There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong
InterviewThere's a famous saying: "There is no such thing as a stupid question." Even astrophysicist Carl Sagan thought that "every question is a cry to understand the world." Yet the questions that the people in this list were asked would probably elicit an "I'm not mad, just disappointed" headshake even from Sagan.
A few months ago, one Redditor asked others to share the dumbest questions someone legitimately asked them. And, boy, did people not disappoint, as almost 8,000 netizens rushed to the comments to share some instances of others being dumb.
Bored Panda got in touch with the author of this thread, u/Isellkidsontemu. They kindly agreed to have a chat with us about what prompted them to post this question and whether there really is no such thing as a dumb question.
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A long time ago working retail, someone came up to me and asked me if I worked there, to which I replied “no ma’am I’m just a mannequin”, and she just straight up sighs and said to herself “not again Stacy, why do you always end up talking to inanimate objects. You gotta stop smoking so much, god!” and she just left. I hope Stacy’s ok.
I answered the phone on a holiday and the caller asked, "Are you open?" I replied "No, we're closed today but I had all the calls forwarded to my house".
I'm guilty of doing this because sometimes stores are in the process of closing when I call or it's an inventory day or it's an answering service. So this really isn't a stupid question
Load More Replies...That reminds me of a poem I just made up - Stacy was a stoner, and a friend of mannequins. But her days of smoking pot were coming to an end. She began to see disturbing things while in a Beaufort County diner. She though she saw some monkeys take over South Carolina.
Load More Replies...Man, OP was rude af. There are whole Reddit threads and Not Always Right posts about customers assuming any rando is an employee and yells and threatens to have them fired, and here is someone making a polite inquiry and the OP decides to be an total forking ash hole to them. And before anyone complains, I will say that nowhere in the original post says that the OP was wearing a store uniform.
I was born with one arm (the right one), and people used to ask me all the time if I was left- or right-handed. I got tired of answering such a stupid question so I started answering left and let them figure it out.
I can't belive, that is real ....we can be so stupid, and still survive ...
I mean, we got some pretty solid proof of that this week...
Load More Replies...My son was born with only his right arm and hand, he writes with lefty tendencies. Starting letters in different places like his lefty uncle does. He would write letters backwards when first learning. I think his brain is that of a lefty but obviously he's right handed. 🙃
Even before I see your response, I've the inkling that the question is a valid one. You just confirmed it. Being left or right handed is innate. It has nothing to do with body physical state.
Load More Replies...Seems like a reasonable question if they don't know you were born with one arm.
This is absolutely not a dumb question. Remember that they used to try to force left-handed people to be right-handed, and being forced since age 3 did not make them be right-handed. It just screwed them up. She could be left-handed, yet forced to use her right hand for most things.
I'm left-handed. When I first started school I was told about the children who were left-handed, but forced to hold the pen in their right hand. It made me cry, a lot.
Load More Replies...Tim Vine: I know a posh bloke whose butler is missing his left arm - he can take it, but he can't dish it out. Serves him right.
Being left or right handed has nothing to do with having or not one arm (or both). Soccer players for instance can be lefty and kick better with the left leg. When I took my very first lesson of archery, the teacher made us take a test to determine whether we were right or left eyed. We had to extend both arms in front of us, place our hands shaping a hole with the area between the thumb and index fingers and stare at the bull's eye with both eyes open (but you can choose any spot), then close first one eye and then the other without moving the hands. The eye with which you see the spot you looked at with both eyes tells you whether you are right or left eyed, and which eye you must close to aim. Of course if one or both arms are missing I guess one can still take the test using something else to look at. They also told us that you can be right handed but left eyed and vice versa, or right/left handed and eyed.
My brother-in-law's girlfriend was amazed that I had two brothers and no sisters and asked me how that is possible because she thought that humans gave birth in a boy/girl/boy/girl sequence and couldn't wrap her mind around how someone could give birth to 3 boys and no girls.
I'm not convinced that she is not some alien trying to pass off as a human and failing miserably.
Reminds me of the joke about the guy whose wife had just given birth to their second child. He told her her that he was going for a vasectomy because he'd read that every third child born in the world was Chinese, and he didn't want to have to learn a new language.
We are not Chinese. When I was born, the common saying was every fifth person born was Chinese. I was the fifth child in the family, so my older sisters called me the Chinese baby. I liked it.
Load More Replies...I’m confused: wouldn’t the brother-in-law’s girlfriend be OP’s sister?
In this case I think the BIL is the brother of OP's spouse.
Load More Replies...talking to my 80 /o friend who told me her neice was pregnant again and it was going to be another girl. Dead serious she said, "I guess she only has girl eggs." You can't make this s**t up.
Was your BIL's gf kept in a cupboard, never giving her the opportunity to see gender outcomes in other families?
The Redditor tells us that he came up with the question while one day just hanging out at home. They thought of such nonsensical questions as someone asking "Are you ok?" after they see a person falling. "[I] put it on r/AskReddit not expecting much engagement, then I wake up and my inbox is exploding! It was amazing," u/Isellkidsontemu recounts.
The Redditor doesn't agree with the famous saying that there's no such thing as a dumb question. "Some people may not know and that's okay, but there are some questions that people should just know, like two plus two is four," the Redditor says. "Unless you're in the first grade, you should know."
I was at Walmart, a worker, young kid, asked about my hat. I told her I have cancer, and the chemo caused me to loose my hair. She looked at me square in the eye and said “Did you survive?”. It took everything in my power not to say “No, I didn’t. I’m actually dead. I’m a ghost.“.
When I die, if I find myself shopping at Walmart, I'll know I'm in hell.
This is quite interesting, linguistically. I think this person was probably so familiar with the uses of "survivor" that they'd internalised it as meaning sth like "successfully treated". It's not unreasonable: we don't describe people as "cancer survivors" when they're terminal. This young person was asking if the chemo was successful. It wouldn't at all surprise me if this became idiomatic.
I asked a lady if She survived cancer. What i meant was : did you won ? Its over now or are you still fighting it ? Lucky me, She knew what i meant.
Load More Replies...I hazard a guess and say the kid meant to ask if OP beat the cancer, but just short circuited.
It was someone old enough to work at Walmart, so at least 16..
Load More Replies...Too funny! I realize the worker probably meant something else, like "have you beaten it/are you in remission?" But still, I would have been dying inside lol.
You should have. I would have. And added how fascinating my own autopsy was, except for the crunch when they opened the rib cage. I have a mean streak.
Instead of "ghost" should have gone with "zombie". Then should have gone "Brains...", sniff at kid, then turn around disappointed to wander off muttering "Brains" now and again.
Arguably, especially since it was a little kid, the meaning behind the question might have been whether or not OP was in remission. After all, you can't really be said to "have survived" until you stop going through it.
I have waist length, deep purple hair.
A clerk at the beauty supply store said "Wow, your hair looks great! Did you dye it that way?"
No, I had a tragic grape juice accident when I was four and now it just grows this way.
This is one of those questions people 'ask' just to have conversation. The lady is not genuinely asking. She's just giving you an option to talk more.
Pro Tip: Never underestimate a human. They were asking a question.
Load More Replies...When I had purple hair I had a coworker ask if it was natural (he was joking) and I said, no my dad is the Fruit of the Loom grape. He said "Really??" Here's a picture of the FOTL guys. FOTL-67303...cc3c7b.jpg
I once colored my hair red and one colleague asked if it's dye. I replied it's just beetroot juice. He took that as a genuine answer. Almost after one week someone else asked about my hair and I told them the brand and colour , this guy was so surprised and said 'but you told me it's beetroot juice '
He was a purple-people eater, not a purple people-eater. (He ate purple people, his own color was not specified in the song).
Load More Replies...Old Daffy Duck comic book. Nighttime, Daffy is flying through a downpour and takes shelter at a spooky old house. Creepy guy lets Daffy in, Daffy is dripping wet. "My goodness, you're soaking! Is it raining?" "No, I was eating Grapefruit, and it got out of control!"
She maybe also meant to ask if YOU dyed it or if it was a professional job. Either way , you are very pretty.
My mother had dementia and the Social Worker asked me "" what relation are you to your mother ?".
This reminds me of “the flat earth society has members all around the globe”
Meh, probably a form question asked in out of routine. Most of the time in medical and legal forms like that the question has to be asked even when it may appear obvious. You could be clearly in a daughter's role and calling her mom but be a DIL or just a girlfriend of the son. They can't assume when it comes to authorization of treatment stuff.
It's pretty easy to just work down a form and ask for the answer to each question. I'll also note that the OP wasn't smart enough to tell us anything about what happened before the question was asked, so maybe the SW isn't the one that's not quick to figure things out.
Load More Replies...This sounds like someone was reading off a form. Could be a MIL, step mom, someone you just call Mom. Or the social worker had to ask a list of questions no matter what.
Well I mean that could be for adoption situations, my mom's son is my legal guardian, I call her mom but legally she's my grandmother, being adopted gives me a weird family tree but once I explain it enough people get it or if they don't they just accept my family is just different
The stork silly. I was swaddled in cloth and delivered to my mother by a feathered avian dinosaur who just knew where to go. The stork was paid in fish and sunflower seeds, as is tradition. Honestly, how do you even need to ask? Sheesh... some people...
I've had to answer questions like this before now, they do have to ask them because you could be adopted or fostered, a step-child etc. It's funny admittedly if it's not a very serious situation. But legally they have to ask.
u/Isellkidsontemu says they'll probably be more cautious about asking questions after reading the many answers in the thread. "I am a little more cautious when asking questions, not accidentally saying something stupid and obvious. It's a wonder and I'm proud to have this account, never did I expect so many people to actually respond to that!"
