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Take a moment to think of how many times you have called someone dumb or a fool. That's probably because what you saw them do or heard from him made zero sense. Although you might’ve been right, to define who is the stupidest person in the world (or could be eligible to claim that title), you must know what stupidity really means.
In the Cambridge dictionary, stupidity is described as being silly or unwise. In other words, a stupid person is someone whose behavior is funny and unreasonable or someone whose acts are out of a lack of intelligence. The formal term to define such a person is "imbecile," which is the antonym of intelligent.
In terms of IQ Score, most mid-level intelligent people score between 85 and 115. Those who fall under 70 on IQ tests are considered to be cognitively impaired. And although we can't jump to conclusions to determine someone's sheer stupidity just from a few foolish moments, it doesn't mean we can't at least eye-roll on repeat.
So when someone on Reddit asked a seemingly basic question, “Who was the dumbest person you met?” the answers started flowing, with each one overshadowing the previous one. Thus, we won't respond with the name of the stupidest person in the world. Instead, we will list 35 moments people believed they’ve met the dumbest person in the world.
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#1
I know a woman who bragged on Facebook that she scored 84 on her IQ test.... She thought it was out of 100.
Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)
I'm not sure she'd understand it if someone tried to explain it to her
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RoseTheMad 4 years ago
Reminds me of that woman who shared her result of an IQ test on facebook, claiming she had an IQ of 125, but her results clearly showed she had an IQ of 85... Then again, IQ doesn't measure all forms of intelligence so doesn't always mean everything, but you can clearly tell she was dumb by the fact she tried to tell that lie to begin with. xD
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#2
My neighbours taking the batteries out of the carbonmonoxide detector because it was making noise almost every day.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Not sure if that's a wise decision. I'd recommend they sleep on it.
Aria Whitaker 4 years ago (edited)
Um, while this IS a very dumb thing to do...you all know that the detector DOES make a chirping sound when the battery needs to be replaced, and does so every 10 mins or so, right? So the sound he was hearing was probably not the actual alarm indicating carbon monoxide...but the battery chirp. They probably didn't die. Unless they actually had a leak whilst the battery was out....
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One of my classmates told me I was racist and reported me to the principle after I mentioned Nigeria in geography class
Ian Koch 4 years ago (edited)
oof. Twitch thinks the word N1ger (the name of a country) is... well... the No No racist word. (edit: apparently so does BP, I had to replace the i with a 1)
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Michelle M 4 years ago
Yo, I'm Nigerian. Not surprised since everything is considered to be racist or offensive nowadays.
Sum Guy 4 years ago (edited)
You should have mentioner N-i-g-e-r (I had to write it like this because boredpanda also thinks it's a slur) to have a full mental breakdown.... better yet, write it down so that the pronunciation doesn't rat you out
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
It's the Sc*nthorpe problem on an international scale.
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Bakugo Katsuki 4 years ago
Damn, I'm from Nigeria and this disturbs me greatly, like dumb just dumb🤦🏾♀️
Random Anon 4 years ago
People are jumping left and right onto the "woke" bandwagon without actually researching first. I've read about stories on how these numbskulls are "offended" by other languages that carry a whole different meaning. Like the Chinese "那个" or Japanese "逃げる".
Louloubelle 4 years ago
I wanted to as well. It was just itching away there.
Load More Replies... cassiushumanmother 4 years ago (edited)
Wait until he discover the river... "you know a 24yo Scottish man was the first one to get down on the Nig.r! Before that the NIg.r was always being mistaken for a certain Niel." OH come on, BP censored a freaking river now.
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Yep, any time you mention race in class (especially elementary school) you'll be called racist. Like, I didn't know that saying "African-American person" or "person from Japan" was racist. xD
#4
My old roommate. He put an electric kettle made of plastic on the stove. I came upstairs to black smoke as it melted. I threw it in the trash and yelled at him for nearly burning the house down. It has a cord sticking out of it and everything
An hour later I came back upstairs to the same thing. [He] went through the trash and put it back on the stove.
I get the first time if he's never seen an electric kettle before but a second time? With the same kettle? A melted kettle? The guy doesn't even do drugs.
#5
Flat earthers
Anti vaxxer
People who think crystals can heal you
Max 4 years ago
My anti-stress crystal is very effective. I just pick it up and throw it at the person causing me stress and it all just goes away.
Dizzy Falcon 4 years ago
I have an anti stress pillow. I punch it. But I have a salt crystal that does the same thing 😁
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A U T O P H O B I A 4 years ago
Lucky me I never talk to people so I don't
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Stacy Dean 4 years ago
We had a US President that thought you could inject bleach into your bloodstream and/or insert a light into your lungs to cure Covid-19.
Sergio Bicerra 4 years ago
A former friend treated her mother with "care and love" after she got covid cause they don't believe in medicine. Is a miracle the lady didn't die. Guess who isn"t gonna get vaccinated.
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Monday 4 years ago
People who think crystals can heal you are harmful since they stick crystals on their kids instead of taking them to the doctor. Flat earthers are probably harmless though.
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Bill Cipher 4 years ago
i have cristals my abuela brings them for me and i love them their so pretty she always blesses them for me
Watching 4 years ago
Well, you always love anything your Abuela brings you. It's a gift filled with love.
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Ahsoka Tano 4 years ago
Yeah. Essential oils can help with falling asleep or calming or relaxing and such, but giving you courage? NO WAY!
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Vorknkx 4 years ago
Don't you just love it when they bring out the smug smile and say "Do your own research"...
Dilly Millandry 4 years ago
Yep, particularly when theirs probably consisted of listening to some moronic influencer!!
Load More Replies... RoseTheMad 4 years ago
I have crystals because 1. I think they are beautiful and 2. I am somewhat into the pagan/wiccan stuff. That said, I'm having any vaccines that are offered to me, and the earth is clearly a globe. Hell, remember that infamous tweet from the Flat Earth Society...? GLOBE. SPHERE. ROUND.
Dilly Millandry 4 years ago
Crystals are lovely. They just aren't a substitute.
Load More Replies... Susan 4 years ago
Don't think I'll hazard a guess about the crystals, but I suspect that a vin diagram of flat earthers, and Trump supporters would be close to a perfect circle.
Chriscella 4 years ago
I live in the middle of Glastonbury and Stonehenge. We get lots of number 3's around here.
#6
My former boss was worried that the island of Manhattan would sink with all the extra visitors for New Years and the ball dropping. She thought islands float and when she found out that wasn’t true she thought it was so funny that she told everyone the story.
She was later fired for withholding a pay raise from someone on her team because he didn’t accept her sexual advances. He had the texts to prove it.
markthomasc 4 years ago
Rep Hank Johnson (D-GA) was worried that Guam would become over populated and tip over. It's on youtube. He asked Adm. Robert Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in a congressional hearing about it.
Louloubelle 4 years ago
I remember that one. I wondered how he crossed a street without being hit by a car.
Load More Replies... Full of Giggles 4 years ago
At least she was able to admit she was wrong and could laugh at herself.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Funnily enough she's somewhat right. E.g. the whole of Holland goes up & down tidally, because there's so much water in the ground which is equally affected by the tides as is the sea --- without, the high/low water difference would be even larger. This is relevant when trying to determine "sea level", I remember this from research about 20y ago but can't find it at the moment.
Marie 4 years ago
yes, the part built on polders... but an island won't act the same.
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Bettye McKee 4 years ago
How do idiots get to be bosses? But a Senator from Georgia was worried that too many people might move to one side of Guam and the island would tip over into the ocean. Who voted for him anyway?
Paul Davis 4 years ago
I've met people who seem perfectly intelligent otherwise, who insist that an earthquake can make California "fall into the sea"
#7
A friend’s partner said she was vegan. Another friend jokingly said ‘you’re not vegan, you eat corn on the cob, which is actually the spine of a cow’. Aforementioned friend’s partner started crying about how much she loved eating cow spine and was really upset, genuine tears of sorrow at how she wasn’t a vegan at all.
From that day forth, corn was known as Cow spine on the cob and their relationship didn’t last for too long, probably a week after she asked why Mel Gibson didn’t just phone the English King to negotiate in Braveheart.....
Amy Smith 4 years ago (edited)
My gfs sister had an ex who took the stupid cake. 1. Thought pasta grew on trees - dragged us around Harlow looking for the "Fusilli Tree" he swore he had seen. 2. Thought that cows couldn't produce milk unless they ate "milk grass" and that human women didn't produce milk. He couldn't provide an explanation for what he thought we breastfed babies. I'm not sure I'd want to hear it.
H Edwards 4 years ago
For many years, some people in the UK believed that pasta grew on trees, due to a BBC April Fools joke that was aired on TV in the 1950s when most English people didn't have much exposure to other cuisines.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
My brother tricked my daughter in thinking he was eating giant slug for dinner. It was actually sweet potato shaped a bit like a slug and because it was cooked whole which made it a browny/grey colour and wrinkly. She was even willing to try it.
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
You have to wonder about her upbringing to have such major blind spots.
#8
Ex-girlfriend. I once said out loud "I wonder how dolphins have sex?" She said, with conviction "There aren't boy dolphins and girl dolphins. They're just dolphins." You know, like magical.
And she argues with me for about 2 hours.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
I had a classmate in the first year of our bachelor in biology arguing that whales and dolphins are fish and not mammals. I would find it stupid in a normal person, but in a student of biology...
Raine Soo 4 years ago
My friend had a distant relative who was getting married. The florist told the bride: "If you want the flowers to last, put them in the fridge before the big day, so that they don't blow open before the photography session." The bride had a brilliant thought: If the flowers will last long in the fridge, they will last even longer in the freezer. She had dead frozen flowers the day of her wedding. And, by the way, she was studying bio-chemistry.
Load More Replies... Vasana Phong 4 years ago
Sad to say some adults forget that factor about the birds and bees with animals, they think female animals ( in some cases males) just naturally get impregnated.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
These birds do WHAT to the bees to get them pregnant?!
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Paul Davis 4 years ago
It's always amazing to me how many people will simply invent facts out of their own heads with zero evidence to back them, and will argue and scream at other people who don't go along with the facts they just invented.
Christy Smith 4 years ago
You should have just tethered her on Google instead of arguing against a huge amount of ignorance / stupidity
Melissa Vellis 4 years ago
My husband argued with me for hours, even after many Google searches proved him wrong... That Sheep and Lambs were entirely different animals! It was baaaaad.
#9
My ex-gf thought rhinoceroses were dinosaurs. Then, we were watching King Kong and toward the end of the movie she asked if it was based on a true story.
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
I had a friend who’s girlfriend dumped him because he told her the ship sank in the end of the movie they were going to see. The film was Titanic.
Amy Smith 4 years ago
I took a woman on a date to the Natural History Museum (London) once, we were standing there looking at the animatronic T Rex when she turns round and remarks "isn't it funny to think our ancestors would have seen these running around the back garden". I would have let it slide if she hadn't been corrected by a kid on a school trip (must have been about 7 - we were in our late 20s). I wish I could say it was meant as a joke but she was genuinely convinced. She was really nice though.
