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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong
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There'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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#1
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.
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#2
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.
Petra Peitsch 1 year ago
I can't belive, that is real ....we can be so stupid, and still survive ...
#3
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.
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."
#4
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.“.
Damned_Cat 1 year ago
When I die, if I find myself shopping at Walmart, I'll know I'm in hell.
#5
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.
Tyranamar Suess 1 year ago
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.
#6
My mother had dementia and the Social Worker asked me "" what relation are you to your mother ?".
A Very Glittery Moth Indeed 1 year ago
This reminds me of “the flat earth society has members all around the globe”
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."
#7
Someone asked me to repeat the pronunciation of my last name and followed it up with, "Are you sure?".
#8
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?”.
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.
#10
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.
#11
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.
Teressa Reeves 1 year ago
Oh dear god! That's even wilder than the German dude who complained that the desert wasn't green
#12
"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.
#13
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.
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
Thankfully, they were with a guide. Many resources have been expended rescuing Tourons.
#14
Someone asked me once if bananas were vegan......their justification was "maybe they're tested on animals" *HUH*????
#16
"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.
#17
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.
#18
"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.
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
I took a friend out on my boat when a fire boat passed us. He asked, "How much water do those hold?"🫤
#19
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. .
#20
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*.
Nelson Álvarez Sáez 1 year ago (edited)
I don't believe in atoms. They make up everything. I'll see myself out.
#21
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.
#23
"What's the number to 911?".
#24
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.
#25
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.
dan gerene 1 year ago
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.
#27
My business partner got this one:
"What are you studying for"
"the bar exam"
"cool, bartending sounds fun!".
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
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?
#29
"How can women pee with a tampon in?".
Celestial Phalanx 1 year ago
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.
#30
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.
#31
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??
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
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’
#32
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?".
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Does this person answer wrong numbers and get their phone repaired?
#33
How much garlic is in an onion?
#34
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.
Catlady6000 1 year ago
Also, just how closely are you and your spouse related? Oh, and Roll Tide!
#35
"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.
#37
Someone asked me if my snake was an invertebrate and I had to sit there and explain that snakes are like 90% vertebrae.
HarriMissesScotland 1 year ago
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.
#38
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.
#39
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.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
I've been to Wales. People there have to get their food by hunting and foraging.
#40
Why are you wearing sunglasses? It’s like 10 degrees out.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Because it’s also hella bright and I like to be able to see without a migraine! Duh!
#41
After someone bragging they knew a lot about Catholicism, “Do Catholics believe in Jesus?”.
#42
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!!".
#43
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?".
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago (edited)
That's going to be my go-to question for every problem now! 😅😅
#44
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.
Miracle Max 1 year ago
Meanwhile, ski resort in Arizona has 12 inches of snow on Nov. 9. IN ARIZONA!!!
#45
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?".
Georgy 1 year ago
Well perhaps it's because US Independence Day is a big thing in the US but totally irrelevant to the rest of the World.
Nea 1 year ago
But you’d expect an adult to know the biggest countries their own countries colonised.
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Cynthia Christie 1 year ago
I really can't blame her for hoping it was someone else for a change.
HarriMissesScotland 1 year ago
I was staying with British friends on the 4th. They surprised us with all of the regular celebratory items, and celebrated with us.
michael reid 1 year ago
Most British people would not know this, or indeed be interested to find out
WubiDubi 1 year ago
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?
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Julie S 1 year ago
I'm British and in all the years I did history at school the American war of independence was not once mentioned.
meeeeeeeeeeee 1 year ago
I remember India being mentioned a lot. The US can't cope with not being important enough for our curriculum to care lol
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The Short Lady 1 year ago
The UK is the biggest supplier of independence days in the world. It's always a safe answer to that question.
meeeeeeeeeeee 1 year ago
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.
Strahd Ivarius 1 year ago
One third of the countries member of the UN got their independence from UK...
Annik Perrot 1 year ago
Because no country likes to be reminded that they were defeated. You'll find no Waterloo in France.
Julie S 1 year ago
We learn about the battle of Hastings and we lost that.
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Lyoness 1 year ago
Come on guys. In 1707 Great Britain meant England, Scotland and Brittany (now France). In 1801 (while colonising continued) Ireland joined and then it was called The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. So if you insist on nit picking, it was PART of both Great Britain and the UK that colonised America. Everyone happy now? Here's the reference : https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-between-great-britain-and-the-united-kingdom
Georgy 1 year ago
Wow. How wrong can you be? For example, Great Britain never included Brittany, and you omitted Wales.
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Tiger 1 year ago
Not really. Do you know anything about what Canada Day is about, without googling it? What about Truth and Reconciliation Day? Probably not eh? Exactly.
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#46
“How long have you been Swedish?”.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
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 :(
#48
Do you curl your hair every day? Why is your hair always curly?
... I dunno, it grows that way, man.
#49
I’m a cook at a bar, someone while reading our food menu said, “French toast?? Is that some kind of beer flavor?”.
#50
“What do Jewish people do?”
