General Ignorance

[Captain_BluTac]

General Ignorance - General Ignorance, a phrase used to describe a mass belief of something being fact, when it is not. - General Ignorance a phrase meaning over 50% of the population believing something to be true, when it is in fact false.

Okay. this thread is basically asking if cases of general ignorance annoy you and if so give examples.

Personally I find them really irritating the worst two things for me being people who say suspicious when they mean suspect and people who think Mama Cass died by choking on a ham sandwich, when she actually had a heart attack, another case of general ignorance that annoys me is people who think Lemmings commit mass suicide, and just to stop anyone trying to tell me they do, read this first.

While many people believe that lemmings commit mass suicide when they migrate, this is not the case. Driven by strong biological urges, they will migrate in large groups when population density becomes too great. Lemmings can and do swim and may choose to cross a body of water in search of a new habitat[5]. On occasion, and particularly in the case of the Norway lemmings in Scandinavia, large migrating groups will reach a cliff overlooking the ocean. They will stop until the urge to press on causes them to jump off the cliff and start swimming, sometimes to exhaustion and death. Lemmings are also often pushed into the sea as more and more lemmings arrive at the shore. [6]

Okay now it's your turn.

 

[Rando Aces]

i get annoyed when people dont know things that i find common knowledge. i dont know if this fits in here.

 

[Carcharodon]

I have a feeling this will end badly...

 

[Erzengel]

People who think discussing minute aspects of movies such as TDK is more important instead of going outside or talking to a girl.

 

[StrainedEyes]

People who believe, strongly, that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is 100% true.

 

[The Senator]

People who think discussing minute aspects of movies such as TDK is more important instead of going outside or talking to a girl.

Also, people who feel like Heath Ledger was not only the. greatest. actor. e.v.e.r, but was the "James Dean of our generation."

 

[mrvlknight21]

Maybe not a General Ignorance, but there are a lot of people who think that although they have never worked out, they can do the "300 workout" and look like everyone in the film in a matter of weeks.

 

[StrainedEyes]

Also, people who feel like Heath Ledger was not only the. greatest. actor. e.v.e.r, but was the "James Dean of our generation."

I never liked James Dean... What was the big deal about him? That he died early?

 

[Captain_BluTac]

I never liked James Dean... What was the big deal about him? That he died early?

It's because he was pretty.

 

[Manic]

another case of general ignorance that annoys me is people who think Lemmings commit mass suicide

I heard that started when some documentarians were filming a nature doc, got around to the lemmings, and found them kinda boring. So they lured about 2 or 3 lemmings off a small ledge, and edited their footage to make it look like lemmings unknowingly follow one another toward mass suicide.

I don't know if that's true, though.

 

[keith_v]

People who think discussing minute aspects of movies such as TDK is more important instead of going outside or talking to a girl.

This actually has nothing to do with this thread. Talking about TDK is a matter of preference, not the mass belief of an untrue fact.


And to get back on topic, I was really amazed at how many people bought into the Blair Witch story, even thinking that all the footage shown in the Sci-Fi documentary was real.

 

[Immortalfire]

Despite what Smokey Bear says, most forest fires are not started by people. Lightning is the usual culprit.

 

[mrvlknight21]

Despite what Smokey Bear says, most forest fires are not started by people. Lightning is the usual culprit.

Pretty good LOL.
By the way, hi neighbor.

 

[SpideyLad]

You've clearly been watching alot of QI Blutac.

 

[Captain_BluTac]

I heard that started when some documentarians were filming a nature doc, got around to the lemmings, and found them kinda boring. So they lured about 2 or 3 lemmings off a small ledge, and edited their footage to make it look like lemmings unknowingly follow one another toward mass suicide.

I don't know if that's true, though.

You're kinda close, a nature doc filmed them jumping off a cliff and despite the fact that the lemmings didn't die (they landed in a a river or something) the camera crew thought they were committing mass suicide, so that's what they reported in the doc.

 

[Captain_BluTac]

You've clearly been watching alot of QI Blutac.

One piece of general ignorance I hate, is people thinking that QI first coined the phrase General Ignorance even though it first appeared in the OED several year before QI was ever made, all QI did was bring the phrase into popular use.

 

[SpideyLad]

One piece of general ignorance I hate, is people thinking that QI first coined the phrase General Ignorance even though it first appeared in the OED several year before QI was ever made, all QI did was bring the phrase into popular use.

Well, it's how I know the phrase....Don't kill me Blu.

New series starts in September though.

 

[Captain_BluTac]

Well, it's how I know the phrase....Don't kill me Blu.

New series starts in September though.

Oh dear god! I only have a couple of months to kill Alan Davies, before he gets a chance to enjoy the F series!

 

[SpideyLad]

Oh dear god! I only have a couple of months to kill Alan Davies, before he gets a chance to enjoy the F series!

Too late, it's already been filmed...

And do you not like Alan Davies?

 

[Carcharodon]

You're kinda close, a nature doc filmed them jumping off a cliff and despite the fact that the lemmings didn't die (they landed in a a river or something) the camera crew thought they were committing mass suicide, so that's what they reported in the doc.

Actually, the "doc" in question was likely the one put out by Disney...which had people pushing the lemmings off of the cliff.

EDIT: http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp

 

[chamber-music]

Stephen Fry is the Man

I wonder how many people know Apple Pie isn't actully an American dish?

 

[lazur]

General Ignorance - General Ignorance, a phrase used to describe a mass belief of something being fact, when it is not. - General Ignorance a phrase meaning over 50% of the population believing something to be true, when it is in fact false.

Okay. this thread is basically asking if cases of general ignorance annoy you and if so give examples.

Personally I find them really irritating the worst two things for me being people who say suspicious when they mean suspect and people who think Mama Cass died by choking on a ham sandwich, when she actually had a heart attack, another case of general ignorance that annoys me is people who think Lemmings commit mass suicide, and just to stop anyone trying to tell me they do, read this first.

Okay now it's your turn.

There's a lot of 'general ignorance' when it concerns the current political climate.

 

[rizzo51]

Josef Stalin was actually two pregnant Polish women duct taped together and wearing what the KGB called a 'Very intricated disguise.'

 

[SpideyLad]

Stephen Fry is the Man

Stephen Fry is God.

 

[Immortalfire]

Adolf Hitler was not German, he was in fact Austrian by birth.