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Whether we like it or not, fleeting moments of stupidity happen. Being dummies now and then—it’s all part of human nature. No news in that department. But the funny part about it is how people we think we know just suddenly turn out to be on a whole new level of stupidity.

So when Reddit user u/bost724 posted the question “What was your 'This person is on another level of stupid' moment?” on r/AskReddit, it instantly got 67.9k upvotes. It turns out, people on Reddit have been through a whole bunch of intolerable stupidities.

From believing that a nuclear power plant is literally a plant, to asking “How many Alaskan dollars is a US dollar worth?” with a full-on straight face, these are some of the most hilarious "seriously?!" moments you couldn't even think of.

#1

30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories Anyone who wears a mask but doesn’t pull it up over their nose

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories I locked my purse with my keys and cell phone in my apartment. I went to the office to ask maintenance to let me in. The woman at the desk said she would call maintenance and asked for a phone number they could reach me at. I said there wasn’t one because my cell phone was locked in my apartment. She insisted she needed a number. I said I could give her the number but that I wouldn’t be able to answer if they called. She suggested I get my phone out of my apartment so that I could answer when they called. I rolled my eyes at her and said if I could get in my apartment to get my cell phone I wouldn’t need maintenance to let me in. She never did understand me. But maintenance did show up ten minutes later.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories This was my first experience in retail where I learned what many customers would be like.

Seasons were changing, so we put a lot of shirts we had to get rid of in the front and made them 50% off. I was working the register when a woman came up to buy her things. I rang her up and could see a look on her face like something was wrong. That’s when the following happened.

Lady: “Why is this so much.”

Me: “Pardon me?”

Lady: “This should only be $10 not $20.”

I thought that maybe her item was on sale, so I asked if she could point out the sign because I wasn’t aware of it. It was a small store and we didn't have to walk anywhere.

Lady: “This sign here.”

Me: “This sign says that all shirts are 50% off.”

Lady: “Yes, so why is this full price.”

Me: “This is a hat.”

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Whether it’s a line someone said that sounded utterly stupid, or a thing somebody did that looked just plain foolish, these moments do indeed make us wonder whether people around us are not the smartest ones. At the same time, you start wondering if you are better than them. From common sense to plain talent, what if you just come to have more of it?

Some people secretly (and others, not so much) feel as if they are superior to others. This phenomenon is known as the self-enhancement effect and involves taking a tendentiously positive view of oneself. This research has shown that just like eating, it’s a fundamental part of human nature.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories I’m an identical twin, and have been asked all manner of utterly ridiculous questions about it throughout my life. But I think the stupidest was when a girl once asked me “do you ever get yourselves mixed up with each other?” I responded “are you asking me if I ever sometimes think I’m my brother?” she replied, “yeah.”

No. I don’t.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories The time a friend told me how much he hates potatoes....while eating French fries and I literally blew his mind by telling him French fries are potatoes..

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories Coworker bought a low-flow shower head. He filled the BATHTUB using the new low-flow shower head BECAUSE IT WOULD USE LESS WATER!

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This type of thinking, however, is not to be confused with a superiority complex, which, in psychological terms, is viewed as a defense mechanism to what's really going on with the person.

According to professional counselor Nickia Lowery, “When a person acts superior to another, they really feel that the other is a perceived threat. In some way, they believe others will find out that they really are 'inadequate' and therefore behave in ways that make them feel like they are 'better' than the rest."

These people tend to compare themselves with others, and they continually search for proof that they indeed are better. This becomes a stressful vicious circle, and one may even need professional advice to free themselves from anxiety and mood swings.

#7

30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories I once worked in a midwestern grocery store deli and I was trying to explain to a woman that the name brand and generic brand of the macaroni salad that we carried were in fact identical. The woman yelled at me saying she could only have the generic brand because “one is made with mayo and the other is made with mayonnaise and I don’t like mayo”. When I tried to explain that mayo is an abbreviation of mayonnaise, she just said “I’m from the south, I know my food” and tutted away.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories I was once asked how it felt to come to the US as a refugee (I'm from Germany). She then looked rather surprised when I told her that Hitler has been dead for 75 years and that Germany is one of the more liberal countries in the world these days. She full on thought I fled Nazi Germany.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

HHHMMM Sorry but that does not surprise me about America. Look who they elected to President

