Having your opinions is always a sign of a mature, independent and confident person. But what if that confidence is so strong it gets in the way of self-reflection and self-criticism? Apparently, having bucketloads of confidence is a two-edged sword, especially if you lack a substantial argument to back it up.
Thanks to a Reddit community called “Confidently Incorrect,” we now know what happens when all that empty bravado turns against you. First, you land on the pages of this subreddit “For those times when people are way too smug about their wrong answers.” And second, you are likely to be sizzled and turned into roast.
So scroll down for some of the funniest examples of overconfident people proven wrong, and be sure to check out part 1 of the article after you’re done!
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Yea, No They Haven’t
There's No "I" In Happiness
Correcting An "Author"
Mr. King, I feel your pain. Do you think anyone has explained it to him yet?
The ‘Confidently Incorrect’ subreddit is really a gentle (and often much-needed!) reminder to always double-check our facts even when we are totally sure about them. With the internet being a perfectly safe place to voice out whatever is on your mind, many people abuse that by spreading false assumptions, gossip, fake news and facts.
No wonder the community, which is only a year old, has been sharing a lot of content “for those times when people are way too smug about their wrong answer.” With 633k members, ‘Confidently Incorrect’ is growing day by day, and you can see how very relatable people find it.
Just Wow
How Dumb Can You Get
So to find out more about the subreddit, Bored Panda previously spoke with the founder ShadowAlchemy, who said that it was created on a whim. "Someone posted a video of Conan interviewing Jennifer Garner to another subreddit called r/WatchPeopleDieInside. I scrolled through the comments and saw someone who thought stuff like that would make a great community of its own. It was super late at night when I saw that, so I made a subreddit really quick for no reason, posted a video or two, then went to bed."
Basic Math
Yeah, Who Is This Stephen King Guy Anyway?
Happy 8 Month Old Birthday!
Hey guys, I'm 327 months (and 12 days) old today! Happy birthday to me!!
After ShadowAlchemy launched the sub, he never could have expected it would go viral. "I wake up with probably 1,000 or so notifications, apparently the sub had blown up overnight! Tons of people were talking about the ridiculously fast growth of the sub, I think we got around 30k members on our first day. It was super popular its first week, and its growth died down a bit after that. We've been on a steady increase ever since. We just hit 400k members, actually!" the founder recounted.
Explain This
But even if these were 10 Native-American billionaires it still doesn't contradict the poverty among them.
And He Mixed Up Black Bear vs. Brown Bear Behavior
"It won't attack, it will charge"... Yeah, and you are not an idiot, you are stupid.
What Kind Of A Monster Writes Their Memoir In The First Person?
Having said that, the founder agreed that confidence is one of the most important traits we could have and that without it “we're nothing. Confidence is what gets us out of bed, what gets us out the door to face life. People definitely listen to those who show confidence."
"Just look at politics. Politicians are probably some of the most confident people on the planet, and a pretty large amount of people just listen to what they say. Our sub is probably 75-80% politics. It's people parroting what they've heard their favorite politicians say, and they parrot it because they believe those politicians. They believe in confidence." According to the founder of ‘Confidently Incorrect,’ no one’s going to listen to a shy person with all the facts.
To Argue The Point
Imagine Being This Confident
Who Controls The Control Group?
But if it turns out that you are confidently incorrect, ShadowAlchemy suggests openly admitting that you're wrong (both to others and to yourself). "If someone corrects you and they're right, you've just gotta accept it right then and there. Insisting that you're correct is what makes you look like a dumbass, and what makes you remember it for years and years,” he explained.
The founder concluded that “nobody wants to be confidently incorrect, but if you are, you've gotta admit it. You've gotta admit that you're wrong."
Hercules Doesn't Know What The Word Boycott Means
Who’s Gonna Tell Her?
Please Remove The Protective Coating Before Use
Kamala Was Second
Nope Its European
Ah Europe, that country... somewhere. They speak French there, don't they...?
This Is The Greatest Thing I’ve Ever Seen
Incorrect On Multiple Levels
I Reckon His Face Is Stuck On Smug-Mode
I can't see your brain therefore its not real- actually scrap that this one is probably true
The Smug Avatar Really Makes It Look Even More Confidently Incorrect
They just banned this idiot from YouTube for, *surprise*, lying. Thank God.
They're Not Too Smart
These people jist don't understand English. Singular they has been us3d for centuries
We Don't Have Time To Unpack All Of That
Electricity Is A Mystery
I swear not all of us are like this. I think this is just as idiotic as you do, and I've been a Christian my whole life.
