blockheaded

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I'm ashamed to see a fellow Irishman being so blockheaded.

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(used informally) stupid

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adjective

(used informally) stupid

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adjective

(used informally) stupid

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I'm ashamed to see a fellow Irishman being so blockheaded.

I blew up at mikeash not because he was criticizing you, but because he is being blockheaded. As are you.

This is one of those obvious things that people have a blockheaded aversion towards. In every job I’ve consulted on, there has been a component where pagination is the bottleneck.

Possibly the most densely blockheaded article I've ever clicked through to on HN. The author has picked some cherries he didn't like, chawed on them for a while and spit out a glop of utterly uneducated drivel. Clicking over to Wikipedia, we see Current Affairs is "left-wing, progressive" and the author is the founder.

And fifth, if "being blockheaded" means not allowing bullshit arguments to pass as valid just because there's strong emotion behind them -- or because their author is throwing a temper tantrum -- then I hope my cranium gets as cubical as it can.

While I will freely admit many parts of this industry, and many of the people hailed in heroes within it, are basically bogus "right place, right time" cases who are just as blockheaded as the MBAs in suits that came before them, the comments here can be as valid as the articles. Especially since many of the participants in this forum are significant participants in the industry.