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories My wife's cousin and her husband/not-baby-daddy-of her-unborn-child fell on self induced hard times and needed a place to stay for a bit. We setup a queen sized air mattress in the living room for them. For 3 weeks I woke up to go to work and every morning saw them sleeping on it sideways with their legs hanging off the edge. Then one day she asked me to buy her a bigger air mattress because this one was hard on their backs. I told her to turn her body (the f**king thing even has a built in pillow on one end). Her response was that then they couldn't see the TV. THEN F**KING TURN THE AIR MATTRESS TO FACE THE TV! That's the story of how I became an asshole to the trailer trash side of the family.

The bad part is that its only one of many stories. The husband was a cook at Applebee's. The baby daddy was a cook at Applebee's, and her new husband was......another cook from the same f**king Applebee's. All working together.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories Rescued a coworker on the side of the road with a flat tire, waiting for the tow truck, I pointed out the nail at the top of their tire. They scoffed and looked at me like I was the stupidest person in the world and exclaimed

that’s not true bc it’s flat at the bottom

I just walked away and never brought it up again

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So David Beckham comes home with a flat tyre and Posh is looking out the window when he arrives. He proceeds to blow up the exhaust tube with all his might and Posh shouts "What are you doing Becks?" Becks says he's blowing the tyre back up. So she laughs hard and then, between guffaws, says "You're such a fool. That won't work, you've left the windows down"

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories Back when the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster happened we were discussing how the reactor had failed in a science class. 5 minutes into the conversation a girl piped up and said "I don't see what the big deal is. Why can't we just regrow it?"

She dead ass thought a nuclear power plant was... A plant

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, it confused me too when I first heard it (Dutch person here). Not that I thought it actually was a plant, but I didn't know what to make of it either. I mean, why would you call it a plant?

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories Dated a guy~ we watched TITANIC.... he thought the movie was stupid because the boat sank. It wasn’t believable. You can’t recover from that. Ever

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories I met a guy who got hit by a train. Not that bad, but a year later he went to show his daughter where and how he got hit by the train and he got hit again.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories I got a concussion a while back. A friend of mine told me not to come close because it might be contagious. They weren't kidding.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories I worked at a restaurant and we had a dish that was just a whole grilled chicken, chopped into pieces. A woman who ordered for delivery called us, absolutely scathing, complaining that her order of one whole chicken only contained TWO chicken breasts. Had to explain to grown ass woman that chicken only have two breasts.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories My boss asked me to file the spam mail. This man was one of those people who think they are the smartest person in the room. So spam folder Okay... weird, but okay. I couldn’t find any spam mail that wasn’t already in the spam folder. Afternoon comes and he stomps over to my desk area and wants to know why the spam isn’t in the spam folder as he throws a Manila folder on my desk. The folder was labeled spam. He prints spam mail out and files it. And with any sign of skepticism on my face, he’d insist the IT guy told him that’s where spam goes so he got himself a folder and that was it. I had to get the f**k out.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had an old boss who somehow was the manager of an IT helpdesk with absolutely frilling zero knowledge of computers. Once threw a hissy fit after reading another department’s meeting minutes - “how come they get to move to Office 13? I want my team to move to Office 13” there were only 10 actual offices in the building and the meeting was about upgrading their MS Office software to Office 2013. Another - she shouts at me for putting the ‘recycle’ pile paper back into the printer so I could print on the other side. “Don’t be stupid! You can’t put the same piece of paper back into the Pinter!” So I legit ask her what about when you choose the double-sided print option and she says there’s no such thing. Another - pulls me into a disciplinary for giving a customer incorrect advice. Customer kept ‘losing’ documents, even though they were saving them each time. They only had 4MB left on their hard drive and she didn’t see the problem...

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories There was a girl in my high school who forced the teacher to pause a documentary about people living in mud huts in Africa because she was upset that they were showing us fictional movies in a history class. It took everyone else in the room to convince her that people actually live like that in some places. Wealthy area living for ya.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories When I read yesterday that people think ocean water and sand are giving them coronavirus, rather than realizing its because they are spending time on a crowded beach with strangers. Smh

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A lot of people still don't understand how a virus spreads. It's strange that somehow they are able to find the wildest conspiracy theories about masks and chips in vaccines on the internet, but somehow can't find the official websites giving them all the information they need to understand what is happening.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories Summer camp counselor made all the kids on a school bus keep the windows up on a hot day because "they could feel the Air Conditoning" coming from the front of the bus.

