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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #35 on: March 22, 2011, 03:38:46 PM »
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It's not that most teens are stupid; it's that most people are stupid, and teens have less of a filter.

That. Most people thinking that young teens are generally stupid always say they know some exception (or more likely, they are the exception - ever notice how many teenagers there are on the internet that think every other teenager is stupid?)

But yeah, it's just that most people are stupid, by the standards people are talking about in this thread. There are smart teens same way there are smart adults, and stpid teens and stupid adults. It's just that the average adult seems less stupid than the average young teen because they aren't as mature, the same way a smart adult seems smarter than a smart kid even though that smart adult was presumably a smart kid once too.

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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #36 on: March 22, 2011, 03:40:59 PM »
Agreed.  The spectrum is well covered, but I do think the intelligence level of DTF is above average.

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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #37 on: March 22, 2011, 03:51:45 PM »
Agreed.  The spectrum is well covered, but I do think the intelligence level of DTF is above average.

We'll work on lowering that bar lonestar. :lol
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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #38 on: March 22, 2011, 03:53:11 PM »
Working on it right now. ;)

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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #39 on: March 22, 2011, 04:22:24 PM »
Limbo anyone?  :hat

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Re: am i a smrat???
« Reply #40 on: March 22, 2011, 04:32:15 PM »
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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #41 on: March 22, 2011, 04:34:37 PM »
Fucking LHK. :lol

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« Reply #42 on: March 22, 2011, 04:35:54 PM »
Fucking LHK. :lol

I'm not sure I like this phrase appearing in a thread about young teenagers.
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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #43 on: March 22, 2011, 04:44:05 PM »
Ooops, let that one slip. :P

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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #44 on: March 22, 2011, 04:58:43 PM »
My mind is permanently warped now.

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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #45 on: March 22, 2011, 05:00:35 PM »
LHK has that effect.

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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #46 on: March 22, 2011, 09:51:20 PM »
Well yeah I used to do that but now it's usually enough to just sit up right and have both feet of the floor.
That's what we do as well.

good thing Tick didn't start this thread.
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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #47 on: March 22, 2011, 09:54:42 PM »
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It's not that most teens are stupid; it's that most people are stupid, and teens have less of a filter.

That. Most people thinking that young teens are generally stupid always say they know some exception (or more likely, they are the exception - ever notice how many teenagers there are on the internet that think every other teenager is stupid?)

But yeah, it's just that most people are stupid, by the standards people are talking about in this thread. There are smart teens same way there are smart adults, and stpid teens and stupid adults. It's just that the average adult seems less stupid than the average young teen because they aren't as mature, the same way a smart adult seems smarter than a smart kid even though that smart adult was presumably a smart kid once too.

This makes perfect sense and I agree.

But all in all, most teenagers annoy the hell out of me, good golly.

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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #48 on: March 22, 2011, 09:56:47 PM »
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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #49 on: March 22, 2011, 09:57:22 PM »
:( :sadpanda:

EXCEPT for the DTF ones of course.  :heart :heart :heart

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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #50 on: March 22, 2011, 09:58:14 PM »
:caffiene:  :D

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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #51 on: March 22, 2011, 09:58:56 PM »
:caffeine:  :D

FTFY


(Mind you, I'm a teenager myself  :lol)

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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #52 on: March 22, 2011, 10:00:41 PM »
:caffeine:  :D

FTFY


(Mind you, I'm a teenager myself  :lol)
Shit, yeah, I fucked that one up. /noob

I love that one, though. If I were in any other situation, like outside this forum, I could see myself using it to be really condescending and sarcastic.  :angel: And yay for teens!

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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #53 on: March 23, 2011, 02:10:51 AM »
are young teens stupid? alot of them are because that's what society dictates they should be. intelligence is a rare thing... at least around my neck of the woods
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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #54 on: March 23, 2011, 08:20:24 AM »
It's not that most teens are stupid; it's that most people are stupid, and teens have less of a filter.

This is exactly what I came into this thread to say, except I would not have put it as well.
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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #55 on: March 23, 2011, 09:33:10 AM »
Anyone who makes the generalization that "teens are stupid" has no clue what they're talking about.
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It seems like I've been demeaned by bosk again for having a different opinion. Or maybe not. Apparently I have no clue what I'm talking about.

???  Sorry if I worded it in a way that came across as demeaning.  I was basically just trying to say that teens can be awesome people, and anyone who lumps them together as a group and writes them off simply because of their age isn't really being fair.
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Re: Are young teens generally stupid?
« Reply #56 on: March 23, 2011, 09:51:42 AM »
Hmmm, she seems to say "you know" a lot for someone that's well spoken.


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