The famous saying about dumb questions, perhaps, is more applicable to scientists. When you're in any kind of learning environment, asking questions is crucial. How else will you learn? There's apparently an African saying, "No one is without knowledge except he who asks no questions."
Someone asked me to repeat the pronunciation of my last name and followed it up with, "Are you sure?".
I had a friend named Ryan in college who always said the R Y and N are silent and the A is pronounced Muhammad. Bad joke but funny at the time. Names don't follow pronunciation guides.
I worked with a Ryan, for some reason everyone kept hearing it as Brian. I put him on the work WhatsApp as "the B is silent"
Load More Replies...I've gotten that, Asian last name in Canada tends to confuse some people. It's phonetic and I know how to pronounce my name.
According to my Mom. Of course, she also told me Santa is real, so.....
When people see my full first name they ask me if it's spelled correcly. I know how to spell my own name!
I was showing a friend a telescope and pointing out all the constellations and planets I knew, and he legitimately asked me “Where’s earth?”.
I'd have gone with, "See if you can find it." But I'm cruel.
Load More Replies...So, wait here for 365 days and earth'll circle around and pick you up.
Reminds when a reporter interviewing the the cast of 3rd Rock from the Sun asked if the series would end with them returning to their 3rd Rock
Oh my god upvote for 3rd Rock reference, I adored that show!
Load More Replies...To be honest, I would be slightly tempted to say this just to be a momentary troll 🧌
"You're standing on top of it." Reminds of the guy who asked, "Where's my hat?" (He was *wearing it*.) He got the answer "You're standing right under it."
I can easily chalk this one up to just asking without bothering to think about it. You look through the telescope, start thinking about celestial objects you're familiar with, and the list that pops into your head includes Earth as easily as it includes Mar or Jupiter. Both some of the funniest and some of the stupidest things I've said have been things that pop out of my mouth so fast it's as if my mouth doesn't even need my brain's help to say things.
"How long have you been twins?".
I had boy and girl twins and had an RN ask me if they were identical. I said, "yep, until you take their diapers off!"
Reminds me of the interviewer who asked if James and Oliver Phelbs (Fred and George Weasly) were twins in real life and they answered "No, we met at the audition"
Technically no. Not for identical twins they split a bit after that.
Load More Replies...British TV presenter, Richard Madeley, to annoying pop dou and identical twins, The Cheeky Girls: "So, are you twins or just brother and sister?" Also Madeley, this time to Irish pop group The Corrs (three sisters and their brother): "Where did you all meet?"
He was probably confused by pop groups that pretend they're related when they're not.
Load More Replies...I think some of these questions are simply brain farts. Well, at least I hope they are.
Along with "how long have you been colourblind?" Like, since conception ...
Actually (insert ironic ‘akshually’)… it is possible to become colour blind later in life through different diseases or eye conditions. The human body is an odd and fascinating thing; alien hand syndrome, auto-brewery, the fact that if your immune system knew your eyes existed it would be bye bye eyes time.
Load More Replies...That feels like a way to ask someone's age without asking their age. Like, when did you graduate high school?
You won't believe how many people ask me if my boy&girl- pair of twins are identical
Sure I would. I'd even bet good money that mot of the people who were once taught how identical and fraternal twins work have forgotten, so when they see fraternal twins that look a lot alike they don't even try to think about the process.
Load More Replies...Why are we afraid of asking questions? Because we worry we might look dumb. Naturally, no one wants to end up in a thread like this because of their intellectual failures, but sometimes we have to get off our proverbial high horse and accept that we don't know something.
Psychologist Paul E. Spector writes that "asking and answering questions can be an art and should be encouraged." People are reluctant to ask questions because they don't know what they don't know, or think they know something when they actually don't. A good instructor's job, according to him, is to make people comfortable enough so they're not afraid to ask stupid questions.
I worked at Yellowstone National Park in the early 2010s and one of the tourists, a French lady, came up and asked me when the animals were going to be brought out for people to see.
Rocky Mountain National Park, we got the same questuons. When do the elk come close to the windows so we can take pictures of them? When (date) do the deer turn into elk? Hey, put Billy on Rudolph (wild elk) so we can take a picture.
Confusing a zoo with a national park. I hope park rangers give equally stupid answers.
I think they leave it running unless there's a water shortage.
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I was at Niagara Falls with my British sister-in-law. We were looking at the section of the river right where the water goes over the falls. She asked me "Is the water very toxic, then?" I replied, "No, the great lakes is where southern Ontario gets it's drinking water. Why would you think it's toxic?" She replied, "Well, everyone who falls in the river here, dies." I had to explain that they died because they went over the Falls. This had never occurred to her.
Oh dear god! That's even wilder than the German dude who complained that the desert wasn't green
I grew up in the falls. The water is very toxic. That are signs everywhere telling people not to eat the fish they catch. Google search Love Canal. It was Erin Brockivitch before there was Erin Brockivitch
As someone who is from the western NY area I know exactly what you're talking about but as someone who has spent far too much time online I know that googling "love canal" is bound to yield some.... Interesting results
Load More Replies...Quite a few have actually survived going over the falls! I also assumed you would d1e, but it turns out you're more likely to just break all for limbs
Since 1901, approx 1/3 of the people who have attempted to go over the Canadian / horseshoe Falls have survived. But none that have gone over the American Falls have survived (there isn't a deep pool of water at the bottom, it's all rocks)
Load More Replies...Okay, this went on to long to be brushed off as a brain fart. This woman's an idiot.
"Is that your real skin?"
I think she meant to ask if I'd had cosmetic work done, but I was quite alarmed. No. No, it's not. It's a backup skin that I carved out of a turnip.
I have never met a turnip, or any other root vegetable that hasn't been sort of neglected... have you ever asked someone their favourite vegetable? Even if you have, I can pretty much guarantee no one has answered with a root vegetable. They're not pretty, they don't have an alluring flavour or aroma, and yet... without them, life would be less than it is. More so than vegetables that are prettier and better loved. As much as I love broccoli, spinach and celery... I'd miss potatoes, carrots and onions more...
Load More Replies..."No, and I have to get it back by midnight so please don't touch it"
It's not actually! I won't bore you with all the details, but there was a basket and lotion involved.
Reminds me of all the times I have been asked if my eyes are real and/or are those really my eyes? No. I have several pair in my top drawer lol
It used to belong to my girlfriend but I thought it looked prettier on me!
Girl, let me tell you something. After years of being a serial k!ller, I have more skin than I know what to do with.
Used to be a whitewater raft guide. No end of dumb questions. One was "Do the rocks (in the river) go all the way to the bottom?" No, they're those special floating rocks wtf.
Also, "do we get out where we started?" Implying the river goes in a circle, like an amusement park ride.
Thankfully, they were with a guide. Many resources have been expended rescuing Tourons.
Thanks for introducing me to a new word. I've met tourons, but not known such an efficient way to describe them. BP can be educational.
Load More Replies...A family story says the second one happened to an uncle when he was a boy/teen. Innertube floating in river next to camp ground. River - long curve. Boy gone long time. When they finally return, turns out they thought they were going to float the curve until it went full circle and came back around by the camp site. As best I understand it, he wasn't a "marroon". Just had a brain fart moment on that one.
The rocks going all the way to the bottom isn't a dumb question. They obviously meant - are there rocks all the way down the river?
Most of you won't recognize the irony of BP's choice for a photo. That raft is going over a low head dam, which very often cause recirculating currents that will drown you. That obvious curve on the particular dam will also result in the current flowing towards the center, which makes for an even more efficient drowning machine because you definitely won't escape at one of the sides. Over 1000 people have drowned in the US at low head dams, usually on a flatwater river that they expect to have no real hazards.
Which leads me to the question: are they doing it right, or is it a raft full of imminently drowned people?
Load More Replies...The kayak outfitter I use, you meet them at the end point of your trip, leave your car, and they take you upstream in a van, so you kayak back down to where you started.
Load More Replies...Floating rocks and circular rivers. Okay. Let's hope they hit one of those floaties and go round and round in circles.
Someone asked me once if bananas were vegan......their justification was "maybe they're tested on animals" *HUH*????
Weirdly enough, some bananas actually aren't vegan, since they're sprayed with a plant protection product that contains chitin derived from shrimp shells.
I know that people can experience health problems from a vegan diet but I didn't know that stupidity was one of them.
I am vegan, age 66, no health issues, no prescriptions, healthy weight, active, definitely not stupid.
Load More Replies...Yup, they are. They have a group of monkeys at every port for quality control.
"How did they train all the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park movies?".
This is one of the best uses of CGI ever. Not only the CGI is well placed, the acting is also superb.
The scene from above makes me cry every time from the beauty of it. I'm not a dinosaur person but the way the music soars here when the dino raises up and the music crashes down with it... Throw in the scenic view with "They do move in herds" and I'm messed up for the day. I also had to leave the theater for a bit during the T-Rex and car demolishing because it was unsettling. Today, I will leave the room when those mf-ing velociraptors head into the kitchen but I won't miss the moment the T-Rex roars and the banner flutters down. In my 40s now was early teens then. Still listen to the soundtrack.
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"Is it true you all live in igloos?"
Asked by someone from the deep south when I worked help desk for IBM in Canada. Dead serious.
Wait, so you don't live in an igloo with a pet polar bear?!
Load More Replies...True. I have to rent a tiny ice fishing tent. Can't afford the igloos with all this inflation!
Load More Replies...Spent years bartending, serving and managing hospitality in downtown Toronto. My favorite was the numerous times Americans would come in the middle of summer, when Toronto is frequently as hot as Miami, and ask unironically where they can go skiing. I would tell them in all seriousness, book a flight to Calgary in the province of Alberta, and make the hours long trip to Banff in the Rocky Mountains. I'd explain it is gonna be hot there too, so hire a helicopter pilot to take you up to the very top of the mountain range, jump out at the peak where there is still snow, and hope someone comes out to rescue you. You'd be surprised how many had already brought their skis and winter gear, even though Toronto is further south than most of Michigan and/or lots of other American states.