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I was surprised they mentioned scientists.
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Another good point on why religion should not dominate the education system. Although in this case there is not even a religious point to it, except if you consider asking questions in general as heretic. It can only be explained by a complete rejection of science in general - "If we tell them about electrons and physics, soon they will want to read about evolution..."
I'm sure the author of this little text here is a friend of the Fox man who believes germs aren't real
I'm 13 and in a Christian school and our science textbooks acctuly explain thing unlike this garbage
I know right? How can any education system oversee and allow the use of something so clearly false and based on made up nonsense, as fact, in a TEXTBOOK!?!?!?
Load More Replies... For the other type of people who have brains and IQ levels not doing a "Journey to the West" on the Number line: Electricity is a form of energy produced by the flow of electrons (Current Electricity). The direction of flow of the current is opposite to that of the electrons. The charge carried by them is the source of electricity. It is NOT some magical superpower or an episode of "Unsolved Mysteries". It is a scientific phenomenon that scientists, REAL scientists, can explain easily. Stop feeding lies to kids. Especially through their school text books, unless you want to flaunt the failure and joke your education system is.
"I love the poorly educated." - Donald Trump, Feb. 24, 2016. At least he knows his fan-base.
How could I be upset with anyone for being an idiot if this is the education we offer them... Poor souls.
Ok so very few Christians believe this. This is a load of rubbish that some idiot wrote trying to convince people but failed miserably.
I stuck two keys in a light socket when I was four. Trust me you can definitely see, hear and feel electricity.
And this is exactly why I Iike animals. If they don’t know something, they shut the fudge up!
Did they seriously try to mystify electricity? Going by that textbook, the attempt was within the last 40 years, no less, WELL after the discovery and standardization of electric power generation and distribution. That is sad beyond measure, that they would cling so hard to power through ignorance as to promote a deeper ignorance of something that is actually quite well-understood.
Pretty sure when you're being electrocuted, you know what electricity feels like.
Oh my! WTF! Tell those who have had an electric shock that you cant feel it. They would beg to differ..
I've damn sure felt it and it wasn't pleasant. Not as unpleasant as an electric chair but still........
Pretty sure any electrician can actually explain all of the “mystery” away.
I have an experiment to suggest for the 'electricity is a mystery' element. Next time you see massive thunderheads flashing those long jagged spears of light (and this happens right before thunder...another mystery), go walk out in an open field wearing as much metal as you can carry. Go barefoot and get really wet. With any luck, you WILL see electricity...for perhaps a fraction of a second.
But the human heart literally conducts its own electrical impulses. That’s why we have a freaking heartbeat. Also, clearly this person has never shocked their finger
Felt it? I've felt it more times than I would like. Snap crackle pop, don't pet the cat when the humidity is low. I also accidentally touched an exposed live wire and that was a very shocking experience.
After being blown across a room from an electrical discharge, I can tell you exactly how it feels.
I seriously question their methodology. It reads like something in The Onion or a final exam presentation by a college student who didn't pay attention in class all semester.
This text is a prerequisite to “…and that is what God is like, you can’t see “HIM” (🙄) but you see and feel the effects.” Had this growing up with “wind” being the inexplicable mystery 😂
Obviously they have never seen an electrical arc, or a Van Der Graf generator. We all know that creationists are stupid, but this goes beyond brain damaged.
What kind of Christianity is there in the US? This is not how Christianity is in the rest of the world.
This is shaming Christians everywhere, even the ones who aren't this stupid
You guys I just want to clarify... not all Christians are like this... I promise... Just the idiot who wrote this.
As someone who had to take a dozen extremely difficult classes dealing with electric circuits and another 3 with electromagnetic fields, who had to learn exactly why a capacitor works and what it does, oh and BJT transistors, and AC vs DC current and... oh god, the memories. Anyway I don't actually need to know any of that stuff to do my job so I almost wish we *didn't* know where it comes from, how to create it, and how to observe it... (I'm kidding, of course. But my homework assignments sure would have been easier!)
9 years of private, religious schooling and bullshit like this never showed up. We learned explicitly about electron power levels, etc. Science was *science* and any conflicts were kept to religion class (where it was roughly explained as "religion says *what*, science says *how*").
How is it even allowed to teach such nonsense at school - apart from the religion class.
Okay - so this is daft. However, it brings up an interesting subject (for me at least) - electricity, gravity and magnetism are incredibly difficult subjects to understand. I can never get my head around where magnetism and gravity come from - and electricity too for that matter. I need Professor Brian C*x to explain it to me every few days to get it in to my thick head.
