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foolishness

adverb. to state a condition/circumstance/setting which denotes a foolish state.
my world is based on foolishness.
foolishness by NLU September 23, 2005

foolishness

means when somebody is eaither taking the piss, just plain old stupid or have no idea what to say.
what kind of foolishness.

Foolishness

In the act of doing something foolish or idiotic.
Foolishness Dante, foolishness.
Foolishness by anonymous October 10, 2022

Theory of Maximum Foolishness 

The world will arrange itself to make you--personally--feel maximally foolish.
Murphy's Law is a subset of the Theory of Maximum Foolishness. ML says "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong." Often, that is true. However, the TOMF says that if something can go RIGHT that would make you look MORE foolish, then that is what will happen.

For example, ML predicts that bread will always fall butter-side down. But, if I TELL YOU it will fall butter-side down, when I go to actually SHOW YOU, the bread will fall butter-side up, making me feel maximally foolish.

The TOMF is true, but neither verifiable nor falsifiable to others because, whatever conditions you establish to test it, only YOU will know if the result made you feel maximally foolish. Of course it will, but only you will know that.

blame foolishness

Completely lacking forethought or caution.

An utterance used by Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Example 1:
Susan: Let's go to the cinema to watch 'P.S. I love you'.

Kevin: That's just blame foolishness

Example 2:
"You don't have to get up, mornings, and you don't have to go to school, and wash, and all that blame foolishness."

Black Foolishness 

The opposite of Black Excellence;
The act of complete and utter foolishness committed abusing black culture to be a fool.
Poster: "Looking for my lost dawg. He responds to Dawg, Jaquan, or simply just Yo. Tryna find my dawg, cuh. Five dollar reward."
Onlooker: "What is this black foolishness?"
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