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Part of the beauty of humankind is how imperfect we all actually are. Think of the level of naivety, false hopes, wrong assumptions and beliefs we all swear by, day by day, without questioning them twice. How on earth can we be so oblivious?
So this post serves as a tribute to all the headless selves who believe the craziest conspiracies, or things adults mockingly told us when we were little, or stuff we read on fishy forums. Inspired by a seemingly simple question posed on r/AskReddit “What's the dumbest thing you've ever heard someone say?” it offers a glimpse into the absurd wonderland of arguments that leave our mouths, making others cringe in return. Like, genuinely asking a flight attendant if you could open a window because it’s feeling really hot.
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#1
some girl once told me that it was impossible for me to be vietnamese bc vietnam was a war and not a country. this happened while in college smh
Bardhi's Dad 4 years ago
Not vietnamese, but I have similar experience in my one country. I was told "you look so normal, you can not be part of that (my) nation"
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
"Yes, it was a war. And do you remember the children whom your soldiers burnt alive? Well, that's my people."
Remi 4 years ago
To be honest, you guys over in America know that your whole school and university system is a joke, right? University level in America is much lower than in the rest of the world.
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#2
A few years ago leading up to the great American eclipse a coworker overheard us discussing it and said "Y'all don't actually believe in that [stuff] do you?" I figured he misunderstood whatever we were talking about and thought we were talking about mysticism or something regarding the eclipse but no he followed up with "Don't you know if the moon went into the sun it would melt, that's why the eclipse can't be real."
I genuinely felt like humanity should probably start over from scratch after that.
troufaki13 4 years ago
So what did he say *after* the eclipse? That it was staged? That you were trying to prank him?
Giovanna 4 years ago
Of course. It was all Bill Gates' plan for the Great Reset.
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Kai Wee Toh 4 years ago
Thousands of years ago, some shrewd philosopher noted that if a state's citizenry are kept ignorant, weak, and set against each other over trivial matters, the state is much easier to rule. I think today's political elites are rediscovering that idea. What's in it for them to have a highly intelligent population that are able to check on them and potentially oust them?
Chris 4 years ago
Great American eclipse?!? LMAO... why you pricks gotta put American in everything?!
Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki 4 years ago (edited)
Yes, especially since the moon is made up out of cheese.
#3
Work at a hotel. Guest asked why there was no fourth of July parade or any fireworks in town. We were in Australia.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Yep, and that kind of people probably think "un-American" is derogatory.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
What? Other countries don't celebrate YOUR national day? How surprising!
Downunderdude 4 years ago
When the Americans celebrate Australia Day, we'll celebrate 4 July. Fair?
Fish Boden 4 years ago
To be fair a lot of Australians aren't sold on Australia Day!
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Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
We also have an astonishing number of people who are just plain stupid.
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QueenMiri 4 years ago
Some Americans truly believe that the 4th of July is an international thing 😂
Anne Mitchell 4 years ago
That guest is probably related to the couple who asked me, after chatting with them for about 10 minutes, if I spoke English.
Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago
Thanks for the laugh out loud! PS; Can you read English? heheh
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Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
Fourth of July fireworks were cancelled in Austin once because of rain, and an angry guy asked why they couldn't just move the fireworks indoors.
Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago
And that is just one reason I hate fireworks.
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Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
Why does it seem that the dumbest people are the ones who can afford to travel?
#4
When I was like 13 I told my friend that there was such a thing as a Liger. They had successfully mated a lion and a tiger. His response “you idiot, tigers ARE female lions”
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We took the argument to his mother to settle it. She took his side
Chyppa Homer 4 years ago
I once thought cats were the female form of dogs... :D but then I turned 5
Casey Burns 4 years ago
Of course it didn't. It struck both of them in the head.
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Brian Bennett 4 years ago
I can understand the kid maybe but momma with the same intelect as the kid?
ZimZamBoom 4 years ago
I had a girl argue with me that Mary Kate Ashley Olsen was one person and refused to believe me that they were the twins, Mary Kate AND Ashley Olsen, but it was 1991 and Google hadn't been invented yet. I still think about how this argument basically ended our friendship and I hope she feels real stupid now.
Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago
Uninformed not stupid. Hopefully learned from the experience and laughed about it later in life. Ended the friendship? Sad.
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Miss Milinky 4 years ago
I had a similar problem - when I was 8(f) I went to stay with my aunt and cousin (13m) while my mum was out of town. We were chatting about space and I mention that the sun is a star. He's like "No, idiot - it's a planet like earth - stars are something else!" and I was like...but...it's not? it *is* a star!" He proceeds to ask his mum who agrees with him. When I still wasn't having it (stubborn child) he goes and produces a school book on space that says 'the Sun is the first and biggest planet in our solar system'. I don't know what's worse - the incorrect textbook or me still believing something that had been proven 'false' despite evidence. I should probably be in a cult.
#5
"It's been proven that if you dream about falling and hit the ground in your dream you will die in your sleep."
Yeah? If someone dies in their sleep, how do you know what they were dreaming?
Shelli Aderman 4 years ago
Thanks to summer camp stories, I believed that one for FAR TOO LONG! 🤣
Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago (edited)
Flashbacks: "I'm the laaady of the laaake...." (heard on That 70s Show)/"Where's my gooolden aaarm???" (from a girl at a foster home when I was 6)
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Confused Flamingo 4 years ago
I should have been dead multiple times by now...guess I am immortal💅🤸♀️
Daria B 4 years ago
No, you were resurrected. Confess! Where are you hiding them Phoenix Downs?!
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Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago (edited)
zombie, here-I guess. From how I feel and look now(past 21 yrs) anyway.
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Full English 4 years ago
Surely the injuries sustained in the fall would show up in the autopsy :)
Sandy Dyer 4 years ago
I died in a dream once. It freaked the hell out of me for a while, but I got over it in couple days
LivingTheDream 4 years ago
I fell out of my bunk bed as a 10 year old and dreamed I was flying. I didn't die when I hit the ground but it did knock the wind out of me. the best part was my step-dad yelling at me for making noise while i was gasping to fill my lungs🤣 . That was 40 years ago and it as clear as if it happened yesterday.
SuperChicken 4 years ago
Guess, that explains why I am now a zombie. I've fallen in my sleep one too many times.
#6
A girl in my class asked why do farms exist if she gets her food from the supermarket.The teacher had such a disappointed face and everyone looked at her and wondered how did she pass the all the way through the 8th grade
Luka Verheijen 4 years ago
Yeah, there are kids tgat don't even know milk comes from cows. Commercialism took a wrong turn somewhere.
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
You can't blame this on anything as much as you can blame it on shitty parenting. The most basic book you might read to a toddler would cover that. Any kid who doesn't know it, has parents who haven't bothered to teach them anything and that's just super sad.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Hope the teacher then educated her and not just pulled a disappointed face.
Farid Red 4 years ago
Yes, cow do not exist either. The milk is magically appear in a bottle and meat is produce by the same factory that make the plastic packaging. What a great generation we have.
Marilyn Holt 4 years ago
When I lived in a rural home I had a small flock of chickens. A friend of mine in town would not take eggs from me because "those come from your chickens' bums". When I asked her about the eggs she used, she said "well those come from egg farms. That's different."
Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago
Yes, grown in the egg fields. On stalks or like potatoes, I guess.
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Gretchen Esquilin 4 years ago
Girl in line at my husband's store said she doesn't eat brown eggs b/c they come from chickens. Guy behind her asks where white eggs come from & she says, "Duh, the grocery store!" Sigh...
Elin Calliel 4 years ago
I met a kid who claimed he never ate any vegetables (plants), only hamburgers and chips. He didn’t believe me when I told him that bread comes from the crushed seeds of a grass and that potatoes come from underground.
Stephanie Keith 4 years ago
She's asking a question. Wanting the answer. That doesn't make her stupid or anyone else for that matter.
Brandi Delph 4 years ago
There's a place near me called the Learning Tree Farm. It was founded by a couple of teachers who had worked in the local big city school system. The whole purpose is to show things like milk comes from cows, wool comes from sheep, wool makes yarn, etc. Volunteered there a couple times doing demonstrations. Neat place
ravina nimje 4 years ago
As no one asks real questions in exams, real life knowledge is not needed to complete education.
#7
I worked retail as a summer job about 17 years ago. I was putting out coffee cups with a coworker.
"Why don't they make left handed coffee cups?"
I quietly turned one of the mugs 180 degrees without saying anything.
Last I heard she was the assistant manager of that department.
Sergy Yeltsen 4 years ago
I think she was promoted due to the Dilbert Principle.