A Cat Named Dragon 4 years ago
Good that at least the children know better : ) I am actually related to people who think dinosaurs were invented to fake that the earth is older than Genesis...
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Full of Giggles 4 years ago
I once had to explain to my 60+ year old dad that dinosaurs were animals because they’re reptiles. I then had to explain that reptiles are in fact animals. He’s spent most of his 60+ years on this planet believing only mammals and birds were animals.
Jon S. 4 years ago
That was a genuine position taken by some naturalists in the 19th century. He wasn't dumb, just behind the times in definitions. Some definitions also excluded birds and humans. The wider term 'creature' would be used where we now use animal.
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Yugan Talovich 4 years ago
I suddenly understand why evangelicals say dinosaurs and humans existed together.
Leighann Ashlee Unciano 2 years ago
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
#10
Met a dude sophomore year of college. I told him the story of the dumbest person I had ever met up to that point and his response was “well.. that’s understandable though... up until last year I didn’t know the U.S. and the United States were the same thing”
We went to college in the U.S. and again this was our sophomore year. Dude was an 19 year-old full blooded American.
Soviet_catto 4 years ago
as in born and raised in america... so technically yes.
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Jamie MacDouglass 3 years ago
AA perhaps? most "students" are worthless party idiots!
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#11
Girl in my high school history class thought mount Rushmore naturally grew like that
Ian Koch 4 years ago
mountains do *technically* grow, because of the movement of the tectonic plates.
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Random Person 4 years ago
The mountain just pulled a oak tree and yeeted out of the ground with faces on it.
Paul Davis 4 years ago
My wife thought all the colorful and oddly-shaped stones in Utah were painted and sculpted by the people there.
Liset Vossen 4 years ago
Yep, the mount was there and then they made some guys president because they resembled the rock-faces ;) (there are probably worse reasons why someone became president ;) )
Dodo 4 years ago
I could totally believe some Americans accepting a prophecy like that.
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Polly Culberson 4 years ago
Or, preferably, right now, since he's the bestest prez we've ever had!
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#12
one of my coworkers once said “racism didn’t start until the early 2000s”. i almost fell in the floor after he said that.
Anne 4 years ago
Nah.. it started to end.. but we are still very much in the process of it ending.. we have some way to go.
Robin Roper 4 years ago
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Benjamin McDonald 4 years ago
Actually I believed this, my extremely racist white nationalist parents forced me to think this way and that BIPOC were making us seem racist so BIPOC could take away our nation and send us to England, or kill us off. Uh-huh wild childhood
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Wowser that's some extreme fear and (I don't know the word, making into an enemy) of BIPOC! I can see you escaped this way of thinking :) I hope the journey from that beginning to the understanding you have now wasn't to hard of a path to walk, though I can imagine it would not have been pleasant for you :(
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Louloubelle 4 years ago
You know, you want to know more, but engaging would only cause your head to explode.
Jamie MacDouglass 3 years ago
bet you cried when trump won! biden stole the election and you libs know it!
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#13
Uncle telling us about a guy he worked with. Guy buys a nice, new car. Car comes with cruise control and built in GPS. Guy wrecks new car. Apparently he typed in an address and set the cruise control... He thought that he didn't have to drive after setting in where he wanted to go, the car would just take him where he wanted to go.
Angela B 4 years ago (edited)
Possibly.....but the current automated ones seem to be crashing as well.
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Mark Johansen 4 years ago
Someday people will read this story and say, "I don't get it. That's how cars work."
Night Owl 4 years ago
A head injury would explain some of the things he did (like giving his kid that name)
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Damon Hill 4 years ago
Sadly, I've heard of this exact thing way too many times. One was even a motorhome and he sued them manufacturer and won. Our judicial system is as hopeless as our government.
Jossh Nine 3 years ago
Yup...was Winnebago. They had an ad years and years ago that stated, "This thing drives itself".
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Dónal Ó Murchadha 4 years ago
2 guy in the US were in a crash in a new Tesla with intelligent driving. It was found that neither were in the driver seat at the time..... Murka!
#14
A girl I used to work with in a call centre. She used to ask me stuff like “why do trees grow upwards?” or “the sun goes round the earth doesn’t it?” Then one day she asked me “does the earth spin and clouds stay still, or does the earth stay still and the clouds move?”
I miss you Ria!
François Carré 4 years ago
Yes, and her questions were kinda poetic. Especially the earth spin and clouds one.
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Meike H 4 years ago
Wouldn't call this dumb, a little uneducated maybe but curious and imaginative. I think most people wouldn't be able to tell through what exact biological mechanism trees grow upward but it is kinda rare for someone to realize on their own that there is something to explain there.
Johnny 4 years ago
"why do trees grow upwards" is a very interesting question, and I wasn't sure if scientists even understood the mechanism. I assumed they just grew toward the sun, but it's actually more complicated (and more interesting) than that: "Trees (and most other plants) detect gravity using tiny structures within the cells of their roots and shoots called ‘statoliths’, which tell them which way is up (a process known as ‘gravitropism’). Statoliths are drawn by gravity towards the bottom of their cell, telling the tree that this direction is down. The tree responds by growing its roots downwards and shoots upwards. If, however, the tree were blown onto its side, the statoliths would shift and settle against whichever part of the cell was now facing downwards. The tree would then use this information to re-orient itself and continue to grow its shoots vertically."
Virgil Sanders 4 years ago
this isn't so bad. at least she was asking and not just stating fake facts as if they were real, like some people
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Those are questions about phenomena that most people take for granted and are actually reasonable questions with valid scientific answers.
Nadine Debard 4 years ago
True. "plants package starch into structure called statoliths. The statoliths are dense within the plant’s cytoplasm in which they're suspended. So, they sink due to gravity and it’s this movement that allows the plant to tell which way gravity is acting." Source: the naked scientists
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in third grade, i was talking with another kid about kiwi birds and she proceeded to tell me that those birds laid kiwi fruit instead of eggs
Curry on... 4 years ago
I can accept this from a 3rd grader. Now, someone 18 or over....not so much.
Tessa Merkley 4 years ago
I once saw I meme where it was a kiwi bird eating kiwis and it said canabilism...idk
Pan Narrans 4 years ago
This is something I would tell my lad straight faced. Let's see if he thinks for himself.
Lorelai Purvis 4 years ago
Actually kind of makes sense, as kiwi birds do kind of look like the fruit. So maybe she was wrong, but there was some reasoning behind it.
#16
In college a girl told me she had SIDS when she was a baby.
Ian Koch 4 years ago
what's SIDS? or is 14 year old me too young to be able to know what that is.
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Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago (edited)
she caught a bad case of death, but got over it after a while
I want cake 4 years ago
It's very rare to be caught soon enough for resuscitation to have any chance of working but it does happen on occasion.
Load More Replies... Pusfarm 4 years ago
For many years there was a store near me in LA called Sid's Baby Furniture. Eventually, they changed their name and ultimately, I believe, closed altogether. But I don't think the closure had anything to do with the name; an enormous housing and retail project was contributing to the influx of hipsters and tech workers to "Silicon Beach," so I'm guessing real estate prices were getting ridiculous. But Sid's Baby Furniture was a running joke for many years.
Liz the Wanderer 4 years ago
They have alarms now for babies with SIDS, so the parents come and revive the baby. So thanks to technology, this is now possible.
#17
Friend thought syphilis was what you got from eating raw chicken. He told our whole economics class he got syphilis one time.
Kristof De Smet 4 years ago
The question is: did he really get syphilis? Or did he eat raw chicken?
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I'm guessing that may have been a bit of a brain fart. I hope
#18
In high school, there was this one girl in my history class. She went for an IQ test once. We wrote a history test in class, and a week later we get our tests back. This girl failed miserably and she decided it would be a smart idea to tell the teacher he can't give her an F because "she scored 70 on an IQ test so she's not allowed to fail." The worst part is, she genuinely believed an IQ test would give her a pass on failing tests, so she failed EVERY SUBJECT that year. I still talk to her on Twitter now and then, turns out she's a flat-earther now.
Susan 4 years ago
If I'm not mistaken an IQ of 70, or less is an indication of intellectual disability. It seems unfair that she was expected to compete in an ordinary classroom.
I want cake 4 years ago
To be fair, with an IQ of 70 I'm not surprised. Anything lower than 70 is classed as 'extremely low intelligence' so at 'borderline' it's quite understandable that she has trouble grasping certain concepts. Just remember that IQ only tests for a very specific type of intelligence, and doesn't test at all for other types of aptitude. Just because someone has a low IQ doesn't mean they're stupid allround.
Aleksei 4 years ago
I now see how my comment is bad and now I am covering it.
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Isidien Gudmundsdottir 4 years ago
Flat earthers have supporters all around the globe, you know....
Whipple Walker 4 years ago
Most flat-eathers IQs aren't even that high. She's probably on her way to being a Republican Senator.
#19
A customer who thought he should be able to get the Jordan Bred 11s for 90% off because of 2 "coupons" he had. One of these coupons was a print out of a 70% off clearance promotion from Nike's website and the other was a 20% off coupon from Payless that expired in 2017. I've never been more confused, frustrated, and exasperated than I was during the 10 minute interaction where myself, two managers and a customer tried to explain to this man why this wasn't going to happen.
Jenny Rosbach 4 years ago
I actually kind of feel sorry for this guy, this has probably happened to him before.
Pezor Zass 4 years ago
There are people who are genuinely too stupid to get this, but there are also those who think that it's stupid to not try for whatever you can get away with. If you can be so annoying that they'll give you a discount, you'd be stupid not to, kind of thing. I think the second type are way worse
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Telmo Belo 4 years ago
He could have just printed the 70% twice and get paid to take the shoes...
Ian Collins 4 years ago
He was probably one of those people who intentionally get others frustrated to the point that they give in, to get rid of him
Louloubelle 4 years ago
I worked at a fabric store that would have sales, then occasionally give "an additional 10% off". Trying to explain to people that you don't just add them together was mind blowing. I always felt like an algebra teacher after those days.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Manager is right: First 70% off leaves you with 30% to pay, then 20% off this remainder (=6% of the original full price) leaves you with 24% of the original --- these two combine to 76% off not 90%...
Dave Taylor 4 years ago
thats nothing..when I was a kid and there were coupons that said "SAVE 25 CENTS"..I thought all I had to do was SAVE 25 cents and purchase product for 25 cents....:p
Kelly Von Tee 4 years ago
Stores don't usually stack coupons on one item, either, even if they were actually valid. lol
#20
Let me tell you about this woman that my uncle dated for a while. She was really a special kind of dumb. I'm just gonna go ahead and list the top 3 that I can remember, but I'm sure there's more. These were all relayed to me years later as I wasn't around at the time. It's a running joke between some family members.
•Thought pork chops came from horses.
