Are People Getting Dumber?

[Jade4u]

You thought they were dumb then look at em now. I am waiting in line today at the grocery store and all the ladies at the check outs serving the customers looked like zombies. Blank looking faces and thier eyes looked withdrawn. They are way slower and less happy looking and dumber. The one cashier was looking over a package and looked to me from a distance like she was unable to read it and was trying to make sense out of what ever it was she was supposed to be doing. That is when I noticed none of thier faces looked much different.

 

[RTRD]

Actually...

The group who could benefit the most from math lessons are strippers. About 20% of them have trouble counting songs. You`d think it`s pretty simple: 5 songs -- 1+1+1+1+1= 5; but some will say it was 6 or the odd time 7. Of course that may have more to do with lying than a honest counting mistake. I`ve never had one add it up and come up with less than it actually was.

...it usually breaks that way for me...they come up with a number lower than what the actual count is.

 

[RTRD]

That...

Ordered an Angus Burger and the girl that served me did not know what is HP sauce. Like duh.

I mean IMO it's dumb to begin with to have an item like Angus Burger on the menu and not have HP sauce. But this girl really did not even know what is HP sauce. lmao.

...is knowledge, not intelligence. I suspect you could ask a few Indian noble prize winners what HB sauce is and they wouldn't have a clue. On the other hand, you could show a mentally handicapped person with an IQ of 80 what HP sauce was and when it was used and then retain that information for life.


Now...you could argue that the inability to distinguish "Knowledge" from "Intelligence" might be a marker of lack of intelligence, but....

 

[RTRD]

Lol....

Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in
place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room;
they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their
food and tyrannize their teachers.
(Socrates, 5th Century BC)

...exactly.