We've all probably had a brain fart or two in our lives. A momentary lapse where we said something that made us think later: "Wait, that was really dumb..." In the moment, these utterances can feel like the most awkward thing that has ever happened to you. Later, you can probably laugh about it with friends in good humor.
But are all dumb things we say brain farts? Maybe sometimes people really are so oblivious and ignorant that the funniest things come out of their mouths. In this Quora thread, when one person asked, "What are some dumb questions you have been asked?", folks shared the silliest things they ever heard people say.
Do you have any embarrassing brain farts you can share with us, Pandas? If so, let us know in the comments. And don't forget to upvote your favorite dumb entries below!
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Once, at my shop, I stood with my register open, counting a fistful of 50-dollar notes in my hand, when a woman came up and asked me if I worked there. I looked at her, then at the money, then at the open cash drawer, and said, 'Nah, mate. I'm just robbing the till.'
"Sarcastic Brit" is a bit redundant, idn't it? (Said with much love for my friends on that lonely rock in the middle of a stormy sea.)
Load More Replies...Robbing the till? so who you are you ? the owner? ........ for I briefly worked at a place where the owner never did any work himself. you could tell he had been in the store, the till was empty. That's right! No change left either
You too?? Lol I had an owner that wouldn't empty the till, but would take quite a bit out. You could guess how nervous I was at the end of the night trying to balance out the safe. "Oh...yeah I took $200 from the till." YOU COULDN'T HAVE JUST TOLD ME!?
Load More Replies...Yup. I was a cop for many many years, once had a woman walk up to me while I was standing, in uniform, next to a marked patrol vehicle--Are you a cop? I glanced back at the car and said, "Nope, stole the car and managed to snag a uniform too." Just open mouthed looked at me.
I was wearing a shirt with the shop's logo and stocking shelves, people were asking if I work there...
Unless the logo was large and was readable from a distance, then if you can't understand why, maybe you need to think harder.
Load More Replies...What's awesome as well, is when some asks you if you work there, and you're in street clothes minding your own business. I ended up helping the lady because I did in fact know where the dairy section was, but no I did not work there lol.
Lol! That reminds me of a time - seems like centuries ago now - when I used to run a Bulletin Board (commonly known as a BBS - what the internet used to be before there was an internet) called "The REAL CONNECTION" (later called "death... by chocolate") It was a 24 hour job, seven days a week, so when my husband and I went on holidays, we usually got trusted friends in to "house sit" this BBS. Users were able to chat to Sysops (System Operators) and one night our friends received such a chat request. The User quickly picked up that it wasn't me they were (text) chatting to, and asked the friend who she was. She typed in "we're burglars, here to rob the place!" The poor User promptly logged off in confusion! lol! A few days later when we returned I had to explain to said User that the "burglars" were friends of ours, minding the BBS whilst we were away for a couple of days. Luckily the User hadn't called the police - the only reason they hadn't, was because they didn't know where it was
My god, the amount of times people asked me that while I stood at the front of the store, wearing the uniform, a nametag right there on my front, and I literally open up conversation with "Welcome to -Retail Name-, how can I assist you?"
I was working in the emergency department when I received this call from a frantic mother: 'My toddler just drank out of the dog's water bowl! What should I do?' I told her: 'Give the dog some more water.'
Oh don't open the emergency silly request part, as a nurse i should wrote a book of funny stories. I remember a cute one. A mother coming with her 5 year old saying something was wrong cause he did not say a word of all day. Me: hi boy, so what's going on ? Him: i really don't want to talk today
Oh dear! And yet... when my under 1YO had a fall and lost consciousness, vomited forcefully and his eyes were unfocussed, the Notarzt (emergency doctor) here in Germany told me I was overreacting to call an ambulance. It's damaging to paint all mothers with the same "overly hysterical" brush. I'm someone who never seeks medical care normally, while every German mum seems to go to the paediatrician as soon as their kid has a fever. It really made me second guess myself. Luckily, the medics were a lot kinder.
Load More Replies...Seems like the dog allowed the child to drink out of his bowl. They are friends. Good for them. :)
Someone asked me for a pill for the day after tomorrow (it was supposed to be the morning after pill, but hey)
So instead of 'Family Planning, this was kind of Forward Planning. I'm impressed and horrified in equal measure.
Load More Replies...Not a doctor, but working at a vet, I got a call from a really concerned owner. Something was wrong with her puppy's eyes. It wasn't a short phone call, and I suspect substances may have been involved, but after a lot of questions and her repeatedly calling the dog and babytalking, she went, 'Oh my god. Her eyes are blue. They're so beautiful...' And I had already determined this wasn't an emergency, but was ready to make an appointment--which I did, at her insistence. They came in. Dogs eyes were blue. We didn't charge.
*On arrival at a new school*
Girl - So, where are you from?
Me - Nigeria
Girl - Where's that?
Me - It's a country in Africa
Girl - No, Africa is a country
Me - I'm sure it's a continent
Girl - No, Nigeria must be a town in Africa
Another girl - He must be confused
I love those .. "Where's that?" and then suddenly know the geography there better than those who came from there
Well there is that one guy who knows everything about everything so yeah, they do exist.
Load More Replies...the follow-up question should have been: which continent is the country of Africa on, then?
And the self-evident answer would be, "Of course it's in Europe, you dimwit? D'uh!" I'm not even kidding.
Load More Replies...My ex-boss (allegedly a well-travelled woman) thought that the Philippines were in Africa. And that was *after* meeting my Filipino husband, who clearly looks Asian.
[One of mine] " Where are you from?" Portugal "Oh neat. Do you speak Spanish?" A bit. But not as well as I speak Portuguese "I wish I spoke Spanish. Can you teach me?" You should probably ask a Spanish speaker. I am Portuguese "What?"
This Yank with embarrassment, agrees with the likelihood.
Load More Replies...Also trying to make it look like the new kid doesn't know where he comes from.
At least eSwatini can't be confused with Switzerland any more
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A true story from a forgotten backwater of Donegal:
"Hey, Graeme, are you coming to church on Sunday?"
"No, I'm an atheist."
"It's ok. Being a Protestant doesn't matter. We're very welcoming."
"I'm not a Protestant, I'm an atheist."
"Are you Jewish?"
"No, I'm not Jewish, I'm an atheist."
"What do you mean?"
"An atheist is someone who doesn't believe in gods."
"No it isn't."
"It kinda is."
"No you're wrong there, you can be an atheist and believe in God."
Me: stunned silence.
More than likely, they just didn't know what they were talking about.
Load More Replies...That reminded me of a time when I was in high school. The teacher had stepped out, and a few of the girls started teasing one of the boys who was very innocent, and one of them asked him if he was a virgin. He thought about it for a minute or so and finally answered "No, I'm a Methodist."
