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38 Instances Of People Witnessing Such Sheer Stupidity That They Didn’t Think It Was Real
If you spend any time around other people, you already know that sometimes people can act rather foolishly. Whether by accident or deliberately, the fact that it sometimes happens still stands.
Today, let's look at specific real-life examples of such accidents. In fact, these instances seemed so foolish-looking from the side that the only proper reaction to them was ‘Are you kidding me?’ And if the examples don't provoke such a reaction in you... Well, you might be able to stomach weirdness more than these netizens.
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#1
I used to work at an animal shelter. A woman brought in a Rottweiler puppy, age 8 weeks. Said she was surrendering it because she did not realize it would get that big. O.O
(Honestly, though, thank you thank you thank you lady. You brought him in young, cute, and supremely adoptable and not a year and a half later, out of control and completely unsocialized from living in your yard. You did the right thing!).
marianne eliza 2 days ago
Any ethical breeder will always take back a puppy. And also the puppy that is now an adult. I've signed a contract several times over the decades. Dog must be returned to the breeder.
sturmwesen 2 days ago
I think it wasn't an ethical breeder if the woman didn't know it would grow big. Ethical breeders have the mom onsite
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Andrew Keir 2 days ago
I'd agree with the (cautious) upvote for the lady. She made a mistake, realised it and corrected it. That's adulting.
Little Bit 19 hours ago
At least she took it to a rescue shelter rather than throw it out on the streets or worse.
Load More Replies... Chich the witch 15 hours ago
Worst I ever heard of was two rich c***s bringing their lovely dog and turning him over because they had redecorated and he 'clashed' with the new furniture/colours. Special place in hell awaits.
Crystalwitch60 5 hours ago
Eugh loath people as do that used to work in rescue pref kids ,kinda still do , ie all the dogs I have are direct from bad homes , or greedy backyard s c u m breeders , like 8 weeks old n ligit just dumped him there ,I pray she never had dogs again 🤬I love rotties n my once little German rottie pub I took on at 12 weeks was a huge hulk of a dog like his dad lol soppy as hell n very loyal ,miss my boy so much he passed to rainbow bridge in 2021 ,least she didn’t just dump the poor baby on side of the road etc , poor baby , n people need to stop breeding ffs ,way to many in shelters needing good homes ,adopt don’t shop ,!
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#2
I have a last name that is common but comes in multiple spellings. Think Smith/Smyth. I always spell the name out when I tell people my last name because mine is the less common method. I was checking into a hotel and the employee checking me in was having a hard time finding our reservations. I believe it was her first day so she asked the manager for help. I tell him how to spell my name but he wasn’t really listening. More of a let me show this new girl how it is done.
After what seemed like 20 minutes he says “Oh here it is. Someone misspelled your name. They put a y instead of an I”
Me: “That is the correct spelling”
Him: “No it isn’t! I know how to spell Smith. I am going to change it in our system it will only take me a second”
That was the day I realized I didn’t know how to spell my own name.
R Dennis 1 day ago (edited)
My name has a double consonant in it. A less common version, but I still see it occasionally. I have had jobs where I wear a name tag or I sign an email in the correct way and people I've known or worked with for YEARS still won't spell it right. A couple of times, I didn't respond to messages and they come up to me later about it and I say "Oh, I didn't know it was actually for me. It didn't have my name on it, so I thought it was an accident." *This is reserved for when I've tried to correct them numerous times. Even then, it only corrects them for a short time.
Sara Frazer 1 day ago
Happens with my last name a lot. I have a common last name, uncommon spelling. People always put an i in it (Frasier /Frazier), so I too have resorted to spelling it out. Even when I've spelt it out there have been times people still added the dang i. I've corrected people and had them ask "Are you sure-?" YEAH, I'm pretty dang sure. Actually for the last year or so my last name has been spelled "Frazier" on the sign-in sheet at work, *sigh*... I just kinda gave up lol.
AlithenewMC 1 day ago (edited)
I have the same issue with the receptionist at my dr. I'll call and say "McIntosh, M C, like the apple" and she'll inevitably go silent for several minutes and say she cant find it. Rinse and repeat at least twice more before I get the "oh...so no A? I was putting the A"🤦♀️ everyone else seems to get it right away, or at least after the second time I say it. And most of the time, if I dont specify, people know to ask if there's an A. I thought life was going to be so much easier when I changed my name (my maiden name was way more difficult and is unique to my family), but apparently I was wrong.
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When people correct me about my last name, or claim to know where it originates. Here’s a typical cringe conversation I have about it:
“My last name is (last name)”
“Oh, you mean (mispronounces last name)”
“No, it’s pronounced (correct last name)”
“Well, in Russia its pronounced my way”
“...my last name isn’t Russian, it’s German.”
“Actually, I know it’s Russian and...blah blah blah (I stop listening at this point)”.
Nicole Weymann 1 day ago
Love that! I've never yet read München being rhymed with Hühnchen, but I love it! 😂
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Yora Belle End 1 day ago
Well, YOUR last name means c**t where I’m from. They’ll reply, “No, it doesn’t.” No. No no no. It does.
Andrew Keir 2 days ago
"I know better than you..." without reference to any known and agreed source => "Byebye".
Tropical Tarot 5 hours ago
I was sick for the past month over the holidays.. respiratory stuff but not the flu that's going around. Two different doctors but my sister who I haven't seen since before then told me what I actually had.
