We're all born with a clean slate. Growing up, we soak up our surroundings, filling our brains with information, most of the time without even being aware of it. At one point we start looking at the world with a little helper on our shoulder, called "common sense." And while some "truths" don't stand the test of time and change when they are challenged, we're talking about more mundane things today.
One Reddit user was curious about the most "out of touch with reality" people that others have witnessed, and let's just say people were eager to share their bizarre experiences. Over 33.6k users shared stories of meeting people who surprised them with their sheer ignorance, wild beliefs that have no support, and lack of what seems to be basic know-how needed to just stay alive.
Bored Panda's selected the most captivating stories that left us wondering how these people managed to miss the learning opportunities throughout life, and while most of the answers seem ridiculous, maybe some will actually add to the pile of knowledge in your subconscious. And if you are intrigued by the delusion, you can check our last post on this topic right here.
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As a public defender I was defending a Chinese woman charged with prostitution at a massage parlor. I suspected she might be a victim of sex trafficking and spoke to the judge in her chambers about it (some counties have programs designed to help victims, instead of punish them). Not only did the judge not believe my client was a sex slave, she didn't think sex trafficking even existed and told me that everyone needs to be responsible for their own actions. I eventually convinced the DA to drop the charges but was astounded by how out of touch the judge was. It's one thing not to believe that my client was a victim, but it's incomprehensible that a judge would not be aware that sex trafficking is a thing.
I was in family court this year. I explained to the judge that my daughter had Ehlers Danlos syndrome and autonomic dystonia. The judge looked at me like I was a crazy liar and said "I do have a little medical knowledge and have never heard of this mumbo-jumbo" and "Did a real doctor actually diagnose her?!". Freaking God...we had spent the last two years trying to figure out what was ailing my daughter. Multiple specialists provided diagnoses. The obstinate ignorance of that judge shattered me. I have no faith in the justice system.
Had a coworker ask me what denomination I am. I replied I don't believe in god.
She was so dumbfounded that she didn't have a reply. 3 days later she came back and asked if I was worried about going to hell, or what jesus would think. Had to explain I didn't believe in those either.
She had no idea atheism existed. She was told in church that atheists were just people who were mad at god, but she thought that still meant they were religious.
She was 43 years old.
Frankly, at that point it's willful ignorance or stupidity
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There are a lot of these people around. They don't understand atheism because they cannot imagine a world without their particular god. Their idea of an atheist is someone who knows that there is a god but doesn't want to believe for whatever reason.
It's even worse with mormon and jehova missionaries over here. What do you mean these Europeans in a majority atheist country aren't immediately bowing down to our extremely america-centric religion in fear of the apocalypse?
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One place I worked was loaded with “church ladies”, who were always proselytizing at work, trying to get people to convert and come to their evangelical church. Yeah, THAT kind of church lady. I remember being in my cubicle working, when three of them, who didn’t see me there, started talking about me. I had already said I was agnostic, and that just stuck in their craws. They made comments about me going to hell but that THEY KNEW THEY were going to heaven because of their excellent relationship to God and Jesus. These were not the nicest, kindest people who “lived by the Golden Rule” that I have ever encountered. Quite the opposite. They also didn’t know what agnosticism is, and thought I was an atheist, so add their ignorance to the list. When I had had enough of listening to them trash me, I popped up, smiled, and said I was going to visit HR and tell them about the religious discrimination I was experiencing in my now toxic workplace. You should’ve seen the look on their faces. They all got called in to HR, along with our department manager, for a good talking to about discriminating against someone on the basis of their religion—-or non-religion. Then there was a company wide announcement reinforcing that that kind of discrimination would NOT be tolerated. They never said another word to, or about, me.
Ironically, in the Gospels, Jesus went out of his way to show that he couldn't stand people like your co-workers, people who used religion as a mask for bullying and condescension. In the end, those were precisely the people who turned him over to the Romans to be killed.
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I had a colleague who found out I am agnostic. Later when I talked about an event and “the difference between right and wrong” he was genuinely confounded. He asked me how I knew about morality if I wasn’t religious.
ask him how he knows about morality if he is religious. After all, religion tells you to kill your own children. Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Load More Replies... As the old story from Northern Ireland goes: some stranger was asked in pub whether he's Catholic or Protestant. He answered atheist. Further question was: right, but you're Catholic or Protestant atheist?
A woman once told me that she has no idea how I get through a single day without god. All I kept thinking was how bad is her life that she could not get through one day without god? It blew my mind someone is so dependent on an imaginary friend.
Lmao describing god as an imaginary friend! I will steal that phrase. Also lmao at autocorrect changing god to gif!
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My mother still thinks I'm "just rebelling against God". I'm 53... and a Pagan
Tell her that she's just rebelling against Zeus.
