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There’s no limit to three things, as far as I know. First, the numbers after the decimal point in the value of Pi. Second, my love for donuts (give me your powdered, your glazed, your sprinkled baked masses, I’ll eat them all). And third, the dumb things that people end up saying aloud.
Oh, we’ve all said dumb things that we wish we could take back (we still cringe when we think about those awkward moments while in the shower), but some people take the cake, the stand it was sitting on, and the entire bakery. When redditor ZakLorinator asked their fellow internet users to share the dumbest things that someone has told them, they delivered a truckload of tiny reasons to lose your faith in humanity. As you scroll down, upvote the responses that made you cringe inside. And if you feel your IQ lowering, you can always read this article right over here to raise it back up again.
Bored Panda wanted to learn how to make someone aware that they're incorrect without being rude and without triggering their defense mechanism, so we reached out to researcher and award-winning social psychologist Vanessa Bohns, who is the author of the forthcoming book 'You Have More Influence Than You Think.'
"People go on the defensive when you correct them in a way that makes them think there is something fundamentally wrong with them—for example, in a way that challenges their intelligence, or whether they are a good person," Vanessa said. Read on for her other insights, dear Pandas.
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#1
I worked at a museum and had to let a girl go because she was going around telling everyone that dinosaurs weren’t real because no animals can breathe fire. She was a law student.
Jon S. 4 years ago
I was stumped by the phrase "had to let a girl go," until I realised that she wasn't some random visitor, but actually worked there!
Amy Pattie 4 years ago
I was so confused with that statement... like, was she so dumb she got stuck in the museum like when a pigeon flies in?
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Stille20 4 years ago
Have you heard what members of the US congress think?
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meow point1 4 years ago
Luckily dinosaurs are extinct so they can't sue when she's a proper lawyer.
Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)
Now I'm imagining dinosaurs coming back to life zombie-style just to prove her wrong
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deanna woods 4 years ago
I didn't know that breathing fire was a qualification for the existence of dinosaurs.
Malwin Wellham 4 years ago
Looks like she was talking about dragons, but the word dragon got changed with dinosaurs. Early sign of memory loss.
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#2
Her: “I think the law that requires you to wear a seatbelt is sooooo stupid. My body, my choice.”
Me: “Well what about your five-year-old son? You wouldn’t want to hurt him if he was riding with you, right?”
Her: (shrugs) “When it’s your time to go, it’s your time to go.”
Me: “Really? That’s how you feel about that? I mean...why even look before crossing the street, if ‘When it’s your time to go, it’s your time to go’?”
Her: “Actually, I usually don’t look when I cross the street.”
Aunt Messy 4 years ago
I figure most of them don't live very long. I have run into people that make me marvel that they haven't been hit by a bus or eaten by a bear, though.
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N G 4 years ago
She's probably never been given any reason to think she wouldn't be safe because everyone slams their brakes on or swerves. She leaves a trail of destruction behind her because other people have better empathy, or even just better instincts. She's a darwinian abnormality. I hope her 5 year old inherited their father's genes.
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Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
It's us smart people that have to worry... Nature seems to take care of the stupid ones. She don't look before crossing so she doesn't care but what happens to the poor slob who actually hits her?
#3
"The spork is the devil's utensil because it's the amalgamation of masculine fork and feminine spoon, trying to blur gender lines in society."
Vic 4 years ago
I knew it keeping the fork and spoon together in the dark cupboard, would not result in anything good..
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meow point1 4 years ago
Then I imagined a pregnant spoon and her fork husband saying, "I wonder if it'll be a fork or a spoon".
Cupcake168 4 years ago
As a German I sadly have to tell you that fork is feminine and spoon is masculine.
Autumn 4 years ago
We gendering utensils now? I've never heard a spoon be called feminine before.
Daria B 4 years ago
In Croatian both spoon and fork are feminine. In Italian, fork is feminine, spoon is masculine. ♡
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DKS 001 4 years ago (edited)
Girls should use spoons then. So they match the vagina feminine utensil. Boys should use forks. So they match the penis masculine utensil. Oh ... wait ... would that make them homosexual? Hmmm ... well isn't it just as inappropriate for a girl to put the penis fork in her mouth, and the boy to put the vagina spoon in his? I'm just going with the stupid logic here.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
It's obviously the other way around: Spoons only for boys, forks only for girls. Toddlers use hands. It all works out.
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"It’s best to focus on the specific error, and to point it out in a way that simultaneously affirms the person’s broader positive identity, and potentially also normalizes making mistakes. For example, you could say something like, 'Some of the smartest people I know make that same mistake. I used to make it too, but then I discovered that this is actually the correct information…' That way, you can make the correction in a way that saves face for the other person," she explained.
#4
I went on a date about 6 months ago with a girl who was really into astrology. I had asked if she wanted to eat at a certain restaurant and she said no because of something in her horoscope. I explained to her that some guy that works for the local newspaper wrote that, or at best some guy writes for a ton of newspapers. She got really mad and we had my favorite conversation to think about
Her: “that isn’t true only an astrologist can write horoscopes.”
Me: “it’s not like every publication has an astrologist on their payroll” Her: “it probably comes from a group of astrologists. It’s science and it’s illegal to lie about science, they would revoke that astrologist’s license” Me: “his what?”
No 2nd date.
Eslamala 4 years ago
She believes in astrology. Were you actually expecting for her to be smart?
Logic and Reason 4 years ago
It gets really annoying when people try to justify bad behavior using their sign. I don’t care if you’re a tourniquet or an asparagus or whatever, just don’t be an asshole.
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Susan Green 4 years ago
I don’t know. I think I may have gone on that 2nd date, just for some more laughs.
Son of Philosoraptor 4 years ago
Well, if the newspaper said we were compatible signs maybe...
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Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Astrogromer? When you graduate from agrocoltural college?
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pusheen buttercup 4 years ago
Look I don't believe in astrology either, but no matter what someone believes, even if it's dumb, you have to try to be respectful. You can have a civil disagreement. There may be things you believe that others might find silly. Backed by science, or not, everyone wants to feel respected
Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
Points... "Hey honey! Look at the at the airplane stuck in the mud!" She looks up... no second date for her either.
Nyneva Kyte 4 years ago
I've written these things for a local zine - just for fun, total BS - and you wouldn't believe the number of people who went out of their way to say 'OMG that's totally me, you have a gift!' Made me kind of sad, actually
#5
I heard a person say, 'I don't want to swim in the ocean because I might get pregnant by a sperm whale.'
Raine Soo 4 years ago
The sperm whales were named for spermaceti, a waxy substance that is found on their heads.
Ben Moss 4 years ago
And spermaceti was named that because it looks like a big load of sperm
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#6
‘You’re twins? No you’re not. You can’t be twins if you don’t look alike. ’
Ma’am we’re fraternal.
Ragnhild Nilsen 4 years ago
I've been told that my identical twins can't be twins because they aren't boy and girl. I've also been told that they can't be twins because one had short hair and one had long hair.