Paul C. 5 hours ago
My surname sounds Irish (I'm English) all good the Irish are a great nation who I would be proud to be part of. Fast forward to the Olympics there is some guy from France with my surname and there is a region of the same name.....even worse my mums maiden name is a whole area of France with it's own named river running through it! Please God not the French!
GalPalAl 21 hours ago
YES!!! Same, my first and last name could both be first or last names. Last name is easy enough to spell and pronounce but there is a similarly spelled last name missing the r in theirs. How many times have people asked if I pronounce it like the name without the extra r? Imagine Sherbert vs sherbet
There have probably been instances in each of our lives where he has mumbled ‘Are you kidding me?’ or anything along those lines. Essentially, it’s a form of expressing surprise or disbelief over someone’s actions or words – just a fancy way of saying “are you being serious?” or “I can't believe this.”
The mentioned disbelief may be caused by a variety of factors, as today’s list illustrates. In fact, in it you’ll find the experiences various people had, to which the only sane reaction was ‘are you kidding me?’, just how weird or straight-up foolish they were.
#4
Flat earthers and people with common sense alike will enjoy this one.. I was talking to my professor after class just about some space stuff, and this girl was listening in on us. She interrupted with a question, "Wait, aren't we like, inside the earth??" She believed that we were inside a globe where space was in the middle. I am sure her world opened up (pun intended) quite a bit after we explained to her that that is entirely incorrect.
Andrew Keir 2 days ago
If she was listening, and prepared to change her mind on the basis of what she heard, she's salvageable. But give her just one, knock-down reason to change her mind; if you flood her with lots of new knowledge, none of it will survive the journey home.
Sally Moen 1 day ago
I think that idea is the plot for an Isaac Asimov book. Not Foundation, another one. In the story, the people had an artificial sky and yet were traveling inside this giant spaceship that they thought was Earth.
Remi (He/Him) 1 hour ago
Also a Star Trek episode aptly titled "For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky"
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Peter Bear 2 hours ago
A big thanks to the late, great Sir Terry Pratchett for actually writing a flat world and explaining the rules that such a world would work by. It's great ammunition against flat-earthers; all you have to do is ask how many seasons there are. They'll always say 'four', and then you can explain that on a flat world, there would be eight seasons, therefore Earth can't be flat. Confuses the heck out of 'em.
Chich the witch 15 hours ago
As has been explained before, The earth can't be flat. Cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now if it was.
Speak easy buttercup 7 hours ago
Which seems to be why I can't keep ANYTHING on my table! 🤣
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I had a college professor scold the class for helping each other study for exams because she stated we were all competing for a program spot/future job and needed to be more competitive. She magically was not teaching any classes next semester.
Andrew Keir 2 days ago
I'm biased here - I prefer team-work to a rat-fight in a sack. But that's just me ...
Lotekguy 1 day ago
I gave Lizzie's comment an upvote to offset the two negatives that were showing at the time. Why in the world would anybody take issue with that comment??
#6
Customer: What's your soup of the day?
Me: Chicken noodle.
Customer: Oh is that vegan?
Me: . . .
Scott Rackley 12 hours ago
are bugs vegan? Because my grandmother's chickens had a field day on june bugs and grasshoppers.
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While you could write off many of these instances to people being sheer stupid, we shouldn’t generalize about anyone this way, especially when we know so little. After all, one event does not paint an accurate picture of someone.
In fact, writing off anyone as completely stupid is… well, rather foolish. People are not two-dimensional beings that can be viewed on a “black or white” scale – the grey place exists too.
#7
I got suspended for the horrendous crime of taking Tylenol on school property last year. I was waiting for the shuttle to marching band practice when I had cramps, and there was no way to get to the nurse and back to the bus stop on time. I of course complained about my impending miserable practice to a few friends and one offered me Tylenol. Practice went great, I thought nothing of it. Next day my friend and I were dragged to the office and interrogated because someone told the school I took 6 illegal pills. I never had broken a rule before that so I was panicking. I remember the quote of the year being "if it was just Tylenol that doesn't explain why you're so upset right now". Apparently I was the only person at that school who cared when they were in trouble. They ended up confirming it was Tylenol though, and just when I thought Truth, Justice, and the American Way had prevailed, they suspended me anyway.
Am I Funny? Maybe or maybe not 1 day ago
Six pills is a lot for normal dosage
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 day ago
If Truth and Justice were the American Way, they wouldn't have to add it to the list.
Mel in Georgia 1 day ago
This exact thing happened in my hometown high school (now a Jr. HS). I heard about it on the news. Wonder if it's the same story? Happened a long time ago. Hey! Found the story! Will post the link in my reply.
Cougar Allen 1 day ago
Happens all the time in America. It's what we call a "zero tolerance" policy.
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Dirk Daring 23 hours ago
"If it was just Tylenol, that doesn't explain why you're so upset right now". That's a weird thing for a kiddie diddler to say.
Tropical Tarot 5 hours ago
I can buy a bottle of 500 500 mg tablets for less than $10 and it's dangerous.
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Earthquake903 8 hours ago
When I was 12 my parents were doing this health thing. They had me taking all these vitamins that tasted gross and were hard to swallow. I threw them on the ground not far from my classroom and boiiii did the teachers freak out! They thought it was narcotics and interrogated everyone. When I heard what they were so upset about I confessed. I just got scolded but nothing more. This was about 1983.
