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Common sense would dictate such knowledge 

A more intelligent way of saying duh
Person 1: Spinning makes me dizzy.
Person 2: Well duh!

Person 1: *smacks*

Different situation

Person 1: Spinning makes me dizzy
Person 3: Common sense would dictate such knowledge
Person 1: Huh..?

common sense 

A mythical force that is supposed to bestow knowledge of the obvious. Unfortunately, humankind has proven, time and time again, that there is no such thing as common sense.
The People v. Common Sense:

Exhibit A-
Common sense should tell people that coffee is a hot drink, and that when spilling it, one should expect it to be hot. Common sense should also tell people that eating fatty foods makes you fat. Still, look at the recent pathetic excuses for "lawsuits" against some fast-food restaurants.

Exhibit B-
Common sense should tell people - even children - that TV shows such as "Power Rangers" are not reality. Two eleven-year-old boys, however, tried to re-enact a scene from the above-mentioned show by burying an eight-year-old boy alive in the ground, thinking he would grow back out. Duuuuh...I don't think it worked...oops!

Exhibit C-
Common sense should tell the Bush administration to take money from people who actually HAVE MONEY TO GIVE, but instead they choose to take it from people who do not have it.

I rest my case.
common sense by misanthropist September 1, 2008

Facebook Sense of Entitlement Delusion 

A user of Facebook who becomes irrationally irritated when certain details of one of their Facebook Friend's accounts is not visible to them. Often a bizarre, almost arrogant sense of self-entitlement leads from at first a general feeling of being perturbed, to an outright delusional belief in the their right to have access to whatever information they want. This is often an affliction of Facebook users who have not yet come to terms with the fact that privacy settings are in fact a personal prerogative, not an obligation. It is also usually coupled with the arrogant belief that everyone should use Facebook the way they do, usually for the self-promoting purposes they are comfortable with, as though different peoples' preferences and reasons for using social networking are irrelevant. The delusion is itself not often a problem, but if the delusion persists, it can manifest in aggressive behaviour, harassment, and unexpected general rudeness.
Katie got so mad at me, and sent me a really rude blunt message when she found out she couldn't write on my stupid Facebook wall! I hardly know her ... who does she think she is? I think she has Facebook Sense of Entitlement Delusion or something.

Common Sense 

1) Something the general populous of Earth lacks.

2) The ability to discern what is right and what is wrong.

3) The ability to discern what is intelligent and what is stupid.
The blaming of obesity on fast-food restaurants and not on people who should know that fatty food makes you fat.
Common Sense by Metropolitan Grey November 12, 2003

nigger sense 

The ability to detect when a person is lying about having committed a crime.
Joe was a good lawyer, he had a strong nigger sense to know when his clients were lying to him.

Captain, I used my nigger sense to solve the case, Jontitus stole the watermelon.
nigger sense by J Houser January 5, 2009

badgey-sense 

The ability of a deaf badger to sense when a tree is about to fall on him in an unotherwise unpolulated forest. The badgey sense usually manifests itself as a loud noise in the badgers head, similar to hearing but different cos the fucker is deaf..
Back in the olden days deaf lumberjacks used to keep a badger in a cage. When a tree was about to fall, the badgey-sense would go whack and the badger would scream, alerting the lumberjacks to the falling tree...
badgey-sense by Sploody May 8, 2006