Show me a person who claims they never talk nonsense and I'll show you a liar. Silly words falling from our mouths is what makes us human.
But preaching ignorance in an attempt to persuade others? Not so much.
Recently, Redditor GuyWithAScuffedLife asked other platform users: "What is the dumbest thing someone has said with full confidence?" And boy, did that question resonate with everyone!
So far, the post has received nearly 1,500 comments, many of which prove how easy it is to make a fool of yourself.
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A woman yelled at me for parking a car with a handicap tag in a non-handicap spot. She believed that I had to park only in handicap spots.
The idea for this post came to GuyWithAScuffedLife quite spontaneously. "I was talking with my friends and I was just scrolling through Reddit, and then decided to ask a random question," they told Bored Panda.
"There [were] a lot of liberal and democratic people [in the comments] because a lot of the replies were directed towards anti-maskers, Trump, etc." But the good thing was that a lot of the stories turned out to be funny and GuyWithAScuffedLife had plenty of opportunities for a good laugh. Which is what they think is how you recover after saying something stupid yourself.
"Just laugh at it with other people because there is no harm in [admitting to saying something silly] and laughing about it."
Teenagers are too young to truly have anxiety, depression, or PTSD.
This is such a senseless thing to say. Bottom line: anyone at any age, of any race, of any life experiences CAN EXPERIENCE TRAUMA! And that's okay because there is support for that. Please no one feel like you're alone, there is always somebody out there who cares to listen.
Discussing religion with two Christian friends (Brother and sister duo) - I’m a nonbeliever and they were in your face jerks about it. These two are pretty much why I hate discussing religion.
The sister said something like “I bet you don’t even know how many apostles there were!”
I said “Twelve.”
The brother shouts “Ha! Wrong! It was seven!”
To her credit, the sister immediately facepalmed. And I kid you not when I say this is my actual response: “So, was it Doc or Dopey that betrayed Christ?”
"If evolution is true then how did a human man evolve perfectly to match a human woman."
As if they evolved separately then met up one day.
Cherilynn Veland, MSW, LCSW, who is a counselor and coach based in Chicago and who has been helping individuals, couples, and families for over 20 years now, agrees.
The best way to cope when we suffer from a verbal snafu, according to Veland, is to:
- Try to learn from the feelings of shame that these situations create;
- Use the mistake to practice humility;
- Find the learning lessons in the mistake;
- Practice laughing at yourself.
Plus, apologies are often accepted!
"If pregnancy were really that challenging and such a burden, the human race would have died out a long time ago."
Yes, it was a man. Yes, I still know him.
And this ladies and gentlemen is why that task is given to women...
Gay people choose to be that way. Yup they wake up and think, well life is good I feel like being abused for no reason.
Was told by someone that Australia doesn't exist cuz we don't fit on the flat earth......... we were in Australia
In that case, would somebody please lend me their cat so we can push this person off the edge of said "flat earth?"
“If evolution was real, why are there still monkeys?” – worst first & last date.
"It's FAA law that there can only be one Christian pilot per plane. That way when the rapture comes, the other guy can land the sinners left on the plane safely."
This was in college. Not a religious college. She said this like we were the stupid ones.
That being diabetic is something you can DO at home, and an addiction that is not suitable to DO when in public.
Yes, someone told me that in full confidence.
Is there a pancreatic transplant clause that can be enacted against the person who said this? Because by the time I would've been done with him, his insulin supply would've been drained and his epinephrine would be in excess.
Being Bipolar is a choice. Yea sure it is sweetheart. I don’t talk to them anymore
In my sex ed class in highschool, we had an assignment where we had to name all the parts of the male genitalia and this one girl said (with a nasty attitude, might I add) “men don’t have bladders!”
"Informed people don't make better decisions than uninformed people. That's a myth." He wasn't joking.
I was told by a teacher that lots of people have diabetes and I need to get over it, it's not that big of a deal.
Well the first part is true at least....lots of people do have diabetes....so that's something?
Diabetes is scary and very misunderstood. My grandma died way too young of diabetes and she was a very healthy eater and active person. She is the reason I love raw veggies. I am now overweight (and trying to lose it again) and tested very 6 months. Not all diabetics are fat and not all fat people have diabetes. It is much more complicated than that. A part time 60ish worker at my last job carried a small soft side cooler with insulin and snacks. I offered my mini fridge for anything he needed. We also called him ASAP if he left his bag in our office. He got all the guys hooked on dried pineapple, his go to snack, so everyone kept some on hand for him just in case.