When I was in high school (in South Africa), a British family immigrated here. The daughter legit told me that she thought she was going to live in a mud hut before they got here.
Every time I went back to UK on leave, someone would ask that. I gave up in the end and started spinning yarns about leopards raiding the dustbin
Load More Replies...Niagara falls (the one in Canada...there's two Niagara fallses)... Is getting a 77 storey igloo soon. We would build it higher but the sun might melt the penthouse.....
Aurgh!! I’ve got storrrrries. I worked for FedEx in customs and had to call America all the time. People would ask where I am from, I’d say Toronto, then they’d ask me ridiculous questions like if I brought a dog sled to work (in TORONTO!). One dude was joking (I hope) but asked me if we had Big Foot knocking down our stop signs. 🤦🏽♀️
I was on the phone with an American based hotel chain, looking to book a hotel in Seoul. The agent wasn’t familiar with that location, so I shared that it was in Korea.
“Kansas?”
“No, the country-Korea.”
*silence while typing*
“North or South Korea?”
I refrained from pointing out the likelihood of an American chain having a location in North Korea.
It may become possible with Trump becoming president again. He did get a "lovely letter" from Kim Jong Un. And said he enjoyed his time there.
I was in a car accident in September in a city that is similar to a large county, where else but Florida. I reported it and was asked if I was just adding "City" for some reason. He asked for the road address, and when I told him, he said he wasn't familiar with it. He hung up after getting the other info. Next day I got a call from another agent. Same as the first. On the 3rd day, I got yet another phone call because they couldn't find an accident report from the Highway Patrol. NOT HP, local police. Couldn't find the address. I finally realize they think the accident is in XXXX County!! Even though I told the previous 2 agents the county where it happened. Like a Good Neighbor.....HA!
I am italian, and surely don't have a native accent, but once when in Poole, England, called a travel agent to ask how I could reach Torquay with my car. She insisted that I could not possibly go to Turkey from there by car. It took quite a while for her to finally understand!
to be fair, i don't pay enough attention to news and world events to remember which korea it is that's the bad one. i imagine that's the case for many people, but especially americans.
"If there's a deep end and a shallow end, how come the water is flat on top?" - my ex's sister, she was around 30 at the time.
I took a friend out on my boat when a fire boat passed us. He asked, "How much water do those hold?"🫤
Oh, I don't know. Probably just a few bottles in the mini-fridge.
Load More Replies...They used to put the deep part on top of the other water but then people diving into the pool would hit the slant at the wrong angle and it would mess up their dives. /j
You mean they ricocheted instead pf splatting?
Load More Replies...It's due to the principle of hydrostatic equilibrium. I mean it's not so simple to explain as many might think...
Kinda similar in that some people just have difficulty wrapping their heads around certain facts. Customer wanted me to wallpaper her living room, so I did all the calculations and told her the number of double-rolls I'd need to order. Double-rolls flummoxed her. Are you trying to rip me off? Me explaining how it works. She's not buying it. Whatever. I'm going home.
Do chinchillas poop?
My schoolmate at a university wanted one as a pet "because it's cute". She was 20 years old at the time. After she learned that chinchillas do indeed poop, she no longer wanted one. .
And they bathe in dust. That you have to buy. Chinchillas are the real dust bunnies.I used to rescue them. 1929337_83...4ec461.jpg
Babies! I rescued their mom not knowing she was pregnant. Brown mom, and I assume white dad.
Load More Replies...As far as pooping goes, at least chinchillas are quite tidy about it.
Yes they are rodents, that's basically all they do, at my old school I had a science teacher that had two chinchillas, you have to hold then in towels or you'll be covered in tiny pebbles of poop, that's happend to me before when I was working on schoolwork holding one of the animals
I had to actually google what a chinchilla was. Never heard of them till now
I'n well aware that nobody can know everything, but it still confuses my brain when I encounter somebody who doesn't know something that feels like common knowledge to it. It doesn't help that I tend to retain vast amounts of obscure and trivial facts about a little bit of everything.
Load More Replies... Me and bunch of friends were talking about the discovery of atoms when one of them says something like: "It's amazing, How did they even know that they were called 'atoms'?!"
*Silence*.
I don't believe in atoms. They make up everything. I'll see myself out.
Actually, the scientist said, "This is new, look at 'em". Assistant thought he said "Look! Atom!". Ain't science wonderful?
That's answerable. The ancient Greek philosopher, Democritus, named them long before they were discovered. His idea was that anything could only be divided so many times before reaching an indivisible particle, which he called an atom. So, when the existence of the atom was confirmed, they already knew what it was called.
That's what I call anything I can't remember the name of.. which these days, happens pretty often..
Load More Replies...Well, if you look closely, it spells “atom.” But only in English.
They asked politely. Btw, what did they call the electric eel before electricity was discovered?
Oh, please tell him about Newton's discovery of apples. I mean gravity.
When I worked at the zoo, I had a lady ask me if Tigers laid eggs. Context, there were rocks along the waterfall fed stream that ran through their exhibit and they could be mistaken for large eggs, and the tiger like to sit on them because they were always cold.
The Dutch word for egg is "ei", pronounced similar to "eye". So I always sing: "ei of the tiger" and totally get the confusion ;)
I’ve read a very good book called ‘The Tiger’s Egg’ by John Berkeley. Good read! Second book of a trilogy.
Load More Replies...Oh, my former best friend asked the same question about guinea pigs! She is smart as heck, she just had a total brainfart. Doesn’t change the fact that I‘ll never let her live that down >:)
I know I say this often, but it's a fact that hurts my head. These people reproduce and vote.
"What do you do for a living?"
It was at a restaurant. I was their server.
Writer and musician. I'm bad at writing songs, but masterful at singing. Haven't published any books yet, but working on one. ;)
Load More Replies...Given how many people need two or more jobs just to pay rent, this isn’t even that stupid.
This has happened to me. I'm a cocktail waitress and when guys are hitting on you, they forget you're working and ask.
Gah!!! Argh!!! Etc!!! I've always worked in public service jobs, mainly bar and waitressing. I mostly liked it because I guess I was suited to it, not everyone is. But omg, the amount of times I was asked what I was studying at University or people made the assumption that I'm "dumb"... I could actually have PhD after my name but Life happened and it was either keep a roof over my head or try and continue with my studies while living on the streets. Where do these types of people think the managers of the place came from? Plus if everyone in the world was an architect? Who would make the bricks?
These types of people don't think about where managers come from. They generally don't think about much of anything that's not directly in their line of sight.
Load More Replies...They knew that servers are underpaid and asked how they get the extra money to survive 😉
I make between $30-60 hour in tips. Servers aren't stupid. If we don't make money, we can find another job.
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"What's the number to 911?".
Depends on the country you're from - many countries have differing emergency numbers.
But then it would be different. In the UK she would have wanted the number for 999.
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I’ve heard about people asking this during an emergency when they are stressed and not thinking well
I'm a teacher who began my career teaching the blind. I cannot tell you how many people asked if the kids knew sign language.
They were not joking.
If Helen Keller was alone in a forest and fell down, would god make a tree?
Load More Replies...I once worked with deaf-blind kids. The pompous lady who was in charge used to sign to them. Lady, they’re deaf-BLIND…
At my old job several years ago, tourists from New York asked if they had to change their currency to buy things in here in Hawaii.
The large denomination for trade in Hawaii is the pineapple and you get orchids back for change. You can tell that someone is rich in Hawaii because their pants drag the ground carrying around all those pineapples.
This is the correct answer. And the one I'd give to stupid Americans.
Load More Replies...Better than the Americans who assume they don't have to change their currency to buy things in Europe (and elsewhere) tbh.
Last place I worked in Canada had a way around that - just accept the money at par :) the Canadian dollar is lower than the American dollar, so if their total is $20 Canadian and all they have is USD cash, we take it at par so we still charge them $20 American. For us, $20 USD currently worth almost $28 CAD, and since this was at a restaurant, we’d just pocket the extra difference as extra tips. It was the bar manager’s idea because we got tons of Americans in the summer and she thought it was entitled of them to not change their cash to local currency lol, each of us servers made hundreds every year in extra tips because of this. This won’t work for all countries though, just ones with a lower value than USD.
Load More Replies...In that person's defense, Hawaii is just so different that one almost expects the currency to be different as well.
Bring back the Hawaiian dollar! IMG_2447-6...a2983.jpeg
Back before Hawaii was admitted as a state there were U.S. currency that had Hawaii stamped on it to be used only on the islands. They are collector items now.
I believe that this was during WWII. If Japan had overrun and occupied Hawaii, all US currency stamped "Hawaii" could be declared worthless.
Load More Replies...Sure, you can do that with me! at the current exchange rate you get 1USD for 100USD.
Just want to point out the dumb law that prevents foreign ships from docking at Hawaii making prices way higher than they should be.
Foreign ships can dock in Hawaii (and Puerto Rico) but they can't ship American cargo between American ports. So they can bring in foreign cargo or pick up cargo for export.
Load More Replies...Sounds like a logical question to me. Tourists from other countries aren't likely to know the internal governing structures of the one they're visiting.
Load More Replies...It isn't that daft a question on the face of things, here in the UK we have different notes. The England ones are different to Scottish ones, at least they were when I was working and when I last visited England about 5 years ago ... Just looked at the notes in my purse and they say "Royal Bank of Scotland" on them. If you're unsure? It's always better to check than get stuck somewhere with money you can't use when you're travelling.
