How to Define, Dumb, Moron, Stupid, And Idiot

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2003-02-06 08:33pm

I heard this summed up today, about the best way it can be

Dumb is somthing you did that was not that smart but not nessary your fault

A Moron is somone who does not very smart things due to either Birth Defect or Injury

To do somthing dumb with for-knowledge that it was not very smart is to do somthing stupid

An Idiot, is somone who makes the same stupid decisions over and over agian

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-02-06 08:35pm

Wahey, I like.

So where does DarkStar and Fundies fit in?

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2003-02-06 08:38pm

Woops messed up on the last one
Corrected it now
Darkstar and Fundies are idiots, They do it despite knowing better and keep doing it

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-06 09:22pm

Dumb = improperly maintaining your car so it falls apart

Stupid = doing this with two successive cars in a row

Moron = insisting that you were not responsible for the failure of your two automobiles despite all evidence to the contrary

Idiot = blaming the car company for the failure of your two automobiles, or worse yet, blaming a permissive secular society which has turned away from God and brought down his wrath upon our internal combustion engines.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-02-06 09:24pm

Hahaha! Infidel! ALLAH has struck down your imperalistic combustion engine!

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-02-06 09:34pm

HemlockGrey wrote:Hahaha! Infidel! ALLAH has struck down your imperalistic combustion engine!

That's going into my sig.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2003-02-06 09:54pm

Moron is acutal a 1800th Century Medical Term for the retarted why I define it as I did

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-06 09:57pm

Exonerate wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:Hahaha! Infidel! ALLAH has struck down your imperalistic combustion engine!

That's going into my sig.

If you're going to put it in your sig, you might want to correct the spelling of "imperalistic" by adding in the missing "i".

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-02-06 10:05pm

No, it looks more authentic with the error

Besides, I don't want Hemlock accusing me of misquoting him.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-02-06 10:20pm

Darth Wong wrote:Dumb = improperly maintaining your car so it falls apart

Stupid = doing this with two successive cars in a row

Moron = insisting that you were not responsible for the failure of your two automobiles despite all evidence to the contrary

Idiot = blaming the car company for the failure of your two automobiles, or worse yet, blaming a permissive secular society which has turned away from God and brought down his wrath upon our internal combustion engines.

So where does placing your hands on the hood and praying to God to fix the failing air conditioning system fit into this?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-06 10:22pm

aerius wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:Dumb = improperly maintaining your car so it falls apart

Stupid = doing this with two successive cars in a row

Moron = insisting that you were not responsible for the failure of your two automobiles despite all evidence to the contrary

Idiot = blaming the car company for the failure of your two automobiles, or worse yet, blaming a permissive secular society which has turned away from God and brought down his wrath upon our internal combustion engines.
So where does placing your hands on the hood and praying to God to fix the failing air conditioning system fit into this?

Imbecile.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-02-06 10:26pm

Or Retard, for unable to get that since all of the praying before didn't work, THIS WON'T EITHER!

jaeger115 · Post by **jaeger115** » 2003-02-06 10:43pm

Reminds me of my sister.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-02-06 11:50pm

The problem is that none of those terms seem harsh enough to describe Fundies...

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-07 12:01am

DPDarkPrimus wrote:The problem is that none of those terms seem harsh enough to describe Fundies...

How about "cretinous mass of stupidity exemplified?"

Kosh_The_Vorlon · Post by **Kosh_The_Vorlon** » 2003-02-07 01:41am

Darth Wong wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:The problem is that none of those terms seem harsh enough to describe Fundies...
How about "cretinous mass of stupidity exemplified?"

Yeah, that would describe my floor pretty well (except for myself, my roomie, and like two or three other guys, my entire floor is YEC with amazingly high walls of ignorance)

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2003-02-07 04:05am

I think that we can sum up the definition of all these words with one picture of Kent Hovind or Duane Gish.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-02-07 04:12am

"Unfit for existence" is what I'll pitch in to describe the worst of people ie fundies, Darkstar, certain politicians, etc.