Online I see too many people assume that diabetes is your own fault and you should just lose weight. Which is sometimes relevant for Type 2 but absolutely not relevant for Type 1. Type 2 *may* be controlled by diet (but losing weight is gonna be difficult), Type 1 needs a new pancreas.
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I bet you would be happy to 'get over it' if it were medically possible. People can be jerks
I think the people around her will have to try to get over it cause i don't think she realizes that herself
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Lots of people have died so they should all get over it. So I'm still waiting on little Jamie's homework, "was killed by car" is as weak an excuse as "dog ate homework".
There must be a story behind your teacher's comment...? Did you use your condition as an excuse for a a certain deadline you could not come up with? If not, then YES: a jerky comment and totally unjustified. Sorry for your experience! I hope you are doing well!
Could be anything from 'why are you eating snacks in my class?' to 'no you can't go to the bathroom to inject yourself with life-saving insulin'.
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Being a diabetic I can tell you that if you take care of yourself and do what you're supposed to, it isn't a big deal. I follow my doctors advice and got the COVID-19 vaccine in July. I take my medicine every single day and I go in for regular check ups. If you have diabetes you don't need to make a big show about it, it doesn't mean the end of life.
What if you couldn't afford to see your doctor, or your insulin.
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Being a Diabetic in not that big a deal. I have been Diabetic for 20 plus years and it is no big deal.
Must not be a history teacher, because a history teacher would know that, if we had no viable treatments of diseases like cancer and heart disease—-and smallpox until the 18th century—-and that doctors’ colleges were forbidden to dissect human bodies so had to rely on grave robbers for corpses well into the 19th century, they’d also know we had no treatment for manageable conditions like diabetes, allergies, hyper/hypothyroid, etc for centuries until relatively recently, so people suffered unnecessarily and died way too young from them—-so it IS a big deal.
I'm sorry your teacher was so dumb and mean. Of all professions, teachers should be rational and empathetic. So sad this person is responsible for educating young people.
So many people die of "complications due to diabetes", Penny Marshal comes to mind, the lead singer of that song, Paper Dolls, is another. Supposedly in the United States right now a quarter to a third of the people around you have diabetes or are pre diabetic.
“Look, a lot of people has had their legs ripped off in accidents, it’s not a big DEAL. Maybe it would have if you were the FIRST, but you’re not, so stop whining.” A-say wha…?
"Lots of people are dying, and countless are already dead. Get over yourself" Someone should probably tell that teacher this when they're dying
She needs to get over her attitude or find another job. Attitudes like that are how kids end up in hospital with problems. Lots of people may have it but there are 5 types: Brittle Type 1, Type 1, Mine: Latent Autoimmune or 1.5, Type 2 and gestational. All have different features such as Type 1 being high maintenance.
aside from that dumb af comment, pretty soon there will be a cure.
I'm sure diabetics would love to tell their body just to get over it, and it works.
Maybe the thing about injecting bleach into your system to kill the coronavirus
Someone told me you could get to Hawaii by boat in 20 minutes because it’s right off the coast of California.
I think he was looking at one of those maps that had Alaska and Hawaii in the bottom left corner and thought that’s how it really was.
“I didn’t know Hitler was Australian.” If you didn’t get it, I would gladly tell you the full story if you want to.
If you wash your hands in the hot water you don't need soap. Hot water will kill all germs
I had just moved into a new place and had a roommate told me that women who get raped while drunk deserve it.
I told a guy a few hours after a terrible date (needed to calm down) that it wasn’t going to work between us. Two days later I get a text saying he had a long hard conversation with himself the day after the date and, long story short, he didn’t think we were compatible to date right now.
Completely confident that it was his idea. Just gonna let him think it and be glad I never have to deal with again.
A coworker of mine once told me that any animal could reproduce with any other animal, that DNA wasn't important and that all sperm was the same.
She believed this because she once saw a litter of diseased, deformed puppies and had decided that they must be half rat.
Well at least she was working from an observation, not some made up crap that she'd heard from someone else.
