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31 Of The Most Random And Dumb Things People Have Said With Zero Doubt About Being Right
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Overconfidence can sometimes make people spew the silliest things possible. Most folks think before speaking, but sometimes, they may say the first thing that comes to mind. Critical thinkers will then correct themselves, but a special few pretend like everything they’re saying is right.
You’ve probably come across a person who’s tried pretending like made-up information is factual. The confidence and conviction with which they back up the dumb stuff they’ve said is extremely hilarious, and this list is full of them.
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#1
That scientists were dumb for changing their opinion when new facts presented themselves.
Trillian 8 months ago
They are not "changing their opinion", they are adjusting their understanding of how the world works incorporating the new knowledge. That is the entire idea of science.
Libstak 8 months ago
You know what is dumb? Egoic pride, there is a reason it comes before the fall from grace...
XenoMurph 8 months ago
No, it doesn't. it comes before you bombastically push to the front and polite people just can't be bothered to correct you, so you contiue to fail upwards.
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lwolf1952 8 months ago
Opinions, beliefs and feelings are not substitutes for facts and expertise.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Correct. Opinions, beliefs and feelings should be the results of facts and expertise.
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#2
As kids, my sister pointed out that she could see the moon (it was sunny and daytime). My stepdad says, “it’s not the moon. You can’t see that during the day.” And my mom goes, with so much matter of fact confidence, “when the sun goes down, the moon comes up”. My sister and I looked at each other in disbelief then back at the moon we could clearly see and just shook our heads.
David Morgan 8 months ago
You cannot fix stupidity. Lack of education can be remedied, but stupid is permanent. When the moon is literally visible to you, denying it is an act of deliberate foolishness.
Dragons Exist 8 months ago
What do they think this mysterious Moon-like thing in the sky is? A reflection of the Sun on the atmosphere? NASA? Heaven???
WindySwede 8 months ago
Mark Rober explains it really well! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f7hHtuS7ygY
Apatheist Account2 8 months ago
The moon is the only object with negative apparent magnitude, which means you can see it during daylight.
#3
At a petting zoo:
Child (pointing at animal): “what’s that?”
Mom: “it’s a deer, you can tell by the ears”
It was a kangaroo.
Crikey! (ho/hum) 8 months ago
That's ridiculous! How dumb can you be? It's not the ears that give it away, it's the Australian accent.
WindySwede 8 months ago
*Broadly waves hand in general direction towards humans*
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Glix Drap 8 months ago (edited)
Darn those kangaroos in my back garden eating my flowers. I see them almost every day.
Sudeep Sarkar 8 months ago
Good for mom. The kid will start asking about the pouch, the tail, the feet, the hands, had she said kangaroo.
You’d probably be thinking that not-so-clever people are the only ones spouting nonsense. In fact, sometimes, it’s the smartest people who end up saying the dumbest things. It’s because they often have a strong urge to be right, so it may be hard for them to accept that they are ever wrong.
When people are always used to being right, they convince themselves that everything they’re saying is true. Being told they’re wrong may then feel like a personal attack. That’s often why dumb ideas may keep getting perpetuated, especially if folks aren’t open to correcting themselves.
To understand more about this, Bored Panda reached out to Marta Stelmaszak Rosa, PhD. She is an assistant professor of information systems and an author focusing on exploring the value of human thinking skills in the digital age. She works at a research-intensive business school, and after hours, she’s dedicated to fostering critical and creative thinking through her writing.
Dr. Marta explained that “someone may not even be aware that what they’re saying is incorrect, so they have no reasons to doubt themselves or lack confidence. Their memory may be playing tricks on them, they might have been told or taught something wrong, or science and discovery might have revised the common knowledge on a topic since they first heard about it.”
#4
In my 10th grade US history class we were talking about the space race. One kid kept insisting the moon landing was faked because “you can see in the video they have shadows and there are no lightbulbs on the moon!” We all thought he was joking at first, but no. He was not.
Crikey! (ho/hum) 8 months ago
I get annoyed when people say it was faked. How stupid can you be? If we never went there, where does all the cheese come from? Exactly.