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-02-07 10:46am

On the topic of "dumb":

In ordinary spoken English, a sentence such as He is dumb will be interpreted to mean “He is stupid” rather than “He lacks the power of speech.” “Lacking the power of speech” is, however, the original sense of the word, but it has been eclipsed by the meaning “stupid.” For this change in meaning, it appears that the Germans are responsible. German has a similar and related word dumm that means “stupid,” and over time, as a result of the waves of German immigrants to the United States, it has come to influence the meaning of English dumb. This is one of dozens of marks left by German on American English. Some words, like kindergarten, dachshund, and schnapps still have a German feel or are associated to some extent with Germany, but others, like bum, cookbook, fresh (in the meaning “impertinent”), rifle, and noodle have become so thoroughly Americanized their German origins may surprise some.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-02-07 11:43am

Zoink wrote:On the topic of "dumb":

In ordinary spoken English, a sentence such as He is dumb will be interpreted to mean “He is stupid” rather than “He lacks the power of speech.” “Lacking the power of speech” is, however, the original sense of the word, but it has been eclipsed by the meaning “stupid.” For this change in meaning, it appears that the Germans are responsible. German has a similar and related word dumm that means “stupid,” and over time, as a result of the waves of German immigrants to the United States, it has come to influence the meaning of English dumb. This is one of dozens of marks left by German on American English. Some words, like kindergarten, dachshund, and schnapps still have a German feel or are associated to some extent with Germany, but others, like bum, cookbook, fresh (in the meaning “impertinent”), rifle, and noodle have become so thoroughly Americanized their German origins may surprise some.

YUHUUU!
reversed DENGLISCH!!!

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-02-07 05:50pm

Read the definition from this thread:
http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... t+imbecile

Pu-239 wrote:Main Entry: id·i·ot
Pronunciation: 'i-dE-&t
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin idiota ignorant person, from Greek idiOtEs one in a private station, layman, ignorant person, from idios one's own, private; akin to Latin suus one's own -- more at SUICIDE
Date: 14th century
1 : a person affected with idiocy; especially : a feebleminded person having a mental age not exceeding three years and requiring complete custodial care
2 : a foolish or stupid person
- idiot adjective

Main Entry: im·be·cile
Pronunciation: 'im-b&-s&l, -"sil
Function: noun
Etymology: French imbécile, n., from adjective, weak, weak-minded, from Latin imbecillus
Date: 1802
1 : a mentally deficient person; especially : a feebleminded person having a mental age of three to seven years and requiring supervision in the performance of routine daily tasks of self-care
2 : FOOL, IDIOT
- imbecile or im·be·cil·ic /"im-b&-'si-lik/ adjective

Main Entry: mo·ron
Pronunciation: 'mOr-"än, 'mor-
Function: noun
Etymology: irregular from Greek mOros foolish, stupid
Date: 1910
1 : a mentally retarded person who has a potential mental age of between 8 and 12 years and is capable of doing routine work under supervision
2 : a very stupid person
- mo·ron·ic /m&-'rä-nik, mo-/ adjective
- mo·ron·i·cal·ly /-ni-k(&-)lE/ adverb
- mo·ron·ism /'mOr-"ä-"ni-z&m, 'mor-/ noun
- mo·ron·i·ty /m&-'rä-n&-tE, mo-/ noun

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

As you can see, fundamentalist morons should be called idiots or imbeciles. Moron is too mild.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-02-07 09:08pm

Basically, the terms 'idiot' 'imbecile' and 'moron' all refer back to the dark ages when the Americna scientific elite thought they could scientifically quantify intelligence according to Stanford-Binet test adapted to quantify intelligence and statistical processes designed to proove white men were more intelligent than black women.

says her who's entire secondary education was based on passing the 12+