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I’m religious and quite sensible, if you’ll excuse me. Some of us aren’t batshit crazy ;)
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When I met my boyfriend's sister-in-law and she found out I was Jewish She was very concerned that I was going to hell. I was very concerned that she had a driver's license and was raising children.
I had fellow students tell me (they were in pre-med--not me) that they were surprised the professors were allowed to tell them such lies in their science classes. Nothing outside the Bible had ever been taught to them. Don't know if they made it on to become doctors.
They shouldn't be allowed in medical school. God doesn't cure people. Doctors do.
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I have one friend who is an Orthodox Jew. A few weeks ago, she made a comment (at this point, I have forgotten what it was) and said that it was a fact, and the truth. I told her that it was her opinion, and nothing more. She kept insisting that it was the truth because it said so in the Bible. Yeah, and who wrote the Bible, I inquired. I respect people's right to have faith, but religious fanaticism is beyond me.
Some religious people claim "Atheism is a religion!" Atheism is a religion like invisible is a color.
Religion relies on keeping people ignorant and obedient.
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We aren't mad at god. We can't be mad at something we don't believe exists. We often come into conflict with THE CHURCH, and that can be infuriating. That would make us apostates as well.
My parents have been going to a fundamental Christian church for a few decades now. Lots and lots of the younger people whose parents were heavily involved in the church turned out like this. Sheltered to the point that A LOT of them ended up drug addicts once they got out into the real world.
I also believed everyone believed in some kind of God(not necessarily the God I was raised to believe in). But then I grew up
Wonder if Ganglebot really is an atheist or agnostic. FYI: Atheism is the doctrine or belief that there is no god. In contrast, the word agnostic refers to a person who neither believes nor disbelieves in a god or religious doctrine.
That's what I thought too, but Jessica Bertram (comment above) asserts differently based on the literal translations of the words "atheist" and "agnostic". I'm not sure I agree with them, based on 2 things. 1) We all know words don't always mean exactly what their literal translation would suggest, and 2) words change meaning with usage over time. Besides, I like the idea of being able to quickly distinguish between someone who *believes* there is no God and someone who admits they don't know either way. Having said that, I don't know anything about the etymology of those terms, and Jessica sounds like they do.
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If there is a God, and he wants all of humankind to live their lives in a certain way, so much so that he gave us an instruction book.......don't you think he'd have given everyone the same book?
I had a coworker ask me what church i went to. When i told her I wasnt christian she said “oh so you’re a lapsed christian?”. Umm no. She couldnt fathom that there are people who aren’t and have never been christian.
"Oi, no, I'm Jewish. And your own Bible shows that Christians are just lapsed Jews. So stop on by the temple this weekend. And remember - come on Saturday, not Sunday.""
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Or the girl that thought that telling human male skeletons from female skeletons was as simple as counting the ribs. The male will have one less rib.
Once took a witch spell book to work to read on during my break. One coworker saw it, went to a shift lead, who promptly said, "Whatever she does, it's her business. Stick to your own."
I am actually afraid for the US children. What kind of education do they get?
Abysmal. I’ve learned recently certain classes have been curtailed to drastic funding cuts. Things like STEM is truly lacking. Did you know that over 80 years American high schools taught home economics but now do not? I don’t know if you have something similar in your country but home economics taught cooking, grocery shopping, childcare, balancing a checkbook, basic sewing, how to do ironing and laundry. Just basically know how to be an independent adult. Now we have a generation of adults who constantly go to mother for food because they can’t cook, wash their own clothes or even put a button a shirt. Sad but true. It was a mandatory class when I grew up. And many boys took the class too. Just like many girls took auto shop or wood shop in school too. Kids today in this country really have a hard time living alone and too dependent on their parents for basics.
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I have a friend who is very religious. She told me that she was worried her best friend was going to hell because she didn't have a religion. Her BEST FRIEND! I replied that I guessed I being seeing the friend there because I'm not religious either. I just don't understand how grown adults can believe in something that sounds like the plot of a fantasy novel.
Brush the Bible bangers back with this: Fundamentalist Christians, stemming from Calvinism onward have braced the self-contradictory concept of "sola scriptura." Believing anything without evidence or logic is insanity. So when you believe only what the Bible tells you, then how do you believe the Bible? Because it told you to believe it? It's irrational and illogical. And im a practicing Catholic - (even though I don't side with the Church on many things.). No more drones!!!
Atheism is the surest route to Heaven, but only if you're a good person. Would a god want someone there who was there only because they were afraid of Hell and wanted the reward of Heaven, or would he want someone there who was genuinely a good person with the divine deal as motivation? They would be his proudest work, and the only way to guarantee sincerity in a case like this is to not believe in the divine deal, including the final judge.
