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When you’re learning at school or university, teachers and professors constantly encourage you to ask them questions and follow that with adding that there aren’t stupid questions. But deep down we know that stupid questions exist and some people aren’t afraid to voice them.

Maybe the person who came up with that phrase really underestimated how stupid and clueless people can be. But Twitter user Pey didn’t. She wanted people to tell her what are some stupid question that they have ever received. And there were some ridiculous ones in the thread that were so bad they were hilarious.

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We all ask stupid questions from time to time so let’s just have a good laugh from this list. Also, we would be interested to hear what stupid questions people have asked you? If you’re feeling brave, you can share the questions you asked and realised where not necessary.

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

Personally i talk to my thermos but sometimes it does whatever it wants!

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

I believe there's usually a little goldfish that swims in the liquid and if it feels hot it presses the "keep hot" button, i hope i explained thar well... I'm not a scientist 😬

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

I was also asked by a joking friend if I thought Friday the thirteenth would land on Friday this month (October 2017) and I actually considered it and after a moment's response, I said "no I think it's Wednesday this time."

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

For anyone who doesn't know, a Thermos insulates via a near-vacuum layer. That means that transfer of heat (in or out) is much slower than it would be otherwise, because it has virtually nothing to conduct through. Ergo it keeps hot things hot(-ish) and cold things cold(ish).

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

It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold. I've got Soup and a choc ice in mine at the moment.

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

Same, but I've got strawberry after a while! What kind of soup do you have?

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

Whisper into the Thermos what you want it to do and then tap your nose on the lid 3 times, works for me.

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

I used to be a barman and one client asked for whisky with coke, I asked him how much coke and he answered just enough to cover the ice cubes. I had to explain that ice floats.

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

my friend has asked me things like "were you in norway or in oslo?" (we live in sweden) "paris is in england right? no? is it in london then?" we're in our 20's.

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

Sounds like how I once asked how the Tylenol knew where the pain was....🤦‍♀️

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

There's this little switch on the side and you dial it to H or C.

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

It is surrounded by a vacuum and stops the temperature changing, whatever temperature is inside...

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

This is from an old, old joke, one about a guy being interviewed and asked what he thinks is the greatest scientific invention of the 20th century. When I was a kid (and that was long ago), this joke made me laugh so hard.

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

I've been asked "how many horses are in a litter?" And once while ordering drinks from Dairy Queen the cashier asked if the order was " for here or to go?" I just laughed and asked "does it matter? Do we get special cups for take out?

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

I don't even think that's a stupid question. If you don't understand how a thermos works, understanding how it can keep hot things hot AND cold things cold is difficult.

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

You must be a thermos whisperer to make it do what you want, rare skill though😜

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

I know this kinda kills the joke, but thermos walls are vacuums, so they don't transfer heat at all to the metal/plastic

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

I don't think that's a stupid question. If you don't know then how else will you find out if you don't ask?

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

Not as dumb as you think. Not everyone has the basics of thermodynamics

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

Ahem, I think the questionable thing is : "How the thermos knows"

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

This question is sad, since it shows the guy never had any chemical lecture in school... though asking how it does that can be ok :) And next: how does a peltier element make one side hot the other cold...and how is it reversed? And next: can’t we use that to generage electricity in space...? That’s mostly how my brain worked.

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

I bet that at least 50% of people don't know why a thermos works

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The Twitter user who asked the question to receive more questions is Pay and she is a mother and a certified fitness trainer and a nutritionist. Pay explained that she asked the question because she was thinking of how people always ask where she last put an item she is searching for and can’t find. Because if she knew where she put it, it wouldn’t be lost. The tweet didn’t blow up but it got some pretty funny responses and we wanted to show you them.

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As mentioned, teachers often tell you that there are no stupid questions. By saying that they want to encourage students to don’t be afraid to show that they don’t know or understand something. They try to convince them that seeking knowledge is always a positive thing. 

Another common phrase people say is that there are no stupid question, only stupid answers shifting the unwanted quality from the person who asks to the person who needs to answer. But all in all, the phrase is there to make sure a person seeking knowledge is not being punished for not learning the information yet.

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Carl Sagan who was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator and certainly an intelligent person entertained the idea. He wrote in his book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark: "There are naïve questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question."

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However, there are people who would argue with that. For example, the genius mind himself, Albert Einstein once said, “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” The physicist leads us to believe that the universe may have limits, but people’s lack of intelligence will never cease to surprise.

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That could be applied to our today’s topic. If human stupidity is infinite then logically stupid questions do exist because people come up with them.

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

Friendly piece of advice: don’t call me at 3 am if you want to keep those legs of yours

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And the proof is in the pudding. The questions people in this list ask are really unnecessary and you don’t always understand if they are being serious or you’re getting trolled. Maybe it could be fine if children were asking them but it should be unacceptable for grown adults. 

At the end of the day we can agree that stupid questions do exist but we shouldn’t be too mad at people who ask them. Maybe they genuinely don’t know and you can be the one to explain an important thing a person should have the knowledge of.

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

To be fair I often mix the words for elevator and bus in my language.

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

Reminds me of that XKCD comic where completing Mavis Beacon unlocks capital numbers.

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

A friend of mine could just pop one out and have a gander at it. Rather alarming when you find it out the first time.

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

What a dumb question. Everyone knows they don’t have birthdays in Korea. They just sort of slowly appear and it’s hard to tell the beginning date

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

I had a coworker whose religion banned tattoos. Every two weeks she went to someone and had a new henna design drawn on because she loved body art. They were often multicolored because she loved flowers. Depending where the question was asked, it may have been a legitimate query.

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

There was a strange phase in the early 2000s where girls who could see fine would buy non-prescription glasses from Claire's to look smart.

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

I have no idea how the USA's army work but yeah.. You are on the army, but which one? Air army, Sea army, Ground army... or whatever it is said in English

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