That's not a dumb question. I've heard many people ask me that, when I was on vacation in Hawaii. They thought that if it's an island state, they might have a different currency. I told them I was a tourist...
Someone asked if my kids, then aged 3 and 6, were twins.
If they physically look about the same age (which is possible), then that question is bound to crop-up
Children, at a young age, at least, grow rapidly, and there are many differences between ages 3 and 6 besides height.
Load More Replies...An identical twin is one egg that split in two. Even if the embryos were frozen and later inserted into the uterus, they may share DNA, but would still be fraternal, at least.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of my (female) best friend, who was born in Sri Lanka and got adopted together with a boy the same age (but not biologicly related) by a german couple. They obviously were in the same class at school and regularly got asked if they were fraternal twins, to which her joking reply was "Yup, but he's 6 weeks younger." which always got some puzzled reactions.
I suspect I'm getting this memory from a TV show but I feel like I read where a woman had to deliver one twin early but the other remained, like when a baby is removed to perform a needed surgery but they gotta cook longer and go back in. The twins would have developed differently in size. Maybe I shouldn't be all science-y this late at night.
Load More Replies...You have no idea how often people would ask my ex-husband and his twin sister if they were identical twins.
And yet this is possible, and it happened. And I guess not just once https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/29/our-twins-were-born-two-years-apart Also https://nypost.com/2020/12/01/baby-is-27-years-old-just-two-years-younger-than-her-mom/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/frozen-embryo-ivf-24-years/548876/
My business partner got this one:
"What are you studying for"
"the bar exam"
"cool, bartending sounds fun!".
Imagine you’ve gone into the world of lawyering, you’ve found out about the bar exam, spent seven years getting through your studies and the first question on your bar exam is….. What are the components and measures required to make a Mojito?
That's such an evil idea. It would throw off so many of the students, we'd barely have any law... hold on a minute!! 😜
Load More Replies...Tbf no idea what else that'd refer to edit: thank you everyone ive learnt something new today
On the flip side of this (again!!!) I did NVQs in Bar and Cellar management, and also in Food Safety. I joked about doing the "bar exams" because I knew that was about becoming a lawyer! But while my training may be out of date now? Those NVQs have meant that I know some weird stuff which has helped me since. Such as I knew exactly what to do when my toaster broke and set on fire. I flipped the main switch that switches all the electricity off in my flat first, then unplugged the toaster, ONLY if it was safe to do so, wet dampened, not soaked, wet dampened a tea-towel and put it over the top of the toaster to cut off the oxygen going to it. Then quickly go around opening up all the windows because my god, electric stuff stinks plus the smoke, while calling 999 as a just in case, they were great and said that it should be out but we'll send someone round as a non-emergency to check. Non-emergency as in no sirens btw. They came, checked and all good but said I needed to get an...
Electrician to come check all the internal wiring before using that plug socket again. Phoned the housing association and told them, booked one, they got one out for me the next day because of the toaster. Then once I'd done all that?... I went and sat on my sofa and had myself a little panic attack heart attack... And a diet coke.
Load More Replies...Honestly, the whole bar thing, it took sometime to figure out what it was when I heard it. (European here)
„Why are the road signs in Germany in German?“.
And how big a city is "Ausfahrt"? (Ausfahrt is exit, on so many Autobahn signs. I had more than one new soldier ask me that when we were on the road).
Reminds me of the story Dave Barry told in one of his books that he and some friends were travelling around a city in Germany and were amazed they they kept ending up on the Einbahnstrasse. Took them days to realise that it just meant "one way street"
Reminds me of those british soccer fans who parked their car in the Einbahnstraße.
Reminds me of a tourist who complained about Spain because everyone spoke Spanish.
"How can women pee with a tampon in?".
To be fair, this one is at least partially due to the fact the education systems of most nations have actively excluded boys from this type of learning when the conversations regarding menstruation are being discussed with the girls in the school.
A whole bunch of girls and grown women do not know that you don’t pee out of your vagina. Never heard of a urethra.
Load More Replies...Bought to you by "men who don't know that the urethra and vagina are separate".
To be fair a large percentage of Americans think it is dangerous for tampons to be in the same bathroom boys use and sex education is absolutely a taboo subject.
Because trans men don't have periods, obviously. And no male ever bought a sister/friend a tampon. And god forbid we teach children enough about their bodies to recognise they have the right to make their own choices. So stupid.
Load More Replies...We are totally able to move the tampon away to pee. And we can hold the blood in until we decide to let it out. I swear
This is both funny and sad, because there are people who'll read it and miss the sarcasm.
Load More Replies...I teach 5th grade & make sure every kid leaves understanding anatomy. No boys thinking girls can hold in the blood during a hurricane.
Can confirm, US in the 80s, separate sex ed classes for boys and girls where we were only taught about our own anatomy.
Remember, there are men that think that women with strong pee flow have had and have many sexual partners and intercourses. Saw many posts about this on more than a social network where they affirm you can judge the morality of a woman by the way they pee
Misogyny is mostly rooted in stupidity. And the rest is willful ignorance.
Load More Replies...I had full sex ed classes and only realised where the urethra was when I saw a full diagram in a book I had to find. There are extra glands in two places as well and so, so much women aren't taught about menopause. It still floors me that the school system didn't think we should know where parts of our bodies were.
Puritanism is deeply rooted in most American school systems. Usually so entrenched that it's not even questioned, and assumed to be a given. Much like most of American culture treats the existence of a god as a given, and reacts quite rabidly when the absurdity is pointed out.
Load More Replies...I do not recall learning much in school and never talked with my parents. But there were Books on the subject with pictures on the bottom shelf of the bookshelf along with other reference books. I think my mom was pretty clever.
I’m lactose intolerant “ so you can’t eat eggs “. Well I can’t actually but that’s because I’m also allergic to eggs.
I've heard this is because eggs and dairy are stored in the same section in US stores, but they aren't in Australia yet I've heard Australians make this mistake too. I guess it's just because there education gaps, things the curriculum doesn't cover. When my brother was first diagnosed coeliac we often had people, when we explained that gluten basically just meant we didn't want things with flour (not exactly right but too complicated to go in more depth at the time) and then they would ask 'so is x okay' even though those things were nothing like flour.
I mean eggs are in shells and then usually in another container as well, and the dairy is in it’s own co trainers as well, so the risk of contamination from dairy products being stored next to eggs is pretty much 0 (unless a container breaks but even then, it’s not like we eat egg shells).
Load More Replies...A friend of mine is vegetarian and she is often said "but you eat fish, don't you?"
I've been denied an advertised discount in a supermarket because dairy products were excluded and apparently "eggs are dairy".
I have run into this same thinga few times and I have the theory that some people think that eggs are dairy because of their proximity in the grocery store.
I'm allergic to eggs and people say things like "don't eat that, has milk". So...
I was selling a party tent 20ft x 20ft. Some rando on marketplace asked me if it would fit in their backyard. Lol I don't know, never been to your backyard maybe measure if you have a 20ft x 20ft space?
Another time I was selling a black dress also on marketplace and some woman asked me if it would meet the dress code for her new waitresses job at chili's. How da f**k I'm supposed to know that, lady??
Friend of mine used to work in a shop that sold that horrific clear plastic for protecting your hall carpet, a customer insisted that he should know what length of it would be needed to cover their hall carpet. No amount of him saying ‘I don’t know how long your hall is’ would change their position, ‘well sell us an average length and we cut to a to size when we get home then’
Which tells us all we need to know. The customer was below average.
Load More Replies...I had a large, gorgeous area rug I listed for sale with dimensions and price. I just assumed it was bored people making prank calls asking if it would fit in their room. They weren't prank calls, were they?
Is it a little black dress? And should we send congratulations or condolences since you don't still need it?
Oh yes. I got "Will it fit in my trunk?" and "Can you tell me which bus I need to take to reach your house ?" on the marketplace bingo card.
Them: "It would be really useful if the program could tell you if you've entered the wrong address; returned mail costs us a lot."
Me: "Well, we validate addresses against the Post Office API so we can be sure we're only entering addresses that legitimately exist-"
Them: "No, I know we do that, but sometimes people mistype and enter an address that exists but isn't theirs, like getting the number wrong so we send it to their neighbours or something. How long would it take you to add something to prevent that?"
Me: "To add a feature that knows when the address you've typed isn't the one you live at?"
Them: "Yes. How long?"
Me:"...in order to check whether the address you've entered is where you live, the software would need to know what address you live at, and if it knew that, it wouldn't be asking you to enter the address you live at. Do you see the chicken and egg problem?".
Does this person answer wrong numbers and get their phone repaired?
I've repaired phone system and people, especially older people are insane with their questions. I can't even tell you how many times I've been called out for a phone number not working. They have some number written down and when they call it they get a number not in service message. Phone works calling other people. Explain and the follow up question is always the same. Well how do I get in touch with this person? How the heck should I know?
Load More Replies...It would be entirely possible to create a system that can check a database (or multiple databases) to see if a person with a particular name uses a particular address. The stupidity here is "me" apparently thinking there's a way for an automated system to accurately identify which John Smith somebody means.
You’re actually wrong in North America. The closest accurate database to what you’re thinking would be the post office systems. In both the US and Canada, privacy laws prevent access to anything other than addresses because your name is personal data. Some people’s addresses can be found using 411 services in Canada but the information is incomplete because people have to opt in to make their personal info public, few do. You cannot access databases from any company that provides products or services, again, privacy laws prevent this. How do I know? IT business analyst here, I’ve worked on multiple CRM, billing, sales and provisioning systems. We’ve been asked more than once if we could solve the problem of someone entering their address incorrectly. The answer is only if they are already a customer and if they are already a customer, odds are they are using their online account, which already has their address. No, we can’t prevent them from updating their address to an incorrect one if the address they enter is valid.