Or "Christians" who only believe in the bible and if you're not "saved" you'll go to hell. There are 5,000 organized religions in the world and MOST of them have NOTHING to do with Jesus. Are you seriously trying to tell me some kind little bushman in Africa is going to hell because he never heard of JC? Main reason I quit going to church.
This is a prime example of why all the good and caring believers still don't make the belief itself reasonable, useful, good or true. It's bogus, brainwashery and controlling. Serves no good that relies on the extranatural ("supernatural" would indicate something above nature exists - there isn't even a hierarchical structure there, as nature is everything that is, period...).
I like to think of religion like abstract art. A whole group of people looking at the same thing and seeing something different that might not even have been the vision of the the creator. Personally I prefer to align with existentialist and even some nihilist philosophy. "The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.” -Albert Camus" something about that concept was oddly reassuring. Though the nicer way to put it is that there is no reason for why we exist so it is up to each of us to decide our own reason for existing even if it's small or insignificant to someone else.
Some years ago, I worked in a mailroom. The boss of my boss was talking about one of her family members, who had some kind of emergency, and had to come up with $30,000. She said to my boss and I...and I'll never forget this: "I don't understand the problem..I mean, who DOESN'T have $30,000 saved for an emergency?!?" .....B***h, I work in a mailroom.
Epilogue: I have been out of the mailroom for 8 years....I still don't have an extra $30,000 lying around.
I live in london as a welfare rep for American students. Knowing that American college costs a bundle, and the programme to come over costs a load too, these students tend to be the richest and whitest of suburbia.
One day the WiFi went down and I may as well have told them that there was no drinking water in the U.K.
About 40 students were knocking on my door telling me it wasn't acceptable and that they were calling their 'daddys' to sort it "My daddy is a lawyer, so if you think you're getting money for this accomodation when I haven't had WiFi you've got another think coming." (that sorta thing!)
I tried to calm them down, let them know it would be back on in an hour or two when one of them said the following line;
"You can't blame us for being upset, we grew up in 'THE FIRST WORLD'"...
I was flabbergasted, not only did she talk about being from 'the first world' (who does that) like that is something to be proud of. But her entire arguament was 'Everything in my life has always been easy and perfect... how dare you take away the most minor of utilities for 3 hours'
I despair
We were at a table, 6 of us, eating.
The conversation turned to jobs/employment. One of the guys, a rich kid that had most of his life handed to him, including his tech job at mommy's company, made the comment that he didn't understand why if someone couldn't find a job, they just didn't go back to school, get a degree, and try some more.
He couldn't understand two things.
One, *most* family's cannot support an unemployed adult student for the time it takes to get a degree.
Two, the jaw dropping one, was he thought that ALL colleges, EVERYWHERE, were FREE.
His 'logic' was that students go to college straight from high school and 'they don't have money' so how else could they afford school.
We live in the U.S. and this guy was *27 years old*!
And we had to tell him school costs money......
Through my school system’s program I can take community college classes and even after all the county’s deductions I still have to pay! Unless you can bribe quite a few people, your college will not be free in the US
My brother's best friend married a pretty rich girl. He said the first time he saw her do laundry she was going through her pockets and throwing her loose change in the garbage. She had no idea that people kept their change. Genuinely thought everyone just threw it away.
I had to give my friend the sex talk... Junior year of high school.
Before that, he thought you took your wife to the hospital, they put you in a room, you peed on her and the baby would be conceived... Sweet Jesus.
I'm so glad that i got my education in a country with proper sex-ed. Sex differences in 4th grade, detailed anatomy, pregnancy, STDs and protection methodes in 6th/7th grade and finally genetics and biochemical processes in 10th grade
Went on a trip with an ex to Asia. She didn't like it because she couldn't understand why people didn't speak English. So she would just yell at them, I need a napkin! Bathroom, where?!
I pretty much told her to have some respect for people. Talk to them politely. She got all mad and fussy at me the whole trip.
My dad was in the US Marines for Desert Storm and Desert Shield and had to escort a fallen soldier home for his funeral. When he attended the wake, the family was understandably upset except for the father. After talking to him, he explained that he knew his son had been selected to be a secret agent and that the body in the coffin couldn't possibly be his son. Very sad.
Knew a guy who was really into rage against the machine, and getting pretty radicalized about government.
One day thought he was being tailed by the FBI, so he threw it in reverse and rammed the car.
Turns out it was the FBI. He was on a watch list, and now he's in prison.
Oooooh this question is perfect for me.
I grew up in the richest and whitest of suburbia. Everyone I knew had a doctor/lawyer/CEO for a dad it felt like. Where do I even start?
- I knew a girl who didn't want to go to school in the 8th grade... So her parents paid her. $400 a week just to *show up* to middle school. She's now addicted to pills and not going to college.
