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We are all flawed and incapable of perfection. Even the most intelligent people will have occasional “dumb” moments, and that’s okay.
However, some of these blunders recently became a topic of discussion on Reddit when someone asked, “What’s the dumbest thing you’ve seen an intelligent person do?”
One story involved a microwaved fork at a research institute. Another was about a doctor who placed his hand under a lawnmower while it was still running.
You may laugh at some of these responses and feel bad for a few others. But if there’s a key takeaway, no human is superior to another because each one’s skills and traits tend to balance out somehow.
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#1
Support Trump. I'm not saying this in a cheeky way, necessarily, but I have friends and family that will do mental gymnastics to justify supporting Trump despite a *vast* amount of evidence piled up against him. They will then turn around and believe anything they hear about Biden and family without a shred of evidence to support their position. It's baffling. I'm conservative, but the way Trump has hijacked my party with non-stop false claims is alarming. The way he is undermining trust in our electoral system just because his ego can't handle losing is scary. Smart people in my life falling for it really confuses me. Like *how*?! Maybe my assumption that they are able to critically think is vastly inaccurate.
Libstak 1 year ago
And...he is now your next president, after spectacularly failing the first time.
Penny Hernandez 1 year ago
And with those whom he is surrounding himself with now, he's truly terrifying.
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Penguin Panda Pop 1 year ago
I had a weird interaction online about this kind of topic. Someone had posted a video praising the Christian virtues of the Trump. I responded to the poster of the video by asking where in the bible it says it's ok to pay hush money to p**n stars to cover an extra-marital affair. Apparently I'm going to hell now for blasphemy.
Tiger 1 year ago
They don’t like it when you point out the truth, they like to stick their heads in the sand and stick to the story they’re telling themselves. So allergic to “woke” that they’d rather say asleep and uninformed 😅 it’s terrifying.
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Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
Yep. This. I actually had a woman told me the other day. “Oh, he’s not going to do any of those crazy things he talks about he just says those things… And I’m super excited For cheaper gas”. I thought by now everyone understood that the president doesn’t control gas prices, but apparently not. when I told her cheaper gas was not my priority, especially in comparison to the social issues potentially at play she assured me I would care more about gas as I get older. I’m 51.
Gozer LeGozerian 1 year ago
Here's to hoping she'll feel the consequences of her dumb actions on her own body. I'm absolutely done being nice to these people.
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Earonn - 1 year ago
I was born and educated in Germany, and I have to agree. We tried to warn everyone. It's not just what he does, but also the mindset of his followers (for example, google "Dolchstosslegende / stab-in-the-back-legend ). Even the accusations against the groups he wants to use as scapegoats are basically the same. The Proud Boys will become the next SS if Americans aren't careful. Wishing the USA good luck and all the best, from the bottom of my heart.
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Tiger 1 year ago
If you’re genuinely okay with the amount of proven lies, corruption, scamming, racism, sexual assault, felony charges, childish name-calling, fascism and destruction Trump brings, I truly worry about your intelligence. If you were too dumb to look at the ACTUAL facts (not what the two parties were claiming but the actual facts), you’d know Trump isn’t good for America. Not all republicans are racists, but all racists are republicans - that alone indicates a huge problem in the party.
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
According to these people, the felonies were made up, all the facts about him are made up, and everything is a conspiracy to make him look bad. I tell people he raised the national debt by 7.8 trillion dollars (some reports are 40.43% or 8.18 trillion) and because of his cuts to corporations, Bezos pays less in taxes then 43 million working Americans. But it's like telling cavemen about gravity.
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Gozer LeGozerian 1 year ago
Had Biden done even 1% of what DonOld has, they would've had an aneurysm
Piwakawaka 1 year ago
I was asked this the other day, and having never heard the joke I came up with the answer within a second.
Load More Replies... Gozer LeGozerian 1 year ago
Wauw. Your brothers who were born from a woman. Who has a sister. Voted for a rapist. Voted for a man who wants to take women's rights away. I hope you've gone NC.
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Trump didn't hijack the GOP. The Christian Right/Moral Majority started hijacking the GOP during Regan admin, so this worship of Trump has been a long build up of far-right conservatives ability to install an authoritarian government. Democrats rested on their laurels far too long, making the foolish assumption progress was being made, and we all turned to TikTok and reality TV.
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#2
I’m an ocean lifeguard - I was driving a truck on a beach that has unstable cliff faces, so part of my job is telling people it’s unsafe to sit under them. I pulled up to a man that was comically sitting on a fallen rock, directly in front of a sign that said, “DANGER FALLING ROCKS.” Warned him it wasn’t a safe area, and he kinda smirked for a second before looking around, and seeing that I was right. He got very, very embarrassed - turned bright red, head in his hands, visibly upset and very apologetic. I told him it’s fine, and that a lot of people don’t think about things like that. He said, “No, you don’t get it. I should know better, out of anyone. It’s not fine. I’m a geologist.”.
Joe Reaves 1 year ago
Huge difference between a one off brain fart like the geologist had and ongoing stupidity.
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Steve Robert 1 year ago
He admitted to making a mistake, and changing his position. This is how intelligent people will react. They change their position when new facts are introduced.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Even though I know a lot English words, it being my native language and all, I still confuse Push/Pull at most entrances. I think intelligent people tend to have more brain farts because there's so much cool stuff on their minds.
Kayleigh haigh 1 year ago
I know a little about a lot of stuff half the time I have know idea how I know but my head is just a encyclopedia of wierd information that a lot of time nobody even need to know so I refer to my head as a storage warehouse or library all information and knowledge in the library pictures/images and memes all in boxes in warehouse I just wish sometime I had a furnace in there to have a declutter once in a while cos there are certain events and memories engraved in pictures and books in my head I would like destroyed but even with all this random knowledge I have multiple blond moments going as far as forgetting how to spell my name lol
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Matthew Savestheworld 1 year ago
at least he showed appropriate humility and acknowledged his error
#3
My psych once asked me what caused my PTSD
As I was telling him, I started crying and shaking.
"Damn I didn't think the question would make you cry" he responded.
THREE PHDS AND YOU DON'T THINK REMEMBERING THE CAUSE OF THEIR PTSD WILL MAKE SOMEONE CRY???
ChimeraBubbles 1 year ago
Psychiatrists and psychologists aren't typically trained in counselling and so can sometimes ask questions without being considerate of the emotions that might bring up. I can say, however, they are human and should be able to relate to other humans with compassion so this one sounds totally inept.
WubiDubi 1 year ago
Sheldon level. Also on that track, education does not mean a gain in empathy. I mean this clinically.
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Martina Külling 1 year ago
My daughter (14) has autism and social anxiety. Her therapist moved to another quarter and didn't tell her. Our daughter didn't find the new place, didn't reach her on the phone, called me at work, had to ask neighbours where to find her. There was no sign ore name on the doorbell. Than the therapist accused her for being late. I was asking myself which one was needing help...
Juan Ortega 1 year ago
It was particularly terrible because his stupid moment occurred in his area of expertise.
Ace 1 year ago (edited)
Anyone who doesn't have it clearly hasn't experienced it and unless they're a trained psych. they most likely won't have studied it either, so how are they supposed to know?
Tiger 1 year ago
“Unless they’re a trained psych” - any psych that you’re visiting in a professional manner should be trained. Especially in PTSD, it’s not like it’s a crazy uncommon thing that only 1 in a million experience.
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#4
Last week I couldn't find my phone, so I looked down to the phone in my hand and started to try the Find My Phone thing when... oh.