Usually religious people, who refuse to accept that there some out of the religious corral.
Load More Replies...Me: See, I'm Jewish, but also I'm agnostic, but some days I'm atheist and if I think too hard I become ignostic (it doesn't matter until we properly define 'God' anyhow) and...listen it's complicated, I think I've prayed to God whilst being pretty confident They don't exist before. But short answer: no, I'm not interested. Thank you for the offer though!
It's like that woman who wrote she were a vegetarian who also eats meat.
Agnostic means they don't know, which truly should be the response to every religious question.
One of my aunts asked about what I do, so I told her that after completing my electronics engineering degree, I started working in a chip-designing company. After a pause, she asked: 'What are your most popular flavors? Are the chips as good as Lay's?'
This is actually cute (I'm imagining a some what older non-tech savvy aunt here)
I work for a company that has the same name as a candy bar, and when I tell people where I work, I often see their eyes light up, as they imagine me skipping through W***y Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Alas, it's nothing that exciting (though it's a great place to work).
Load More Replies...My very non-tech MIL got very confused when her great grandson was looking for his tablet.
There was an episode of Judge Judy, where (I think) a babysitter claimed a child in their care was just fine, sat on the sofa with a tablet. Judge isn't tech-minded. . .
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'Do you have internet in Indonesia?' — and it was asked by email
There is only one computer in Jakarta that receives all indonesian emails. Then they print the text and send the message with a local animal depending of the emergency or the content. Could be a leopard, a komodo dragon or an elephant.
I lived in Bangkok as a teenager, and when I moved to the UK for uni, they asked if I had lived in a mud hut....
Mud huts are becoming a thing here: cob houses.
Load More Replies...I heard that Einstein once said that only two things are endless, the universe and human stupidity. Then he added, that he was starting to doubt about the universe
Load More Replies...Found on homepage: If you can't connect to the internet, send an email to x@x.x First time 1997,second time 2018. I told my very young daughter that there was no internet when I was a kid. Without hesitation she asked "How was it to live in the Stone Age?
I have a friend who works for the regional government and has an official email (something like whatever@admin.xunta.es). Another friend, ***who teaches IT in a secondary school*** told him she couldn't send him some information via email because her email is Gmail, and it only sends mails to other Gmail mails.
British voice over: "As a native or you may call it, indigineous people of Indonesia, I have the privillege to tell you that internet has been recently introduced to this country by Elon Musk. It is an honour for us that we are now officially connected into the web wide world." It sounds great, with the British accent, right?
I remember reading my local paper in Bali. It was yesterday's paper and came out about 2 in the afternoon. :)
My sister was adopted from Korea. She was only about 10 weeks old — an almost newborn infant — when she came home to us. Several people asked me at the time, 'So does she speak Korean?' or 'Does she have an accent?'
Stupid to ask about language but i wonder if babies cry and make the same sounds all around the world ?
Perhaps apocryphally, there is a story of a king who imprisoned two babies and instructed their guards not to utter any words in their presence, so that he could discover what language the babies would speak "naturally" and hence which was the original language of humanity. Turns out that's not a thing and the babies didn't speak any language at all.
Load More Replies...When I'm making a new medical record for an infant, I have to ask parents about their preferred language, as I would with any new patient. If they speak any other language than English, by policy we provide them an interpreter. For infants, I just ask "what will their preferred language be?"
"She keeps repeating the same words: Samsung, Hyundai, Samsung, Hyundai..."
On "Modern Family", Phil asks, "Lily, won't that be hard for her to say?" regarding the Vietnamese infant.😂
I was 3 months old when I came to the US. At 73, I still laugh and cry with a german accent.
How is it possible that people can even think a 10 week old baby can talk??
The school system has failed. Or then just the parents, instead.
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How come chicken breasts don't have nipples?
I learned two weeks ago that elephants have very similar looking breasts to humans. Kinda. Just go look it up.
When I worked at Disney world one summer I was asked this question at least 10 times every day:"when is the 6 pm parade" I learned to smile and politely say,"6pm"
I would presume that when a person asks that question, they're really asking "What time does the 6pm parade pass this particular spot where we are currently standing?" After all, it doesn't just magically appear along the entire parade route when the clock strikes 6.
yes. as someone who worked there for several years, that's exactly what it means. there's a whole culture around it. although your search term is "what time is the 3 o'clock parade?"
Load More Replies...That's like customers in The Pound Shop asking "How much is this?" I thought it was apocryphal until I overheard someone ask it one day.
In fairness, we have dollar stores in my area that have items anywhere from $1 to $5 :P
Load More Replies...They could have been tourists from countries that use 24 hours time.
Someone on the writing staff of Empire Records must have worked retail because at one point Mark picks up the phone and says 'Empire Records, Open til Midnight [pause] midnight!'
When people ask this kind of question at work, my response is generally "the information/error/message is literal"
Disney has very specific training on this. It goes, "When people are on vacation their brains go on vacation. Stay polite." It's not "Disney" to be snarky. You just politely answer the question. And you expect questions like this all the time. That's part of working there.
Load More Replies...Why would you say 6pm. You have to experiment to see just how dumb they are. Say 3:30
I got onto an elevator on the fifth floor, which already had people who had boarded on the sixth floor. I pressed the button for the third floor and observed that the button for the second floor was also pressed. As soon as the third floor came and I started to get out, a girl piped up, 'Why, that's so unfair. I got into the elevator before her! Shouldn't I be dropped off first?'
There *are* elevators which follow the order of the buttons punched. Not many, but some older ones do that.
You should see a paternoster elevator some time... they work like treadmills or conveyor belts, continuously circulating platforms one side up, other side down - there are two doors, one on each side. Very old-fashioned and obsolete, there are only a few still in use in Europe, and one of them is in the Finnish Parliament House. It's a conserved and protected building, so they've retained it through all renovations as a quaint curiosity. The nickname "paternoster elevator" anecdotally comes from the terrifying experience (Payer Noster is the Lord's Prayer in Latin, for clarification. )
I wonder if this girl expected the same sort of service on the bus. Go right past someone's stop, drop off the person that boarded first, and then retrace the route for the next person. Keep going backwards and forwards. "When do you stop at the station?" "In 2 minutes, but if you want a longer ride, 10 minutes!"
What is the correct spelling... Iran or Iraq?
Their mind's going to be blown when they hear about Georgia and Georgia.
Just say "The Georgia that needed only one Sherman to surrender", and at least people from the US will know which one you mean
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I can remember being asked by a close friend at the time, "How can you be so nice when you don't believe in God?"
As Chris Hitchens said, when people say "without god people would rape and pillage", they mean "without god *I* would rape and pillage".