- One time I was at a friend's lake house and they asked if they could come to mine next weekend. When I told them I didn't have one they were actually floored. Everyone has one of those, right? Similar thing happened a few times with country clubs.
This one is the best:
- I went to France on a school trip (I know, I know) with another school from my area. I saw one of the girls from the other school who I had made friends with over the course of the trip crying. I went and asked her what was wrong and she said she found out her maid got deported back to Bolivia. I was like "that sucks was she really cool or something?"
Nope. She didn't even speak English. The girl was just pissed she'd have to clean for herself until they got a new one. Then come to find out that wasn't even their only maid... They were going from 2 maids to 1 for like a week or two and it was the worst thing that had ever happened to her.
My dad's a doctor and honestly I'll admit to having been quite spoiled as a child but this is insane! I think the only "rich kid" moment I had was being confused when I visited a friend at their apartment since the setup reminded me of a hotel with the entry doors in a hallway. I had never seen that before and was confused if they were living in a long term hotel or something. I was like 20. Not my smartest moment. He's my best friend and im still teased about it 15 years later.😂🤦♀️
My father, by far. But the coin incident was the farthest from reality he's ever been.
My dad collects coins, because his extremely Hungarian immigrant grandfather convinced him that the Bank (capitalizing it because to him, all banks are just one huge world bank) is determined to steal all his money from him, so he has to have a backup plan. This in and of itself isn't too extreme; plenty of people choose self-sustenance due to a distrust in government and economics, but the real kicker happened when he tried to roll his coins.
He has to order his coin rolls online because he doesn't want to go to the bank and get coin rolls because then the bank will know how much money he's hiding from them. I'm not kidding. Anyway, he ordered a bag of coin rolls and waited about a month for them to come before he started getting curious where they were. He asked my mom to check the order tracking while he was at work one day, which led to this conversation:
Mom: [Dad's name], it says here that the package made it to [town we live in] two weeks ago, but got sent back. It says you gave no delivery address.
Dad: Yeah, why would I do that? I don't want them to know where I live, they might tell everyone.
I've never heard of a store shipping product without an address.
Got a good one. I went to school in At UBC for a year and lived in the dorms. One of the super rich Chinese kids that populated my school lived on the same floor as me. Her first day there she took a shower in the public bathroom and then just left all her clothes strewn about. She assumed the maid would come pick them up an wash them.
I looked it up. OP specifies "Chinese" because the students from China make up a very large and specific (exceptionally rich to the point of being culturally distinct) demographic at the University of British Columbia. OP's shorthand description doesn't translate well for those of us that had to even look up "UBC".
About 3 years ago and I had a young woman, probably early 20s, come into the cafe I work at. She ordered herself and drink and a pastry of some sort. Her total around $6. She proceeded to hand me a 1 dollar bill and 6 quarters. I took the money and waited for her to procure more but she just stood there staring at me. I told her, "I'm sorry, it's $6.87," or whatever. She says, "I know I gave you 7." I said, "No, this is only $2.25." She took the money from my hand and counted each item in front of me like I was stupid, counting each item as $1. I pointed to the quarters ans told her, "Those are quarters, not dollars." Keep in mind this person was obviously not foreign or anything. She had no accent and seemed completely American. Anyway, her response was, "I know they're quarters, but they're dollars." She then proceeded to pick up one of the quarters and point to the word "dollar" inscribed on the bottom beneath George's head. At this point I was thinking, this is the single dumbest person I've ever seen or this is the worst con ever conceived, but she didn't give up. She demanded to speak to a manager. I got the manager and he told her the same thing. She started getting visibly upset, and holding back tears. She might have been embarressed. Best I can figure is that she somehow never learned about money and change somehow and used it so rarely that she assumed quarters were dollars because technically the word "dollar" was on the coin.
"You don't have to go to college and I'm not helping you with fafsa because Armageddon is coming soon and we'll all be in a heavenly paradise. You should spend your time going door to door in the field ministry until Armageddon comes instead." - my mom.
It's hard when you come to the realization that one or both of your parents are dumb as a stump.
I had a friend who was going to Greece with her family and asked me to come. I told her "sorry, I'd like to but that's too expensive." She responded with "just ask your parents to pay, I'm sure they will." I could not for the life of me convince her that no, my parents would not pay to send me to Greece. She literally could not wrap her mind around the fact that some people's parents would not pay for them to go on vacation.
My grandmother told me women especially moms can't be alcoholics. It's just not possible. Only men are alcoholics because no matter what women don't have it in them and don't have time to be alcoholics. And that everyone always know who is an alcoholic and who isn't. If someone is an alcoholic they always show it in some way you can't act happy and be an alcoholic! My moms an alcoholic and obviously grandma is in denial and struggling to accept it despite the fact that her own sister died from health issues caused by drinking. But yeah women can't be alcoholics.
