Bauer's Rule

Bauer's Rule, also known as the Poop to Pot Ratio, is used to determine whether a person is a pothead or not. If the number of times one poops in a day is equal or less than the number of times one smokes marijuana a day, then the person is a pothead.

Person One: Man, he says he never smokes, but he looks like such a pothead.

Person Two: Do you know his poop to pot ratio?

Person One: Oh yeah, I remember reading about that in the chemistry book, that's Bauer's Rule. Good call!

Bauer's Rule by Jitboyforealdo May 30, 2010

Bauer's Rule of Idiocracy

Of greater danger than nobody knowing what to do is a broadly held presumption that somebody does.

Source: “‘Idiocracy’ is a disturbingly prescient reflection of our current reality, not because nobody knows anything but because everybody thinks somebody does." ~ Jared Bauer

Bauer's Rule of Idiocracy arises in part from characteristics discussed in Erich Fromm’s “Escape From Freedom,” including a desire to defer to a trusted figure to escape the burden of having to puzzle out matters for which one is ill-equipped, the learning curve is steep, or information is at best incomplete.

Bauer's Rule of Idiocracy by WhatwasIsaying January 25, 2025