The earth is flat!
The Earth IS flat. It has just been rolled round into the shape of a flattened sphere so we don't fall off the edge.
"This bacon is so raw, I can still hear it mooing!"
(For the record, the bacon was precooked.)
I once drove past a car park being demolished with my mum in the car. The demo crew were spraying the structure with water to keep the dust down, my mother, bless her insisted they were doing it to soften the concrete.
i have diagnosed ADHD. my friend once told me i didn’t have it and was lying because i didn’t bring fidget toys to school
My roommate once told me we were in South America. We live in Canada.
I was in a high school history class and we were talking about Freud. Our teacher asked if any of us knew what penis envy was. One student who was straight faced and way too confident answered “it’s when one man is jealous of another man’s penis size”. Comedy gold.
A friend once told me that all cancer was a completely man made phenomenon.
"I thought the turtle would eat algae. That's what my koi did."
The baby turtle was kept in a small glass bowl without algae. It also didn't have UV light, and was fed shrimp, the turtle equivalent of living on desserts. I got it a perching spot in an aquarium, UV light, water heater/thermostat, and real turtle pellets.
This person otherwise comes off as fairly bright, and sustains himself with his own businesses. The differences between fish and reptiles apparently didn't really hit him.
This is why everyone should be educated on pet care before adopting.
that i'm stupid for checking reviews on products before ordering them.
Not sure if this counts, but one time my little brother walked up to me and awkwardly asked “is the cat dead” as he held our cat, who was purring…
One time I was sitting with a patient, he was bit by a dog, his leg was torn up pretty bad, he couldn't even walk. As I finished bandaging him, he said "it's fine, I can walk" and he got up, and fell on his face
My grandmother always believed whenever we saw a rain clouds in the distant she would be upset(being a farmers wife) because she thought the clouds were sucking the water out of the ground. My mom set her straight but I don’t think she believed her though
Technically, the water cycle involves evaporation (molecular droplets lifting from water bodies on the surface), condensation (in the clouds) and precipitation... Not so sure about the mood changes though...Unless it's been raining for a few weeks straight.
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My coworker made a mistake in a mathematical problem, I pointed it out, and she said "Well, it's just your opinion". I'm afraid math doesn't work like that.
A colleague doesn't understand (actually he think he's right and the rest of the world is wrong) that having something discounted by 20% is not the same as 20% of a number - so if something costs £100 and it's 20% off, he expects it to cost £20.
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Brazilian president Jair Messias Bolsonaro, said covid-19 vaccines causes AIDS! Oi?! (O_o)
I've got 2 good ones! 1: someone once said to me (completely serious) that if you get cancer you can just not eat for 1 year because the cancer germs wont have anything to feed off of. Then proceeded to explain how if you only drink water it will replace the nutrients from food. 2: someone told me the sun is on fire I dont really remember the context but we were in an argument and he was a fully grown adult
Ummm. The sun IS on fire. What we see is the flaming Corona of an ultra dense ball of gasses and metals that are reacting to constantly being crushed by insane amounts of gravity by losing energy in the form of exothermal heat.. So, yeah... it's on fire.
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I'm English, whilst in America I was told Scotland isn't in Britain, its in Northern Europe.
In 2016 economist Paul Krugman wrote that if Trump were elected, the stock market would never recover. In 1998 he wrote that the internet had peaked and would have no more effect on business than the fax machine. And he won a Nobel Prize!
Someone told me ones that chocolatmilk comes from brown cows.. And yes.. He is a adult..
And, of course, marshmallows come from flamingos.
Load More Replies... My friend once said, in all seriousness, that the earth isn't flat. He claimed it is a sphere LMAO! I never let him live it down.
Huh, so how did he explain why Australians don't fall off???
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Reading comments like this makes me fear for the future o humanity.
Some vaccines are developed and/or tested on continually reproduced aborted fetal cells from the 80's. We no longer use the chicken egg method for the reproducing viruses for vaccines normally. It's more accurate to say "yes, aborted fetal cells" than "no aborted fetal cells" Also there was no mention of "injecting bleach to cure COVID" it was "disinfectant". Common disinfectants are that can be injected by medical professional are hydrogen peroxide, alcohol, iodine and others that I can't currently remember.
