When my friends try to intellectually justify the likes of the humourless recent Batman films, I think of Charlie Brooker's imaginary magazine for simpletons, Shit Film Liker (cover: "Con Air 2: at last!").
But they're those comically lardy simpletons in sports clothes who require two aeroplane seats each.
Whether the theory truly tipped non-violent musers into killers, or whether it merely gave a pretext to psychopaths, simpletons and romantics to commit murders, is unclear.
To the left, particularly in Europe, liberalism means the free-market dogma of clever simpletons who created the present financial mess.
And in March the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a beta version of App Inventor, which allows even simpletons to make apps for Android phones.Several start-ups already offer DIY app services.
We could not stop ourselves smiling like simpletons under a fog of nostalgia.
On Ireland "Bucktoothed simpletons with eyebrows on their cheeks... horses running through council estates... men in platform shoes being arrested for bombings... badly Tarmac-ed drives in this country".
We saw the human being whose working life involves being abused by spittle-flecked simpletons.
It took me years, for instance, to realise that while many men just gawp directly at attractive women like simpletons, most women glance at attractive men in the reflection of the glass panel next to the end seat.
The haters will always hate; emoji, they tell us, are reductive, childish blobs used only by simpletons who are unable to express themselves using conventional language.
In her literary column in the Sunday Business Post, the Irish journalist Nadine O'Regan articulated the problem pretty starkly: "By bleating on about readability, the judges — already shaky with their incongruous backgrounds — have risked making themselves look like simpletons who don't understand the nature of the prize".