(I swear I'm at least reasonably intelligent.).
KnightOOwl 1 year ago
I was talking to my sister one day when I suddenly realised I couldn't find my phone. I spent the next 20+ minutes running around looking for it with my sister giving me advice and helping me, then I suddenly burst out laughing. I was talking to her on my phone! While I was laughing hysterically she was shouting 'what happened?' 'Are you OK?' 'Did you find it?' When I finally told her, we both felt unbelievably stupid.
kristina law 1 year ago
I am so embarrassed to admit I have, several times, used the flashlight on my phone to try and find my phone.
ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
Seriously, the amount of times I've asked myself where my glasses are while I was wearing them is staggering.
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Ashley Harrold 1 year ago
I once freaked out because I couldn't find my phone. While talking to my mom on the phone.
Maisey Myles 1 year ago
Same here! And looking for my glasses while wearing them
Load More Replies... Mama Clare 1 year ago
I couldn't find my phone in bed so used the torch on my phone to look for it
Hey Kat 1 year ago
I've definitely done that! I've also tried to use my car key fob to unlock my house door!
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
I did that a couple of times to unlock my desk drawer at work. 🤦🏻♀️
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Me and a housemate searched for my glasses for way too long considering they were on top of my head.
#5
Just this week someone microwaved a fork in the office kitchen. I work at a research institute. Everyone in here has at least a master's in engineering.
Rose the Cook 1 year ago (edited)
Saw a nurse stick a fork in the toaster to reach something that got stuck. "Don't you know better than to stick a knife in that?" " But it was a fork."
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I was a volunteer at a hospital. You know, the building where the staff know about diseases and bacteria and stuff. My first time needing to use the microwave in the kitchen and it was so disgusting I jumped back. Ended up getting lunch at the vending machine.
Schmebulock 1 year ago
a LOT of people are just very good at one thing. Common sense is not required to get a master's.
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
I accidently microwaved a fork in some fried rice last spriing. Would you believe that nothing happened? My working theory is that it was because the fork had rice in between the tines, the rice covering the tines didn't allow the electricity to arc between them so the electricity was grounded and couldn't build up enough of a charge to start sparking.
#6
My Dad is super smart. Like... He's a member of MENSA smart, has several patents he wrote when he was in his early 20's, once asked a flight attendant a bunch of weird questions about the plane we were on so he could do some crazy math equations FOR FUN. You get the picture.
But his smarts were no match for little toddler me crying because my toy pony stopped making noise after I brought into the bathtub. Dad panicked, figured he could dry it out.... In the microwave. He did not seem to make the connection that in order to make those noises it had to have electronic (aka METAL) parta inside it. So pony goes in the microwave and a few seconds later it basically explodes into flames. We were both in shock for a few minutes. Surprisingly I stopped crying because it was so unexpected and then Dad taught me about how metal doesn't go in the microwave.
zububonsai 1 year ago (edited)
Take my upvote. The downvoters are miffed MENSA members, probably. PS: I've taken the test when I was 17 (event at school), I passed but declined their invitation (F/westerner). It's really not that hard if you have some basic knowledge and training in logic and math. That's why those IQ tests are biased rubbish, please don't feel "unintelligent" if you don't reach their "130": they are developed by and tested on "classic western educated men". So often men/westerners score more in general than an (e.g.!) female indigenous from some remote place had much more difficulties to score the same - though they are NOT less intelligent. But these tests heavily leans on MINT facts snd brainy skills but never ask about "how to make a toddler smile?", or "mend a gap with thread and needle" or "get that stain off" or "dance a complex dance". I would loooove to see such an IQ test.
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Rich Black 1 year ago
You dad is super smart because he tries to flirt by using math equations?
Jessica Shookhoff 1 year ago
See above to the PTSD post. Dramatic end to beloved toy by hapless father...
Eugenia 1 year ago
A friend of mine, psychologist and member of a scientific divulgation committee, once frantically wrote on our group chat asking fellow scientists why the plastic bottles in which he had poured some warm milk for his baby girl had suddenly shrunk. We helped him reason, because he sure knew this happens, and he said that being a new father had made him lost his mind.
#7
Buy a billion dollar platform and tell the main revenue stream to f**k off.
Panda McPandaface 1 year ago
He's not as bright as he likes people to think he is.
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Tiger 1 year ago
I refuse to call Twitter “X.” Just to p*ss Elon off. It will always be Twitter.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
Elon deadnames his trans daughter, so we deadname his website.
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Virgil Blue 1 year ago
I strongly suspect he just went over to people with actual good ideas and said "You need money, I give money, but you have to say it was my idea." And things like Hyperloop and Cyber truck are such bad, childish or debunked ideas that I can believe he really thought those up himself.
Lynchamigsakta 1 year ago
I honestly don't think you even need the word suspect, that's exactly what he did and being born rich is the only contribution he's ever made to anything
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David 1 year ago
Musk didn't do it to make money, he did it as a way to control the narrative. He has said as much
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
He bought it so people couldn’t make fun of him on it. Look at how that turned out for him
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[>.<]/ 1 year ago (edited)
1. Buy a billion dollar platform. 2. Use it to spread misinformation. 3. Use it to endorse right- wing politician that promises fascistic dictatorship. 4. Let it be overrun with political influencers paid for by Russia. 5. Right wing politician wins election. 6. Profit.
Steve Robert 1 year ago
And then tries to sue them for taking his advice. A dumbass with money, and the greediest man on the planet. Hope he and tRump share a cell in hell!
#8
My cousin (21) got the highest marks in his A levels and GCSE’s in england, he’s now in scotland studying at one of the hardest university’s to get into, one day he decided to hoover the lounge this is how it went:
*me walks in*
“what are you doing?”
him- “hoovering the lounge?”
me- “you need to plug it in first?”
he was pushing the hoover around the room without plugging it in and turning it on.
Min 1 year ago
One of my friends in high school was taught by his father that if he gets a rake from the shed and rakes lines into the carpet, he can fool his mom into thinking he vacuumed and he won't have to actually do it. Seemed like a lot more work than just vacuuming, but it made them feel clever.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
I bought a hoover, they told me it would help keep my house clean. It's just been sitting in the corner collecting dust.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Yeah, but I bet he knows what the plural of "university" is and how to use an apostrophe. apostrophe...2860eb.jpg 
Michael Largey 1 year ago
There are battery-powered vacuum cleaners, but you still have to switch them on.
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Sooooo he didn't know that you have to take the end of the cord, plug it into the outlet, turn it on for the motor to run for it to actually clean the floors????? Has this child never seen a vacuum cleaner running before?
April Pickett 1 year ago
You know, you may have book smarts and absolutely no common sense at all.
#9
There's a lot of guys who would never get laid if it wasn't for intelligent women who make bad choices.
Nikole 1 year ago
In my case it’d be intelligent women with drinking problems…
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#10
As a kid I saw my stepfather (a Doctor with several specialist qualifications who did two Masters in the same year on a whim) put his hand under the lawnmower to dislodge something....The lawnmower was still on. He didn't lose fingers permanently but had several months of recovery and skin grafting surgeries. He was academically brilliant but lacked a lot of practical life skills, clearly.