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Kira Okah 4 years ago
I will point out that when decoration that goes beyond the cup shape is on the cup then it gets put on for holding the cup in the right hand. I have lost count of how many pretty cups and mugs I have gotten that I can't use without poking myself in the eyes because I hold the thing in my left hand.
Anyone-for-tea? 4 years ago
That’s what I was going to say too! Unfortunately I don’t think that was their excuse in this instance…
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Nadja Lambacher 4 years ago
My Dad had a novelty "left handed coffee cup" It had a small hole that would spill the coffee over you if you grabbed it with your right hand.
V33333P 4 years ago
Reminds me of my friends who asked me "how did you get the backwards d" when I sent her: d-_-b
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
This is ignorant right-handers not knowing how much the world tries to kill left handed people. That Hello Kitty mug with the cute ears - a left handed person is either blinded by them or can't drink because the ears are in the way. That travel mug with the antispill opening - the opening is at the top and all the coffee pours into your lap through the airhole. That favorite mug with the inspirational message or cool picture - its on the wrong side so we don't see it.
Michelle M 4 years ago
My brother is left-handed. I always wondered how he could cope without a left-handed pen or spoon.
cookie panda 4 years ago
this isnt all stupid. they do make right handed ones and it rlly RLLY hurts to hold them as a leftie.
#8
My sister panicked whilst on a plane and asked if she could open a window as she was feeling really hot - the guy in the seats across from her lost it, it made his day
Giovanna 4 years ago
I can relate to this one. Not the request of opening a plane window, but the panicking on a plane. I can't fly anymore because of this. I can guarantee you that when youre in the middle of that pure terror (panic attack) nothing you do or say is rational!
Libstak 4 years ago
Yeh happened to me after years of flying without a problem, I wanted to open every available air conditioning port in every seat of the plane. Barely contained myself till the seat belt sign went off and then just paced up and down the cabin till the stewardess asked me what was wrong and helped me calm down.
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ChloeClementine 4 years ago
Lol this isn't dumb. Panicking can make you say irrational things, it can also increase your body temperature so you feel overheated.
judy baker 4 years ago
Agreed. To folks that have panic attacks, (myself included) take slow deep breaths and switch your focus to distract yourself. It's difficult when you're in the midst of it but it can help get you through.
Load More Replies... StrawberryParfait 4 years ago
She was having a panic attack. I think this is understandable. Be nicer to your sister, jerk.
SykesDaMan 4 years ago
Well there exists some small planes where you can open the windows because they fly at lower altitudes that don't require pressurisation. THESE made me uncomfortable.
Billy Gonkenstein 4 years ago
I've read about a case where someone panicked in a similar way and the crew had to struggle to prevent them from trying to open the plane door while airborne. Not so funny.
Moh Grande 4 years ago
Oh yeah My first time on a plane I asked my dad to tell the pilot to drop me so Id take a pee
Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago
A panic attack could easily make it an open window!hehe ONLY people who have endured panic attacks can understand .
#9
“Wait is it just me or do meteors always land in craters” said the smartest guy in my class
JessG 4 years ago
Oh my god! I never thought of that! You're right!!.....weird
Load More Replies... Robert T 4 years ago
Only meteorites land in craters, silly. Meteors are that ones that don't reach the ground.
If I could I would live under water 4 years ago
I actually used this one as a joke. Maybe the smartest guy used it as one, too
H Edwards 4 years ago
That's what I was thinking. Smartest guy in class was too smart for the rest of them lol.
Load More Replies... Truth Monster 4 years ago
Stupid question, but possibly a smart one if you overthink it. If "landing" is to be arrested of motion and be at rest, then meteors only land in craters (that they made landing). If "landing" is to simply hit ground, the crater is not fully made, so unless the friction and heat are enough to form the crater without the meteor proper from touching it, then the statement would be false.
Chris Wade 4 years ago
Nice word soup. I think the word "land" confused you. Meteorites don't land, they crash. Also: "A crater is a bowl-shaped depression, or hollowed-out area, produced by the impact of a meteorite, volcanic activity, or an explosion.".
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Michigan Guy 4 years ago
see, if you remove the meteors from the crater after they land? you can see the bull's eye painted there...
#10
22-year-old girlfriend, after having walked under some street lamps: “I just discovered that we have 2 shadows. I think the other one is only visible at night.”
I explained what shadows are and how they're dependent on the light source. There was visible brain processing strain on her face.
Vic 4 years ago
I bet there was a third shadow from the light you shed with this new information..
Marianne 4 years ago (edited)
Or you were surrounded by Vashta Nerada! Beware of the two shadows!!
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
Once at school our regular Physics teacher was off so we had a substitute. This guy actually stood in front of us and proclaimed that he could never understand, that if you held a cigarette lighter in front of a lamp you would get a shadow of the lighter but not of the flame it produced. He was serious. He also offered up his tennis racquet to the lamp which had a logo spray painted across the strings and said that it was strange that you could see the shadows of the strings but not the logo. Again he was deadly serious. When our regular teacher came back, we told her about him. The look on her face was of complete disbelief was priceless.
Bardhi's Dad 4 years ago (edited)
Well, the theory of how shadows form can be really complex and confusing 🙂
Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago (edited)
Stop with the stupid! Especially children are not stupid. Misinformed . Stupid is when you do something the wrong way and refuse to learn the correct way, or do something harmful like smoking and damage your health after having been warned. Now that is stupid.
Load More Replies... RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
Some people just don't look around themselves much. They ride in the car as kids, reading a book/on a device, not looking out the window. They stand at the train station staring at their phone instead of marvelling at the way the mist swallows up the tracks in the distance. Etc. :-)
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My friend once told me he wasn't too concerned about using birth control because everyone knows the girl can only get pregnant if they both come at the same time. His gf was pregnant 3 months later.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
If it were true, life on earth would have been extinct for millions of years.
Alexander Kokkinos 4 years ago
This is why men try to come early and avoid unwanted pregnancies
kjorn 4 years ago
this is what happen when you refuse sexual education at school. you breed more moron like you.
chrissy goodman 4 years ago
i dont think u can refuse to take it anymore. i think ur parents need to give permission but even then they teach it at a young age now my friends 6 year old learned sex ed this year. her sister who lives with her signed the permission slip without reading wat it was for so my friend was furious wen she found out her daughter was learning sex ed and got her daughter pulled out of the claas. lets just say my friends sister is no longer an emergency contact or listed as secondary guardian im listed as those now
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Artoonist Corine 4 years ago
Had a girl tell me you couldn't get pregnant the first time you had sex with someone either. Please note: she now has FIVE kids.......
#12
I remarked that it’s odd that we associate rabbits with EGGS for Easter. I jokingly said we should make it an Easter platypus because unlike rabbits they lay eggs. Then someone overheard this and said “wait... no, rabbits DO lay eggs.” This turned into a two minute argument over whether or not rabbits lay eggs. And then when she finally accepted that she was wrong, she was so irritated that she asked all of her coworkers if they thought the same as her. To the best of my knowledge she’s the only one.
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
Wow, midway through reading I thought these were in elementary school kids
Margaret Granade 4 years ago
I thought they were middle schoolers, not that you’re wrong or anything
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Robert T 4 years ago
Rabbits do lay eggs. Little round brown ones. Never seen one hatch though. ;-)
Iggy 4 years ago
Tell her that baby rabbits are called kittens (or kits). That will make her head explode! https://rangerplanet.com/what-are-baby-rabbits-called-rabbit-names-for-age-and-gender/
Robert T 4 years ago
Was going to suggest that you tell a rabbit that she lays eggs and she will have kittens!
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Hollie Marie 4 years ago
What gets me is that she can understand a platypus lays eggs but when it comes to the rabbit that's where she has issues. I know platypus do lay eggs but for some reason I thought that was going to be what she argued xD
Stephanie Keith 4 years ago
Where in the text did it show she understood that platypuses lay eggs??????
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#13
A customer came in today and apparently had a an excuse for not wearing a mask. We offered curbside pickup for their safety and the safety of others. They let us know that they work at a covid clinic, so they had "literally 0% chance of contracting it".
Šimon Špaček 4 years ago
That is why flamethrowers are so great. You get rid off of those people and santitize the spot instantly.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I volunteer at a hospital, and now also our vaccination clinic. Yes, I have 100% chance of contracting it. Everyone does. That's why you reduce the chance by wearing a mask, sanitizing, and GETTING VACCINATED... I'm going to cry now...
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Our neighbor has a sign out in front of her home -NO MORE LOCKDOWNS - this chick works in a nursing home and has a baby - asked her why i don't know Oh Please.
Dixon's Mama 4 years ago
With that mindset, how the hell are they allowed to work in a covid clinic??