I dated a girl who was an alcoholic and it was a nightmare. Fine when sober but when drunk most unreasonable and aggressive and frankly stupid.
I work at a recording studio. The amount of people who think they're going to be the next big thing is scary.
I have a co-worker who once got visibly upset because I said he was about the same age as my parents.
He's 51. My parents are 53.
I'd like to point out that I didn't just say this out of the blue. He asked how old my parents were, and I knew his age, so I made the comparison. He also said things like "I work out you know, I'm stronger than guys half my age". Very much a man child in denial.
I've met a few people who are really brilliant in one field, yet lack even the most basic level of sense in certain areas outside of it. Sort of like the thing about Einstein not being able to tie his shoes (if that's true).
My favorite was a university professor: absolutely brilliant knowledge of middle eastern politics, particularly around the Israel-Palestine conflict. He could remember insanely precise historical details going back thousands of years, and seemed to understand the subtlest of nuances on both sides of the conflict. His lectures were amazing. Or they would have been, if he had turned off his cell phone. He simply couldn't figure out how to silence his phone, or even turn it on and off. He had let his TA do it for him a couple of times, but then he'd leave with it still off and couldn't figure out how to turn it back on until he came back the next day, so after going through that twice he decided he would just leave it on. And it appeared that every telemarketer on earth had his number, because it would ring at least 5 times an hour at full volume, and he'd just talk over the top of it like it wasn't happening. He also never answered his email, because he apparently didn't realize that he had one or might need to use it.
One day he'd forgotten to bring his little water jug, and sent his TA to the vending machine in the middle of a lecture to bring him a bottle of water. She brought it back and handed it to him, and he turned red in the face trying to get it open, before handing it back to her and declaring that something was wrong with it. She opened it quickly and easily: he'd been turning the cap the wrong way.
I should specify here that this was not a super old guy who you'd expect to have issues with technology and life in general: he was in his mid or late 40's.
Oh, I worked in academe for years as a secretary. All of the secretaries shared stories about the faculty's cluelessness. One of the funniest was when a visiting professor asked for some Wite Out, then proceeded to white out the expiration date on her driver's license, put it into the typewriter, and type in a new date.
I used to work in a pizza place and my boss (the owner) was one of the strangest guys I've ever met.
He used to tell me that the world was run by "reptilian aliens" and that the moon was their base. He knew this because NASA once hit something off the moon and it "sounded like a bell" and thus must be hollow and full of lizard people.
Left that job after 3 weeks.
A guy I know once told me that dinosaurs were a hoax. And dinosaur bones were floating in space when God formed the Earth, that's why they're trapped in the ground.
My friend during high shool had all the videogame consoles from the current generation as soon as they were released. Along with a bunch of games. My parents could afford new consoles only 2 years after release (in Brazil, games are EXPENSIVE). My friend would argue why my father didn't work more to make more money, because whenever his father wanted more money, he'd make extra hours. His father was a director of a big car tires company.
Ok. so I was 15, and working at McDonalds. I was at the back window where you take peoples money. A customer came, and blew past the back speaker where you order. That was pretty typical, so I figured it was just a normal mistake.
When they get to my window it is the very old lady. She smiles at me, holds a grocery bag up, with frozen chicken and a two liter of soda. She holds out a 20$ bill and asks "how much for the chicken and soda?"
15 year old me didn't have the coping skills for this. I stared at her for what felt like forever. Finally I said "Uh, I think you're confused".. She drove off, with her car half way over the curb.
I have the misfortune of knowing American politician, Wendy Rogers. The woman is absolutely bat s**t crazy and stupid. She makes Trump look like an actual stable genius. Anyways. A few years back, a group of pro-lifers burnt down the Planned Parenthood in a severely impoverished community. A year later, the number of government assistance recipients almost doubled from the previous year. Wendy couldn’t put two and two together. I had to explain that many families in the community relied on PP for free condoms and birth control to prevent unwanted pregnancy. Without those services women were having babies they couldn’t afford to feed and thus, needed government assistance. Wendy said that wasn’t an excuse because condoms are only 25 cents at the gas station and everyone has 25 cents. I then had to explain that most of these people can’t afford a $1 loaf of bread so there’s no way they have 25 cents to spare. Her reply? “Surely preventing pregnancy is more important than feeding their kids.”
I ran out of room. I highly recommend googling Wendy. She frequently pops up on Reddit because of the stupid s**t she says.