It was so hot and I (maybe 10 years old at the time) had to explain to the 40 year old counselor that the "air conditioning" they were feeling was the wind coming in through the bus drivers open window. She still didn't believe me.

I begged her to ask the bus driver to confirm the bus did not have air conditioning but she didn't want to bother him while he was driving. It was like a 1 hour bus trip.

She finally got hot enough and asked the bus driver if the bus had air conditioning. And he jokingly said "The bus only has air conditioning when the windows are down and the wheels are turning." She then looked back at me and said" See? I told you the bus had air conditioning" and proceeded to force us to keep the windows up.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories My sister asked if the Eiffel Tower was in Paris or France and couldn't understand how it could be in both...

Edit: Woah. My top rated comment is me announcing one of my sister's airhead moments haha. I feel like I need to defend her now.

This happened when she was like 14. She's 26 now. She went on to graduate from college and graduated top of her class.

She later clarified that she meant to ask if the Eiffel Tower was in Paris or elsewhere in France but she clearly didn't say it like that.

She's gonna kill me when I tell her how much attention this got.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories This story is in good faith.

I was asking my friend, J, when he learned about 9/11. He started telling me this specific story of how he walked outside and saw smoke everywhere and how he asked his mom about it, he claimed she said planes hit the towers.

I stared at him, just silently taking in the story.

We live in the Midwest, there was no way he saw the debris from the towers.

Also we were born in 2003.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Born in 2003.... And you already walk and talk?! 😨My god, time flies.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories Dude burned down his convenience store for an insurance claim, and stopped the milk and bread deliveries the day before.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is like someone removing all the valuables from his home and storing them on an off-site location before he sets the fire. Or someone canceling a marriage counseling session because s/he is just about to kill her/his spouse. Morbid, I know.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories I work for Parks Canada in Yoho National Park. I have been asked the question (seriously), “Where do you keep the animals at night?” twice in my career. To this day I still find great joy imagining what they thought was going on each night as we “collected” every large animal in the Parks.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

can almost imagine a big ark in the zoo where all the animals sleep in peace, with magic herb to keep them asleep and prevent them eating eachother🤭

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories I worked at a pet store in college. This customer asked me which food would make his pit bull “swole.” I suggested a high protein food with a good amount of exercise but advised that a lot of it was determined by the dog’s genetics. He asked me if we sold genetics.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It may just be something our descendants will be able to go shopping for. I hope this market will be restricted to fixing disability-causing mutations, but I fear that the geneticists can replace today's plastic surgeons getting themselves rich by doing only surgery that is not needed for any medical reasons.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories I moved to the UK from Germany. A guy asked me if we had colours in Germany.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories Knew a girl in middle school that didn't understand the concept of perspective

She also thought North was whichever direction you were facing at the time

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories In high school I met a boy who asked me for a hygienic cloth because he thought he had a period, actually he only sat on a melted popsicle

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories I had to explain to a girl why you couldnt grow your hair down in front of your face and just cut out eye holes. Even explaining it her she couldnt grasp it and brushed me off as being "too smart."

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories I was friends with with a guy who believed those fake apple adverts like "Apple Wave - Microwave your phone for instant battery charge" I was so dumbfounded that he actually fell for it. When I saw him the week after and he had a new phone it all clicked for me

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would say that not all people understand technology, but for the other posts...

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories I used to work with a girl who was sweet but so dumb. We were in a meeting once and somehow someone mentioned baked ham. My manager said "Ugh I hate ham. It looks like human flesh." The girl I mentioned was sitting next to me and looked horrified and whispered "Does ham really come from people?"

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, how about my niece who thought that a Chinese restaurant actually served 'human beef'? I told her that it was Hunan beef. The menu had a typo.

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I work retail. Had a customer a few weeks back pull her mask down to cough into the open air and then pull it back up. Really makes you wonder why there are people like this in the world.

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One of the dumbest things I have ever heard anyone say is, "The spork is 'the devil's utensil' because it is the amalgamation of the masculine fork and the feminine spoon and is trying to blur gender lines in society."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, it works different: the male fork and the female spoon, together, give us small teaspoons and cake forks!