GirlFriday 4 years ago
I have 12 brothers, among them are: two sets of triplets and two sets of twins (one identical set that are actually mirror twins and one fraternal set). The absolute amount of BS that we hear about twins and triplets on a regular basis is enough to make one's head spin.
Kori Peek 4 years ago
I have boy/girl twins. And it was very obvious when they were little it was a boy and girl. I can't even tell you the amount of times a random person would say "oh are they twins?" I'd reply "yes they are" THEN this seemed to always come out of their mouth "are they identical?" It was so hard not to reply in a sarcastic tone. Anyone reading this who doesn't know the answer.... no, they are not identical bc they are a boy and a girl. ;)
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Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
"I was in a fraternity once and none of us were twins!" ::slaps head::
Alpine of the IceWings 4 years ago
i hate when this happens to me and my sister, and some people get really aggressive and mean when they are wrong.
Aj Grimes (he/him) 4 years ago
My crush has a twin and they are fraternal. (She is the older twin). I never told her she can't be a twin if she doesn't look like her brother.
PineappleQueen 4 years ago
I’m a twin, and we’re both different gender. All my friends when we were younger said we made the whole thing up because twins have to be the same gender. They understand it now, but when we were younger it was rly annoying
Steve Wilson 4 years ago
I have a set of fraternal twin nephews that don’t even look like brothers.
How we approach things when we hear somebody say something that's blatantly wrong depends on the goal that we're trying trying to achieve. Naturally, we'll do things differently if we're trying to make the speaker aware of what's actually correct and if we want the audience to know if the speaker said something incorrect or even inappropriate.
"Of course, the more publicly and bluntly we correct someone, the more face-threatening, and therefore embarrassing it is for them (and, really, for everyone involved). So, if you are primarily interested in correcting the speaker, it probably makes sense to do it in the least embarrassing way—in private, and diplomatically," Vanessa pointed out that discretion can be a virtue in this case. However, this gentler approach doesn't always fit.
#7
"Math isn't real. Like if I said 2+2=5 it would be true."
This was from a nursing student.
E Menendez 4 years ago
Yes, let her figure out dosages with made up math 😬
Load More Replies... Bill 4 years ago
I thought math was racist? Oh wait that's a Teacher's Union head in CA who says that
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Yeah, you heard 4 years ago
In a sense they're right. We call this many dots : : four (or 4) but we could just as easily have called this : : five and this : : . four. Perhaps that's what they meant.
Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)
That would mean semantics doesn't matter, not that math isn't real
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Catlady6000 4 years ago
The scary part is, she may just barely scrape by and get her degree
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Paul Davis 4 years ago
Nursing student...not likely to become a graduating nurse. At least at some nursing schools you have to get 100% perfect scores when calculating doses and so forth.
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
George Orwell 1984. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5 An interesting read, to be honest.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
In a parallel and more modern context: "There are four lights!"
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#8
Someone said that Adam and Eve were white because they had seen pictures.
Vic 4 years ago
On the 0th day, the Lord said, 'Let there be DSLR cameras'.
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elStiJneriNO 4 years ago
back in those times technology wasn't that advanced. pictures were black and white Adam and eve were white on the picture. A good flash probably helped
Seabeast 4 years ago
I read a comment from someone who got upset about Adam and Eve being Black in the show Good Omens. That Eden was supposedly located in Africa didn't matter, I suppose.
Xan Maranya 4 years ago
The Garden of Eden is a metaphor for our innocence before we became too human... not a physical place.
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earringnut 4 years ago
I would like to introduce you to fundamentalist christianity.
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Kathy Duke 4 years ago
If Adam & Eve populated the world wouldn't incest have been involved? I get hate mail every time I ask this question.
Xan Maranya 4 years ago
It's funny that even non-Christians believe these ancient teaching stories are about actual people in a physical garden of eden. Question everything.
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#9
I sat next to a girl in bio who got 40% on our first test. She seemed quite pleased and said that now she only needed to get 40% again to have an average of 80%.
Lunar Bicycle 4 years ago
She got 20% in math, and now, combined with her bio score, she’s excited to be at 100%!
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Full of Giggles 4 years ago
Don’t be too quick to judge. I’m horrible with math and grammar. I frequently say stupid things. But surprisingly, I am a member of MENSA. I have been for 22 years.
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Hello 4 years ago
anything 50 or below is an F. I think 51-68 is D, 70- 80 is C, and 80-89- B, 90+ = A
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Jazzy Mc. Jaz 4 years ago (edited)
Maybe it was graphing the evidence from the lab that brought her grade down!
"There are times when we want to make sure the people exposed to the speaker’s comment know it is incorrect. For simple factual errors, it probably makes sense to publicly, but politely, note the error, so that the audience is able to focus more on the substance of the correction than on how the correction was made," the social psychologist told Bored Panda.
"However, if someone says something blatantly offensive, that’s when it can be okay to stop worrying so much about protecting the speaker’s face and saving them from embarrassment, and move towards more bluntly speaking against a statement in order to defend those who may have been offended or hurt by a comment and more forcefully ensure others won’t emulate it."
#10
That I can’t be Jewish and German at the same time.
I told this girl that from my mom’s side I am Jewish (we’re not that religious though and my dad is Catholic) and that my mom was born in and is from Germany. Then she said that I and my mom can’t be German and Jewish because the Holocaust wiped every Jewish person from Germany and Europe out. Every single jewish person. I was thinking Has she never seen or heard a video from a Holocaust survivor? Bruh Also to top it all off so to say this girl was Jewish.
Batgirl Kitty 4 years ago
Ok what? Any jew can be from anywhere, it’s a religion not a race. P.S. Fellow Jew here!
Eliška Hůlková 4 years ago
Germany (and the general area) is where Ashkenazi Jews come from. Did she never heard about Ashkenazi Jews? (Or she probably thought that all Ashkenazi families that now live in the US and Israel left Germany before WWII. Still, talk about being ignorant about one's own history.)
Brianna LaPoint 4 months ago
A religion isnt a race. Thats like saying all Chinese are Buddhist and all Italians are Catholic
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
My late father, otherwise intelligent: "If the name ends in -mann or -wicz, they're Jewish." My mom: "If it ends in (his surname), they're a bigot". I take after my mom, thank goodness.
Brianna LaPoint 4 months ago
To be fair Jews made up a race that doesn't exist. Like the 12 tribes of Isreal nonsense. I hope people realize that the Abrahamic faiths have been lying about many things for thousands of years
Duncan Ash 4 years ago
Even if they had, does she think absolutely no Jews have moved to Germany since?
#11
My coworker asked my boss, 'Can I have Monday off? It's my anniversary.' My boss responded, 'You got married on a Monday?
Sum Guy 4 years ago
Hahaha... I think if you gave him about 5 minutes, he would realise his error
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
You would HOPE he would realize his error...
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Paul Davis 4 years ago
Likely boss doesn't understand how calendars work -- however, it is perfectly possible to get married on a Monday.
Son of Philosoraptor 4 years ago
I got married in April Fool's Day. We had to convince folks it was real and not a prank.
