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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"I don't eat cows, I eat beef."
"If there ever is a bread shortage, my family won't be affected because we only eat toast." - C. S. Lewis
This comment could make sense if the beef was really undercooked and the person saying it was being facetious.
Sorry to send you to a hyper-ad page, but if you're curious WHY we call it beef, this will answer. https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/why-is-it-called-beef-when-it-s-from-cows
it is actually true. we do not eat cow meat(at least in most countries) we eat heifers and steers(castrated in 1st year) We get milk from cows(not fixed obviously.)
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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.
Yeah, you go be handicapped in your spot! Wtf is wrong with people?!
Those greedy handicaps! They have the audacity to use non-handicap toilets too.
Some places in the UK you actually do have to be in the disabled spot. Otherwise you might not get the free spot.
This is actually more common opinion than you'd believe. I've heard countless times "but they have their own parking no one else can park, why do they take up our parking too?"
Yep, though usually insufficient numbers of disabled spaces is the reason.
Load More Replies...The scramble for that spot would be overwhelming.
Load More Replies...Ahhh yes. Disabled people also apparently don’t go out anywhere after 6pm
did she have a non-handicap tag in her car allowing her to park in non-handicap spaces?
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.
I just wanted to add that your feelings are real and valid! I know it hurts to be told how you feel doesn’t matter, or to be afraid of being ridiculed for having them. So please consider this as validation and ignore those that would say otherwise!
Load More Replies...My mum thinks that people who suffer from mental health problems are "weak" and we get depression etc because we are bored and have nothing to do- 😶😕 and she wonders why I never tell her anything
Angelika, a lot of people in her generation think like that. Minds are changing about mental illness, but very slowly. My parents were like this too. Bottom line: your feelings are valid and important, no matter what anyone else says or thinks.
Load More Replies...i had ( still do ) a peptic ulcer at 14 brought on by stress and anxiety , been on meds for depression/anxiety since 18
Teenagers are the most traumatized group of people and they are overcoming their trauma in their 20s. Belive me I know. I was one of them
Teen years and twenties are *really hard.* My life in my thirties was pretty good, but since then each successive decade has been an appreciable improvement over the last. Being old is so freeing—most people don’t even notice you anymore, and those that do tend to be at minimum civil, and often downright gracious and/or helpful.
Load More Replies...One of my internships I developed severe anxiety and PTSD while coming to terms with two years of sexual abuse from my first relationship. I started picking and scratching at my arms as a coping mechanism. One of the managers noticed and asked me about it, and when I said stress, his response was 'what on earth do you have to be stressed about at your age?'
So f’ing dismissive. I used to have scabs all over my head from anxiety-picking...shock of all shocks, it went away when I moved away from home and my abusive bleeping stepfather.
Load More Replies...Too young, huh? I was 9 years old when I started having suicidal thoughts. I even wrote an explanatory letter to my parents. 2 failed attempts followed, at 10 y.o. and at 13. To this day I'm amazed that nothing happened to me. (Kudos to the old lady who found and threw away the dane weed fruits I was planning to eat... and said nothing to my parents). Domestic violence and child abuse are horrible.
I'm so sorry, Alexia. I truly hope you're in a better place now ❤️ I'm sending you hugs.
Load More Replies...Tell that to the kids who were survivors of school shootings. Just because you're young doesn't mean you bounce back from everything unscathed.
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?”
Religion is like a penis, it's okay to have one and be proud of it. HOWEVER do not pull it out in public, do not push it on children, do not write laws with it and do not think with it
i hate all religion , its killed more than its saved , if half practiced what they preached religion my solve some s**t , but i doubt they ever will
I agree, but I still respect those who believe in them, just not if their bad people. It’s important to remember that not all religious people are bad.
Load More Replies...Had to Google the last pun... So "Doc" and "Dopey" are some of the seven dwarfs in Snow White. (Don't mock, I never watched those old cartoons in English)
I respect other people's right to believe whatever they want, as long as they aren't shoving it down my throat, or harming other people with it.
The brother didn't do a good job of proving his point. Also, if you are not Christian, there is nothing wrong with that.
Apparently if you ARE Christian you’re literally worse than Hitler and are responsible for every single bad thing ever, though.
Load More Replies...Average level of comprehension amongst those who believe mythology is real low.
Thanks to the past generations there are a lot of religions that are now known as "Mythology". Also I think Nooberton kind of went off topic for a while. It is okay to believe what you want but no matter what, you can never escape the judgement of others. I do sometimes like to call christianity "Christian mythology" though.
Load More Replies...Don't stop discussing religion... the only way to shed light on insanity is try to make them see it for themselves.... of course - it doesn't work with many of them - if they were able to see the absurdity of their claims, they wouldn't be religious in the first place... so its always an uphill battle.
I don’t know why people always feel the need to make you believe what they believe, it is not your obligation…we don’t want to be like you, and hate that you try to change us. You can try to educate us if say you are passionate about your religion, but trying to force us is just not alright.