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories I was helping a colleague with his graduate thesis film. My job was to animate a solar eclipse, since we couldn't shoot one for real.

I animated it using some real life reference footage to make it look realistic. When I showed him, he asked why the moon was black and had no detail. I asked him if he had ever seen a solar eclipse and he replied "yes of course, but I want this one to look surreal since it's the moon in front of the sun, it's not like a normal solar eclipse."

At this point it became clear something was amiss, and after asking a few more clarifying questions it became clear he had no idea that the large object passing in front of the sun during a solar eclipse is, in fact, the moon. I confronted him about it and he apologized for "not being great with astrology."

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories Spent 7 years working for TSA. Had a pretty sweet detail where I would assist passengers who did not have ID or assist TSA agents if they had questions about the validity of the given ID.

I get a call on the radio asking for assistance in verifying an ID. I come over and ask what the issue is, agent hands me a driver’s license and says “Can’t accept this Canadian ID”. Hearing this, I assume it’s expired or the wrong name.

I take a look and see that it is an Alaskan driver’s license. I quickly approve the passenger and send them on their way. I then spent 10 minutes explaining that a) Canadian DL’s are acceptable according to TSA regulations and b) Alaska has never been a Canadian territory.

This coworker has a Masters degree in mathematics and served 25 years in the US Air Force

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"This coworker has a Masters degree in mathematics and served 25 years in the US Air Force" and ended up as a TSA agent. Enough said.

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Going through security and the person says I need to show a different form of ID. I ask why because I gave them my driver’s license. They say I need a US document like a green card or something. I’m a US citizen... then I realized... I explained how District of Columbia is long for DC. Like Washington DC. As in the capital of our country.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories “I can’t use this I’m left handed”

It was a f**king shovel and I was the idiot that thought a left handed shovel existed.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My husband told my nephew to go and find him a left-handed screwdriver. The poor child was out there looking for an hour looking for a left-handed screwdriver. It finally dawned on him that there was no such thing as a left-handed screwdriver. Needless to say, when he came back; he wasn't thrilled about it. Needless to say, we had fun laughing at him. He was 15 at the time....lol

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Demolished my right foot (and a bunch of other s**t) in a motorcycle crash and had to have the top of my foot removed. Guy I worked with asked me when it would grow back. I explained that the skin and stuff was going to have to be grafted, but the tendons and bones that had been removed were gone forever. He looked me dead in the eye and asked "why don't they just cut the whole f**king thing off and let it grow back?"

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories Ex flatmate cancelled the gas and electricity contract because it was too expensive. Wondered why we had no more electricity nor gas. She thought we paid 90€ a month to get a hotline 24/7 in case of problem.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So I guess the utility company was called "Hotline" or something similar?

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In 8th grade art class we were taking about famous painter and someone brought up Michelangelo. A girl in the back said (paraphrasing) "Michelangelo isn't real, he's a turtle". The entire class collectively face-palmed.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You'd better not tell her that all the other TMNT names existed as well. It might blow her mind.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories When a dumb as a brick girl that I went to high school with asked our history teacher if she’d ever owned a slave.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Never attribute to malice what can sufficiently be explained by stupidity."

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Someone in my history class argued that Mussolini was a type of pasta

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

See? This is why studying history is important. Otherwise, how else would you be able to differentiate your pastas?

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My friend is allergic to walnuts. One day, he made this sandwich in our college dorm. It had walnuts garnished on top of the bread. i then remember him telling me “oh look there’s walnuts on here” and proceeds to eat the entire sandwich. (At the time I didn’t know he was allergic). I leave to shower and when I come back there are two paramedics in our dorm taking him out on a stretcher. The following day I asked what happened to which he replies something along the line “I accidentally ate some walnuts which I’m allergic to, and by the time I went to get a Benadryl, my throat had started to close and I couldn’t swallow it so I had to call 911”. I was just utterly shocked how he even let this entire situation happen. I really couldn’t believe it. He had known there were walnuts on the bread and still ate it?! College days, am I right?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your friend should have been provided with an Epi (epinephrin) Pen by his doctor for emergencies just like this.