Dave In MD 8 months ago
Heard a morning radio guy say that the moon landing was fake because they didn't have cell phones back then so how could NASA have talked to them. This was a guy that talked on the RADIO for a living.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Stanley Kubrick was hired to fake the moon landing. But he was well-known as a perfectionist and insisted on shooting it on site.
geezeronthehill 8 months ago
With good optics, you can see the landing sites. They left the bottom stage of the landers behind.
David Morgan 8 months ago
The greatest and deadliest rival to the US, the USSR (as was) lead every major achievement is spaceflight, bar landing on the Moon. They had every reason to call the Americans out if they learned it was faked. You know who never denied that the Moon landing was real? The USSR.
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Jane Susanna Ennis 8 months ago
A lot of people seem to think that the moon landing was faked.
#5
I once had to convince a 32yr old that we’re floating in space. He thought we were sat on some kind of stand or something I don’t even know.
winterwidow87 8 months ago
Technically we're not floating, we're orbiting. This means the earth (and everything else in the solar system) is accelerating towards the center of the sun's mass, but its high speed is keeping it trapped in orbit around it. If the sun's mass suddenly disappeared, the whole solar system would shoot off into empty space. Space is fun.
#6
You’re from Alaska?! How do you speak such good English?!
Strahd Ivarius 8 months ago
In Alaska you are supposed to speak bad English, like in all other parts of the USA...
April Pickett 8 months ago
There was one a while ago. A girl said she was moving to a foreign country. The picture showed her saying, "Welcome to New York City".
As you’ve probably noticed from the examples of dumb things folks have said, a lot of these are fake facts that people have put their full faith in. Even though we have the entire Internet at our fingertips, it has actually made it tougher for folks to sift through what’s true and what’s untrue. The more people keep hearing false information, the likelier they are to end up believing all of that eventually.
At first, people might believe in silly conspiracy theories, and eventually this can turn into a full blown conviction about something that isn’t backed up by evidence. It doesn’t help if there are groups of people who keep harping on the same nonsense ideas. Research also shows that Gen Z and Millennials are better able to figure out false facts but they may still unknowingly share misleading information.
Dr. Marta shared that “a range of biases and effects may be at play that can make a person be fully convinced that they’re right, even if evidence exists to the contrary. For example, confirmation bias, where people seek out and trust information that supports their existing beliefs even if it’s false may entrench someone’s conviction.”
“Similarly, repeated exposure to misinformation can build up a false sense of truth, a phenomenon known as the illusory truth effect. Finally, some cultures value and reward confidence. So, there are people who may prefer to speak confidently regardless of accuracy because they believe they can gain influence, trust, or attention this way,” she added.
#7
One of the reasons I left teaching is I was working with a student after school for an extra math session. He told me that half of 50 is zero. I thought I had misheard him so I asked him to repeat it and he said “Half of 50 is zero right?” I corrected him and moved on.
Later, in the teachers lounge, another math teacher told me “I know exactly what he did. He split the number in half vertically. Half of 50 is five and the other half is zero.“ That was when I knew I had to leave teaching for a while. There was no way I was able to think like that and I felt like I could not help my students anymore.
Atom Bohr 8 months ago
As a teacher, I'm wondering if the second teacher had seen another student do exactly that, or if the teacher actually thought like that. But honestly, with the way maths is being taught, I've seen kids make mistakes like that: at least where I am, they handle units and tens separately, so if you word your question poorly they default to that
Shayna 8 months ago
I instantly guessed what the student did. I'm not a teacher, but I'm an engineer so I'm fairly good at math. But I also have ADHD, so my neurodivergent brain could somehow understand what the kid did.
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Scott Rackley 8 months ago
Curious on the picture. What lecture involves complementary angles and a hyperbola
Michael Largey 8 months ago
This method of computation is sometimes used in divorce settlements.
#8
Pasteurized milk is from cows that are let out to a pasture. I’m weak, I couldn’t correct them because I was so shocked. I think I said something like, “are you sure?!”.
Ace 8 months ago
It's an odd coincidence though, that the guy who invented the process just happened to have the same name as the (French) word for a field where the cows grazed.