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When my daughter was about 13 years old I had a friend who had a 9-month-old baby. My daughter asked if she could hold the baby and my friend asked if she was on her period. Of course I was confused and asked her why that would matter. She looked at me like I was the crazy one and proceeded to tell me the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!! She said," Don't you know that if your daughter is on her period and has cramps she can give them to my son?" Of course I had a lot of questions! I asked her how she thought my daughter possibly having cramps would affect her son. She explained that the hormones my daughter would be giving off would cause him to have cramps too. I asked her where would he be getting cramps on his body because he doesn't have the same parts as her. She then fumbled around trying to explain that the same place my daughter would get cramps her son would get cramps. I then open my laptop and some of my nursing school books and gave her a full health lesson! I had to explain to her what a uterus was or babies come out how babies are made the difference between the two genders. And after 45 minutes of that she still said that she doesn't quite believe it and that she seen it happen before. We weren't friends after that. It's one thing to have never learned something it's another thing to dig your heels in on stupid and die on that hill of crazy!
I've removed every dumb mf'er and vaguely bigoted person from my life and I've been incredibly happy since. Sometimes it's not about bringing good into your life, it's about removing the bad.
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My cousin once dated girl from very rich family. She was like child. Never been in public transport before, so she was all excited about it. Until she found out that public transport does not stop in front of her house.
I had this friend who did not know how to open a bottle of wine cause he had people do it for him. When my toilet broke he also said 'why dont you go to the one upstairs' i dont have a second bathroom heck i dont even have an upstairs
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A police woman was getting tattooed one day at my shop, and this was right after that tsunami in Thailand. She just couldn't understand why so many ppl died cause, "They live on a island don't they know how to swim?"
A very large percentage of the dead were women, precisely because they'd never learned to swim. Well, that and wearing yards and yards of fabric. Christina Fonfe started up a swim school for women after the tsunami that carries on to this day. __ http://www.icanswimcanyou.com/news_list.asp?lang=en
Load More Replies... One of my best friends, god love her, doesn’t have to work because her husband takes care of everything and she has an easy life. She’s a doll but a little clueless. When me and another friend were talking about how sick we are of working full time, especially during the warm months, she said “why don’t you guys just take summers off?” We had to explain that most people have to work year round and our bosses won’t simply let us take 3-4 months off and come back to work after.
I had a friend who was somewhat older than I am, and she was a teacher. She could never understand that other people didn't have the summer off. I was a police officer; I told her that crime doesn't stop in the summer.
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I had a heated discussion with one of my friends because he kept blaming his behavior on a variety of allergies, some days it was an artificial food coloring, other days it was that he was allergic to paper. Then he mentioned that he was going to a chiropractor that was a member of our church to treat his allergies. I tried explaining that the immune system and the skeletal system just don't interact in any way that make treating allergies with chiropractic techniques plausible. I'm not much of an expert in either so I didn't do a very good job and we had to end the discussion agreeing to disagree.
I do get what you are saying but its not the immune system per se. That is more like an intolerance. Its hystamine going crazy for no reason? I dont fully understand it either. I just know i have a ton of allergies and am prone to creating new ones for some reason, getring more every year and i can tell you, no one ever has suggested me to go to a chiropractor
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Girl I knew in uni refused to believe I got an academic scholarship b/c I claimed to be a farm kid. She didn't believe I eally lived out in the sticks, on a farm. So we all took a road trip to see my family. We get out of the car, she realizes the only thing besides farms is trees and hills to the horizon, and she said in utter shock, "Holy sh*t, you really are a dumb farmer!" She went on to get a PhD at an Ivy League university, and I always wonder if she ever just walked under a bus b/c the bus was beneath her notice...
She must think her food "grows" in the supermarket.
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A story that comes to mind is the YouTube channel Good Good. They're a golf channel, mostly made up of guys in their early-mid 20s. A very successful group of young men. Anyway, I enjoyed their YouTube videos (instructional videos, games, lots of different stuff, all golf-related), so I decided to check our their podcast. Turns out the podcast is not limited to golf, and they'll talk about anything. In a recent episode, the topic of engagement rings came up, and they were discussing how much you should spend on a ring. "The equivalent of three months' salary" seemed to be the consensus, although one of the guys was absolutely flabbergasted at that. No way was he paying three months' salary on a ring. No way. Uh-uh. So, the others asked him how much he would pay, if three months' salary was too much. In the end, he settled on $20,000. Not a penny more. His complete lack of touch with what is considered a lot of money made me switch the podcast off.
Three months salary is always too much, no matter how much you earn. I‘m a woman, by the way.
Load More Replies... I was working two jobs - as a receptionist and a hostess - and really struggling. My well-paid boss at the receptionist job, who knew full well what I made, couldn’t understand that I wasn’t working my second job just to have a little extra “fun” money. After she brought it up a few times, I told her that was I was working two jobs because it I had to in order to pay my bills. She was offended and thought I was ungrateful that she had hired me. She was then furious when I quit to go back to school in hopes of getting out of poverty.