Pferdchen 1 year ago (edited)
I knew the economist who recommended to President Carter that dead man switches should not be required on lawnmowers, because the expense would be more than dealing with the injuries. In a cruel twist of fate, he subsequently injured his hand in a lawnmower accident. To his credit, he admitted the cause of the injury when asked about it at a press conference and was laughing when he told me about it. I note that all lawnmowers have dead man switches.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
I love the cool calculations that tell you how many déaths and maimings would be enough to implement a minor safety measure in any kind of equipment, and how much money they saved until then. Or how often the company could afford to get sued for ensuing damages before the fines exceed the estimated savings. /S (For real: that's why I'm a fan of regulations, and NOT an fan of the suing culture: regulations save lives, suing is compensation AFTER people have been hurt or killed. I prefer 100 safe workers to 85 alive ones, and 15 déad, even if it means that the one "lucky loser", aka suing, family will miss out on becoming millionaires)
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Paul C. 1 year ago
Guy I worked with was brilliant at just about everything he put his hands to. He was our on sight engineer and decided to put his head into the companies Air conditioning unit because it was making a strange noise. Inside was the biggest fan going round and without turning it off, he put his head inside to look! A few stitches but more importantly, probably an inch from certain death.
Julie S 1 year ago
I'm glad it was too bad. I really thought you were going to say he was decapitated.
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𝖊𝖜𝖔𝛋 1 year ago
Isn’t this quite common though, people who are technically geniuses in a certain field often lack common sense or ‘cleverness’ in other areas? I went to school with a kid who literally became a rocket scientist (after uni went onto workfor NASA) but couldn’t tie his shoe laces or knew how to make a cup of tea. He was an actual genius in terms of physics and maths but didn’t have much common sense (all girls school but boys were allowed to join in sixth form) and I’m sure I’ve heard it’s quite common?
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Book smarts are completely different from street smarts. Or even common sense
#11
This week I had to explain gravity to a group of people and they didn't believe me.🙈.
JoMeBee 1 year ago
Can I please just get to the edge and leap? I don't want to adult anymore...
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Justin Tyme 1 year ago
As Enigma would say, "Try to think about it. That's the chance to live your life, and discover what it is. What's the gravity of love?"
Fellfromthemoon 1 year ago
It depends, if your audience couln't grasp matter bending space or doesn't believe the apple falling.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
It does depend on what the explanation actually was. If it involved magic turtles, they may have been justified in not believing.
Virgil Blue 1 year ago
Are you telling me the great A'tuin isn't real???😀
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I'm guessing they don't like to think about gravity because it always brings them down.
#12
My grandmother infamously tried to make an ice cream cake back when those were a new thing in the early 80s. She put ice cream on the cake batter…and put it in the oven.
My grandfather said it was tasty though.
Verena 1 year ago
She should have dunked it in the batter and deep-fried it. That actually works with good skills and timing.
El Cucuy 1 year ago
Was going to make the same comment. Deep fried ice cream is quite tasty!
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Wayne Hallam 1 year ago
Melted ice cream mixed with bread flour makes a surprisingly good and easy desert bread. Not relevant. Just something more people need to know.
#13
Someone with a Harvard PhD in biochemistry told me that it never occurred to them that different colors of Nespresso pods in their office meant different types or blends of coffee. It was just all coffee and sometimes the coffee was good, sometimes it was off, and sometimes it felt like it did nothing. It wasn't until they mentioned the last point to a co-worker, that the co-worker pointed out that this person was in the process of loading a decaf pod into the machines.
Jessica Shookhoff 1 year ago
I'm going to contest this one. Knowing about Nespresso pods is definitely less intelligent than NOT knowing! I said what I said...
#14
A cardiologist I worked with was contacted by "Apple" about his computer security. He gave them access to his laptop and was working with the guy to set something up on there when I got suspicious and googled for him. I ran to his office to show him the apple website, saying they would never contact you by phone, and if you do, it's a scam. He immediately ended the call and shut the computer down. He had to make many phone calls and change MANY passwords as it was his work laptop. Thankfully, no harm was done. Proof that even highly educated doctors can be scammed.
Tiger 1 year ago
Honestly this happened with the C-Suite execs weirdly often at my last work. They’d get an email from a strange address saying “Hey this is (CEO’s name), I need you to do me a favour and pick up a bunch of gift cards and send me the numbers” (classic scam) and they kept falling for it 😂 I have no idea why they were making 300x everyone else’s salary.
Howl's sleeping castle 1 year ago
My friend who works in IT and always makes fun of the scammers by talking BS ended up getting scammed. By the time he realised they had already taken out some money from his account. He had to change a lot of information
H Wiley 1 year ago
That was the red flag for me. You have to take it in, give it to them and maybe they will call in a week.
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Virgil Blue 1 year ago (edited)
My dad isn't stupid by any means, but he has few unfortunate ideas stuck in his head, namely that you have to be politie and nice to absolutely anybody on the phone (even obvious scammers) and he also believes he's smarter than them, their scripts and their support team. So he just keeps nicely talking to them untill they manage to get rapport with him so he starts to feel guilty at just hanging up not giving them at least something. Not realising they will take his methaphorical fingers, hand, arm shoulderblades and any organ that takes their fancy as soon as he would.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
It took me a fair bit of training (which practice provided) to be curt and impolite to people on the phone. A couple of "Hello, I'm calling from Microsoft" (with an actual or possibly fake Indian accent to boot) did the job nicely.
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Highly educated doctors' intelligence doesn't always correspond to non-medical knowledge. In the 80's the young pediatrician who took over my daughter's old practice saw me letting my 4-5 month daughter bounce on the examining table while I held her hands & we were waiting for him. He told me that I would stun the growth of her legs, an old Cuban wives tale that I knew about from several friends talking about their own mothers' bad advice.
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
I've worked for two different health insurance companies that had people fall for this scam. It's friggin brutal. Both ended up losing millions.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I didn't get a phone call but a week ago I opened my laptop to use it and a voice message pop up saying do not shut your computer off, your computer is being hacked or something along that line. It looked like it was coming from HP. Then there was a number to call. So I called the number they explain what supposedly happening and my phone was supposedly hack into. Walked me through everything and showed me who supposedly hack into my phone and what to do. Toward the end of it they wanted me to go to Lowes and scan my debit card for a certain amount and then to fix the problem, they were going to send me a text message to press either 1 to except the charges or 2 to decline the charges. By pressing 2 to decline the charges they were going to reverse the charges. I got suspicious so I went down to my bank and ask. They said it was a scam. I was on the phone all this time with the person. I hanged up right there. Avoided being scam.
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
I always get a kick out of the scammers who called me saying they were my grandson, had been beaten up, were in jail and needed bail money sent to them (plot twist- i don't have grandchildren, only grand-cats).
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Scammers are getting better and better. Their scam is designed to be an intended distraction that catches even the most intelligent off guard.
#15
Computer tech here, traveling for work, I checked into the hotel. My room is on the first floor. I get in the elevator and press 1. Nothing happened. I press it again a few times. The other guy in the elevator says "Hey buddy, you're already on the first floor."
"Oh... Yeah."
I was really burned out.
Ace 1 year ago
In most of the world that's normal. Start at the Ground floor. up 1 is the first floor, up 2 is... you get the picture.
Tiger 1 year ago
In my head the ground floor is the first floor. As in, a 1- story building only has one floor. If it’s a two-story building, it has two floors. I wouldn’t call the top floor in a 2-story building the “first floor,” I’d call it the “second floor.” Why would it change if I added more floors on top? Just makes more sense to me that way.
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ChimeraBubbles 1 year ago
This is such a regional thing. In the UK it is ground floor, then first floor, then second, etc. If I were burned out and in a country that starts with 1 as the ground floor I would also be confused with the lift.