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We were talking about the Irish potato famine in college, and this one girl said “Oh wow! I thought it was the potato family.” As if that wasn’t enough, she later asked “why were they so eager to get jobs? If I was that hungry I wouldn’t even try to get a job.” Man, I wish I was joking.

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I got a bad grade in geography in highschool, my teacher kept trying to push me and suggested I talk to my parents about it. I told my mom I was failing geography and she said "how f**king stupid can you really be Justin, how do you fail geography it's just shapes" I'll never forget that one.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories Classmate was convinced that winning the lottery is 50% chance

because you either win it / not

in last year of highschool

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When I was in high school, I took a film class where we'd watch a movie and discuss it after. So we watched Saving Private Ryan, and the credits start to roll, and I hear one of the other students: "wait so who won?" turns out he was on the edge of his seat to see who won WWII.

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I had to explain to a woman that apples did not contain any gluten, meat, or dairy ingredients. How can one think apples contain dairy? She thought gluten was found in every major grain, and that apples were a grain because they have seeds.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories I went to a church youth group about five years ago (I’m an atheist so I went with a friend). The group I was in was talking about Jesus when this one girl piped up to say:

“Imagine how hard it was for Jesus. I mean, he was Jewish, so he didn’t even believe in himself!”

I have no idea what that girl was talking about, but not a goddamn day goes by when I don’t think of that. Then there was the pastor who seemed to believe Scientology was a religion devoted to knowledge and science, but that’s another story.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I sincerely hope she was joking cos if so it’s quite a good joke!

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Ahhh, at the time I was working at a grocery store that had a Coinstar machine. Basically you could place all of your unwrapped change in it and it would be converted for a small fee that you could use for actual cash. I was walking past and noticed a women struggle with the machine. I stopped to help her, turns out she had accidentally hit “Spanish” as a language selection. I quickly explained what she needed to do figuring she couldn’t read Spanish (we were in the US) and this is where her struggles came from. So I run through how it works and show her where the receipt will print out that she can turn in at customer service for the cash. She turns and looks at me and says “but I don’t want Spanish money”. Sigh, then I have to explain to her that she would get paid in US dollars.

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#50

A few years ago my roommate was accepted to NYU and texted me a picture of the letter and said “Finally get to see a different country!”

We live in America.

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#51

Someone told me that minorities were never oppressed, then linked an article from The Onion as their source. They were serious.

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#52

I’ve commented this before once or twice, but my step brother was baffled that dogs were colourblind because he saw his reflection in our dog’s eye and it was in colour... not a black and white reflection... so how could the dog be colourblind? I tried explaining it to him and I don’t think he really got it

Another instance: he thought babies were born aged 1 (he’s a white dude and not living in a culture where they do count from 1). I told him nah that’s not how it works, so he tried to count back from the current year to his birthday year, lost count a few times and got confused, then decided it was an “agree to disagree” situation where neither of us could be sure who was right. Bruh

Oh another thing: he told me he thought every book should have a quick summary of what’s happening and who the characters are ON EVERY PAGE, because he was sick of picking up a book after a while and forgetting what was happening and who the characters were

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#53

Watching a man try to open the locked front door of my shop while a bright red closed sign was literally inches from his face. He kept looking at the door like it was just stuck.

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#54

I once had two people come up to me arguing about whether spiders exist

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Send these two to Australia. A huntsman should definitely set them straight.

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“How much is a half dollar worth?” She was the newest teller my boss hired. Will never forget that moment.

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#56

30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories Had someone ask me “is Europe on Earth?”

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#57

A old coworker was telling me that theres people out there that think Alaska is an island. I laughed in disbelief but another coworker overheard and was flabbergasted "WHAT? It's not? But it's always drawn off to the side with Hawaii?!" Point made.

Another time a guy with a really thick accent walked in, same girl was like "oh wow I like your accent where are you from?" Said guy: " Have a guess" her response? "HAVEAGUESS? I've never heard of that place before!" And walked away.

She is super sweet, just slightly oblivious.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Havaguess is just a few nautical miles north west of the Kingdoom of Youranidiot

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#58

I had a co-worker who could never figure out what time her 15 minute break was over. We were both bank tellers.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had one, back when I was younger, who counted out the dimes in the cash drawer and was legitimately logging a dimes total with a 5 on the end of it before I stopped her. She was in her senior year of college. I hadn’t gone to college yet (went back years later as an older student).

