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We live in a curious world, and there are a couple of questions that every human would be absolutely thrilled to know the answers to; where did we come from, how many universes are there, and is there a plan for us, or is the future yet to be written? 

"There is no such thing as a stupid question" – a common phrase that suggests that just because one person may know less than others, they should not be afraid to ask questions, even if they sound rather odd. 

“What is the dumbest question someone legitimately asked you?” – this online user took it to one of the most well-liked Reddit communities to find out what kinds of foolish questions the online members have gotten. The post has received nearly 35K upvotes and 31.4K worth of entertaining comments.

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#1

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong One day one of my students said “Ew, I have to work today.” To which I replied, “So do I.”

He looked at me and asked, honestly, “Oh really? Where do you work?”

“Here...I work here...right where I am standing. I don’t do this as a service to your parents.”

BrainPainn , saimad Report

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Janet Graham
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember that as a topic of discussion in 4th or 5th grade. It started out as what do you want to be when you are older. Then, someone asked the teacher to answer, too. All hell broke loose as we realized that she wasn't there just because she loved us.

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#2

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong American: "Do you have airplanes in South America?"

Me: "No, I got here swinging on vines that hang from our trees"

throwawayventing2018 , Jason O'Halloran Report

#3

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong “Don’t you find it stupid that Obama is the only president without a last name?”

bjv2001 , dcblog Report

#4

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong Boss: "Could you print out that file, scan it, and email it to me?"

Me: "I could just email it to you."

Boss: ...

-SkaffenAmtiskaw- , Jamison Judd Report

#5

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong Going through the border -- from Canada into the U.S.:

Border Guard: "What's your citizenship?"

Me: [hands over passport, which notes my birthplace as Vancouver, British Columbia] "Canadian."

Border Guard: "No, what's your citizenship?"

Me: *louder* "I'm Canadian."

Border Guard: *yelling* "What's your citizenship?!"

Me: "I don't know what you're asking me!"

Border Guard: "Where were you born? Was it Colombia?"

Me: "British Columbia is a province in Canada."

Border Guard: *waves me through*

joceyposse , Tom Purves Report

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Emerald Ocean
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is you’re a border guard on the Canadian border u should probably be remotely familiar with Canadian provinces

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#6

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong “Are you gay?”

“No.”

“Why?”

Hm I don’t know Jerry, just not feelin’ it today.

vBHSW , http://underclassrising.net/ Report

#7

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong My friend once asked, “What if they made a sea world but instead it’s centered around the land?”

I responded with “So basically, a zoo?”

Legitimate_Luke , [MGM] Report

#8

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong My wife at the time saw the headline “Buffalo buried in 5 feet of snow” (I don’t remember the exact measurement). She asked “Why don’t they just dig the poor guy out?” There was a picture of the city under the headline.

gjhobso , Maciej Report

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Emerald Ocean
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

🤣🤣🤣I’m literally crying laughing! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 but hey, at least she cares about animals

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#9

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong What nationality are you?

*canadian*

No, i mean, what nationality?

*ummm, do you mean heritage? Polish I guess*

No no, listen, na-tional-ity

*I don’t know what you’re asking?*

Whispers: Nationality, like, are you white, black, etc?

*just look at me, I’m white as snow, and that’s not nation...*

Cool I didn’t want to assume anything.

billbapapa , Dumphasizer Report

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

What??? One thing is painfully obvious: You can't argue with stupid. 🤦‍♀️

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There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong Having a conversation about traveling.

Me: I’ve always wanted to road trip up to Alaska and see the northern lights

Her: (looking at me like I’m a moron*) oh yeah? How are you going to drive to Alaska??

Me: in my car...

Her: You can’t DRIVE there

And then I realized she thought Alaska was an island... I had to explain to her that although Alaska and Hawaii were always in little boxes next to the mainland of USA maps that doesn’t mean they’re both islands.

10 years later I married her...

Drewkin13 , Jay Cross Report

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Emerald Ocean
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Awwwww that’s hilarious and sweet. I could definitely see how someone could think that if they never learned/realized it

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#11

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong My eyes are two different colors, and the question I'm most often asked about them is , "Did you know your eyes are two different colors?" I'm amused when someone asks me whether I see different colors out of each eye, or - even better - whether I "see in 3D."