There, he's right ... and also, they don't really need a god for the task they're throwing at him. They need the police.
Load More Replies...If the only reason you're not a d**k is because you believe some mystical power will punish you for it, you are, in fact, a d**k.
Exactly. Choose to be a good person, not because of a reward after you die, but just because.
Load More Replies...Refer them to Penn Jillette's classic comment on the subject - "The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, 'Without God, what's to stop me from raping all I want?' And my answer is, "I *do* rape all I want. And the amount I want is *Zero*. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is *Zero*." The fact that these people think that if they didn't have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping rampages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine." Penn-Jille...6a5429.jpg
"Why do you need God to be nice?" A question that will hopefully make them think.
Potentially a kinder less judgemental person.
Load More Replies...Oooh yes. I’ve been asked how I can have morals. I can tell what’s right on my own and do it because it’s right not because I might get a reward from a ghost that lives in the sky.
It's a matter of respecting oneself and doing the right thing regardless. Not because you think a supernatural being is watching. Oddly, jails are full of people who believe in god. They just seem to think that god understood why they did what they did and so it was okay somehow.
Load More Replies...Better question - how can so many people that believe in god be so terrible?
If believing in god keeps christians from committing crime, why are there so many child raping priests? (Yes, Christians, I know: you now come with the No True Scotsman fallacy and try to tell me that THOSE of course AREN'T Christians. Sure.)
Load More Replies...Because I don´t need an invisible sky-daddy supervising me to be a decent human.
As an Australian traveling overseas, I've been asked: 'Do you carry a stick everywhere you go to fight off the snakes?' 'Oh, you're from Australia? Do you know my niece in New Zealand?' and 'How many miles is it from where you live to Sydney? No, not miles, liters. How many liters is it?'
And when someone I met in a foreign country found out I was Australian, she said, 'Why don't you sound like Hulk Hogan?' I didn't know how to react to this because I had no idea why she would think I would sound like The Hulkster. I was wracking my brain trying to work out what had connected me to the former World Heavyweight champion. Finally, I said, 'Why do you think I should sound like Hulk Hogan?' She said, 'Because he's such a famous Aussie.' We then had a brief argument about the nationality of Hulk Hogan. You may have already made the connection, but it took me ages to realize she was talking about Paul Hogan, aka Crocodile Dundee
There's a nice interview with Paul Hogan where he says that he can't go to a restaurant without the chef coming out from back brandishing his biggest cleaver and saying "That's not a knife!" When the interviewer asks Hogan if he ever gets sick of it, he replies, "Well, it might be the thousandth time I've heard it, but it's the first chance he's had to say it to me". Which is a rather lovely way of looking at it.
" Oh, you're from Australia? Do you know my niece in New Zealand? " .... frak i just fell of my chair
When I lived in the States as an Aussie, I used to find people were obsessed with the animals when I told them where I was from. No, we don't have pet kangaroos, no there are not kangaroos jumping down the street in Sydney. I used to try convert them into switching their favourite Aussie animal from the koala (overrated) to the far superior wombat. I also used to get asked a lot about all the animals trying to kill us, and always enjoyed getting to tell people that the only animal I ever got attacked by in Australia was a chihuahua named Princess.
Please share, and would it work in England, please, because we spell it 'litres'?
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Girl: OMG, are you a muslim?
Me: Yes
Girl: that's cool, can you say something in muslim?
Well, on the plus side, she seems open to other cultures and religion and doesn't seem to discriminate, so that makes her automatically better that a lot of other people.
"algebra, alchemy, cotton, elixir, orange, sugar" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Arabic_origin)
That would make Arabic the language of Islam & Sanskrit for Hinduism, Buddhism & Jainism
Load More Replies...🤣 that's up there with being asked 'can you take that off (hijab) to have a shower? Do you sleep with it on? I still get a lot of very funny comments but i love them because it's better than the abuse.
Getting into the elevator on the 6th floor of a 6 floor building....
Them: "Going down?"
Me: "No, I plan to shoot right out of the roof! Wanna join me?"
We both had a good laugh and it was said with a smile.
A man in bavaria get´s into an elevator, joining another man in there. " Grüß Gott." Says that man. The first man answers: " Nah, I am not going that far up."
Their question wasn't dumb though. Or do you expect everyone to know by heart how many floors every building has and always know which floor they are on at the moment? Or do you think that, if people wanna be nice by asking you, they should first check how many floors there are and which one they're currently on, BEFORE they ask you? So letting you wait for a couple of seconds before they show kindness?
When I'm asked "what floor" I often tell the questioner the 13th floor. This can be in a three story building.
Dang it- the bored panda app doesn't allow me to edit- obviously I meant "Mr Wonka"
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A teacher, soon after I arrived in the US: 'How long have you been here?' Me: 'A week.' Teacher: 'How did you learn English so fast?!'
I once had: "it must have been difficult to learn spanish so far away from any mexican to talk with". I'm french, i can drive to spain in a few hours.
Still, there aren't so many Mexicans in Spain, my friend.
Load More Replies...Context is that in many countries kids are being taught English as a second language from kindergarten
Load More Replies...Overheard in a British bank: Brit - "So where are u from?" Malaysian - "Malaysia." Brit - "Wow! How is it that your English is perfect??" Malaysian - "Cos u lot colonised us & stole our resources for a couple hundred years!" 😜🤭😂
Interesting that someone else commented almost exactly the same conversation they had with someone else except it was a different country
Load More Replies...Depending on where OP was originally from, this is not a stupid question. I suppose it was somewhere where English was their mother tongue, or at least thaught very well.... yet, it does not state that.
The context so many are asking after likely would be that the person wouldn't be going to an English-speaking school, had they not studied the language prior to attending it. Or the assumption that foreign languages aren't spoken or taught anywhere else - or, even worse, the assumption that foreigners generally have neither education nor language skills, since everyone is an illegal immigrant or a migrant worker. (A stupid, racist and rude assumption, but judging by some complaints I've seen online, it just might have also happened in real life - and whaddayouknow, immigrants, too, may have even a University education, regardless of their country of origin.)
I agree it's a rather ignorant question since the implication is that the teacher just assumed the OP wouldn't know English for any other reason than learning it the moment they came to the US. But, not everyone who attends an English-speaking school can speak English or has ever studied the language; so, that wouldn't necessarily be the best example for context. There are many schools that accept students from other countries (and vice versa) & have academic programs in place to facilitate learning. There are also universities that have English proficiency courses as part of the core curriculum if you dididn't get the needed credits/ courses prior.
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Can you get infected from the virus on your computer?
I think it's the other way around though - first comes stupidity and THEN the PC virus
Load More Replies...Well, once we start having more bionics and AI starts merging with humanity, I suppose you might. But not yet.