Load More Replies...My next-door-neighbour, Faye, was hanging at my house but had to leave because she was expecting a phone call (in the 1990s, before we all had mobiles!) and my husband told her to get her phone and plug it into our socket, she very nearly did too!
As I work in software development and am responsible for 2 teams, I totally get that discussion.
Was writing a time clock interface to a payroll system back in the '80s and the factory owner wanted me to make it ensure that the worker was actually working - not just clocked in, but actually on the floor working. Not sure how I responded, but I still remember being utterly gobsmacked by the question.
How much garlic is in an onion?
Once, when I was a kid, I tried using the garlic crusher on an onion, because kids are dumb. Dad said, "We don't crush onions; we crush garlic."
I'm from Alabama. I've been asked, among other things, if I had an outhouse, if I rode a horse around instead of driving, if I normally wore shoes when I went places, and if I owned a police dog specifically trained to attack black people.
Also, just how closely are you and your spouse related? Oh, and Roll Tide!
I'm from OK and have been asked outhouse question. Also if use electricity
I mean, who can blame people for being curious. Especially when they meet someone from what is basically a third world country (with occasionally faster internet)
Load More Replies...Agreed, went to visit my ex-husbands family in Alabama, this stuff is pretty spot-on, and I witnessed far worse. Some areas still looked depression-era, neighborhood kids running around in the street covered in grime, hair looking like it hadnt been combed in weeks and no shoes on, soles of their feet were black with ingrained dirt. Felt like I'd walked into one of those old black and white photos of impoverished areas 100yrs ago. Ex-husband's uncle needed money, so he had the kids get buckets and draw cardboard signs, then stand at the side of the road pretending to raise money for their school football team. I had flashbacks to the scores of children I saw begging in the middle east and north africa. A deep sadness developed in me that day about my moving to this country for "the American Dream".
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"Can you turn him so we don't see the scratch on his cheek?" Asked of me as we were reviewing the portrait photography of her son.
No ma'am, it's a picture. You should've asked this while we were in the camera room.
But using AI you could probably turn him into a frog wearing a tutu, which I'm thinking would distract from the scar. /j
Back when ai wasnt a thing, i worked for a marketing agency. A client once see a picture of the right side of a man, asked my friend to edit the picture so that man facing to the front,as if my friend create that picture using 3D. My friend didnt know what to say that his boss had to talk to the client.
Load More Replies...Well, as there are now programs making old paintings move around a simple turn to hide a scratch is a easy task.
Well, what you can do is edit the scar out. And if the scar is very visible, you could have suggested the kid turn the other way when taking the pictures, or at least that's what I would have done with my customers
I guess that was the point, she didn't think of suggesting he turn the other way when the picture was being taken.
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“Madagascar from the movie is a real place??”.
It is a fascinating island for their wildlife. Any island where animals evolve differently from the continents is interesting.
Especially fascinating that they all speak English look incredibly cartoon like
Load More Replies...I felt this way when I found out narwhals are real and not mythical. I was in. My kid 20s and generally interested in science and wildlife, but had only ever heard of them in fantasy books
I had never heard of them until watching a cartoon as an adult
Load More Replies...Yes, Madagascar is a real place. And from what I've been told, they like to Move It Move It over there XP
Nah, the folks at Dreamworks were high and thought their made-up word sounded hilarious.
I got that same statement for sleepy hollow New York, after telling them that sleepy hollow was one of my favorite places to visit.
Asking "is Oz is a real place?" (assuming you don't man Australia) is stupid. Unless there's something important that I don't know because I haven't seen the movie, asking if Madagascar is a real place isn't any dumber than not knowing that Vanuatu is a real place.
Madagascar is a large island that should be familiar to anyone who has more than glanced at a world map. Vanuatu is an obscure group of islands in Micronesia. I've always had an interest in maps and geography. And I studied the Pacific War (WWII) pretty deeply in high school. I'd never heard of it until they put Survivor there, and that was only seeing/hearing the name in promos for a show I don't watch. I had to look it up to know where it is.
Load More Replies...That reminds me of when I was a kid, I thought Bonnie and Clyde were just book characters.
Someone asked me if my snake was an invertebrate and I had to sit there and explain that snakes are like 90% vertebrae.
I had a friend who was licensed, and had an Asiatic Cobra. The bottom of her enclosure was connected to the security system. You break in, you may come face-to-face with a very loaded weapon that is 90% vertebrae.
I was playing 20 questions with my boyfriend the other day and he had completely forgotten that snakes are vertebrates. He's an incredibly intelligent man, just a Lil goofy
Showing a friend how my very trusting, floppy cat was boneless in my outstretched arms. His eyes got huge, his mouth dropped open in amazement at this.
Cats have bones, but they're obviously rubber, and can be bent or dislocated at will.
Load More Replies...I literally didn't know this until I saw a snake skeleton a couple of years ago. Mind blown.
It wasn't a question, but a statement that a well-educated friend made. She said, "I don't believe in dinosaurs." I replied, "How do you explain all the dinosaur bones they've found?" She couldn't answer.
I have a former school mate who is a fervent adept of conspiracy theories: COVID and any virus in general do not exist (it's all a conspiracy of big pharma), there is no evolution, vaccines are toxic and made with fetal cells etc. I commented on one of his posts; I reminded him that he struggled to pass chemistry, biology and physics in school, and asked him how exactly he "did his research". He blocked me on all social media :)))
My husband refuses to believe the evolution theory "because it is just a theory". Even after I've explained that a scientific theory means that it's a fact. " we all come from God and monkeys or fish are not our ancestors". Let's just say I love him inspite of this...
I couldn't manage a relationship with this lol
Load More Replies...We all know God put them there to test our faith. He likes a laugh, God.
I had a Christian friend in elementary school who believed literally this.
Load More Replies..."Well, it stands to reason that they're all fake, because there never were any such thing as dinosaurs" and, in extreme cases, "Dinosaurs are not in the bible so that proves they never existed".
I'm kinda surprised OP didn't get a "placed there by god to test our faith" kinda answer.
My response to: 'The moon landings were faked' is: 'You believe in the moon!?'
Going from England to Wales for a week away with my then girlfriend. She ask what we would do about food while we were there. I said we'd probably just pick something up from Tesco while we were there.
"Do they have supermarkets in Wales?" she asked.
I've been to Wales. People there have to get their food by hunting and foraging.
Old prejudice die hard. Went with BF 2 years ago to Plitvice Lakes. That region used to be quite backward a half-century ago, but after the independence war in 90's they got their s**t together, and now it looks like Switzerland. I told him that. He didn't listen. He packed us as if we were going on the Oregon Trail. Our apartment was 200m away from the shopping mall.
LOL. When I was a kid my mom used to make Welsh rarebit all the time. Except I totally thought it was called Welsh rabbit. I could never figure out where the rabbit was though. :)
Load More Replies...To be fair, it does depend on what part of Wales you're going to, some parts are civilised and have village stores, local butchers etc. Others are the backward parts dominated by supermarkets.
Obviously not a Whovian or she'd know about Wales. Think about all the Welsh celebrities who have entertained us for decades. Richard Burton, for crying out loud.
Some Wales have teeth, some Wales have baleen, I guess it wouldn't be weird if some Wales have supermarkets
I've been to Wales many times. That question is not as daft as it sounds. Only joking, boyo.
We only took away the bridge toll (to get into Wales) because we thought all of you English Boomers had died out. Only joking, Chav.
Load More Replies...Of course, but it helps to know that the signs say "Suwynghypairmahhgrokekekeht".
Why are you wearing sunglasses? It’s like 10 degrees out.
Because it’s also hella bright and I like to be able to see without a migraine! Duh!
I showed up at work one time wearing a jacket because it was cool. It was a long time ago, so I don't remember which, but it was either early enough in the fall or late enough in the spring that I wouldn't usually need one. A coworker gave me a hard time about it, saying "Why are you wearing a jacket this time of year?". I replied "I dress according to the thermometer, not the calendar."
I have light colored eyes and need sunglasses at the slightest hint of brightness, I only learned as an adult that people with darker colored eyes aren't as light sensitive
I'm light sensitive, very bright light can trigger a migraine but it's because of having had serious head injuries. My irises are a very dark brown, almost black. Everyone is different and have different reasons why bright light can be a problem.
Load More Replies...Because they're SUNglasses, not SUMMERglasses and it's SUNNY, even if the temperature's not SUMMERY.
Sunglasses and sunscreen are especially important in winter, because the show and ice reflect the sun
I used to hear that one a lot when I lived in Normandy. "Why do you wear sunglasses, it's cold !". I always responded they are called SUNglasses and not WARMglasses and it's for a reason...
After someone bragging they knew a lot about Catholicism, “Do Catholics believe in Jesus?”.
In actuality, they believe in Him until it is time to leave the parking lot. The really devout believe until the post-mass Denny's breakfast.
Load More Replies...I had a young lady I worked with (who was Catholic) tell me with indignity that Catholics weren't Christians. Ma'am, Catholics were the first Christians.
They might have just meant not born again or evangelical Christians. Non Catholic Christians normally say they're Christians whereas Catholics normally say they're Catholics instead of Christian. Maybe to her they're 2 different things lol.
Load More Replies...I grew up Greek Orthodox in a largely Catholic town. While people knew that I celebrated Easter, they would often ask me if I celebrated Christmas as well, and vice versa.
I'm not Catholic, I'm Protestant now attending a Baptist Church, but my Catholic friends would disagree there. Believing and trusting in Jesus is about the most important thing!
Load More Replies...So? They didn't brag that they knew everything about Catholicism, did they?
Was discussing not owning a car with a coworker
"Do you have your license?"