Fellfromthemoon 1 year ago
I don't say first floor in English, if I can explain it any other way. First floor=ground floor in the USA, many places: first floor= the floor immediately above the ground floor.
Julie S 1 year ago
This is one of the things I agree with the Americans about. The ground floor should be floor 1 the next floor up should be 2. Not the stupid way we do it in the UK. I always end up on the wrong floor because of this.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
I get what you're saying, but to me the European system is like "how many stairs do I take, how far above/below the ground floor is it?" It's like starting to count when there is anything TO count (you wouldn't say "I'm on the first floor" if there were no other floors)🤷
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Does this really belong here? How many of us have done stupid things when we're tired, stressed out, or when our minds are juggling a million things?
Epona 1 year ago
Came here to say the same thing. Other than the regional differences in what people call floors/storeys of a building, this one is just a matter of tiredness/stress, not legit stupidity
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Invisible Potato 1 year ago
i am a civil enginering, we count floors differently then other people. 1.Np, 2NP, 3NP etc, if its undergroud its 1pp or -1PP, there are no ground floors when we create a documentation for buildings. lots ope rich people who we rok for doesnt grasp this concept and say "its a 3 floor house" when its 5 (4 up, one down)
#16
Physician got a flat on his high end Mercedes.
Mr Fixit decided to take things into his own hands, dismounted the wheel and got a ride to the tire store.
“I need a tire for my Mercedes.”
“Where’s the flat one?” They asked, presuming they could either repair it or get the specs.
“I threw it away, it was flat.”
Dumb**s threw the entire wheel and tire into a dumpster and it was gone when he returned. Car had to be towed, new OEM wheel ordered.
What may have been a $10 flat repair put his car out of commission for over a week and cost more than $1,000. This was in the ‘80s.
Tiger 1 year ago
I can’t speak for Mercedes, but I used to work for a handful of dealerships and a lot of new vehicles don’t come with a spare anymore, just a portable “tire repair kit” - works alright for a small puncture but not for any more major tire damage.
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Aly Wassel 1 year ago
I legitimately told my uncle to not work on my BMW to change the oil since I was driving back from Louisiana to Oregon the next day after already scheduling an appointment in Houston with the dealership and he ruined my car. 20,000 dollars later it's still sitting in my carport in Oregon. We were stuck there for another month
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
Most vehicles like a BMW require a special tool to remove the oil filter. Why did you give your keys to your idiotic uncle?
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Max Fox 1 year ago
Physicians are really good at contextual memory and memory storage and retrieval. However, as I wrote above, higher levels of intelligence are indicated by creation of original things, and the test for an MD is memorization (as it should be). One becomes an MD by accumulating the required knowledge, and by having the ability to access the correct knowledge when needed. There is also "instincts" that good doctors have, but that is a skill which is not strongly connected to intellectual abilities.
Max Fox 1 year ago
PS. I'm not knocking doctors - people who are good doctors are as rare as really smart people. It's just a different set of talents.
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I once had the great pleasure of getting to ask our very experienced master electrician who had decades in powering giant events but one day couldn't get his computer to boot:.
"Uh, Mike? Are you sure it's plugged in?"(it was not).
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
My husband is a reataurant equipment repair technician. The company got a 911 call for a send out to Wyoming (we were in Seattle). My husband asks all the necessary questions, including - are you sure the oven is plugged in? Guy loses his sh*t, he's not a moron, how dare you ... No, it wasn't plugged in. Hubs had to fly to Wyoming, with his tools, rent a truck and a motel room - all of which were billed to the restaurant owner, including emergency service charges. He basically paid $4200 for someone to come plug his oven in.
#18
Watch Fox News.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
No, believing Fox News is the problem. Watching can be informative if you realize what's going on. "It is well to know what tune the devil is playing." - Jeeves
Phillip Moderow 1 year ago
"FOX News Channel (FNC) finished the first quarter of 2024 as cable’s most-watched network in total day and primetime, dominating primetime viewers in cable news for 89 consecutive quarters." -- Nielsen Media Research.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
I was called a terrorist once by my co-worker. I suggested he vary his info sources BEYOND Fox. At the time Al-Jazeera was on satellite. I said " Geez..PBS, CBS, NBC, Al-Jazeera." "You're a terrorist".
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
The only reason to watch Fox News is to learn what the enemy camp is up to. If only Democrats had paid closer attention. “Know thy enemy and know thyself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated” -- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
HolyDiver 1 year ago
Why don't you just say that anyone who doesn't see the world as you do is unintelligent?
JoMeBee 1 year ago
No, it's about watching a variety of news and/or verifying sources. And no, news on Facebook does not count. But if AP, Reuters, BBC line up, then it's pretty reliable information...
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BeKind&Rewind 1 year ago
What about MSDNC? If you watch ANYTHING on mainstream, you are an idiot.
Bartlet for world domination 1 year ago
Tell me where you live and I'll tell you who you voted for.
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My eye doctor walked into the wall once during an exam. My EYE DOCTOR 👀.
Tiger 1 year ago (edited)
Lmao I once needed a special eye surgery and the only nearby guy who specializes in this adult surgery also happens to be a pediatric ophthalmologist. I love visiting him because I’m just sitting in a waiting room on miniature chairs surrounded by Winnie the Pooh pictures and tiny children with cute glasses. Most of the reading materials are kids books so I’m just sitting around reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar or Ramona and Beezus while I wait. When I get called in the office, he always apologizes that a lot of his eye tests involve SpongeBob or Pokemon 😂 I’m in my 30s and I love it.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Oh, don't worry about it. The doctor was probably drunk, not near-sighted.
#20
Go down the entire anti vax big pharma bad rabbit hole. Threw away the free bowl cancer screening kit our government sends out every two years once you turn 50.
Now, she is undergoing chemo for bowel cancer. (Fixed major typo).
Libstak 1 year ago
OK, big pharma bad...but, the scientists who dedicated their life to researching and finding vaccines for so many things are GOOD, stop conflating the 2 just because big pharma are the ones with the resources to produce and distribute the results of all that good work.
Tiger 1 year ago
Exactly. I can’t imagine dedicating your entire life and career to studying something to help humanity, and when you give your expert advice in public, some average joes somehow feel comfortable saying “nah that sounds weird to me so I don’t trust you”
Load More Replies... HolyDiver 1 year ago
This isn't as bad as all the "Experts" I ran into when fighting stage 3 colo-rectal cancer. The number of people who told me that chemo was a waste and I just needed to completely cut out sugar, use essential oils, colloidal products, etc. was beyond the pale. I am NOT a fan of using pills or meds to fix every little thing in my life but I certainly am going to listen to one of the leading oncologists in the country when he tells me what I need to do.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Just imagine what it said before they fixed the major typo.
Load More Replies... Justin Tyme 1 year ago (edited)
Oh no, another Bored Panda photo fail. That IV catheter is inserted into the vein in the wrong direction. It is oriented distally instead of proximally.
Jessica Shookhoff 1 year ago
Yo, as a biochemist, Big Pharma IS bad. Vaccines are awesome! Probably one of the best things we did as humans. But Bug Pharma- no! Hello Opiod Crisis anyone? Or hey, one of my favs- Risperdal! 2nd generation anti-psychotic that was not only less safe, but often not even as effective as first generation anti-psychotics, oh, and hey, it gave adolescent boys breasts. You know, just want they needed. Not humiliating at all.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
That's one effect of "dereguletion". I love it when people keep praising Trump (as happened in another post) for deregulation. Boy, taking away what little regulations the US government puts in place for the health and protection of its citizens is NOT, repeat NOT in the interest of these citizens. "But corporations will be hindered less and make more profits! And when they do well their employees do well, too!" As if jobs are a charity handed out whenever the company does well. And as if ANY of the money gained by increasing the collateral damages will benefit a single person (well, maybe except for a suing widow).
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#21
My brother lit a firecracker, got distracted and put it in his pocket.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I guess that is worse than a firecracker going off in your fingers. That happened to me.
Nikole 1 year ago
Me too… In my defense I was 13 and the wick was faulty.
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#22
I knew a many of people completely ruin their future by storming the capitol. Totally smart people. I talked to one recently after avoiding contact with him and he told me about his life since then. He cannot get a job at all no matter what the job is he cannot get it. He recorded it all on his phone so of course the FBI found him pretty easily. Took his phone. But the weirdest thing: he no longer owns a phone. He has like this nokia looking government provided phone that does absolutely nothing but call and text. Of course all messages sent and received are monitored. I literally don’t know how he’s supposed to advance in life like I don’t know if he will ever find a job.
Ace 1 year ago
Sadly it seems like they'll all get pardoned now. What a completely fskd up system. Armed insurrection will be forgiven once your demagogue manages to get into power.
Tiger 1 year ago
It’s such BS, isn’t it. These people are not good people, they’re dangerous and violent and need to learn about consequences for violently expressing anger and hatred. People died.
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BeKind&Rewind 1 year ago
It sure would have been a good idea for Pelosi to maybe call the National Guard or at least notify the DC police (she admits her own stupidity at that).
Rich Black 1 year ago
This sounds completely made up. No smart person would believe this story.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
Oh no.. he had to face the consequences of his actions... poor guy.... /s if you didn't catch that..
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Chances are good that Trump will pardon them all since he considers them all heroes (but not the troops who didn't make it back in one piece). US society holds a nasty grudge against convicts. After a convict has served their sentence and is released back into society, society levies their punitive sentence via low-wage or no employment, not being able to buy a house or rent a flat, and so on.
#23
My friend was dropping me off home after a day of hanging out, and he tried to argue with me on which street that I live on.
Dude is an engineer.
Grenelda Thurber 1 year ago
Arguing with someone about what street they live on is silly. Being an engineer has nothing to do with it.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
His education level or profession has no bearing on this situation. His arrogance invalidated his passenger.
#24
Bought balloons for a house warming party, blew them up by mouth, and didn't understand why they didn't float.
Granted, she grew up a Jehovah's Witness and wasn't around balloons a lot.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Jehovah's Witnesses are one step above Mennonites and Amish who sequester themselves in their community. They are sheltered from "outsiders" and refer to them as "worldly", so it's not surprising they are unfamiliar with our ways. Or our balloons in this case.
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
They need helium to float. Or, if you feel like living dangerously, hydrogen works as well.
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I have a close friend, super smart, always had the highest average at uni, won multiple awards and stuff, and in conversations generally just either knows a lot about any subject at hand, or knows enough from other subjects to draw a probable theory about it. She's also kicking it in every other aspect in life- great girl, kind, humble, caring towards everyone, works out, eats healthy, is always learning a new language or skill, all in all an amazing girl. But I swear on my life, I have never seen anyone with a worste taste in men. Most of the guys she was attracted to/dated were losers, cocky bastards who think too highly of themselves, or just utter scum. I can't even explain it, to me the guys were walking red flags, a waste of a bag for bones.
Luckily, she finally found a decent, smart, caring, well-spoken man. I damn near cried tears of joy when she told me about him. They've been together for a few years now.
Space Invader 1 year ago
Sometimes I wonder if those are cases of what Terry Pratchett described as "jerk syndrome", where a woman is so grandiose that most people would not dare approach her because they think her out of their league, leaving only idiots to ask her out and her being grateful for it because she thinks others avoid her because she's not good enough...
Max Fox 1 year ago
Of course yes, because Terry Pratchett, and everything he said is correct. However, it can also be the tax that one pays from "Pretty Privilege", if that person is unaware of their privilege. If people just do things for somebody, that person grows up assuming that people are just nice, and have very few defenses against manipulation.
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FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Pretty much that the guys her friend chose were like a waste of space, taking up oxygen. Not even worthy of a body bag.
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Spoiler Alert 1 year ago
Aye but this entirely depends on the type of bad boy. Cheesy movie "bad boy" may be fine but in other cases you may be lucky to escape without physical and/or emotional abuse and in extreme circumstances, your life. Sorry for doom-mongering but I watch a lot of true crime!
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He coded a full on website in his notepad, then when he tried to copy it, he deleted everything by accident. guess he was shocked so he immediately closed notepad. then he realized he just ruined his last chance of undoing it.
KT 1 year ago
I’ve done this (not with a website, but with an entire chapter of one of my novel manuscripts, when inspiration struck and I didn’t have my laptop). The pain is unmatched 😭
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
That is why I still handwrite all of my books. I don't trust computers.
Load More Replies... Eugenia 1 year ago
From the web: Thomas Carlyle lent the manuscript of his most ambitious work, The French Revolution, to his friend John Stuart Mill for comment. One night soon after there was a knock on Carlyle's door. It was a distressed Mill, who told him that a maid had mistaken it for waste paper and burnt it. Carlyle had to rewrite it from scratch.
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
Lost an eight-year spreadsheet that way back in 2008. It still hurts.
Sue 1 year ago
After losing an 80-page manual in the 90's, I learned to save every few sentences. Never happened again.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I've never used Notepad since I use MS document and Excel for everything. Before they installed auto-save, I developed the habit of hitting Ctrl+S every couple of lines so I wouldn't lose it all. Still do, even though I don't need to anymore.
Casey Payne 1 year ago
I accidently deleted Notepad the application. Wasn't paying attention and tried to open the application by selecting it in Explorer then Enter. Instead, I hit Delete. Funny thing, it didn't ask if I wanted to delete an application of any sort, much less than a basic Windows program. It asks if I want to delete everything else. Even if it was just a file, it asks for clarification. So I was shocked when it deleted - permanently, not even in the recycle bin - Notepad; without a sound. It was just gone. I had to go to the Microsoft store and reload it.
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
You can blame the geniuses who chose Ctrl-X in the software as the shortcut for deletion, when X is right next to C on the keyboard
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
"closed notepad" the application, not the *notebook* computer.
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My mom, who was multilingual, said to me, “Watch out for that ice. It might be frozen.”.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Water is not wet. Only things that come into contact with water become wet. -- a pedantic retort. You're welcome.
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Corinna Weisz 1 year ago
Been there, done that. From time to time I catch me blowing my ice cream cool
#28
Believed she could cure her ALS by having her fillings removed because they contained toxic metals that caused the disease. Spoiler: it didn't work.
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
To be fair, for a long time a lot of people were getting their fillings removed because so many of them contained mercury, I think. The woman that started all this off had some sort of disease that kept her in a wheelchair. Had her fillings removed and was on the dance floor the next night. After a while, I think either the ADA or the government made it illegal to replace fillings. This was all in the US. I might have some details wrong because this was so long ago, in the 80s, I think.
Load More Replies... Jaya 1 year ago
That's just desperation, if regular doctors say they can't do much, and you know that your life has or will have very little quality left, you get desperate enough to try anything in the hope it's gonna work. Because in your mind, the alternative is just staying this ill/becoming even more ill, and basically not having a life anymore. Of course people will grasp at straws in their desperation.
