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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.

#1

Patrick from spongebob with a board nailed to his head I know a woman who bragged on Facebook that she scored 84 on her IQ test.... She thought it was out of 100.

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Carbonmonoxide detector on the wooden bench My neighbours taking the batteries out of the carbonmonoxide detector because it was making noise almost every day.

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Map of Nigeria One of my classmates told me I was racist and reported me to the principle after I mentioned Nigeria in geography class

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White Philips electric kettle 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.

Haboobalub , Wikipedia Report

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Different coloured crystals in the sunlight Flat earthers

Anti vaxxer

People who think crystals can heal you

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

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.

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Dizzy Falcon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have an anti stress pillow. I punch it. But I have a salt crystal that does the same thing 😁

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Stacy Dean
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Sergio Bicerra
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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River Webb
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

people who treat essential oils as if they are some sort of magic cure

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Ahsoka Tano
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

Don't you just love it when they bring out the smug smile and say "Do your own research"...

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Dilly Millandry
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep, particularly when theirs probably consisted of listening to some moronic influencer!!

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

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.

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Susan
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2 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.

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.."Venn" diagram... and I sure didn't vote for Hillary or Biden. Always nice to know that there are still people out there that assume people who don't share their world views are just dumb.

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

I live in the middle of Glastonbury and Stonehenge. We get lots of number 3's around here.

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

Oh I collect TONS of crystals. Except they don't have any healing properties whatsoever. Also they're not all crystals, they're rocks and minerals. Science is fun, kids!

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Commander Rex
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rocks are neat, I prefer old bone shaped rocks myself, but I suppose rocks in general are cool too!

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Random Anon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know 2/3 of those. Haven't come fact-to-face with a flat earther yet. Not looking forward to that either.

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

Neither a flat-earther or anti-vaxer but, crystals do hold a lot of power. Why do you think they use quartz in computers and watches, etc...

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Carriann Frye
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Piezoelectricity. Some minerals create electricity when placed under mechanical stress. The rock itself doesn't have magical powers.

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Aleksandra Rusbasan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As much as I like shiny rocks and hate having a needle stabbed through my skin, I know which one can protect you from the flu and which one can't.

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Noemie Houtekie-N'Da
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would only buy crystals to make my everything look that much more fantasy.

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Bei Stenhaug
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Crystal can heal. Any object can. Just as a teddy bear can scare away monsters. Pure placebo. The mind and beliefs are powerful as f**k.

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Chewie Baron
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As I've said before, if the Earth was flat, cats would have pushed everything off the sides by now.

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

I would love to see the Venn diagram where these intersect and interview the ones in all three of them.

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Paloma Vita
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree to all three but crystals are slightly different. I mean of course they won't heal you but quartz is one of the most commonly used crystals in modern times. It has the unique ability to convert electrical energy into mechanical energy. When put under pressure, it creates an electrical charge which can be focused, known as the “piezoelectric effect.” The effect can also be used in reverse, by applying an electrical charge to the crystal, it converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. This allows the quartz crystals to receive and process energy, and then transmit the vibrations outward in a precise pattern. They are used in sonars, ultrasounds, radios, transistors, computers chips, and even digital watches as well as to power the amplifiers in electric guitars, microphones, and most digital electronic devices. They have many other uses as do many other crystals... so not the same.

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

Well crystals can heal you. They are used in surgical lasers I believe. Please advise if I am wrong on this.

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Royer Potts
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The crystal people are pretty easy going, but the anti-vaxxer and flat Earth people are downright terrifying in their ignorance. I think future people are going to look back at our time as the Stupid Ages, thanks largely to the amount of dangerous misinformation that floats around.

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

I l believe n crystals but only cuz the placebo effect is real, lol.

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

This makes me glad most of my friends are well-educated and have reasonable opinions.

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Orange Juice
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know a girl who's an anti-vaxxer, thinks crystals can heal you, and believes that having certain flowers and spices in your room can cure cancer.

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Wendy Lam
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Crystals can’t heal you but turmeric spice can help cancer healing!

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

at least one has a placebo affect. Positive thinking and all. The other two are just ridiculous

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Bentley Polk
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

come on the way i get healed i drink 5 gallons of bleach and 1 thing of carpet cleanr works evry time

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Valerie Smart
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again....send them all to an island by themselves . We don’t need em

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Corey Adams
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a crystal in my early teens which I would rub when I got stressed and it worked like a charm but I'll be honest a small pebble might have done the exact same thing

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Meredith Grey
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm nor an anti vaxxer at all but the covid vaccine is actually what makes you sick.