Kelli from Fitness Blender 4 years ago
A date doesn't fall on the same day of the week every year. It was a Monday that year, but the next year it would be a different day of the week.
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NASA makes up everything about space in order to convince us the earth is round, so the world governments can keep the hidden civilizations at the edge of the world a secret.
Not even kidding with that, my friend 100% believes that
Laugh or not 4 years ago
When I first heard about them, I thought it was people participating in a mass joke. Like the Onion or such.
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Tom Susala 4 years ago
Right after he said that he put on some Viking horns and stormed the Capitol,
Dark_flame 4 years ago
Never heard that reasoning before, love it! I love conspiracy theories, tho I don't believe them. Like a fun thought experiment
Grant Barke 4 years ago
This one could be true, might explain where the UFOs are really coming from.
Vorknkx 4 years ago (edited)
Oh yes, I've heard that before. Apparently, "They" want us to think we're trapped on the spherical Earh, so that (brace yourself) we can keep consuming more fast food and sitcoms. My response to this was "And being trapped on a flat pancake is better how, exactly?" But then came the whole rant about undiscovered lands beyond the ice wall that "They" don't want us to colonize because then we'll build a free society without fast food and sitcoms :D
Emo Sloth 4 years ago
tell them that that was actually a conspiracy, and the Earth IS round. NASA is just telling us that it is round and then feeding us misinformation under another name, the Flat Earther Society, so we become confused and stop trusting people. And then, when they take over the world, everyone's brains will be mush by then and no one will trust each other enough to unite and take back the world.
Load More Replies... Most issues that involve spilling silly verbal drivel are based on two things. The first is fairly simple—some of us (me included) speak before we think and end up sharing our unfiltered, honest opinions on things. Sometimes, those opinions can show our huge gaps in knowledge, as well as the importance of slowing down.
The solution to this is simple (i.e. simple but not easy because it requires a bit of soul-searching): teach yourself to have more patience. Relax. Think. Listen. Don’t rush to open your mouth. The second aspect, however, is much more complex and harder to tackle because it’s all to do with a lack of education. And that particular puzzle takes a while to solve.
The keys to educating yourself and filling in knowledge blindspots are dedicating the time needed to actually learn something new and keeping your mind open to new information. You really can’t learn something new that you think you know, so a certain level of humility (while still staying scientifically skeptical of everything) is always a plus.
#13
A girl in my eighth grade geology class once said that the oceans were so polluted because the dirty animals wash themselves in it.
Sum Guy 4 years ago
If you start thinking about what animals do in the oceans, washing themselves wouldn't worry me all that much compared to... you know
Seabeast 4 years ago
The sheer size of the ocean and the high salt content makes it unlikely to be a problem.
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Erica Cochrane 4 years ago
In my biology class (aged around 15) a boy in my class asked if a rock was a plant or an animal. The teacher looked appalled. Asked the girl beside him, who was baffled, she didn't know. Several others thought it was a great question. Eventually I put my hand up and said 'neither, it's a mineral' and the teacher honestly looked relieved that someone knew the answer. I couldn't believe that several people in the class thought that a rock was either a plant or an animal.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
At least she was only a kid?.... y eah, my hope for humanity is in the negative
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 4 years ago (edited)
Yes. Dirty animals known as humans. They also throw their own waste into oceans. Bad animals.
#14
Overheard some lady saying her daughter isn't allowed to watch youtube any more because thats how people track you. She got this information from facebook.
FloridaMan 4 years ago (edited)
my mom bans youtube because its a "waste of time" well its the only thing that keeps me going
Queen Jackson. 4 years ago
Learned to sew, tie a tie, embroider, and more from there.
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Aj Grimes (he/him) 4 years ago
My mom says there is too much inappropriate stuff on there. She literally listens to songs about sex. And she got this information from her friends and Facebook. Also, she lies about music artists and says how they are bad. I wonder if she listens to them.
Jazzy Mc. Jaz 4 years ago (edited)
My stepmother made my youtube so heavily filters you can barley listen to good music.
#15
It was night at summer camp and when I turned on a flashlight during a storm this guy started yelling at me to shut it off because, apparently, light attracts lightning.
Amy Pattie 4 years ago
Some uncle pranked that kid. He’s not gonna live that one down any time soon.
Sum Guy 4 years ago
I get that, a lot of cultures around the world have different superstitions about everything from lights/mirrors and lightning, to No jumping over fire or you'll pee blood, to no eating directly from a pot or it will rain on your wedding day... most of these were a way of scaring children from doing stupid s**t
Emo Sloth 4 years ago
ah, I have one: the lighter colour your pee, the "purer" you are. So if you have brown pee, you're a satanist.
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I can guess where this came from. I've learned as a kid that you should shut off everything electrical when there is a lightning storm. I think this was true about 100 years ago.
danielw 4 years ago
well, computers and stuff, yeah, you definitely don't want those plugged in. A power surge can wreck havoc on computers and appliances in general. and lightning strikes tend to cause power surges.
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MandaPanda 4 years ago
I'm a delight which is why I have to stay inside when it's lightening outside.
Some knowledge blindspots will go away when you start engaging in new activities, whether it’s reading new books, watching unseen movies that you’d never even glance at before, or even meeting interesting people outside of your social circle.
At the end of the day, it all comes down to having the right attitude. Staying curious, driven, and open-minded is one thing, but you also have to embrace the possibility of failure. And not just failure—embarrassment, too. Anything worth doing or worth learning will inevitably mean that you may find yourself getting embarrassed because you might lack knowledge. But if you learn to use that feeling to your advantage, you can pretty much be unstoppable.
#16
The TA for one of my classes in college said his parents didn't let him watch Veggie Tales as a kid because 'vegetables aren't supposed to have souls.'
Queen Jackson. 4 years ago
Neither are kitchen cleaning supplies but my mom couldn’t care less about sponge bob.
FloridaMan 4 years ago
honestly when i watched it i never understood anything because it was about BIBLES
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
They're also not supposed to have eyes and noses and mouths, but the *soul* was the worry?!
#17
My friend said, 'You're trying to tell me that our sun is a star? What are all those other things?' I proceed to show her an observable universe’s size comparison video. She said, 'Humans can’t look that far, I can’t even see the moon sometimes.'
Vic 4 years ago
Tell her those are star and thu Sun is a superstar, that's why is so big. And the moon is just an opening act, it can't be on stage all the time..
Arthur Waite 4 years ago
An old joke: Which is farther away? The Moon or England? Well, I can see the Moon, but I can't see England....
Monic Krugell 4 years ago
just give your friend a book to read - I mean ANY BOOK to start off with
#18
Someone said that birds are mammals because they have meat.
WillemPenn 4 years ago
Interesting considering rabbits are birds ... at least according to the Japanese counting system.
Earlier, I spoke about with researcher Vanessa about embarrassing knowledge blindspots,. "We spend a lot of time and effort presenting an ideal version of ourselves to other people. When something happens that contrasts with the image we’ve been projecting—when we say or do something that shows we actually aren’t as graceful or as smart as we’d like people to believe—we feel embarrassed," Vanessa told Bored Panda.
