so intelligent yet so absolutely clueless? To other bits about that subject. Evolution doesn't require 'belief.' Either does any other scientific principal or theory with such unsurmountable evidense.. such as gravity. People denying such theories is about as stupid as denying that the earth circles the sun. (Though there are plenty who believe the opposite because their holy book says so.)

2: It makes me laugh my ass off to see people who think we are in the end times. Really it does. Every time I meet someone who thinks were approaching the end I tell them. 'You really should read up on a little phase of western cultured called the Dark Ages. Because trust me they had it WAY worse then you can imagine. You think were coming to the end today because of war, plagues, etc. If you were able to experience life in the Dark Ages you would never even think such thing again. Because your life as the a utopia compared to what those people experienced.' Really, such thoughts are laughable.

>> ^Farhad2000:
I disagree on the intellectual argument behind this video.
Essentially what it postulates is that religion makes people stupid, and thus if religion is done away with people will suddenly all becoming enlightened and or better at treating fellow humans beings.
People do stupid things because people are stupid and ignorant. You take away religion they are still going to be stupid and ignorant.
This is why this whole argument fails to gain traction with anyone who is culturally religious, agnostic or spiritual, it weakens the case being brought against religion.


I was going to write at lenght about the same thing, but you said all I had to say. I have no problem with religious people per se. I do on the other hand have a problem with stupid people.

>> ^Farhad2000:
I disagree on the intellectual argument behind this video.
Essentially what it postulates is that religion makes people stupid, and thus if religion is done away with people will suddenly all becoming enlightened and or better at treating fellow humans beings.
People do stupid things because people are stupid and ignorant. You take away religion they are still going to be stupid and ignorant.
This is why this whole argument fails to gain traction with anyone who is culturally religious, agnostic or spiritual, it weakens the case being brought against religion.


Religion is where weak people go to hide from scary facts.

I disagree on the intellectual argument behind this video.

Essentially what it postulates is that religion makes people stupid, and thus if religion is done away with people will suddenly all becoming enlightened and or better at treating fellow humans beings.

People do stupid things because people are stupid and ignorant. You take away religion they are still going to be stupid and ignorant.

This is why this whole argument fails to gain traction with anyone who is culturally religious, agnostic or spiritual, it weakens the case being brought against religion.

There is a poll on AOL right now and out of 35,000 respondents 24% support her.

24%

WTF... I agree it's a tough one to vote up, But don't vote it up because of the message, vote it up because her next book will again be a best seller and when you hear about it on the news hopefully you will think of her douchebaggery and not her popularity. She is making people stupid and the Traditional Media is eating it up.