The embassy official's comment was the first stupid thing somebody had said to me about sexual assault, but it certainly wasn't the last.
"It's stupid rules that somebody made in, I don't know, 1850, and now they give me problems with these things," Marat Safin told reporters after his memorable foot-fault-induced tantrum at the Open in 2008.
Although fish brains are small, to assume that this means they are stupid is, as somebody picturesquely tells him, "like arguing that balloons cannot fly because they don't have wings".
You wouldn't say 'I'm proud to be 5ft11,' or 'I'm proud to have a predisposition for colon cancer.'" On religious doctrine: "At what point does all of this stuff just break down and become a lot of stupid shit that somebody made up?" In It's Bad for Ya, some of the old feline grace has gone, but his knack for pointed commentary endures.
"It's not the players' fault, because somebody stupid somewhere along the line offered them that money," he said.
It's more acceptable and fun to hear stupid mistakes from somebody like Paris Hilton than John McCain, who is proud of decades of experience in military and engagement in foreign policy.
If somebody does stupid things over and over, then they are stupid by definition.
Somebody says something stupid or ill-informed, someone else pounces on it, then the conversation turns into a stammering mess or odd competition".
I felt stupid: I sounded like somebody out of a soap.
Tell 'em, 'You know, you can't be here, and you have to leave.' Don't go up there all loud and stupid in front of somebody's kids".