MelilDeMolihua , Keith Kissel Report

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

I fell and chipped my front tooth when I was little, and it happened to be my adult tooth so I was stuck with it. The chip was like 25% of my tooth, taking out a whole corner. I’m not kidding you, the number of people who asked me if I knew my tooth was chipped was ridiculous. I finally started responding with “*gasp* When did that happen??!!??” I was so happy when a dentist finally got a fix to actually stay on the tooth when I hit college age.

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Carrie Laughs
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I sometimes get told 'you're very pale' and can only respond with 'AM I????' in tones of utter shock. I often wonder if they think I've never realised. People do like to state the bleeding obvious.

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Miss Frankfurter
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sorry, but I'd have to look at the person asking me if I knew my eyes were 2 different colors and 😳 "What? What are you talking about? They are not. My eyes are both blue." "No, really. One eye is blue and the other is brown" 🤯 :" WTF? They were both blue this morning! Oh no! I remember this happened to my cousin right before the eye that turned brown exploded! " Meeeowww. I wouldn't be able to resist. Ok, ok. I understand if you down vote me.

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

Once I had two colleagues (all 3 of us in our thirties) laugh at me when I talked about how we can see in 3d because the eyes see in two slightly different angles and the brain "composes" the 3d image out of these two. We went through the same academic process in the same country where you learn this in junior high at the latest...

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

As we have a fairy tale in my country...where a princess has rhe same name as I do in reality. I like the fairy tale, but what I don't like is everyone's reaction (literally EVERYONE here, that's why I appreciate that foreigners don't do it): wow, like the princess? Hahaha.. Sure, you are the first person who found that out. If I had a dollar for every single time this happened..

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

Just tell them the princess was named after you, even if she's older.

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Kathryn Baylis
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One eye may be blue, but I seriously doubt the other one is red, so no. No one is born with eyes that are actually like built-in 3D glasses.

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Grace Austin
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One time someone asked me “Did you know your eyes are light green?”

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Robert T
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd be more surprised that they expected an answer from a cat!

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

Well duh! I have green eyes so everything I see has a grassy hue. 🙄

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

My friend has two different coloured eyes. When people comment on this, he just calmly says "oh yeah, that is because I ate my twin in the womb, but kept one of his eyes". And he is only half-lying! People's faces are always priceless.

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Id row
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would start freaking out and say, "What?! They're two different colors? What do you mean? They're not both blue? OMG! What is happening to me!?!"

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Nimues Child
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fun you could have with this! "Yes, the blue eye is a laser."

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Monosyllabic girl
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I told a regular customer once that i thought her heterochromia was beautiful. She had no clue what i was talking about. I was surprised that she didn't know the word for her one blue and one brown eye but just said in response your eyes are lovely.

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Madelyn Jeffords
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a blue eye and a green eye and once an eight year old asked if I can see red.

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Shannon Hawks
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

should have said, left eye has xray vision. probably would have believed it

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

I get asked all the time if I see different colors out of each eye...

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Zack Podany
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I apologize for my kinsmen. I assume these questions are in America.

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Taryn Wallace
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

DUH 3D would only work if your eyes were blue and RED which OBVIOUSLY THEY AREN'T!!! Some people are soooo dumb! Lmfao

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

I have hazel eyes that turn teal. I have never met anyone else with that color. Multiple people will ask me how I did that. They think I have some control over it. I don't. They change to blue, green, and grey also. Can anyone change their eye color at will? I don't think so. Yet people ask...

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Rachel Reames
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My husband has beautiful, piercing, ice blue eyes. If I had a nickle for everytime someone has asked if his eyes were real, I'd have a sock full of nickles to swing at anyone who asks that question... *colored contact lenses cannot make your eyes lighter colored and also look natural. * he often get accused of having glass eyes, as if an accident happened and his litteral eye balls are fake

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

“Do you see in 3-D?” I’d have to stare straight at them and whisper “yessssss”

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Mine Truly
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Next time someone tells you your eyes are two different colors, accuse them of lying. Refuse to believe them no matter how hard they try to prove it.