#14
Co-worker at my last job during lunch:
Him: "The moon landings obviously didn't happen"
Me: "Thats awkward I was bouncing lasers off the mirrors we left there at Uni." (Physics Graduate)
Him after pausing: "Theres loads of ways they could have got there, aliens could have plonked them down"
Man literally believes in aliens but not the moon landings and is a manager at a large company
Vicky Z 4 years ago
That reminds me of an incident i had during work in a hotel! There was a big damage in the spa and we call the maintenance! The guy that came was really worried that it's a huge damage that will cost a lot and we might need to close the spa for a few days... i then say should i call the manager? His reply was: what the hell do you think he could do about that? Managers are decoration! Me and my colleague laughed thinking our own manager....
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J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
They were installed to measure the distance between earth and moon with a laser if I remember correctly (the moon moves away 4cm from earth per year)
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Karen Lawyer 4 years ago
I know and I think it's so strange... we carry computers in our pockets, can access the other side of the world from the palms of our hands, and we have smart homes, smart tvs, and electric cars, but they still think we can't go to the moon. It's really insulting when you think about it.
Load More Replies... Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
My mother woke us up for every Apollo mission and I can still remember Armstrong and Aldrin bouncing around on the moon—it was truly thrilling!
David Andrews 4 years ago
Bouncing lasers off the mirrors allowed them to accurately measure the distance between earth and the surface of the moon
Load More Replies... Robert Carlton 4 years ago
You know, I've never understood why people are still believing in alien lifeforms. All those videos of supposed aliens and UFOs are fake. Those Area 51 theories are fake. Face it. Aliens. Aren't. Real. They may have existed millions of years ago, like on The Moon, or possibly Venus, but they don't exist anymore. So no. Aliens don't exist anymore. Stop believing that the government is hiding aliens in Area 51.
Billy Gonkenstein 4 years ago
There are conspiracy theories according to which the moon landings were faked and filmed in a studio. REM even have a song about it. How many seemingly intelligent people believe conspiracy theories? The answer may surprise you.
P. Mozzani 4 years ago
There will always be conspiracy theorists, who claim things such as the moon landing and the Holocaust were not real. We all choose to believe verifiable facts or the wild imaginings of others. Pity.
#15
The spork is "the devil's utensil" because it is the amalgamation of the masculine fork and the feminine spoon and is trying to blur gender lines in society.
Amy Dodds 4 years ago
In Catholic school the maths teacher told us only the devil can draw a perfect circle
Deborah B 4 years ago
hey, why are we gendering them that way? Forks are feminine, *Spoons* are masculine. Sporks are clearly non-binary, and that's the way it should be.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
I could agree with that. Forks are dainty, and spoons are food-shovels. :D
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Henry Cheves 4 years ago
So forks are men, spoons are women, sporks are trans, and knives are non-binary.
#16
Someone once said. "But I don't want to put the bag of aquatic snails inside the fish tank, they might drown!" That someone was me. Past me is dumb.
Orillion 4 years ago
Their heart was in the right place. Their brain, not so much...
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Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago
I once asked . What’s that mouse called from Tom and Jerry ? I was 30
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I had a friend that was wondering want kind of animal is Mickey mouse😅😅 we were kids though
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Casey Burns 4 years ago
Past me was also dumb. Don't feel bad. It took me forever to understand ""open sesame" as "open says me.""
MandaPanda 4 years ago
See, I wonder how many of these are dumb people vs a dumb moment. I wouldn't call myself a dumb person, but I have stupid moments.
SuperChicken 4 years ago
As long as you grew out of it and realized what you said, you're good to go.
#17
someone tried to convince me that snakes don’t have bones. I showed him some pictures of snake skeletons and he said “yeah they have ribs, not bones”
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
I think some of the people who make these comments grow on trees, how's that for a conundrum?
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 4 years ago
I didn't grow on a tree(even though, now I feel like) , but I'm gonna start using Google more to answer to my kid.
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Legen ( wait for it ) dary 4 years ago
Shut up, I just said some days ago to my 6 years old son that snakes don't have bones. 🤯 I really thought.... I really thought.... Well that's embarrassing.
Margaret Granade 4 years ago
It’s sad how some people are thoroughly taught and don’t know anything, even sadder people laugh at them. ☹️
Sheila McEnany Markowitz 4 years ago
I say those very words frequently...
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Henry Kuchner 4 years ago
Hey mr guy who says ribs aren’t bones, how’s your backbone doing? Ohhhhhh right!
#18
It’s not cheating if you don’t love the person
Luka Verheijen 4 years ago
The person who you cheat with, or the person you cheat on? That's important
Troux 4 years ago
No, the only thing that matters is what your partner expects from you. Do they think it's a relationship? Do they think you love them? Do they think you're committed/exclusive to them? If any of those are a yes, then you've betrayed their trust - it doesn't matter how much you enjoyed yourself while doing so.
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Luka Verheijen 4 years ago
Some partners are mostly against having sex with someone else, while others care more if you have an emotional bond with them. That was what I was referring to.
Syd 4 years ago
I hate this BS, similar lines "It's just sex"..."It's not like its a relationship/love/etc"..."what I have with you is different". No, if the relationship was defined as closed and just between the people in it, then anything romantic or (and especially) anything sexual outside of those individuals count as cheating. I could even include an aspect that there can be emotional cheating as well. If your relationship is closed (hell even if it is open) talk to your partner(s) before adding another partner. Why is that so hard?
Al Christensen 4 years ago
Well, to turn it around a little, if you love someone you won't cheat on them.
Apachebathmat 4 years ago
Same person probably believes the old ‘if it’s just the tip it doesn’t count’ chestnut 🌰
#19
'Can't we just exterminate all bacteria and viruses so we can't get sick anymore?'
Literally heard someone say this in Microbiology class. MICROBIOLOGY CLASS!
Deborah B 4 years ago
When a person is tired of mircrobiology, they are tired of life.
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No, we... we can't... Well, we could, but it would take nuking the entire planet, which would end all illnesses indeed... And also life.
Channon Doughty 4 years ago
Let's not forget that, if we could somehow survive such an extermination, we'd be missing all the beneficial bacteria and microorganisms that help us exist.
Load More Replies... Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Ans start with the guy who first suggested it.
Load More Replies... ChloeClementine 4 years ago (edited)
This is probably sarcasm. I've met too many people are too dense to understand a stupid joke.
Stephanie Keith 4 years ago
Why do we put other's down for asking questions? It doesn't make someone stupid when they are inquiring and wanting to learn and know something. FFS!!!
Shelby Jackson 4 years ago
I think they were just being that funny that you try to be when you're frustrated with your work.
Casey Burns 4 years ago
Technically yes. Ultraviolet light will work. But while eradicating all bacteria and viruses on the surface.... the remainder if any would mutate into something far more terrifying.
#20
That chickens have no brains. Not that they are stupid. That a chicken literally does not have a brain.
Bardhi's Dad 4 years ago
On the other hand, you have people who are stupid, not without brain 😂
Yvonne Blau 4 years ago
Many people only have a brain so that their skulls won't cave in
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Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
How did make the headless chicken survive 18 months without a head? He still had some of his brain.
DarkAngelNic 4 years ago
Like how Trisha Paytas became famous after her rant that she believes dogs do not have a brain.
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Tiffmeister 4 years ago
I once dated a guy who thought stick shift (manual) vehicles didn't have transmissions. He's now a car mechanic.
Erik Granqvist 4 years ago
Chickens are not stupid. Neither are cows, by the way. Have been around plenty of animals - and most of them are smart in their own ways.
Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)
Pigs are very smart and social, too. They are very clean animals and can learn tricks
Load More Replies... Luka Verheijen 4 years ago
I was gonna commemt on this, based on the article thumbnail, but here, it already said "it can't mean that they are stupid"
Robert Carlton 4 years ago
If chicken's didn't have brains, they wouldn't be alive. Woooooooow, big shockeeeeeeer.
Gemstripe the RainWing 4 years ago
My chickens are smart, and can move, so they must have a brain.
Surya Amriza 4 years ago
After some googling check and reads, I see that Chicken do have brain.
#21
“Masks are for pussies” my moms friend three weeks ago who is now in intensive care.
V 2000 4 years ago
SO w***y is blurried but pussies is OK, seriusly BP? SERIUSLY??
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Lunar Bicycle 4 years ago
And so are seat belts and bulletproof vests and helmets and fire extinguishers…
Šimon Špaček 4 years ago
Yeah, just as armour in medieval times. Real men went to war naked! (Sure, very few returned, but they were the real, brave men)
Ben Steinberg 4 years ago
Diaphragms are for pussies. And condoms are for d***s...Any questions?
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Had a doctor who felt like this swore at him to put a damn mask on, and said I abused him- he git covid I told him he came by it honestly( I abused him!)
