“Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo, right near the primate habitats, there's a display featuring half a dozen life-size gorillas made out of bronze. Posted nearby is a sign reading CAUTION: GORILLA STATUES MAY BE HOT. Everywhere you turn, the obvious is being stated. CANNON MAY BE LOUD. MOVING SIDEWALK IS ABOUT TO END. To people who don't run around suing one another, such signs suggest a crippling lack of intelligence.” PeopleMayMadeEndsStatesRunningAmericaMovingTurnsReadingEasyUnitedHalfUnited StatesStupidHotSizeObviousLoudDozenDisplayCautionStatuesZoosSidewalkHabitatCannonsBronzePrimatesGorillasSan DiegoSuingLife Size Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day
“Europeans hate the way Americans talk. They think we're loud and uncouth and they don't like our jokes, except for Michael Moore. Plus, they resent the fact that they've had to learn our language because if they didn't we wouldn't buy their stupid metric widgets or visit their overpriced ruins.” IfsThinkingWayFactsHateLanguageStupidJokesRuinsLoudPlusResentMetricsUncouth Author:Denis Boyles
“It's just science fiction so it's allowed to be silly, and childish, and stupid. It's just science fiction, so it doesn't have to make sense. It's just science fiction, so you must ask nothing more of it than loud noises and flashing lights.” LightAsksFictionStupidScience FictionSillyNoiseMake SenseLoudBeing SillyLoud NoisesFlashing Lights Author:Isaac Asimov
“Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all.” SometimesStupidLaughterMy FriendsStupidityLoudReviewsCollapse Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid. He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes.” MenFirstsChildrenSelfBigsWould BePassionFeltBoysRichMinutesStupidFootballMarriedGunLoudPleasantDestructiveSensationsStomachHandsomeEroticBeing MarriedDeliverySinkingAeroplanesSelf Destructive Author:Ian Mcewan
“And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.” IfsMeanBehindsLaughingStupidPleaseLaughterLoudSatShut UpHave A LaughHolden Caulfield Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE