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The great question of our time is not whether AI would eliminate humans, or whether there is some form of life living out there. It's rather why so many of us, despite being well into our adult lives, surrounded by all kinds of info, still have no clue how basic things work.

You don't have to be Einstein to know that windmills turn wind into power and can't just use it up. Well, apparently, not everyone does. Let’s take a look at some funny people who aren't the sharpest knife in the drawer. You know, the ones who walk with their head in the clouds.

Warning: when reading this article, no Panda is protected from a sudden shower of cold sweat upon realizing they thought so too. Any other examples of dumb people who were a few bricks short of a load are very welcome in the comments!

#1

I've posted this story before but this seems like another appropriate thread for this story.

One night during high school, my friend and I got invited to a party. I didn't drive back then so my friend picked me up. All went well on our way to the party. On the way back however, he got pulled over. As we were pulling to the side of the road, I told him that I was gonna pretend to be sleeping (since I was the passenger). Anyway, I hear the cop get out of his cop car, walk towards our car, stops at the window but doesn't say anything. I can feel the brightness of his flashlight but I don't hear him or my friend say anything. After about what seemed like an eternity, I decide to open my eyes to see what's going on. That's when I see my friend, the guy who is driving, is pretending like he is sleeping too.

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Coworker was anti wind mills. When I asked why she said “there are way too many popping up and we’re going to use up all of the wind.”

I was speechless. I’m never speechless.

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My brother and i were in the kitchen one day as teenagers. My brother was filling the sink to wash dishes. When the sink was nearly full he went to turn the tap off but it wouldnt budge so the water kept flowing. I tried turning it too but with no success. This is when the panic set in. The level of the water was rising fast and we didn't want to flood the kitchen. He took big saucepans out of the press to fill with water to keep things from over flowing, while i was in a frantic scramble under the sink trying to find the mains to turn it off there. I couldn't find it!! Now really panicking i took over the pot filling duty and my brother went running off to look for dad as quick as he could. Dad came running in with my brother while we were shoutng at him about looking for the mains. Dad just came over to the sink and pulled the plug out of the hole letting all the water down the drain. Ha ha

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

Ha ha! I would've made that same mistake! Just like you! Thanks for the laugh...

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#4

I had manager named Roxanne (Rocky). She was a bleach blonde (literally bleached her hair once a month and then wondered why it broke/fell out) bubble head who only had the job because daddy owned the restaurant.

Rocky was really obsessed with her looks and not much else. One day she told me, and a co-worker, that she had her nose job done so that her eventual children wouldn't grow up with the same nose as her. She wasn't kidding. The co-worker and I just looked at each other and walked away. We knew it wasn't worth the effort.

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

A friend told me her new husband had a history of twins in his family. She hoped she would get pregnant with twins, too. When I told her he really wouldn't have anything to do with it, it depended on her eggs, she looked at me like I was speaking Martian. Then she asked about identical twins. I told her that depended on the egg, too. She was a fellow teacher who taught a unit on human reproduction.

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I’ve told this story before, but I like telling it because f**k Tammy. I had a boss named Tammy. One night, we were all working late doing stocktake, and we were discussing the impending lunar eclipse. Someone asked what happens during an eclipse. Tammy grandly explained that the eclipse would occur when America went in front of the moon, blocking our (Australia’s) view of it. Like she literally thought the earth stretched itself into like a U bend or neck pillow shape, and half of it stayed in our normal orbit, and the other half stretched itself over and around to casually block the moon for the rest of the earth.

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my friends sister was 20 and pregnant, she said something about how upset she was her vagina would be ruined, i jokingly said “maybe he’ll come out of your butt instead” she said “what do you mean? can they come out of there too?”, i thought she was joking so i just said “duh, it’s a 50/50 shot” she thought i was serious and asked her doctor if he could tell if the baby was gonna come out of her vagina or ass.

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Of course, IQ score is one of the most common universal measures to determine the rational capabilities in person. However, according to David Perkins from Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, IQ is very overrated. “"A high IQ is like height in a basketball player," says David, who studies thinking and reasoning skills. "It is very important, all other things being equal. But all other things aren't equal. There's a lot more to being a good basketball player than being tall, and there's a lot more to being a good thinker than having a high IQ."

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#7

I can sum it up very easily: We were at the shooting range, his gun jammed, he looked down the barrel to see what was wrong.

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Back in my younger and crankier days I worked with as young woman who was hands down the dumbest person I've ever met.

Her highlights include

Winning a basket auction that included a copy of The Beach Boy's album Pet Sounds and complaing because she "didn't want to hear a lot of mooing"

On a day she was driving me up a wall I convinced her to wait to open her bottle of Coke because the bottle said there was a winner every five minutes. She was disappointed she didn't win after waiting exactly five minutes. I however enjoyed her sulky silence for the rest of the day.

