I had a "stupidity overload" last night. It starts when I posted this 'hah-hah-funny' comment on FB:
"It seems that most of the websites I regularly visit just seem to suck lately. So on a whim, I did a Google search for "something that doesn't suck". The predictable result? A bunch of random stuff that still, in fact, sucks."
And what's the response I get from one of my cousins:
"Lol need Google chrome and its added things ha lol thought u new comps"
So, yes, my barely literate cousin did, in fact, tell me that I needed Google Chrome because the Google search engine didn't give me the results I'd hoped for. Because Google Chrome has all of those added things that I've been missing. And she called me ignorant for not knowing this.
And of course this is not the first time she's said something about PCs or software which is so remarkably dumb that I did a doubletake, looked around the room to see if I'd fallen into another universe, and had to ask her WTF she thought she was saying. And added insult to stupidity by telling me that I should have known better. This time, though, something in my mind snapped and I felt compelled to call her a moron, in not so many words. I try to maintain harmony with my relatives, but sometimes my stupidity buffers overflow from too much input and I have to react.
So, thinking, "Man, I've had enough of her, I can't take any more stupidity tonight," I log off my PC, turn my TV on, and switch over to the Daily Show on Comedy Central. Just in time to see an excerpt of an interview between George W Bush and some guy, and GWB is going on and on about the red color of the guy's tie, and how he would try to mix different paints to duplicate the color of it. The President. Of the United States. Was babbling in an
on camera interview about somebody's fucking
red tie.
And I was like, that's it, stupidity overload. I'm going to bed now before any more of my brain cells die from overstimulation.