Chich the witch 15 hours ago
The US has really got to stop chanting "land of the free" . May have been once upon a time but that time has passed.
#8
Student thought the UK and France were both in America. I pondered this for a moment then asked 'what, like states?'
'whats states?' he gurgled back at me.
'states, like the United States.' Blank look. 'of America.'
'The what?'
'the USA?'
'That's not a real place though.'
'So where did you think the UK is then?'
'IN America' (huge emphasis on the preposition, as if I were being wilfully obtuse.)
Edit: student was British and in Year 9 (so about 13-14).
#9
My biology teacher insisted people with Downs do NOT have an extra chromosome.
Yora Belle End 1 day ago
That would be an insult to people with Down Syndrome.
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 1 day ago
I swear some teachers do more damage than good. I had one tell me Shakespeare always spelled his name the same way after I spent three weeks research proving he didn't. With photographic proof.
Thee8thsense 1 day ago (edited)
Clearly, they suffered from Up Syndrome...their head was too far up their behind to think properly.
Lotekguy 20 hours ago
My comment that just got hidden was a compliment to you. Click and enjoy.
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What we mean by that is that if someone is knowledgeable in one area, it doesn’t mean they’re completely clueless in the other. For instance, if I’m interested in cars and other vehicles, I might not know about them a lot, but I might be knowledgeable in other areas that are more fascinating for me.
What’s more interesting about it is the fact that most of the time, “stupidity” comes from ignorance, and thus cannot really be called the first term. Looking at the very rigid definition of ignorance, it is “the lack of knowledge, education, or awareness.” And while that explains the idea, it kind of lacks the point of it usually being something that’s chosen.
#10
An acquaintance posted something on my Facebook wall attacking me. He didn't use any punctuation at all. I asked him if he could explain what he meant and use punctuation this time so I could follow his argument. He told me that "grammar didn't matter because schooling was invented by the devil." Then he posted a link on my wall about the Deluder Satan Act.
He was promptly blocked.
John Dilligaf 1 day ago
the Deluder Satan Act was specifically passed (in Massachusetts in 1647) to establish public schools to ensure literacy. It specifically framed ignorance as a Satanic ill and sought to create a literate population to ensure that, as the law put it, "ye ould deluder, Satan" could not use illiteracy to "keepe men from the knowledge of ye Scriptures."
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
On reading the Act, it seems that your acquaintance was, in fact, deluded.
Sally Moen 1 day ago
The Deluder Satan Act? Is this a bill that never made the cut to become a law?
Chich the witch 14 hours ago
My favourite quote: "don't you know there ain't no devil that's just god when he's drunk"
#11
"Wait. Aren't potatoes from cows or something? Why can vegans eat them?"
This grown man thought Potatoes were from animals.
Edit: we were eating fries, he was clearly talking about the vegetable.
Lotekguy 1 day ago
Of course potatoes come from cows. That's why they're always fried and served with hamburgers.
Ghostchaplain16 1 day ago
Your comment 'moo'ved, Lotekguy. (I'm leaving, i'm leaving, you don't need to push!)
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Tango Wox 1 day ago
Perhaps the poor guy had heard something about vegans not eating french fries, due to being cooked in beef tallow or other products that contain beef product and just didn't understand it. Best guess I have on where it could be coming from.
R Dennis 1 day ago
That was my first thought. Not stupid, just ignorant. Asking questions about it is actually respectable and intelligent.
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WindySwede 1 day ago
Perhaps is was Chevy Chase after having eaten the record of 31 balls... *waitress erases 31 and writes 30 again*
Nicole Weymann 1 day ago
The only way I can think of that would legitimately include fries on the non-veggie/non-vegan list is if they were prepared Belgian style. Traditionally one of the frying circles would include beef tallow.
Pernille 6 hours ago
Some places even serve thee most delicious frites cooked in duck or goose fat. I love proper Belgian frites, but the ones in duck fat are just a tiny bit better.
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"Do you know how to read a tape measure?" This was an interview for a job doing construction.
PeepPeep the duck 1 day ago (edited)
Yes, a lot of chefs I worked with will ask - how do you make a roux - if they couldn’t answer they wouldn’t hire them 😂 if you don’t know the basics but come dressed like a pro, we need these questions to weed them out
Load More Replies... John Dilligaf 1 day ago
I will lay money that this question exists because, in the past, they hired someone who, it turned out, did not know how to read a tape measure.
Scott Rackley 12 hours ago
I don't see the problem with this question or with showing you can do so.
By this, we mean that a lot of times people choose to ignore something, hence the term’s name. Like with the mentioned example, you might choose not delve into certain topics because they do not interest you. But interest isn’t the only driving force behind ignorance. Selfishness can be too.
Like this study showed, sometimes people deliberately choose not learn something, just so they could have an excuse to act selfishly, like when a person ignores the information about the problematic origins of the products they buy, just because they really want them. Basically, you choose to close your eyes in certain moments; that’s what ignorance is.
#13
I had a teacher in a base level chem-phys class yell at my class after everyone failed a test because we hadn't been taught half of the unit.
His exact words were "it's not my job to teach you the materials".
Robert Trebor 1 day ago (edited)
In college calculus the instructor wrote the textbook, which was opaque to almost everyone. When anyone asked a question he'd answer "The explanation in the book is perfectly clear."
azubi 1 day ago
"It's all clear in your head. But the rest of us are out here."
