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.
I think the best response is: Okay, then go ahead and choose to be gay for a week and then we can discuss.
My response would be just walk away. I mean you can't respond to that I mean what the ****
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its not like people choose to be straight, why would it be different if you were gay?
I had someone tell me that I wasn't aro/ace, I was just lonely. Yeah, no. Doesn't work that way.
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I think Wanda Sykes it best, if being gay was a choice, your only straight because you chose not to be gay. Every guy out there thought, I'll suck a d**k today. Nah, I choose not to.
It makes me mad too when I see people calling themselves Christian treat people they think *might* be gay like garbage. And talk about killing or beating gays. Like didn't you pay any attention in Sunday school? Do you not believe in how this Christ you blabber on about constantly would want you treat your fellow humans? Who DO you worship? I don't know...let me guess....SATAN???
Well, there is a whole book that says not to judge people, then proceeds to tell you who, what, where, when, why, and how to do it....so go figure
Load More Replies... Yeah, children of fundamentalist religious people choose to be hated, vilified, ostracized, abused and murdered by their parents. What FUN!
Got reminded of a comedian I heard once and how gay people aren't tough. Went along the lines of. "Your dad's gay. My dad can beat up your dad" "Well my dad can F**K your dad! You can't get much manlier than that!"
I don't think so. No one wants to be ridiculed because of who they are attracted to.
Some Spastic (Sorry if you take offense but that's the best way to describe them) on Facebook said that people in the LGBT+ community chose to be that way because they want attention and enjoy the abuse. I lost so much braincells reading it, and feel disgusting while I type this
How old were you when you chose to be straight? Oh, you didn''t choose, you've just always been straight? Then how do you figure gay chose to be gay?
Ah another day living the dream: getting bullied and screamed at and misgendered and deadnamed until you're so tired of it all that you want to kill yourself.
Which comedian has the phrase “...and then I chose to be hate crimed on”
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Yep, tomorrow morning I will choose to wake up and hate my body, know my parents will never accept me, and be constantly confused about who I am and feel unworthy of love from ANY gender. It's great being gay :)
They actually found that after a woman has her first son the second son will have a 40% higher chance of being gay.
What I have never understood when idiots say this is how that would mean they "chose" not to be gay. Thus by their argument being straight is also a choice.
Stupidity is way more of a learned trait than homosexuality, yet you've decided stupidity is the route for you. Should've chosen homosexuality.
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My response is always, "when did you choose to be straight?" Or "why would anyone choose to be kicked out of their home? Be ostracized from their family?"
I have always hated that gals and twisted idea, and it’s worse when you point out that no one would want to be abused for who the are attracted to or love.
I had a friend that was a Trump supporter, white privilege and kind of conceited. But the icing on the cake and the reason I unfriended her was when she said there is one God and two genders. Yep...I think that's enough prejudice for now. BLOCKED!
Exactly what I told my brother when I came out to my family 15 years ago. He said it was a lifestyle choice. He even dragged me to his "church" (more like a cult that had weekly services in a pub basement) on the night their so called preacher was ranting about the *gasp* SINS OF HOMOSEXUALITY.
Possibly said by bisexual/gay people in denial of their same sex attraction
I hate when people say it's a choice. My friend from college is gay AND black. I always respond with sure sure, he woke up and said my life is so good and easy being a black man in America why not be gay too? People are idiots. Who would ever choose to make their lives even more difficult?
Honest question: how do bi people find out that they are bi? Are you e.g. into guys in your teen years just like every other girl and try to fit in? And one day realize hey, I like this cute girl over there too?
In my case, exactly that. I think I was in my early 20s when I was first attracted to a male friend. And was like "Wow, ok, that's new." Most people I know have the revelation earlier.
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On what planet do people choose everything else in life? Preeeeeetty sure people don't choose their demographics.
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really? tell me: are you gay or straight?
Load More Replies...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.
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.
You'll never find anyone who will love you more than me.
If that was love, I shudder to think what hate was like.
They just proved the other day the earth is only 6000 years old...
No, no! It's only 2021 years old! 😂🤣 (That's sarcasm just so we're clear).
That my friend told everyone that the titanic wasn’t real.
When I was in high school, a girl who sat in front of me in one of my classes asked me what the word “intelligent” meant. I laughed because I thought she was joking.
She wasn’t.
I had a guy in middle school spend like two hours over a day trying to convince me that the speed of a fart is greater than the speed of light
He thought there was some special speed for things that have smell and that it's faster than light... But... You know, it's just a gas. Also I'd never spoken to the guy before that day, like it was completely unprompted.
Well now I know about a brain fart that is faster than the speed of light.
My friend told me if you had a test with 101 questions and you got them all wrong, your score would be a -1. Yeah, I’d love to see the grade calculators handle that one.
Someone I was having a conversation with said that Dinosaurs exist in Korea. They said it like it was a fact...
This one girl was talking to me about a girl who’d had many relationships with other girls throughout her entire life, saying: “We all had that phase, she’s still a little bit confused obviously.”
Yeah right, my colleague is so confused she's been married to a girl for 25 years...
Them: “How do you make gulag?”
Me: “Make what?”
Them: “Gulag? Like the soup?”
Took me a few more minutes that gulag is a Soviet labor camp and not a type of soup. The worst part is that this conversation took place in the middle of a world history class. Fml.
Highschool debate class Everyone discussing how every dude jerks offs
Girl: my bf doesnt, ever.
Everyone else: yes he does, youre in denial. Do you know what denial means?
Girl: of course I do long pause ...but I'm American
“You are not getting a single penny out of me” Scammer threw around 14 (civil and criminal) lawsuits against me and my family clearly being on the wrong against a single one of ours and lost all of them basically going bankrupt on the process
You don't have learning difficulties or mental health you were made to think you do by teachers.
This coming from a man who in his youth taught kids with special needs.
I feel bad for the kids he taught, hope he didn't share any of his "wisdom."
A kid really believed and tried to convince me that in the movie Jaws there were 2 little people inside the mechanical shark peddling to make the shark swim and attack. He truly believed it to
My buddy said he’s topped his Mazda Miata at 240mph. I made sure to clarify it was mph and not kph.
I don't think that a Miata can reach 240 kph.... neither that someone would survive this crash
"Mr. Teacher, it's because aluminum isn't a metal!" Still ashamed of that one.
I made an argument about humans dealing with dinosaurs during a discussion, please don't laugh at me
I've had a few moments like this.
I live in the USA. When I was 5, I watched a lot of stuff about China and heard the word a lot growing up. In my first week of school, my music teacher (for some reason) tested our knowledge and asked us what state we lived in. Everyone else shouted our state name. I, with all confidence, exclaimed, "China!" Everyone was laughing. I've been a quiet child since.
Over ten years later, I'm on a vacation with my family and we stop at a hotel for the night on our way home. I was half asleep and had recently seen the movie "Into the Woods" not long before. The opening song was playing in my head (the one where the characters are stating their predicaments and constantly said, "Into the woods~"). My dad turns and asks me a question. I, with very tired confidence and not having heard a word he said, exclaimed, "Into the Woods!" My family still makes fun of me about that today.
This is nothing to be ashamed of. A 5 year old can make mistakes and so can a tired 15 year old. It's not like the others, where someone is confidently wrong.
Wisdom teeth are there to replace teeth that fall out
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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