Once had a friend of my sister's ask if we had a swimming pool. ...while she was in our swimming pool.
We all have our weak spots, and she seems to understand and accept what hers are
Load More Replies... Islands float... A woman with three kids once told me that islands must be floating since they can move independently of each other (a phenomenon that happens when islands are on separate tectonic plates next to each other like in Southeast Alaska). I had to explain it was lava under everything and the oceans are like bowls.
I was dating a girl and we were going from Tahoe to LA. As we went over the Donner pass we went by the monument. She had never heard the Donner story, so I told her about how they had gotten their wagon train stuck in blizzard and ended up cannibalizing their own to stay alive. When I finished the story, there was a long pause and then she looked at me and asked, "Why didn't they just follow the road out?" She was also valedictorian of her high school.
I could accept her answer if she thought it happened a couple years ago
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I don’t even know what “woke” means anymore. It seems to have warped into meaning either “people who believe in science”, “people who disagree with me” or “people who have left the 1800s behind” - or all of the above. I’ve given up on the term entirely at this point.
Load More Replies... My coworker made a mistake in a mathematical problem, I pointed it out, and she said "Well, it's just your opinion". I'm afraid math doesn't work like that.
A colleague doesn't understand (actually he think he's right and the rest of the world is wrong) that having something discounted by 20% is not the same as 20% of a number - so if something costs £100 and it's 20% off, he expects it to cost £20.
Load More Replies... Brazilian president Jair Messias Bolsonaro, said covid-19 vaccines causes AIDS! Oi?! (O_o)
I've got 2 good ones! 1: someone once said to me (completely serious) that if you get cancer you can just not eat for 1 year because the cancer germs wont have anything to feed off of. Then proceeded to explain how if you only drink water it will replace the nutrients from food. 2: someone told me the sun is on fire I dont really remember the context but we were in an argument and he was a fully grown adult
Ummm. The sun IS on fire. What we see is the flaming Corona of an ultra dense ball of gasses and metals that are reacting to constantly being crushed by insane amounts of gravity by losing energy in the form of exothermal heat.. So, yeah... it's on fire.
Load More Replies... I'm English, whilst in America I was told Scotland isn't in Britain, its in Northern Europe.
In 2016 economist Paul Krugman wrote that if Trump were elected, the stock market would never recover. In 1998 he wrote that the internet had peaked and would have no more effect on business than the fax machine. And he won a Nobel Prize!
Someone told me ones that chocolatmilk comes from brown cows.. And yes.. He is a adult..
And, of course, marshmallows come from flamingos.
Load More Replies... My friend once said, in all seriousness, that the earth isn't flat. He claimed it is a sphere LMAO! I never let him live it down.
Huh, so how did he explain why Australians don't fall off???
Load More Replies... Reading comments like this makes me fear for the future o humanity.
Some vaccines are developed and/or tested on continually reproduced aborted fetal cells from the 80's. We no longer use the chicken egg method for the reproducing viruses for vaccines normally. It's more accurate to say "yes, aborted fetal cells" than "no aborted fetal cells" Also there was no mention of "injecting bleach to cure COVID" it was "disinfectant". Common disinfectants are that can be injected by medical professional are hydrogen peroxide, alcohol, iodine and others that I can't currently remember.
Once had a friend of my sister's ask if we had a swimming pool. ...while she was in our swimming pool.
We all have our weak spots, and she seems to understand and accept what hers are
Load More Replies... Islands float... A woman with three kids once told me that islands must be floating since they can move independently of each other (a phenomenon that happens when islands are on separate tectonic plates next to each other like in Southeast Alaska). I had to explain it was lava under everything and the oceans are like bowls.
I was dating a girl and we were going from Tahoe to LA. As we went over the Donner pass we went by the monument. She had never heard the Donner story, so I told her about how they had gotten their wagon train stuck in blizzard and ended up cannibalizing their own to stay alive. When I finished the story, there was a long pause and then she looked at me and asked, "Why didn't they just follow the road out?" She was also valedictorian of her high school.
I could accept her answer if she thought it happened a couple years ago
Load More Replies... I don’t even know what “woke” means anymore. It seems to have warped into meaning either “people who believe in science”, “people who disagree with me” or “people who have left the 1800s behind” - or all of the above. I’ve given up on the term entirely at this point.
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