Friday 4 January 2013

Selective memory or elective dumbness?

Don't you just love these dumb people who think they are being so smart by using carefully selected facts to support their beliefs and conveniently ignoring the whole picture?

I've just seen a bit of a documentary in which a guy supports his disregard of equality between men and women because in a pride of lions it's the lioness who does all the work, hunting, feeding and raising the kids and somehow we don't shout about how chauvinistic the male lion is. And we're all basically animals. Well, ok, so I take it Mr Lion you attack and maim any other young male that comes anywhere near your territory? That you mark with your urine regularly? And you raising other man's kids is just plain wrong, you should kill them to protect your gene pool. And of course you are a happy bigamist times six. No? Then fuck off with your limping logic.

Oh and all these ads for shampoos and other so called beauty products that display a big slogan for you to see '90% of women agree that this cream will work just as well as the blood of virgins' or something along these lines. And then there's a small additional info most people will not notice because there's a flash of boob above it, which says '90% out of 36 people' (or other ridiculously small number). Now, mathematics was not my favourite subject in school, it wasn't even in my subjective top ten, but from my recollection a statistically significant sample is one of at least a thousand people? And any statistics ever that are above 90% are suspiciously similar to 'real' voter turnout in communist Poland.

My absolute favourite is that guy who got a tattoo saying 'You shall not be with a male as one does with a woman. It is an abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). And what else does Bible has to say just a few lines below? 'You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves.' (Leviticus 19:28) Bible burn! But hey, you became a meme for the dumbest choice of a quote for a tattoo ever, congratulations. 

if you have any more examples please feel free to share peoples.

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