•Met a guy who had lost a portion of his ear in some kind of accident. Upon meeting she just asked him with no class at all: "Hey, what happened to your ear?" His response: "I turned my head too fast and bit my earlobe off." She was totally cool with that answer.
•Went grocery shopping and assumed that whatever number of chicken legs came in a pack was how many legs that chicken must have had.
There was also something to do with a moose, but I can't remember the specifics on that.
Dippin Dot 4 years ago
A Møøse once bit my sister... mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...
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Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
I met a farmer who genetically altered a chicken to have six legs. This was so his kids didn't fight over the drumsticks. I asked him how it tasted... He said he had no idea… He couldn't catch the f*****g thing.
Cecilia 4 years ago
@Philly Bob, know this one (no offense meant to anyone btw)? A blonde deserts her home town out of shame, and dyes her hair brown. She drives past a farm and sees a herd of sheep. She goes up to the farmer and ask, "If I guess how many sheep you have can I have one?" The farmer nodded. What are the chances she'll guess right? She continued. "159" The farmer is surprised. "How did you know?" "Lucky guess" She grabs one and gets in her car. The farmer comes up and says, "If I can guess your real hair color can I get my sheepdog back?"
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TheDutchGinger 4 years ago
The muppet's Swedish chef once poured chocolate on a moose, and called it chocolate mousse. Maybe that woman saw it and thought, that's how chocolate mousse is made?
Raine Soo 4 years ago
The pork chops coming from horses example sounds familiar to me. I had an ex-boyfriend who couldn't tell the difference between beef and pork,. I'd make pork chops and he'd say that it was steak. I'd make a rib roast, and he'd say that it was pork. The only thing he knew was chicken. He wasn't dumb. He used to just eat whatever his mother put in front of him, and didn't question it. Oh, and he had trouble distinguishing between left and right.
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
Someone once asked me how I got a cut on my forehead. So I said, "I accidentally bit myself."
Amanda Matthew 3 years ago
Probably thought that moose were boys and deer were girls, or something like that.
#21
In fourth grade we had a motivational speaker come in and talk to us who was completely blind since birth. At the end they had time for questions and a girl asked why they didn't just wear super thick glasses. When the person replied that they cannot see ANYTHING, so there would be nothing to magnify, the girl said "No like SUPER thick glasses." We were only in fourth grade but we all were looking at her like how do you not get this. The blind dude just shook his head.
Yort 4 years ago
I mean, legally blind people sometimes just need really thick glasses. But it’s a great solution when a child asks a stupid question to just glare at her and not try to explain anything.
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
In 4th grade, our teacher taught us stuff about being blind as we were getting a new student who wasn't completely blind, but extremely poor sight. We learned to pour drinks blindfolded (put tip of finger over lip of cup), using the walking stick, etc. When she arrived 2 weeks later, we couldn't wait to meet her and show off our new skills. Andrea was and is amazing. She did things we didn't think she could. She taught us a lot. Her "helper" often had nothing to do because all of us wanted to her helper. Amazing what she taught a bunch of 9-10 year olds just by being herself
#22
Had a friend in HS that could predict rain by looking at the stars....if the big dipper was upside down "the water would pour out and it would rain tomorrow" She was 17
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
It never rains when you can clearly see the (upright) constellations, so I guess yes? "Can't see the stars, so MAY be upside down, so MAY rain" seems 100% correct prediction.
Load More Replies... Steve Wilson 4 years ago
I can predict rain by looking at the stars, too. If I can see stars it means there are no clouds in the sky so it won’t rain.
Al Christensen 4 years ago
An old Cree man told me pretty much the same thing, but it was the crescent moon rather than the Big Dipper. He also said you could tell it was going to snow if the kids played outside late. That has some credibility since it often warms a little as a storm front moves in, and kids are more likely to stay outside when it's warmer.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
I've heard the same thing from a different source and was coming down here to add that to the conversation. Thanks!
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Amyah Labrèche-Docq 4 years ago
My mom and grand-parents were saying that too and must admit that, for the few times I looked at it when younger, it worked... now... probably just simple coïncidence... but it was a saying in the older generation
Charlene Kowalski 4 years ago
I had a friend in high school who believed me when I told her our dog had kittens. She actually believed it!
Zachary Gillette 3 years ago
I too can predict rain via stars. If you can't see them outside a city, it's probably going to rain.
#23
Worked at a bank for a (blessedly) short time. Had a 60 year old woman that asked, “What do you mean my account balance is negative?? I still have checks, so I still have money!”
Bill 4 years ago (edited)
You would be surprised how many widows don't know. Had to explain a few things after their husbands died when working in insurance. He handled everything.
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Deb Johnston 4 years ago
Back in the early 80s it would take several days or a week for a check to clear your bank. You could call your bank and they would give you your balance. A girl I worked with would call every morning and ask what her balance was, and she would write checks accordingly. She became overdrawn by hundreds of dollars. A sweet older lady at our office sat her down and showed her how to keep a checkbook.
Kim Shannon 4 years ago
I worked at a bank for 7 years and used to hear this quite often. People used to ask, "How do I make a withdrawal from my checking account? Can I even do that?" One lady came in on April 15 and asked how much cashiers checks were. The teller (not me) told her $3.00. She said, okay, I need one for $1200 and another for $1400. The teller takes them to her and the woman passed her $6.00. The teller said, well, okay, but how are you going to pay for them ? The customer was confused and said, "I just gave you $6.00. I paid for them." Poor teller thought she was being Punk'd. The customer got angry and was very confused. She left saying, "Well, how am I supposed to pay my taxes?" I've since found out this is not an uncommon occurrence.
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
A lot of these stories -- like this one -- I wonder if they're true. I read this same story in a joke book decades ago. Presented as a joke, not claiming it was a true story. Yes, some people can be pretty stupid. But some of these stories seem rather over the top.
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
No, as a former banker I actually had one customer (a college girl) ask me this. Her parents closed her account shortly thereafter.
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My first girlfriend, about 20 years, I showed her one of those newspapers at the time that had made up stories about alien abductions etc, Weekly World News I think it was. One of the headlines was "Belgium Destroyed By Giant Asteroid And No One Noticed For 2 Months" and she thought it was real. Thing was she wasn't actually dumb, just really innocent and naive
I want cake 4 years ago
There is that, but it can also be insecurity or social fear/anxiety. In my case it definitely was. I've accepted stories from people because I was scared that if I took it as a joke or pushed back and it was actually true, they'd be offended or get angry at me. I'm sure that a fair few people in my past think I'm gullible or dumb, but the truth is I'm just terrified of saying or doing the wrong thing. I'd rather be seen as stupid than cause offence.
Layla Blank 4 years ago
ALL THE TIME THOO. Im a 14 year old and friendships end as fast as they started because you said the wrong thing or you had an argument sometimes if you even hung out with people!
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Tequila4Two 4 years ago
What stupid, how can you believe something like that. Everyone knows that Belgium does not exist. https://zapatopi.net/belgium/
Gil Heuvelmans 3 years ago
I´m from Belgium. Can confirm that really happened! Build back Better Belgium!
Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
Why can't we walk on the sun? Um... because it's too hot! Well, why can't we do it at night? No second date for her...
Ruby Hatch 2 years ago
Same here. I had absolutely no idea what a cliterus was. But that is because I have never concerned myself about those types of things.
TheDutchGinger 4 years ago (edited)
Well.. in the Netherlands there is a satirical online newspaper. They post on Facebook. The stories are absurd, and on top of the stories it says '' satirical news'. The number of people that react to those stories. Thinking its real news. omg. .. It is embarrassing tbh
Šimon Špaček 4 years ago
Well, I wouldn't have problem with that. You know, I live in Czech republic. I think it was in February when we had minister who said "(after lockdown) situation will improve, be same or get worse." Belgium destroyed by meteor and nobody noticed? Sure, why not.
#25
Dated a girl from work first year of college. On first "date", we decide to just make something simple at her place. Being rich college students, we settled with Mac and cheese and wine. Get to the kitchen, and she says, "OK honest question. When boiling water, do you get the pot hot first, then add the water, or the other way around?" Yup, she didn't know how to boil water. I just... don't know how someone makes it through life not knowing how to boil water on the stove.
Premislaus de Colo 4 years ago
I blame this on overprotective parents doing everything for her, including boiling water
Vicky Zar 4 years ago
Nearly everything comes down to parents not teaching their kids basic stuff, doesn't it?
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Robert T 4 years ago
Maybe she was used to an electric kettle - boiling water on a stove would seem like a really backwards step to me, purely because I've grown up with electric kettles and thought everybody had them.
Dodo 4 years ago
Yeah, this one made me feel dumb because I never boil water on the stove, just add boiling water to a pot.
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HelpdeskFrog 4 years ago
I'm totally fine with people asking how to do simple stuff later in life than most. They're miles away from the pompous type of stupid who blame others when they make mistakes or cause some misshap.
Uncommon Boston 4 years ago
Yeah, working at a help desk teaches you the difference between not knowing and stupid
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The_tattered_hippie 4 years ago
That’s not “making it through life” First year of college??!! Her life has barely started. 🙄
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
This is an example of a parenting fail. Her parents should’ve taught her this. Instead, they did everything for her which is a mistake.
#26
Ex-friend. Got in to an massive, almost physically violent argument and told her to leave my apartment and get out of the complex since she didn't live there. She said "I don't have to! This is government property!" I was like... no...just no... The police came and informed her opposite
El muerto 4 years ago
like people that goes to "public" places, like stores and restaurant and actually think that they are own by the state...because they are " a public place".
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Right? Like all the anti-maskers who say they can't be forced to wear a mask in a private business. I guess technically they can't be forced, but they can be trespassed by the owners if they keep refusing.
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#27
Everday I have people on the phone that redefine the words dumb, stupid and ignorant. For example one customer had trouble sending back a sack of birdseed. He outright refused to send it back himself, because he feared the big sack would kill him if he was caught in a car accident. So he demanded that we personally sent someone to him to take the bird seeds away. That isnt something we do so when this "request" was denied, he, and Im not kidding, set the fucking sack on fire, sent us the the pictures of it per mail and still had the audacity to demand a refund plus a fee for bothering him so much.
Toby Flenderson 4 years ago
I didn't know you could charge a fee for being bothered! (excuse me, I have a LOT of invoices to write up)
#28
We were in history class, taking a pop quiz. one of the questions was "where is pearl harbor?" someone raised their hand and asked "who is pearl harbor? and why would I know where he is?" it's me. I had trouble focusing in school and thought pearl harbor was a person
Melanee Upton 4 years ago
My last name is Upton and in history class someone told me I must be related to Upton Sinclair. How cool!
Debra Robinson 4 years ago
Someone whose last name is Hasselbach was asked if she's related to David Hasselhoff. Ok, then!
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Milord Cutter 4 years ago
When I was a toddler I thought Carey Moonbeams was a person. When I listened to "Would You Like To Swing On A Star" I wondered why he was home in a jar.