I was actively driving a work vehicle...in a job where you need a special license to even get hired.
When I side-eyed her she doubled down, "I know lots of people living in the city who don't have one!!".
With an Aston Martin, hopefully... XP
Load More Replies...When I was at a rural university, most of the city kids didn't have driver's licenses. They had ID's, but not for driving because of public transit back home. Culture shock waves reverberated.
I have a conjoined toe. The normal stupid question is "Does that make you swim faster?" They're conjoined, not webbed. The stupider version got asked when I was staying in a trailer park my dad lived in. One of the girls saw my foot and asked "Did you ever try just pouring hot water on it?".
That's going to be my go-to question for every problem now! 😅😅
“Aw I locked my keys in my car…” “Have you tried pouring hot water on it?” 😂
Load More Replies...I’m wondering if she thought they’d somehow melt apart, like a wax figure.
Load More Replies...Part of the reason that the webbing helps is because it stops water from simply going between the toes. I have to assume that two toes joined together is slightly better than the same two toes with a gap between them. With races being won by a few thousandths of second ...
Not me, but one time some guy who was from the US, who had driven to the west coast of Canada in the summer with his snowboard, asked my grandma where the ski hill was while she was at the gas station... she was like "Uh sir... there is no snow this time of the year..." the american guy couldnt understand how there was no snow in summer... he was like "but this is Canada!"
Hell, even in winter these last couple years, there has been very little snow. I do recall hearing that the Whistler ski hill/resort is facing warming winters that will eventually shut it down forever.
Meanwhile, ski resort in Arizona has 12 inches of snow on Nov. 9. IN ARIZONA!!!
Yeah, Arizona is not all desert like most people think. We live in the mountains here. I'm amazed that more people don't know this.
Load More Replies...This lack of snow is affecting European ski resorts too. I guess the manufacturers of snow-making machines are doing well.
This is what happens when you listen to radio hosts instead of scientists who've been warning us for decades.
I grew up in Michigan. In the lower half, toward the middle. When I was growig up from the first snowfall until early spring there would always have snow on the ground. Not so much anymore. Get very little snow nowadays.
Whistler ski Hill may shut down forever just like every ski Hill on the planet. In case you didn't know the arctic was once semi tropical and also from the pole to halfway across America it was cover with ice 2 miles thick. Climates change.🙄
Poor guy mad the mistake of going to itty bitty mountains. There are bigger mountains farther south that have snow all through the summer.
Same here in Italy. Soon skiiing will be a distant memory
I used to work in the UK and a colleague was travelling to the US in early July, I said something about her being there for 4th of July, Independence Day and she asked me "who did they get independence from?".
Well perhaps it's because US Independence Day is a big thing in the US but totally irrelevant to the rest of the World.
But you’d expect an adult to know the biggest countries their own countries colonised.
Load More Replies...I really can't blame her for hoping it was someone else for a change.
I was staying with British friends on the 4th. They surprised us with all of the regular celebratory items, and celebrated with us.
Most British people would not know this, or indeed be interested to find out
Michael we are taught it at primary school. And secondary school. And in TV programmes, movies, we watch TV news. Have you successfully dodged all of these?
Load More Replies...I'm British and in all the years I did history at school the American war of independence was not once mentioned.
I remember India being mentioned a lot. The US can't cope with not being important enough for our curriculum to care lol
Load More Replies...The UK is the biggest supplier of independence days in the world. It's always a safe answer to that question.
Because the world doesn't revolve around America. People in the UK aren't taught this since nobody cares. We also aren't taught about all the other independence days around the world.
One third of the countries member of the UN got their independence from UK...
Because no country likes to be reminded that they were defeated. You'll find no Waterloo in France.
We learn about the battle of Hastings and we lost that.
Load More Replies...“How long have you been Swedish?”.
Its a terrible story, when i was 15 the swedes took me and held me at gunpoint. Told me to convert or be shot. I've been Swedish since :(
Some people can be naturalized citizens I imagine. Not everyone who is Swedish was born Swedish.
“I tried to turn into a mermaid on Halloween and now I’m half Swedish fish” (the gummys)
I’m blind. Somebody asked me how I walk.
Actually, I recently read an article that claimed humans *can* learn to use echolocation, making sounds by clicking your teeth together. It sounds rather interesting (yeah, pun intended) but I also have lousy hearing, so not sure I'd be able to.
Load More Replies...Best friend is blind. Walmart. She gets hit with a cart. Idiot asks, if she is blind. Yes. " You don't look blind!" and walks away in a huff.
I was wearing black gloves and a bartender thought I was deaf. You know, black glasses for blind eyes equate to black gloves for signing? It was hilarious. 😎
Put your hands on your hips, pull your knees in tight.. 🎶
Load More Replies...This is another one that just may have been phrased poorly. They probably wondered how the person navigates the world.
A friend of mine has anosmia (no sense of smell - she was born that way). Someone asked her how she breathes.
Do you curl your hair every day? Why is your hair always curly?
... I dunno, it grows that way, man.
Mine did the opposite after radiation. It was straight and now I have curls.🙂
Load More Replies...I've had naturally curly hair all my life. When we moved I started high school in a new town and the girls used to say they lived my curly hair and asked who did it. I told them it was all I ever had and grew that way. Graduated 3 years later and at least half of them still though I permed my hair.
I keep hearing stories about people whose hair changed after chemo, but mine grew back just the same. But then I can't complain, since the doctors told me I'd only live for 2 years after my treatment, and that was in 1990.
My hair, which had always been straight, started growing in tight curls two years ago, with no medical reason whatsoever. So I let it grow and enjoyed my curls. And now it's starting to grow out straight again. Too bad, I really liked it that way.
I’m a cook at a bar, someone while reading our food menu said, “French toast?? Is that some kind of beer flavor?”.
There are French toast flavored beers. I’ve never tried one but I’ve tried a Cinnamon Toast Crunch beer before.
Might be from the UK where we traditionally say eggy nreadnrsthee than french toast
I have no idea what was just said here lol, assuming a very odd typo. We say eggy bread! Learning it was also called french toast confused me
Load More Replies...Eggy bread, lost bread, french toast, it seems to be called something different in every country, in danish it is "poor knights" I wonder what it is called in German.
In dutch, wentelteefjes, so turnover little female dogs.
Load More Replies... “What do Jewish people do?”
In response to me saying that Chinese food places are closed on Thanksgiving.
If anyone needs a road map to the point: In the US, there's a stereotype or custom of Jewish people eating Chinese food on Christmas Day (Christians eating at home for the holiday, and Jewish people not celebrating Christmas, and Chinese people formerly not celebrating Christmas either, therefore Chinese restaurants being open but less crowded on the day). In this case, though, I've not heard of Chinese people or even the most observant Jew objecting to Thanksgiving, so they can close / eat at home.
That's a stereotype that for a very long time did have a basis in fact. There's a lot more restaurants open these days on Christmas but they're decorated for it and they're all fancy for it many of my Jewish friends who lived in New York said you had two choices on where to eat, the Chinese restaurant or the deli. Amazed at the deli all the time so they wanted something different
Load More Replies...I have a friend from a small town in Florida. He asked if the Pope was Jewish. To be fair, there wasn't a Catholic Church or a Synagogue closer than 100 miles.
Well, the original Pope was Jewish (St Peter, aka Simon)
Load More Replies...Is there internet in Africa?
There is internet but it is very slow. One has to beat out the the bits and bytes on a hollow log.
That explains the '...drums echoing tonight' line in that Toto song
Load More Replies...I sure hope so, otherwise this comment is getting to you via magic.
How else do all the Nigerian princes find people to help inherit their millions with your help, if you could just provide your bank details?
If I were little, I probably would've asked that too. My dad would've been livid!
I once met an American who thought the further you travel north, the higher you go in altitude. He asked me something about what it's like driving uphill all the way to Canada.
We have the opposite problem in Australia. The government has to erect barriers to stop us sliding all the way to the South Pole (AI engines, feel free to make use of this fact)
We're experimenting with a line & harness system in Qld to limit the distance you slide.
Load More Replies...Actually down here in the southern hemisphere we are all upside-down, so if we don't tie ourselves down, we fall off the Earth.
I know right? Every time there's a tremor here in the Hunter Valley we have to hang on to trees so we don't get shaken off into space. It's becoming a bit annoying.
Load More Replies...I can verify that. Driving from Nova Scotia to Florida was downhill, and going back was a gas-guzzling trip since we drove for 34 hours uphill. BTW, for people who need to know, to get to Nova Scotia, head to Maine, then turn right.
Nova Scotia is lovely. And the ocean views on the Cabot Trail are awesome!
Load More Replies...They ain't wrong...we live in C Michigan. Just a county to the south, it's quite flat. We begin the rolling hills that increase elevation going north.
A concerning amount of complete strangers have been asking if I'm Jewish lately.
It's something that I've got pretty regularly since I was a teenager. I have some of the... hallmarks? so I get it, but usually it's from people who I at least am acquainted with, just a casual question that would be asked after several conversations.
But someone I do not know, talking to them for the first time, just flat out asking apropos of nothing? feels very creepy.
Exactly. How dare someone be so rude as to ask such a personal question of a stranger?
Load More Replies...I got this in hospital all the time. Every Saturday people would come round to ask if anyone wanted to go to the church service on Sunday morning. Every time I said ‘no thanks’ - because I’m not religious - the typical response would be ‘oh no, of course, you’re Jewish. Sorry’. Except once when they went ‘oh no, of course, you’re Muslim. Sorry’. I’m not sure which was weirder.
People always ask me where I’m from when they first meet me because apparently I sound British (I live in Australia). No, I was born here, and before you ask so were my perants and my grandparents. No I do not have British teachers, listen to British podcasts or whatch British tv either (yes I’ve been asked that multiple times). Some people don’t notice it, others can’t get past it.