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 1 day ago
I enrolled in tutoring in college because the college-level Algebra class instructor followed the book without pausing for questions, and the book skipped around from one thing to another. My tutors were great at keeping the focus on one idea at a time so I could fully understand. All these years later, I still have my notes and exercises from tutoring. They made me love Algebra
Kelly Scott 22 hours ago
We had a psychology teacher in college who was an ardent PETA person. His classes consisted only of showing us animal a***e films, then saying he would give us tests based on such and such in a chapter. The tests were always on stuff from other chapters. It took two weeks, but when I finally dropped the class, only three students out of maybe 30 were still there.
Giraffe Sitter 1 day ago
Our statistics instructor used to scream at us for not understanding the material because he was trying to teach it based on calculus 3 even though the course prerequisite was only calc 2.
#14
A customer in the restraunt I work in had a seizure and an ambulance was called. My reaction when the ambulance pulled up was to prop he door open for the paramedics so they could get in faster. The assistant managers reaction was to complain to me about how they parked right in front of the entrance, and that they should have more respect for the business...
Lee Gilliland 1 day ago
I was working in a restaurant when one of the customers had to call an ambulance. Two new customers stood in the way of the paramedics demanding to be seated in the not-yet empty booth. NYC in the '80s.
R Dennis 1 day ago
I went to do a job in a Burger King. Right before I walked in, the manager had a spontaneous miscarriage. (She didn't know at the time that's what it was or that she was even pregnant.) There was quite a bit of blood from the back-of-house to the restroom. Paramedics arrived, I called my company and had staff call their general and district managers. I shut down the kitchen and had the staff perform biohazard procedures - some of which I had to do because they weren't qualified to make sure proper decontamination was done. (My job had me trained and federally certified.) With all this going on, multiple ambulances and paramedics on-site, and a gurney in the dining room, multiple people were yelling at the staff because they wanted to order. I really can't stand people... I want to say "sometimes", but the truth is "most of the time"...
Michael Largey 1 day ago
One summer I worked in a restaurant where an ambulance came for a customer. It wasn't a heart attack, though. It was the food.
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
Just be glad it wasn't a hearse - often labelled "Private Ambulance", but that fools nobody. Apart from , possibly, your assistant manager ...
Sally Moen 1 day ago
Respond with: Well imagine how long we would have to close the business while getting the floor & carpets cleaned of bl00d when the paramedics couldn't get to them in time to save them?
#15
G2A customer service.
Me: “I’d like to exchange this game because I meant to get it for Steam but accidentally bought it for gog.”
G2A: “Send us the key so we can verify it’s unredeemed.”
Me: *sends key*
G2A: “We can’t refund it because you looked at the key.”
Got my refund via PayPal, never buying from g2a again.
April Pickett 21 hours ago
I got one. I was late on 2 payments to a utility company last Fall. I wanted to put my bill on auto-pay to avoid being late again. I was told I can't do auto-pay because I was late with 2 payments. I would have to wait until Fall 2026 before I could set up auto-pay.
Lee Gilliland 1 day ago
Always remember, if you bought it on your credit card, you can cancel it by credit card.
Yora Belle End 1 day ago
Not always true when its to do with digital goods.
Load More Replies...Others argue that it can be a rather spiritual practice. When you ignore something, you have more time and mental power to magnify something else, which can be a positive thing. Essentially, if properly applied, ignorance combined with magnification can lead to one’s joy and creativity. Sounds a bit like our given example previously, doesn’t it?
So, what we want you to carry out of this piece is that while sometimes people do foolish things, it does not define them. That means that while all those examples you’ll read in today’s listicle might just be one-of examples. Or they might not be, but we don’t know these people enough to make assumptions.
Have you ever witnessed anything that made you murmur, “‘Are you kidding me?’ Please, share!
#16
Worked for Bath & Body Works.com customer service for years. It was nothing but “are you kidding me” moments.
One winter we had hand soaps with a cartoon polar bear and penguin on the label, wearing scarves and sledding or something. I had a lady call and shout at me for nearly an hour about how inaccurate that is, since polar bears and penguins don’t live in the same place. She demanded that I tell her why we put them on the label together.
I didn’t last much longer after that.
Gingersnap In Iowa 1 day ago
But the fact that the polar bear and penguin are wearing hats and scarves wasn't an issue?
Lisbeth Guz 1 day ago
Well, she's right, they don't live in the same habitat. But it's not really an issue if you also have Santa, elves, taking reindeers, and dancing snowmen
Dee Hampton 4 hours ago
That's what I am looking for in my soap: zoological and geographical precision
#17
Hospital worker, here. This happened last week.
A patient was brought into ED with a fresh, poisonous snake bite. The pharmacy was called to prep the anti venom once the species was identified.
The pharmacy then REFUSED to prepare the mixture and insisted that because the patient was ill equipped to pay for the therapy, (and that they were to be transferred to another hospital) it would be a waste and an undo expense to give them anything.
The provider, who insisted the pharmacy was wrong, had to make several demands which were all ignored. The patient was withheld the therapy and undeservingly had an increased risk to their life.
Finally, the CFO made the “call” to allow the medicine to be given—at which point the patient was already in transit to another facility.
Thanks, for profit hospitals!
Serena Myers 2 days ago
Venomous. Unless it was a garter snake or a Japanese grass snake which are both poisonous and venomous!
Thee8thsense 1 day ago
Garter snakes are poisonous and venomous?! I didn't know that.