In response to me saying that Chinese food places are closed on Thanksgiving.
TMTMTMTM 1 year ago
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.
#51
Is there internet in Africa?
dan gerene 1 year ago
There is internet but it is very slow. One has to beat out the the bits and bytes on a hollow log.
#52
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.
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
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)
#53
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.
#54
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.
#55
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?
Bec 1 year ago
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.
#56
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.
#57
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?".
#58
High school. “What animal does the potato come from?” Thinking it was like an egg.
#59
“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.”.
#60
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!
#61
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 .
Tiger 1 year ago
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.
#62
"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.
#63
Where do sunflower seeds come from?
Damned_Cat 1 year ago
I once knew someone that tried to plant sunflowers. She used snack sunflower seeds. You know, shelled, roasted and salted.
#64
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?”.
#65
"Is that your cat?" in reference to my tattoo, which is of a cat with three eyes and antlers.
#66
Someone asked me why medium blizzards cost more than the small blizzards when I worked at DQ one time.
#67
An old coworker once asked the group if Paris was in London, or the other way around.
Piwakawaka 1 year ago (edited)
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.
#68
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.
#69
“Is this bacon vegan?”.
Marla Singer 1 year ago
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.
#70
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?".
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Nope. They’re totally animatronic. The food you see them eating is just batteries disguised as food so others don’t know. Shhhh!
#71
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?"*.
Catlady6000 1 year ago
The gravity/magnetism is actually understandable. Both exert pull. It's similar to when I vacuum the yard and mow the living room
#72
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.
#73
I was at a drive-through McD's. The person asked if I wanted my order to go.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
That could be force of habit. I’ve often asked people if they need a bag when they are clearly holding one
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Beak Hookage 1 year ago
"Can you turn your accent off?" asked by a Canadian of me, an Australian. I just stared blankly at her.
Luisa 1 year ago
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 .
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StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
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.
michael reid 1 year ago (edited)
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
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Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
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!"
Ottoman 1 year ago
I bet you were devastated when you found out that Martin Luther died in 1546.
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My 8yr old daughter asked me how you spell KFC. She was eating it at the time and had the box in her hand.
Bobby Elgee 1 year ago
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
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
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.
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
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.
Tyranamar Suess 1 year ago
There's stringed zucchini. And spaghetti squash. People who can't eat pasta sometimes eat those.
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Two Cat Studio 1 year ago
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.
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
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.
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Sea Squirrel 1 year ago (edited)
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)
Cee Cee 1 year ago
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.
JB 1 year ago
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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The Other Guest 1 year ago
"Wait - is this *underwater*?!?" - fellow college student in oceanography class, while watching a film showing a mother humpback whale swimming with her calf.
CD Mills 1 year ago (edited)
My husband once fussed at me for buying both of the kids' sunglasses, he said it would 'weaken' their eyes to rely on sunglasses. I then asked him to take his glasses off and explain to me exactly HOW his 'Transition Lenses' which were dark at that moment, were NOT sunglasses.
sweet emotion 1 year ago
A guy in my European history class asked why English kings were always in numerical order.
Diolla 1 year ago (edited)
Someone looking at my dreadlocks said, "but that's not your real hair, right?" I informed them it was actually my real hair. "No it's not!" Yes it is. "Are you sure? " Sigh.
Steve Robert 1 year ago
I knew a guy who was so dumb, he went to USC because he couldn't spell UCLA.
michael reid 1 year ago
If the USA is so great why did they invent USB and USC
Load More Replies... Sand Ers 1 year ago
There may be no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
I would rather my students ask than continue in ignorance. I've been assured that I answer without giving away such a question. I also remind them they can ask me outside of class any time as well.
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Littlemiss 1 year ago
My mother in law claimed our child couldn't possibly be my husband's because he has a different eye colour. So technically he isn't mine either then by that theory. She trained to be a nurse. Apparently she's never heard of genetics.
Liz The Biz 1 year ago
We sell gas cylinders where I work. A few months back one of our regular customers who usually bought just one cylinder decided that she wanted three that day. I served her and was about to take her payment when she said, "I'm not very happy about this." I was a bit baffled and asked why. She said, " This is more than I usually pay. I don't understand why it's so expensive this time." I said, "It's because you've bought three cylinders this time instead of just one."
Steve Robert 12 months ago
I've always said that there are no stupid questions. Just stupid people.
Hunter Patricia Dogwood 1 year ago
Once a little girl asked me: "Are you a vampire? Because if you are, I have garlic. Also, does a wooden stake to the heart kill you?" I stared at her blankly before saying: "Well, yeah. Who wouldn't that kill?"
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Today's stupid question is from someone filling in a medical form and legit asking if he has a physical deformity...
🩶🩷Marvin HoG🩷🩶 1 year ago
"There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question" but there is such a thing as a dumb article title.
David Schmidt 1 year ago
Earlier today, on a tour of the St. Peter's, at the Vatican, someone in my group asked "so, are most of the people who get babtised here Catholic?"
