{"id":2242,"date":"2014-12-15T05:44:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T15:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2014-12-15T09:21:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T19:21:30","slug":"scientific-proof-men-are-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=2242","title":{"rendered":"Scientific proof: Men are stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something this Monday to gladden the heart of most ladies and give them yet another reason to gloat and say &#8220;I told you so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;ll make you look ugly and you wouldn&#8217;t want that.<\/p>\n<p>Another scientific study is out.<br \/>\nI love scientific studies.<\/p>\n<p>Especially if I agree with them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Carlin-stupid-men-sized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2245\" src=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Carlin-stupid-men-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Carlin---stupid-men-sized\" width=\"250\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Carlin-stupid-men-sized.jpg 250w, http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Carlin-stupid-men-sized-214x250.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>This one says men are dumb.<\/p>\n<p>I agree.<br \/>\nPresent company excepted, of course.<\/p>\n<p>The British Medical Journal took a break from studying the Royals to release the result of its look into which gender is more likely to die as a result of doing something really, really dumb.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s men.<br \/>\nYup, they&#8217;re idiots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stupid_things_men_do_sized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2246\" src=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stupid_things_men_do_sized-250x190.jpg\" alt=\"stupid_things_men_do_sized\" width=\"250\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stupid_things_men_do_sized-250x190.jpg 250w, http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stupid_things_men_do_sized.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Especially when there&#8217;s beer involved.<\/p>\n<p>The Journal looked at all of the Darwin Award winners between 1995 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In case you don&#8217;t know &#8211; the Darwin&#8217;s are an award given to confirmed instances of people meeting an untimely end as a result of poor decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>They are presented to people who improve the human gene pool by removing their own stupid genes from it.<\/p>\n<p>Guys accounted for almost 90-percent of Darwin Award winners.<\/p>\n<p>The supports the &#8220;male idiot theory&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the scientific observation that men are idiots and idiots do stupid things.<br \/>\nAnd this even wasn&#8217;t when they were trying to impress some lady.<\/p>\n<p>For example &#8211; the study listed three dudes who played a variation of Russian roulette by alternately taking shots of alcohol and then stamping on an unexploded Cambodian land mine.<\/p>\n<p>The game ended when\u00a0it blew up, demolishing the bar and all three men.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lighting-a-fart-sized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2247\" src=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lighting-a-fart-sized-200x250.jpg\" alt=\"Lighting-a-fart-sized\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lighting-a-fart-sized-200x250.jpg 200w, http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lighting-a-fart-sized-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lighting-a-fart-sized.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>All you have to do is cruise YouTube to see for yourself guys trying to light their farts (you can), catch a baseball with their mouth (you shouldn&#8217;t) and ride the hood of a car at 60 MPH (you can&#8217;t).<\/p>\n<p>The majority of these Darwin winners seem to be between 16 and 23 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>This may explain why there are fewer of those folks around these days.<\/p>\n<p>If I was younger I&#8217;d think this was great as it gets rid of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>But since I&#8217;m an old coot and managed to survive my stupid years&#8230;I&#8217;ll just watch my brothers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so proud.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2242\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=2242&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2242\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=2242&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=2242&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something this Monday to gladden the heart of most ladies and give them yet another reason to gloat and say &#8220;I told you so.&#8221; 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