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2x4b523p 14 hours ago (edited)
It happened in my universal healthcare country as well. High school chemistry teacher was hobby entomologist. He loved bugs and got the class excited for bugs, so much so he went bug collecting one weekend and half the class tagged along just so they can listen to him. He got bitten by venomous snake. The kids carried him out of the woods and drove him to hospital. Hospital nurse wanted to see his insurance card before they start treating him. Kids ran to fetch some higher up nurse who approved he sees a doctor even without having the dammn card on him. By then he was losing consciousness. He got treated and ended up being ok. The teacher was a legend, he influnced so many kids in his class to go on and choose chemistry related careers.
WD Jackson 15 hours ago
Some religious practices involve venomous snakes, they don't want anyone to interfere with their worship of The Great Serpent or DJT.
#18
I spent 30 minutes talking to a flat earther.
A REAL flat earther.
Kira Okah 3 hours ago
Because if you can understand why they believe in it, you have a base you can work from to teach them why it is wrong. Talking to people who believe in something false, like a conspiracy, and letting them explain their side without tearing into them is the best way to correct it.
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UnclePanda 1 day ago
I haven't said it yet, but I am prepared to use it someday. "Nagh, that's ok. You're too stupid to talk to."
Ghostchaplain16 1 day ago
Just upvoted to erase whoever downvoted you, Uncle. I'd say you found a flat-earther right here,
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Pferdchen 1 day ago
It may not be a popular opinion, but anyone who spends 30 minutes trying to reason with a flat earther isn't that much smarter than the flat earther.
Kira Okah 3 hours ago
I spent several hours talking to one, people who have been failed by the education system are actually quite reasonable when you don't talk down to them or treat them like dogsㅤhit. Have talked many people around this way, common thread of all of them is the complete failure and shambles that is the education system.
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 1 day ago
Don't get me started on the 9/11 deniers. We live a mile from the Pentagon and they love to " prove" nothing happened because the building has no visible damage.
WindySwede 1 day ago
Also they think steel needs to melt for it to lose strength!? Ask a blacksmith why they heat up steel and can hammer it even if its not melted yet! 🤦♂️
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Mel in Georgia 1 day ago
Ugh, must be like talking to a chem trail believer. I presented fact after fact and they were having none of it. She seemed like a normal, intelligent person, too. I gave up.
Kira Okah 2 hours ago
Did you ask them why they believe what they believe? Did you let them explain their side? Did you evidence or explain the presented facts? Talking round people takes time, patience, ad understanding.
Load More Replies... Peter Bear 2 hours ago
Oh, I absolutely love this, because I'm a huge Discworld fan, so I know all the rules that a flat world would have to work by, and it's so satisfying to show flat-earth idiots exactly all the ways they're wrong, in great detail.
Kira Okah 3 hours ago (edited)
I have too. I was curious as to why they thought the Earth was flat, and so spoke to them without passing judgment. It was actually a very interesting conversation; because I wasn't snapping at them, they weren't always on the defensive, so they could properly explain. Tl;dr version of answer: we are teaching information without teaching understanding. Slightly longer: a completely fㅤucked up education system not actually teaching kids WHY or SHOWING how something is known, so kids are growing up without understanding why we know a thing but instead to accept it without question; so they are trying to gain an understanding with things that they can access, which is by their own observation but they don't know how to interpret that data either, because they also haven't been taught how to do that.
#19
This girl I went to school with told me she didn’t believe in four leaf clovers. Not the “luck” part, but that they exist at all.
She said it was because she didn’t believe in things she’s never seen. She also said she didn’t believe in shooting stars until she saw one a month earlier. It also came up that she thinks the moon landing was faked so the US wouldn’t lose to the Russians. I told her I couldn’t prove the moon landing, but I’ve found four leaf clovers before and assured her they’re real.
Last week she asked if you could recycle an orange peel. Like, put it in a recycling bin.
marianne eliza 2 days ago
I guess that means she's not religious. And I doubt she's ever seen a human brain. Oh. That explains it.
Dusty's mom 20 hours ago
Gotta have a brain to see a brain. Talking about the eyes sending messages to the brain about what they are facing. Oh heck, I'll just let myself out . . .
Load More Replies... Chich the witch 14 hours ago
"Well I didn't believe in stupid people. Thanks for providing an example."
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
I'm sooooo tempted to suggest that you tell her she can take it back to the greengrocer and get another for free, but there's no blessing on intentionally misleading people - I might end up on Fox News ...
#20
When I mentioned something about prostate cancer my cousin goes, “Prostate cancer, that means a guy has no balls!”
I get confused and ask, “Do you even know where the prostate is?”
“Yeah it’s in your balls!”
Years later I still remind him of this.
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
A male really ought to know a few things about his body. Females have to know about theirs ...
#21
Arount 2 years ago, an older lady that works for our company called our IT helpdesk asking us to remotely download all her data from her company iPad (something we cant do) because she left it in the buggy of a target parking lot because it started raining and she didnt want her hair to get wet. Instead of grabbing it/ waiting/even calling target later she just left a 700 dollar iPad in the child seat of the buggy.
The second "are you kidding me" moment came when she got pissed and wanted to talk to our manager because we wouldn't call apple and make them try to download the data. She told my boss she had pictures from her daughters graduation and granddaughters' birth on it and (he usually silently ties us into any conversations people want to have about us) he told her she should consider reading the message about personal data that comes up every time she logs into a company computer.