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#59

Former co-worker thought the only country in Asia was China.

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#60

Yesterday my mom said “It’s kinda weird how The Fourth Of July has fell on the same day of the year the past couple years.” I was dying and she was so confused

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#61

While driving from one big city to another, I stopped in a small town to eat at a fast food chain in Texas.

I order my food, get my orange number tent and sit down to wait for my order.

The lady who's bringing out orders has this "I give up" demeanor as she's calling out numbers that guests aren't claiming. Each time this happens, she speaks to a couple tables to seemingly figure out who food is for.

Then I hear her call for number 55 while holding a tray of food for one person. I was number 54 and noticed I was the only single-party guest there. We make eye contact and she heads towards me.

She confirms my order with me and says "sorry, for some reason the computer prints 1 number higher". I immediately ask "well then why don't you just call out one number lower than what's printed?"

She freezes and I can see the "gears turning" in her head. I tell her "thank you" and she goes on her way.

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#62

I was a co-hostess with a girl in a restaurant, watching ads on a hanging TV for a new movie. At the end, it said 'coming soon to a theater near you,' to which she turned to me with wide eyes & genuinely asked "how do they know where I live?"

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#63

Me (when I was a kid). I had a real old transistor radio, asked my parents for a newer radio, so I could receive and listen to newer music.

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30 Of The Funniest “This Is When I Realized This Person Is Stupid On A Whole New Level” Stories She thought the capital of Saudi Arabia was “hummus”

I wish I could make this up

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, it's Falafel! Hummus is only a Palestinian fundamentalist militant organization!

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I've had a few but the most recent was myself.

My partner was installing a new baby gate and I complained that it wasn't as high as the one we had before. He said, "there's only about 30mm of difference". I angrily replied, "are you joking?!?! there's at least 2-3cm of difference".

He just blankly stared at me for a good 10 seconds before I realised.

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#66

My friend's girlfriend regularly says some stupid s**t. We're all in our 30s and she recently told me she can't read the "clock with hands."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some of my family members who grew up in the digital age, can't read an analog clock either.

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A friend didn't have coins for a vending machine but did have a dollar. She folded up the dollar and forced it into the coin slot and then did not understand why she did not get her item.

For me: I had a concussion and was getting X-rays taken. They gave me a lead blanket to wrap around my twig and berries. I took it and wrapped it around me like a cape. I could not understand what they wanted me to do.

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#68

When I was younger I was mad that everyone else had an accent and I didn’t... Three years later I realized that I did in fact have an accent and that I was on another level of stupid.

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#69

I'm a cop and I stopped this car, driver was 19, had a 21 year old passenger and an 18 pack of beer. During the stop, I ask the passenger if the beer is his and he says no. I explain that the driver is only 19 and can't have it but he's 21 and it's ok if it's his beer as long as he doesn't furnish it to any minors. Dude swears it isn't his beer. I explain that if it's his beer, he keeps it and they drive off no problem, but if it's the driver's beer, it has to be confiscated and the driver has to be cited for minor in possession. Dude still swears it isn't his beer. By this point even the driver was trying to help me explain. After about 5 more mins of trying to get this guy to claim possession of a completely legal case of beer, I had to throw it all away and cite the driver.

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#70

A girl I knew was complaining about her car making a weird noise. She kept bringing it to the repair shop and they kept finding that nothing was wrong with it. So she sells her car, gets another one. She complains about the same thing. Then one day she’s in the car with a friend of mine, who’s driving. He veers out of the lane just a little bit and hits the rumble strip.

“That’s it! That’s the noise my car makes!” She says.

“What, this?” He purposely drives onto the rumble strip this time.

“Yes!” She says.

Guys, she SOLD HER CAR because the “weird noise” it was making couldn’t be fixed. Her nickname was rumble strip after that.

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#71

Person 1: "I can't find my keys."

Person 2: "Should I call you?"

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's more like a brain fart. Recently, I wanted to google my glasses 😨

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A customer at a fabric store came in to return a 7/8 yard cut piece of fabric because she said I charged her almost as much as a full yard would have cost.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeh, she probably got charged 7/8 the cost of a yard, what a rip lol!