Bremusa4u 1 year ago
And with ALS, there's definitely little hope. It's a horrible disease.
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LittleWombat 1 year ago
Sickness will make you desperate to get better. You will try almost anything. I've found out.
Jessica Shookhoff 1 year ago
That's not a lack of intelligence, that's just desperation, and I've been there a time or two myself...
Stephanie A Mutti 1 year ago
In her defense, heavy metal poisoning is crazy hard to diagnose and it causes a panopoly of symptoms.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Had a top-notch professor who was being eaten alive by cancer. He consumed his free time with whack-a-doodle herbal treatments and going down to Mexican clinics. He died, of course.
michael Chock 1 year ago
Even if they were toxic, toxins don't work that way. Same reason forever chemicals are such a problem.
#29
Try to sand the underside of a fan belt while the engine was running. His index and pinkie finger are the same length now.
Korrie Broos 1 year ago
I had a friend with a Volkswagen Beetle Old model. The car would not start and she asked a male friend to help. He opened the FRONT of the Beetle and said to her that someone stole the engine. (for those who do not know the old Beetle the engine was in the rear of the car) She was so shocked and went to the police to open a case of a stolen Beetle engine. The police just laughed at her
ucp 1 year ago
My lovely wife bought me a 911 this year. My friend walked round to the front to get a look of the engine, so I popped the cover for him to see the nothing.
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#30
I had the most amazing friend he was super smart talented and rich. But was he a soft touch 3 times he married the same women each time with no pre nup because this is true love this time.
RabidChild 1 year ago
My father did this. Married the same woman 3 times, each one 10 years younger than the last.
Koalalover 1 year ago
One of my friends is incredibly intelligent but not particularly smart. She asked me once, "name, what makes mole hills?"
#31
My roommate’s best friend was an engineering major. He helped us move our furniture to our upstairs apartment in an old house. Obviously no elevator. VERY narrow staircase. This intelligent person got our couch stuck to the ceiling of the staircase. I was like “I don’t know what you study as an engineering major, but I don’t think this is right.”.
#32
My brother is one of the smartest people I know, but he habitually eats the onion. Every now and then he comes at me with crazy storys, and then when he goes to show me his source, I can see him notice in real time that his source is the onion, and then he scrambles to find the real article the onion "spoofed" off it. Then he says "I can't find it now, but this one was based on a real event that was slightly less weird!".
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
Man, the first sentence of this confused the heck out of me for about ten seconds, considering I eat onions on nearly everything.
Pferdchen 1 year ago
I think my favorite video was "Boys Tragic Death Could Have Happened To Any Family With 20-Foot Pet Python" I'm in Florida so this one almost fooled me lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he6O9nZ3CZs
Daniel 1 year ago
"Ninja Parade Slips Through Town Unnoticed Yet Again", and "Explosion at Ketchup Factory Not as Bad as It Looks", are my favourites.
Load More Replies... Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Admittedly my first thought when I read the first sentence was that were talking about Tony Abbott
#33
In college, I saw a kid who, a year later was among the top recruits into PhD programs in his field, jump off the roof of our dorm building and break both of his legs. He celebrated getting his casts off by jumping off that same roof again.
Tiger 1 year ago
I’ve known some really highly educated and very intelligent people who were incredibly dumb. Being smart doesn’t mean you’re smart in every area of life.
ChimeraBubbles 1 year ago
True. I'm struck by how they didn't learn the first time though!
Load More Replies... Boredma andthensome 1 year ago
you need at least two samples to conclude a theory... and the people watching that didn't jump as a control
#34
NFTs and Cryptocurrency.
NFTs are 2/3 of a trading card: the silly picture and the monetary value. The missing part is the important bit of how they fit into their system, which is what gives the picture meaning and value.
Cryptourrency doesn't have an important part of currency, which is someone legally guaranteeing its value by providing services for it. Faith is great but needs to be backed by reality in some way to be justified.
Tiger 1 year ago (edited)
The smartest people I know/follow online didn’t even bother with NFTs because they saw right through it. I don’t think I know anyone who uses cryptocurrency. My last job (a retailer who sold products worth $50,000-$150,000) spent time and money configuring themselves to accept crypto, but after two years and 0 crypto payments, they shut it down. It all just seems pointless for ordinary everyday average people. Meaning 99% of us on earth.
Ace 1 year ago
TBF crypto is no less based on anything 'real' than most global currencies. There used to be the idea of the 'gold standard' where banks would physically hold stores of gold to 'guarantee; their issued currency, but that has not been the case for a long time now. Yes, some countries still have a gold reserve, but it's not in any real sense the basis for the currency.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 year ago
I used to work with a guy back when weed was illegal who use btc to buy his weed. I found him a dealer locally and he dumped all his bitcoin. If he had just held it another 2 or 3 years he'd have been a multimillionaire and retired in his early 30s. Sorry bud I was just trying to help. Lol.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
Huh. My biggest regret is not buying a few Bitcoins when I was looking to buy something online for *cough* completely legal purposes. At they time they were trading at around $12. I ended up not bothering because it seemed like a faff. Could have been a multi-millionaire for a small layout that I could have easily afforded and not missed in the slightest.
#35
I saw a doctor walk right into a window at Panera Bread one time. I guess he thought it was an open door.
Philly Bob 1 year ago
I'm not a doctor but I do that with my own sliding glass doors to my back deck.
#36
My mother is a college professor and has a PhD but still believes in various kinds of pseudoscience.
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
Don't feel bad. Jill Stein graduates magna cum laude from Harvard, also graduated from Harvard Medical School, practiced medicine for a quarter century, and now refuses to state that vaccines are safe and efficaxious. [sigh]
Rinso The Red 1 year ago
Intelligence doesn't shield you from irrational beliefs, it just makes you better at rationalizing them.
Ace 1 year ago
There are a surprisingly large number of eminent scientists who still believe in god/gods.
Kelli Wilson 1 year ago
Science deals with the natural world. God/Gods are supernatural, and therefore cannot be measured by science. The two ideas are not mutually exclusive.
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Robert Trebor 1 year ago
Just because you're educated in some areas doesn't mean you are necessarily sensible in the rest of life.
#37
Try and get toast out of a toaster with a metal knife.
Ace 1 year ago
I did this once when I was about 11. Was a fork, actually. Yes sparks, no shock though.
Tiger 1 year ago
Same. No one had EVER taught me not too, and my toast was stuck. My mum was horrified the second time i tried to do it and she happened to be in the kitchen.
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Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
I used to look after football (soccer) players and their training ground, we fed them two meals a day, I’ve witnessed that hundreds of times, they’d also leave the little pats of butter on top of the toaster to soften, forget they were there, the butter would melt, the foil wrapper would fall into the toaster and we’d have ANOTHER wrecked toaster or worse a fire. It happened at least once a week, pigeons learn faster.
Philly Bob 1 year ago
Seeing how that's not a 115 V US, but a 220... had to be many sparks. I've seen videos of them seriously exploding.
#39
A senior physicist trying to go his lab on the edge of an area with chemical hazard warning lights flashing. It turns out that it was a false alarm, but the readouts were a gaseous chemical leak of the "melt your face off" variety. The people he wanted to talk to had definitely already evacuated.
Data1001 1 year ago
Right? The least they could do was to use someone who was actually close to the age they wanted to project, rather than doing old age makeup that would be laughed out of a high school theater production.
