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Need some ideas on how to handle stupid people...?

I love helping people on yahoo answers that have legitimate questions, but I get irritated by stupid people who ask something they're just too lazy to google themselves or too lazy to see if the question has already been asked. Anyone have any good comebacks to post that won't get me kicked off the site?

Update:

Thanks! Those are some good ones. LOL! Yes, this got posted in weddings-- I actually changed it to culture but when i hit submit, it stayed weddings for some reason b/c that's where yahoo thought it should go. But thanks for assuming I'm stupid and intentionally posted it in weddings. Some of the people who got angry at my question... are you offended by it because you relate to the ones I'm criticizing??? LOL! Who knew I could inspire such fury. BTW... next question, if you don't have an answer to what I'm asking... then why do you bother to type at all? I'm curious.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Do what I do...thank god that I am not that person and choose a more intelligent question to answer!

  • 1 decade ago

    I thought just reading the question, not the expanded text - that you meant generally, not just here on Answers - in which case my answer is 'smile'. On account of it being here on Answers, the response I would give is to mete out sound advice exercising endless patience & glowing confidence - it is they who falter and have their eyes opened to a persistently better course of action in these circumstances - simply be a very good communicator, if necessary researching a single answer's tiniest increment - a single word - for the best usage and placement.

    I answered one the other day after clicking the link to 'I need help with a song' & was mildly amused to see the expanded text just said,

    "it goes like duh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh ai ai ai duh nuh nuh nuh nuh ai ai ai ai"....

    So instead of disregarding it as completely pointless, I responded saying,

    "Maybe try going more like - duh duh nuh nuh nuh nuh.... cheowwww, duh duh nuh nuh nuh nerrrrrr - woooooooo".

    It's as simple as that - if you think of something to say and it's still in context and will not offend - or if it's sound advice that will level someone's head and make better sense, no matter how austere - then post it - be sure to have people's best interests in mind As a last resort ignoring the post[er] and as a last ditch attempt using another profile to continue using Answers unbeknown to those giving your original username unwanted attention...

    {-Apologies btw, I kind of added you without much of an introduction - I had accidentally clicked your profile icon thinking it was me, then realising I hadn't even created my profile with my name, I did create such a profile as a consequence and added the two to this username to illustrate the cause of my confusion :-oops)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Wow you sure get hot over the answers people give you. Your name isn't Boxxxy so why were you answering the question? It seems you are a hypocrite

  • 1 decade ago

    Hi. You can't do anything about it.

    Simply do as I do....pick and choose which ones you want to answer. The same questions get asked here over and over....nothing you can do about it except decide if you want to answer or not!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    did you really expect anything less? this site is full of teenagers and younger.

    I suggest you learn to let the small things go, and get used to it - welcome to life. The world is full of stupid people.

  • 1 decade ago

    I agree if you think a question is stupid don't answer it. Duh, plus how does this have anything to do with weddings? You are as bad as they are....stupid people....ha...look in the mirrior

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