WindySwede 8 months ago
Found this on wiki "Heating wine for preservation has been known in China since AD 1117 and was documented in Japan in the diary Tamonin-nikki written by a series of monks between 1478 and 1618.[5]" Didn't know this.
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Janissary35680 8 months ago
There was an old "Peanuts" strip touching on this joke. Linus: "Do they always bring the cows in from the pasture at night?" Lucy: "Of course, you blockhead! If they leave them out over night, they get *pasteurized*!"
Aidan Pite 8 months ago
I am also weak. One time a couple gleefully told me they were waiting to get milk from their pet goat. I smiled, nodded, wished them a good day, and left with one last glance at their goat's massive swinging testicles.
Zander Porbanda 8 months ago
I stopped drinking milk for a while and now regular milk (ultra pasteurized) tastes so Burnt.
#9
I had a teacher once tell me that Blackbeard the pirate was an imaginary figure. I (a huge history nerd at the time) told them he was real and his name was Edward Teach. They said, “yeah in the stories that is his name.” 😑.
Lila Allen 8 months ago
Most of my colleagues are very skilled, but every once in a while I meet a teacher and think how on earth did you pass the same classes I did?We need a better screening program or more stringent requirements because the dimwits keep making it through the barrier
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Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
Just wait until I tell my friend who is related to Teach, that'll be interesting.
Nobody thinks that what they’re saying is dumb or false. Everyone believes in the authenticity of the information they say, which is why they’re able to say it with confidence. To truly uncover fake facts, it’s important to fact-check the story as much as possible. Make sure the information is available from multiple high-authority sources.
If you find out that you’ve been wrong about something, the best thing to do is to self-correct. There is no shame in admitting you were wrong or that you made a mistake. It is always a great learning experience. In case it’s a friend or family member who is spreading misinformation, it’s best to talk about it to them in private.
Sometimes, though, it can actually be a superpower to play dumb. Dr. Marta said: “what we may call a strategic use of stupidity can sometimes yield great benefits. For example, asking supposedly basic questions can challenge assumptions and improve problem-solving and decision-making.”
“Intentionally saying something that’s incorrect can spur creative thinking because it works as a pattern-breaker in a regular train of thought. Putting on an intellectual camouflage can also help you avoid unnecessary power struggles and defuse ego battles. Like all superpowers, it’s all about intention and context!”
#10
Oh, it must have been that if you can smell a fart after it passes through underwear and jeans, then an n95 mask can do absolutely nothing against covid. Had to explain that a fart is gas and has much smaller molecular size than a covid virus, that the virus is spread through water droplets which are much much bigger than gas molecules, underwear and jeans are nowhere near as tightly knit as the masks, and the masks are designed to have almost microscopic fibers hanging out in all which ways that will wick up any water particles that touch them. I love the uneducated.
Stuart 8 months ago
I say to those people: if I were to s**t on your face would you rather me wear underwear while I did it, or no?
Helen Rohrlach 8 months ago
Not sure you really want to know some peoples answer to that.
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Austzn 8 months ago
During covid my BIL tried to "educate" us with a video of someone spray painting one of those foam head models that had a cloth mask on it. Yes you guessed it: the prof was the fact that the paint soaked through the mask and painted the foam head. He was dead serious and has a masters degree, and is an atheist but supports the religious-right in the US. I cannot say this enough for anyone on the outside watching this show we have going on now: it doesn't matter what it is or how ridiculous it is; they will literally support anything that isn't "the left". What's the left you might wonder? Anything that right-wing pundits say is the left.
Nikole 8 months ago
It is fúcking insane here. And they thought that other Depression was great! Hold onto yer butts!
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Rick Murray 8 months ago
Just a shame their mask failed to filter the air molecules so they were able to carry on breathing...
Doug Moyer 8 months ago
Sigh. They're both wrong. Farts literally contain sh*t molecules. That's how smelling works - odor molecules, floating in the air, stimulate tiny receptors on sensory cells in the nose. N95 masks are 95% efficient at blocking molecules 0.3 microns and up. It's all about the molecule size. The SARS-CoV-2 virus ranges between 50 nm to 140 nm. I doubt there has been any studies on the size of the sh*t molecules in farts... TL/DR - if you smell a fart, a very small piece of sh*t is in your nose. Enjoy!