A few weeks ago target called us to tell us that they found her iPad in the former store manager's office, he apparently wiped the data on it and was using it for himself. He forgot to remove the property control sticker from the back though.
Am I Funny? Maybe or maybe not 1 day ago
I salute thee, bravely avoiding the censors to lead the revolution.
Load More Replies... Andrew Keir 1 day ago
"Former" store manager - I get it ... But, shame the old lady was made of salt and would have washed away in the rain. Lot's wife, maybe ?
#22
I'm a professional driver in a city full of people who are on par with baboons on illegal substances for the average quality of commuter. I see all kinds of stuff.
But the #1 "Are you kidding me?" in traffic I think was when I saw a guy on the freeway (3 lanes on our side) pull over onto the left shoulder, proceed to go into reverse and **slowly crawl across all three lanes**
He was in the far left lane and missed his exit so he backed up on the opposite side and then strolled across 3 lanes of fast moving traffic. I've yet to see a more douchey maneuver that was so blatantly selfish and had total disregard for other driver's safety.
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
I'm sure he would tell you that none of that was his fault. He might even believe himself. This is an attitude the Police have to deal with, daily. Maybe, leave it to them?
#23
My license got suspended for several months because a woman with my exact name (not at all common) got caught driving without insurance and the officer mistakenly assigned the ticket to me. After finally figuring out what happened, my boyfriend and I had to take a day off work and drive an hour to the town she got the ticket in to go to court and basically prove I wasn’t her. After I was cleared it still took well over a month for my license to be reinstated. It was so inconvenient and beyond frustrating because I had done absolutely nothing wrong! Fast forward two years and I’m denied when trying to get a library card because the same woman had a late fee for a Fast and Furious 6 dvd.
Ghostchaplain16 1 day ago
In case you're wondering, Terri Robinson's comment is hidden because she used the ampersand instead of the word "at". BP's AI editors are 'naturally' assuming it means a link it in there somewhere. They are proving Luddites might not be all that bad after all.
Zig Zag Wanderer 9 hours ago (edited)
It's not an ampersand btw. It's just "the 'at' symbol". Ampersands replace 'and'. Also lots of symbols like a slash cause the same. I agree about Luddites!
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Mel in Georgia 1 day ago
With this woman's record I'd be tempted to change my name! How frustrating!
#24
I’m eating Christmas brunch with my Mom, Dad, sis, SIL, niece, and nephew. Mom says “did everyone one get their Christmas money?” Sis and her family say yes. I say (lightheartedly) no. Dad grumbles at me “we’ll you don’t get any money because you don’t celebrate Christmas.” We were literally eating the Christmas brunch I made, consisting of a ton of food including filet mignon. Thanks Mom and Dad! Keep insisting she’s not your favorite, ha ha!
#25
We were doing an event at a school for some tuition program - and one question was asking what they wanted to be when they grew up. It turned into a debate since half the class said they wanted to be astronauts and one kid kept shouting how the moon landing was fake, and outer space was fake.
Man, they sure do get them while they're young.
Sally Moen 1 day ago
Outer space is fake but cell phones work because we sent up satellites in our upper atmosphere, so I wonder what is outside of our planet's atmosphere then?
#26
Going to the dreaded blue store and a woman on her phone nearly pulls into me (big blue dodge van) as she suddenly decides she needs to be in the turn lane and then nearly rear ends me because she assumed we would just continue to go when the light changed to red (there were two cars ahead of me too). If that wasn’t bad enough she nearly hits me again in the parking lot as she drives across the parking spots and has the nerve to flip me off when I honk at her to stop her from slamming into me.
Kelly Scott 21 hours ago
We have a 35mph road in my neighborhood and because there's so many people walking along it or biking or what not, I usually go 35mph. I may be the only one, though, so I pull over for the idiots who want to do 50+. I pulled over for one guy and I guess he was going faster than usual because he almost hit me as I was slowing down to pull over. He almost ended up in my front seat and then yelled at me and gave me the finger. All because I was pulling over so he could go fast than a posted speed limit. But then I saw him ahead pulling into a driveway, so now when I pull over for a car, I always do it in front of his house.
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
Easy to say, sitting at home, I know, but ... Flipping someone off is like swearing, it only shows that the flipper / swearer is annoyed and making childish gestures.. Don't be like them.
caraestrella 1 day ago
I had a d*****s run a not even just turned red light today and almost hit my car
#27
One time a customer noticed my engagement ring and told me that it was "the most beautiful sapphire she'd ever seen". I thanked her, but explained it was actually a topaz, to which she replied "That's absolutely a sapphire. I love sapphires, and they're my birth stone, so I KNOW a sapphire when I see one". Obviously, she didn't.
Another time that was a pretty equal " you HAVE to be kidding moment" was once when my grandmother-in-law came over. I adopted a dog that was abandoned after hurricane Harvey, and later found out she was pregnant. She's half chow and half shibe, very bright ginger and large. We kept one of her puppies, a very tiny, Solid black dog. We have a hunch that he is a schipperke, which not many people have heard of. I pulled up photos and a behavioral description of a schipperke to show her. The puppy is pretty much what they describe, so her response was "How do you know he's not a full-bred schipperke??". I said "Well, because we own his mom" and she argued back "She might be a schipperke too!". She fully knew that my sbibe/chow was the mother, and both dogs were in the room during this conversation. Couldn't believe it.