This HAS to be a joke, right?! From an Onion article or something? Please????!!!???
It's real. Omg, it's real. https://11points.com/11-eye-opening-highlights-creationist-science-textbook/
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If you would really like to feel it take something metal and slide it into the hole in the wall. You shall feel God run through you and enlighten you.
I have found that the best way to bring electricity forth is the time-tested, and made for the movies, Abracadabra method. It's science.
Imagine what Science 1, 2, and 3 were like. (And I’m a Christian too, although the Fundamentalists and Evangelicals would disagree, because I’m Catholic.)
What year was this textbook printed and distributed? Electricity seems to be everywhere, like stupidity.
I spent 10 years of my life debating creationists. What a waste of brain cells.
Check out J. Warner Wallace, he set out to disprove Christianity. It’s fascinating!
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Just wow. I guess these numb nuts have never seen a lightning bolt before either.
Reads like a fiction book about magic. „No one knows where it came from, but one day some of us started to have magical powers. Those who had quickly banded together into the group we call Users. They rule our lands and hold the peace. But be weary! With all that power comes great responsibility. There have been some througout the years, who tried to abuse it. But no one was more dangerous than Diabel! …“
Here's 10 hours of what electricity is like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgClhUNMFvQ
Sorry, but what? How is it even legal in the US to run schools that teach actual incorrect information as fact? Does this school have funding from taxes or are people paying for this directly?
No one has observed or felt it? Scientists think it comes from the sun??!! This is a brainwashing book of pure harmful nonsense aimed at children
YOU ESS AYY! YOU ESS AYY! WOOHOO! ROLL COAL, BABY! TRUCKS! EAGLES! FREEEEEEEDUMB!
This has nothing to do with politics nor does it represent the majority of Christians. One bad minor sub-set and now all Conservatives are retarded? Huge leap there. Let’s stop generalizing an entire group based off the poor actions of the minority within that group. That’s like saying all protesters are vandals because 3 thugs decide to vandalize during a protest involving 300 people.
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Riddle Me This Bill Gates
He... He Knows Greek Letters Right?
0/3 On Apple Facts
I Wonder What A Bakers Dozen Is?
What Do You Call Someone Who Is Alive?
Is Confident Trans People Don't Fit In "Normal" Society, Gets Proven Wrong In Spectacular Fashion
$600k
$15 An Hour = $100k Per Year
It's quite amazing how some Americans feel threatened by what someone else makes. It ain't your business if a server would make $150K and a cashier $90K. It doesn't affect your income nor your life. So why should you be against a minimum wage? Because people who don't want to pay their employees a decent wage are telling you that the economy would collapse. Look at Europe, where everyone is obliged by law to pay a minimum wage and that economy is doing pretty well for a collapsing economy.
Covid-19 After 6 Weeks Is Illegal
$1 Million Or $6?
Not Sure Where People Get Their Vaccine Info
Moderna was approved in Canada significantly after the AstraZeneca vaccine. I don't think this was dumb so much as ignorant.
Not One Anti-Masker Has Died!
Amazon News Doesn't Know The Difference Between State Government And Federal Government
The Shorter Woman Is Actually The One Who Is Trans
"The" transgender is so cringe. You don't say "the straight" or "the cis" do you? Transgender is an adjective, not a noun.
R/Nonewnormal Is Pretty Weird
The Education System Has Failed Ya'll
SMH - It's called "order of operations". If I remember correctly that was a math concept taught in elementary school.
Bandaid
I'm allergic to bandaids with latex in them. This is what it looks like if I use them.
No Such Thing As Military Propaganda
Thats Not How Monitor Size Is Measured
Fastly Is The Name Of The Provider
The fact Fastly is written with a capital F should be a clue to it being a name :)
And The Vast Majority Of Comments Too
The assumption in itself only makes two - serious - errors: First the law of large numbers says nothing about the individual case. So while statistically over time a virus will get less virulent, this does not mean that no strain could become more dangerous, just that the more dangerous variants with a certain probability will decrease in numbers over time if they tend to seriously incapacitate the majority of hosts - while there still can be people dying from it. Second, less virulent does not mean less contagious- quite the opposite. The "perfect" scenario would be an extremely contagious virus with very few symptoms. What surprises me most is the fact that this argument is often brought on by people who generally reject the idea of evolution - while this mechanism is quite what evolution is all about.
I know in advance that this is probably going to be censored, but I have to say it... there really are so many dense motherfückers in the world.
I lost even more faith in humanity. Have people always been so lacking in sense?