No, my anti-virus is quite effective against many threats that would otherwise harm me. I protected from not only the Borg, but Daleks and Cybermen (All known variants anyway). the Superhuman Samurai Syber-squad has the best virus protection, bar none.
When I was a waitress at Buffalo Wild Wings, a woman once asked, 'What part of the buffalo do the Buffalo wings come from?'
They pinch them off the backs of newborn baby buffalo to prevent airplanes from colliding with flying buffalo.
See papas explanation, as a fellow Brit and a Pesketerian I wasn't sure either
Load More Replies...i think there's a tutorial on youtube for that, madam. And a dance video which explains it, on tiktok.
Actually what part of the buffalo do they come from? I’m vegetarian so I don’t know
I'm going to assume you're serious. They're chicken wings. They're called Buffalo wings because that particular recipe was first created in Buffalo, New York.
Load More Replies...The stupidest question someone ever asked me was "Since I can weigh chicken breasts on a food scale, can I weigh my breasts on one as well?" I just stared at her and said "Are you stupid?"
After telling a friend I am a psychology major, she said, 'Great. Can you tell me what I'm thinking right now?'
Probably wondering if your life is going in the direction you really want it to, if you look as good as you think, and if you're ever going to do that thing you've been thinking about doing for ages.
"You're trying to think of a witty reponse, but you're not going to succeed."
Answering a call at my home:
Me: Hello?
Friend: Hey dude, where are you?
Me: At pizza hut, I took the landline with me....
I do. We live in the woods and sometimes cell service isn't great. Since I work from home it's important that I'm able to answer when people call me. And I got tired of having to walk down the driveway whenever I wanted to make a call, so I added a land line. :)
Load More Replies...A woman I knew back I the 90s, her husband was in prison. She got a phone call from him one day and she replied "Hey, where are you?"
Back when we had a landline, in the dial-up days, I bought a cordless phone that I could hook on my pocket or belt and go outside. I had tons of flower beds, trees, and a vegetable garden so I spent lots of time outside. I could get a strong signal thirty feet from the house in all directions. I never found another cordless phone that equaled that.
Oh, you're home! "No, this is the refrigerator, please leave a message for Bob and I'll stick it on my door as a post-it note for when he gets back."
True. I do this with my work phone and many times people have said, oh I'm so glad I caught you at the office! Nah, I am at home, but I answered, so whaddya you want?
Load More Replies...A corded landline will work when the power's off. Cordless will not and the cell's only good while it's charge lasts.
If you live in an area subject to frequent power cuts, the landline is your saviour. Speaking from Highlands of Scotland here.
Load More Replies...Call transfers are a thing, and neither does every country/service have separate number codification for cellphone and landline numbers, so one could tell from the number alone which one it is. The USA comes into mind; at least I can say that with near certainty about NY and Washington DC, so that I've actually checked it at some point because I needed the info. Additionally, in some (maybe special?) cases, the landline and the cellphone subscription have the same number, and the call goes to whichever phone is on active status. This also is a practice for instance at some medical clinics/hospitals, especially the backup shift, in which case the direct number will automatically direct the call to the backup person's cellphone. So unless the OP lives in an area with few cellphones or no call transfers, gave the number specifically stated to be their landline number, this post's situation dates back to the early 90s, it isn't so stupid as a question as it first might have seemed like.
Shopkeeper: 'I will get you a 30% discount on this.' My friend: 'If I buy two, I will get it at 60% off, right?'
After working in retail for 35 years, I have lost count of the number of times I have heard this.
You don't know how much stupidity is in this world until you work retail
Load More Replies..."Sure. If you pay full price for the first one, you can have 60% off the price of the second. Cash or credit?"
I've got a great deal for you , buy one for the price of two , get another one totally FREE
My friend, upon seeing a Jaguar car: 'So now PUMA has started manufacturing cars, too?'
Never drove around in a Jaguar, did sit in a Leopard though (basically the same animal, right ? /jk)
While visiting Vietnam:
"Look, that's the moon. Do you have it back in France?"
Sorry, in France we only have a lune. And we don't actually have it. It's way up in the sky, a good distance from us.
Overheard on a cruise " is that the same moon we have in the states?"
Just say you first landed on it - the sun's radiation bleached the US flag white so there's even "proof" for that
No, we took it down, so it would not hit the Eiffel Tower. Non, nous l'avons démonté pour qu'il ne heurte pas la Tour Eiffel.
My husband moved from Wales to my home country as a tween. He tells me that he had never seen the moon up in the sky, in the daytime, before coming to Australia.
I wasn't asked this but, I overheard this in a bus, in Vancouver.
Guy - I've been to India, twice!
Girl - That's so cool. Where?
Guy - Tibet and Nepal.
Oh dear. On the upside, if he decides to go after any of the commenters, he will Never Find Us.
I had to google where each place is i am c**p at geography so if i was told this i wouldnt of even known any difference
Since this kind of questions seems to mostly come from Americans maybe it is because USA is such a big diverse country, that learning the geography of that takes so much time that there is nothing left for the rest of the world.
Um, um, um, So Bhutan is part of India also? I did get a 20 Rupi bill in my change and was able to spend it.
When I told a girl that I have a twin, she asked, 'So, do you, like, have the same birthday?'
that is not per se a dumb question. There are twins where one gets born just before midnight, the other just after. (but it's not uncommon to "falsify" the record making it the same day)
Quick Google says that the longest period between twin births is 90 days, so not that daft of a question after all. ;-)
Load More Replies...I knew twins that were born a minute before midnight on New years Eve with her sister an minute later on New years Day, it officially made one twin a "year older"
Is there a possibility of a first born at 23:59 and the second twin at 00:00 so the birthdate is not the same ?
To be fair, it can happen that one twin gets born way before the other one - not that common but such cases exist
I have a friend who has a twin sister. I went to her birthday party and saw here sister there it just didn't click, it was her birthday also.
I have a twin too. He exists as flesh on my lower arms and shins, as well as a lot of my blood. (I absorbed him in the womb.)
I’ve delivered twins that were born in different centuries, let alone different days!
Do you have planes in your country? Nope I rowed from half way across the world.
Depending on the context of the conversation, they may have been saying "plains".
No we have Mutant/Meta-Human powers, so we either fly or teleport ourselves.
no, my country is a huge no fly zone and that includes you jerks on the ISS. Get out of my sky!
A lady in Japan: "Do Indians have a shower in their houses or do you bathe in the Ganges everyday?"
i'm french and back in 2008 and old chinese lady in Hong-Kong ask me if Nicolas Sarkozy was an emperor or a king.