Doug Moyer 8 months ago
Sorry for mixed units. 0.3 microns is 300 nm. So the N95 is NOT going to be blocking 95% of the coronavirus. The entire idea was to block more than not wearing a mask. Also, it greatly reduces the droplets that spray everywhere when someone sneezes.
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That non- identical twins were called "nocturnal twins" and caused an 18 month long pregnancy.
Khavrinen 8 months ago
By the time the Octo-Mom gave birth, her kids would've been nearly ready for first grade.
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Janissary35680 8 months ago
Maybe he thinks non-identical twins are the result of nocturnal emissions.
#12
A guy from work told me (a woman) that women can’t feel it when they have kidney stones because the stones just fall out since they can push out babies through the same hole.
My own father told me (a mother of 3) that my mom didn’t need surgery when they tied her tubes because when a woman has a baby her organs come out with the baby and the doctors ties the tubes and then puts them back up there.
Trillian 8 months ago
My stepfather once told me that pee and babies come out the same hole. Both me and my mother laughed him out of the room.
Serena Myers 8 months ago
So by that logic I didn't need to have a hysterectomy, I could have just pushed my uterus out instead? That would have been easier and not left me with a scar! Honestly, this level of ignorance amazes me.
Kat Alison 8 months ago
And THIS is why men should not make laws concerning women’s reproductive organs.
winterwidow87 8 months ago
This is what you get when you have separate classes for sêx ed. Or no classes at all.
Jaya 8 months ago
Don't blame the guy, blame the people who are responsible for the lack of good s*x ed.
Earonn - 8 months ago
I mean, there's this thing called 'internet' and it's not as if the topic of men knowing not enough about female anatomy wouldn't be mentioned enough. At the very least they could look up some things themselves. Adults are *supposed* to do that.
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Upstaged75 8 months ago
As woman I can tell you that when I had my 1st kidney stone I thought one of my internal organs had exploded. I wish I hadn't felt it! Also, the idiot really thinks we pee out babies?????
One of the biggest learnings you should take away from listening to folks say nonsense with confidence is that it’s okay to question the stuff you’re saying. It’s also okay to admit that you’re wrong and learn from that experience. It’s always better to self-correct and speak the truth than make up a story.
Many people, when they’re confronted with the fact that they’ve been spreading misinformation, become defensive. Then they aren’t able to move forward from the experience and instead get stuck spouting the same dumb things over and over again. Changing one’s mind and being open to new thoughts is the best way to keep moving forward.
When we asked Dr. Marta how a person can deal with someone who truly believes in the truth of fake facts, she mentioned that “the rule of thumb is to focus less on correcting and more on connecting. Ask how they came to believe something, as this can give you important insights into where they come from. Plus, people tend to be less defensive when they feel heard.”
“Ask follow-up questions. Make people think for themselves, which tends to work better than correcting them. Focus on shared values, for example, by highlighting a core value you have in common and linking accurate info to the value. Above all, don’t try to win or prove them wrong. This can quickly backfire. Stay calm and curious, and you might as well plant a seed that will grow later,” she explained.
#13
Dinosaurs don't exist because there is no mention of them in the bible.
Khavrinen 8 months ago
Better answer: Tell them "The Bible doesn't mention YOU either" and hope THEY puff out of existence.
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JoMeBee 8 months ago
But there's a picture of Jesus riding a dinosaur. Surely that's real!!
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Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
Absolutely. Blue whales aren't real - no more than are penguins, Australia, non-stick frying pans, or Marxism. 😁
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Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
Er, actually, cats are mentioned in the bible, if you include big cats - Daniel in the lion's den springs to mind.
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Lila Allen 8 months ago
Um... actually they are in the Bible. The sirrush is mentioned in biblical text and based on physical description it's either a dragon or a dinosaur. So they might want to pull out that source text and take a quick look. Bless their hearts
Earonn - 8 months ago
"A" dinosaur? So, all dinosaurs looked the same? What about Pterosaurs? What about woolly mammoths? What about bacteria?
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Neighbor said "Too bad your solar panels will be making less electricity now that Daylight Savings Time has ended.".
