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44 People Who Corrected Someone With Total Confidence And Got It Completely Wrong
Some people hear a fact they believe is wrong and simply cannot resist stepping in to correct it. The problem is that confidence can be a terrible substitute for actually being right, especially when the person doing the correcting has their own facts mixed up.
That awkward dynamic has produced plenty of funny moments, like innocent misunderstandings to confidently delivered corrections that quickly backfired. Online folks recently shared some of the funniest times they watched people correct someone else, only to discover that the person being corrected was right all along.
Their stories are a reminder that sometimes the best response to a correction is simply to let someone finish before deciding they need fixing.
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#2
It took me a while to find one...
Laszlo Larthlanc 1 hour ago
Doesn't "straight" imply that anyone who isn't is bent? I think I'll stick with hetero for now.
#3
Just men being confidently incorrect in general
#4
Lmao I may have been a little harsh towards him, but at the same time he questioned whether I have read my favorite book
#5
Apparently, I'm Not Average
Robin Roper 1 hour ago
Yikes, I need to start eating. It's 11:45PM and I have 89 lbs 15.5 oz. to go to get my 90 lbs of cheese in for the day.
#6
Adaption vs Adaptation
#7
She actually took the time to write this...
#9
As a mathematician, I have no words
#10
is the last one deliberate? I just don't know what's real anymore...
#11
The Incorrect Part Would Be The Dude Implying Very Obviously, That The Definition Is Wrong. When It Is Correct
#12
Never actually seen one in the wild until now
#13
When You Incorrectly Correct A Master Of The Written Word
#16
One in the wild? I'll let you decide
#17
...
#18
Context: what is a country named after a woman? Dude got obliterated in replies
#19
I Had To Leave A Whole English Lesson In The Comments With An Explanation On Nouns, Proper Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs, And I Threw In Adverbs For Something New
#20
So close, yet so far
Laszlo Larthlanc 1 hour ago
You're in America. Speak Navajo. Or Comanche. Or Iroquois. Or the language of any of the other 572 federally recognized Indigenous tribes.
#21
Found in the Wild
#24
I Feel Like I Shouldn’t Have To Say This
#25
The context is someone posted a picture of an engraved plate and asked for a translation
#27
"My Car Won't Shut Off, How Do I Get It To Stop Running?"
#29
Guess *who is denser?
#32
I got one
Elladine DesIsles 1 hour ago
This one is surely intentional wordplay, a joke? Granted one that younger readers might miss.
#34
Apparently my buddy thinks Cuba is going to blockade the oil tankers coming into USA from the Panama Canal
#35
Anyone wanna take a trip to the state of Chicago?
#36
Wales is a constituent country... Not a country. From People Incorrectly Correcting Other People a group that blocked me for calling them out on this
Dexter he/him I’m a male 47 minutes ago
The entire “England, United Kingdom, Great Britain-are Wales and Scotland countries-Ireland and Northern Ireland-one is a part of Great Britain and one isn’t”. I need a chart to consult. And this doesn’t even include the British Isles.
#39
Incorrectly correcting Stephen King?! The 164 comments were all correct corrections. I think I got one here!!!
#41
OP is not only wrong... But amazingly Proved themselves wrong by trying to "Double Down" Still, Gave me a Viable Entry for the groip...
#42
Got a two-for-one today — two separate folks swearing WD-40 isn’t a lubricant. Funny how AI and WD-40 disagree
#43
Finally Found One In The Wild. Someone Correcting The Way Someone Else In A Video Said Cotter Pin. They Called It A “Cooter Pin”
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