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Before banks were all electronic, my mom would write a check, knowing it wouldn't clear before the welfare check rolled in. Always one day away from check fraud.
Tiger 1 year ago
I’ve done this before with my electric bill, knowing my power was going to be turned off today but I don’t get paid until tomorrow but the bill payment won’t clear for 3 days. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do as long (as you know what you’re doing.)
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Ace 1 year ago (edited)
Perfectly normal to write a cheque for funds that will be in the account before it clears. Not fraudulent, standard business practice, sometimes even postdated to ensure it can't be used until the right date. No different from having a standing order set up for the day after your salary is paid in. Oh, and in many countries it's not even illegal to simply write a cheque that doesn't clear. I had loads of bounced cheques when i was young and foolish (and poor).
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
It's called kiting and it is illegal, but when you need groceries on Saturday and you know the store won't put your check in until Monday and it won't clear until Wednesday, well, Tiger is right. You do what you gotta do. Another reason for employers to pay their employees a LIVING wage.
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Kevin Hickey 1 year ago
When you endorse the check, make sure to go through a couple of the numbers on the bottom of the check. The machine won't be able to read the numbers, which will have to be entered manually, wasting one or two more days before the money comes out of your account.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Pfft, we used to kite checks for Walmart. Go on a Thursday night, took 24-36 hrs to clear. Deposit was immediate. So long as we did the deposit on Friday, we were good.
Chris Keller 1 year ago (edited)
Been there, done that, thankfully many, many years ago. You do what you gotta do....(never been on welfare, but have kited checks)
BeKind&Rewind 1 year ago
I think a LOT of us did that in the 90's and early 2000's until electronics caught up. Those were the glory days of banking!
#41
One of my schools mates dad was a professor at a top university in economics. He did a lot of traveling giving speeches. Anyway, he decides to go walking on his own around a township in Johannesburg at some hour of night.
He was luckily picked up by a passing police car, and the officers were apparently having a meltdown at how stupid it was to be around that part of town and at that hour.
quentariel 1 year ago
To he honest, not everyone grasps that some areas are just too dangerous to go alone at night if they are from areas where it's safer. I walk freely at nights alone as a woman here in Finland every other night or so (returning from evening shifts), so I might make some mistakes according to safety. (But probably don't because I read the news.)
Ace 1 year ago
Yes, it's a cultural thing. When I first moved to Switzerland I would ask female colleagues, if we'd been out for a group meal or something, how they were getting home and was it safe; they used to find it a very odd question. Yes, of course they feel safe getting the last tram at 0100 and walking from the tram stop to their home. Why wouldn't they? So yeah, the extremes of violent crime that may be endemic in SA would simply not occur to someone from here.
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
I went there in 1996 - just after it had been voted the world's most violent city. Somebody offered to "look after" the car while we were in a restaurant, which gives you some idea.
KT 1 year ago
Coming from a South African, that person may actually not have had bad intentions! We have people called “car guards” who literally watch over cars to make sure nobody steals them. They don’t get paid but sometimes people leave them little tips. Sometimes they’re irritating but the system does work quite often. Sucks that it has reason to exist, but…
Load More Replies... Tiger 1 year ago
I wish I knew enough about Johannesburg and what area and who OP’s school mates dad was to understand this story more
KT 1 year ago
Coming from a South African, you don’t want to walk around Joburg (or Cape Town, where I’m from) at night. For safety reasons, trust me, just don’t do it 😭
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Meagan Glaser 1 year ago
To be fair, if you're not from the city, you don't know the bad areas. It's not like when you book a flight to a convention they tell you "oh btw, stay away from x street to y street or you'll be killed." Nobody advertises the places that are dangerous.
#42
One of the programmers at my work was trying to connect his computer to the projector in our conference room. He was trying to plug the HDMI cable into his Ethernet port and asked everybody in the room why he can't connect to the projector.
#43
Waiting hours in line for a store opening.
René Sauer 1 year ago
depends on context? is it a new store with amazing "first come, first serve" offers? Then why not?
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
Glenn Moore: people laughed at me for waiting in line for the shop to open so that I could get the last Harry Potter book. Apparently it's been out for years...
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Reminds me of the queues to be the first to get their hands on Windows Millennium Edition
#44
Knew a guy who was a robotics enthusiast who was honestly on his way to working for a place like Boston Dynamics. However, he never seemed to realize that his GF was a manipulative psycho and stayed with her for years.
#45
I knew an orthopedic surgeon who fell for a pyramid scheme.
Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
My best friend from college is now a doctor. She also sells Arbonne.... Although she doesn't have a down line or push the products obnoxiously.
#46
Read a horoscope.
Tiger 1 year ago (edited)
Make sure you avoid travel for the next 2 weeks, Jupiter has the zoomies 😂 I can’t take horoscopes seriously but they’re fun to read, they’re like fortune cookies lol
digitalin 1 year ago
Sometimes the mythology and lore behind horoscopes is interesting.
Load More Replies... Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
I used to read them for fun when I was a kid and we got an actual newspaper. One time my mom brought home Chinese for dinner. After dinner I looked at my horoscope and it said "you will have Chinese for dinner" huge coincidence, but it was weird. Still didn't take them serious after that though.
Maisey Myles 1 year ago
Reading it is one thing. Basing your day and life decisions on it is nuts
#47
Smoke.
Lyone Fein 1 year ago
Again, this has nothing to do with rational thinking, and everything to do with emotional needs. As with all d***s, tobacco use is due to factors like stress, emotional turmoil, and having to live in difficult conditions that are beyond one's control.
Kristal 1 year ago
Eeeeh, I think the first few times of deciding to smoke when one wasn't previously a smoker is a rationalization. The decision to START smoking when already knowing how harmful and addictive it is can be classified as stupid.
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Tiger 1 year ago
I genuinely started smoking because I thought it was cool. (Boo me, I know). I quit in 2020 but I’ve been vaping ever since, so it wasn’t really “quitting.” I’m working on quitting vaping now too. It’s not easy. Tobacco/nicotine is so ingrained in human culture all over the world, we love our vices!
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
More than just cultural, it's physical; see my screed above.
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Fall in love with the wrong person.
digitalin 1 year ago
No, but using your head as well as your heart is important.
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Push on a pull door.
Philly Bob 1 year ago
I pull on push doors, push on pull doors and when I finally get it right, the damned thing is locked.
zububonsai 1 year ago
That cartoon always comes to my mind when I push a pull door... 😆😗🤏🏻
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Kelly Scott 1 year ago
I'll never forget what I read once about doors. If you had to push on a door to go through and you thought you had to pull instead, the door was poorly designed. So I'm sticking to that.
#50
Vote conservative.
Tiger 1 year ago
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being conservative (I say this as a pretty liberal person). I think there’s definitely something wrong with taking away women’s healthcare so they die in hospital parking lots, attacking LGBTQ people and removing the spaces and services they need, villainizing POC and immigrants and calling adults who disagree with your policies childish petty names. I’m 100% cool with mature, rational conservatives. I’m not okay with the hateful racist ones.
Kali Chaos 1 year ago (edited)
This should be at the top. Your comment, Tiger.
Load More Replies... Penny Hernandez 1 year ago
In the U.S. the conservative party has really gone the rabbit hole. Barry Goldwater's daughter said that her father wouldn't recognize the current conservative party. (Goldwater ran for president in 1964 on both the Republican and Conservative party lines on the ballot.)
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
The Republicans in (and about to take) power in the US may call themselves conservative, but they are not. I call them the Radical Right.