WindySwede 8 months ago
I really hope they were joking! This is why I never make jokes about things like this, not good at making sure they understand I joke! 😅
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Isn’t the number of daylight hours smaller on days in the months outside of DST? (But it isn’t a sudden change like the neighbor thought.)
Doug Moyer 8 months ago
I love to say deliberately stupid things like this just to see how people react. Completely dead pan...
#15
My father said business monopolies are a good thing because it encourages small businesses to open and offer more affordable pricing for consumers.
My father is a very successful business owner who should know better than that.
Papa 8 months ago
Back during one of the times when gasoline had become very expensive for whatever reason I was talking to a guy who owned a small grocery store. He said that he thought the government should step in to keep the prices lower, because everyone needs to have gasoline so they can drive. I asked him if it would be okay if the government told him what he could charge for a loaf of bread in his store. He said no. I asked him why not, because everyone has to eat. He didn't have an answer for that.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
I DO wonder though. I just filled our tank on the way home for 2.99/gal. Drove 30 miles west to home...3.34/gal. Don't TELL me that commodity cost $250 to truck 30 miles (1000 gal @.25). All gas comes from the same pipeline in Mich.
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 8 months ago
Amazon is the primary distributor for thousands of small businesses.
Load More Replies...If you ever come across something spouting complete misinformation with full conviction in what they’re saying, it’s best to take a breath and try to consider where they’re coming from. Rather than confronting them head-on, it’s better to speak gently and with respect. You may not be able to change everyone’s mind, but a select few might listen, which is also a win!
What are some silly things you’ve heard people say with complete confidence? Let us know in the comments so that we can also have a laugh.
#16
"Dude, Afghanistan is *in* Iraq!".
Joe Reaves 8 months ago
I thought war existed to teach Americans geography. Apparently it failed. (Yes I know they don't say it was an American, but given the countries they were talking about it probably was)
#17
“Why would I pay employees when I’m not making money yet?” - Dude I knew who was trying to start his own business and expected people to work for free until *he* was making money.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Yeah...his side gig is building electric vehicles. He is trying to convince people that social security is a 'ponzi scheme', he only pays SS tax on the first $170k of income. To me the ponzi scheme is he pays SS tax on only the first $170k of income.
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#18
One of my buddies in college, who was a history major, told me that swords and armor didn’t exist until like 1100 A.D.
Lila Allen 8 months ago
I'm going to guess he was not. Or he was taking classes in US history or something non related.
Load More Replies... geezeronthehill 8 months ago
Plate armor was not common in Europe until halfway through the 14th century, but swords? Around 3000 bce, with the development of copper and bronze metalworking.
#19
Back in 1992, I was talking about how I wanted to see Bram Stoker's Dracula when it was in theaters.
A girlfriend of my buddy's pipes up and says, "Bram Stoker and Francis Ford Coppola haven't put out a bad movie yet."
I immediately responded with, "That's because Bram Stoker has been dead for like 80 years.".
Beak Hookage 8 months ago (edited)
Stoker might actually still be around because he was a vampire. That's how he knew all that stuff about vampires to put in his book.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
According to old legends, vampires can come out in the day, they just need to stay out of direct sunlight. Crosses and religious objects mean nothing. If crosses were an issue, why are so many vampires lurking in churchyards? The idea of the vampire predates Christianity anyway. Funny scene in The Fearless Vampire KIllers: old Jewish man is turned into a vampire. He crawls into the bedroom of a pretty young lady, who points to the cross above her bed: "oo, do you have the wrong vampire!"
#20
Both racist and dumb, but had a high school history teacher/coach say that black people lived on the East side of town because it was closer to Africa and that they were faster runners than white people because they do not have to touch the ground every step but kind of can levitate every other step when running fast. This was in the 80s.
Libstak 8 months ago
There were some amazing psychotropic d***s in the 80s if all the times I heard "dude, did ya see that?" Mean anything.
Lila Allen 8 months ago
I get how that might explain the levitating... less clear on how that explains closer to Africa
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Novlette Williams 8 months ago
because they do not have to touch the ground every step but kind of can levitate every other step when running fast." If we could do that would that not make us a superior race of humans?