My middle school best friend once told me that my parents couldn't afford vacations and better toys because if they knew that having kids was expensive why didn't they only had one, then they would be able to afford expensive toys. And I was like, you know I'm the youngest right?
My boss will go on about growing up poor but I really feel life has made her out of touch since then. She is an executive at a university and makes SO much money. She buys starbucks every day, is able to shop for a diverse spread of food for rich meals at home, has a huge house with pool, but will go on and say "Oh, yeah, we don't have any money." I have to bite my tongue so hard as her assistant, living in a small apartment and making sure to budget the grocery list carefully each month. I don't get mad at her having things, just when she says things like "Oh, we don't have money to spend." Um, you just talked about spending thousands on fixing your pool for the season.
Sounds like lifestyle inflation/bad budgeting. It's still annoying.
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One of my suitemates in college was filthy rich, heiress to a billion dollar fortune rich, and while she was the sweetest girl, she had no concept of money at all. She did not understand why myself and another girl had to be back to campus before dining hours ended when we could just go to a restaurant. She was also flabbergasted when one of the girls got really excited because the girl got a birthday card from her grandmother with $25 in it. Rich girl came back to our suite asking why that would make her happy when all it was was $25. We had to explain that the girl, like the rest of us, was on work-study and didn't have a lot of spending money so this $25 meant she could treat herself.
The alcoholic one.. i feel that. I know an alcoholic and she came out about it so that while she got clean people would know and wouldnt push it on her or ask why or the 'come on just one'. I think it was a strong move but she was a functioning acoholic which basically mean that people now just said 'cant be that bad cause you dont look like one'. Apparantly you also have to be a hairy homeless guy on a park bench with a can of beer at 8 am or else youre lying???
I have the misfortune of knowing American politician, Wendy Rogers. The woman is absolutely bat s**t crazy and stupid. She makes Trump look like an actual stable genius. Anyways. A few years back, a group of pro-lifers burnt down the Planned Parenthood in a severely impoverished community. A year later, the number of government assistance recipients almost doubled from the previous year. Wendy couldn’t put two and two together. I had to explain that many families in the community relied on PP for free condoms and birth control to prevent unwanted pregnancy. Without those services women were having babies they couldn’t afford to feed and thus, needed government assistance. Wendy said that wasn’t an excuse because condoms are only 25 cents at the gas station and everyone has 25 cents. I then had to explain that most of these people can’t afford a $1 loaf of bread so there’s no way they have 25 cents to spare. Her reply? “Surely preventing pregnancy is more important than feeding their kids.”
I ran out of room. I highly recommend googling Wendy. She frequently pops up on Reddit because of the stupid s**t she says.
Load More Replies... When my daughter was about 13 years old I had a friend who had a 9-month-old baby. My daughter asked if she could hold the baby and my friend asked if she was on her period. Of course I was confused and asked her why that would matter. She looked at me like I was the crazy one and proceeded to tell me the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!! She said," Don't you know that if your daughter is on her period and has cramps she can give them to my son?" Of course I had a lot of questions! I asked her how she thought my daughter possibly having cramps would affect her son. She explained that the hormones my daughter would be giving off would cause him to have cramps too. I asked her where would he be getting cramps on his body because he doesn't have the same parts as her. She then fumbled around trying to explain that the same place my daughter would get cramps her son would get cramps. I then open my laptop and some of my nursing school books and gave her a full health lesson! I had to explain to her what a uterus was or babies come out how babies are made the difference between the two genders. And after 45 minutes of that she still said that she doesn't quite believe it and that she seen it happen before. We weren't friends after that. It's one thing to have never learned something it's another thing to dig your heels in on stupid and die on that hill of crazy!
I've removed every dumb mf'er and vaguely bigoted person from my life and I've been incredibly happy since. Sometimes it's not about bringing good into your life, it's about removing the bad.
Load More Replies... My cousin once dated girl from very rich family. She was like child. Never been in public transport before, so she was all excited about it. Until she found out that public transport does not stop in front of her house.
I had this friend who did not know how to open a bottle of wine cause he had people do it for him. When my toilet broke he also said 'why dont you go to the one upstairs' i dont have a second bathroom heck i dont even have an upstairs
Load More Replies... A police woman was getting tattooed one day at my shop, and this was right after that tsunami in Thailand. She just couldn't understand why so many ppl died cause, "They live on a island don't they know how to swim?"
A very large percentage of the dead were women, precisely because they'd never learned to swim. Well, that and wearing yards and yards of fabric. Christina Fonfe started up a swim school for women after the tsunami that carries on to this day. __ http://www.icanswimcanyou.com/news_list.asp?lang=en
Load More Replies... One of my best friends, god love her, doesn’t have to work because her husband takes care of everything and she has an easy life. She’s a doll but a little clueless. When me and another friend were talking about how sick we are of working full time, especially during the warm months, she said “why don’t you guys just take summers off?” We had to explain that most people have to work year round and our bosses won’t simply let us take 3-4 months off and come back to work after.