"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.
"Not today. Let's meet again in a couple thousand years."
Load More Replies...Just.... please stop using that nonsensical "March of progress"-image from chimp to modern human. That's not how it went.
A more realistic version would be: Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ape. Ardipithecus. Ardipithecus. Ardipithecus. Ardipithecus. Ardipithecus. Ardipithecus. Ardipithecus. Ardipithecus. Australopithecus. Australopithecus. Australopithecus. Australopithecus. Australopithecus. Australopithecus. Australopithecus. Australopithecus. Australopithecus. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Habilis. Homo Erectus. Homo Habilis. Homo Erectus. Homo Habilis. Homo Erectus. Homo Habilis. Homo Erectus. Homo Habilis. Homo Erectus. Homo Habilis. Homo Erectus. Homo Erectus. Homo Erectus. Homo Erectus. Homo Erectus. Homo Erectus. Homo Heidelbergensis. Homo Heidelbergensis. Homo Heidelbergensis. Homo Heidelbergensis. Neanderthal. Neanderthal. Neanderthal. Neanderthal. Neanderthal. Neanderthal. Neanderthal. Neanderthal. Neanderthal. Human. Human. Human. Human. Human. Human. Human. Human. Human with a sword. Human with a sword. Human with a crossbow. Human with nukes. Ape.
Load More Replies...When I see how some men are acting like they have never seen a woman before, this theory doesn't sound that far off.
I heard this gem once: if evolution is true, why are there still monkeys?
I've heard that one. I think it's a valid thought... if you're 6 years old.
Load More Replies...Did anyone else lose a couple IQ points just reading that? ...OK, just me.
In the begining there would have been both male and female creatures for us to evolve from. That would be the case all through the evolution process, therefore women have had the same journey as men in the evolution process. They didn't evolve seperately and find each other by coincidence.
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...
I hear the comparison of being kicked in the balls is worse than giving birth because no man turns around and says "kick me again" but women say "let's have another kid".....and I always have to wonder did they forget that giving birth gives you a baby and being kicked in the balls gives you nothing? If there was a reward for being kicked in the balls I bet more men would be willing to put up with it.
Being a man, I don't know what childbirth feels like. But I do know that being kicked in the balls is excruciating. However, the biggest difference (in my opinion) is that childbirth can last days. So I think women deserve the gold medal.
Load More Replies...In the 1800s, a woman had a one in eight chance of dying in childbirth during her lifetime.
But before that, when men were rarely involved in the process and people didn't put their hands inside the woman, the death rate was much lower. So many women died from having infection introduced by well-meaning doctors (and others). Hand hygiene is *everything*.
Load More Replies...Women died by untold numbers, adn we still do, but thanks for mansplaining why it's not hard to have our pelvis torn apart by a creature too large to exit by the designated egree. Or our blood pressure and blood sugar affected. Or blood clots. Or hyperemesis. Or bleeding out. Or.... Yeah, fetch the grapefruit spoon, as my mom would say!
For me, labor pain felt like being torn in half, so.... there's that.
I had an a**l fissure once and going to the toilet was so painful it felt like that, and I basically had a panic attack from the fear whenever I had to go, even though the pain lasted only a second. I cannot even imagine a pain similar to that (or even worse than that) going on for hours and hours, even days. Anyone who can endure the pain of childbirth deserves a lot of respect. There is no way I could handle that much pain for that much time.
Load More Replies...And women still die during pregnancy and birth... because they don't get professionel help...
My dad always said if men had babies they would never have more than one. After having 4 rather large babies (first being the biggest at 10lbs 10) and then being sterilised my body is a wreck. I've been diagnosed with fibromyalgia which may or may not be related, but I've had chronic back pain since after my first - the only one I had a spinal block with after she was born and I needed to go into surgery and I fully believe it was that that has caused my back pain but I'll never know. Every day I'm in pain so I chose to make sure I couldn't have another baby as my husband was reluctant to get the snip. If I had another one I really think it would cripple me. Pregnancy is hard - that baby leeches so much from your body, it's tiring, it's draining, it's sore and uncomfortable but overall it's completely worth it for that little person you've not even met yet. There's nothing and no one else I would put myself through all of it for other than my babies
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 ****
Load More Replies...its not like people choose to be straight, why would it be different if you were gay?
Being straight is the default state. You are born straight but sometimes some people just decide to be gay. But it is not really their free will. It's brainwashing from the 5G chips in the vaccines or from being possessed by evil spirits.
Load More Replies...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.
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?"
The only thing flat earthers have to fear, is sphere itself.
No... Everyone knows Australia is real... Only everyone living there are paid actors!!!
It's all a big scam apparently. I've heard that all people in "Australia" are in fact South Americans, in South America, pretending to be Aussies, and all pilots and travel agents on the planet, and the entire population of S.A. knows this flat earth truth, but somehow they are all keeping it a secret for... uh... reasons.