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This reminds me of the old saying, "Better to keep your mouth closed when someone thinks you're an idiot than open your mouth and prove it." I hate that social media has given such an easy platform to spew vomitous, dangerous opinions
The worst part of all this is that these morons actually believe they're geniuses who are outthinking the entire world, and that's what's going to sink us... they are literally too stupid to know how stupid they are and in 2016, they seized control of the entire U.S.A.. Idiocracy is actually happening now.
I wish that I hadn't read this. I now despair of the human race.
Oh the agony! The amount of stupidity here gave me a headache. I'm sure I lost a few brain cells.
And that's the reason self-confidence is one of the most repulsive flaws. Confident people are insufferable, whereas self-conscious people are much more likable.
Not all confident people are arseholes. There is such a thing as "quietly confident", which people find reassuring and is a good trait for a leader to have. Nobody is going to follow someone who second guesses themselves all the time.
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The Achilles Heel of Democracy is that in any society there are always more stupid people than smart people so if everyone votes the will of the stupid people will always prevail. You have to prove that you know how to drive a car before they will let you. People should have to prove that they understand the basic fundamentals of how government works before they are allowed to vote. That will weed out a lot of them.
I cannot count the number of times that I have composed what I thought was a witty or cogent comment, and upon reading it over before submitting, I had a doubt about the accuracy of the assertion, or that I was misusing a word. I check my facts and vocabulary. It is not exactly rare that I am poised to post something utterly wrong or absurdly stupid. I think sometimes the brain gets ahead of the typing, resulting in complete nonsense. Sadly, sometimes one slips through and I feel completely ridiculous. My face turns red and my freckles jump out like peppercorns.
I always enjoy a good display of American stupidity. This exceeded my wildest expectations. Thanks.
I work in a doctor's office and I asked a patient for her insurance card and photo i.d. She looked at me and and said rather snottily, "I don't have a photo i.d. I have a driver's license."
"Apparently, having bucketloads of confidence is a two-edged sword, especially if you lack a substantial argument to back it up." Ironic that this is a reddit thread. Reddit exists for these very people.
this just provide more and more reason to end my life since i don't think the human race could improve itself beyond this deep end he is now
No! We want the smart people to STAY, not the dumb ones!
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I know in advance that this is probably going to be censored, but I have to say it... there really are so many dense motherfückers in the world.
I lost even more faith in humanity. Have people always been so lacking in sense?
Load More Replies... This reminds me of the old saying, "Better to keep your mouth closed when someone thinks you're an idiot than open your mouth and prove it." I hate that social media has given such an easy platform to spew vomitous, dangerous opinions
The worst part of all this is that these morons actually believe they're geniuses who are outthinking the entire world, and that's what's going to sink us... they are literally too stupid to know how stupid they are and in 2016, they seized control of the entire U.S.A.. Idiocracy is actually happening now.
I wish that I hadn't read this. I now despair of the human race.
Oh the agony! The amount of stupidity here gave me a headache. I'm sure I lost a few brain cells.
And that's the reason self-confidence is one of the most repulsive flaws. Confident people are insufferable, whereas self-conscious people are much more likable.
Not all confident people are arseholes. There is such a thing as "quietly confident", which people find reassuring and is a good trait for a leader to have. Nobody is going to follow someone who second guesses themselves all the time.
Load More Replies... The Achilles Heel of Democracy is that in any society there are always more stupid people than smart people so if everyone votes the will of the stupid people will always prevail. You have to prove that you know how to drive a car before they will let you. People should have to prove that they understand the basic fundamentals of how government works before they are allowed to vote. That will weed out a lot of them.
I cannot count the number of times that I have composed what I thought was a witty or cogent comment, and upon reading it over before submitting, I had a doubt about the accuracy of the assertion, or that I was misusing a word. I check my facts and vocabulary. It is not exactly rare that I am poised to post something utterly wrong or absurdly stupid. I think sometimes the brain gets ahead of the typing, resulting in complete nonsense. Sadly, sometimes one slips through and I feel completely ridiculous. My face turns red and my freckles jump out like peppercorns.
I always enjoy a good display of American stupidity. This exceeded my wildest expectations. Thanks.
I work in a doctor's office and I asked a patient for her insurance card and photo i.d. She looked at me and and said rather snottily, "I don't have a photo i.d. I have a driver's license."
"Apparently, having bucketloads of confidence is a two-edged sword, especially if you lack a substantial argument to back it up." Ironic that this is a reddit thread. Reddit exists for these very people.
this just provide more and more reason to end my life since i don't think the human race could improve itself beyond this deep end he is now
No! We want the smart people to STAY, not the dumb ones!
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