#22
That you can't walk to the front of a plane because its moving faster than you can walk. This was a teacher
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
If there is a fly in a train, will it be stuck to the back or will it be able to move normally inside of it?
Robert T 4 years ago
Well as the air in the train is moving along with the train, not a problem. However when the train is accelerating, everything is pushed backwards. Not an issue with the speed of trains at the moment, but could get interesting on the hyperloop.
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Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki 4 years ago
Wait till he/she find out that earth is rotating and orbiting a star at high speed.
Llama_flower93 4 years ago
Pilot *Looks back at all the passengers pinned to the back of the plane*
Moonscorpion 4 years ago
That you can't walk to the front of a plane because its moving faster than you can walk. This was a teacher lol why was she hired
#23
Is the forth of July on the 14th or 15th?
My ex boyfriend asked me that. He has no excuse, he's from California.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Hehe, this reminds me of the kids from little rascals asking "what is the number for 911".
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité ! (Greetings from the country that celebrates the 3rd October ^^ )
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Sean Harrison 4 years ago
I once had to explain to a coworker why we celebrate the 4th of July. She was born and raised in the USA (Mississippi) and didn't know that the USA and England had been at war with each other twice and that we used to be an English colony. After I explained it to her, she went and asked a few other coworkers about it since she thought I was lying. She was the HR Manager, college educated as well.
Sean Harrison 4 years ago
I forgot to add, her response to me was "I thought it was just a celebration of being an American, with fireworks". Well, she was sort of right.
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#24
watching star wars in high school with some girl says, " when did this happen?" I said it was made in the 70s , confused on what she meant. she said " no, the space war, when did we have a space war?" me n my buddy almost died
Sharon Dean 4 years ago
But not that far, it's still in George Lucas studio in Marin, Ca!!!!
Load More Replies... Jon Steensen 4 years ago
How can you be so stupid? It is clearly stated in the intro that it happened long time ago in galaxy far far away.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Intelligence is not a prerequisite for reproduction.
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Robert Carlton 4 years ago
What's next, you're watching Halloween and then she's just like "Wha, when did a serial killer kill people in Haddonfield?"?
#25
Oh I have one! I told my friend that I thought she may be an alcoholic and she should get some help. So she goes to a counselor. She was so proud to come and tell me that she wasn't an alcoholic, she had a substantial abuse disorder. The substance? Alcohol
Charlotte A. 4 years ago
My mom once overheard her neighbour saying to a friend "They say you're an alcoholic if you drink one bottle of wine a day. Which is ridiculous as that would make me an alcoholic!" (Spoiler: She was.)
Jon Steensen 4 years ago
The definition of alcoholism it that your intake of alcohol is high enough to cause problems for you or anyone around you. Some people can function on a bottle a day, while others cannot have a single drop of alcohol without it causing trouble. There is room in that definition for a lot of variation. A large alcohol consumption does not nessesarely equal alcoholism, though it is often the case.
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
In her mind, an alcoholic is a bad person but a person with a substantial abuse disorder is a disease that can be treated. A rose by any other name would smell so sweet. If the name gets her to get help, I'm all for it.
Isabella K 4 years ago
Reminds me of the doctor who wrote "C2H5OH-Addiction" so the patient would accept their disorder
Tomasz Stasinski 4 years ago
SAD is a valid acronym for Substance Abuse Disorder, but usually refers to Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Load More Replies... Billy Gonkenstein 4 years ago
There's a T Shirt out there with this written on it: I'm not an alcoholic. I'm a drunk. Alcoholics go to meetings.
SerumSeven 4 years ago
The key to alcoholism is knowing that you're an alcoholic, but not caring. You can then say that you're self-actualized.
#26
Friend shared that he thought women were like chickens, one day a month we would sit on a toilet all day and lay an egg
Charlotte A. 4 years ago
"Hi Boss, it's me. I can't come to work today - it's my egg laying day and I have to stay in the bathroom. Yeah OK, see ya tomorrow!"
DarkAngelNic 4 years ago
This is why we need better biology and health education!!! I dated a guy who thought girls peed out their vaginas!
Dutch Hawkins 4 years ago
And that's how you know someone is single without them telling you they're single
Marco Conti 4 years ago
Some time ago I read a poll about how many people (especially in certain parts of the US) truly believe they have one less rib in their ribcage than women. Because Genesis or something (not the Phil Collins one)
#27
“Masks are dangerous because we shouldn’t be breathing in our own carbon monoxide.”
Tim Pillinger 4 years ago
If you're worried about brain damage from wearing a mask, don't. That ship sailed.
Chyppa Homer 4 years ago
If you're exhaling carbon monoxide, you got far greater problems than a mere virus. :D Like turning into an f***ng dragon :D
Truth Monster 4 years ago
its the Dihydrogen Monoxide ya gotta watch out for. Its everywhere and if you breathe too much, you'll die.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
I always knew there was more to you than met the eye.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Carbon monoxide... Oh. My. G.... I'll just be hiding from humanity now,t hanks
#28
In 8th grade this girl, dead serious, asked, “how did people breathe before there was electricity?”
Randolph Croft 4 years ago
"There's always been electricity. It's just that recently we've been able to store it in wires."
DraconicLightning 4 years ago
Well we breath by expanding and contracting our diaphragm through tiny electric pulses, so you could argue that breathing is dependent on electricity. But then her argument that humans lived before there was electricity is wrong
Vorknkx 4 years ago
More importantly, though, how did we eat meals before there was Instagram? :P
#29
"China is it's own continent because the people who live there are called 'Chinese'." "... Uh... and we are Oklahomans. Did I miss the memo where we became a continent?"
Luka Verheijen 4 years ago
Some americans think like america is the entire world and the states are countries. That doesn't excuse this though.
Sean Murphy Garabedian 4 years ago
As an American I can safely say I’ve never heard of that before, but you’re right, we’re pretty stupid. America has made itself the center of attention for 70 years, so we’ve basically forgotten the rest of the world exists.
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Roger Haywood 4 years ago
And Americans and Australians are from England because they speak English.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Bordelese... Marseillese... Parisian... Versaillese... My country is full of continents!
Load More Replies... Anyone-for-tea? 4 years ago
I used to think when I was about 5 or 6 that if anything terrible happened to the world, such as it ending, we could escape to China! As it seemed far enough away to escape harm.
Nicholas Kraemer 4 years ago (edited)
This is no stupider than people in western Asia thinking that "Europe" is a continent. Edit: if you don't see how a person, seeing that Europe is considered a continent, could make the same rational decision that China could also be a continent, you're the stupid ones. You can down vote all you want, but it only proves you have a mundane, non curious mind and are incapable of original thought.
Cosmologist wannabe 2 years ago
yes. cuz it is. And we DO have a curious mind, how else would I know that stars are made of hydrogen and helium gas? hmm?
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Yall really gonna make me remember the time my coworker thought willy Wonka was a real person and wondered how much money he was making on Nerds and Gobstoppers
N G 4 years ago
W***y Wonka is legally a separate entity from the W***y Wonka brand that actually does the manufacturing and selling. 🤪
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
Hershey, Mars, and Cadbury were all real people. Why not W***y? Oompa Loompas were based on real chocolate workers. Joseph Fry Jr, inventor of the candy bar, used child labor in his factories when he invented it and children are still the primary labor to pick cocoa plants.
*me* 4 years ago
When I was little I was convinced Robin Hood was real and I wouldn’t believe he wasnt
Andi Sugiarta 4 years ago
But Robin Hood is real, right? Right? Uh..... right......?
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Alan Turin 4 years ago
I hate the way you can't type "W***y Wonka" and have to put "W***y Wonka" instead.
#31
That 2% milk and 2% milk made 4% milk. Proceed to try and prove his point by saying "if (half black friend) and I (half black) had a baby, the baby would be full black". This guy also asked me if the Queen was the president of Canada, soo...
im.bored.person 4 years ago
The queen is not the president of canada. I hear this all the time from Americans
LivingTheDream 4 years ago
What Americans exactly? Nobody I know thinks this.
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Marilyn Holt 4 years ago
.That's President Elizabeth to you. We've been electing her for more than 60 years.
Unwelcomed Guest 4 years ago
The Queen has no power in the UK however in Commonwealth countries she can dismiss a government if she believes it is in the best interest of her subjects (this was done in Australia in the 70’s)
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Linsey Hayes 4 years ago
I had a friend ask me if "Pocahontas was a real person?" She grew up in Virginia....
Crochet lady 4 years ago
We were visiting my brother who is like a jeopardy level smart. He had made the cut to be on the show. We were visiting when his daughter was a toddler and to save money on milk he was buying whole milk and pouring half of it out and adding water thinking that made 2% milk. The look on his face when my husband explained it to him was rather embarrassing, he had no idea he was diluting the nutrients.