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High school teacher here. I gave a multiple choice quiz to a student this year. I go to grade the first question and instead of choosing option A, B, C, or D, he wrote in his own option and circled it:

"E) I don't know."

He went on to do this for roughly two thirds of the questions on the quiz.

I appreciated the honestly... but guessing to have a chance at some points or at the very least just leaving it blank might've been a bit wiser. Oh well.

Obviously I followed up with the kid to see what the deal was. In the end we sorted things out. I wouldn't say they were on another level of stupid, they didn't "do" school in the traditional way. Ended up having a great year together.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have legitimately considered doing this on a number of occasions.

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#74

When I found out one of my friends from high school thought it was Roberty Lee, not Robert E Lee.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My German friend thought that Hermione's name is pronounced as " Hermi One". :)

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#75

I asked a girl when the last time was that she changed her oil. She said, “oil?... you mean gas?”

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#76

I once forgot to bring my laptop to school so my mum had to bring it in. My maths teacher was notified and she sent me a message telling me to pick up my laptop at the front office, but the only way I could see the message is if I had my laptop with me.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We have Comcast. I recently swapped our old modem for one of their new XFinity XFi modems. The only instructions for hooking it up that were included with the device said to download the app and follow the prompts on it. In my house. Where I had disconnected the old modem to turn it in to their office and pick up my new one. So I had no WiFi. I’m just glad I have a smart phone. I made a point of mentioning it when I called customer service (we had problems with it not picking up our landline phone, which is part of the bundle), and the agent I was talking to laughed and agreed, then told me that was the number one complaint call they were getting, which started the second those modems were rolled out.

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At the beginning of the pandemic, a friend freaked out to hear that there was a covid case an hour away (meaning someone an hour's drive away had been diagnosed).

She thought she should get in her car and drive the other direction to keep ahead of it because she thought covid, the disease, was approaching like a wave of zombies and was an hour from reaching her.

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#78

I started eating healthier and not the junk in my former fast food job.
Coworker looks at me, “why you eating this rabbit food and not something filling?”
“Ah, I’ve been here a few minutes. Starting to feel run down eating fast food everyday. Wanted something healthy”.
“They are charging you for the food anyway you might as well eat it”.
“Health is your wealth and all that. I can’t stop them charging me, but I don’t have to eat the food”.
“And this is healthy? How do you know it is healthy? Did you grow it?”

Wow, such logic. Pass me the cheeseburgers cause some pesticides on this definitely renders it worse than processed crap.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So you get robbed by your employer in broad daylight and that's legal? Must be USA.

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#79

I worked at a meat desk for a summer job, and a woman came in and asked if we had any meat without spices or sauces. She then proceeded to tell us that "the doctor" had said that her dogs got sick because she kept feeding them pizza and they couldn't handle the spices. She then said "oh but they love pizza so much, I feel bad for them. I'm probably still gonna feed them pizza"

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The cheese can cause pancreatitis in dogs. Don't feed them pizza (small occasional treats will be okay for most).

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*smashing head on table in confusion and mind-dead-from-idiot-pizza-woman*

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My teacher telling me that a "private company" is just a combination of the words private and company without really explaining the meaning of it, then telling me that I ask stupid quesitons

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your teacher could have said that a private company was the opposite of a public one. But, then that would require a more detailed explanation, for which I suspect that this person had none.

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#81

I had an ex ask me if the moon was north

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#82

My mom’s friend was adopting a baby from China. After the friend returned home with her baby she was on the phone with my mom. The baby was crying in the background. My mom later told me, “The Chinese baby’s cry sounded just like a regular baby’s!” She was legit shocked. I guess she thought they cried differently since they were born in a different country.

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Someone once told me that the moon was full all summer. You don't even have to be smart to see that's not true, just look up at night.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did you tell her to get huge plastic jugs and set them outside in the summer and then screw the lids on so she could have hot air in the winter?

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Not me but a friend worked in a call center for a CC company in the disputes department. The number one item people called to say they never purchased....’Interest Charge’.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Legit complaint: They weren't interested so you can't charge them for that.

#85

We were in 7th grade science class and the teacher was telling us about the vacuum of space. Dumbest girl I ever knew raised her hand and asked “if a spaceman talked into a rock and handed it to somebody, would they hear it?”. The class was silent for a few seconds before our teacher explained that rocks are, in fact, not alien tape recorders.