The best/worst one involved her chatting with a manager who was African American (she's white). They were discussing their shared slightly uncommon name and then realized their families both came from South Carolina. She thought for a few minuted and then excitedly exclaimed "I bet my family owned yours!". She was so proud of herself for figuring out that historic connection. The manager didn't say a word and just walked away.

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

Wow! that is dumb. And do people not realize less than 5% of southerners owned slaves back then (though most supported the institution? odds are if you are old line southern your family did not own slaves, but supported the system and fought on the wrong side of the civil war

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#9

“Why do the crossings beep.” “For blind people.” “But blind people can’t drive?” “...”

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

Feels like half the people on the roads are blind anyways...

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When I was in the Navy, there was a cook on my ship. He once served "rare" chicken. I genuinely couldn't tell whether he was trying to cover up his limitless incompetence or if he genuinely believed that rare poultry is a real thing. He was dumb enough to believe it. Another time, he just filled a pan with ground beef and called it meat loaf. Another time he was supposed to make sugar cookies, you know, several hundred of them for the whole crew. He didn't bother to read the label on the container he opened, and apparently he didn't taste the batter at any point, and he actually made salt cookies. He used up all the remaining salt in the pantry and we had unseasoned food for the remaining several weeks of the mission, during which time the captain assigned someone to be the cook's bodyguard.

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

what navy was this? In the US Navy they go through a naval culinary program where they learn to prep, cook, and safety

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We shall call him Chad. Chad was a guy I worked with years ago and he was terrible with directions. He had no idea where he was, or where he was going, and was terrible at identifying landmarks. So we are working less than 5 minutes from our store on this particular day in a small residential area about a mile and a half down the road. Including the turn out of the driveway you have to make 3 turns, all right hand turns, and cross one intersection and you'll be at our store. A short time into what is an all day job we realize we have some equipment at the store that would help us out tremendously. I ask Chad to go get it. He doesn't know the way. I explain it to him. He stares at me. It's 3 right hand turns, Chad, I think you can do it. Chad wants a map. Fine. I draw a map. Chad leaves. 25 minutes go by. Chad should have been back by now. I call the store and I'm told that Chad left 10 minutes ago. As I am on the phone I hear the truck coming and he drives right by the house. Well, [crap]. Poor Chad forgot what house we were at. No big deal, the road is a giant circle and he will come around again in a moment. So I walk up the driveway, and sure enough here he comes again. I wave, and he pulls in the driveway. As he gets out I laugh and say, "Haha, aww man, you forgot what house we were at?" Chad deadpans, "Naw man, ya moved the truck." ... Chad was looking for the company truck in the driveway. The very same truck he was driving.

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

I was in a parking lot and couldn't find my car, people starting helping me look. I told them the personalized tag said KISSRMY and that it was a brown piece of s**t. I was about ready to call the police when a guy calls out "Here is a car with that tag but it isn't a piece of s**t, it's a blue convertible sports car." I was like "Oh s**t, I forgot I got a new car!" One of the dumbest moments of my life.

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#12

My room mate for the last 3 years once said that if solar technology keeps advancing at the rate it is, we will absorb all the energy made by the sun and fix global warming. Not 5 minutes later after attempting to inform this poor fellow about how the suns energy output is not determined by what the energy eventualy interacts with, he states that wind farms are worse because they cause tropical storms. I hope he is just an epic troll. I just... I don't know...

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

Here we go!!! let's not breed him with the girl that thinks wind mills can use all the wind!

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This French - Italian guy I used to work with. I could seriously write a book about how ignorant, idiotic and illogical this man was, but this story sums it up pretty well:

He's against vaxinations, because he thinks everything in the world is a government conspiracy and he's also a nature freak who believes in homeopathy. He believes clay has a lot of almost supernatural healing qualities. When he lived in Denmark he and his wife couldn't enroll their son in kindergarten unless he had some basic vaccinations because that's the law.

So they went to get the boy vaccinated, but as soon as he's gotten the shot and they've walked out of the doctors office he took the bandage off and slapped a lump of clay on the boys arm right where he got the shot. This, he believed, would suck the liquid that was in the syringe out of the boys vains and get absorbed into the clay to be disposed of safely. So in his mind he had basically "un-vaccinated" the boy and the silly reptilian surgeon general had no idea! Haha in your face NWO!

It's kind of a happy ending though, stupidity saved the day and the boy now has the vaccinations he should despite his insane father.

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

You should make a website with this clay theory. Get a lot of anti-vaxers to vaccinate their kids and then "unvaccinate" them with clay!

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#14

I once had a property manager (person in charge of the rental I lived in since homeowners who lived out of state) who did a bunch of obnoxious things. My husband and I thought she was greedy and maybe getting money for herself and hiding it from the homeowners for repairs or something like that because of shady seeming things she would do when we had repairs.