Pamela Blue 4 years ago
Actually, she has a lot more power than people think. She just chooses not to use it.
Load More Replies... Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
And the non-black parts of the parents would just disappear... But the queen is what Canada has closer to a president, so... Unlike Europeans, Americans are not really aware of all that aristocracy stuff.
Helena Houzarová 4 years ago
You get half of your mother's genes and half of your father's genes, so in theory, their child could get all race-distinctive* genes only in black. Then the next child gets the equally improbable mixture of the non-black genes only. It's just that most of the combinations would be somewhere in between. * there has to be loads of DNA sequences that are just human, still
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"if Japanese people suffer so much from tsunamis, why don't they hide behind the Great Wall of China?"
8th grade geography class
Ivy la Sangrienta 4 years ago
Even if the great wall of China was somehow in Japan, those waves are still taller than the wall.
Robert T 4 years ago
You mean if it also wasn't high up in the mountains as well.
Load More Replies... Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
This is the right place to ask the question. The kid is in geography class to learn that Japan and China are two different places. We don't know something until we learn it. I know a lot of adult Americans who think Mexico is everything south of Texas going all the way down to Antarctica because they never took geography and learned there's different countries.
Sherbaan Naab 4 years ago
It's 8th grade. You are allowed to ask stupid questions in the 8th grade.
Meghan Wood 4 years ago
I once asked a guy from Singapore how he learned to speak English so well…. It turns out that the main language of instruction in Singapore IS English. Not quite as obvious as people from England speaking English, though.
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
Well, Singapore was a British colony until 1963. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Singapore
Load More Replies... Šimon Špaček 4 years ago
If they don't like tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanos, they may come here, in Czech republic. Geologicaly speaking we are one of the most boring places ever. Weather speaking too, the craziest you may see here is ten minutes long hail storm.
Yeah, you heard 4 years ago
Not really fair to quote dumb quotes from kids. They're just kids.
#33
The moon is much better than the sun because it's up at night illuminating while the sun is up during the day when it's allready bright.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Bet they were shocked to find out the moon is illuminated by the sun.
SykesDaMan 4 years ago
I remember this joke told to me when I was a kid... Or I read it somewhere.
Octavia Hansen 4 years ago
So werewolves are actually seeing 2nd hand sunlight. There is no moon light. There is no dark side of the moon, it's all dark. It just reflects . . .
BetterBitterButter 4 years ago
The sun hates you at night and gives light in some other parts of the world while you manage with the little moon.
#34
A Canadian asking me, an Englishman, where I learnt to speak English.
Vasana Phong 4 years ago (edited)
Once had a coworker tell our supervisor “ wow your English is so good for someone being in the states for only a year “
earringnut 4 years ago
As an American I can sadly say that your supervisor may have had a point.
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Pamela Blue 4 years ago
Americans don't have a monopoly on being dumb. But they do hold the majority shares. LOL!
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Tony Rozensky 4 years ago
We were unpacking a box from England when a dim co-worker pulled out the newspaper that the items were packed in and said we should have Joanie, a co-worker from England, translate it for us.
#35
I dont believe in evolution cause if we did evolve then why aren't we still evolving?
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
There's a theory that one way we're noticeably evolving is that it's becoming more common for someone to be born without a full set of wisdom teeth, or no wisdom teeth at all. We're evolving to have fewer teeth because our jaws have gotten smaller to make room for more brain (plus we now live off softer foods).
Troux 4 years ago
We're evolving to have bigger brains, and in the meantime we get threads like this.
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Robert T 4 years ago
As intelligence is no longer the advantage it once was, we are evolving to be more and more stupid.
David Fox 4 years ago
What's stupid about this one I've asked and heard people ask this question a million times surly you can't just turn evolution off
Maria 4 years ago
Evolution happens so slowly you can't see it. It happens over generations. Perhaps a creature that lives, breeds and dies very fast might have noticable changes over a few decades, but you'd have to watch humans over hundreds of generations to spot those tiny changes.
Load More Replies... Bartek Wojciechowski 4 years ago
We do not evolve, because evolution means that less fit individuals die and do not procreate. There are virtually no instances where today's people with certain trait die before they have children.
Me 4 years ago
Evolution could mean we evolve to be less fit. With help of modern medicine, more couples have children, fewer women and their babies die during childbirth and children are surviving more childhood diseases. We may be evolving to a reliance on medical treatments.
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#36
"If you could adopt a child from a third world country, which country would you choose and why?" "I would choose Alaska, because it's really cold there." -A member of the prom court being asked a random question on our school's live news show that was being broadcasted out to every homeroom.
Rebekah 4 years ago
I am reminded of: “Describe your perfect date.” “I’d have to say April 25th, because it’s not too hot and not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.”
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
School's live news show? Prom court? It must be a very expensive school...
JennyLaRue 4 years ago
That's a truly awful question, and shows such little respect towards developing countries.
If I could I would live under water 4 years ago
She was partially right though, Alaska is really cold...
Adi Bramasto 4 years ago (edited)
The term third world refers to the countries which did not join the western (first world) neither the eastern Bloc (the second world). People need to stop using the term incorrectly. Especially since it's almost always used in a condescending way like this. Like why wouldn't you say to adopt kids who don't have decent living conditions? They exist in many countries within and outside of this cold war political categories, even in the States.
littlesaresare 4 years ago
To be fair, the US may as well be considered a third world country sometimes.
JennyLaRue 4 years ago
I saw it described as a third world country in a gucci belt, and I've never heard a more apt analogy
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After watching a movie in 3D they said “that was amazing, I wish real life was in 3D too”
Sawdust 4 years ago
She was thinking how much easier her astrophysics calculations would be if there were only 3 dimensions to consider.
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Powercat 4 years ago (edited)
Not everyone sees in 3D. An optometrist can test you for that. I have 3/10 3D vision and I can’t drive because of that. I have two eyes but I don’t perceive depth.
Vicky Zar 4 years ago
My eyesight on the right is about 50% of what my left eye sees. I am very good at those 3D puzzles and such but the only thing I get out of Cinema 3D is a headache
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memyselfandI 4 years ago
Actually, there’s an eye condition where the person physically can’t see in 3D. My dad has it, he doesn’t have any depth perception. It’s … possible? that whoever this is has that? Although I think that would also mean that they couldn’t see the movie in 3D either…
David Haughton 4 years ago
Sorta makes sense. I've only seen a couple of 3d films but they were way more exciting than IRL. Less dangerous too.
#38
We were in class and this girl was so confused at how a flight from America to Russia could be quick, because the world map shows America being at the far left and Russia on the right. The teacher said, 'Look at the map.' She replies, 'Yeah, they're so far away.' A moment of silence. Teacher: 'The world is round; it isn't flat like a map.'
J. F. 4 years ago
Fun fact: US and Russian territories are only 4 kilometers away from each other at the Bering Strait
RGNix 4 years ago
Was this class in Alaska? Because most of the populated parts of Russia are pretty far from the contiguous US.
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
That would be even worse. Alaskan students (if not all American students) should know that the US bought Alaska FROM Russia back in 1867 and they are only 4 kilometres apart in the Bering Sea. https://www.grunge.com/165445/the-real-reason-russia-sold-alaska-to-the-united-states/
Load More Replies... Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Once, in fourth grade, the teacher asked one of my classmates how many diameters a circle has... He started counting and drawing them...
Klas Klättermus 4 years ago
Another angle that is easy to forget is that you could go north from Russia and end up in Canada and they are fairly close to eachother
V Martinez 4 years ago
I get that some ppl think the earth is flat, and for maybe a few diff reasons. Other than their parents, or whatever, i sometimes wonder how this craziness started. Could it be because of the maps? Legit question, I'm curious. This post about the map made me wonder.
Paul Aguilera 4 years ago
although, i have often wondered who decided the american continent be on the left and the asian on the right. why cant asia be on the left on the maps since the world is round? japan could have easily been called the land of the setting sun, or just keep the name rising sun since it works no matter where they are on the map lol
Brenda Burkemper 4 years ago
I would imagine it's because America was one of the last "discovered" lands, and it was discovered by sailing west of Europe, so the already existing maps were updated by adding America to the west of Europe. Maybe?
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Mate of mine told me Reindeer weren’t real animals. They were mythical creatures... We live in Australia, but still.
Truth Monster 4 years ago
Next you're going to tell me unicorns don't exist. just because they're fatter than in their illustrations, don't make them any less of a unicorn.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Well, when people tell you that these animals can fly and pull a sleigh full of presents around the world in just one night... You can have a few doubts.