"Discovering you were wrong about something most everyone else around you has long known to be true is one of those moments. In that moment we learn, 'Wait a minute, maybe I haven’t been presenting the image of being smart or worldly that I thought I was presenting all this time,' which is embarrassing,” she shared.
#19
Watching a sunset on the ocean one day when a late teens person asked me why the ocean doesn't put the sun's fire out.
Vic 4 years ago
Isn't it common knowledge that the sun has a force field around it that prevents the water reaching the surface?
Son of Philosoraptor 4 years ago (edited)
... and then you bought his last remaining blotter hit of of Owsley Purple Lightning...
#20
a girl once told me she was a Vegan... But due to her medical condition she was required to eat meat which she did.. but still considered herself a Vegan.
Monday 4 years ago
"yes i'm vegan. yes i eat meat. we exist" - Kelsey Fiona (2018)
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Tim R 4 years ago
Right. Also, I'm a virgin, but since I'm a nymphomaniac I have sex all the time. But I'm still a virgin
Gabuun Papaschikova 4 years ago
XD although one person in history has had that lie pass and people believe it to this day so i mean-
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#21
A girl from Florida once told me 'because Australia is upside down, left is right and right is left'. I am Australian and told her she was right and not many people know that!
Marianne 4 years ago
Fun fact: When I went to Australia, I was surprised and delighted to realize that the moon is mirror-inverted compared to European perspective.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
You can see the moon rabbit much better from the Southern hemisphere!
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Gin. No tonic 4 years ago
A girl from Florida once told me 'because Australia is upside down, left is right and right is left. I know, because I met an Australian and they told me I'm right'.
Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
The real mystery is why Australians don't fall off the planet because they're upside down.
Embarrassment, fortunately, has its positive aspects. If we embrace it, we’ll be better liked than if we try to pretend that nothing shameful happened or that we didn’t make a mistake. That works when we say something incredibly dumb, too.
“One thing that’s interesting about embarrassment is that, for as much as we might experience it as painful in the moment, it’s actually very socially adaptive. Being embarrassed signals to other people that you care about what they think. And that actually draws people in to you,” Vanessa explained.
#22
That rabbits come from eggs.
ThatOneCrazyFanGirl 4 years ago
Yes because the easter bunny hides eggs on easter therefore they come from eggs
Night Owl 4 years ago
And once a year they lay colorful Easter eggs too! :D
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glowworm2 4 years ago
It doesn't exactly help that their commercials for it feature a clucking bunny.
Load More Replies... Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
Pretty sure mammals do come from fertilized eggs, my people. They're just much smaller. What do you think is in those ovaries!?
#23
Someone told me the South Pole is hot because it's the south.
Skidanpump 4 years ago
Well first of all the north is warmer and second... THE NORTH POLE IS COLD NO MATER WAT
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 4 years ago
Where have gone all the Geography teachers in US? Please come back!
#24
I was walking in a very popular, touristy park in the city I live in. There is a totem pole at the edge of the park that is very nice. While walking past I was asked by someone "Where can I buy seeds to grow one of these trees?" (person points to the totem pole) I said "It's a totem pole... They're carved from a tree. You can't grow them yourself." The person was flabbergasted.
cookie panda 4 years ago
when life gives you lemons, call them yellow limes and sell them for double the price
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Fair is fair, I have a UK in-law who thinks a bonsai from Japan comes in that shape, isn't actually trimmed to that shape.
danielw 4 years ago
pretty sure, with modern genetic manipulation, it might actually be possible. also probably very wrong. (okay, I would have no problems with native peoples using living totem poles. It's just... 90% of what that tech would be used for won't be that. it'll be flamingo shaped hedge rows and heart-shaped cherry trees and ass-shaped peach trees. )
Carol Emory 4 years ago
First you find an Indian Casino. Then you have to spend all your money on the slots and the tables. If you succeed, they'll give you the totem pole seeds as a consolation prize. But not everybody gets them, so keep trying.......
“So blushing, burying your head in your hands, laughing, acknowledging how embarrassing something was, are all totally healthy ways to react,” the expert highlighted that, in a very meta way, we shouldn’t ever be embarrassed about being embarrassed.
#25
“Do you guys ride horses to school?”
I’m from Houston... apparently my friend from New York thought all Texans had horses
Daria B 4 years ago
As a city kid myself, in a way, you're right. But if it were me, I'd just not think about it and think everyone goes to school on foot/bicycle/public transport. And then, if someone actually did use a horse, I'd be like "wow! Really?" Yeah, I'm the type who sees a goat and is like "wooooah! It's a goat!" Pardon me, I only grew up with stray cats, dogs, squirrels and a variety of city birds. And fish. Sea side city girl. ●.●
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Crochet lady 4 years ago
In all fairness people from all around the world think ALL Americans own guns. I don't and I don't know anyone who does.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Yeah, I knew someone who moved from the Appalachian mountains into a real city as a kid and everyone at school asked her if those were her first pair of shoes. Sigh.
Thomas Ewing 4 years ago
There are city folks who have never seen stars at night because of all the city lights, who don't know you can see the Moon in the daytime, etc. Very sheltered.
Jennifer Norton 4 years ago
I had someone from Paris ask me this same question. She also asked if we all lived on ranches!
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
Kinda like when the Army moved us to Oahu, Hawaii and my 11 year-old daughter was disappointed that the island wasn't covered with tiki huts.
Noemie Houtekie-N'Da 4 years ago
I never thought about what was in Hawaii, but then I realized I never imagined it having normal homes. You never know how stupid you can get until you actually think about something. But hey, to be fair, Hawaii seems extremely pretty.
Load More Replies... Vorknkx 4 years ago
In college, we had a student from Mongolia. Someone once asked him "Do you ride camels to school?" :D
Lucy 4 years ago
Not long ago, around 1930-1940s it was common to ride horse or camel to school. But come on. It's 21st century and we have everything including cars and internet :) and I'd like to know where is that college?
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There was a kid at my school who said his mom didn’t let him watch SpongeBob because she 'didn’t want the gay spirits in the house.' A few years later, he told everyone he was a furry so I don't know what changed over that time.
Eliška Hůlková 4 years ago
Yeah but if his mom was so worried about him being gay, she certainly didn't want him to be furry either.
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Donkey boi 4 years ago
Hang on, hang on! Gay spirits get into the house through the TV? I thought it was only through Feather boas and glitter!
Vic 4 years ago
But on a serious note, I feel bad for anyone who has to grow up in a household like that..
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Myrkur 4 years ago
A person who is a fan of anthro cartoon animals, and usually makes their own character. Don't google it indeed, it mostly shows the bad side of the fandom
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Mishka Katira 4 years ago
Well my mom didn't let me watch spongebob either. But it wasn't because of the "Gay spirits".
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Better than being square. (get it, get it, *nudge nudge)
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My ex wife (wife at the time) came home late, said she had a flat tire and that her and her girlfriend were able to put the spare on (I taught her that) then she said there was something she didn't understand. She said she saw a screw in the tire and wanted to know that if the screw was in the top of the tire, why was the bottom flat.
Ducks Who Don’t Have A Ducking Clue 4 years ago
Girlfriend as is girl who is a close friend, a lot of people mainly women call close friends who are girls their "girlfriends" ex: going on a trip with my girlfriends
Load More Replies... Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
Surely just remind her of kindergarten - the wheels of the [car] go round and round, round and round, round and round.
Lara Milvain 4 years ago
Was going to give a serve for a narcissistic/patriarchal “I taught her that” ... then realised it was a huge achievement that probably needs a lot of recognition. I’d probably have exploded in rage about the part where you explain how to find the Jack support under the car...
“The unhealthy way to react is to pretend you’re not embarrassed, that you didn’t make a mistake, or to get angry. Those things undo the positive effect that embarrassment typically has on other people by conveying insincerity and pushing people away rather than drawing them in."
#28
An ex tried telling me that his therapist assured him that it was MY sole responsibility to remain in a relationship with him to keep his sanity in check.....i obviously disagreed. Im not your personal prescription.
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
I think someone being emotionally high maintenance is worse then financially, just saying.
Cactus McCoy 4 years ago
From an disturbed mind's point of view this is correct. "You mustn't leave me because if you do i lose it and break." I have been there and it seems legit in that state of mind. Anybody insisting on this need serious help. Shitty situation.
#29
That the biggest number was 1,000
Vicky Zar 4 years ago
Hey cool my 5 year old is more intelligent then this guy! (My son likes to throw around numbers like a million, trillion, billion...)
#30
A friend in high school told me he didn’t take the SAT because he heard it’s easier the second time.
Kitty Luna Darrow 4 years ago
I don't think that anytime soon will be easy for him to take the SAT
Robert T 4 years ago
But you still have to take it the first time in order for the second time to be the second time otherwise its just the first time second time around!
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Thanks for pointing it out i was too bored to write it
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Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
You have to take it once to take it second. And I don't think you can. I didn't take it because it cost $70 and my family didn't have that. And I had no intention of going to a university anyway.
CatWoman312 4 years ago
Yeah it’s easier because you already did it and know what to expect somewhat
But what about you, dear Pandas? What's the dumbest thing that you've ever heard anyone say aloud, ever? What do you think the best way to react to idiotic statements is? Should we ignore them completely or should we confront them? Diplomatically? Head-on? Not at all? Share your thoughts below.
#31
me: it's unfortunate that it's cloudy tonight, so we can't see the stars. friend: "ohhhh, so THAT'S why you don't see the stars sometimes" Apparently she thought only some nights were starry because of the Earth's rotation or something.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
No, it is beause the government switches them off sometimes, to save money on electricity.
THOMAS TIGABOJ 4 years ago
Somebody was mansplaining. Somebody else should femsplain "sarcasm."
#32
Someone told me that John Lennon was, in fact, the first president to be assassinated.
FloridaMan 4 years ago (edited)
no john lennon was the first lemon to be eaten everybody knows that
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 4 years ago
Kennedy, Lincoln, Gardfield and McInley are a very succesful beat group
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
No, silly... that was VLADIMIR Lennon. Duh! (Yes, joking on all four points.)
#33
That the post office doesnt ship mail to the Netherlands because you can't send physical mail to Hell. Just wanted to mail a postcard to my family in Eindhoven.
Sum Guy 4 years ago
Schools should replace the pledge of allegiance or national anthems with that episode of the animaniacs (Yakko's world song)
sylvantic 4 years ago
schools should stop it with the pledge of allegiance. i'm not going to pray to a flag. and what's with that "under G-d" line? keep religion out of schools except for educational purposes, please. and then they get all mad when you don't say it or sing to the anthem...
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meow point1 4 years ago
Maybe they're confused because Minecraft has a hellish dimension called the Nether? Still stupid though.
Xylle Flora 4 years ago
That reminds me of that time Fundy said "This is the Nether it's my territory" or something like that cause he's from the Netherlands
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Intrigued Panda 4 years ago
Dang! I wanted to send a letter to my Piglin friend!
Load More Replies... Ragnhild Nilsen 4 years ago
Well, Hell has a small church and a railway station, but the post office closed some years ago. You can send letters and parcels from the grocery store though. ;) Hell, meaning slope, is a place in Norway, close to Tronheim. Hell-postk...11-png.jpg 
#34
A teacher told me (and the rest of my class) the Earth was flat something like 25 years ago when I was in high school. I had never heard of a flat earther at that time and I remember thinking how much of an idiot the person was and questioning with my classmates how that person was supposed to teach us anything.
chi-wei shen 4 years ago
Some 40 years ago my female English teacher sometimes told us jokes and one of them was "there are only 2 universal truths: 1. men are smarter than woman and 2. the earth is flat." At that time it was a good joke but meanwhile, I have actually heard people talking about the earth being flat and I doubt she would tell that joke again.
𝕁𝕖𝕟𝕟𝕪𝔹𝕖𝕖 4 years ago
There are only 2 universal truthes! 1. Men and women are equally smart and 2. the Earth is NOT flat
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Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
Like they say... if the earth was truly flat, cats would have knocked everything off it by now.
Kira Okah 4 years ago
Flat Earth was certainly a theory in the Victorian era...and I think that people tried justifying it then the same way as now, by misunderstanding their observations.
Geoff CB 4 years ago
And yet the shape and size of the Earth was measured within 1% by Eratosthenes 2200 years ago! It was thought his measurements were too large, and that's why Columbus thought he was in India because they thought the Earth was smaller in circumference.
Load More Replies... deanna woods 4 years ago
I thought teachers were supposed to have a background check performed before they could start teaching.
Gary Geracci 1 year ago
If the earth is flat, why didn't our ship fall off when we reached the Equator?
Robert Robi Z 2 years ago
Well if it was flat 25 years ago, it doesn't mean it is still flat. Things progress, you know.
Rose Petit Frere 4 years ago
My classmate in the 5th Grade told me that the Earth had to be flat because planes would fall right off it if it was round. I responded, “Do you know what ‘gravity’ is…?” She wasn’t very bright.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
I was in 6th grade, and a teacher told me that the Sun revolves around the Earth. Classmates agreed. I never won the argument.
#35
"Why are people Canadian?"
Candace Fitzpatrick 4 years ago
Tom, as a Canadian I thank you! Such a really nice compliment! 😊🇨🇦
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Anežka Ruszová 4 years ago
This needs significantly bigger amount of upvotes. :D
Load More Replies... Red Hair Blue Soul 4 years ago
My husband had a student that answered a question of "what is north of Canada on the map" with HEAVEN. This was in high school. Of course it was the USA. She was a model. He was going foe the answer of the north pole.
k1ddkanuck 4 years ago
I mean, if said beauty queen tried to venture into the Arctic circle, that answer would probably be accurate. I'd let it slide in this case.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
If you're four years old, that's a legit question. Like, "Why are people tall, short, etc."
Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
I wanna be a Canadian when I grow up! Being American is boring... Wait... WHAT??? (I still wouldn't mind moving to Canada though!)
#36
My step sister told me we should see the PG-13 movie because PG meant 'pretty good.
meow point1 4 years ago
Reminds me of when I was a kid and couldn't understand why I couldn't watch M-rated movies, as "M" is my first initial.
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
Because parent guidance until 13 years of age makes way less sense
~*Zodiac lover~* 4 years ago
Oh so rated r stuff doesn’t mean that there’s guts and stuff GEE I never knew 0-0
#37
Someone once told me they saved the internet on a floppy disk. They actually saved their dial up connection shortcut, but they truly were convinced that it contained the whole internet.
TropicalPanda 4 years ago (edited)
The only one with a Winrar licensed copy !!!
Load More Replies... Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
They better not break The Internet. https://theitcrowd.fandom.com/wiki/The_Internet
Lukyan Terdal 4 years ago
If you'll excuse me, I'll be deleting my search history. Also, everyone else's.
Gandalf the Pink 4 years ago
In the olden days, it used to be for data storage, like a usb stick or sd card today. In the beginning, floppy disks were big and floppy, hence their name. Over time they got more compact and eventually they were not floppy anymore, but hard. Yet they were still known as floppy disks. The save icon 💾 still uses one of these hard floppies, even though we don't use those non-floppy floppy disks anymore.
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#38
Someone once asked me, 'When is 9/11 again?' I didn't know if they were joking or not so I laughed. They were serious.
Equine_Ravenclaw_Directioner 4 years ago
Maybe they got the dates mixed up because Americans write it differently..? Idk, sorry.
Autumn 4 years ago
So 9/11 is on the 11th of the 9th not the 9th of the 11th?
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Yeah, you heard 4 years ago
I know plenty of people under 20 who would assume 9/11 is the 9th of November, not knowing that Americans write the date as month/day/year.
Jelly the Bean 4 years ago
Not all Americans write it as month/day/year. I am American and I write it as day/month/year. To me it just makes more sense.
Load More Replies... Anne 4 years ago
In the US probably, although the younger generation may not know
Load More Replies... Vasana Phong 4 years ago
The day when we all remember what and where we were:(, I actually went into labor when the second plan hit, I had my son at about 5pm that day.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
I was in Denmark measuring pine-needles. Yes, that's actually true. Length AND width and weight, too. Your son's birth is probably the better story.
Load More Replies... Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
A slight correction: In all of the world, except one stubborn country.
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Bettie-Jean Neal 4 years ago
They probably meant what year. A lot of people think it happened in 2000.
ConcertoDelleDonna 4 years ago
Yes, it's a perfectly valid question if they were asking about the year.
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Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago (edited)
Maybe they meant what year? It's been 20 years. Plenty of adults weren't alive. For those of us who were, we'll never forget. But it took me awhile to remember the date for Pearl Harbor. It didn't have the same emotional impact. (Of course, now that I understand history better, I certainly feel a deepimpact from Pearl Harbor. JUst saying it's possible they could have been asking for the year.)
Donkey boi 4 years ago
In the UK it's referred to as 'September the 11th' in the news, but 9/11 if it's to fit in a headline.
#39
Someone pointed at my glucose monitoring device and asked, 'Do you have diabetes in your arm or is it in your stomach?
Sista of the moon 4 years ago
We always say that the dogs brain is in her ass because it’s too big to fit in her peanut head. Must fit in her v v wide butt
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Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
My dad has diabetes I just tried to hold in a monstrous laugh
#40
The root word of infant was "infinite", therefore, infants have infinite wisdom.
SykesDaMan 4 years ago
Why the wisdom though? Why not infinite wealth, health, chocolate or anything else?
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Infinite amount of breath and poop, more like it
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Infant, Latin: 'In' meaning 'Not' + 'Fant/Fari' meaning speak/speaking = 'Not speaking'. Infinite, Latin: 'In' meaning 'Not' + 'Finitus/Finite' meaning 'Finished' = 'Not finished/finishing'
Robert Robi Z 2 years ago
Yes, speaking all the existant and non-existant languages at the same time must be the sign of infinite wisdom.
M Kate McCulloch 4 years ago
well - that may be, but we'll never know until they can speak it, will we... This one is the only one so far that is actually plausible - how could we know what is in the smooth brained beings we call babies???
#41
My friend thought New Jersey was tropical and warm year round Hot dogs were made from stray dogs Tupac killed bob Marley Elephant ear from the fair we’re real elephants When John McCain died she told everyone in government class that joe Biden just died Among many others
juice 4 years ago
with punctuation (and a few corrections), it would read: My friend thought New Jersey was tropical and warm year round, hot dogs were made from stray dogs, Tupac killed Bob Marley, elephant ears from the fair were real elephants, and when John McCain died she told everyone in government class that Joe Biden had just died. (elephant ears are a type of pastry, by the way)
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Hooked 4 years ago
Can someone explain the elephant thing please ? I have no idea what is meant by that statement...
SykesDaMan 4 years ago
There's a spelling error who might have confused you: Elephant ears were real elephants and here's what they were -apparently- talking about https://www.thegunnysack.com/elephant-ears-recipe/
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Bow, I’m a Slytherin 4 years ago
Well, the hot dog theory could be true. Nobody really knows...
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Sausage inna bun - "worth every penny, cut me own throat at that price"
Load More Replies... Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
Before judgement, I must ask the age of the "friend". If she was under 5 years old, she gets a pass.
Lee Kerr 3 years ago
At that age I wouldn’t eat hot dogs because I’d been told they were made from sausage dogs (daschhounds)
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Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
Are you trying to tell le that Tupac didn't kill Bob Marley? I wasn't born yesterday you know!
#42
'It's not an MLM, you have to pay for those and they are illegal... I only paid £50 to get started'
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Because you are either gullible, or willing to take advantage of other gullible people.
Load More Replies... Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
I had to look it up. I've never heard pyramid scheme called multilevel marketing. But it makes sense.
Aileen 4 years ago
As @Tiggy Darling said above, "Multi Level Marketing. A technically legal pyramid scheme that only makes money for people at the top. The ones at the bottom spend loads of money and beg all their friends to buy stuff until they lose all their friends and turn into annoying soulless MLM zombies, with £$20,000 worth of stock in their garage."
Load More Replies... GirlFriday 4 years ago
I had someone try to sign me up for an MLM three days ago and told me it isn't a MLM, it is a business and I would make money by signing people up to sell under me. Um... That is the VERY definition of MLM.
Samantha Hurrell 4 years ago
I see so many people trying to add me to the MLM they've joined, so close to unfriending & blocking several people over it.
danielw 4 years ago
Do it. "I'll unblock you when you apologize and stop."
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She didn’t tell me but her daughter. A little girl asked her mother why the polar bears wouldn’t go in the water. We were at the zoo and it was a sunny day about 50degrees outside. The mother responded. “Because it too cold for them honey”.
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
Well honey they dont like to, it's too tight on their fur.
