Mine hit me with the “We’re spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”

  • Joe Dyrt@lemmy.ca
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    Fifty percent of people are dumber than the average. Of course a much smaller percentage are REALLY effing dumb.

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      “Think how stupid the average person is, then realize half the people are more stupid than that”- George Carlin

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      There’s a plurality of people clustering around 100 though, which is why it’s the baseline IQ.

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          For some reason the conservatives in the UK are really keen on pointing out that the “silent majority are with [them]” on their policies. However, originally that phrase referred to the dead so it all sounds a bit strange when you keep that in mind.