As a french i know the answer : he is/was a moron
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Japan is quite known for ignorance, though they are still very polite
Load More Replies...You know how annoying it is when you're on holidays on a very large campsite and the showers are all the way at the other side of the campsite? Imagine how annoying it is when you live in the south of India and have to travel 2400 kilometres to the Ganges to bathe. Lol.
I dare say it would not be a good idea to bathe in the Ganges at all.
As I'm Greek, I've been asked, 'So...do you believe in Greek gods like Zeus and stuff?'
Yes we do! And I just asked Zeus Almighty to grant me a couple of favors! He's a people pleaser, unlike his wife, you can't ask her for anything 😠
🤔 if I remember correctly Zeus is somewhat a womanizer, sooo it might help if you are a woman when asking for something 😅😁😉🫣
Load More Replies...No, i think this is a legit question. I live in a country that consist of many cultures. Here and there people still believe in old legends and gods and still do many rituals. So the question is just logical, at least from where i came from.
I would hope it’s a legitimate question too; because from what I understand, Hellenic pagans have only been growing in numbers since the 90s (heck, if I was at all the religious type, I’d be a pagan).
Load More Replies...Since I am in Denmark and believe in "gods like Odin and stuff" I don't think this question is too far off. There are witches/Pagans that believe in goddesses from all over the world, incl. Greek goddesses. So why not having someone believing in the entire pantheon?
Very true. I live in the US and am an Eclectic Pagan, my main deities are Hecate and Pan, who are Greek, but I also believe in the existence of many deities from other religions and beliefs.
Load More Replies...You might as well believe in the Greek gods. They're just as real as the Christian god, the Hindu gods, Buddha, Xenu....
Just not nearly as popular, sadly. None of the Greeks I know seem to have any interest in the old gods. They all want to go see this and that monastery or Orthodox shrine. No interest at all in the old relics.
Load More Replies...Wonderful - I got 2 Greek colleagues, I am going to ask them first thing tomorrow.
I hear it's making a bit of a comeback in some parts. Modern Greek pagans do exist.
I had a student email me to ask how to convert years into centuries
I can understand that it is a little confusing to be fair. The fact that 1905 is in the 20th and not in de 19th century is not necessarily apparent to everyone
That can be a valid question. I always have to remember that something that happened in the 9th century happened between 800 and 899.
I encouraged a student to figure out how to convert a value to percent by asking what percent means, I said 'like how many cents are in a dollar? ', their response was, 'you mean like 25 cents? '. This has happened to me twice with college students. My fault for putting them on the spot I guess, but really? Next time I will ask what charge a phone has when it is fully charged and see if they know 100% means a full charge
I have constantly people looking up from their computer (online) about things they could go-ogle
This friend of mine said, 'I don't think I'd understand Fantastic 4. I haven't seen Fantastic 1, 2, and 3.'
Friday the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th weren't very good either!
When The Madness of King George III was released in the USA it was retitled "The Madness of King George" so people wouldn't mistake it for a sequel.
This is not that dumb. Some people are not intune to pop culture things. I sure as hell couldn't care less about those superhero movies and have seen exactly 0 of them.
I don't have the time to watch the first 2000 Space Odyssey films, so I'll never see that classic
And that's why the film The madness of King George 3rd had to be called the madness of King George in many countries as they would have asked about the first 2 King George's!
I come from the southern hemisphere, so it is Summer in December. I told this to my friend in the US, and he immediately asked, "Wow, so you guys celebrate Christmas in June"?
I love getting my christmas card from my friend in Aus each year, it's always fun because it's so different than the ones here. Last years was a surfing koala dressed as santa iirc. xD
I love the idea of seeing all the Christmas cards at your house, all those wintery, snowy cards and 1 surfing koala Santa, lol.
Load More Replies...In Chile presents are opened on the 24th at night also I got to have a Christmas pool party which my 11 year old self thought was super cool.
Lots of northern hemisphere people are confused by the southern hemisphere. I've been asked if Australians have hot winters and cold summers (e.g., thinking that winter is always December-February wherever you are). This person was a very clever physics professor (and not American).
Christmas gets earlier and earlier each year, there is a channel that started show Christmas movies on 8th June this year (2024). What's the bet it will start at the end of May soon
Great Romance was the channel. Movies 24 will have 'Christmas in July' again this year.
Load More Replies...In Australia Santa Claus is sometimes depicted as having a sleigh drawn by kangaroos.
Q: People in Asian countries are so damn skinny and there are so many obese people in America, so why doesn't the Earth tilt towards the west because of all the extra weight in the west? A: Silence.
I have the feeling we've just witnessed the birth of a conspiracy theory!
God scooped out the Grand Canyon and used the material to build some of those mountains in Japan and Hong Kong and such. It's a bit like balancing a tire. /j
Omg...I was just about to say something about they've got tall mountains in Asia to counter balance. Also the magma is extra heavy around the ring of fire. 😎
Load More Replies...Easy answer: humans make up a tiny fraction of the Earth's weight. Our cars and buildings outweigh us by quite a margin, and even all of them don't make up a meaningful fraction of 1% of the planet's mass. Earth is huge.
I recall reading that the Earth's ants (or maybe all the insects) weigh more than all the humans. If my memory is off, it won't be the first time.
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Idiot: Your name is "Roses?" Like the flowers?
Me: No, as in "Guns n'."
AFAIK it's not uncommon in English countries to change some letters in such names so his question was valid :D
Let alone the fact that America is full of foreign-origin nanes that are spelled in a hundred various ways ever since immigration, both due to immigration officials misspelling them, the people themselves 'Americanizing" them, and the desire for differentiation or own misspelling, in later generations. Many states in The USA don't allow hyphens, apostrophes, umlauts, any kind of special characters that are official letters in other languages, or any sort of diacritics in registered names (jncluding ID cards and other formal documents). This, before we start with the original local variants if common English names in the British Isles, the less common names which originate in Celtic languages or locak dualects, or even Danish or Old Norse, or Norman French, and are spelled in a manner that may appear illogical and unintuitive even for an English speaker. And this, without delving into the world of modern first names.
Load More Replies...Maybe they thought there was a chance it could be spelt like ‘Rosas’ and just wanted to check which (Roses or Rosas) it was?
So yes, the response is witty, but after seeing countless misspellings of my own, rather usual names even after repeatedly spelling them out letter by letter as the other party writes them, I can't in any way see the presented question as either stupid or impolite. Quite to the contrary, dear Pandas. It's standard practice to ascertain, and good manners to show enough consideration by checking the spelling, and not assuming wrongly.
I think I'd double check this. I haven't heard of anyone called Roses plural, so id make sure.
They are both spelt the same way, so the correct answer to the 'flowers' question is 'yes'.
