I guess it depends on what you read. If its Chic Tracts, yes you're an idiot. If its something with real information you have a moderately higher chance of learning something useful.
The grammar's probably terrible because it's from google translate, but here you go: Lectio non intellegens te. Perlegi tempus et plerumque stultus sum.
I don't think High Times counts...
ReplyDeleteSo reading High Times means you're not an idiot?
DeleteHe's THAT much of an idiot if he's aware of this.
ReplyDeleteWhich I guess it's why he's only "basically" an idiot.
Err He's NOT that much...
DeleteI'm an idiot cause I skip words.
and knowing is half the battle.
ReplyDeleteG.I. JOE!
DeleteI want a framed copy of this.
ReplyDeleteBookmark it so you can order your framed copy at the end of the year.
DeleteA wise man once said "the only thing that I know is that I know nothing."
ReplyDeleteThat he acknowledges he's an idiot automatically makes him smarter than half the people posted to this site.
More than half now that you've posted!
DeleteOh snap!
ReplyDeleteI guess it depends on what you read. If its Chic Tracts, yes you're an idiot. If its something with real information you have a moderately higher chance of learning something useful.
ReplyDeleteLike my illiterate grandpappy used to say, "You can't get common sense from books."
ReplyDeleteUnless it was the book Common Sense by Thomas Paine.
DeleteOf all the places to see Tom Paine name-dropped...
DeleteI want this in latin so I can put it on my family crest.
ReplyDeleteThe grammar's probably terrible because it's from google translate, but here you go: Lectio non intellegens te. Perlegi tempus et plerumque stultus sum.
DeleteMan, everything sounds classy in Latin.
DeleteNow with improved grammar: Lectio intellegens te non facit. Lego omnes temporis et plerusque stultus sum.
Deletefor the last clause, maybe "et stultus maneo"
DeleteAt least he's honest about himself.
ReplyDeleteSelf deprecating humor anyone?
ReplyDeleteYes please.
DeleteSuggestion. Think "Quality" over "quantity "
ReplyDeleteIt's like Hitler said, reading has to have a purpose, it's senseless to just read for reading's sake
ReplyDeleteJust watch out if someone has only read one book. Those guys are dangerous.
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