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v 1 year ago
Latching onto any ideal (political, religious, whatever it might be) that is far enough away from center that it trips into extremism is the problem. The simple truth is that, from the largest to smallest scales of existence, everything works best at or very near the center. Get too far away from this and the wheels start coming off.
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
And yet, here in America, we have politicians screaming that bills are "radical liberalism" when in many other developed countries, they'd be center-right at best. (note: also true of them attacking other politicians. No one really thinks Sherrod Brown is a liberal, much less a radical, do they?). Point being that the center is a very relative place. Compare Iran to Belgium, for example. Your statement stands, but "center" is in far different places in each.
Load More Replies... Verena 1 year ago
Depends on country. There are countries whith a voting system that respects the various opinions of the voters and the govetnment reflects that 1:1. And then you have countries which allow only two opinions and have "winner takes it aln"-system and pdople just accepting this.
Daniel 1 year ago
Some of these are so astonishingly simple-minded they say a lot more about the intelligence of the person who submitted them. If you think that voting conservative, or smoking, or eating too much, automatically means a person is dumb, you're a simple-minded, linear-thinking dimwit. And an a**hole.
Pedro 1 year ago
Did they shout Starmer into number 10? Or did more people actually vote Labour rather than Conservative? Or was your election stolen or rigged? Take your time...
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Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
Academic intelligence is different from emotional intelligence. And having one or both does not mean you are street-smart too.
Liz The Biz 1 year ago
Very true. My brother in law, academically, was a genius. He had degrees in maths, science, electronics, you name it, yet when it came to running a household he was clueless. I had to demonstrate and explain on more than one occasion how to perform the most basic of household tasks.
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Keith Lancaster 1 year ago
My ex decided that he wanted to buy a washing machine and a drier. I was out at work when they were delivered. You have to understand that this guy was well educated by the way. When I arrived home he told me that he had rung the company he bought it from to arrange to have it collected as it was faulty. Turns out that he had tried to use the washer before having it plumbed in to the water supply.
Daniel 1 year ago
Knowing that absent-mindedness is a sign of high intelligence is a huge comfort when I remember the time I unthinkingly pulled onto a street and hit a car going by, destroying the whole side of the car. It was being driven home from the dealership by it's new owner. I think, if memory serves, it had 27 miles on the odometer.
Verena 1 year ago
A country consisting of 95% of the descendants of illegal immigrants throwing a fit over illigal immigrants - and ruining their economy, because todays illegal immigrants do the work the descendants do not want to do.
Jac Carr 1 year ago
Many of whom have illegal immigrant members of their family in the country with them; I wonder how they're explaining they voted to get them deported, mostly without realising the laws would apply to THEIR illegal immigrant family
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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 1 year ago
BFF is what I call "Sheldon smart" (from Big Bang Theory). She tested out of her freshman and most of her sophomore year of college. Total brainiac. Yet kept needing to borrow money. Actually believed the - I have checks, so I must have money - thing. Also thought her monthly food card on campus should allow her to take anything she wanted back to her dorm room. A classic case of never being shown how things really work. Once it was explained, she felt silly but got it
SleepyVampire 1 year ago (edited)
My mom is generally an intelligent woman. But back when that amazing show House first started airing, she was shocked when she found out Hugh Laurie was British and said she didn't understand how he was able to sound so different for the show. I pointed out that actors use fake accents all the time. She said, "Yeah, but that's faking an accent, that's not turning an accent off." I stared at her for a minute and then said, "He's...faking an American accent." I was shocked at what a dumb thing that was to say.
Graham Berry 1 year ago
Smart and knowledgeable are not the same thing. Smart is problem solving and knowledgeable is just being able to remember things you've learned. Also just because you have a PhD doesn't mean anything outside your field of study.
Ellie Ahmed 1 year ago
My husband has a PhD, and when we were first dating I found out that he thought Texas was the capital of Alabama. In fairness, we are Australian and his PhD isn't in geography, but still......
Daniel 1 year ago
Why do you think anyone in Australia should know state capitals? I can assure you that nobody in the US knows the capital of the Australian state you live in.
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McTrash (They/them) 1 year ago
My neighbor (a pilot) saw a video of a bear fishing and when said bear ate the fish she said “ew! He’s just going to eat it raw?”
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
I once saw a guy who is an actual, literal rocket science have trouble opening the trunk of a car. It wasn't his car, but still ...
Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
Academic intelligence is different from emotional intelligence. And having one or both does not mean you are street-smart too.
Liz The Biz 1 year ago
Very true. My brother in law, academically, was a genius. He had degrees in maths, science, electronics, you name it, yet when it came to running a household he was clueless. I had to demonstrate and explain on more than one occasion how to perform the most basic of household tasks.
Load More Replies... Keith Lancaster 1 year ago
My ex decided that he wanted to buy a washing machine and a drier. I was out at work when they were delivered. You have to understand that this guy was well educated by the way. When I arrived home he told me that he had rung the company he bought it from to arrange to have it collected as it was faulty. Turns out that he had tried to use the washer before having it plumbed in to the water supply.
Daniel 1 year ago
Knowing that absent-mindedness is a sign of high intelligence is a huge comfort when I remember the time I unthinkingly pulled onto a street and hit a car going by, destroying the whole side of the car. It was being driven home from the dealership by it's new owner. I think, if memory serves, it had 27 miles on the odometer.
Verena 1 year ago
A country consisting of 95% of the descendants of illegal immigrants throwing a fit over illigal immigrants - and ruining their economy, because todays illegal immigrants do the work the descendants do not want to do.
Jac Carr 1 year ago
Many of whom have illegal immigrant members of their family in the country with them; I wonder how they're explaining they voted to get them deported, mostly without realising the laws would apply to THEIR illegal immigrant family
Load More Replies... Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 1 year ago
BFF is what I call "Sheldon smart" (from Big Bang Theory). She tested out of her freshman and most of her sophomore year of college. Total brainiac. Yet kept needing to borrow money. Actually believed the - I have checks, so I must have money - thing. Also thought her monthly food card on campus should allow her to take anything she wanted back to her dorm room. A classic case of never being shown how things really work. Once it was explained, she felt silly but got it
SleepyVampire 1 year ago (edited)
My mom is generally an intelligent woman. But back when that amazing show House first started airing, she was shocked when she found out Hugh Laurie was British and said she didn't understand how he was able to sound so different for the show. I pointed out that actors use fake accents all the time. She said, "Yeah, but that's faking an accent, that's not turning an accent off." I stared at her for a minute and then said, "He's...faking an American accent." I was shocked at what a dumb thing that was to say.
Graham Berry 1 year ago
Smart and knowledgeable are not the same thing. Smart is problem solving and knowledgeable is just being able to remember things you've learned. Also just because you have a PhD doesn't mean anything outside your field of study.
Ellie Ahmed 1 year ago
My husband has a PhD, and when we were first dating I found out that he thought Texas was the capital of Alabama. In fairness, we are Australian and his PhD isn't in geography, but still......
Daniel 1 year ago
Why do you think anyone in Australia should know state capitals? I can assure you that nobody in the US knows the capital of the Australian state you live in.
Load More Replies... McTrash (They/them) 1 year ago
My neighbor (a pilot) saw a video of a bear fishing and when said bear ate the fish she said “ew! He’s just going to eat it raw?”
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
I once saw a guy who is an actual, literal rocket science have trouble opening the trunk of a car. It wasn't his car, but still ...
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