If I could I would live under water 4 years ago
Actually it's Australia that is full of mystical creatures lol
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I thought this when I was younger too. I thought they were all just called deer's and reindeers were santas special deer's.
Marco Conti 4 years ago
You should have told him that Reindeers were the larval stage of Drop Bears...
𝖊𝖆 4 years ago
Not going to lie, I thought this too until my mid twenties. Never believed in Santa, and only ever heard about reindeers at Xmas time, or saw cartoons of them on Xmas cards and tv etc. Plus the story is they fly. So I just assumed they were mythical like Santa’s Elves. Was so happy to learn they are real 😂
#40
"masks don't work that's why they told us not to wear them at first. they want us to wear them now because they realized the lack of oxygen will make us dumb and we'll listen to wherever they say."
Mazer 4 years ago
Actually it does. Pure oxygen can help the brain function better.
Load More Replies... Jon Steensen 4 years ago
Yes and that is why surgeons have worn them during operations for years, because you want the person doing the cutting in your body to be as stupid as possible.
Lorrie Rothstein 4 years ago
I don't understand this lack of oxygen nonsense. Medical workers have to wear masks. They don't have lack of oxygen
Jon Steensen 4 years ago
Someone needs a "plausable" excuse not to wear them, in order to avoid the statement "I am an A$$hole who cannot be inconviened the slightest in order to protect myself and the people around me". That also explaines why some people say it is a made up disease and the other nonsense you hear these days. For some people not facing the truth and living in blissful ignorance is much easier. They only seem to get the point when they are in intesive care -and even there you can find people not understanding what is currently killing them, because they have fallen to deeply into the rabbit hole. Sad but true.
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California Jones 4 years ago
And all the people yelling about not being sheep are just retweeting the Alt. Right.
Honu 4 years ago
The rest of the stupidity aside, the whole "they told us not to wear them at first" thing drives me nuts. The original CDC guidance was to only wear them if you were sick or caring for someone who was sick as they didn't know yet whether homemade cloth masks were effective, hence could not yet recommend them, and they didn't want people buying up all the scarce PPE needed by healthcare workers. At no point did the CDC say that masks don't work. The fact that they advised their use for people with Covid or caring for people with Covid is clearly a statement that masks do work.
David 4 years ago
Except Fauci's emails said everything you just blew off.
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Murder hornet 4 years ago
If I were there 😂 Me: we’re you wearing a mask when I thought of that? Them: Uhh… I don’t think so… Me: oh, so your just naturally stupid then. Makes sense
#41
When I pointed out to a coworker that a person who actually was modest wouldn't brag about how modest they are: "How would people know that I'm modest if I don't tell them?"
Al Christensen 4 years ago
This is like the old saying, "It's not bragging if you can back it up." No, it's still bragging.
Anne Mitchell 4 years ago
If that was true then surgeons wouldn't be able to tie their shoe laces let alone delicate sutures in microsurgery
#42
A colleague who saw me eating some tomatoes for lunch and made the comment “isn’t all that sugar in the tomatoes bad for you?” as she ate her McDonald’s....
David Haughton 4 years ago
Saw a programme about this, a guy ate only processed foods for a month, did an MRI scan at the beginning and the end and the processed foods literally changed his brain.
#43
I’m a veterinarian. I once had the owner of a pregnant three legged dog ask if the puppies would be born with three legs or four.
Toxxa 4 years ago
im just gonna say, i kinda get where this is coming from IF the dog was born with 3 legs
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
I was born with eleven toes, and when my sister was pregnant I was only half-joking when I said she should check the kid's feet! (My parents got me all the way home from the hospital before they noticed).
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N G 4 years ago
Not necessarily a dumb question. If the mama dog was born with three legs, genetically, her pups stand a chance of the same. Not saying likely, but not impossible and therefore not automatically dumb. Of course, if this is the vet who did the original amputation, then they've wandered fully into dumb territory.
Sandy Dyer 4 years ago
Well, if the dog was missing a leg due to a genetic issue it could becpassed to the puppies
Crochet lady 4 years ago
When I was young our dog had 13 puppies. One of the pups was born with 3 legs, one front leg was missing. She was quite different looking than the other puppies too, she looked like a little lamb. She was clearly the runt and we didn't think she would thrive but she did and ended up being so much faster than the other 12. We had had 2 acres of land and they would chase each other all day, she ALWAYS outran the other pups. She was awesome.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
This is Lamarkism - the inheritance of acquired traits. For most of humanities history, it was the prevalent theory. If I put a corset on, my daughters will be born with thinner waist. It wasn't until the 1930s when genetics started to be really understood that it was disproved. Heck, the Soviets taught it was the correct evolutionary theory into the 60s.
#44
"If you're an atheist, that means you're not allowed to use the Roman calendar because it was invented by Christians."
Ross Warren 4 years ago
I guess that means Christians aren't allowed to use the days of the week because they are named after pagan gods.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
If you are not belgian, you are not allowed to live in this universe because the Big Bang theory was created by a belgian priest.
Kira Okah 4 years ago
Named after and commissioned by the Papal Bull of Pope Gregory XIII.
Load More Replies... Seán Baron 4 years ago
Or January, February, March, September, October, November and December.
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Anita Pickle 4 years ago (edited)
I remember when my child was five years old and was so confused that there are various calendars in various cultures. "Time is time Mom! It can't change!" He thought I was making it up. Then he did some research and learned that the interpretation/documentation of time can be different. His whole world got so much bigger. Now he is a scientist.
#45
Why don't vegans eat fish? They aren't animals.
Suzy the observer 4 years ago
Fellow vegan here. Oh, the stories we could tell...
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Whenever I hear "there is no meat, but there is fish" I cringe slightly.
Spring Fisk 4 years ago
I have always wondered why people say fish is not meat. To me it is muscle tissue of an animal so it has to be meat. Some people consider meat as everything except fish.
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Carol Emory 4 years ago
reminds me of the quote from Midsomer Murders: Talent for Life. "Fish may not be the cleverest of God's creatures, but to class them as vegetables is a little unkind."
María Hermida 4 years ago
Many bars and coffee shops in Spain have vegetarian sandwiches with ham and/or tuna. Once my father asked a waiter why they put ham in a vegetarian sandwich and the waiter looked at him mystified and said: "ham is not meat. It's just ham". No comments.
TheartfulDutchGinger 4 years ago
I'm allergic to pork. When I say that, some people respond with '' oh so you're a Muslim then? ''
colin dinsdale 4 years ago
Fish are also animals! That's what all creatures on this planet are
Temma Tainow 4 years ago
and if the fish and chicken questions don't satisfy then come the questions about the materials our clothing are made of: Wool, leather or down. No no no.
#46
Why is there a deer Xing sign it’s too dangerous for deer to cross the road
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
When I was a kid I asked how do kangaroos know to cross at the kangaroo sign.
Valisbourne Spiritforge 4 years ago
I've heard on the radio (and I hope it was a joke) "Why do they put the deer crossing signs HERE? They should put them where there isn't much traffic so the deer can cross safely". Literally on the radio, lady was so concerned.
julie son 4 years ago
Not a joke: Donna really argued that the signs encourage deer to cross the interstate!
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Allison Baker 4 years ago
To be fair I once asked my mother why they still needed a deer crossing sign on the M4 motorway decades after it had been built. I thought that surely the deer would’ve learned that the motorway was there by then and would avoid crossing it. She pointed out that it was probably because no deer had been able to go back and tell the other deer ……….
YoyoSthlm 4 years ago
I first read that as Xing (like a Chinese word), then I realized what it meant. Yes, I'm apparently stupid as well but to my defense English is not my first language. :)
Adi Bramasto 4 years ago
I still don't understand why would they do that though. Like saving 4 characters?
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#47
“How do they know which moon to put out?”
Sawdust 4 years ago
Jupiter always going overboard with the lawn decorations.
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Luka Verheijen 4 years ago
As conspiracy nuts say, the moon is a hologram. So you can make more and put them out.
#48
Just because math is in a book, doesn't make it true... she was a college student.
Truth Monster 4 years ago
She's not all wrong. Math textbooks have been wrong. Being in a book doesn't make it infallible.
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago (edited)
I’m guessing that Mr. Mikkola wasn’t referring to typos/printing errors but that mathematics itself (a) doesn’t exist or (b) doesn’t actually work.
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Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
Well- she’s not really wrong. Textbooks have been wrong many times.
Channon Doughty 4 years ago
How? HOW? H O W did she get into college?!?! Do we need to report her parents to the College Admissions bribery unit?
Julia Sanahuja 4 years ago
I mean she may be right, we don't know if maths was invented by humans and it's just in our brains or if numbers exist in another form not just created by us.
#49
That Japan was the capital of Australia.