That reply has me flashing back to the classic MAD Magazine 'Al Jaffee's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions' series. https://ia904502.us.archive.org/7/items/mad-magazine-extra-books-and-issues/Extra%20Books%20and%20Issues%20Collection%20%20%7Bcbr%2Bpdf%7D/MAD%27s%20Al%20Jaffee%20Spews%20Out%20Snappy%20Answers%20to%20Stupid%20Questions%20%281968%29_text.pdf
Being a Brit, while working in a Theme park in Ohio one summer: Asked genuinely... - Do you have traffic lights? - Where in the London is the eiffel tower? - My aunt is called XXXX XXXXX, Do you know her? - Do we celebrate Christmas. - Is England near Europe? - Is it true that doctors decide if you live or die? - Do you have McDonalds ( I then said yes, and they looked wonderfully relieved) - Do you have Freeways? Was never sure if these were jokes, but to be honest I don't think they were. - Do you have electricity? - Do you know the Queen?
I'm Australian and lived in Germany for two years. I was asked if Australia had MacDonalds, told how to use a basic ATM, and it was generally assumed I knew nothing about food other than basic English food (and I'm not English background). Many people all over the world are ignorant of other countries.
Load More Replies...To be fair, regarding the Europe question, the amount of Brits I have encountered who are adamant that the Britain has left Europe ist way too high.
They did so in economic and political terms. They didn't have to move the islands farther from the continent as part of the process.
Load More Replies...That happens a lot of Europeans. In the Netherlands: "Do you have Internet?" (asked in a forum) and "Do you have drinking water and toilets in your houses?" (yes, and yoz can drink it directly from the tap, no added stuff)
I assumed all the canals were for decorative purposes. 🤪 Kidding.
Load More Replies...I'm actually glad they asked about that one. This is a BIG talking point for anti-universal healthcare pundits. Taking the opportunity to verify that claim is a good thing.
Load More Replies...Yup, had all these asked plus "Do you have swimming pools?" "Do you have televisions?" "How do you celebrate the 4th of July in England?" and "How come you speak such good English?"
I was going to ask if they were at cedar point. (Only theme park I've been to in Ohio...I think ...)
Load More Replies...damn americans, don't even know the eiffel tower is in blackpool, not london...
Unfortunately it's the dumb people who are the loudest. The more educated ones you never hear asking above questions. I worked with a "red neck" who claimed everything was invented in the US of A. I asked: Ok, and before 1776?
It's on the calendar between 3rd of July and 5th of July.
Load More Replies...As a Spanish living in Scotland I have been asked if ever rains in Spain,not just the one and only time. Also, that I must be used to eat mexican food?? Why should I? It's from a different country,from another different continent🤦♀️ In Scots people defense, I have been asked in Spain if there are guys in Scotland that wear the "skirt", the kilt, every day. There are dumb people everywhere. That’s the beauty of the thing,no discrimination LOL
'So will the website you build for us work on Internet explorer and Godzilla both?'
Aaah yes Godzilla vs Firefox.... Thinking about it, I'd probably watch that.
"Yes, but if you're using Godzilla, all the websites show up in Japanese with English subtitles at the bottom.
That's because Elon musk designed Netscape..... So...
Load More Replies...From my ex (we were quite young back then) referring to my you-know-what: 'So where does the bone go afterward?'
It goes into the uterus. Once you've had enough sex they assemble into a baby.
Time to introduce her to some Mills and Boon vocab: tumescence and turgid come to mind! Well, if you were both young I think it can be forgiven. Sex ed classes often don't focus on those details, sadly, just on babies and the menstrual cycle.
Though that's very specialized English vocabulary which isn't the same in other languages - I've only ever seen those terms in Wikipedia, as I'm neither a healthcare nor biology professional, or an intimacy therapist or sex educator. Even biology classes can be inadequate or vague on the matter, though. Ours were, likely because of the awkwardness of the topic - in our teacher's mind. Then agajn, our textbooks didn't ever introduce the cl*ris even once, they concentrated on the hormonal levels during the menstrual cycle and on the puberty. Neither did they ever represent the male parts in any other way than as a side diagram, and even that, was flaccid. This was in the Nordic Countries, the 90s, a public, respected and successful high school, nationally approved textbooks and syllabus. 🙄
Load More Replies...That's what a red state education gets you. No sciences. We got human anatomy and reproduction in 7th grade.
I once knew a girl from college. We used to travel together by the local trains. Once she wanted me to send her one of the songs that i had on my phone using blue-tooth. We tried but her phone was showing some kind of problem with the settings. We gave up when my stop/station arrived and I left. Later in the night, I got a text message saying "hey send the song now ...my blue-tooth is working.".!!! I had a good laugh that night !! The worse part is.. we are engineers!!
I'm reminded of the anti T-mobile ads claiming you need to create large holes in your exterior walls in order to get a decent signal. The ads seem to disprove themselves as the protagonist is sitting next to a window 🤦♀️
It reminds me of the old, but gold: "Hey, what is the reach of BT under ideal conditions? I mean, will it go through wall and about 15 meters in the garden?" "If 'BT' stands for 'battle tank', yes, it will."
Our outdoor speakers are, easily 65+ feet (20+-ish meters) from the source of their signal (a computer in the house) depending on where they're sitting. Most BT signals today can, very easily, reach 15+ meters, and yes, even through walls.
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My friend after watching Batman Begins...
" Dude, who is this Gotham they keep talking about all the time ? "
Estranged brother, that is. Accent on the 'strange'.
Load More Replies...Fun fact: Gotham was a tiny village in England, which lacked the resources to raise enough money from the king's visits to pay for the cost of hosting the king. So according to legend they all pretended to have gone insane, so the king would stop visiting. Thomas Nast, the guy famous for his Santa Claus paintings, figured there was a similar method to the madness of New York City, so he nicknamed New York, "Gotham" in reference to that legend. UPDATE: Apparently, Nast got it from Washington Irving, the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, about Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman (with a Jack o'Lantern for a head). Sleepy Hollow, renamed North Tarrytown, was a wealthy retreat village North of New York.
It's a woman I know called Amber, who's really into black clothes and make-up.
After a party, I was giving a friend of mine a ride home. He is not a dumb guy, but we were both pretty tired as it was late, and possibly still a little impaired too. We were stopped at a red light and he looked around and asked, “Is this where we are now?”
Not stupid at all. He recognised the surroundings and stated that he knew where you were.
Lily Tomlin's 'Ernestine, the telephone operator' character: "Hello, is this the person with whom I am speaking? *snort*"
Idiot : So what do you want to do later in life? Me : I want to be a mathematician. Idiot : Mathematician? Didn't they exist only in ancient times?
Yep, once we identified what all the numbers were, we closed up shop. The imaginary numbers were the hardest ones to spot.