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

It makes sense to me the 3D question. I mean, people don't really understand anything having more than one dimension anyway.

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Robert Hebert
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My eyes see slightly different: one bluer, and one yellower, even though both eyes are blue.

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Janelle Gilbert
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Did you know?" I think we've all heard of mirrors at this point. Sheesh.

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Diamond Velvetleaf
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One if my eyes is damaged from an injury. A friend (who knew about the injury) asked whether my future children would be born with an eye like that. It's the same as a scar, nitwit!

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Winter Eleven
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If a kid saw someone with heterochromia for the first time in their life all are valid questions 😂

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Janet Graham
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People can be so dumb! I'm glad that you can see the humor because it would get on my nerves.

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

I wish one day North America will come up with an actual education system. these jokes on the level of stupidity are to me not funny at all, just sad🤦🏼‍♀️ should just find a sight that's similar but less american maybe ....

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

It doesn't say that this occurred in America. Heterochromia isn't exclusive to the US, to my knowledge.

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#12

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong Isn’t it a shame unicorns went extinct?

This person was an adult and thought unicorns exists during medieval times.

laughing_cat , ebrkut Report

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

What I really miss are the dragons. Daμn all those pesky knights that killed them off. /j

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#13

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong (I used to work at a bakery) a customer once asked me:

"When the bread isn't warm anymore, that means it's not fresh anymore, so I can have it for free right?"

-_- "no"

Bcause789 , sylvar Report

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

When the bread goes cold.. you can buy it with cold hard cash..

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There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong Not anything super mind-boggling, but I worked as a server at a infamous "Italian" restaurant during college. Here's my interaction with a guest one evening:

G: "I'd like to order the spaghetti with marinara sauce, but can I get fettuccine noodles instead?"
M: "Sure thing."
G: "Oh, and I'd like to please substitute the marinara with Alfredo sauce. And please add chicken."
M: ".... I would have to charge you for the chicken Alfredo, then." (Note there was a few dollars in price difference between the two dishes, Alfredo being more expensive).
G: "But I ordered the spaghetti with marinara."

I legitimately had to argue with this person for few moments as to why I couldn't magically substitute out the entire entree for a different one with no price difference. Guest ended up being super crabby for the remainder of the time and I'm fairly certain didn't tip at all.

architectmillenial , MattCC716 Report

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Scotira
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd like to order Pizza Margherita, but could you please substitute the dough with Filet Mignon and the tomatoes with noodles and the mozzarella with cream sauce? Ahhh, and the basil with some fresh veggies? 😇

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#15

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong A coworker at the library was asked for aerial photos of the Colosseum in Rome.

Before it was in ruins.

enfanta , Philip Kahn Report

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

I’m sorry I can’t today🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I just can’t🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣this is too funny

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#16

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong "So Trump is our president, right? Does that mean he's in charge of our state or the whole world? Sorry but I've never understood this whole president thing..."

This was asked to me by a fellow high school senior... in civics class.

dogfobia , Matt Johnson Report

#17

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong A girl asked me if honey came from bears. I’ll never forget it.

GxRandy , Don Hankins Report

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

Yes! All you need is a milking machine you put on mama-bear... *I'm out*

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#18

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong my own sister asked me how we were related to my grandparents

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#19

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong Not me, but overheard someone asking a restaurant server "Your coupon says it's valid 7 days a week, does this include weekends?"

ihatepeasoup , Joe Lanman Report

#20

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong My stepmom once asked if islands float around in the ocean.

My brother burst out laughing, and I just looked flatly at my dad and said, "You married this woman." We still give her grief about it.

MightyBobTheMighty , Michael Spiller Report

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#21

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong If penguins need water to survive, doesn't that means they're fish?

synalgo_12 , Neil Turner Report

#23

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong I was weighing a patient, and she asked me if it measured in Celsius.

Jamochajon , PebblePicJay Report

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

When I get weighed at the doctor's office, it says "One at a time, please".

