Ok, seriously, I actually mean that as a question. What do you think? Are movies making us smart morrons or what?

How many decisions have you ever made because of something you saw in a movie? How many things do you take for granted to be true just because some movie represented it thus? How many arguments have you made based on some "fact" you pulled from a movie? How many "facts" found in movies did you ever bother to check out and prove?

I think movies and novels are invaliable mines of good information about all kinds of things and I think that storytellers improve from generation to generation, but I think that these very wonderful things are the very reasons for which we so easily believe the most outrageous things in our days. Never has the world had as much information as we do now, but never has mankind been more gullible either.

What do you think? Are movies/novels making smart fools of us?

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Ihedinobi: What do you think? Are movies/novels making smart fools of us?

Absolutey not! People that are 'fooled' or go around quoting as 'fact' something they saw or heard in a movie were 'fools' from time. It's not rocket science.
We also, notoriously, never take responsibility for our own actions - it's always a case of 'they said'... yet we can never identify the 'source they'... we can very, very stupid; no be bigz deal

VillageBoi:

Absolutey not! People that are 'fooled' or go around quoting as 'fact' something they saw or heard in a movie were 'fools' from time. It's not rocket science.
We also, notoriously, never take responsibility for our own actions - it's always a case of 'they said'... yet we can never identify the 'source they'... we can very, very stupid; no be bigz deal

Well said.

VillageBoi:

Absolutey not! People that are 'fooled' or go around quoting as 'fact' something they saw or heard in a movie were 'fools' from time. It's not rocket science.
We also, notoriously, never take responsibility for our own actions - it's always a case of 'they said'... yet we can never identify the 'source they'... we can very, very stupid; no be bigz deal

I love the first bolded part!

@the 2nd part, It's typically and religiously Nigerian

I always endeavor to separate the wheat(fact) from the chaff(fiction) by doing a little research on an information that i heard in a movie. But at times, i just quote it verbatim to sound intelligent especially since majority of Nigerians are not widely read and wouldn't counter my assertion

Afam4eva: I always endeavor to separate the wheat(fact) from the chaff(fiction) by doing a little research on an information that i heard in a movie. But at times, i just quote it verbatim to sound intelligent especially since majority of Nigerians are not widely read and wouldn't counter my assertion

I know your type.

Briareos:


I know your type.

How?

Afam4eva: I always endeavor to separate the wheat(fact) from the chaff(fiction) by doing a little research on an information that i heard in a movie.But at times, i just quote it verbatim to sound intelligent especially since majority of Nigerians are not widely read and wouldn't counter my assertion

uj_sizzle:

Afam funny I swear. Smh.

Afam4eva: I always endeavor to separate the wheat(fact) from the chaff(fiction) by doing a little research on an information that i heard in a movie. But at times, i just quote it verbatim to sound intelligent especially since majority of Nigerians are not widely read and wouldn't counter my assertion

Jesu!


But no try am with me ooo....If not, na google go settle our argument

speedyboi:

Jesu!


But no try am with me ooo....If not, na google go settle our argument

I know the kind of people i try it with. I measure people's intellectual prowess before i engage them in a discussion or argument. If the person is vastly read, i'll respect myself but if the person is not, i'll torture the person with facts that are not factual. Even for my family, i don lie tire. They know i'm vastly read but won't know when i'm saying the truth or lying. They just swallow everything hook, line and sinker

Afam4eva:
I know the kind of people i try it with. I measure people's intellectual prowess before i engage them in a discussion or argument. If the person is vastly read, i'll respect myself but if the person is not, i'll torture the person with facts that are not factual. Even for my family, i don lie tire. They know i'm vastly read but won't know when i'm saying the truth or lying. They just swallow everything hook, line and sinker

Chai . This Afam na bad pesin . I don laugh tire

VillageBoi:

Absolutey not! People that are 'fooled' or go around quoting as 'fact' something they saw or heard in a movie were 'fools' from time. It's not rocket science.
We also, notoriously, never take responsibility for our own actions - it's always a case of 'they said'... yet we can never identify the 'source they'... we can very, very stupid; no be bigz deal

Bros, wharrabout those who grew up on movies? Kids are impressionable and it takes a deal of exposure to shake people loose of childhood impressions. Where do you think the theory that we were seeded by aliens came from? Or many of those silly urban legends? I know there are silly adults, but some adherents of such silly things took either those notions or the notion that movies tell you only the facts on as kids and still haven't been disabused of them.

@Afam, you be bad guy!!!!

