Do you find yourself having less patience with idiocy as you age?

Most people are idiots and assholes. I firmly put them in their place all the time.

Actually, 85% of people are morons by choice, so they deserve any scorn and contempt they get.

Yes, and I can deal as long as my middle fingers hold up.

R23 people are not stupid by choice. To understand the world you have to think a lot and people just don't do that naturally. Think of how hard it was to write essays or do math when you were young. We are allowing millions of Mexicans in year after year. We are too stupid and naive to understand that these people vote for more immigration and want to make whites a minority. History shows that humans fragment by race and fight for resources. It such a basic lesson of history that minorities Are persecuted.

That's why you should never be in the minority. It would suck.

Yes, especially among drivers, pedestrians and oblivious people on their phones

One example would be Twitter. They approved a deal to present the offer for Elon Musk to buy Twitter to the shareholders. It will most likely take another six months to complete the purchase of Twitter for anything whatsoever to happen because it is still under the same management, same rules, and same employees.

However I see idiots on Twitter acting like things have already changed, that old people who were banned are suddenly back, that they can now say all sorts of things with impunity, that Elon is there listening to their pleas to unban this person or remove this rule since they think he's already in change, that a 44 billion dollar transaction has happened overnight, because they don't read more than headlines or tweets. All of these people are idiots. I've seen this even from allegedly intelligent people, which makes me think less of them.

They say Twitter feels different already! This may actually be valid, because a lot of left wing people have deleted their accounts already - the most dramatic and whiny ones - and an equal number of right wingers appear to have replaced them overnight. Twitter said the shifting numbers were organic, meaning that they aren't necessarily bots.

Yes, but now I Am One!!

Yes, because some things that have taken me a lifetime to understand don't come naturally to others. I have an attitude, "I know this, why don't you know this?" I have to stop and remind myself how long some things took to figure out. Now that I have a handle on life, I'm too old to do anything about it 😠

DL is filled with 99% moronic fucking trolls, like OP.

^ Why? It's a legitimate observation

YES!!

r10 is saucy because she wanted to post that at r1.

On DL, definitely. It's partly because the current popular troll behavior lately seems to be all about deliberately saying something stupid, then having a full and complete meltdown when you're called out on it. I don't have any patience for that.

Indeed

Life's too short to worry about stuff I have no control over. Let the stupid either learn or die from their stupidity. It's not anyone's job to save stupid people who don't believe they need saving and fight those who try to help.

R14 I find often that people who "call others out for things" tend to hammer the point in relentlessly, becoming themselves trolls in the process.

R16 if people lived in self-contained bubbles sure, but they interact with the rest of us, sometimes in very important ways.

r18, that is true, however the big problem here is that all these encounters, that bother you, can add up and then all you need is one to break the camel's back, and you become a viral meme going off in public and be called a Karen or a total dick for freaking out

Take an anger management course to learn how to deal with your anger and resentment towards idiots. Don't let them ruin your day or turn you into something you don't want to be.

When iencounter an asshole or idiot it just makes me so happy to know i am neither.

[quote]Do you find yourself having less patience with idiocy as you age?

Yes. So why are you provoking us, OP?

I’m r4. I looooooove to eat poo, please send me some today!

I've definitely become less patient with idiots, the more years pile up as I have to deal with them. The worst irritant is those who are capable but choose not to self-educate and don't experiment with new tools and ideas in support of earning a living.

I think everyone in the world is less patient with everyone else. The 24/7 barrage of media and social media doesn't reward kindness or empathy, tolerance or forbearance.

It rewards gleefully tearing off a piece of anyone who disagrees with you or annoys you in the slightest. It rewards assuming the absolute worst of everyone else's motives, and smugly painting your own actions in the best possible light.

These traits would have been considered trashy by any decent person 20 years ago. Not that they didn't exist, but they certainly weren't something most people aspire to.

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Keeping it cool. It helps you the most.

MAGA TRASH ALERT MAGA TRASH ALERT MAGA TRASH ALERT @R4. I'm sure every immigrant that enters the US comes with the sole purpose of making whites a minority. That is their man goal and priority. Because they have a little world and you are right at the center of it.