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We asked our classmate to prove she knew the 7 continents. Her list went like this..."North America. Europe. China. The Pacific Ocean?" I s**t you not.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once read on the internet a woman asking where the SPECIFIC Ocean was. Someone replied, "Can you be more Pacific"? I still don't think she got it.

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I grew up in a country where English is not the first language. One day in elementary school we had to write an essay in our English class. I wanted to score an A so I added a beautiful sentence with some very elaborate words towards the end.

The teacher marked nothing wrong but that particular sentence. She said it wasn’t grammatically correct. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that I straight up copied that entire sentence verbatim from an English textbook published by Oxford.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once had a teacher in elementary school who said that she had never heard of the word 'invincible'. I was using it for a spelling bee.

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Revenge of the Sith had just come out. After I watched it, I went out in the lobby with the wife and threw my snack stuff away. Some lady walks by us and said loudly” I can’t believe they named the babies Luke and Leia, that’s so stupid they’re just coping the old movies”. My head about exploded and my wife had to sssh me. George Lucas wasted 30 years of effort on that idiot

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A girl in my high school biology class asked the teacher why we don't speak with accents, but the rest of the world does. Despite the teacher and many of us explaining we do indeed have accents, she didn't accept this.

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When I was in high school, there were these two girls that constantly just... blew my mind. One of them asked “what does insignificance mean?” and the other replied “why something is significant.” The first girl looked at her and went “ooh ok I get it.”

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

oooooooo... reminds me of the time when someone asked what does infamous mean and the other literally said it means that you fae an obsession with famous people and I just died

#91

When I was in middle school I was in art class with a boy named Devon. I told him my sister has the same name as him and he asked me what her name was.

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#92

My friend was taking a selfie. The camera was smudged, so we told him he should clean it. He then turns his phone over and began to clean the camera on the back, then turned it back over and tried to take a selfie again with the other camera

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A group of late teens sitting outside my building assuring each other that all criminal charges would be dropped when they reached 21. DUI's, drug charges, traffic violations, everything. I walked away shaking my head because they were in for a reality check.

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#94

Me calling my dad's phone to tell him that he forgot his phone home.

I burst out in laughter until i cried. Wow i can be SO F**KN STUPID sometimes...well most of the time but you get the point.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

that's just an honest brain fart, like when you spend ten minutes looking for your glasses that are on your head, or like the time i (as a small child) couldn't for the life of me find my other sock and finally discovered i'd put it on the same foot as the first one

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Worked with a guy whose resume would grow every time he met a new person. Suddenly he used to do their job.

Swear to god if he ate Frosted Flakes for breakfast he used to be a lion tamer by noon.

He also loved the saying "You gotta be smarter than what you're working with." But obviously that can't be true because he claimed that he used to be a bricklayer.

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#96

A coworker started to think that he was going to be fired, but instead of trying to improve his performance or at least waiting to be fired so he could collect unemployment, he just walked off the job during his lunch break and left his badge/work phone on his desk.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

FYI - just because someone is fired does not mean they are eligible for unemployment, especially if they are fired with cause. If you are fired and there is documentation that you were not meeting expectations or have violated company policy you have no right to unemployment. They may have known it was coming and it is better to quit than be fired.

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#97

High school health class/sex ed. The teacher mentioned saran wrap can be used as a makeshift barrier for oral sex. A girl asked if tinfoil would work too.

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Once in middle school, I simply could not get the concept of the phrase "The day after tomorrow" through to a kid.

He couldn't wrap his mind around it.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's always been funny to me that there is no one word for 'the day after tomorrow' because we have one in Dutch and Dutch has significantly less words than the English language. And yet we have one word for it and English needs 4.

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So I was talking to one of my online friends about global warming for whatever reason. I said that my mom ran into an old high school friend that didn't even believe that there was trash in the ocean (we live like 10 mins from the beach so you can clearly see evidence of trash coming in from the ocean). Anyways my online friend one upped me and said they met someone who believed in global warming but they were in support of it.

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#100

The time I watched someone who had missed their exit on the highway stop on the shoulder, back up, turn around, and go up the entrance ramp. I could not f**king believe it.

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#101

There was this 12 year old kid in school that thought the best was to deal with the number of positive COVID-19 cases was to stop testing so that there’d be less positive cases.

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