Ihedinobi:
Bros, wharrabout those who grew up on movies? Kids are impressionable and it takes a deal of exposure to shake people loose of childhood impressions. Where do you think the theory that we were seeded by aliens came from? Or many of those silly urban legends? I know there are silly adults, but some adherents of such silly things took either those notions or the notion that movies tell you only the facts on as kids and still haven't been disabused of them.

Lol, my guy it will take a ridiculously stu.pid child to believe that a fish or sponge (be it Bob or Bobelina) can talk... but then again nature takes care of that crap... or you have not heard of the Darwin Awards yet? Teehee

VillageBoi:

Lol, my guy it will take a ridiculously stu.pid child to believe that a fish or sponge (be it Bob or Bobelina) can talk... but then again nature takes care of that crap... or you have not heard of the Darwin Awards yet? Teehee

LoL

Chai...

VillageBoi:

Lol, my guy it will take a ridiculously stu.pid child to believe that a fish or sponge (be it Bob or Bobelina) can talk... but then again nature takes care of that crap... or you have not heard of the Darwin Awards yet? Teehee

Lol. I mean more subtle notions na.

Ihedinobi:
Lol. I mean more subtle notions na.

I know what you mean bro, I'm just kidding around

Afam4eva said - "I always endeavor to separate the wheat(fact) from the chaff(fiction) by doing a little research on an information that i heard in a movie."

Even on this site you realise some people are so lazy (and possibly too stu.pid to carry out the most basic research whatsoever) that they end up ask questions or saying things that make you go "Nah, this person cannot be for real."

As a kid I used to think cats do not like eating fish heads because in cartoons and comics that fish head is always looking persin eye sharply but a very simple trial led me to conclude that 'oyinbo' dey tell 'colourful' lie... e no hard... na film trick lol.

And in this day and age when almost any info dey at the click of a button why people still mumu? I can't answer that question but sometimes complete idiots think everyone else is a complete idi.ot too.

Eg - The height of 'idiotism' hahahaha - https://www.nairaland.com/1352831/picture-snake-three-heads

So my people I beg una make una join Praying & Fasting Plc so that all stu.pid genes can be removed from... Nigeria... ahem, we hail thee!

^^^^^^^^^lol...you still remember that topic.

I just checked the guy's profile and I saw another topic 'Basket holding water'

speedyboi: ^^^^^^^^^lol...you still remember that topic.

I just checked the guy's profile and I saw another topic 'Basket holding water'

Hahahaha seriously? Make I go check lol. How bodi nah my broda?

EDIT: Just had a look; don't mind him... always claiming to have 'seen' something somewhere.

VillageBoi:
I know what you mean bro, I'm just kidding around

Afam4eva said - "I always endeavor to separate the wheat(fact) from the chaff(fiction) by doing a little research on an information that i heard in a movie."

Even on this site you realise some people are so lazy (and possibly too stu.pid to carry out the most basic research whatsoever) that they end up ask questions or saying things that make you go "Nah, this person cannot be for real."

As a kid I used to think cats do not like eating fish heads because in cartoons and comics that fish head is always looking persin eye sharply but a very simple trial led me to conclude that 'oyinbo' dey tell 'colourful' lie... e no hard... na film trick lol.

And in this day and age when almost any info dey at the click of a button why people still mumu? I can't answer that question but sometimes complete idiots think everyone else is a complete idiot.
Eg - The height of 'idiotism' hahahaha - https://www.nairaland.com/1352831/picture-snake-three-heads

So my people I beg una make una join Praying & Fasting Plc so that all stu.pid genes can be removed from... Nigeria... ahem, we hail thee!

Finally some people wicked sha

I don sign up! Fasting mode activated!

speedyboi: ^^^^^^^^^lol...you still remember that topic.

I just checked the guy's profile and I saw another topic 'Basket holding water'

Na man on mission be dat ni

Ihedinobi:
I don sign up! Fasting mode activated!

Aaaah, no sign up for those places o... yawa go gas.

How many decisions have you ever made because of something you saw in a movie? How many things do you take for granted to be true just because some movie represented it thus? How many arguments have you made based on some "fact" you pulled from a movie? How many "facts" found in movies did you ever bother to check out and prove?

Many. Because I like it that wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
For example, in Spartacus, the series made it look as if he had less men than the Romans. But from my research he actually had more men. I have refused to 'beweiveeee' that! Doesn't go well with my hero Spartacus.

stillwater:

Many. Because I like it that wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
For example, in Spartacus, the series made it look as if he had less men than the Romans. But from my research he actually had more men. I have refused to 'beweiveeee' that! Doesn't go well with my hero Spartacus.

Lol

VillageBoi:

Aaaah, no sign up for those places o... yawa go gas.