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
In 8th grade we had this girl... History class, nearly end of year. She asked if we would learn about "That mustache guy" next year. Turns out she meant HITLER. She was confused when we all stared at her. (I'm German, so everybody know at least something about HIM since childhood)
Jamie MacDouglass 3 years ago
don't assume gender! lol perl could be a guy! just like sandy, nelly , lindsey n jodie!
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I love physics 1 year ago
My name is Stalingrad. I'm from Russia. I had hard times in 1942 but changed my name to Volgograd in 1961. I'm still alive today.
#29
watching star wars with friends in high school. some girl we knew said " when did this happen?" I said the movie was made in the 70s . she said " no, the space fight?! when did we get into a space fight?!" she was dead serious, thought star wars actually happened.
Bill 4 years ago
The temple in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" depicts this in the hieroglyphs
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Owen Engelhart 3 years ago
I have a cousin who thinks it’s pronounced “dark” Vader. This is what I have to grow up with
Laugh or not 4 years ago
I was very disappointed to learn that the actual star war was the US and Soviet Union having a p!ssing contest.
Darla Hallmark 3 years ago
So... who did she think "we" were in the movie? The rebellion? The empire? The Jedi?
Darla Hallmark 3 years ago
So... who did she think "we" were in Star Wars? The Rebellion? The Empire?
ButterflyMcQueen 3 years ago
In high school my son got into an argument with a girl who legit thought a thesaurus was a dinosaur. She called him stupid.
#30
For months, I've been dealing with a client who doesn't get their bills.
Every month, they call and ask where it is, we confirm their address and the expected arrival date, I manually generate a new invoice, and e-mail it over.
Today, when confirming the address for like the 6th time, they said "oh, no, that's not my town or zip" and submitted an address change.
How the hell do you not know where you live?
Carrie Laughs 4 years ago
I've seen that quite a lot. People getting their UK postcode or even their Post Town wrong.
Chris Malme 4 years ago (edited)
I had my National Insurance number wrong for a number of years, and 3 different jobs. Turned out I had it right at first, but my first full-time employer transposed two numbers. When I started another new job, I simply used the (incorrect) number from the P60 they had given me. Caused any number of problems, as my NI credits were going to a non-existent code, and not to me. After about 5 years, HMRC (Tax office) wrote to me, and we sorted it out - they were very helpful.
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My college son moved from one town to another. He wasn't getting his mail. I asked if he had filled out a change of address form at the post office. He had no idea this was "a thing". I asked if he thought that the post office just "knew" he moved. He had not thought that far out apparently. Then yelled at me for not telling him.
Chicago Dog Lover 4 years ago
An 18y/o asked a friend how to mail a letter. That seemed dumb until I thought about the fact that I am not great with tech-related things. I bet they are!
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Ray Martin 4 years ago
I didn't get bills for years, until someone explained to me that they were from people I owed money to... ... ... I'll show myself out.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
A guy that treated me like crap and was dating me and two other girls at the same time while stealing from friends got his just desserts when his idiot parents thought that, as long as you pay for what you purchased on your credit card, that everything would be fine. They had no idea how interest worked. They eventually racked up about $40,000 in interest, penalties and collection fees and there was a court order that put a lean on their house and forcing them to sell his Dad's classic T-bird and move out of their 5 bedroom 3 bathhouse to a two bedroom 1 bath apartment. The family also had to stop paying for their son's college. Poor slob had to get a job and pay for his own cost of living.
Joanne Hudson 4 years ago
No one brought up the fact that when confirming the address the person was asked "do you live at 10 Main Street"? And did not ask what town. Every town has a 10 Main street but not everybody lives in the same town.
Johnny 4 years ago
When I was younger, I moved around a lot, like every 9 - 12 months I'd get a new job and move (I was doing mostly short-term contract work, and I deliberately sought out a new contract in a new city). It'd take me a few months of living in a new place before I consistently remembered my new address.
Nightshade1972 3 years ago
I remember reading a story on Not Always Right that actually turned out to be kinda sad. OP moved into a house that had previously been owned by an elderly woman. OP suddenly starts getting notices for utilities, that are in the old woman's name. OP becomes concerned when multiple utilities start sending dunning notices due to nonpayment. They contact their landlord, who fortunately knew the old woman personally. Turned out that the former tenant had incipient dementia, and when she set up utilities in her new place, she somehow still told them that the billing address was her old place (which is how OP got the bills), and it never dawned on her to wonder why her utilities were getting cut off. I forget if they had a caretaker move in with her, or if she moved to an old folks' home, or what, but once the landlord realized what was happening they were able to make sure the old woman was properly taken care of.
Leslie Crittenden 3 years ago
Once worked in an appliance store scheduling service calls. I asked someone their address, you know, so the service technician would know where to go, and she had to go outside and look at the house number to be able to tell me. On another occasion, the service tech arrived at a house and knocked on the door. When it was answered he says he was there to repair the dishwasher. Resident answered "I think I know where that is....." Some people 😖
#31
A girl I was friends with purposely disagreed with legit facts because it 'made her different'
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Doubt it. Females do not have bright futures in the Gang Of Perverts.
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Niall Mac Iomera 4 years ago
"it is a fact that you are not legally obligated to give me all your possessions and earnings in perpetuity"
#32
Had a guy tell me that he could write with his left and right hand equally well. He said that he was “amphibious”.
Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
I can change the water in my tub with both feet... I'm aqua-dexterous... I can use a mouse with both hands... I'm "ambi-mouse-terous!"
Liza Jones 4 years ago
I'm ambidextrous - it's rubbish! Have no sense of left or right and do everything badly with both hands!
Peppermallow 4 years ago
In that case you are ambisinistrous. (As am I. I struggle with left and right too)
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Zedrapazia 4 years ago
What means you are going to eat him, won't you, Grogu?
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In high school, someone told me they had a photogenic memory instead of photographic. Hilarious, but not evidence the person was dumb.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Could he have a great memory and at the same time taking great selfies?😅😅😅😅😅
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#33
“I’m on a soup and water diet” “Tonight’s soup is creamy bacon potato”
Isidien Gudmundsdottir 4 years ago
That just begs the question about those "Home made soup", who's home? How far is that home? Also, "Soup of the day", what day? Last week? /just kidding here folks.
Paul Davis 4 years ago
Could be any kitchen that is home to cockroaches...
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#34
When I was in middle-school (like age 12-14ish), we went to the local college. I stopped by the college bookstore and bought a pack of gum. The gum was like $0.96 after tax.
The clerk, a college-age girl, entered the gum in the cash register, and I gave her a dollar for the gum. She proceeded to count out $0.96 in change to me. I was so embarrassed for the girl, I didn't dare say anything, so I took the money. But then I felt bad and thought she might get in trouble, so I went back and asked her if maybe the gum cost $0.96 and she only owed me $0.04 in change.
I mean, hard to judge a person for one interaction. Maybe she was thinking hard about quantum mechanics and just couldn't devote enough mental energy to the Gum-Dollar Exchange Deficit Function. But it definitely lowered my opinion of college students at the time.
Dynein 4 years ago
Oh, I can totally see myself doing that, and I'm a PhD student. I tend to switch to a sort of automatic mode when doing tasks that don't require creativity or deeper understanding, and it's definitely caused me to miss steps on occasion. She probably forgot to enter the sum you gave her and jumped to the next step, hand out the amount of money that's shown on the display. Since 0.96 is the kind of small sum you normally return as change, it wouldn't slap her out of automatic thinking.
OhForSmegSake 4 years ago
Yep, I agree. Plus in retail you're often standing behind a counter for hours and can become dehydrated or get low blood sugar, both of which can mess with your thinking and concentration (speaking from experience)
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Kelzbelz79 4 years ago
I'm going with pre-occupied or simple mistake here, I'm not a genius but I'm not stupid either,clever actually.Anyway someone once gave me £20 to pay for their goods and instead of giving them the right change I gave them £20 In various notes and coins....
Yugan Talovich 4 years ago
A friend gave a cashier a dollar and three cents on a 93 cent purchase. The cashier carefully counted out seven cents and handed them to him with his three cents.
I want cake 4 years ago
Oh i'va had that done to me as well, it feels quite baffling in the moment. I just ask if I could have a ten cent coin instead (or whatever the change is I should receive).
Load More Replies... Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
Talk to kids in the greek system, your estimation of college kids will plummet
Kim Shannon 4 years ago
A grocery store cashier gave me $20 too much in change. When I pointed it out to him, he said snottily, "That's what the receipt said and the receipt is never wrong." Never saw him again after that
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
Amusing mistake, but I'm sure we've all made little mistakes like that. Not proof that she's stupid, maybe she just got distracted or bored.
Rissie 4 years ago (edited)
I think this one says more about the person telling this story. Just notify someone making a mistake and all is well, no judgement needed. You see something on the register and maybe she was spaced out. You don't even have to be thinking about quantum mechanics, even just about a conversation you just had. To me OP sounds like someone who is not engaging in a normal transaction, (you know, with some silly niceties about the weather, getting to a psychological safe point by chit chat) and did not feel like he could tell her right away. Leaving him/her with guilt (that's what that was) and after correcting the girl with more embarassement than if noted directly. So. Yeah. No one is stupid for making a mistake, but OP is definitely the awkward one for not saying so when she made a mistake. And judging her so harshly for it. To me that makes him/her the stupid one in this story.
Sina 3 years ago
I would have to go with overworked and spaced out cashier here, not stupid. If you're doing something so mundane the whole day, you tend to space out and have your mind wander a bit. For all we know, OP was one of the many customers at the end of a shift, her brain must have been poached by then
#35
I remember when I was little my brother continued to have many strange misconceptions, but I can’t remember any except the one where he said “Martin Luther King Jr. was one president of the U.S. Otherwise, how could he have stood on a podium?”
I want cake 4 years ago (edited)
Isn't that just kid logic though? I know I thought some very weird things when I was little.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Yeah this one does not fit here. It’s normal that kids believe weird things
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TheGirlFromTheNorth 4 years ago
Weeeeell if you're a small child that's not completely strange to think? Isn't it?
Ayaan Pareek 4 years ago
Once when I was little(like 5-ish) and I think everyone did this, I dug up my yard looking for dinosaur fossils. I was OBSESSED with dinosaurs.
Phoneixstudios 3 years ago
I thought ben franklin was a president and yes I made a grammar mistake.
Mindy Keys 4 years ago
When I was a kid (Lutheran) I thought Martin Luther and Martin Luther King were the same person. I thought MLK created the Lutheran religion. Kid logic.
Polly Culberson 4 years ago
I don't think MLK, Jr. would have made a fine president because he had a record of philandering and we know where that got Bill Clinton and tRUMP.