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
"A (wo)man convinced against his(her) will, Remains of that opinion still". Whatever you do, she'll be going back home and telling anyone who'll listen, and even more who won't, that you are such a stupid person you don't even know what sort of dog you have. Remove her from your memory - she doesn't deserve a single byte. Except maybe from one of the dogs.
#28
My husband’s grandma was sure carrying our baby daughter in the detachable part of the car seat was going to cause the shaken baby syndrome she had heard about on TV. A car seat designed to protect the baby in case of a car accident?
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
When someone convinces themselves about an idea, it would take a regiment of Harvard professors to un-convince them.
Kelly Scott 21 hours ago
It's usually the first thing they've ever heard that they always believe from then on and no matter how many times and ways it gets correctly explained to them later in life, that first idea they were exposed to is going to trump everything else all through their lives.
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Denied a drivers license because my birth certificate was "invalid" for having a tiny hole in the center. I waited 4 hours.
Forrest McCanless 1 day ago
In the late '70s in state of Georgia, tickets would get stapled to your license (surrendered when you got a moving violation), and you would get it mailed back when you paid the fine. Then a cop could just hold his flashlight behind your laminated plastic license, see the staple holes, and know you were a scofflaw!
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
Put some people behind a counter at a Government institution and they think they're President ...
WindySwede 1 day ago
That's why we have The Swedish Tax Agency. 👍They are far from perfect, but having an printed birth certificate feels so distant!
HangryHangryHippo 21 hours ago
This is in the US, right? I've lived in two countries and the ID I presented was well, mi ID card 🤷🏻♀️
#30
TLDR: Ex cheats on me, leaves me for him, and expects me to still pay for her brand new car.
At one point I was engaged. I was together with this girl for nearly 7 years. Her car died so I bought her a brand new one of her choice. She wanted something small and easy to drive with good storage space so she chose a Scion xD. We drove 4 hours to the next state to get one in the color that she wanted.
A few months later she's leaving me to be with an older mid 30s, unemployed, uneducated, no skills, married loser who she knows fulls well is cheating on his wife with her. He stayed at home all day while his wife worked. They would do their thing together and be sure to get him back home before his wife so she wouldn't know.
Well, here's this brand new car. It was in my name. I was making the payments. And she's leaving me to go be with this mutual cheater. I told her that she had two options regarding this car. She could either get a loan to purchase this car off of me or I'm taking the car back. I'm not going to pay ~$18,000 after interest for a car for you now.
She wasn't happy about this. She was also using my old cell phone since she broke hers. I told her that I wanted my phone back, too. After I got it back I looked at what she left on it. She deleted the contact of her new cheater fuckboy but the text messages remained. I knew his number so it was easy to see who she was talking to.
She was saying to him that I was "driving her crazy" about this car and that I wouldn't just leave her alone about it.
You think that you can leave me for the guy that you were cheating on me with and that I'm still going to pay for this brand new car of your choice for you?
**Are you kidding me?**.
#31
Smashed a cockroach with a 5 pound hammer.
It scuttled away.
If it hadnt been a friends house on a military base.,..i would have just burned it down.
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
Truly, the cockroaches will survive the end of the human race. However we manage it.
Lost Panda 1 day ago (edited)
I don't think you can have military housing without roaches and rodents. But I don't know about BOQ, but did you ever see lower enlisted married housing? There were more than a few that made me want to snap.
Load More Replies... Geobugi🇰🇷🇰🇭 9 hours ago
Cockroaches.....if there is one thing i consider a nuclear b**b they only approbiate solution, it is cockroaches....why do they exist? 😩
#32
I spent a long time saving money to go to Paris from America. For the sole purpose of spending a couple days at the Louvre. I am there just in immersing myself in an art high and boom. I bump into the nasty lady from my hometown who talked a bunch of stupid things about me to an ex and caused our breakup.
Sally Moen 1 day ago (edited)
I know people love the Louvre, but since it's the number one tourist destination in Paris (possibly 2 after the Eiffel Tower), wouldn't it be great to visit one or more of the other art exhibits and historical sites in the City of Lights? Probably would avoid the crowds of Americans if you did. Also, the Louvre has an online presence, you can see the art from your laptop or phone
Pferdchen 1 day ago
Very true, but I'd love to go to the Louvre. Not to see the Mona Lisa but to see Canova's sculpture "Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss." I have a small replica but would like to see the larger than life original.
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There used to be a minecraft server (mcsg) and for like the two year anniversary they did a live stream and they were giving away ranks. The grand prize was a rank that you weren’t able to buy and a tshirt. Now it was getting around that time when my parents yelled at me saying, “You’ll never win! Get off the dang computer!” So after a minute or two of protest I gave up. They left to go shopping a little bit later so as soon as they left I hopped back on the stream. The guy said, “ok he isn’t here lets reroll.” I asked the chat who won. Guess who it was? Meeeeeeeeee. Some nice guy won a rank that he already had and i guess he felt bad because he gave it to me.
#34
I started casually dating a guy that I met on Tinder. My best friend at the time kept going on and on about this awesome guy that she had met at the beach that also happened to live in the same town as us. My new guy informed me his brother met someone at the beach that lived in our town and that they were talking. Have you put it together yet?? Small, small world.
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
and yet, with the billions of conversations happening at any given time, the odds that *none* of them will contain 'coincidences' aren't as long as you'd think.
roddy 13 minutes ago
It’s like the birthday paradox. People don’t realize the chances of say, running into someone you know (anyone, not a particular person) in an unusual place (anywhere, not somewhere previously specified) and at no specific time, are actually high. It will happen to everyone probably more than once in their lifetimes and they will imagine it was a one-in-a-million chance or something. Not so.
