Supine ignorance!

"-En boca cerrada no entran moscas-", "-Loose lips sink ships-"; Speaking about Mexico: "-Your country took away all symbols that could remind them of Spanish .... Is not that racist? -"frustrated ; an interlocutor, even though he was the most furious of reactionaries, as long as he quarrels with intellectual honesty is always an appreciated and respected opponent; However, showing pride of supine ignorance in an argument between educated and relatively informed people is worse than a forbidden blow to the genitals in a boxing match.

Why is it an ominous affront to the human condition to admit total or partial ignorance in something?

dunno
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It is also a saying in English when translated more directly, ' A closed mouth catches no flies'



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Molly, wave baby, I did not know there was such a literal translation in English. cheers cool
Life is sh-- Huit but to survive we must look after ourselves and if we have energy left give a helping hand to another human. No-one can understand unless they walk in our shoeshug
Life is sh-- Huit but to survive we must look after ourselves and if we have energy left give a helping hand to another human. No-one can understand unless they walk in our shoeshug
There is a saying in Irish too which has the opposite but similar meaning


Is minic a gheibhean beal oscailt diog dunta!


An open mouth often catches a closed fist


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Molly, Na dean sin! Gaelic language is more accessible than the Spanish we speak, in the city of Mexico; For foreigners.
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