Wilful ignorance
There's nothing necessarily wrong with genuine, innocent ignorance. Not everyone can know everything, and I for one find joy in finding out something that I didn't know previously. Every day really is a school day.

Wilful ignorance, on the other hand, does my fucking head in. Wearing your lack of knowledge about anything of any worth like a badge of honour makes you a cunt. Denying yourself the pleasure of knowing things doesn't make you some kind of tough guy, it makes you an ignorant prick.

What especially burns my cockles is when you meet some ignoramus and put them right on something, or even just mention something that they're too fucking self-centred to have found out about, and then they make out as though you're pulling their leg, or even worse, as though you're thick for believing such things. YES, BEES AND ANTS ARE SPECIALISED FORMS OF WASPS. Why would I make that up? Why in fact would I make that up to tell YOU, you prick? You're a piece of shit. I wouldn't waste my time on making something up to tell you. If someone tells me something and I don't believe it, or I've never heard it, I sometimes take the effort to go and verify the claim. It's not hard. CUNTS.

... sorry, I seem to have gone on something of a rant there.
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 20:22, 8 replies)

Oh yes. So true.
But I find what's worse is someone telling something that's obviously complete bollocks, but they believe it, and expect me to go "ooh, really?".

It's taking me down to their level, and I feel so dirty afterwards!
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 20:28, closed)

Oh God yes...
Someone comes out with something that is patently untrue - like they've found a postbox on the moon - and then gets the arse on when you doubt what they're saying.

I fear we live in a world of idiots.
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 20:39, closed)

See also: the perceived merit of numeracy versus that of literacy in British culture.
Generally it's quite OK to admit you're innumerate, but illiteracy is a major cause for shame.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 22:07, closed)

Making up "facts" to tell others is the finest thing one can do.
Did you know that Nicholas Cage is a method actor and actually punched several woman in the face during the filming of the Whicker Man?
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 22:20, closed)

For example
"The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." --Abraham Lincoln
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 22:34, closed)

^this
There is a growing trend of celebrating anti-intellectualism in the uk currently.
I blame reality tv & celebrity for the sake of it.
And /talk.
( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 13:13, closed)

Currently?
It's been going on for nearly half a century.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 19:17, closed)

PEOPLE WHO TALK CLEVER ARE PUFFS INNIT
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 21:42, closed)