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An unit of measure devoted to stupidity, inversely proportional to a commonly-accepted scale of common sense.
One foolhard would be the amount of brainpower not required to do something standard and yet stupid, i.e. urinate on an electric fence.
More foolhards indicates that the person is expending
more effort in not thinking.
This should have a cap of reasonable foolhardiness, say, 10 (which would be something like insulting Idi Amin to his face and expecting to get away with it). Anything higher than 10 fh indicates unthinking on a level heretofore unseen by man.
A measurement of zero fh indicates that yes, that person thought something through.
Negative fh is impossible.
EDIT: Another way of thinking of it:
It takes some amount of energy to lift an object. However, less energy than is required is used in an attempt to lift it - the remainder, the energy deficit, is analagous to the foolhard.
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There should be an equivalent for the virtual world incorporating communication using software means - the foolsoft. |
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//commonly-accepted scale of common sense//
Which is? |
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I think that's probably going to be one of my next ideas. |
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//commonly-accepted scale of common sense//
The Modicum? |
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I like the principal behind this... so (+) but
would like the unit to have a better name,
so that it can attract a little symbol, in
much the same way as the bakery's
fishbone. |
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//can attract a little symbol// I think the symbol will have to be a reverse-italicised (left-leaning) Greek uppercase 'delta', which by both sound and appearance would indicate a duncecap. |
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[phlish]: That's true, not thinking doesn't require effort. I was trying to be witty, but it obviously didn't work. The foolhard would measure only dumbness as compared to a scale of moronosity. |
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I must find an occasion whenceby I can
drop into the conversation a phrase such
as "using two and a half modicums of
common sense…". |
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