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Javaman

(65,435 posts)
29. you can not reason with or cure someone who chooses to be willfully stupid.
Fri May 24, 2013, 08:29 AM
May 2013

gohmert reminds me of a guy I once knew in college. No matter what a teacher would say (with supported facts), this guy would question everything in the most bizarre and crazy way.

Finally, I couldn't take it anymore and asked the guy to pay my tuition.

He gave me a blank look.

I said, since you come into this classroom every day and dominate the conversations with your crazy observations and comments, I'm not learning a damn thing, so I want a refund of my tuition from you.

At this point a couple of other people spoke up.

of course, now he thinks I'm the crazy one.

I apologized to the prof for interrupting.

The prof, said, "this is a open class, you have as much right to state your opinion as he does" then winked at me.

I turned back to the student and asked, "Well, are you going to pay me?"

He turned beet red, grabbed his stuff and walked out of the class.

We never saw him again.

The moral to the story is this, if you publicly confront these people with their brand of instantly turned on it's head and directed right back at them, they usually, not always, shut up.

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My life's goal has been Chipper Chat May 2013 #1
I'm sure it would be a hoot. riqster May 2013 #2
BWWAAAHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Chipper Chat May 2013 #7
breath test these loonies before they're allowed to waste more of Americas time and speak Sunlei May 2013 #3
I'll second that and raise that to include some IQ testing. Marie Marie May 2013 #28
It smells like Rome cilla4progress May 2013 #4
Lead, that's what did them in. And incurable dumbassery like Gohmert. freshwest May 2013 #12
Your problem PatSeg May 2013 #5
I'm sure he pronounced it louis-t May 2013 #16
It sounded like PatSeg May 2013 #18
Louie gets another aspersion cast upon his asparagus... pacalo May 2013 #6
Yeah! Exactly! Deep13 May 2013 #11
Yeah.. Plucketeer May 2013 #8
No - wait - you just don't cilla4progress May 2013 #14
Hoping intensely here Plucketeer May 2013 #26
Man, he makes Michele Bachmann seem like a Rhodes scholar. marmar May 2013 #9
Glad someone is telling it like it is about those goddamned owls! Deep13 May 2013 #10
Cryin' shame Plucketeer May 2013 #27
Baker Act, anyone? shenmue May 2013 #13
Every time I hear his name I think of this dog... jtuck004 May 2013 #15
Teh stoopid VA_Jill May 2013 #17
So say we all! PatSeg May 2013 #19
The people in his district RoccoR5955 May 2013 #20
Surely there's a doctor willing to certify this man is unfit to serve. tanyev May 2013 #21
This begs the question: On what kind of sign did Gohmert's parents mate? eom Purrfessor May 2013 #22
Gohmert makes the case for turning Texas Blue Loup Garou May 2013 #23
Congressman Links Popular Gun Safety Measure To Bestiality Loup Garou May 2013 #24
A bigger idiot has never walked the halls of Congress... immoderate May 2013 #25
you can not reason with or cure someone who chooses to be willfully stupid. Javaman May 2013 #29
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