It's a job like scribe. A mathematician was the person you went to to do calculations before people invented schools. You'd maybe be a farmer selling your produce in the market, and when you needed to work out the price, you'd pay the village mathematician a copper or two to add it all up. The job became obsolete due to widespread numeracy but there are still a few artisanal mathematicians around.
2 + 2 = um, no it's no good. I'll have to refer to the ancient manuscripts.
My brother wanted to be a mathematician when he was in primary school, but kept forgetting the word and saying he wanted to be a mathmetitics :)
I wasn't asked this directly, but a former Indian co-worker of mine was asked while visiting Texas: "Are there cars in India?" That one really stuck with me. But the Texan was equally dumbfounded when my co-worker didn't recognize the name of the Dallas Cowboys' head coach.
Texans appear to be the cliched Yorkshiremen of America. As in they think they are superior to people from other parts of the country.
I don't know the name of the Dallas Cowboys head coach and I live in the USA. I don't know because it doesn't interest me. Do people outside the US follow American football? I wouldn't expect them to.
Like they have a "world series" in baseball that's only the US and a team from Canada...
Load More Replies...British colleague of mine in Mexico sat with an Italian couple and a Texan couple at dinner. Texan asks the Italian "hey, have you guys got running water yet?" Brit replies, "their country had running water nearly 2000 years before your country was discovered"!!!
One guy at my office thought in our India office, they tie elephants in parking lots as they still use it for commute. Late 90s/in Virginia...
Well, most of the pictures and documentaries of India that Americans see are of the poorer parts. And some people just don't bother to research further.
I wouldn't have but I am not from Texas. India makes small cars. And tractors
Why don't all Africans have the same name, you know, like Chinese people?
My husband was accused of lying about being North African because he's light skinned. People are funny 😁
No, it's just because there are too many people, there are only so many Chinese characters, and there are only so many surnames. When there are enough combinations, there will always be duplicate names.
Load More Replies...Doesn't Iceland have an official names list and you can only name your child a name that's on the list? I think I remember hearing that when I visited.
Load More Replies...Um, the ones who have just a few sir names are the Koreans. Chinese have a nice variety of names.
"Do women stop peeing when they're pregnant?"
Yes. Pregnant women, especially in the 3rd trimester, are famously known for never having to pee all the time. JFC 😐🤦♂️
Right? Only every hour. And every time you stand up. And every time baby shifts to dig some limb into your bladder. And 18 times a night when you're trying to sleep.
Load More Replies...After many months, it is such a relief when their water breaks and all the pee comes out. /j
Hahahahaha. Someone's never hung around a very pregnant woman. We pee every couple minutes it seemed like.
Categorically, no. Think of the extra pressure on your pelvis. And particularly when your child kicks you right in the bladder! I preferred that to him playing the xylophone on my ribcage with his feet though. He's still a mystery to me.
Apparently, I would shove my fist under her ribcage and lock my elbow.
Load More Replies...Ha - my stepmother, when pregnant, thought the baby was in her bladder, floating in a sac of urine......
This one, I have to admit, I'm guilty of asking a coworker a few years ago: 'What date is Cinco de Mayo?'
Exactly. Or if you're from another culture, you won't even know what it is.
Load More Replies...Why would you know that unless you speak spanish or live in an area that cares
Cinco de Mayo literally means May 5th in spanish, but you won't know this if you don't know the language, it's not about being dumb.
The people who drove me crazy are the ones who pronounce Mayo as if they are going to ask for a spread for their sandwich.
I have fraternal twins (a boy and a girl, with separate placentas), and someone asked if they were identical. Errrrrrr, no
The placentas doesn't matter, as I recall you can have identical twins with separate placentas. But in this case gender/sex matters, if they are different genders they are not identical.
To be honest, as a non native speaker, the fraternal twin thing isn't a commonly known definition. We say one egg twins or two egg twins.
Sure. AND… if the plumbing is different, it’s obviously 2 eggs. 😉
Load More Replies...Someone was telling me about these cute twins where one favours her dark dad and the other favours her white mom, and he kept telling me they're identical. Like he couldn't grasp that identical means same DNA. Not one black, one white.
People asked my parents that too. I'm nearly three years older than my brother but we do look frighteningly alike!
Are there toilets in Pakistan? For real. No kidding.
no they s**t on trees ... for f*ck sake, stupidity and racism are never that far from each other
It might've been valid to ask if they have toilet seat type of lavatories in Pakistan - because the squatting type apparently dominates the selection everywhere else but in the big cities, tourist areas, and hotels. The same goes for quite a few other non-Western countries around the world, actually regardless of their development status otherwise, eg. in the wealthy Arab countries. But that, isn't the same thing as having no lavatories at all, which does happen in poor, rural areas, also in Pakistan, but in many other countries, too. The indoor (and especially the water closet type) lavatory is a luxury for the majority of the world's poorest quarter of people.
What's the phone number to 911?
Apparently One of the reasons they teach kids 9-1-1 and not 9-11 is because some really young children (and I'm sure not so bright adults) actually look for the "11" key, especially in an emergency/panic. 9-1-1.
eh, I can maybe understand this if it's an American travelling abroad and needing to know the emergency number, tbf. (tip: if in the EU, 112 works for all EU member countries, in the UK it's 999 however, though apparently 112 works here too but we just use 999)
That's straight out of a Simpson's episode. Homer picks up the phone and says. "Operator! Give me the number for 911!"
It is actually +49(Germany) 711 (Stuttgart) 911-0 (for Porsch-e). Oh how they wish they could change the area code from 711 to 911!!
I happen to be a bookworm and own a couple hundred books. Friends (college mates, those who stay nearby) often pop up, look at my books and ask, "Do you have any good books?" No, I keep them around to burn for fuel.
Having hundred's of books, doesn't necessarily mean you have "good" books, I also own a couple of hundred books, and my daughter would argue that none of them are good (except for one book on Irish mythology)
Irish mythology is great. Was reading a book on it earlier
Load More Replies...Maybe it's a way of making conversation, just as some people would ask what you're reading at the moment, or which is your favorite in a certain subject.
"Do you have Samsung iPod ?"
iPod is a brand (or Apple is the brand, and iPod is a specific product of Apple). Samsung is a completely different brand. So you wouldn't have an Apple Galaxy (just for example, Galaxy is a Samsung brand), or a Samsung iPod.
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I am an Indian and work at McAfee-Antivirus, Encryption, Firewall, Email Security, Web Security, Risk & Compliance.
Once I was travelling in the metro in Delhi (yellow line which was going towards North Campus (DU)). A young guy (possibly a DU student) asked me where I work, and I said that I work at McAfee in Bangalore.