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Ozacoter 4 years ago
In my first internship as a caregiver I worked in a small nice zoo in spain. They had a male lion that was alone because the female passed away recently. They were waiting to recieve two females from a british zoo. Once a visitor asked why he was alone and my teacher told her about the females being in UK. Her answer was "aaah yes, it must be too warm here in summer for them". (Thinking that they always send the lions to uk in summer and they ckme back later). How its going to be too hot for a f*****g lion?
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 4 years ago
Sometimes little kids ask endless and I mean ENDLESS questions. Sometimes even if you're parent of the year you occasionally get tired and give them an answer that just ends the questioning! I'm assuming the actual reasons was "they just don't feel like going in the water right now", to which I can guarantee you would get an endless stream of "Why?" Questions! Sometimes, a reasonable sounding answer will be enough!!
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
I think that's very likely. Also - I would have told that kid some awesome bullshit-line. Like..."The big one peed into it, now they don't want to go in there because of the pee" I love telling kids (fun) bullshit - especially when they realize I'm kidding and they get outraged and giggle at me. Kids are so much fun. I never want to have one of my own.
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Reed Stralka 3 years ago
its a little girl.. why would she know that? also she isnt in expert on polar bears for all she knows they might swim in that degree.
#44
That direction can’t be north because it’s diagonal and north has to be in a straight line. What?
readingthequibbler 4 years ago
My Aunt thinks North is whatever way she is facing. I can't deal with it
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danielw 4 years ago
actually, the (magnetic) compass is always wrong. The earth's magnetic field doesn't quite line up with true-north.
Load More Replies... M O'Connell 4 years ago
I think the issue comes from North American cities generally being laid out in a N/S, E/W grid. In that context, North being at an angle to the local grid might seem strange. In smaller towns in the Midwest US though, the grid can be at a 45-degree angle (usually to do with being parallel to railroad tracks)
Load More Replies... Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 4 years ago
Every citizen should be provided with a compass by the Government.
Jackie Porter 4 years ago
I once worked with a lady who was having an argument with one of our engineers about where a town was. He said 'Look, just point north.' She raised her finger directly upwards towards the sky.
Sky Render 4 years ago
I'm starting to think the real issue is that we don't teach these kids to stop taking everything literally...
#45
A friend heard somewhere Mr Roger's was a sniper and he got a new tattoo for every kill. That is why he wore a sweater.
Susan Green 4 years ago
This is sad.....I always thought he was so nice. I guess you just never know.
El muerto 4 years ago
that's a very popular urban legend...that's totally false
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SykesDaMan 4 years ago
And with another movie where Bob Ross is a mafia boss you can start your cinematic universe (apparently, it's the only way movies are made this day).
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#46
Me, a Deli Clerk: "Would you like a slice of cheese, sir?" Said Sir: "No thanks; I'm driving." Wat.
Raine Soo 4 years ago
Well, perhaps dairy causes him to have diarrhea, which is not good for someone driving.
Penelope Orange 4 years ago
That response is a fairly common joke actually. He didn't want cheese and said "No thanks, I'm driving" to elicit a laugh as if declining an alcoholic drink.
#47
This guy I know told me that he honestly thought Jesus was attached to the cross with a staple gun.
#48
“Pumpkins aren’t natural, because they last too long”
I then explained the concept of skin and how long jack-o-lanterns last compared to an unbroken pumpkin, and you should should have seen the look on her face
CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago
Hold up... do you think only things growing in their wild state can be considered natural?
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#49
My Dad once told me that shooting stars are caused by global warming.
Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago
The planet is heating up causing the glue to melt and stars to detach from the ceiling in space. That happened in my room once so it must apply to all situations.
Lukyan Terdal 4 years ago
Well, they're caused by gravity, and gravity is controlled by the ocean, and the ocean is expanding, so...
Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
Everyone knows shooting stars are just stars trying to get away from the star police.
#50
"Can I get it medium-well?" After ordering a chicken sandwich
#51
"How can people believe in evolution when men have less ribs than women?!"
Eslamala 4 years ago
I'm sure the tale about some dude "creating" the world and people makes WAY more sense....
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
Bravo! Far too few people have any grasp of proper grammar. I notice this mainly because my Grade 4 English teacher was a grammar N**i.
Load More Replies... J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
There's the theory that the "rib" god took was a bone located in the penis - we humans are one of the few animals that don't have a bone there
Vic 4 years ago
Of course it is, he was counting the ribs on the plate at the BBQ..
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 4 years ago
This was actually part of an Anthropology class I was in. In the article we were supposed to read, a professor was trying to explain things to a girl that had said you tell the difference between a female human skeleton and a male human skeleton by counting the ribs, males had one less because of Adam. So the professor was trying to explain, but was also trying to do so without stepping on her beliefs. He explained that, if your Dad lost his thumb in an accident, but then your mom and dad had another son, would you expect him to be born without a thumb. When she said "no." He said it was the same for Adam. Just because a rib was taken from him doesn't mean all of his sons would be born with one less rib.
Jon S. 4 years ago
I am using this the next time people ask me why there are still monkeys!
Load More Replies... Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
I knew someone who said that men could regrow a rib if one of their was broken--but only once. That made up for the one that was made into Eve. She truly believed this too.
#52
Are the Greeks from Ireland?
Carol Emory 4 years ago
Monty Python in the Life of Brian pops into my head. "What did he say?" "He said the Greek shall inherit the Earth." "Oh that's so wonderful...they've had such a rough time of it."
Eliška Hůlková 4 years ago
Not but Irish people are from Spain (according to their mythology).
Jon S. 4 years ago
And according to genetics (so I'm led to believe). They likely migrated to Ireland from the western edge of Europe at the end of the last ice age. Even the Romans noted the similarity of the Irish with the Iberians, while the Britons seemed more similar to Germans.
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My slightly insane boss said that she can’t drinking water without a drop of orange juice because it ‘breaks the water down’. It had to be orange juice as well, not orange squash!
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
At least the OP realized that the boss was "slightly insane" and knew to take things with a grain of salt.
#54
im half asian so i got asked once "do you guys have birds in x country?"
Dahungryfella 4 years ago
Please tell me you said no because there was a shortage of batteries....
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
I remember when I was younger, people would ask me if I was Chinese or Japanese, the only options ( which were neither)
#55
"Sour isn't a taste." What?
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
There are so many amazing things to learn about taste and smell and the way it all relates. The other day my 10 year-old grandson told me that Carolina Hot Peppers are still hot even without taste buds. It led to a couple of hours of learning that enlightened us both.
#56
While jogging with my friend in the morning they said, 'I am so slim because I follow a diet of hydrocarbons that my doctor recommended me.
Susan Green 4 years ago
It’s true though, before I started eating hydrocarbons, I was overweight.
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
I can't be the only one wondering what the hell the friend really meant.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
Hydrocarbons are terrible for you, don't need to be a doctor or a nutritionist to know that.
