why are people so stupid
- Thread starter Wings on my sleeve
- Start date
Seems to be IQ of 100 is the average of a peer group. Doesn’t stop one peer group being compared with another does it? I was merely relaying what the article said btw. Here you go if you’re interested. Paywall wouldn’t let me past sadly, even using 12ft ladder.
Eat eggs to have a smarter child, hopeful mothers told
Women who are trying to get pregnant may help the national IQ if they adopt a diet rich in eggs and seaweed, according to a leading psychologist.Kimberley Wilso
www.thetimes.co.uk
From the Hay Festival, need to pay £15 to hear what she said. I’m too tight.
Psychologist Wilson, author of Unprocessed: How the Food we eat is Fuelling our Mental Health Crisis, reveals the role of food and nutrients in brain development and mental health. They talk to Hay Festival’s Sustainability Director Andy Fryers.
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Simon Chiles
DD Moderator
- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
I think one of the contributing factors to this is the number of drivers on weed. The numbers I’ve encountered over the last few months is staggering.
I was about to turn right in to the yard with an SP sprayer this week, when 100 meters from the yard at the point of indicating I noticed a Landrover 90 tailgating very close up behind. I watched it for a couple of seconds and moved on to the white line 50 meters out to make my intentions crystal clear, at which point it pulled out, accelerated and squeezed past; two seconds later and it wouldn’t have ended well.
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Another factor that is doing long term generational damage to mental health and IQ is the number of mothers on drugs and booze during gestation.
Trying to deal with the consequences of this is like rolling a snowball up hill for the State and society. There are four adopted kids in my wider social group whose chances were compromised before they were born through no fault of their own. They’ll need lifelong guardianship if they aren’t to end in personal disaster. It’s getting unsustainable in terms of finding enough people to look after these folk never mind the cost.
Anyway I’ll get on. It doesn’t bear too much examination really.
Trying to deal with the consequences of this is like rolling a snowball up hill for the State and society. There are four adopted kids in my wider social group whose chances were compromised before they were born through no fault of their own. They’ll need lifelong guardianship if they aren’t to end in personal disaster. It’s getting unsustainable in terms of finding enough people to look after these folk never mind the cost.
Anyway I’ll get on. It doesn’t bear too much examination really.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Many drivers think you are asking them to pass by indicating right at a right hand turn. I get it all the time. If there’s no oncoming traffic I tend to straddle the white line so they physically cannot get past before I make the turn. I get some funny looks but you can see the penny drop as I turn.
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Do you guys not realise you are no longer supposed to make such comments. I have been informed I can't and I must be kind apparently.
Pricks! (them, not you)
Pricks! (them, not you)
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Met one yesterday! Single track windy road with heavy bushes on either side, so you can't see far ahead. A big silver expensive and new BMW came roaring round the corner, thankfully just giving me time to swerve into a small lay by, shot past with middle aged driver staring straight ahead, no attempt to slow down nor acknowledge my good manners. If there had been no lay by, I would have hit him. No doubt, he could have stopped, but I couldn't! But I'll be seeing him again. The Highlands is a small place.
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
I encountered similar but there was enough straight road to see him coming so I had stopped in the widest point. Loads of room for him to pass very easily but for some reason he just sat parked in the narrowest part apparently wanting me to get out of his way somehow. If he had been watching the road (or local) he would have stopped 10 yards sooner where there was even more room.
It was obvious he wasn't going to come past me nor was he going to reverse so I thought bugger it, I reckon I can squeeze my shonky old pickup past your gleaming new BMW anyway.
I did get past him but it was tight, without any exaggeration you could hear him screaming in wild panic from inside his car.
ollie989898
Member
Yes, there are a greater proportion of the public on drugs at any one time than I think most people realise.
- Location
- Yorkshire
The biggest difference on rural roads over the last 30 odd years is that they're not driven on by rural people who have had a lifetime of tractor dodging. We know when to anticipate a lot of farming traffic, where it might be and often who it is. Now the villages are crammed with drivers with absolutely no idea what's going on in the fields around them. If they meet a combine header on a lane, it won't be second nature to wait for the combine.
kfpben
Member
- Location
- Mid Hampshire
Nothing changes really. My grandad was nicked for pulling a wheelie on a dirt bike outside a police station in the snow in the 50s.
kfpben
Member
- Location
- Mid Hampshire
Have you suggested he joins TFF?There’s an old bloke round here who parks in middle of road if he meets tractors then tries t start arguing about subsidies. Nothing better t do with his time I guess.
He would fit in just fine!
ollie989898
Member
A lot of people involved in rural driving no longer feel able to pull over on to the verge or up into the hedge and certainly don't seem able to reverse.
And farms were being "farmed", worked, hundreds of years ago before all this modern "life" of cars cars cars, "large" lorries, large farm tractors machinery etc, who would ever, in todays world, "build" a "modern, commercial" farm up a single track road? Example the other week i went to visit a large "estate" farming business in kent, the directions to, were up a very "pretty" country road, crossing 2 "ancient" stone bridges to it, once their, yes lovely large modern industrial style farm buildings, well suited to todays "modern" farming? I said to the farm manager is there a better access road, for all the farm traffic, (ie, all the large articulated lorries) that now service the farming industry, no he replyed, they all have to travel up this road and over those 2 bridges? And i imagine this story is not the worsest story of access to "modern" farms?
kfpben
Member
- Location
- Mid Hampshire
I’ve been thinking it for months, I’m sure I’m not alone….
Whats up with all the quotation marks in your posts? Must be a lot of effort to put them all in!
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Its not just roads.
Some farmsteads look like the buildings fell from the sky out of a santa sack.
No way can modern trailers or lorries move safely or load quickly.
Mendip zombies
ollie989898
Member
You can joke all you like. But breaking down in the middle of the Mendips is the stuff of nightmares. I once had to stop at the nearest shop to ask for directions. It was fudging scary, so it was.
choochter
Member
- Location
- aberdeenshire
So, so far in this thread you all have insulted, in order of appearance:
women
old trouts
old blokes
drivers from Devon
bloody grandads
school run mums
...and have praised:
milk tanker drivers
Thank you Tffers for giving me a laugh this Saturday morning.
Love, choochter
women
old trouts
old blokes
drivers from Devon
bloody grandads
school run mums
...and have praised:
milk tanker drivers
Thank you Tffers for giving me a laugh this Saturday morning.
Love, choochter