David Morgan 8 months ago
Hey, you! No logic allowed in racism! You should know better... /s
Load More Replies... Ace 8 months ago
That reminds me of a recurring dream I used to get, although it's been a long while now. Every time I would discover that when I was running along I could just stop moving my feet and cruise along flying a foot or two off the ground. Is it just me or have other people had similar dreams?
Libstak 8 months ago
Yes, I've had that same feeling in dreams running up and down stairs, sometimes instead of hitting the steps I just float right over them, sometimes I float right off and find myself flying.
Load More Replies... camomooey 8 months ago (edited)
My ex told me (when we were teenagers) that black people couldn't swim, (that they were physically different-something to do with the weight of their bones) and that's why they weren't in the Olympics. I don't know if he really believed that, or if he was just messing with me.
Janissary35680 8 months ago
It's very possible he believed it. I remember hearing that as a kid growing up in the NYC area.
Load More Replies... Lila Allen 8 months ago
Does he have an explanation for how the West side in many towns is the area that is predominantly African American?
Nikole 8 months ago
Hahaha yeah, the west side of Chicago would like a word with him
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An ex friend was very dumb and arrogant. Snapped his fingers at a waiter and said. “Look at this dish, I ordered a beefsteak tomato salad. Do you see any beef or steak?????”.
Beak Hookage 8 months ago
Stupid AND snaps his fingers at waiters. No wonder they're an ex friend.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
People who snap their fingers at servers deserve to have their fingers snapped
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WindySwede 8 months ago
one could be unaware of that, but then not snap your fingers at service persons to ask?
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
Yeah, the ignorance of the dish is forgivable, the behavior is not.
Load More Replies... Jaya 8 months ago
It was a common joke in the 80s amongst vegans, that they can't eat this tomato because it's not vegan. Other common jokes amongst vegans in that era were that they couldn't eat eggplant, and that they had to say "Say tofu!" when they wanted people to smile for the camera 😄
Janissary35680 8 months ago
"Why is it you can smoke corn, you can smoke beef, and you can smoke hash but you can't smoke corned beef hash?"
Verena 8 months ago
As a non-native English speaker and not livingin a country where English is spoken on daily basis, I would have expected some meat in salad named like that... However, if this is about these really big tomatoes, in the languages here they are called variations of "oxen heart".
#22
‘Men are born to be naturally better pilots, and that’s why I would never fly with a female pilot’ - my Andrew Tate super fan brother.
Anyways, no, aircraft are man-made devices and, therefore, are not naturally sourced.
There is not a single cell in the male anatomy that supports aerodynamics.
Ace 8 months ago
Your brother? Look, I'm not normally an advocate of capital punishment, but have you considered putting him out of your misery?
Lila Allen 8 months ago
I wouldn't worry. With this level of stupidity the problem usually sorts itself out as they ignore all the warnings of food safety, medications, and take a lot of deworming meds.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 8 months ago
Didn't they discover that women make better fighter pilots because they have faster reflexes and are more willing to k**l?
winterwidow87 8 months ago (edited)
My brain skipped the word "fighter" so now i have the mental image of "regular" women pilots being more willing to kîll.
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Learner Panda 8 months ago
Every flight I have been on only makes an announcement from the flight deck after take-off.
Bailey 8 months ago
Think you have been lucky with your flights, usually when there is a delay or any pre take off issues, the pilots make announcements to the cabin to keep them updated
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"This year is a special year, once in a millennium, where if you subtract your age from it, you will get the year you were born!".
Michael Largey 8 months ago (edited)
Only if you’ve already had your birthday this year. I’m 74. 2025 - 74 = 1951. But I was born in 1950, late 1950.
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 8 months ago
Only yesterday a 26-yr-old proudly told me she'd worked out someone's age by deducting the year of their birth from the current year. She thought she'd discovered some secret and caught them out when they hadn't wanted to disclose how old they were.
#24
That I had to write a different birth date on my account application because there is no Feb. 29th.
