I know I'm an idiot and I know everyone else is as well, in their own way. So when I call people idiots, I do it as a fellow idiot gently reminding them they are in fact idiots.

They generally disagree.

Do you know how long it took me to figure out I'm stupid? What am I, stupid?

Oh, wait...

I am of different opinion that these folks know they are wrong, but are too egotistic to admit it.

I was taught at an early age to accept mistakes, learn from it and move on. Now I have grown older, I realised that not many people know this, and society also stigmatises someone making mistakes. I think some people refuse to admit to be wrong because either they are too egotistic to accept and learn, or doubling down assertively on the wrong belief as a defensive mechanism from potential public humiliation.

No... I'm quite positive I am stupid.

Tywin is right.

So you're telling me that I have the psychic power to inflict unending agony upon others by just being myself? I'm going to have such fun with this!

be me

do awesome work that is well done and makes perfect sense

derp shows up "Hey anon, what dipshit did this?" points at my work "This is stupid."

I explain the what and why.

derp still thinks it's wrong and stupid.

I finish my work, with time to spare.

Later, derp does the work. Takes him twice as long as it took me and it all looks like shit.

Derp leaves at the end of his day, the work isn't actually done and I have to clean up after him.

I explain the above to Herp and Gerp, both think that Derp was right and I was wrong.

Anons, am I the stupid?

edit: formatting

When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful & difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

Philippe Geluck

Well, this hurt. So, there's that.

This should not be upvoted by the Lemmy echo chamber...:)

That’s true, but there’s usually quite a lot of pain when you’re dying.

I dunno if I trust this image without at least 10% more jpegification