Mine is the volume of their voice. If all that they can do is just talk too loudly with no reason for it and don’t control the volume of their voice. That to me is a sign that you’re a stupid fuck. Because people think the louder they are, the more righteous and attention seeking they are. Than it is to just listen, digest and respond accordingly to anyone talking around you.
Conservative politics, as Mill points out, stupid people are attracted to it. Many of them will plant a sign on their lawn to let you know.
"I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. . - John Stuart Mill
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Some people aren’t self monitors. A lot of stupid/ignorant people are loud, but being loud can also be lack of awareness of their volume, hearing deficit, or cultural
My brother has tinnitus and sometimes doesn’t realize his voice is really loud.
Then the culture is stupid.
Inability to see things from different perspectives. Assuming any perspective you talk about is your own personal belief.
You talkin shit about Ranger Carl?
Parks and Rec is gold, and Andy Samberg is a treasure
I will counter that the definition of intelligence is needed. Yours OP seems to be emo intelligence, maybe social intelligence. One can be very intelligent in other areas while not within these.
My quality would be a person’s ability to abstract and understand subjects through inference and intuition; to see all the layers of bigger pictures and the uncertainty of truth when contextualized.
In many ways, I fail at my own stupid, but it is a striving in life. After all, what use are achievable goals.
Stupid is subjective, circumstantial, and non binary.
When they don’t use their indicator signal.
Not keeping a constant speed when driving on the highway. Just pick a speed and drive.
While I agree with you, I would like to point out one exception I’ve noticed: veeeeeery occasionally you’ll run into someone with an old junker that either has a broken cruise control or an old, not fully maintained cruise control system.
My old busted up, 70% rusted-out ’99 Ford Ranger that I had bought for like $1000 had the latter problem, where the cruise control would work, but its accuracy sat at around ±1–2 mph or so.
My car is a 2015 and didn’t come with a cruise control lol :(.
To be fair, I can drive at and maintain a consistent speed without it, though I didn’t have to often thanks to stop and go traffic 🎉.
Like, at all? From the factory? That’s very strange, I would think.
I drove a base model Ford Fiesta about five years ago that did not ship with cruise control functionality of any kind. I was surprised as well, but the practice does exist.
Yup. Toyota Yaris '15 stock. Lowest trim they user.
It’s annoying when the vacuum system has a small leak so, over that long road trip, the car is always slooooowly losing speed. It’s such a nightmare to diagnose, at least as a DIYer.
If you don’t have cruise control and keep your foot steady, your speed will vary naturally with the road.
People who believe in the bible as a historic document.
Very frustrating, especially when the book itself has a lot of fairly direct “this is symbolism/allegory/not to be interpreted literally” statements within.
Can you share some?
Maybe they’re hard of hearing and don’t know.
Yes that’s a good one. I’ll add table manners. If someone eats with their mouth open I’ll instantly think a lot less of them.
Above everything, lack of curiosity. If someone is uncurious, it’s a big red flag to me.
This is the main thing I come up with because curiosity is the one thing that keeps ignorance from being a temporary state.
I was thinking the same thing. The not wanting to know more is a really big red flag for me.
Unfortunately extremely common
Anyone who refuses to change for any reason.
I’ve always valued privacy when having a conversation in public. I speak loudly enough for the person I’m with to hear me. I’ve never understood people just yacking loudly so the whole world knows their business.
Loud college students were having a conversation behind us yesterday (the museum is near the university). I stopped and my partner was stopped by us holding hands. Waited till they got about fifteen feet in front of us and resumed walking.
And NOW on the mobile phone on speaker… it’s a concept I don’t get, nor want to.
It also makes me feel like an old grumpy man because I dislike it so…
Don’t ever go to Spain. They are loud as hell. They all yell at each other at full volume while having multiple TVs and phones blaring on speaker.
Religion of any type.
I’m less certain. Lots of intelligent people can get caught up in such things. Religion depends also on upbringing and cultural background.
This. One of the smartest guys I know, running a worldwide software business, is religious. Faith does not equal stupid.
Agreed, faith can often be a sense of comfort, not necessarily gullibility.
Blanket elitism about atheism, or rather blatant anti-theism, is one of mine.