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#36
I was put in charge of training a girl at a coffee shop I worked at. She didn't know how to make coffee, I literally had to tell her "ok, now pour the coffee in until it reaches this line, no, pour it slower don't dump the whole pot over the cup." When trying to train her on register I don't know if she couldn't or just refused to count. A total would be $5.98 and she'd tell the person it was $6, when people gave her anything but bills she'd stare at the change and ask me how much that was or she'd say "that's $2 right?" And there'd be like 50¢ on the counter in dimes and pennies. I tried training her on sandwich station, she would pack the food frozen into the bags and just hand it out. On her breaks I'd have to constantly remind her that 15 minutes means 15 minutes, not 20, not 30, not an hour. We were allowed to have food at work for free within reason and only in the back. She would reach into the pastry case with her bare hand, pick up an item and just eat it at register or right next to the case. There was a lot more she'd do wrong and it got to the point where I thought she was trying to purposefully get fired
Lauren S 3 years ago
I think this about my 6 year old. He will never use coins. My husband and I are literally showing him and teaching him coins. Which one is the quarter? Which one is worth five cents? How much is a dime worth? He gets it wrong way more than half the time but we’ll get there.
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I think it's purposely, not purposefully. Purposefully means doing something with a purpose, whereas purposely means to do it on purpose. Sorry, I just used to make this mistake all the time and I felt the need to be an obnoxious grammar/spelling police xd
lara 4 years ago
We hired a young woman who had just graduated, GRADUATED mind you, from high school. Her dad asked us to hire her. We didn't need her and she couldn't do anything, literally,. He asked us to hire her so she would learn something, he said he would drive her to work, picker her up and pack a lunch for her and pay her salary. We said, ok, he was a friend and we wanted to help. This high school graduate was so stupid she couldn't answer a land line phone. We made her sit on a stool behind the counter until lunch, when she was allowed to have lunch. She lasted two weeks. She was not mentally challenged, just stupid.
Everything AGR 4 years ago
not sure if i should upvote bc it fits the title or downvote bc omg
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
Was this from that reality show that Paris Hilton was in back in the day?
#37
A girl in my class in high school asked the teacher where the sky was. Like she genuinely had no idea and when we tried to explain to her that the sky was above us outside she was like “no that’s the ceiling”.
#38
I knew a girl in my year 9 geography class who was convinced bears don’t exist. She did however believe in polar bears. Just not other types of bear.
Yugan Talovich 4 years ago
Take her to Yellowstone, smear her with honey, and step back. She'll find out soon enough.
Two Silly Pups 4 years ago
She'd probably claim that was not a bear but some other animal. Trust me, I know the lot
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Thomas Biorogue 4 years ago
I was talking with a coworker and this 8th grade girl was standing by and overheard me talking about a recent camping trip and how we saw a few bears. She interrupted and said, "Wait, bears are real!? I thought they was made up, like giraffes." It took us a full 30 seconds to close our jaws.
sofacushionfort 4 years ago
Did she believe in Care Bears? Even if you don't believe in Care Bears, Care Bears believe in you.
#39
A woman who was a troop leader in my Boy Scouts troop (who was Mexican) said I was racist towards Mexicans and initiated an argument with me at camp. All because I didn’t like jalapeño peppers because I thought they were too spicy.
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
Someone once told me I was anti-semitic because I said I wasn't a fan of Barbara Streisand.
Swyft 4 years ago
I was once called racist, because I didn't have a friend who was black, my 3 friends were asian and hispanic, but I wasn't friends with one of the 3 black people in my grade
Noemie Houtekie-N'Da 4 years ago
There are like only 4 blacks in my entire grade and I'm not friends with them because 2 are popular and wear to much makeup, one of them is a guy I don't have any classes with and the last person I think is me (I'm mixed so). In this persons eyes, I'm white supremacist. People can suck.
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InfectedVoice 4 years ago (edited)
I'm not a great fan of curry, in general, I have tried many different types over the years and it's just not for me, I will still go to a curry house with my friends and just order an English dish, not once have I ever been asked to leave or be called racist.
#40
Dude I used to work with asked “how do islands stay in one spot if the ocean tide changes the way it does?” I had to walk away
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
Sable Island in the north atlantic actually changes position though
#41
A girl who believed Doner Kebab (The large versions of spits that they shave into gyro/kebab meat) were elephant legs. She was 21.
H Edwards 4 years ago
Yeah, one of those joke 'facts' that a parent tells their child and then forgets about... meanwhile child grows up still believing it's true until one day they say it out loud and everyone laughs at them.
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JennyLaRue 4 years ago
To be fair, they're frequently referred to as Elephant Legs because of how they look.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
This is definitely a silly name for it, I've heard it before, didn't think anyone was taking it literal.
Douglas Mock 4 years ago
That's pretty funny. I never thought of that, but they do kind of look a bit like elephant legs.
#42
A girl thought you had to poke your (rather women had to poke their nipples), nipple for the milk to come out. Like with a literal needle.
Vicky Zar 4 years ago
Did you know that the milk does not come out of one hole in the middle of the nipple, but rather out of several around the nipple?
Jon S. 4 years ago
I remember I was with my girlfriend when we found out this fact (age 21) and we both were a little weirded out. In her words "Like, there's no hole, it just kind of seeps from all over?"
Load More Replies... Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
I've heard this one before. Apparently some new mothers will ask when the doctor will be back to pierce their nipples so they can breastfeed. I blame the wonderful, wonderful s** education curriculum here in the US.
Myrtle Yoma 4 years ago
I mean.... i think I might prefer that over what actually happened to me (baby had a bad latch the first time I went to breastfeed her split my nipple. I had to continue to breast feed and pump or I would have developed mastitis). At that time, I wish I could have just poked some holes and let it flow.
Rosemari Ferreira Gebbran 4 years ago
But sometimes you do.... Clogged ducts are painful as hell and you actually unclog them with a needle.
Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago
Lol wut? Nooooooooo this is not a thing you do. Maybe in severe cases a Dr can drain you but you shouldn't poke your nips with needles.
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Not me, but my father. He had gone hunting with a group of his friends (2-3 people), but one of his friends invited someone else. To keep this persons identity anonymous we will call him Kevin. Now, Kevin was an interesting one. When they first set out Kevin unloaded a clip into the air to and I quote "Warm up his rifle". Him doing this scared off all deer that were in the area. Kevin also consistently pointed his rifle at everyone in the group. Lets just say, my father didn't go hunting with him again. The only thing I'm confused about is how the hell did this guy pass hunter safety, the world may never know ¯
Helena Houzarová 4 years ago
If he then quietly unloaded the rifle before pointing it at people, he is a hero. If he however aimed a loaded gun at other people, still very dumb.
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Carol Emory 4 years ago
You assume he passed hunter safety. He either A) may not have a hunting license or B) got someone to take the test for him.
Logic and Reason 4 years ago
And people say that the world doesn’t need better gun safety laws.
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
Well, if this is about the US, we all know how he passed his hunter safety...
#44
In recent memory, the lady picking up photos from my workplace who said, "I'm not worried about COVID. I'm a healthcare worker. If I was going to catch it, I would have already."
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
My ex-coworker thought the same, had signs and symptoms for more then a week, got my manager sick, put all of us and loved ones in danger due to this thought process in her pea brain... yes she tested positive for COVID.
Pezor Zass 4 years ago
i have friends in health care and the things they tell me their co-workers say and do are truly terrifyingly. They are basically doctors and nurses who don't believe in science.
Ronel du Plessis 4 years ago
My sister in law was in direct contact with some one who tested positive, because se did not caught it a previous time when she was n contact with a positive person, she thought she was immune. ...
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
Hmm, that doesn't sound that irrational to me. If she was around people with covid for an extended period of time and never caught it, it would not be insane to suppose that she was naturally immune or had already built up immunity.
#45
A girl who agreed on time changes but disagreed I was talking to her on my Sunday when it was her Saturday. I lived in Australia at the time
Two Silly Pups 4 years ago
like the girl who learnt that China is 12 hrs before the US time & blamed Chinese for not warning USA about the 9/11 when they had clearly known for 12 hrs already?
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Andy Clara 4 years ago
These are the same people who don't believe it's Summer at Christmas time in Australia.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
My sister managed to convince my mother that I was an hour ahead of her in time...Even though she lived in Seattle...and I was only 116 miles east of her location...still in the same state.
Jeff Christensen 4 years ago
I have heard it said that because China time is so many hours ahead of New York time they should have warned the US about 9/11.
#46
I don’t know about “dumbest person”, but I once had a student complain her grade changed every time I graded something. I use a total points system, points earned/points available *100=% I said yes, it will change every time because the numerator and denominator are changing every time I grade something; that’s how math works. Student said “I know how to do math” Me “I don’t think you do or we wouldn’t be having this conversation”
Nat Hedley 4 years ago
Your student demonstrates lack of comprehension and your response is to snipe and try to point score. Maybe get a different job.
#47
Today a friend told me that her coworker bought her THREE year old a VENTI Starbucks coffee because the kid wanted it??? It apparently has FOUR shots of espresso in it. My friend flipped on her coworker about it and the coworker said she didn’t know it was bad (?????????) because she doesn’t drink coffee and her child just told her what she wanted and she ordered it (?!!?????!!!?????). So, I guess I have not met her, but she is the dumbest person I’ve heard of in awhile and my brain is exploding thinking about this again.
Eslamala 4 years ago (edited)
Another one of those parents who give their little shïts whatever they demand just so they don't have to deal with them and teach them.
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
She should have ordered a babyccino (steamed milk) and told the kid it was a Venti.
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Susan 4 years ago
Until you work with children, and meet with their parents you would never guess how many parents are absolutely clueless about how to parent. Completely. Clueless.
Eslamala 4 years ago
I wanted to be a teacher, but I realized I would never be able to deal with parents, because most of them are morons.
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I used to babysit for a little girl who had constant stomach trouble and constipation. Her mom took her to the doctor and was told she was getting enough vegetables. Mom disagreed because her daughter "gets pickles and onions on her McDonald's hamburger every day." She also used to stop at the bakery on the way to daycare and buy her kid an entire cake for breakfast. She was 2.
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
We all agree it's dumb to give children whatever they want because children are children, they don't have the experience and intelligence to make life changing decisions. Unless, of course, the child says that she wants hormones and surgery to make her look like a boy. In that case it would be child abuse for parents to try to interfere.
Joanne Hudson 4 years ago (edited)
I'm older than all your ages combined and I have no idea what you are talking about. I rarely drink coffee and order my reading the menu.
Swyft 4 years ago
I drank black coffee at 3, without all of the espresso, I would be fine with it
Hello 4 years ago
black coffee is terrible for kids as well. don't encourage idiots to give 3 year olds black coffee. Also, a venti is 20 ounces.
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“Trees aren’t real, because they don’t move” -kid I overheard at a bus stop
ThatOneCrazyFanGirl 4 years ago
🌳🌳🌳 oh no these trees aren't moving we are surrounded by fake trees "aah"
Load More Replies... I want cake 4 years ago
Maybe the kid confused 'real' with 'animate'? Depends on how old the kid was, but I can see this not being dumb but questionable vocabulary.
