Words are worse than Sticks and Stones

[Docfeelgood]

[Provost Harrison]

Yes they are. But not worse than bullets.

[Barnabas]

High school is such an important part of people lives, someone should tell that girl that her life does not begin until high school is over.
All this popularity drama issue about highschools is the worst cultural export of the USA

[SlowwHand]

Oh, please. It's not a "USA thing".

[Barnabas]

all that STUFF about cheerleaders, and popular kids who play american football, popular and abused unpopular kids, and prom parties is totally american, and it was exported all over the world with their movies.

In other places this did not happen because high school classes were never meant to be communities in that way, some people would be your friends, and others don't, but the idea of being popular or not would be nonsensical, like being popular in a waiting line to cash a check at a bank

If you some people are not your friends you just ignore them and they ignore you, and they will still lend you their stapler or a pencil if you ask politely.

[SlowwHand]

Who's worse, the fool or the person who looks to the fool as a role model for behavior? Or is that a USA fault also? We MADE you do it?

[Docfeelgood]

all that STUFF about cheerleaders, and popular kids who play american football, popular and abused unpopular kids, and prom parties is totally american, and it was exported all over the world with their movies.

In other places this did not happen because high school classes were never meant to be communities in that way, some people would be your friends, and others don't, but the idea of being popular or not would be nonsensical, like being popular in a waiting line to cash a check at a bank

If you some people are not your friends you just ignore them and they ignore you, and they will still lend you their stapler or a pencil if you ask politely.

So what your saying is the world is dumb enough to fall for this hollywood bull****?

[Cort Haus]

Who's worse, the fool or the person who looks to the fool as a role model for behavior?

Both. Neither.

They're the same.

[SlowwHand]

No they're not.

[SlowwHand]

Fool isn't included, I'm just pointing out past definitions.

Idiot derives from a Latin word that referred to an ignorant, uneducated person. The word came into English from an Old French word with the same meaning. By 1300 idiot had acquired the meaning of “a person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning.”

For a time, idiot was used by doctors to refer to a specific degree of mental retardation:

A person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years and generally being unable to learn connected speech or guard against common dangers.

The term came to be regarded as offensive and is no longer used as a medical classification.

Two other words once used alongside idiot as medical classifications are imbecile and moron.

Imbecile derives from a Latin adjective having the sense of “weak” and entered English from an Old French word with the same meaning. For a time it was used to refer to physical weakness. For example “an imbecile person” might be someone unable to walk without crutches. The first recorded use of imbecile as a noun is 1802. Its medical definition was

A person of moderate to severe mental retardation having a mental age of from three to seven years and generally being capable of some degree of communication and performance of simple tasks under supervision.

Moron comes from a Greek word meaning “stupid.” Its meaning in the now disused system of medical classification was:

a feebleminded person or mental defective with a potential mental age of between eight and twelve years who is capable of doing routine work under supervision

[Docfeelgood]

what is the word for not taking responsibility for your own actions but placing blame on others?

[Barnabas]

So what your saying is the world is dumb enough to fall for this hollywood bull****?

I think Americans are smart, otherwise they wouldn't be the greatest economy on earth, and they fall for that, there is no reason why the rest of the world wouldnt.

Americans are not guilty if some 28 years old Chick from Serbia with an income of less than 1000 dollars per month goes bankrupt trying to reproduce the lifestyle of the Old hoes from Sex and City.
I am not blaming them, I am saying they invented all that silly popularity high school thing and exported it.

I never lived through that and I went to high school in the recent past in a very westernized country, I don't think Heresson from Poland, or our Russian posters lived through something like that.

[Meticulous Man]

what is the word for not taking responsibility for your own actions but placing blame on others?

'Scapegoating', says this reality-bending shaman

[Docfeelgood]

I think Americans are smart, otherwise they wouldn't be the greatest economy on earth, and they fall for that, there is no reason why the rest of the world wouldnt.

Americans are not guilty if some 28 years old Chick from Serbia with an income of less than 1000 dollars per month goes bankrupt trying to reproduce the lifestyle of the Old hoes from Sex and City.
I am not blaming them, I am saying they invented all that silly popularity high school thing and exported it.

I never lived through that and I went to high school in the recent past in a very westernized country, I don't think Heresson from Poland, or our Russian posters lived through something like that.

Americans are only lucky. We came from many countries around the world.
If we see it as bull****, what does that say for about the world? IMHO
I'm just saying

[Docfeelgood]

'Scapegoating', says this reality-bending shaman

TY scapegoat, yes