Sophia Athene 1 year ago (edited)
That question has a complicated answer. Technically, no one is Catholic until they're confirmed into the Catholic Church. Baptism precedes confirmation. Also, adults can be baptized there and not be Catholic until confirmation. But baptism sorta puts a Catholic stamp on you when baptized as a child. My hubby was baptized by a Catholic priest but he's not Catholic. He can skip baptism and go straight to confirmation though if he wanted. So semantics mean everything to actually answer that question. Edit: Double-checked with Catholic friend in Italy.
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Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago
I drive a bus. I only drive one route. So much so, that the name is physically painted on the front and side; it's not a sign. Guest: "Is this bus going to [not the place painted on it]?
Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 year ago
When I was a tour guide on lake Garda in Italy, a couple asked me where they could get the boat to lake Como, another lake a few hundred kilometres away. I think I just laughed
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
"Can you turn your accent off?" asked by a Canadian of me, an Australian. I just stared blankly at her.
Luisa 1 year ago
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... StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
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.
michael reid 1 year ago (edited)
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... Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
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!"
Ottoman 1 year ago
I bet you were devastated when you found out that Martin Luther died in 1546.
Load More Replies... LazyStream 1 year ago
My 8yr old daughter asked me how you spell KFC. She was eating it at the time and had the box in her hand.
Bobby Elgee 1 year ago
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
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
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... UKGrandad 1 year ago
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.
Tyranamar Suess 1 year ago
There's stringed zucchini. And spaghetti squash. People who can't eat pasta sometimes eat those.
Load More Replies... Two Cat Studio 1 year ago
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.
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
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... Sea Squirrel 1 year ago (edited)
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)
Cee Cee 1 year ago
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.
JB 1 year ago
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... The Other Guest 1 year ago
"Wait - is this *underwater*?!?" - fellow college student in oceanography class, while watching a film showing a mother humpback whale swimming with her calf.
CD Mills 1 year ago (edited)
My husband once fussed at me for buying both of the kids' sunglasses, he said it would 'weaken' their eyes to rely on sunglasses. I then asked him to take his glasses off and explain to me exactly HOW his 'Transition Lenses' which were dark at that moment, were NOT sunglasses.
sweet emotion 1 year ago
A guy in my European history class asked why English kings were always in numerical order.
Diolla 1 year ago (edited)
Someone looking at my dreadlocks said, "but that's not your real hair, right?" I informed them it was actually my real hair. "No it's not!" Yes it is. "Are you sure? " Sigh.
Steve Robert 1 year ago
I knew a guy who was so dumb, he went to USC because he couldn't spell UCLA.
michael reid 1 year ago
If the USA is so great why did they invent USB and USC
Load More Replies... Sand Ers 1 year ago
There may be no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
I would rather my students ask than continue in ignorance. I've been assured that I answer without giving away such a question. I also remind them they can ask me outside of class any time as well.
Load More Replies... Littlemiss 1 year ago
My mother in law claimed our child couldn't possibly be my husband's because he has a different eye colour. So technically he isn't mine either then by that theory. She trained to be a nurse. Apparently she's never heard of genetics.
Liz The Biz 1 year ago
We sell gas cylinders where I work. A few months back one of our regular customers who usually bought just one cylinder decided that she wanted three that day. I served her and was about to take her payment when she said, "I'm not very happy about this." I was a bit baffled and asked why. She said, " This is more than I usually pay. I don't understand why it's so expensive this time." I said, "It's because you've bought three cylinders this time instead of just one."
Steve Robert 12 months ago
I've always said that there are no stupid questions. Just stupid people.
Hunter Patricia Dogwood 1 year ago
Once a little girl asked me: "Are you a vampire? Because if you are, I have garlic. Also, does a wooden stake to the heart kill you?" I stared at her blankly before saying: "Well, yeah. Who wouldn't that kill?"
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Today's stupid question is from someone filling in a medical form and legit asking if he has a physical deformity...
🩶🩷Marvin HoG🩷🩶 1 year ago
"There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question" but there is such a thing as a dumb article title.
David Schmidt 1 year ago
Earlier today, on a tour of the St. Peter's, at the Vatican, someone in my group asked "so, are most of the people who get babtised here Catholic?"
Sophia Athene 1 year ago (edited)
That question has a complicated answer. Technically, no one is Catholic until they're confirmed into the Catholic Church. Baptism precedes confirmation. Also, adults can be baptized there and not be Catholic until confirmation. But baptism sorta puts a Catholic stamp on you when baptized as a child. My hubby was baptized by a Catholic priest but he's not Catholic. He can skip baptism and go straight to confirmation though if he wanted. So semantics mean everything to actually answer that question. Edit: Double-checked with Catholic friend in Italy.
Load More Replies... Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago
I drive a bus. I only drive one route. So much so, that the name is physically painted on the front and side; it's not a sign. Guest: "Is this bus going to [not the place painted on it]?
Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 year ago
When I was a tour guide on lake Garda in Italy, a couple asked me where they could get the boat to lake Como, another lake a few hundred kilometres away. I think I just laughed
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