I want cake 4 years ago (edited)
Obviously trees are alive, but a child can be forgiven if they think it's not. That's what education is for.
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LadyDelynn 4 years ago
Unfortunately there are gullible souls that buy into all manner of really goofy ideas, like birds not being real but being government drones to spy on all Americans. You just can't reason with someone that gets caught up in goofiness like that.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
Ask anyone who has had roots break through the wall or crack the foundations of the house if they move or not.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
So I never actually fell out of a tree when I was 11, and my half-crazy aunt never climbed trees in the nude when she was 6.
#49
I met a woman in a small town in Alabama many years ago. While chatting, she said “I’ve never been outside the state. Well, except for that one time in Mobile.” [For those not in the US, Mobile is a city in Alabama.] The whole room got really quiet as we tried to figure out how to react.
Eslamala 4 years ago
Reminded me of Britney Spears, who once said she got to go to a lot overseas places, like Canada 🤦🏼♀️
Seabeast 4 years ago
Well, I guess if she went to Newfoundland or Vancouver Island she could technically be correct.
Load More Replies... Robert T 4 years ago
Is it called Mobile because it actually moves around like a floating island.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
It's called Mobile (moh-beel) after the Native American group first encountered by its initial French settlers (in 1702).
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Noemie Houtekie-N'Da 4 years ago
these people. She is one of these people. (another pet peeve)
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
Like some others on this list: Funny gaffe, but was she really stupid, or did she just say "Mobile" when she meant some other city with a similar-sounding name that is not in Alabama. Or maybe her account was just incomplete. Mobile is near the borders with Florida and Mississippi. Maybe she meant that she went to Mobile, and from there made the short hop to (say) Florida.
Guy MacGregor 4 years ago
Ironic to specify "Just in case you are not in the US" on a Lithuanian website no?
#50
I remember a few years ago I was in the middle of a French class with this girl I knew. I don’t know what started it, but the pair of us ended up in an argument which then turned into an argument of who was smarter. The teacher decided to test this by asking her where the Eiffel Tower was. She full heartedly replied that it was the massive glass building in the city we were in. She thought the Shard in London was the Eiffel Tower...while we were sitting in the middle of a French class...in South London...with a view of the Shard from our window. And she was serious about it too. I thought it was just a joke but then afterwards she refused to listen to reason after claiming the River Thames was in Africa. I’m pretty sure she was pulling my leg but I just had to stare at her for a second to try and process what she was thinking.
Beth Arriaga 4 years ago
My SO and I played Pictionary a long time ago with 2 other couples. Women VS men. Women lost horribly because one of the guy's girlfriend had no idea what basic things were. She would pull a card and then ask the men 'what is this?' Eiffel Tower was one. Empire State Building. Every single book title that came up... she had no basic knowledge base. I felt so badly for her.
Noemie Houtekie-N'Da 4 years ago
How can someone be that stupid? My mom said that there are some people in America who think Abraham Lincoln is the current president or something. The stupidity of people still shocks me.
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A lady said you could get AIDs from sitting in a chair.
Anne 4 years ago
you technically could.. if the seat is covered in sharp spikes with on them fresh blood with the virus and you sit on it with bare skin, the spikes breaking through your skin. I think you have a better chance at winning a lottery
Vicky Zar 4 years ago
OR if the chair is just covered in fresh blood with the virus and you have an open would on your behind and sit naked on the chair...
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Damon Hill 4 years ago
My son overheard a man tell his young child that he could get COVID by touching himself when using the bathroom. Guess he doesn't understand the basic reason for washing your hands afterwards.
Jeff Christensen 4 years ago
It depends what else you were doing while sitting in the chair. King Edward VII of England had a special chair for, shall we say, special purposes.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
There was a myth years ago about people sticking infected needles in cinema seats etc with a note saying "welcome to the HIV club" but it was all nonsense.
Kim Shannon 4 years ago
I had a woman tell me that dog parks are a bad idea because that's how dogs get STD's. She also believed if the cops tried to pull you over, you don't have to stop if you're not doing anything wrong. She was shocked when after the high speed chase, they took her away in handcuffs.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
And there's the one about getting pregnant if you sit on a bus/train seat after a man has sat on it and the seat is still warm. (Go figure.)
Beth Arriaga 4 years ago
Sadly there were many people who believe you could catch AIDS from practically anything back when it was still a novel disease. The discrimination was rampant. I let a friend who was HIV positive move into a spare bedroom I had and I literally 'lost' about 10 previous 'friends' who would no longer even talk or be around me because they were sure they'd catch AIDS from me because I lived in the same apartment with the man. We were all in college - supposedly not idiots....
#52
My 25 year old gf had no idea how time zones work. She didn't believe me when I told her it was a different time on the east coast. I drew a rough sketch of America with the zones and she thought I was lying to her until I showed her that TV programs have different time listings. Yes, she was very pretty.
Ross Keim 4 years ago
“Yes, she was very pretty” and what being pretty makes it impossible to be smart? I thought sexist comments like this were behind people in today’s world.... just wow
chrissy goodman 4 years ago
not to mention he wasnt saying u cant b pretty and smart he was saying he didnt care she was dumb bc she was pretty
Load More Replies... Steve Wilson 4 years ago
Just be glad you weren’t trying to tell her about Daylight Savings Time.
Dont Sellmyinfo 3 years ago
Ugh my abuser used to say that to me “you’re so pretty but not very smart” any time I would share my opinion. By the second year, all he had to say was “you’re so pretty” and I shut right up. Bastard
Talon 3 years ago
One time a dude commented on one of my tik tok videos telling everyone in the comments to go to bed cause it was late so I said “you know time zones exist right? Like it’s different times for people in different places.” And he just said “no you’re wrong, it’s the same time all over the world” I don’t know how old he was but I was concerned that he didn’t realize time zones existed
Mark Rybka-Wachhaus 4 years ago
I was talking to a girl who lived in New York (I live in Maryland) She once asked me what time it was where I was. We lived in the same time zone...
#53
I don't know if she was joking or not but my mother asked me the other day why the earth wasn't sinking from becoming heavier from the increased amount of people living on it Maybe I'm the idiot for falling for it
Susan 4 years ago
This brought back a memory to me. I hadn't seen my bio-family for over a decade, when I finally visited them. (They're not smart people.) They believe getting an education is stupid, and they're racists. We were having dinner, and they started making fun of a neighbor. They said she was the stupidest person they had ever met. Next day she drops by for some reason, and my father walks into another room to get something or other for her. They're talking to each from separate rooms when she says something absolutely crazy to my father. I look up at her, and she looks at me and gives me a big wink, and a grin. My father comes back into the room protesting the validity of what she just said completely seriously. She can hardly keep from laughing. She's pressing her lips together to keep from doing so, but my father doesn't notice. He just continues ranting. I realize that she is amusing herself by playing this game with my relatives who are not smart enough to realize that she is joking.
#54
My landlord is an idiot. Two examples: We had an ant problem, and she cut the branch off the tree over the deck. Why? Because the ants were using the branch to get in the house to get water. Squirrels were nesting under the deck. Solution? Spray them with water to get them out (worked). Cut off another tree branch so they couldn’t get to the deck. (Like trees are the only thing they can climb.)
Phendrena 4 years ago
Squirrels eh? Oh those buggers are knackered if they haven't got a tree to climb? It's a Mission Impossible....... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY9GBl7UmVs
Lucas 4 years ago
If you are using knackered informally it means tired or exhausted.
Load More Replies... Laura kelly 4 years ago
Hate to tell you, but ants use branches to access houses. When we get ants, we go around the house and trim the trees. Ants are gone!
#55
Had a bunch of friends round for a party, one of my buddies brought his girlfriend who was a dental nurse. We were playing Cards Against Humanity with the home rule that you could put your hand up if you didn't know a word and you'd be relentlessly mocked but have it explained. The girlfriend didn't know what the clitoris was. Sex education is mandatory in our country. She was a dental nurse so needed to have at least a basic understanding of human biology. They eventually broke up and we still mock our friend for this! Usually by saying, "at least make sure your next girlfriend knows what her clit is"
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Ooooh! Good thing she's a nurse because he's gonna need some ointment for that burn.
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Ross Keim 4 years ago (edited)
Ah yeah so cool to make fun of a woman for not being taught something, your a freaking hero to society! And then to make fun of this woman in a public setting amongst people who were supposed to be friends because she was sexually repressed more than likely by family or Church, she was probably too ashamed to keep dating the guy and be forced to see his immature friends, real hero’s
Hogswallop 4 years ago
I don't know, I kinda call bullshìt for this one. Especially when they make the point the person is 1 female, 2 a dental nurse, and 3 from a country that has sèx ed? Smells like a doùchebag spouting cow dung to me.
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
So ... she didn't know a certain word. I'm sure there are lots of words in the dictionary that you don't know. So what?
Sasy 4 years ago
I have known a few dental nurses, not sure where the conviction of them knowing anything other than the mouth area comes from, different countries, or just more advanced teaching now. That being said, hearing the word Clitoris or the shortage of vs seeing is spelled could be confusing for some, it is not a reach to imagine it was just confusing...or that the dental nurse wanted to see you all get in a tizz about the word and use the word and go on and on about the word possibly creating embarrassment for those that want to just mock people for not knowing something.
#56
The girl who asked me if me and my brother could feel the same pain cause we're twins. As if the question wasn't stupid enough, my brother and I are around three years apart and she was in his year in high school
Yugan Talovich 4 years ago
Tell her you're twins, it was a very difficult birth. She'll believe you.
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
Actually, there have been plenty of examples of twins who feel each other's pain. https://www.quora.com/Can-Twins-Really-feel-each-others-pain https://www.quora.com/Can-identical-twins-feel-each-others-pain https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3090703/I-morning-sickness-twin-didn-t-know-pregnant-Meet-identical-twins-feel-s-pain-ill-time-read-sibling-s-mind.html
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Randy. I worked with him when I was in my late teens, in a warehouse where we would put together Computer systems. My name is Tracy, one day Randy looked at me and with the most serious voice/look asked me the following question... Is your name, Tracy, "short for something"? I said, hmmmm.. Well Randy, what do you think it could be short for? He say's....Ummmm... Tracy-opolis. Like maybe it was short for a Greek name. lol On my Grave stone it will say.... Here lie's Tracy (short for Tracyopolis)
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Well, sure. It's like how Mike is short for Micycle. It's pretty straight forward.
Robert T 4 years ago
There is a reason why the British don't shorten Randolph to Randy - it is likely to induce sniggers as randy means something else in English.
Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago (edited)
It basically means a male sl ut in the US, and also people still name their kids just Randy (not even Randolph).
Load More Replies... Andy Clara 4 years ago
Maybe he thought it could be like Trish is short for Patricia, or Liam for William. Or some rhyming thing like Bob and D**k for Robert and Richard, or Peggy for Margaret. Some 'short form' nicknames make no sense.