Then we mentioned something about gardening.

She said "You know, I've always wanted to try growing tomatoes and just watering them with salt water. That way, the tomatoes would already be salted when you ate them!"

Huge reminder to never attribute to malice what is just pure old fashioned being dumb as a rock.

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

Just throw some cheese and flour at the plant and use a flame thrower on it, you'll have pizza growing on the plant!

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#15

Work with a guy who honestly believes he will not die. Also believes that doctor's are"part of the system" and that they lie to you for profit and personal gain. He does believe in Eastern traditional medicine however. And if you're interested to know his secret to eternal life, it's 6 raw eggs a day and a keto diet.

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My mom's coworker claims she doesn't care about the price of gas. She says "it doesn't matter how much it costs because no matter what I only put in 20 bucks."

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

And next she'll complain that gas isn't what it used to be because she gets less milage for her 20 bucks. I know that coworker too....

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

I had a co-worker who was against implementing the metric system because gasoline costs more per liter than per gallon.

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

That's about as stupid as the guy next to me at the gas station b*tching about the cost of gas as he pumped nearly $100 into the two tanks of his Cadillac Escalade. Nobody made him buy that hulking penis extension.

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

My dad's aunt always rode the brake pedal when she drove and she couldn't understand why she was constantly replacing brake pads when everyone else's lasted for a few years. And my uncle's ex wife never did any maintenance to her cars other than putting gas in the tank. She never changed the oil or anything. She just drove the car until it just one day crapped out. As a result most of her cars only lasted a few years while the rest of us drove the same car for 10 or more years. She was convinced the automakers sold all the bad cars to her while they sold good cars to everyone else.

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

My mother, too. She also thinks she saves money if she fills the tank every time it gets to half full instead of empty.

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

I only put in 20 at a time, and it doesn't really matter what it cost, if you need it, you buy it. It's not so much about how much you get, but what you can afford.

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

What you say is true: you only buy what you can afford. The stupid part of her reasoning is that she says she doesn't care about the price. If you can only get 20 dollars of petrol you should be really worried!

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

Ignoring the flawed reasoning, it's actually not a terrible idea. When the price goes up, you buy less. When the price goes down, you buy more. You save pennies, but you probably do save.

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

It IS a terrible idea. When you are not rich, you buy what you need. If you need, say, 20 litres to go to work every week, you will buy that. If the price goes up, you still need the 20 litres to go to work, so you have to cut down on other things, like heating or food.

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I am half-korean going to high school in the Midwest during the 1992 LA riots. My typing teacher pulled me into the hallway and asked if I had an uncle or something I can call in LA to make the riots stop. She said she knew that we are all close and we all have stores and what not, therefore I must have a connection there. I was like, "lady, even if I did have an uncle I could call do you think he is Batman?"

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One of my roommates. I live in a house where we give interviews to prospective new roommates to make sure they're cool. We were interviewing a deaf guy, and he was looking like a good fit. We also have a list of rules and guidelines for living in the house, and one of the current roommates asks "oh man, are we gonna have to get the rules printed in braille?" For. A. Deaf. Guy.

Far from an isolated incident.

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There was a,,, troubled kid I went to high-school with. He struggled with school but had friends but was starting to do drugs and go down a bad way. He decided to photo copy the front and back side of a 20 dollar bill, cut it out of normal paper, and glue the two half’s with Elmer’s glue. Whats even more sad is that to test his new money he went to the gas station and bought some gum and it ACTUALLY WORKED?!? So in his mind it must have meant that it was fool proof. So he then tried to go and deposit the glued up money at an actual bank. He was obviously found out and arrested. I don’t know where he is now but I’m assuming he is making similar life choices.

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

I think the person who took the money for gum is more dumb than he is.

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When I was a teenager my friends older brother was one of the dumbest I'd ever encountered. We once witnessed him trying to see inside a motorcycle gas tank using a bic lighter. He assured us a lighter flame isn't hot enough to ignite gasoline.

On another occasion, we got into a debate concerning the power of an atomic bomb. He was dead set that it could only take out " like two houses max!" O___0

This man went on to have multiple arrests before I moved away, also fathered 3 children by 2 women. We all lived in a trailer court as well...not saying it's a prerequisite for idiocy, but some of us get out and some do not.