I love how r4 managed to spin the question into a canned Stormfront rant about "white replacement". Get a hobby you fucking nut. Yeah I've definitely become less patient with idiots.

Yes and it’s not good since I’m an idiot.

Yes. I think that’s why old people get a reputation for hating the young. I’m my twenties I knew everyone was an idiots but I let it slide. Now I can’t ignore it.

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

And not everyone thinks the same way you do

R4 is the type of person I have lost patience for, not that I had a lot to begin with for people who interject racial trolling into every fucking conversation.

I finally get why old people are mad. Not conservative hate everybody mad, but I deserve to retire to a deserted island and not deal with this shit mad.

^ The island doesn't have to be deserted, just a few well selected people who won't get on my nerves 😠

R31 and R32 yes we (well, some of us probably) understand that, however some things are just objectively stupid. Therefore it follows that so are the people who do them.

I’ve gotten better at living in the spirit of “Well, bless your heart” toward people who I disagree with who also don’t matter to me. Some moron, one among billions, has access to a computer, logs on to spew, and I happen to read it? Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys.

But I will confess to deriving great deal of pleasure from seeing someone react strongly to something that was said by a person I’ve blocked. Carve ‘em a new one, truth and justice warrior!

Idiots like r4 are the worst. They have no clue how dumb they are. When Google is one click away and would show that immigration is down by historic margins.

Idiots are everywhere these days.

R31, that’s easy to say, not so easy to practice, though I do agree. For me, what helps me become humble is when I force myself to recognize what a judgemental hypocrite I am. Without fail, I manage to conjure up a time where I engaged in almost the exact same bad behavior as the asshole I’m judging! And even if I haven’t acted out the same exact way, I’ve gotten close enough to be a hypocrite for judging others. The older you get, the more mistakes you’ve made, so I really am a huge hypocrite then for judging others soooooo harshly. So lately I’ve come full circle back to practicing extravagant compassion and radical conclusion, where I know in my head “all people have potential regardless of how they’ve lived they’re past, all people are redeemable, I can learn something from every single person I meet, and we are all so much more than our worst mistake”. So to me “all people” demands that it really is *all* people, no exception.

And just to be fully transparent, the one area where I continue to struggle with my own hypocrisy/judgement is in politics. No, I don’t want to practice compassion and inclusion with them, no, but at all! But I know that that is the way out of the shit we are in as a society. We’ve created a culture where everyone who disagrees with you is evil or bad. How can we expect for things to get better as long as we hold onto that idea? For America to heal, we all need to be extremists in practicing accepting *all* people, including Rethuglicans. I’m not there yet with GQPers, but I finally realize that I have to put it into a context that I can live with. If we don’t hear more leaders talk about this, we won’t get better, but it really does start with each one of us. There is no “us” and “them” there is only “us”.

I have also discovered that most idiots do not realize they are, in fact, idiots.

It’s sad to see that moment when formerly clever people notice they’ve lost the plot.

Add all the impairments of age - hearing loss, muscular degeneration, brain shrinkage - and then add fully justified confirmation bias. It’s bitchy old folks uncertain of what is going on.

I have noticed morons poke you more often just to see the sparks fly.

[quote]I have noticed morons poke you more often just to see the sparks fly.

I always assume that's the only poking of which they're now capable, and experience pathos.

"I have also discovered that most idiots do not realize they are, in fact, idiots. "

Maybe, but they sure seem to be proud of the fact 🙄

Reply 42 = douche. I pity you. A limp noodle would be the least of your problems.

Ten, maybe even five years ago, one would almost never see reviews on Amazon that were filled with numerous typos in a sentence or two.

Now, the majority of reviews are four or five words long, if that, and STILL, there's at least one typo.

Yes un huh yes

Of course we need to take responsibility for our choices, but I think the media is to blame for a lot of this.