I had a friend who was somewhat older than I am, and she was a teacher. She could never understand that other people didn't have the summer off. I was a police officer; I told her that crime doesn't stop in the summer.
Load More Replies... I had a heated discussion with one of my friends because he kept blaming his behavior on a variety of allergies, some days it was an artificial food coloring, other days it was that he was allergic to paper. Then he mentioned that he was going to a chiropractor that was a member of our church to treat his allergies. I tried explaining that the immune system and the skeletal system just don't interact in any way that make treating allergies with chiropractic techniques plausible. I'm not much of an expert in either so I didn't do a very good job and we had to end the discussion agreeing to disagree.
I do get what you are saying but its not the immune system per se. That is more like an intolerance. Its hystamine going crazy for no reason? I dont fully understand it either. I just know i have a ton of allergies and am prone to creating new ones for some reason, getring more every year and i can tell you, no one ever has suggested me to go to a chiropractor
Load More Replies... Girl I knew in uni refused to believe I got an academic scholarship b/c I claimed to be a farm kid. She didn't believe I eally lived out in the sticks, on a farm. So we all took a road trip to see my family. We get out of the car, she realizes the only thing besides farms is trees and hills to the horizon, and she said in utter shock, "Holy sh*t, you really are a dumb farmer!" She went on to get a PhD at an Ivy League university, and I always wonder if she ever just walked under a bus b/c the bus was beneath her notice...
She must think her food "grows" in the supermarket.
Load More Replies... A story that comes to mind is the YouTube channel Good Good. They're a golf channel, mostly made up of guys in their early-mid 20s. A very successful group of young men. Anyway, I enjoyed their YouTube videos (instructional videos, games, lots of different stuff, all golf-related), so I decided to check our their podcast. Turns out the podcast is not limited to golf, and they'll talk about anything. In a recent episode, the topic of engagement rings came up, and they were discussing how much you should spend on a ring. "The equivalent of three months' salary" seemed to be the consensus, although one of the guys was absolutely flabbergasted at that. No way was he paying three months' salary on a ring. No way. Uh-uh. So, the others asked him how much he would pay, if three months' salary was too much. In the end, he settled on $20,000. Not a penny more. His complete lack of touch with what is considered a lot of money made me switch the podcast off.
Three months salary is always too much, no matter how much you earn. I‘m a woman, by the way.
Load More Replies... I was working two jobs - as a receptionist and a hostess - and really struggling. My well-paid boss at the receptionist job, who knew full well what I made, couldn’t understand that I wasn’t working my second job just to have a little extra “fun” money. After she brought it up a few times, I told her that was I was working two jobs because it I had to in order to pay my bills. She was offended and thought I was ungrateful that she had hired me. She was then furious when I quit to go back to school in hopes of getting out of poverty.
My middle school best friend once told me that my parents couldn't afford vacations and better toys because if they knew that having kids was expensive why didn't they only had one, then they would be able to afford expensive toys. And I was like, you know I'm the youngest right?
My boss will go on about growing up poor but I really feel life has made her out of touch since then. She is an executive at a university and makes SO much money. She buys starbucks every day, is able to shop for a diverse spread of food for rich meals at home, has a huge house with pool, but will go on and say "Oh, yeah, we don't have any money." I have to bite my tongue so hard as her assistant, living in a small apartment and making sure to budget the grocery list carefully each month. I don't get mad at her having things, just when she says things like "Oh, we don't have money to spend." Um, you just talked about spending thousands on fixing your pool for the season.
Sounds like lifestyle inflation/bad budgeting. It's still annoying.
Load More Replies... One of my suitemates in college was filthy rich, heiress to a billion dollar fortune rich, and while she was the sweetest girl, she had no concept of money at all. She did not understand why myself and another girl had to be back to campus before dining hours ended when we could just go to a restaurant. She was also flabbergasted when one of the girls got really excited because the girl got a birthday card from her grandmother with $25 in it. Rich girl came back to our suite asking why that would make her happy when all it was was $25. We had to explain that the girl, like the rest of us, was on work-study and didn't have a lot of spending money so this $25 meant she could treat herself.
The alcoholic one.. i feel that. I know an alcoholic and she came out about it so that while she got clean people would know and wouldnt push it on her or ask why or the 'come on just one'. I think it was a strong move but she was a functioning acoholic which basically mean that people now just said 'cant be that bad cause you dont look like one'. Apparantly you also have to be a hairy homeless guy on a park bench with a can of beer at 8 am or else youre lying???