#58
1 girl in my friends class (17) legitimately asked if there have been people on the sun to her geography teacher, he almost died of a heart attack right there
#59
The lady who asked me how she was suppose to pour a pot of coffee. "Uh, excuse me. How am I suppose to pour this?" While she's holding the pot of coffee. "You pick it up and pour it?" I offered, with what was I'm sure, the saltiest look on my face followed by probably a good shock of wth?
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Was it one of those pots with the snap-in lid that has slots in it? Because I recall being very confused by how that works when I was a child.
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
Another foolish one. I doubt she meant that she didn't know how to pour liquid from a pot. Maybe she meant that there was a lid on the pot and she couldn't figure out how to get it off. Or she couldn't find any cups and didn't know what to pour it into. Or she didn't know who she was supposed to give coffee to. Or dozens of other perfectly rational questions one might have.
Real_Katsuki_Bakugou 4 years ago
Yeah, I work at a fast food chain and my first time making a coffee for a customer I asked a lot of probably stupid questions, I just didn't want to do it wrong. And personally I'd rather have someone ask me lots of stupid questions on how to make the coffee than have them make the coffee wrong
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Had someone steal their roommates Credit card to buy a game at GameStop but used his own rewards card.
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
He or she probably also gave them his ID for the credit card when asked.
#61
Coworker - 100% believed unicorns are real and pissed off that live entertainment shows clip off their wings so they can’t fly away. Also, made a frozen pizza with the cardboard underneath it. Also, 9-11 was an inside job.
Logic and Reason 4 years ago
Alicorns have both horns and wings I believe
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Lukyan Terdal 4 years ago
My little pony, my little pony, aaaaaaa.... MY LITTLE PONY! I used to wonder what terrorism could be! MY LITTLE PONY! Until you all HIJACKED PLANES AND CRASHED THEM INTO BUILDINGS WITH ME!
Donkey boi 4 years ago
Unicorns ARE real. I used to believe that they were a myth too, until I faced the wrath of my niece. Now I'm too scared to believe anything other than they are real!
#62
I was helping a guy and he asked me for directions in a state I'm not from. I told him I lived in Michigan(I don't) he said oh I don't know what country that is. Please don't breed
#63
My brother’s ex. She couldn’t follow the plot line of a very simple Disney movie. She was in her mid-twenties.
Zillyboy 4 years ago
My wife was not raised in the US, and I've discovered there is a lot of subtlety in movies/tv that one picks up because one is used to the conventions of them - the whole relationship between two people can be picked up through an innocuous sentence or a single look, if you know how the conventions work. If you aren't trained to them, you might as well be watching something in another language.
#64
My ex, convinced her that rubbing a portable speaker on her head would charge it because of the static electricity .
Ray Martin 4 years ago
If you had to convince her, that just makes her overly trusting and you an arsehole.
#65
A classmate named Rebecca had many instances of just jaw-dropping idiocy. Two of my favorites were: After listening to a presentation on why a pool hall would be a great addition to a bar, “That’s great and everything, but where’s the pool?” Reading out loud her paper on recognizable structures, “The Parthenon is important. Because it is big and it is good.” I think it’s the confidence behind anything she said that just made it hard to overlook the ignorance.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
It is a fact that only the ignorant are able to say the most absurd things with a level of confidence that would even silence Ben Shapiro.
#66
This dumb girl I went to middle/highschool with. Blew the breaker to half the school when she decided to make instant cup noodles for lunch, but didn’t realize that she needed to use water. The whole cup caught on fire.
SoozeeQ 4 years ago (edited)
Perhaps she put the noodles in the cup, in the microwave? If no water is added, it will definitely catch on fire. (I don't know why she'd microwave it though. Just add boiling water from a kettle or something).
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Axolotl King 4 years ago
Ahahaha my sister did this at my house with a mac and cheese cup thing that we used to get. She knew it needed water tho she just forgot
Tessa Merkley 4 years ago
one time I was really tired and i somehow forgot to use water in one of those macaroni and cheese in a cup thing in the microwave, nearly burned down the house, and our kitchen smelled like burnt plastic for a month or so
Tessa Merkley 4 years ago
I was really tired one night and I made one of those macaroni and cheese in a cup in the microwave and forgot water cus I was so tired and nearly caught the house on fire, our kitchen smelled like burnt plastic for a month. lol
#67
I met a kid in Army basic training who said that he had P-pneumonia (pronounced Pee-neumonia). He was convinced that it was a more serious form of pneumonia because it was P-pneumonia.
Carrie Laughs 4 years ago
Friend used to train people in his company on how to use the old psion organisers. First lesson was how to say the name.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
My family say "it must be P-neumonia!" as a joke whenever someone has a cold. I think it came from a Bugs Bunny cartoon originally. But in all seriousness? No, dude. Just no.
#68
The other day, my friend asked me how many toes he had.
TheElementalGod️️ 2 years ago
yes but humans have made a wonderful thing called 'counting'
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#69
One of my closest friends can be painfully stupid. She thought human eggs were tiny babies, not a single cell. That’s the standout situation because she argued about it with me for like half an hour. She also once told me and another one of our friends to stop talking about the classes we were thinking about taking because we were making her feel dumb. We were discussing our math class option for the next year and had decided we were probably going to take the basic one. The one she was going to do. Ugh.
Yugan Talovich 4 years ago
Didn't people believe that in the Middle Ages? Something something homonucleus?
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Yeah, the homunculus! I don't recall how the whole belief went, but, yeah: homunculus.
Load More Replies... Susan 4 years ago
This reminds me of something a nurse friend once told me. A pregnant teenager came into the emergency room for something, (it was minor, and she was being discharged). My friend asked the girl how her pregnancy was going, and the girl said ok, but she was worried about having her stomach cut open when it was time to take the baby out. My friend said not to worry, all was likely to go well, and she would give birth vaginally. The girl flipped completely out, nearly hysterical she said that was insane. A baby could not come out through her vagina! It was too small! That would kill her! She said all babies were cut out of their mother's stomachs. My friend had to call a doctor to try and calm her, and explain to her how babies are born.
Sasy 4 years ago
Someone being able to say they are feeling dumb, sounds more like they have had dumb thrust upon them by others. There are unfortunately people out there that rather than help those in need will bully them, will make them feel less than etc, and that creates anxiety about approaching anything that may need a little thought. People can stunt other peoples growth intellectually, it is a horrible thing.
#70
In high school, there was this girl who was in English and we were reading Mice and Men. We were all popcorn reading and when it was her turn. She asked me what page we were on. I clearly told her the page and then proceeds to read the first page. Like what?! I told her the page and she straight up went to the first page. Even the teacher told her the page and she was still confused until the next person volunteered.
E 4 years ago
Never heard it called that before but we used to do something in class where each person reads until the next comma or full-stop and you go round the room. Might be something like that?
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Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Popcorn Reading: A student reads orally for a time, and then calls out “popcorn” before selecting another student in class to read.
#71
I once had a friend who grew up in New South Wales (A state in Australia - with the capital of Sydney) upon hearing I grew up in Perth, (the capital of a the state of Western Australia) ask me “Is W.A. near Perth?” She was mid 20s. Imagine having lived your entire life in a country but having no idea about the states and capital cities. I was dumbfounded.
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
A common accordance? Did you mean occurance? Oh, the irony of calling Americans stupid and using the wrong word...
Load More Replies... Damon Hill 4 years ago
My son had a teacher argue that Alaska doesn't have a Capital. He had to show her in a book before she would believe him that ALL states have a Capital.
Sasy 4 years ago (edited)
As an Aussie, I had to run this through my head for a moment, and the gamble paid off. Geography was not my jam in school and I am not well travelled around Oz, but I got them right. However, we are not a country that generally speaking we talk about States like they are other countries as the U.S does (not a negative, I think that the U.S states all being so culturally different from each other is fantastic, one of my favourite things) and strange things happen here, like I was 30ish when I first spoke to someone that was in Tasmania and they kept referring to us as the Mainland...I had never heard anyone do that before, to be honest I do not even know if I had ever met a Tasmanian before that. I can guarantee there are many in Oz that think that Brisbane may also be near Queensland because we think of Queensland as a place/destination not a State either.
Jeff Christensen 4 years ago
To be clear, whatever Sydney people may think, Sydney is only the capital of New South Wales, though it is the largest city in Australia. Canberra is the Federal capital because in the early days Sydney and Melbourne (the second-largest city) would not agree to let the other be capital.
AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
This isn't all bad. I live in the US, I know all the states but I do not remember all the capitals. I have way more important things to know / remember.
#72
My ex. She didnt know what animal beef came from.
Vicky Zar 4 years ago
I can understand this one and I don't blame her. You can't really deduce the right animal from the word beef or pork, can you? I was an adult when I first bothered to look it up. But I am not a native speaker, so that's my excuse (we call it "cowmeat/ cattlemeat" and "pigmeat")
Jon S. 4 years ago
Yeah, having a different word for the dead animal is dumb, cattlemeat would be much better. Damn Normans, frechifying English.
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Beezel Palomar 4 years ago
Animal beef comes from disrespect. You don't want no animal beef, don't disrespect no animal.
#73
Had a roommate who asked me why i bake bread if i could buy bread. Also asked me what i was gonna use a brush for, when i asked if she had a brush for her dog. She let her dog eat a brownie then blamed everyone else in the house for not watching the dog. She owed the person paying the rent like 800 dollars and continued to buy expensive kitchen appliances.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Was one of those appliances a bread machine? Because that would have been convenient for you.
DC 4 years ago
Yeah, but ... but bread out of those sucks - even more so if one uses those premixed dough packs - yikes... Also, the crust usually is thin, hard and likely to cut you while eating.
Load More Replies... Mark Johansen 4 years ago
Yeah, crazy question! Like I asked a buddy of mine, Why did you buy a car when you could just mine iron ore yourself, refine it into steel, and build your own car? Seriously, lots of people don't see a point in doing something yourself when you could buy it from someone else for a modest price. I often disagree. I enjoy making it myself, or I think the product I can produce myself is better than what I'd buy at a discount store. But it's not a stupid question. Maybe she just didn't see the point in going to all the work to bake bread yourself when you can buy a loaf at the grocery store for a dollar or two.
chrissy goodman 4 years ago
i kno ppl who bake instead of buying just bc the enjoy it and find baking fun.
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Dated a girl for a while who couldn’t grasp the concept of a mail-in rebate. No matter how many times I explained it. Simply, step by by step, she still never understood.
Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
It's a marketing strategy where they advertise a big discount but the discount is through an included coupon for a partial refund. You pay full price for the item, and then if you remember to mail in the coupon, the manufacturer will eventually send you back a check for the amount of the coupon. People typically forget to mail the coupons back. Anyway, that coupon is the mail in rebate.
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Jon S. 4 years ago
For a non-American (I presume this is the issue at hand), what is a mail-in rebate?
Hanni 4 years ago
It's a paper discount card, comes attached to something (usually pricey stuff) you buy. You fill it out with your name and address, attach the receipt and send it to the manufacturer. They send you a couple of dollars in exchange. In the pre-Internet times this was one of the methods to collect people's name and addresses for physical junk mail.