They cater to the lowest common denominator -- and emphasize ENTERTAINMENT and trivial, fluffy topics, instead of concentrating on the news. This started back in the early 80's, but has quintupled over the last 10 years or so, where say, 'Good Morning America' spends maybe four minutes at 7am, reporting the news, then the other 54 (minus commercials) talking about this celebrity or that overpaid sports figure, etc. Yes, everyone needs a break from the news, but come on...

And if you click on almost any news link online, you don't have to READ IT, just watch the freakin' video.

In another 10 years we're gonna have 60% imbeciles, 15% educated types, and the rest -- Robots.

Although I've not yet said it to another person, in the past year I find myself constantly saying the Sue Simmons "what the fuck are you doing" out loud. It's only a matter of time...

Today, I finally went full rachet on the self check out guy at Safeway. I got loud about "The shitty customer service..." In my defense, It's been coming on now for a couple of years. I finally threw this clown"s bile back in his face. What an idiot. My longtime partner watched the show from twenty feet away and even he didn't give me any lip after that happened.

^ You dumped on someone making $12-$15 an hour because you don't like Safeway's customer service? What did he do to deserve you? 😳

R16 agree with R18 idiocy is dangerous to others

Why? Why. ! Why Kevin ( mr. sweater vest) ? Gays in a group. 90 percent all speedos

Reply 50. I use self checkout to avoid getting Covid. This guy is almost alway there. He is mean. Plain and simple. All around lousy employee. He berates customers, he is consistently rude. I always catch him checking out woman's asses. Today, I had the nerve to tell him that I was overcharged seven dollars( I interrupted his personalconversation with another employee). He couldn't be bothered with simple addition and told me I'd have to come back in an hour and talk with the person at the CS desk. Trust me, Mother Teresa would have lost patience. My fuse is looong. This fucker will pay.

[quote] [R16] agree with [R18] idiocy is dangerous to others

Look at it this way: A smart person does not put himself in a position where idiots can be a direct threat to him. We all have to suffer idiots, sure, but mentally rolling your eyes is a price we have to pay for when we have to socialize with others. There are tools and strategies out there, so people can't push your buttons. But we also have skills to spot an idiot or a troll indenting to push our buttons a mile away, giving us enough time to either avoid that person or to put our defenses up to not let him get to us.

R 16 nailed it. Just live your own fucking life.

As you get older, your hearing goes, your mind doesn't seem to catch on so quick, and you start to fumble around a bit. So you start to appreciate folks with the patience to repeat themselves when asked, sometimes twice.

At school, it was fun to ridicule the students who just couldn’t grasp complex things like multiplication, prepositions, paragraphs, or the three branches of government.

But now that you are dependent on them to look up your account information or rebook a reservation, you realize that your ridicule was just a temporary joy, and now you must somehow coax the morons into doing what you need. A friend who lived in India taught me the way: one instruction at a time, binary choices only, never a new instruction until the current one is completed.

It’s even worse when they’ve ascended into positions of power, even power over you. Despite deserving punishment for their horrible politics, I felt some sympathy for the likely Ivy/Rhodes Scholar assistant who had to edit Trump’s morning pictorial report of the most important and complex issues in the world in a way he could understand. Excruciating work.

R54 how about driving on the road or in a parking lot? is staying home the solution?

Nail the fucker, R50. I hate assholes like that who act entitled to their jobs.

[quote] how about driving on the road or in a parking lot? is staying home the solution?

If, for whatever apparent reason, you fail to grasp the concept of not engaging with idiots, maybe staying at home is indeed the better solution.

Smart people do know how to spot rude and idiot drivers and keep their distance. The same goes with random strangers, or people you know and loath, in a parking lot. If you are not able to do so, I don't want to call you stupid, but I guess your life must be really challenging then.

I spend a lot of time on my own. I honestly can’t stand most people. I never could but now I’d rather not make the effort.

^ I get it. I discovered long ago that superficial relationships are the way to go when trying to preserve one's sanity and finances

people run thru stop signs, crosswalks, make illegal U-turns or pull in front of you with using a signal, drive on the wrong side of the road. . .you can't always spot it until it's too late

^without signaling