MAnahP 4 years ago
As a small child I thought the Wizard of Oz was whoever is the current Prime Minister of Australia. I grew up in New Zealand.
Vorknkx 4 years ago
A lot of people think Syndey is the capital of Australia (and Rio - the capital of Brazil).
SoozeeQ 4 years ago (edited)
Yep. A Japanese submarine made it all the way into Sydney Harbour. My grandmother and father and aunt had to evacuate because of it.
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#50
My mom said her new mac was a waste of money because it didn’t have internet explorer so “how is she supposed to do anything?”
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
That's just someone who's never had a mac, only a pc im thinking? In any case argh internet explorer is evil
V 2000 4 years ago (edited)
how dare you, i am one of many that is grateful for being able to use internet explorer's help when downloading chrome
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Klas Klättermus 4 years ago (edited)
Well, she is not wrong. A mac is hardly suitable to do "anything" or "everything"
Evie Grove 4 years ago
When I was 8 years old I asked “what month is April fools day? May?” I was dumb.
Fxnglhl 4 years ago
but as long as you figure it out in the end you're fine.
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Mysterious Panda 4 years ago
But Mac is horrible for gaming on and you can't get any good games on Steam for Mac.
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Wait how could they castrate a 8 year old? He wouldn't have his balls yet! - My friend, a 18 year old male who vastly misunderstood what people meant when they say "your balls dropped". No, I don't know how he never noticed that he had balls before puberty.
Soggy Crumpet 4 years ago
Testicles not dropping actually happens and maybe that’s what happened to him?
Memere 4 years ago (edited)
They were probably discussing the very old practice of castrating young choir boys so their voices wouldn't change & they could sing the soprano parts. The "Castrati" came about because the Catholic church banned women from singing in church or on stage. Google "castrati" or "castrato".
Load More Replies... Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Maybe he thought it was just the sack and it was empty until the balls just... like... grow ?
#52
Was Benjamin Button based on a true story?
Friday 4 years ago (edited)
Fair question because rare genetic ageing diseases like Progeria do exist.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
It was based off the disease progeria. It's a disease in which children age rapidly and look like old people before their teens. Most don't live past the age of 13. The author took the idea and carried it further to be a rare reversal where a child that looks old gets younger as they age.
John Baker 4 years ago
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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#53
Inlaw father is looking at the sky, pondering how NASA puts all that stuff up there without hitting the stars. He was a teenager during the space race. You'd figure it would have come up in school. We just shrugged and acted like we didn't know.
#54
Buddy of mine was very drunk one night and asked me "where does the moon go during the daytime?"
Lunar Bicycle 4 years ago (edited)
I’ve met a couple of people who had no idea that the moon was ever out in the day time…which it is exactly fifty percent of the time. And right there in the sky.
Šimon Špaček 4 years ago
He was drunk. Brain doesn't work when drunk and sometimes it just sends random farts to mouth.
H Edwards 4 years ago
I don't think this is a particularly stupid question. I still don't really understand why we sometimes see the moon during the day (yes I know I could look it up)
Dynein 4 years ago
The earth takes one day to spin around its axis, the moon takes a bit over 27 days to circle around earth, the earth takes a bit over 345 days to circle the sun. These movements aren't synchronized. That's the only "explanation" you need; the day/night cycle has no influence on the position of the moon. The only influence the position of the sun has on the moon is which part of it is illuminated. The illuminated part of the moon is always pointing towards the sun. Full moon is e.g. when the moon is on the opposite side of the earth as the sun, so you'll never see a full moon at noon.
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A few years ago I got a job offer in Japan and decided to take it. Some friends from my then office threw me a farewell party. The girlfriend of one of my co-workers came along and told me that she’d always wanted to go to Japan and that her number one thing to do there would be to take a camel ride. My co-worker and I just looked at her to see if she’d explain more— maybe there was a camel cafe she’d heard about or something. But no, she just honestly thought camels were a common mode of transportation in Japan.
Marianne 4 years ago
It tells a lot about Japan, that the idea of a camel café seems to be legit.
Marissa Taylor 4 years ago
yeahhhh i'd say no but they have a work office with a petting zoo on the top floor. soo japan can do whatever it dang well feels like it
Load More Replies... lily 4 years ago
I mean... they do camel rides at the Tottori Sand Dunes in Japan. Maybe she saw that in a documentary or something?
Sawdust 4 years ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=Tottori+Sand+Dunes+camels&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiS142e9ZnxAhXWSjABHWs_BX8Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1707&bih=807&dpr=1.5
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Robertson Shinnick 4 years ago
My father took a position in Israel and a girl I worked with asked if he was going to live in a teepee.
#57
"Was ww2 the cold one or the Asian one"
Šimon Špaček 4 years ago
Well, WWII was also in Asia and slowly transformed into the cold war, but I still don't know what the person asked.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
Possibly refering to the Russian Front and the Pacific Front...so, both.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
This is important to remember! Too many students of history are unaware of the African and Asian operational theaters in WWI, or that Brazil was a direct combatant.
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#58
“I thought Europe was a country?”
JennyLaRue 4 years ago
There's way too many people who talk about Europe as though it is a country
Ozacoter 4 years ago
I wish. I would love for the EU to become more united. Sort of a United states of europe
JennyLaRue 4 years ago
nah, we're good, we don't want to be like the states
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I was actually the dumb person, sadly. I was at a friend’s house and couldn’t remember if I left the hair straightener or oven on at home and I asked my friend, “what if there’s a fire, the door’s locked so my cats won’t be able to get out!!” Yeah. I believed for at least 30 seconds that cats could open doors.
madeleine f 4 years ago
Not so stupid as someone else could get in faster and save your kitties.
Lydia Dean-Melchior 4 years ago
I have to lock my doors otherwise my male cat will open the doors.
#60
"Mexico is the capital of China"- Some person In a crowd
Julian Kotopoulis 4 years ago
Ah this is a common mistake. China is actually the capitol of Mexico
Rainy Day Wolf 4 years ago
there's a street called China in Mexico though (this is not a joke)
#61
You have vertigo? Isn’t vertigo that place where the planes get lost?
Rando Pando 4 years ago
Agh! I guess I’m an idiot too. I thought vertigo was vitiligo for a sec. 🤦🏼♀️
Seán Baron 4 years ago
And for those who think that vertigo is a fear of heights, no. That is acrophobia.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
At least there is a tenuous connection between the two phenomenon. This person might be teachable.
#62
"There are 3 types of asians: Chinese, Japanese and Asians."
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
At least it’s progressing, back in my day it was only Chinese and Japanese
ChinmayGhule 4 years ago
But I'm hearing it now. I don't know what to say.
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 4 years ago
It's like the idiot I met that was filling out a self Identification survey. He was upset because they had White, Black, Asian...etc. He was frustrated because they didn't have American on there. He was white (non-Hispanic or Latino.)
#63
A highschool student asked if Obama was president of the world. BTW the person that asked that question was debatably one of the dumbest students in my school.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
For their defense, the entire American culture has always maintained this confusion.
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
I’m sure there’s a section in the yearbook of his dumbest quotes/ questions/ answers
#64
You shut your mouth when you're talking to me.
ChinmayGhule 4 years ago
Everything you say to me Takes me one step closer to the edge And I'm about to break I need a little room to breathe 'Cause I'm one step closer to the edge And I'm about to, break Shut up when I'm talking to you Shut up, shut up, shut up Shut up when I'm talking to you Shut up, shut up, shut up Shut up, I'm about to break!
A B C 4 years ago (edited)
Hybrid Theory. One hell of an album, and integral part of my youth
Load More Replies... Agata Konador 4 years ago
Oh well, this is just an expression you say if you want someone to shut up...
Jon Steensen 4 years ago
Some people can do it. It is an important lesson to learn for ventriloquists.
#65
That you can get pregnant by a demon and god controls Facebooks servers which will be shut down IMMEDIATELY.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Whoever first claimed you could become pregnant by a demon had some explaining to do, that they clearly did not want to do.
#66
"if white people are white, and black people are black, does that mean Asians are grey?" I still don't know the answer.
Truth Monster 4 years ago
The complete racist answer is they are yellow. Its weird how black and white are hardly offensive, but yellow is highly taboo. I have no point to this comment, just...commenting how the subtext is different.
ChinmayGhule 4 years ago
Because calling Asians yellow is just dumb. Some have darker, near black skin, some have bronze colored one, while some are very fair. A yellow skinned person might look like an ill patient. Anyways, Asia never had this 'yellow skin' problem. There was discrimination based on skin color, but it was always fair skin vs dark skin, similar to white vs black in the West. So you can understand how Asians would feel if someone would suddenly start calling them yellow.