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Told this story before but here we go.
TL;DR: Boyfriends friends threw him two birthday parties back to back and forgot to invite us to both, while posting all over Snapchat about the parties.
My boyfriend's 21st birthday was on a friday. It wasn't one of the big ones, so he just wanted to hang out with a couple friends and have a few drinks. So his friends are like "yeah we'll all go to the trailer and party, we'll text you when we're all ready".
Bf and I go home and get ready and wait for the text. 4 hours later, bf checks Snapchat and all his buddies are partying, at the trailer. We never got the text. He's understandably upset, so I suggested we just go there anyway, maybe the text didn't go through cause service is notoriously bad. He's upset though, so we just had a quiet evening in, watched a movie and shared a couple bottles of wine.
Next day, bf texts the group chat like "what? why didn't anyone text me". Cue a slew of texts from everybody apologizing, all saying they'd make it up to him that night, they'd get back to him with a time (this was early afternoon)
Well wouldn't ya know it, the SAME THING happened that night. He promptly dropped those friends from his life.
#36
You know that feeling when you drop something? Then you try to pick it up six or seven times and your hands just can't GRAB IT? It just keeps slipping out of your hands and you just stare at it like "fine. This is your home now. On the floor like the dirt you are.".
Andrew Keir 1 day ago
For me, it's the times when I've dropped one thing, maybe even caught it but dropped 6 other things (much more fragile) as a result. If you listen carefully at such a time, you can hear Dame Fortune snicker ...
#37
Last week I forgot my keys inside the house and I didn’t find out until I drove all the way home and walked up three flights of stairs and couldn’t get in the door. So then I realize I need to drive to my husbands job because he won’t be home for hours. I drove there, grabbed his keys and I’m on my way back home and just as I’m unlocking the door my dang phone dings telling me he gave me his car keys too so I need to come back. So at this point I’m furious because I just worked 9 hours and have wasted over 2 hours in the car due to pure stupidity. What a great day....
EDIT: No the keys are not on the same ring, and there is a reason for this. One time I locked my keys in the car and I couldn’t get into the house to get my spare car key because they were all on one ring. So since then I keep them separate.
marianne eliza 2 days ago
I keep a spare car and house key in a zippered pocket in my purse. Get locked out once and you learn a lesson.
Ervin Conn 1 day ago
I also keep my car and house keys separated. I also keep a spare house key in the garage so I can get it by opening the garage door from the car.
#38
My boyfriend (gay couple, so the stereotype makes this 10x worse) was looking up who the voice actor for Sephiroth from Kingdom Hearts was. He says "Lance Bass", and I'm like "oh dang! from Nsync?"
He has no idea who Nsync is. We live in America, we're both 90's kids in our mid-20's. I listed off a couple songs and he still had no idea. I've never been so taken aback by something like that.
Lost Panda 1 day ago
An extremely popular US boyband in the 90s. Extra "are you kidding me" points because they were big within the gay community as well.
Load More Replies... Pferdchen 1 day ago
A lady friend and I went to one of the best dance clubs in town which was, unsurprisingly, a predominantly gay bar. While we were dancing to a song I enjoyed, I asked a fellow if he knew the song and the artist. He looked me up and down like I was from Mars and answered "Madonna." 🤣
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FlagCityDiva 1 day ago
I was in the military when I got married. I go to headquarters to change my name. I'm told I can't use my married name until the change is officially approved. I tell the clerk that was fine. I'd had my maiden name for over 20 years so a few weeks wouldn't be a big deal. Then I'm told I can't use my maiden name because I submitted a name change. When I asked what I should do, I was told not to sign anything. For six weeks. In the military.
Little Bit 19 hours ago
We sell gas cylinders where I work and one day a regular customer who usually bought one cylinder at a time insisted that he wanted three cylinders. As I was processing the paperwork he said, "I'm really not very happy." I asked why and he said, "It’s much more expensive than it usually is." I said, "That's because you've bought three cylinders today instead of just one."
Darrel Fildes 1 day ago
Worked with a lady that had a severe allergy to meat protein so was vegan and everyone knew this. Another lady who I can only describe as Jessica Simpsons dumber sister approached her one day and said "I know you can't eat meat but you can eat chicken, right? " SMH!
FlagCityDiva 1 day ago
I was in the military when I got married. I go to headquarters to change my name. I'm told I can't use my married name until the change is officially approved. I tell the clerk that was fine. I'd had my maiden name for over 20 years so a few weeks wouldn't be a big deal. Then I'm told I can't use my maiden name because I submitted a name change. When I asked what I should do, I was told not to sign anything. For six weeks. In the military.
Little Bit 19 hours ago
We sell gas cylinders where I work and one day a regular customer who usually bought one cylinder at a time insisted that he wanted three cylinders. As I was processing the paperwork he said, "I'm really not very happy." I asked why and he said, "It’s much more expensive than it usually is." I said, "That's because you've bought three cylinders today instead of just one."
Darrel Fildes 1 day ago
Worked with a lady that had a severe allergy to meat protein so was vegan and everyone knew this. Another lady who I can only describe as Jessica Simpsons dumber sister approached her one day and said "I know you can't eat meat but you can eat chicken, right? " SMH!
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