#57
"Calories don't matter." This was said to me by a co-worker after I told them I lost over 70lbs by, you guessed it, counting calories.
crazy_cat_notAlady 4 years ago
calories don't count. we count calories. (sorry, couldn't resist)
Load More Replies... Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
In high school, a wrestler wanting to class at a lower weight that afternoon asked me if eating the 2.4 ounce snack bag of Doritos (360 calories) would cause his weight to go up. That has stuck with me for 35+ years because of the juxtaposition of calories vs product weight and the knowledge of how things are metabolized. I still am not certain what the answer should be.
Dorian Reeves 2 years ago
The myth is that only calories matter when it comes to HEALTH. When it comes to weight loss it is almost entirely about calorie consumption. When it comes to health it’s about eating a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, healthy fats and lean protein and drinking enough water + enjoyable movement every day
Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 4 years ago
Yes! I've lost almost thirty pounds from counting calories.
#58
10 or so years ago when I was arguing over the pronunciation of a word with my brother, he told me "the dictionary is wrong!"
Yeah, you heard 4 years ago
Not that stupid. For example, my dictionary says that bath and hearth rhyme; they might rhyme for people in the south of the UK, but not for northerners. I imagine US and other dictionaries have similar issues: they are attuned to only one accent, so are 'wrong' for some of us.
#59
Alaska was an island
troufaki13 4 years ago
Maybe what they really said is "Alaska is is-land" and the second is was a typo? I don't know, I give up
Sam 4 years ago
with our maps of the U.S. it looks like Hawaii and Alaska are below the southwestern states dumb-US-ma...a2-png.jpg 
Sam 4 years ago
Replying to my own comment so y'all don't have to click on the image
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ButterScot 4 years ago
In the native language, Alaska means "mainland" or literally "not an island".
CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago
This is because of how maps show Alaska separate from the contiguous United States.
banana mcnana 4 years ago
i used to think this to because on the american map it shows it as an island
MandaPanda 4 years ago
As in, it was at one point and then like fused to the land? Lol
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Mrs_ Possum 4 years ago
I met someone once who thought that the Sydney Harbour Bridge was the route from Australia to New Zealand, and that you could walk over to New Zealand for the day.....
Kimberly Hennessey 4 years ago
I was born with 1 blue eye and 1 half blue half brown eye. People say to me all the time "Do you know you have brown in your eye?
Holly Allen 4 years ago
Please tell me that sometimes you respond with screaming and grabbing your eye
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Logic and Reason 4 years ago
I sometimes have to explain to people that gender is a social construct and has nothing to do with biology. Looking at you, CowboyHank.
Aliquid A 4 years ago
In French and Spanish and many other languages, objects have a gender. A car in French is feminine, "une voiture", doesn't mean it is biologically a female (in Spanish it is masculine) -- For hundreds of years the word "gender" only referred to this use of grammar. Eventually it started being used in English for describing "masculine" or "feminine" behavior. Again, not about biology, just 1950s sorts of cultural things like "being a provider is masculine, being nurturing is feminine". Then one day, someone like CowboyHank didn't like saying "what sex is that child", because "sex" is also a naughty word... and people like Hank don't want to say naughty words in polite company. So they decided to say "what gender is that child". Even though that's not what the word meant.
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Steve Barnett 4 years ago
I'm aspergic, I F#ck up the majority of the time. I genuinely don't mean to offend. But I do speak my mind. Oh yeah, it's got me in trouble many times. Life is a delicate balance.
pusheen buttercup 4 years ago
I try not to be angry or offended by people who are clueless. I just try to gently give them the opportunity to learn. I'm sure for some of them, it's not their fault they don't know better... Obviously there are others who are just stubborn. But some are also in an environment that forbids knowledge
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
Sometimes it's really hard to avoid being snarky.
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Irma 3 years ago
It was the year 2014. When we buy alcohol here you give them your license or ID card. They type your date of birth in the register and the register tells you if the person is of legal age. She thought the date of me getting my license was my date of birth... which was 2012. And told me i wasnt old enough..... Ma'am.... do i look two years old to you...
CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago
I knew a girl that told me the following: 1) The Taliban was like the Afghani Pentagon, 2) "contact high" was when smoke clouded up your contact lenses, and the best one 3) Buddhism is a branch of Christianity. Each one put the pause into me.
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
So many can't understand alcohol percentages... They think if they drink a 750ml bottle of 40% alcohol it'll get them as drink as a 375ml bottle of the same alcohol because they are both 40%. And this is the sober shopping for the alcohol. This actually hurt my head trying to remember this. ..
Mrs_ Possum 4 years ago
I met someone once who thought that the Sydney Harbour Bridge was the route from Australia to New Zealand, and that you could walk over to New Zealand for the day.....
Kimberly Hennessey 4 years ago
I was born with 1 blue eye and 1 half blue half brown eye. People say to me all the time "Do you know you have brown in your eye?
Holly Allen 4 years ago
Please tell me that sometimes you respond with screaming and grabbing your eye
Load More Replies... Logic and Reason 4 years ago
I sometimes have to explain to people that gender is a social construct and has nothing to do with biology. Looking at you, CowboyHank.
Aliquid A 4 years ago
In French and Spanish and many other languages, objects have a gender. A car in French is feminine, "une voiture", doesn't mean it is biologically a female (in Spanish it is masculine) -- For hundreds of years the word "gender" only referred to this use of grammar. Eventually it started being used in English for describing "masculine" or "feminine" behavior. Again, not about biology, just 1950s sorts of cultural things like "being a provider is masculine, being nurturing is feminine". Then one day, someone like CowboyHank didn't like saying "what sex is that child", because "sex" is also a naughty word... and people like Hank don't want to say naughty words in polite company. So they decided to say "what gender is that child". Even though that's not what the word meant.
Load More Replies... Steve Barnett 4 years ago
I'm aspergic, I F#ck up the majority of the time. I genuinely don't mean to offend. But I do speak my mind. Oh yeah, it's got me in trouble many times. Life is a delicate balance.
pusheen buttercup 4 years ago
I try not to be angry or offended by people who are clueless. I just try to gently give them the opportunity to learn. I'm sure for some of them, it's not their fault they don't know better... Obviously there are others who are just stubborn. But some are also in an environment that forbids knowledge
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
Sometimes it's really hard to avoid being snarky.
Load More Replies... Irma 3 years ago
It was the year 2014. When we buy alcohol here you give them your license or ID card. They type your date of birth in the register and the register tells you if the person is of legal age. She thought the date of me getting my license was my date of birth... which was 2012. And told me i wasnt old enough..... Ma'am.... do i look two years old to you...
CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago
I knew a girl that told me the following: 1) The Taliban was like the Afghani Pentagon, 2) "contact high" was when smoke clouded up your contact lenses, and the best one 3) Buddhism is a branch of Christianity. Each one put the pause into me.
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
So many can't understand alcohol percentages... They think if they drink a 750ml bottle of 40% alcohol it'll get them as drink as a 375ml bottle of the same alcohol because they are both 40%. And this is the sober shopping for the alcohol. This actually hurt my head trying to remember this. ..
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