Metaphors for 'stupid'

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by Sancho Panther

¿Cómo?

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[Sancho Panther]

¡No sé hacerlo!

Crossed again!

I'll try - but don't faint when you read it!

¡Perdón - La comida estaba en la mesa!

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"¡Eres más necio que los pelos del culo - que ven la mierda venir, pero no se quitan del medio!"

[poli]

Originally Posted by Sancho Panther

British proverb "Not so green, as he's cabbage-headed!".

No, I'm not 100% sure what it means, either!

Perhaps another, more sagacious brit would be so kind as to explain it to me; my parents employed often fifty-odd years ago!

Here's my interpretation. Green sometimes means naive.
Often people confuse naivety, innocence and ignorance with stupidity, but in the case of the proverb this is not so. The person is not naive; he's genuinely stupid.

[Sancho Panther]

Yes, but never mind that - what about the rude one?

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by Sancho Panther

Yes, but never mind that - what about the rude one?
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[Sancho Panther]

Oh come on - only two grins?

[aleCcowaN]

Originally Posted by Sancho Panther

Yes, but never mind that - what about the rude one?

I didn't know that ending. I knew "...que se les ocurrió crecer allí creyendo que se estaba mejor a la sombra".

[Sancho Panther]

¡Gracias!