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I once called an Uber driver. When he arrived, he immediately asked me: "Are you going to (X location?)?". I said: "No." He responded: "Great, because I'm not going to take you to (X location)." "Fine", I said. The journey got underway, and I was curious as to what he would've done if I'd said that yes, I wanted to go to X location. So I asked him: "Hey, what would you have done if I had said that I DID want to go to X location?". He responded: "Look man, I'm not going to [frikinn] take you to X location, OK? I told you already." I was a bit befuddled, but I tried again: "No no, I don't want to go there. In fact, you already know where I want to go, it's on your destination map. I'm just curious, what if I DID want to go to X location? Would you have refused me the trip? Would you have driven off?" He said: "Look man I can't change the trip now. And anyway I told you I refuse to go to X location. You gotta understand I'm busy." we spent nearly 15 minutes with variations of this back and forth. He was a fluent English speaker, by the way. By the end of it, I was 100% convinced that he couldn't understand the syntax of a hypothetical. He literally couldn't understand the question "if (X situation which is NOT the case) then what action would you take?" I wasn't even mad, just astonished. How had he navigated through life thus far? What were his financial decisions like? I really wanted to follow him home and make a reality TV show about him or something.

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

"So if you were driving at 100 km/h and there was a brick wall in front of you, would you hit the brake?" Screeeech! "Brick wall? Where, where??"

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An old co worker named James. We worked at McDonald's and were both 16. One time, while mopping the lobby, he for some unknown reason decided to chase a number of customers around with the mop yelling "I'm gonna getcha". He was fired on the spot.

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

That's not stupid. He was having a moment of whimsy. And he was probably ready to quit.

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I know a guy smokes a lot of weed and is fairly overweight. He had been trying to find work but was having trouble finding a job since everything he was interested in drug tested. He told my boyfriend that he had a plan that might help him pass a drug test. Since weed supposedly gets stored in your fat cells, he proposed that he should just eat even more than he normally does so he can gain weight. That way, the fat that he gained would replace the “weed fat”. Boom. Problem solved.

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

Coming up with ideas like that, he sure does smoke a lot of weed!

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Had a guy in a third year undergrad developmental psych course raise his hand in a full lecture hall and ask the professor; "Prof, do infants diagnosed with SIDS get asthma later in life... like are they more likely to get asthma??"

SIDS stands for sudden infant death syndrome.. He just kept pursuing the question the prof didn't understand how she could answer it, she thought there was some kind of logic in it that she wasn't seeing. Finally some girl took the initiative to shout across the room, "No they are not more likely to get asthma, they are dead.. they have died suddenly, and will thus not be at risk of developing asthma." Great day. He always sat in front of me and I would see him writing just absolutely horrible poetry and song lyrics .

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A girl my dad dated for a while. Even while dating her my dad would say she was dumber than a bag of rocks.

One day, she sat down to watch a movie with my dad. Movie was all about this guy and his twin brother. She sits and watches the whole thing, no interruptions. At the end, she turns and asks, "So there were two of him?"

Would explain why she always had the TV turned to a music channel. Apparently she couldn't follow normal TV or movies.

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My cousin. All through public school, she was a snob who looked down on everyone. She was super stylish and struggled academically.

We graduated in 2014. We both went to colleges (not the same one.) She got a job at a bar, stayed out late drinking. Her boyfriend told her she didn’t need to complete college, so she just stopped showing up. Didn’t drop; just stopped showing up. Completely flunked out.

Here comes the mega stupidity: Our families live hours away from her college at the time. Her family went to move her back home. My cousin’s mom noticed a pile of clothes in the corner. The mom said ‘what’s that, your laundry? Pack it and we’ll wash it when we get home later.’

My cousin (I kid you not): ‘you can wash those?!’

Turns out, she’d been throwing away clothes instead of washing them. She claimed she didn’t know she could, yet she washed her undergarments and bras without a hitch.

She’s now at home with her family and has started doing more chores to show an increase in responsibility. She still tries to throw clothes away, citing that she didn’t know they could be washed and reused. Makes me wonder what she thought all those years before college, before she left home. She wore some of the same outfits repeatedly — she had to have known they could be washed.

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#27

Old coworker of mine. He was helping me move and while we were carrying a couch he dropped it. Thinking he was hurt I asked if he was ok and with the most serious and frightening look in his eyes he said pointing : ‘Look it’s the moon and it’s day time.’ .... he was 25 at the time.

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My mother rolled down the car window to clean it... from inside the car... right after the car wash started.

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

Ii's s just as bad as the woman that used one of these DIY powerwash cabins and litterally powerwashed the outside and inside of her car with it. Dashboard, frontseats, backseats and trunk. The video went viral.

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My ex. My favorite moment was when I had to stop him from giving his bank info to the Nigerian prince. I was honestly in disbelief. He was mad at me for whatever reason exactly and in retrospect I probably should've just let him do it.

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

When a Nigerian King sent his condolences that my entire family had died in a fire (news to me at the time) and that since he was dying of cancer, he wanted to give me 100 million dollars. I wrote back, telling him I wanted 100 million US dollars deposited in a bank in the Cayman islands, a Porsche, puppies, kittens and ten race horses. Never heard from him again....

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A guy in my high school who was convinced that the Dutch had sore throats at night from their accent/language

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