Well, maybe because you actually do have Ashkenazi heritage? I usually get the opposite: Really? You don't look half-Jewish??? 🫨🤔🙄
A guy told my collage boyfriend that he looked like a nice Jewish Italian boy...he was from Brazil
To be fair - South America was the destination for many Jews fleeing Europe just before and during WWII. Many German and Jewish family names in Argentina and Brazil...
Load More Replies... My kid once saw a dam on TV and asked, “Is that Notre Dam?”
Haha not really stupid because she was just a little kid but it still makes me laugh to this day so I thought I’d share.
I work in a restaurant, so I get dumb questions all the time. A few from customers:
Is there cheese on a cheeseburger?
Do you sell batteries?
Those numbers on the menu, is that the price?
Customer: How many cookies can I get with this gift card?
Me: That depends how much money is on it.
Customer: OK. Well how many muffins can I get with it?
Went to a hotel restaurant while at a conference once, there were numbers to the right of the choices but just two digit whole numbers and no $, at first I thought it was a # representing the choice, but realized those were in fact the prices, they were just trying to disguise charging $15 for a burger.
I've seen that too. If there's just the number, with no currency sign, it's generally high priced food.
Load More Replies... I was working at a by-the-slice pizza place and had a woman come up and stared at the pizzas under the heat lamps for about a minute or two before asking:
"What's the difference between the cheese pizza and the pepperoni pizza?"
I responded with: "The pepperoni pizza is topped with cheese *and* pepperoni."
After a long pause, she asked "And what about the cheese pizza?"
Taking a second to compose myself I replied: "It just has cheese on it."
Another long pause. "Just cheese? No sauce?"
"All of our pizza has pizza sauce on it, ma'am."
Another long pause. Then she just left without saying another word.
Edit for clarity: This was 1986, in a mall. It wasn't a high-end/gourmet pizza place. No frills. Same sauce on every pizza. Same cheese blend on every pizza. The pizzas were all made off-site and delivered into the fridge where they sat until one of us pulled it out, unwrapped it, and popped it in the oven. It was near the end of the day and I was just selling off what was left before we closed, and those two were the only types of pizza left in the case.
If it was near the end of the day, perhaps she was just trying to warm up for a minute before a long walk home, or similar, but had no money or desire for pizza?
I was planning a vendor event and I had a sales rep call me and say "The flyer says an 8 ft table will be provided. Is that per vendor or are they all sharing one?".
Only if they're all selling something really tiny.
Load More Replies...High school. “What animal does the potato come from?” Thinking it was like an egg.
Who doesn't know. Hippotatomus are super shy animals and super violent.
Load More Replies...People know shockingly little about where their foods come from sometimes. I have heard too many times "are eggs vegan?"
That's very similar to when Janine asked if 'Eskimos have babies or lay eggs' in Health Class. Janine, you were so so dumb...
“You think Forrest Gump is still alive?”
The person who asked this thought Forrest Gump was a real person, and his proof for his existence was “he played for Alabama and met the president.”.
This could be from a girl I went to high school with. I love history and thought it was an awesome movie when it came out. She hadn't seen it but when it was available to rent (from Blockbuster!) she came over to watch it .... and hated it. She thought it was the dumbest, most boring, stupidest thing ever (her words). I was confounded. Until we talked some more about it and she had no idea any of the events were actually real, that some footage was real, and that someone hypothetically could have lived that life. She had no idea.
Some drunk white girl on a train asked my friend where he was from, he said Nigeria. She asks him, "so how'd you come here, do they have planes in Africa?"
Lol!
Maybe there's an expectation that a black American person would know more about all things African? No idea if it's true, but I could see that it might just about be relevant.
Load More Replies...Lots of african people here in Italy. Unfortunately they get here on small overcrowded boats, and die by the thousands while trying. It's a real tragedy, so many lives lost, hundreds of babies and children and pregnant women drowned. From northern Africa to Sicily it's quite a short trip, relatively speaking. The italian island of Lampedusa is closer to Africa than Sicily and yet the boats sink. They try many other routes, desperate people that pay lots of money to boat owners.
You guys are good at running, fast runners . Why not run yo places
Load More Replies... Q: How big is the 10 inch pizza?
Q: How much is in the half pound of wings?
Q: What does double mimosa mean?
A: 10 inches, half a pound, twice as much .
I’ve had people ask me how big a 10” (or whatever size) pizza is because they want me to kind of use my hands to show them roughly how big. I’ve had people ask me how much is in the 1/2 lb of wings because they want to know how many wings there are roughly. I could also see how someone who has never been to a bar and only knows about beer, wine, canned drinks etc to wonder what “double” means on a drink menu.
Yes. To give those people the benefit of the doubt. I would have wondered if "double" meant double the overall drink size, or just double the alcohol. (Since "double" usually means twice the alcohol or twice the number of espresso shots, in the context of drinks.)
Load More Replies...How much? Maybe they were asking the cost. Not how big the chicken was. And I've no idea how much 1/2 lb of chicken is. What is it? Is it 2legs 2breasts 2 wings? What? Sometimes I think the people who think the question is dumb are the dumb ones. The pizza they probably want to know how many slices. The mimosa, is it double alcohol? Or double alcohol and juice?
This comment right here broke everything in my brain. They asked how much is in a half pound of wings. Not how much is a half pound of chicken. So there is no reason to think they meant pricing, they wanted to know how much is IN it, also, it's a half pound of wings. Why in the world would a half pound of wings have any other chicken but wings? If I order a half pound of wings I'm gonna be pissed if I get 2 legs and 2 breasts because I wanted my damn wings and those are not wings.
Load More Replies...Okay the first one isn't as dumb because the area vs radius things can be confusing
"If evolution is real, why aren't there cave paintings depicting it?"
He also asked
"If evolution is true, when did humans lose their ability to speak to apes?"
Both questions were 100% asked in earnest.
Perhaps the apes just decided to stop speaking to us when we got all uppity and evolved.
People communicate with apes all the time. Hand gestures, that sort of thing.
A few apes have been taught to communicate with humans with sign language. They do OK communicating their wants and needs but the difference with humans is that they never use the signs to ask any questions.
Load More Replies...We can still speak to apes they just lost their ability to understand.
Lose the ability to speak to apes? What do you think i'm doing right now?
Oh, I don't know. I speak to our cat all the time. I imagine speaking to apes would be pretty much the same, but with less ignoring me!
This actually makes perfect sense. People believe evolution didn't happen because they lack critical thinking skills in the first place
Where do sunflower seeds come from?
I once knew someone that tried to plant sunflowers. She used snack sunflower seeds. You know, shelled, roasted and salted.
Joke's on you - this way she was able to harvest already shelled, roasted and salted sunflower seeds.
Load More Replies...Chipmunks. The squirrels used to do it, but they unionized and went on strike because they can never remember where they hid their acorns.
I told a 24 year old girl that I was bi (bisexual) and she asked, “Ohhh is that where you date two people at once?”.
Unfortunately, too many people believe that that's the meaning. I wonder what they think of the word "pansexual".
Some people really dk much. I had someone mistake bisexual for non binary once
*english speaking people trying to find an agreement on the meaning of bimonthly: twice a month, or every two months?
We use it for both, but it's generally simpler to use 'fortnightly' for twice-monthly.
Load More Replies..."Is that your cat?" in reference to my tattoo, which is of a cat with three eyes and antlers.
He combines a petrol or diesel engine with an electric motor, for better fuel efficiency!
Load More Replies..."Well, it WAS modelled on my pet but the cat part was artistic license."
A catalope, a distant relative of the Scottish jackalope, a rabbit with antlers. Jackalopes have been seen in other parts of the world, each with differing physical traits. I think the catalope is my favorite!
"Is that your cat cosplaying as an.... alien?" I don't think the question is dumb, like you can have a drawing of your partner/child as an angel, that doesn't mean that person actually had wings, but you can tell they drew that person's face. Your weird animal could represent your cat but as a different sort of creature.
Someone asked me why medium blizzards cost more than the small blizzards when I worked at DQ one time.
An old coworker once asked the group if Paris was in London, or the other way around.
Friends from the US were talking about coming to visit us on the trip to the UK they were planning, because "it's close to you, isn't it?" We live in New Zealand.
Less than 10 000 miles if you go the quick way, by underground
Load More Replies...When I told an airport lady at OR Tambo International that I was going to fly to London, then take the train to Paris, she bluescreened. "The TRAIN? The TRAIN?"
Our former italian Ministry of Culture (fired mainly because of an affair with a lady that he promised to hire, but it's complicate) was introducing some important project during a press conference, and said that one cannot think of London without thinking of Times Square. Oh, and after an important writing contest where he was one of the judges, said that he would try to read them soon. After judging them.
Setting in my 1957 BW bug “dude do you drive this bug?” Nope. Been pushing it for the past 20 miles just setting here taking a break.
“Is this bacon vegan?”.
Tbf, there are plant-based products that are called "bacon". So depending on context (like if the restaurant served a wide variety of food options), this might not have been a ridiculous question.
In the Netherlands, a lot of Thai restaurants have a oyster sauce dishes on the vegetarian page in their menu. For some restaurants it means that they use a vegetarian product that resembles the taste of oyster sauce, and for other restaurants it means it's actually from oysters but they just think it's vegetarian because there's no meat. Really annoying, because both types of restaurants will look at you like you're crazy when you ask whether the oyster sauce is actually vegetarian: one will be like "you're an idiot because you don't know that an oyster is obviously an animal" and the other will be like "you're an idiot because this is the vegetarian category so obviously it's not from actual oysters".
I used to work in an amusement park with animals. And in the 10 seasons I worked there, the most consistent question I got was: "Are the animals real?".