WindySwede 8 months ago
"This is not your date of birth, you have reported to the authorities"
Janissary35680 8 months ago
I had a cousin who was born on February 29th and yes, she celebrated her birthday on March 1st three out of four years. I'm sure governments have regulated this issue for official purposes.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 8 months ago
My company had an issue with this too in one of our online systems because apparently no one who worked on it had ever heard of a leap year. We had to tell those people to use 2/28 as their birthday.
Rick Murray 8 months ago
Account? For a bank? I'm not sure I'd trust a place that can't sensibly handle leap year date numbering with any important tasks.
cj be like 8 months ago
a leap year birthday? does that mean you only have a birthday every 4 years or what? /s
Jonas Fisher 8 months ago
Yes. That's exactly what it means. I'm concerned that you think this comment was so laughably wrong that you were being sarcastic.
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Ever heard of sovereign citizens? .
Libstak 8 months ago
Please dont....just send them to the depths of the Amazon, they can self govern all they want there.
lenka 8 months ago
I would agree entirely, except I dont know if its fair to burden the native people who still live in the Amazon with the stupidity of sovereign citizens.
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Stuey Bassfish 8 months ago
Ever heard of the country that voted to leave the MASSIVE trading bloc next door just so they could have blue passports? Actually, they could have had any colour they liked before the vote....but the replacements were made abroad. LMAO, even though everything went to $hit after that.
Emilu 8 months ago
They’re hilarious until you actually need to deal with them… I work in law. I’ve had several. It normally ends with “if you don’t believe in our law then why TF are you here asking questions about it and wasting my time?” I’m lucky my workplace supports me when dealing with these cucks, cos otherwise I’d prolly be fired ten times over.
detective miller's hat 8 months ago
Watching videos of sovereign citizens on youtube has become one of my favourite reality shows.
#26
That Sasquatch can shrink or grow their size at will, they can teleport inter dimensional, that they can psychically interfere with electronic devices and that they are used by the US government to fight-dog men which I was told are not werewolves. They’re dog-men.
With complete conviction.
Ace 8 months ago
Have you ever seen a Sasquatch to be able to prove that they can't do all this? There you are then. 😉
Space Invader 8 months ago
The very fact we see no dog-man around must mean the Sasquatch is real and doing his job as intended!
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CultOfBambi 8 months ago
Those are underpants gnomes - they're not related to sasquatches at all. Where do you get your info?! I get mine from a trusted source (South Park).
Load More Replies... David Morgan 8 months ago
If any of you are unaware, the technical term for this is Special Pleading. You can find it EVERYWHERE. It's used when someone makes a blanket statement, another person points out a contradiction, and then the first person gives a sudden, new reason why the contradiction doesn't exist, instead of admitting they might be wrong.
#27
He refused a raise because it would put him in a higher tax bracket, therefore, have to pay more in taxes which meant he would actually be making less than before the raise.
Apatheist Account2 8 months ago
This is only said by people who have not been in the higher tax bracket.
Pencil 8 months ago
This is actually *very* common. People think that once your income reaches the next bracket, that *all* of your income is taxed at that rate. For any Americans who need more info, here's how it actually works: https://www.irs.gov/filing/federal-income-tax-rates-and-brackets#:~:text=You%20pay%20tax%20as%20a,rate%20on%20your%20entire%20income.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
"No problem, you sit home, I'll work the OT". I made all kinds of money in OT before retirement..
#28
“Infamous means you’re really super famous, like Johnny Depp.”.
David Morgan 8 months ago
"Carmen, do you know what foreplay is?" "No..." "Good, neither does El Guappo". I love that joke, but my girlfriend gives me an irritated look every time I laugh at it. Maybe she is thinking something unkind...
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
Well, yes - if you know about "inflammable" and you read about Johnny Depp being "infamous" (plenty of reporting uses that word) - why not interpret things that way? It's a lot less stupid than some mistakes in this list. 🤷
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 8 months ago
Johnny Depp may be the most infamous person you’ve ever heard of - but you have heard of him.
Rick Murray 8 months ago
Infamy, infamy, they've got it in for me! (Kenneth Williams as Julius Caesar)
eMpTy 8 months ago
Hengist Pod (played by Kenneth Connor), as he accidentally stabs Caesar: "I told you I was no good at fighting!"