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#24

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong Had a customer ask if she could pay her bill over the phone. I asked what kind of credit card.... cash. She wanted to pay cash over the phone.

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

Say yes and calmly explain to her directions to get to your office..

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#25

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong On a ski lift

"At what elevation do deer turn into elk?"

TheFatherIxion , Rob Lee Report

#26

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong How long did it take you to drive from Australia - *to America*? I've been asked this twice.

I wish I could say I had a witty response, but my brain froze as it tried to compute the stupidity of the question.

*ETA: No offense to Americans, just these two particular idiots. I've lived in the U.S. most of my life.*

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

Nobody tells the Americans about the secret Tunnel between Australia to Hawaii to LA under the ocean.

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#27

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong Is Cherry Vanilla Coke made with cherries and vanilla mixed together, or is it made with vanilla cherries?

*vanilla cherries???*

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#28

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong “Does Halloween ever fall on Friday the 13th?”

Took my buddy a few seconds combined with our WTF stares to realize what he had just asked

EDIT: My bad everyone. Didn’t even consider the fact that other countries don’t celebrate Halloween. ELI5 Halloween is a set holiday that always falls on October 31st

YoungMozartinaGoKart , Kevin Dooley Report

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

Sadly, this makes the rounds from time to time and people fall for it. "OMG, Halloween falls on Friday the 13th this year! It only happens ever 666 years! Scary!"

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There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong My cousin bought a map from a nearby fancy store for tourists. After perusing it for no less than two hours, she asked me, "How does this north-south stuff work? The side I'm facing is north, right? And if I turn right, north also turns right, no?"

She was 20.

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#30

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong If you had a heart transplant, would your memories go away?

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#31

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong I used to work at Disney World and a question I would get on the daily is "What time is the 3 o'clock parade?"

AlexVanderspek94 , Kevin Gaudin Report

#32

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong Was asked to a friend of mine who worked in a book shop.

"Excuse me. Do these stairs go up?"

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#34

“Do you see in panoramic view?”

I’m Chinese...

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#35

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong I wear a headscarf, and someone once asked me if I had ears.

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#36

There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong When I moved back to Florida from Scotland a girl I was hitting on at a bar asked me how long a drive that was.

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#37

When I was in America in 2012, a man asked me, completely seriously, if we had cellphones in Norway...

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's even more funny if that question comes from a country not making it into the top 10 of standard of living to a country that is at the top.

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There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question But These 40 People Online Just Proved Everyone Wrong I used to be a high school college prep teacher. One semester, I had quite a number of students who said they wanted to become surgeons. So one day I showed the class a neat video of a surgeon slicing open a grape with a scalpel and then stitching it back up with this new, technologically advanced pair of robotic arm things. The video was met with many oohs and aahs, and when it was over a hand shot up. I’ll never forget her question.
“What was wrong with the grape?”

(EDIT: Haha okay so people keep saying she was kidding, and the joke just went over my head since I’m old. Wouldn’t change the fact that it was a dumb question. Now I’m 99% sure she was being serious. That or she’s so good an actress that she committed to an entire semester of low grades and embarrassing questions and her friends having to explain things to her and her chuckling embarrassingly at her ditzy self. Now, I said ditzy. I don’t believe any of my students are even a little bit “dumb”. But the question certainly was, and I can with good conscience call it that since on many occasions she spent the entire time talking with her friends only to look up halfway through and just toss her input without gathering much context. In this case she looked up and saw people randomly operating on a grape.

Also, no, she wasn’t blonde. She had black hair. No, English was not her first language (which I’m sure contributed to her lack of focus in the class). Yes she passed the class because she was, in fact, a good kid and quite smart. Just needed a bit of help. She’d make a great surgeon someday if she tried.

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#39

One of my good friends builds computers. He sold me the components of his old desktop and he brought it over to my house so he could transfer them to a new case for me and then build his new computer. It was taking a while and my mom was agitated that he was there so long and asked "is what you're doing even legal?"

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Madison Connor
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No....yes....no....yes, yes it is legal. Oh wait, it isn't. OF COURSE IT IS LEGAL.

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#40

Is that an uppercase "space bar"?

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