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

crystals can heal migraine, if you stick them deep enough in your forehead diablo style or just in ears

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

I’ve met someone who thought one plus one was eleven.She was dead serious too🤦🏼‍♀️ .If you’re like three,fine. But if you are seven and the entire class tells you it’s two then🤦🏼‍♀️.Oh she took forever too and still got it wrong. God people are stupid. My five year old brother knows what 1+1 equals.

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

Rude! People can have their own beliefs and they don’t have to be in line with the current belief to be respected or at least not mocked. Homosexuality was in the DSM stating it was a mental illness. If no one ever disagreed with the mainstream science nothing would change. Different values and beliefs are not wrong. Even science admits that everything changes and things once thought to be right can be wrong in the future and at the time

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

Okay, so, as a Pagan, I strongly object. Yes, it sounds ridiculous. But we aren't saying you stick a crystal on your broken leg and are instantly fixed. No. Crystals help. Worried before an exam or job interview? There are crystals for anti-stress, good luck, etc. No, crystals should not take the place of a medication or healthcare. Yes, you can use them to boost positivity or self love.

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

They even make crystal dildos that help heal you. Chakrubs they're called.

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

One can alleviate symptoms via crystal, if it is forcefully inserted into the head. Then symptoms wouldn't be a problem! Neither would breathing, thinking, eating, etc. The perfect cure for all that ails you!

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

Not related to this article at all, but i just realized i have a smudge on my screen from moving my finger in the exact same spot repeatedly while scrolling thru bored panda lol

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

(me trying to buy a pretty crystal bracelet on Etsy) This bracelet will CURE YOUR ANXIETY and give you POSITIVE VIBES and this other one will bring GOOD LUCK and keep BAD SPIRITS AWAY but this other more expensive one gives you COURAGE and ENHANCED INTELLIGENCE (me: ok I pick *the prettiest one*)

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

I was legit doing the EXACT SAME THING I was looking for a pretty crystal bracelet on etsyyyy

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

The third one isn't bad as long as they use other PROVEN forms of healing as well

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

U mean people who believe that animals can transform into completely different animals "over time"

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

This has to be #1 because it's the disease of the modern society!!! Literally!!

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

A fun little fact I think I picked up from Neil D. Tyson: the whole "crystal energy" thing is especially laughable because the molecular arrangement of crystals is among the most stable, low energy states found in nature. When these idiots start purporting all the magical energy emanating from crystals and how it benefits you, there isn't even a grain or seed of truth to it; it's COMPLETE rubbish.

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

Anti-vaxxers have many reasons to not like vaccines. People who think crystals heal are witches. Flat eathers are WRONG

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Astronomy, homeopathy, every religion ever, the list is endless.

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Island of Manhattan from the air view during sunset 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.

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Cooked corn on the cob 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.....

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

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.

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Two dolphins in the swimming pool 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.

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Rhinocerose with the sand on his face 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.

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American flag lying on the table 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.

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Mount Rushmore Girl in my high school history class thought mount Rushmore naturally grew like that

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one of my coworkers once said “racism didn’t start until the early 2000s”. i almost fell in the floor after he said that.

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

Nah.. it started to end.. but we are still very much in the process of it ending.. we have some way to go.

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Red car 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.

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Office with people working 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!

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Pile of kiwis 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

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Person holding feet In college a girl told me she had SIDS when she was a baby.

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Raw meat on a wooden cutting board Friend thought syphilis was what you got from eating raw chicken. He told our whole economics class he got syphilis one time.

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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.

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Jordan shoes floating from the orange Nike bag 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.

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

I actually kind of feel sorry for this guy, this has probably happened to him before.

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Cooked meat with vegetables 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.

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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.

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Sky full of stars 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

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Check with someones signature on it 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!”

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Organised newspapers 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

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

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.

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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.

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

I blame this on overprotective parents doing everything for her, including boiling water

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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

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

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".

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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.

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Aerial view of Ford Island 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

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

My last name is Upton and in history class someone told me I must be related to Upton Sinclair. How cool!

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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.

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organised pile of cash 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?

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

I've seen that quite a lot. People getting their UK postcode or even their Post Town wrong.

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A girl I was friends with purposely disagreed with legit facts because it 'made her different'

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Empty notepad with hand near it holding blue pencil Had a guy tell me that he could write with his left and right hand equally well. He said that he was “amphibious”.

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“I’m on a soup and water diet”

“Tonight’s soup is creamy bacon potato”

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Person counting money 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.

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

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.

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Martin Luther King wearing suite 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?”

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

Isn't that just kid logic though? I know I thought some very weird things when I was little.

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