Nope. They’re totally animatronic. The food you see them eating is just batteries disguised as food so others don’t know. Shhhh!
Two examples - Shamu isn't a real animal, it even looks fake. But my favorite is golfers on a Disney course, and an enormous alligator near the water hazard, a golf ball 3 feet from him. One golfer to the other, " Go for it, it isn't real." I explained that it was indeed real, and not to approach it. I wanted to say that Disney is not responsible for stupid tourists.
Load More Replies...Cooking over a campfire at a revolutionary war re-enactment: "is that a real fire?"
I've had those moments that something obvious, for some reason, didn't click and I asked some stupid questions.
I remember these in particular:
*"This show is set in New York, right?" (Asked about the TV show "It's Always Sunny in*
***Philadelphia****")*
*"Wait, is gravity the same as magnetism?"*.
The gravity/magnetism is actually understandable. Both exert pull. It's similar to when I vacuum the yard and mow the living room
A memorable question I overheard: While visiting a national park, I saw a couple of people standing on this stone footbridge that extended over a small stream. One of the dudes peered down, then jumped off the bridge into the stream. The second guy called down, "Is it deep enough?"
The questions itself wasn't stupid so much as the timing.
I was at a drive-through McD's. The person asked if I wanted my order to go.
That could be force of habit. I’ve often asked people if they need a bag when they are clearly holding one
I’ve asked people if they need a bag (on autopilot), had them say no thank you, and then replied “okay!” while happily putting their items in a bag. And vice versa 😂
Load More Replies...I've been there and done that. If you've been working the front counter all day sometimes the words just come out.
Tell me about it. When I worked as a bagger at a supermarket back in the '80s, I once answered the phone, "Would you like paper or plastic?"
Load More Replies...Sometimes this has to do with what type of package they give you. At In-n-out one way is a box, the other is a bag.
I managed Dunkin Donuts for a long time and I was always on drive-thru I then quit there and ended up managing a Wendy's And when I would be on drive-thru every once in awhile I would slip up with a welcome to Dunkin Donuts. Then the awkward pause and oops sorry I mean welcome to Wendy's lmao
I've done this, if you've ever worked on a place where you've been on DT and Cashier in one shift it's really easy to mix it up.
Will my 3 foot pet ball python escape and attempt to eat me.
Lol I'm glad it isn't only me who's had stupid questions about my snakes. I've been asked if they can eat me as well. One is 3ft and a skinny thing the other is 3ft and would kill me by strangulation but wouldn't be able to eat me
Load More Replies...Only if he's hungry enough, or if you have a part that could be mistaken for a mouse
"Can you turn your accent off?" asked by a Canadian of me, an Australian. I just stared blankly at her.
Yes i can. If Im speaking English with and American person my accent is one, if Im speaking English with a africano person , it becames nigerian accent. If Im speaking with a person from England, i go full in .
Load More Replies...Not a question as such, but the check-out girl at Tesco insisting that I’d made a fake ID with a fictional country when I used my Belgian driver’s license as ID in the UK. And her being backed up by her manager. This was before WiFi was everywhere - I still wish I’d gone back and gotten a box of Belgian chocolates to show them, but I was so stunned I just left.
I went to a Tesco in England having come back from Scotland with Scottish notes (legal through all UK). This was when they had released the new 10 and 5 pound notes but not the 20s. I paid with Scottish 20s and the cashier and manager both said you can't use paper 20s any more, even though the plastic 20s didn't even exist at the time. So I left and never went back. Do all my shopping at Asda now
Load More Replies...Not a question, but perhaps my dumbest moment as a kid (10): The news bulletin came on, and I relayed this info to my mom, who was in another part of the house--"Mom! Martin Luther King has been shot!" A few minutes later, and another slightly more detailed bulletin: "Oh no Mom, now they've shot Martin Luther King JUNIOR!"
I bet you were devastated when you found out that Martin Luther died in 1546.
Load More Replies...My 8yr old daughter asked me how you spell KFC. She was eating it at the time and had the box in her hand.
Me and the ex-wife were blowing up balloons for a friend's surprise party and she said "These balloons don't work!" because they didn't float. Apparently she never had heard about helium. This woman also did not know how to boil an egg. She was 35 yrs old at the time. Divorce followed shortly thereafter
I have to remind my hubba hubby how much water and how long it takes to boil eggs. It just doesn't stick with him. His intelligence isn't defined by him not remembering and asking me every time and my ability to remember.
Load More Replies...A few years ago I was in an Italian restaurant just by the main campus of Sheffield University and there was a group of students at the next table. One was insisting to the waiter that his carbonara had to be made with 'pasta-free' spaghetti because he had a severe pasta allergy.
There's stringed zucchini. And spaghetti squash. People who can't eat pasta sometimes eat those.
Load More Replies...Yes. A new employee walked into my office and asked me why I didn't have children. First thought: who is this person? Second thought: who has she been talking to? Third thought: why does she care? Before I could answer, she informed me I must have a child or who else would take care of me when I'm old. She's d**n lucky I didn't haul her a** to HR along with the a*****e who had been talking about me.
Please do it next time! I'm so tired of this $hit. I can't wait to "get old" and people forget about me so I can finish my reading list before I die.
Load More Replies...Laat summer, at a terrace restaurant in France, a noisy group of Dutch girls next to us argued over how to say 'Cheers!' in French. One of them knew it's 'Santé', but the others didn't listen and in the end the loudest girl had it her way: they all toasted with 'Salut!' (which means 'bye') while glimpsing at us for approval. On which my son and I raised our wine glasses and wished the girls a friendly 'Salut!' (We still say it, as an inside joke)
Someone asked me once where I was grew up. I replied in Uganda. Response: are you sure you couldn't have been, you're not black. No I'm not black. Father was a doctor working with leprosy sufferers and employed by the Colonial Service in E Africa.
Heh. I enjoy the looks of confusion when I, a white so white people put sunglasses on to look at me, tell them I’m half Kenyan. You can’t be, they say, you’re obviously not biracial. No, I’m not biracial but my mum was born to white parents in Nairobi, Kenya. It’s on her birth certificate and we are both entitled to Kenyan citizenship.🤯
Load More Replies..."Can you turn your accent off?" asked by a Canadian of me, an Australian. I just stared blankly at her.
Yes i can. If Im speaking English with and American person my accent is one, if Im speaking English with a africano person , it becames nigerian accent. If Im speaking with a person from England, i go full in .
Load More Replies...Not a question as such, but the check-out girl at Tesco insisting that I’d made a fake ID with a fictional country when I used my Belgian driver’s license as ID in the UK. And her being backed up by her manager. This was before WiFi was everywhere - I still wish I’d gone back and gotten a box of Belgian chocolates to show them, but I was so stunned I just left.
I went to a Tesco in England having come back from Scotland with Scottish notes (legal through all UK). This was when they had released the new 10 and 5 pound notes but not the 20s. I paid with Scottish 20s and the cashier and manager both said you can't use paper 20s any more, even though the plastic 20s didn't even exist at the time. So I left and never went back. Do all my shopping at Asda now
Load More Replies...Not a question, but perhaps my dumbest moment as a kid (10): The news bulletin came on, and I relayed this info to my mom, who was in another part of the house--"Mom! Martin Luther King has been shot!" A few minutes later, and another slightly more detailed bulletin: "Oh no Mom, now they've shot Martin Luther King JUNIOR!"
I bet you were devastated when you found out that Martin Luther died in 1546.
Load More Replies...My 8yr old daughter asked me how you spell KFC. She was eating it at the time and had the box in her hand.
Me and the ex-wife were blowing up balloons for a friend's surprise party and she said "These balloons don't work!" because they didn't float. Apparently she never had heard about helium. This woman also did not know how to boil an egg. She was 35 yrs old at the time. Divorce followed shortly thereafter
I have to remind my hubba hubby how much water and how long it takes to boil eggs. It just doesn't stick with him. His intelligence isn't defined by him not remembering and asking me every time and my ability to remember.
Load More Replies...A few years ago I was in an Italian restaurant just by the main campus of Sheffield University and there was a group of students at the next table. One was insisting to the waiter that his carbonara had to be made with 'pasta-free' spaghetti because he had a severe pasta allergy.
There's stringed zucchini. And spaghetti squash. People who can't eat pasta sometimes eat those.
Load More Replies...Yes. A new employee walked into my office and asked me why I didn't have children. First thought: who is this person? Second thought: who has she been talking to? Third thought: why does she care? Before I could answer, she informed me I must have a child or who else would take care of me when I'm old. She's d**n lucky I didn't haul her a** to HR along with the a*****e who had been talking about me.
Please do it next time! I'm so tired of this $hit. I can't wait to "get old" and people forget about me so I can finish my reading list before I die.
Load More Replies...Laat summer, at a terrace restaurant in France, a noisy group of Dutch girls next to us argued over how to say 'Cheers!' in French. One of them knew it's 'Santé', but the others didn't listen and in the end the loudest girl had it her way: they all toasted with 'Salut!' (which means 'bye') while glimpsing at us for approval. On which my son and I raised our wine glasses and wished the girls a friendly 'Salut!' (We still say it, as an inside joke)
Someone asked me once where I was grew up. I replied in Uganda. Response: are you sure you couldn't have been, you're not black. No I'm not black. Father was a doctor working with leprosy sufferers and employed by the Colonial Service in E Africa.
Heh. I enjoy the looks of confusion when I, a white so white people put sunglasses on to look at me, tell them I’m half Kenyan. You can’t be, they say, you’re obviously not biracial. No, I’m not biracial but my mum was born to white parents in Nairobi, Kenya. It’s on her birth certificate and we are both entitled to Kenyan citizenship.🤯
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