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#29
Alaska is positioned slightly southwest of California (because of how the inset maps often position it). Rather than, "oh, maybe I read the map wrong", they were ADAMANT that this was the case.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
I always ask them to explain why Alaska's right boundary is straight. You wouldn't believe some of the answers😂😂😂
Rose the Cook 8 months ago
And Tasmania is floating off the coast of Sydney because so many maps show it that way.
any rei 8 months ago
I don't understand why so many US Americans have trouble with this. Like people must have seen a map before. In school, or in the news. Like how can you even avoid the knowledge of how the world looks?
Doug Moyer 8 months ago
They've seen maps but not globes. Typical maps of the US are like this: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/R8UAAOSwWGZkg3Hr/s-l1600.webp
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#30
It's not a pyramid scheme. It's earning potential. Something I can do as I get older.
WindySwede 8 months ago
You'll be doing it for a really long time to repay for the "start package"??
#31
That a country mile is longer than a city mile. I tried to reason with her for a short time but sometimes you just have to let them think it.
Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
The expression "a country mile" refers to an indeterminate but long distance so the supposed "dumb" person wasn't wrong unless they were insisting that the actual official mile was different. Having said that, the definition of "a mile" has varied greatly with time and place. For example, the historical Welsh mile was close to four English statute miles. So... If you'd just gone to Wales (mostly countryside) from (say) Chester (an English city close to Wales) back in the 12th century, you'd be presented with "country" miles a lot longer than the miles you'd been used to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#Welsh
Strahd Ivarius 8 months ago
Far simpler to use the meter and kilometer, like civilized people.
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Lyoness 8 months ago
Reminds me of the "a pound of fat weighs more than a pound of muscle" idea. No. A pound is a pound, no matter what it's made of. Muscle is more dense and burns more calories, but a pound of each weighs the same amount.
Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
But a pound of gold does weigh more than a pound of feathers, because gold is weighed using Troy pounds (≈ 1.3396kg) and feathers were weighed using Avoirdupois pounds (≈ 1.1023kg). Conversion table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass)#Imperial_Standard_Pound
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 8 months ago
Where I live, it’s “You can’t get there from here,”
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Phantom Phoenix 8 months ago
If you've lived in the country, you'll know people from the city consider it further to come to your home, than it is for you to go to theirs
What do you think ?
Papa 8 months ago
While waiting in line for our Thanksgiving lunch at work some years ago I had a co-worker, a university student who had lived his whole life in the US, ask me "Is Thanksgiving on Thursday this year?" (For those of you who are not US citizens, Thanksgiving has always been on Thursday since 1863.)
MeowMix 8 months ago (edited)
My ex told me a couple of years ago that Halloween was going to fall on Friday the 13th that year. Maybe Halloween was on a Friday that year.....but the 13th???
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Peter Bear 8 months ago
I know plenty of people who think that putting tariffs on international produces will somehow help our economy. These are the same people who firmly believe you can redirect hurricanes with sharpie markers.
BookFanatic 8 months ago
I overheard someone say the reason Southern Illinois is getting so much rain and flooding is because the Democrats are using chem trails to direct flooding to punish the Trump supporters.
Kevin Hickey 8 months ago
"Gas is more expensive in Canada because they use the metric system."
Papa 8 months ago
While waiting in line for our Thanksgiving lunch at work some years ago I had a co-worker, a university student who had lived his whole life in the US, ask me "Is Thanksgiving on Thursday this year?" (For those of you who are not US citizens, Thanksgiving has always been on Thursday since 1863.)
MeowMix 8 months ago (edited)
My ex told me a couple of years ago that Halloween was going to fall on Friday the 13th that year. Maybe Halloween was on a Friday that year.....but the 13th???
Load More Replies... Peter Bear 8 months ago
I know plenty of people who think that putting tariffs on international produces will somehow help our economy. These are the same people who firmly believe you can redirect hurricanes with sharpie markers.
BookFanatic 8 months ago
I overheard someone say the reason Southern Illinois is getting so much rain and flooding is because the Democrats are using chem trails to direct flooding to punish the Trump supporters.
Kevin Hickey 8 months ago
"Gas is more expensive in Canada because they use the metric system."
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