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Blue Fire is cold
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago (edited)
Hahaha! Haha! Ha... Nope. The colder the colour, the hotter the object.
cookie panda 4 years ago
"see? its gonna be fine. watch me tou- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
Load More Replies... Bruce Ferrier 2 years ago
You see, it gets so cold that it goes all the way around the dial on the thermostat that it actually gets hot
Truth Monster 4 years ago
2 questions. (1) is Blue Fire a beverage? and (2) is it in a cooling apparatus?
#68
Dinosaurs were around at the same time as the pyramids
Truth Monster 4 years ago
Dinosaurs escaped off the alien ships when they were building the pyramids. Everyone knows that -scoff-
Bruce Ferrier 2 years ago
To be fair, birds are dinosaurs and they were around at the same time as pyramids and are even around today
Carol Emory 4 years ago
That's why they built the pyramids...so the Pharaoh could be high enough to get on his T-rex when it was time to head into battle. (lmao)
#69
She thought our hair grew from the ends, not the scalp.
Ivy la Sangrienta 4 years ago
That would be awesome. I wouldn't have to touch up my roots anymore! Dying the ends would be so much easier.
Anne 4 years ago
a lot of people think this.. also by cutting it, it will grow faster? Like.. how.. you cut off the ends.. ? why would that make your hair grow faster?
Dynein 4 years ago
That's easily explainable, though. Cutting removes split ends, so (for some time, at least) the people who usually have a problem with the tips of their hair breaking off experience a "faster" growth rate... as in, the usual growth rate except now the hair doesn't randomly lose bits off the ends.
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#70
My wife once told me: "Cold water will boil faster than hot water."
I I 4 years ago (edited)
i still cant figure out how i knew this at 9 , getting warm water to make an ice slope in winter and my mum telling me off for using all the hot water in the tank
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Tarcandor 4 years ago (edited)
Well, technically it could in rare instances (covered cold water might boil faster than uncovered warm water, if the difference in temperature is small enough).... but she was probably confused by something called "the Mpemba effect", where warm water often freezes faster than cold water.
Bruce Ferrier 2 years ago
Reminds me of the time someone said to boil water and freeze it for later XD
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
This is an observational error thing. Between 0 and 100 C (32-212F), the amount to heat water 1 degree stays the same. However, at 100/212 there's a thing called the latent heat of vaporization that requires a bunch of energy to allow the phase change to boil. While that energy is being added, the temperature isn't changing. So if you start with cold water and heat it, the change of temperature appears to go faster because its still going up when the hot water has already reached that vaporization point and stays at the same temperature for awhile.
Truth Monster 4 years ago
if its being heated to a sufficient degree, it will. If you put a pot of hot water on to hold constant temp and you turn on the stove full blast on cold, the cold water is going to boil faster.
Peter Hughes 4 years ago
So if you boil cold water and don't boil hot water, cold water will boil faster? :D
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“Are you pregnant?” I was a skinny girl in fifth grade when a guy asked me this out of nowhere
What do you think ?
Jeff Johnson 4 years ago
In high school a fellow junior asked in Geography, "When they made the Panama Canal, weren't they worried South America would just float away?"
Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago
Because that happens in all the Bugs Bunny real life documentaries!
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
My life is in science. Medical science. And these are my faves: "Why do pregnant women get so fat?" (Carrying around 15 pounds of amniotic fluid and fetus apparently is "fat".) "Masks make us breathe in more germs." (....*facepalm*...) and last week, this charmer at the vax clinic: "Vaccines aren't real science". (Yes, but her essential oils were, toatlly, absolutely, 100% "science"...?!)
Emma Crompton 4 years ago
Why on earth did i read medical science as medieval science??? Thats the dumbest thing I've done today!
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I first heard that when I was 18, and burst out laughing in the guy's face. Rude, yes, but I seriously thought it was a joke!
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Shell O 4 years ago
Two things stick in my mind. 1. A student at a college I taught at told me there was no way he got a girl pregnant last night because she checked straight after by looking between her legs. 2. I was once telling a fellow teacher that there was a new kids cartoon out called 'dinosaur train' and that it's quite good because they discuss the different dinosaurs at the end of each episode so it's quite educational. She looked at me like I was an idiot and said 'how can it be educational when dinosaurs don't exist, they are the same as fairies and dragons'!!!! On reflection...... 3. I need a new job.
John Topper 4 years ago
At some point in a conversation I told my ex "alright, you got me. I shot JFK." She looked at me with a blank expression and said "who's that?". What's worse is that wasn't even the dumbest part. A few seconds later she asked "oh wait, is he the guy with the chicken?" ...... She mixed up JFK and KFC.
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
So, is that "John Fried Kennedy" or "Kentucky Fitzgerald Chicken"?
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Финикс Дэ Лионь 4 years ago
In my jr year of high school, we had a new student from the U.K.. he was asked to go up to the right-side of the white board and write his answer. He went to the left-side(probably dyslexic) and some cheerleader called him out on it. "Don't you know your left from your right?" I spoke up saying, "hey, he's probably from England and they drive on the opposite side of the road from us. So their right is our left." Said cheerleader believed me, and apologized... so for the remainder of the year, any time she was told left or right, she would ask "British or American?"
ivan bolitekurac 4 years ago
Admit it bp,you wanted to include the word "Americans" in the headline so,so bad.
Peppy Piplup 4 years ago (edited)
I once heard someone get all pissy about the gayness in Ancient Greece because "The Greeks followed Christianity so they would have killed someone for being gay." The Greeks followed Christianity?! Do the names Zeus, Athena, Poseidon and Apollo etcetera not ring any bells for you?!
John Topper 4 years ago
Also I have a family member who purchased a new car. This was back in the early 2000s when Pontiac was especially bad so I asked "why didn't you get a Honda or Toyota?" She looked right at me and said completely seriously "after what they did to us on 9-11? Why would I give them my money?"
Jeff Johnson 4 years ago
In high school a fellow junior asked in Geography, "When they made the Panama Canal, weren't they worried South America would just float away?"
Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago
Because that happens in all the Bugs Bunny real life documentaries!
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
My life is in science. Medical science. And these are my faves: "Why do pregnant women get so fat?" (Carrying around 15 pounds of amniotic fluid and fetus apparently is "fat".) "Masks make us breathe in more germs." (....*facepalm*...) and last week, this charmer at the vax clinic: "Vaccines aren't real science". (Yes, but her essential oils were, toatlly, absolutely, 100% "science"...?!)
Emma Crompton 4 years ago
Why on earth did i read medical science as medieval science??? Thats the dumbest thing I've done today!
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I first heard that when I was 18, and burst out laughing in the guy's face. Rude, yes, but I seriously thought it was a joke!
Load More Replies... Shell O 4 years ago
Two things stick in my mind. 1. A student at a college I taught at told me there was no way he got a girl pregnant last night because she checked straight after by looking between her legs. 2. I was once telling a fellow teacher that there was a new kids cartoon out called 'dinosaur train' and that it's quite good because they discuss the different dinosaurs at the end of each episode so it's quite educational. She looked at me like I was an idiot and said 'how can it be educational when dinosaurs don't exist, they are the same as fairies and dragons'!!!! On reflection...... 3. I need a new job.
John Topper 4 years ago
At some point in a conversation I told my ex "alright, you got me. I shot JFK." She looked at me with a blank expression and said "who's that?". What's worse is that wasn't even the dumbest part. A few seconds later she asked "oh wait, is he the guy with the chicken?" ...... She mixed up JFK and KFC.
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
So, is that "John Fried Kennedy" or "Kentucky Fitzgerald Chicken"?
Load More Replies... Финикс Дэ Лионь 4 years ago
In my jr year of high school, we had a new student from the U.K.. he was asked to go up to the right-side of the white board and write his answer. He went to the left-side(probably dyslexic) and some cheerleader called him out on it. "Don't you know your left from your right?" I spoke up saying, "hey, he's probably from England and they drive on the opposite side of the road from us. So their right is our left." Said cheerleader believed me, and apologized... so for the remainder of the year, any time she was told left or right, she would ask "British or American?"
ivan bolitekurac 4 years ago
Admit it bp,you wanted to include the word "Americans" in the headline so,so bad.
Peppy Piplup 4 years ago (edited)
I once heard someone get all pissy about the gayness in Ancient Greece because "The Greeks followed Christianity so they would have killed someone for being gay." The Greeks followed Christianity?! Do the names Zeus, Athena, Poseidon and Apollo etcetera not ring any bells for you?!
John Topper 4 years ago
Also I have a family member who purchased a new car. This was back in the early 2000s when Pontiac was especially bad so I asked "why didn't you get a Honda or Toyota?" She looked right at me and said completely seriously "after what they did to us on 9-11? Why would I give them my money?"
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