Load More Replies... Mark Johansen 4 years ago
So does that mean that she was too dumb to understand or that you're bad at explaining things?
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
It's simple. In exchange for a minor discount you hand over all your personal data to a company, only to find out that you're not eligible for that discount. But the company keeps your data.
#75
True story. Kid in my neighborhood. Someone must have told him that if he shone a flashlight in one ear, light would come out the other ear. He didn't know i was looking. He held a flashlight to one ear and his open palm at the other. He turned on the light and tried to turn his head real fast to see his palm. He did this several times. Never caught the light. I was in awe at his stupidity.
Laugh or not 4 years ago
Yes, without the age of the kid, it is hard to know if it is actual stupidity or just a kid being cute and experimenting on their own.
Load More Replies... Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
I always tried to jump over my shadow. Am I dump too? Let the child be!
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
For some adults, you might be able to see light coming out of the other end...
Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
I could do this with my ex... and I had a glow in the dark condom...
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
All kids do stuff like this. Remember Dewey trying to weigh his head In Malcolm in the Middle?? He put his head on the scales then lifted it up and when the scales went back to zero he thought his head was weightless. 😂😂
Sheila Gaylord 4 years ago
He is a child and just believed what someone told him. Adults should not tell kids stupid things, as the kids tend to believe what they are told.
#76
I had a girl in my class, biological sciences branch of studies, that asked the teacher if fish were affected by gravity. Also asked if giant squids ate cachalots with only one bite. I really have no idea how she get there
Robert Beveridge 4 years ago
I have this wonderful image in my head now of the sky full of floating fish, heading off to the stars
Nica Van 4 years ago
And now I have an image of dolphins leaving the earth and singing "Thanks for all the fish!"
Load More Replies... #77
This guy I met when I was working at CFA. I was 15 at the time, and had just clocked off when we were busy. The guy walks up to me and says "Want some advice? Don't clock off when your team needs you" and he walked away. A lady police officer who overheard the whole thing said "Want some advice? Don't listen to idiots like him." She was super nice and I talked with her for15 minutes or so. By the way, there is a $25,000 fine for your employer if you work past 9 PM and your 15-17 where I live
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Yeah, this is the same case for my brother. Before he was 17, he worked at a cruddy fast food restaurant that I'll be keeping the name of for privacy reasons. He had a really terrible boss (let's say her name is Spicy von Pepperbutt) who was horrible to her employees and even rude to her higher-ups sometimes. She once physically grabbed my brother's face and turned it so he was looking at the menu and asked something stupid like "Ok, so you see how the menu says [enter generic food name here]? Yeah? So why didn't you make a f***ing [generic food]?!" just because he accidentally got the order wrong. Anyway, she always begged all of her employees to work overtime or past the legal time they were allowed to work to (because my brother was under 17 and couldn't work past 9:00 until he came of age). Spicy von Pepperbutt left, sued that fast food place, and then was somehow rehired. Now she's the manager again, with her son being the co-manager. ._.
Thomas Bentley 3 years ago
that is a story of evils triumph, rivaling that of the star wars prequels.
Load More Replies... Guy MacGregor 4 years ago
What is CFA? Want some advice? If your story needs context to be understood, provide such context.
AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
Basically this kid at 15 was at work, except in his town (or whatever) there is a $25,000 fine if kids work past 9 pm (child labor laws). It was busy one night and he clocked out at 9 pm because those are the rules. A customer went all Karen on him saying that he shouldn't clock out if it's busy. But there was another customer (police officer so she knows the rules) told him to not listen to the guy that made the comment.
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#78
I worked a security post with a guy who didn't understand the concept of gravity. I thought he was joking at first, but he was serious. To be fair to him, he did pick it up pretty quick when I taught him.
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
What do you mean he "didn't understand the concept of gravity"? Do you mean that he didn't realize that rocks fall when you drop them? Or that he had never studied Einstein's theory of general relativity? Or what?
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
I'm assuming he just never put together that gravity is the stuff that causes things to return to ground when lifted. Also, wasn't Isaac Newton the one to "discover" gravity?
Load More Replies... #79
I worked in a restaurant with a woman who couldn’t give change back from a nickel. Needless to say, she lasted a week.
What do you think ?
Chich 4 years ago
I recall this one clueless clod who declared that the covid outbreak was 'completely under control"
It's just me 4 years ago (edited)
Would that be the same person who also said it would be gone by Easter 2020? Loll
Load More Replies... Steve 4 years ago
Hold my beer... Working at a fast food place in high school, watched as co-worker dropped a spatula in deep fryer. He reaches in with both arms, and fishes around for about 30 seconds. He pulls his arms out, and says "I lost it" while I watch his arms double in size.
Sasy 4 years ago
I used to have nightmares of doing that, or just falling and landing palms down on a hotplate, so clumsy especially as a teen, so this was a real concern I had. We will often do some crazy things like go to catch a knife as it is falling and so on, I once grabbed a glass sliding off a counter but ended up smashing it against the wall and the force was so hard it went through my hand and needed stitches, reactions are often not well timed.
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
My best friend in high-school babysat for a very famous Canadian poet and author. The students in her class were assigned to chose a poem, analyze it and do a class presentation. Ok, I'll agree this is cheating, but she picked a poem by this gentleman and out and out asked him what the meaning was. He told her. But this goes to what the teacher said. She told her the analysis was incorrect. They argued back and forth about it that she was wrong. My friend finally confessed and told her it is correct because the author told her what he meant when he wrote it. The teacher still insisted she was wrong and proceeded to explain why. 🙄
Happy_Pandalover 4 years ago
The teacher was just plain ignorant in this case.
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Amanda Panda 4 years ago
I once had a nursing student ask me which side of the body the lungs are on.
François Carré 4 years ago
One of my coworkers once told me that he could'nt get how all rivers on Earth didn't flow from North to South because "North is on top and water is supposed to run down, right ?" He was often doing stupid jokes so I wasn't 100% sure he was serious there but this one was a bit too subtle and original compared to what he usually could say. I honestly felt puzzled and didn't know how to respond to this, because in case he was not joking, reviewing his whole notion of how the planet works could take a very long time.
-Annelise- 4 years ago
Had to sell chocolates for school and give the school the money we earned. My twin proposed we buy all of each-others chocolates so we could be *rich* AND have chocolate. Took me 15 whole min to explain to him. 0-0
Eleni Aggeliki 4 years ago
My flatmate was an economics student. She thought chicken was a vegetable. She was shocked and disgusted when I explained. She thought the seeds in the centre of cucumbers were signs of mold. She didn't know what seeds were. Once, she asked how to bake potatoes. Told her to preheat oven and then put the potatoes in the pan. She did preheat the oven but with an empty pan inside. When the temperature built up to hot-hot-hot she opened the door and threw the potatoes in one by one aiming for the pan. She missed many of her shots but she somehow managed to stick her bare hand on the red-hot grill resistance. Stood there like that screaming till I went and took her hand away from the grill. No survival instinct but she was in the top ten of her year.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I had that friend. She got a STEM PhD from Princeton, but do NOT let her cross a street alone. OMG. Love her, but she cannot be left unattended near anything lethal, like roads, cars, toasters....
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Yas Min 4 years ago
A christian swedish guy way over 30 ones tried to convince me that I MUST be moslem because I come from a turkish family :D Like the religion of your parents is in your DNA or something.. When I told him what's up and that he should be more sensitive and educated about that kind of things he accused me of being ashamed of "being a moslem" :D Dude, I'm not religious, why is that so hard to understand?
Chich 4 years ago
I recall this one clueless clod who declared that the covid outbreak was 'completely under control"
It's just me 4 years ago (edited)
Would that be the same person who also said it would be gone by Easter 2020? Loll
Load More Replies... Steve 4 years ago
Hold my beer... Working at a fast food place in high school, watched as co-worker dropped a spatula in deep fryer. He reaches in with both arms, and fishes around for about 30 seconds. He pulls his arms out, and says "I lost it" while I watch his arms double in size.
Sasy 4 years ago
I used to have nightmares of doing that, or just falling and landing palms down on a hotplate, so clumsy especially as a teen, so this was a real concern I had. We will often do some crazy things like go to catch a knife as it is falling and so on, I once grabbed a glass sliding off a counter but ended up smashing it against the wall and the force was so hard it went through my hand and needed stitches, reactions are often not well timed.
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
My best friend in high-school babysat for a very famous Canadian poet and author. The students in her class were assigned to chose a poem, analyze it and do a class presentation. Ok, I'll agree this is cheating, but she picked a poem by this gentleman and out and out asked him what the meaning was. He told her. But this goes to what the teacher said. She told her the analysis was incorrect. They argued back and forth about it that she was wrong. My friend finally confessed and told her it is correct because the author told her what he meant when he wrote it. The teacher still insisted she was wrong and proceeded to explain why. 🙄
Happy_Pandalover 4 years ago
The teacher was just plain ignorant in this case.
Load More Replies... Amanda Panda 4 years ago
I once had a nursing student ask me which side of the body the lungs are on.
François Carré 4 years ago
One of my coworkers once told me that he could'nt get how all rivers on Earth didn't flow from North to South because "North is on top and water is supposed to run down, right ?" He was often doing stupid jokes so I wasn't 100% sure he was serious there but this one was a bit too subtle and original compared to what he usually could say. I honestly felt puzzled and didn't know how to respond to this, because in case he was not joking, reviewing his whole notion of how the planet works could take a very long time.
-Annelise- 4 years ago
Had to sell chocolates for school and give the school the money we earned. My twin proposed we buy all of each-others chocolates so we could be *rich* AND have chocolate. Took me 15 whole min to explain to him. 0-0
Eleni Aggeliki 4 years ago
My flatmate was an economics student. She thought chicken was a vegetable. She was shocked and disgusted when I explained. She thought the seeds in the centre of cucumbers were signs of mold. She didn't know what seeds were. Once, she asked how to bake potatoes. Told her to preheat oven and then put the potatoes in the pan. She did preheat the oven but with an empty pan inside. When the temperature built up to hot-hot-hot she opened the door and threw the potatoes in one by one aiming for the pan. She missed many of her shots but she somehow managed to stick her bare hand on the red-hot grill resistance. Stood there like that screaming till I went and took her hand away from the grill. No survival instinct but she was in the top ten of her year.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I had that friend. She got a STEM PhD from Princeton, but do NOT let her cross a street alone. OMG. Love her, but she cannot be left unattended near anything lethal, like roads, cars, toasters....
Load More Replies... Yas Min 4 years ago
A christian swedish guy way over 30 ones tried to convince me that I MUST be moslem because I come from a turkish family :D Like the religion of your parents is in your DNA or something.. When I told him what's up and that he should be more sensitive and educated about that kind of things he accused me of being ashamed of "being a moslem" :D Dude, I'm not religious, why is that so hard to understand?
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