He said, "Yeah, yeah, I tried that new flavor of cold coffee at McDonald's recently. But if you had to work in McDonald's, why did you go to Bangalore? You could have worked here in Delhi only."
That moment I just felt like jumping on the metro track and dying!
To be honest, McAfee and McCafe sound very similar. An honest mistake.
" I am an Indian and work at McAfee-Antivirus, Encryption, Firewall, Email Security, Web Security, Risk & Compliance. " Sorry, had to laugh. I always laugh when i see the name "mcafee" next to the word "antivirus"
I did too. McAfee is no longer the best in antiviruses. Edit: or never was? I never had it.
Load More Replies...Why not just say 'McAfee' instead of 'McAfee-Antivirus Encryption Firewall whatever'?
McAfee, McDonald`s... same quality, so it's easy to mix them up
You do know that the Southern Asisn countries handle a lion's share of the customer service, helpdesk, and troubleshooting for many if not most Western countries too? These countries have high-rated Technical Universities and produce a huge share of the world's coders these days. Just because it's in Asia doesn't make it poorly executed (but neither self-evidently good, though).
Load More Replies...Random Aunt (at a family function):So, you're an engineer, which college did you attend? Me: Bits pilani Random Aunt: (Where is it)? Me: Goa Random Aunt (With pity in her voice):Oh, poor boy, you didnt get seat in your hometown? Me: (Dumbfounded) : NO Random Aunt: So where are you working? Me: Started my own company Random aunt (with even more pity): ayyo! you didnt get a job? keep trying, Random aunt, rubs my hair and walks off.
A random guy I met: Where do you work? Me: At Yahoo! A random guy I met: Can you help me access my girlfriend's email?
'Oh, easily. I can do it from your e-mail. I can make it so you can view hers like it's yours and she'll be none the wiser. What's your password?'
The guy really sounds like he already knows how to do turn-offs.
Load More Replies...While in school, where 12th grade is considered very important:- People in general : Which class are you in? Me : 11th People in general : Oh! So next year your going to be in 12th?? Me: No I'm gonna plead the principal to let me go back to class 10 :D
Probably just someone being polite to a kid they don't know and asking generic questions. Harmless.
Exactly, keeping the conversation alive, being friendly.
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I was asked: 'Is this the end of the line?' I answered: 'No, it's the front. We're all standing backward
Yes, sometimes people are just standing around, not in any line at all.
Load More Replies...Thats just a guy being a jerk in his response. Sometimes its not clear if people are standing in line.
Sometimes, and I've discovered this happens a lot in America, people just get in lines. Without even questioning if they're actually in a line for something. Or they see a couple people standing and then just stand behind them.
This one is just rude. Person was trying to be polite. I've seen many situations where the line went around the corner, or there was a gap for people to walk through but the line continued after the gap - and so on. And I've seen people who didn't ask the question start to cut in line because they assumed it was the end of the line and it wasn't.
but quite scary sometimes. That level of stupidity is .... i don't know, concerning ?
Load More Replies...Most of these are simply people being uneducated or not tech-savvy. There is a difference between stupidity and inexperience/not being knowledgeable on a subject.
I grew up in an area near Stockport, when I went travelling around Europe in my late teens I stopped saying that was my home town, no one knew it (no surprise really) so I’d just say I was from Manchester (it’s the nearest city and Stockport is part of the wider area of Greater Manchester), I lost count of how many people asked if I knew the Manchester United players. Yup 2 point something million residents, I know them well….
Maybe you knew the Manchester CITY players better. . .
Load More Replies...I once met up with a friend and a few of her colleagues downtown in front of a public library. Me: I was here earlier today. One of the colleagues: Oh, are you still in college? Me: No. Him: So why do you still go to a library?
People still think that there are lions and zebras running in the streets in South Africa. Sometimes tigers, too. We always say tigers aren't indigenous to Africa but then two weeks in a row tigers escaped from sanctuaries here so it's hard to deny.
I'm a little concerned that this isn't even scraping the surface of dumb that most of us experience.
I have blonde hair, blue eyes, and am very clearly of European decent. I was asked, "Where were you born?" - "Japan." - "But you don't look Japanese." - "Because I'm not Japanese." - *visible confusion*
If u were born in Japan u r Japanese. U r not Asian but u r Japanese. It's a country not an ethnicity
Load More Replies...An Aussie here. When I studied in the US in the early 70s, I was asked lots of questions, such as " oh you're an Australian .... how did you get here ... ? Was it by train ?
Once, when unwell and on some hefty pain meds, I asked on a fb post about a vegan alternative to silk, how they could possibly get the silk off the silk worms without harming them? In the morning I looked at fb before the meds kicked in and all I can say is that a lot of people really made sure to make it clear that I was Stupid. I can't even disagree. Another time a uni student (2023) asked how the lecturer to explain how they were using the start bar to switch between programs
but quite scary sometimes. That level of stupidity is .... i don't know, concerning ?
Load More Replies...Most of these are simply people being uneducated or not tech-savvy. There is a difference between stupidity and inexperience/not being knowledgeable on a subject.
I grew up in an area near Stockport, when I went travelling around Europe in my late teens I stopped saying that was my home town, no one knew it (no surprise really) so I’d just say I was from Manchester (it’s the nearest city and Stockport is part of the wider area of Greater Manchester), I lost count of how many people asked if I knew the Manchester United players. Yup 2 point something million residents, I know them well….
Maybe you knew the Manchester CITY players better. . .
Load More Replies...I once met up with a friend and a few of her colleagues downtown in front of a public library. Me: I was here earlier today. One of the colleagues: Oh, are you still in college? Me: No. Him: So why do you still go to a library?
People still think that there are lions and zebras running in the streets in South Africa. Sometimes tigers, too. We always say tigers aren't indigenous to Africa but then two weeks in a row tigers escaped from sanctuaries here so it's hard to deny.
I'm a little concerned that this isn't even scraping the surface of dumb that most of us experience.
I have blonde hair, blue eyes, and am very clearly of European decent. I was asked, "Where were you born?" - "Japan." - "But you don't look Japanese." - "Because I'm not Japanese." - *visible confusion*
If u were born in Japan u r Japanese. U r not Asian but u r Japanese. It's a country not an ethnicity
Load More Replies...An Aussie here. When I studied in the US in the early 70s, I was asked lots of questions, such as " oh you're an Australian .... how did you get here ... ? Was it by train ?
Once, when unwell and on some hefty pain meds, I asked on a fb post about a vegan alternative to silk, how they could possibly get the silk off the silk worms without harming them? In the morning I looked at fb before the meds kicked in and all I can say is that a lot of people really made sure to make it clear that I was Stupid. I can't even disagree. Another time a uni student (2023) asked how the lecturer to explain how they were using the start bar to switch between programs
