Mar 242024 - Marilyn's Photos - Stupid Life Hacks

Stupid seems to be a favourite word today. Isn't this is proven by the headline "Stupid Life Hacks?" It doesn't really make sense given the meaning - "having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense."   It showed up in 1541 in the English language, but since 2000 it has exploded in popularity. Maybe it is so used because it has so many similar words and comparable meanings.  There are somewhere upwards of 447 similar and opposite words in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.   I found this list in one of the dictionaries and had to put it into alphabetical order to make some sense of it.    absurd asinine astute barmy batty birdbrained boneheaded bovine brain-dead brainless chuckleheaded clever cock-eyed crackbrained cracked crazy cretinous cuckoo daft damfool dense derpy dim doltish dopey dotty dozy dull dull-witted dumb dunce-like dunderheaded empty-headed fat-headed fatuous foolish fruitless futile glaikit gormless gullible half-baked halfwitted harebrained idiotic ignorant ill-advised ill-considered imbecile imbecilic inane indiscreet inept injudicious insane intelligent irresponsible lamebrained laughable loony loopy ludicrous lunatic mad meaningless mindless moronic muttonheaded naive nonsensical not the full shilling nutty obtuse off one's head off one's trolley Opposite: out to lunch peabrained pig-ignorant pointless potty prudent ridiculous risible scatterbrained screwy senseless sensible short-sighted silly simpleminded slow slow on the uptake slow-witted soft in the head thick thick as two short planks thickheaded unintelligent unthinking unwise vacuous vapid View 2 vulgar slang words witless wooden wooden-headed zany We've found something starting with almost every letter of the alphabet! What do you think of the "view 2 vulgar slang words" that is in there - I wouldn't have noticed this if it wasn't sorted.  And then check out the chart below showing the use of the word stupid over time. I think this is a Google Ngram. More on this feature HERE.  Is this worrisome?  What does it signify?  There certainly are a lot of people asking questions about other people being stupid.   Peter Kaufman's article on the sociology of stupidity proposes how "stupid" actually works: "let’s not forget that the phrase “stop being so stupid” is often followed-up by “because you are embarrassing us.”   We have snow every year rain the last week of March.  This is picture is from 2021 when there was a huge snowstorm in April while the Magnolias were blooming.  The snow melted, and they bloomed.  There isn't any news so far in March on the state of the tender fruit crop.  We had very warm weather and then very cold weather.

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