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Originally Posted by Gilda
I wasn't aware of that. I'm assuming this is intended as an insult of some kind?
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I believe it derives from the phrase "black as the ace of spades".
Look, shakran and others: I'm not saying it was right that the guy lost his job. What I'm saying is... Look, if I'm communicating with you and you don't get what I'm saying, it's not productive for me to blame YOU for that. What works is to take responsibility that my communication didn't leave you with what I meant to leave you with. There was something missing or (more likely) something added in my communication that had you not get the intent of my communication.
You can "object to the acceptance of stupidity" all you want--when it comes down to it, you still have to talk to actual people in the actual world. All your idealism about how smart people should be means precisely squat when it meets the real world.