I had an American swear up and down that New Zealand and Australia were connected by the Sydney Harbour Bridge. I'm a New Zealander, and I've also climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge ... and given that it's a three hour plane ride between the two places, that would be a marvel of engineering.
“If evolution was real, why are there still monkeys?” – worst first & last date.
I wonder about that every time i vacuum!! WHY IS THERE STILL DIRT??
Load More Replies...It's not just a one-off documentary, it's a series! Now I'm imagining all those movies (from those with Charlton Heston onwards) narrated by Attenborough.
Load More Replies...Evolution is doing its very best to excise idiots out of the gene pool, but dang it, they keep cropping up
I've seen crazy Christians post stories where they "disproved" evolution by "buying a monkey and watching to see if it turned into a human". These same people spew derision if you can't quote every scripture in the bible with them, but they can't spend 10 minutes learning what evolution even means.
I think a couple school districts have GoFund Me accounts, maybe there's hope
Load More Replies...Someone didn’t read the book, and slept through grade school science class. Or went to a “Christian” school, and thinks Jesus banished the dinosaurs, or something.
Lmao Jesus banished the dinosaurs... Thank you for that giggle
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"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.
What if the "Christian" pilot is a sinner? What exactly does FAA consider as "sins"? Is flying a sin?
They go in their ass and pull things out (ok that sounded weird)
Load More Replies...Assuming you're one of the good ones, have you ever heard one of the crappy ones claim that all gays go to hell because it's a sin, despite the entire point of the bible is everyone is a sinner?
Load More Replies...I have a funny feeling she was flying as a child and her parents told her this to calm her down. (1) not all Christians believe in the rapture. Revelations is a weird book of prophecy. (2) There's much debate on what exactly constitutes a "saved" person. They mostly fall into 2 categories: the "forever saved" people, in which you accept Christ as your savior and from then on, you're going to heaven always, no matter how many puns you make; or the "backslider" people, in which they believe you can lose your salvation by sinning and not asking for forgiveness from God immediately.
Raised Catholic, and we mostly skipped Revelations.
Load More Replies...Wait. “That way when the rapture comes, the other guy can land the sinners left on the plane safely”. So the rest of us get to land and go about our lives, while the “believers” are sucked up into the sky, to go wherever they’ve been told by their book of mythology says they’re supposed to go—-and not a one of them is self-aware enough to step back and ask for concrete proof they’re not being scammed or tricked before it’s their turn to be sucked up? Come to think of it, makes sense. Never mind.
I hope the rapture is real so they all disappear and we get to enjoy some peace.
The vaccine is made from aborted babies
There is actually a grain of truth in it - as far as I know all vaccines are based on the cells of a few fetuses which were aborted in the last century. Unfortunately, a lot of todays medical knowledge and practices were accomplished by horrendous crimes (experimenting on humans...), most of them worse than using those cells so... if you have trouble with this there is not much of modern medicine you can using without moral problems.
No, the grain of truth is even smaller than that actually. The cells you refer to are particular strains of stem cell and they did indeed come from foetuses, they *could* be used in a variety of really powerful medical treatments in the future. But no existing vaccines are based on those cells.
Load More Replies...Before you downvote, please know that I'm fully vaccinated and support limited mandates. My comment is more to do with how language is important and how ignorance/malfeasance can generate misinformation like this. The vaccines are not made from fetal tissue, nor do they contain fetal tissue, but cell lines derived from aborted fetal tissues were involved. Again, not debating morality in any way. I just find it interesting how a grain of truth becomes of desert of lies. The Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines used fetal cell line HEK 293 was during the research and development phase. All HEK 293 cells are descended from tissue taken from a 1973 abortion that took place in the Netherlands. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine production process involves infect PER.C6 fetal cell lines to grow the adenovirus vector. PER.C6 cells are descended from tissue taken from a 1985 abortion that took place in the Netherlands.
Just to add to this, using these cell lines during research and development is super common. A few of the other drugs that have done this are aspirin, acetaminophen, Ibuprofen, Tylenol, Pepto Bismol, Tums, Motrin, Ex-Lax, Benadryl, Sudafed, Claritin. Anyone trying to use this as a reason to not vaccinate would need to avoid many medications for that same reason.
Load More Replies...These ones I agree with them and add, "Best you don't take it,, I heard it has 5G tracking chips in it as well." ... then periodically check on them to see if they are dead yet.
Politicians took months to agree to even fund communal roads. Does anyone really think they care enough about the whereabouts of every random Joe to bother to pay to track them? (I know conspiracy theorists say yes, but come on...)
Load More Replies...That's not really okay to say. It is very much the same as telling someone you wish they were dead or would kill themselves. Saying you wish someone never existed is just harsh. Just saying, how we talk to and about people matters. Well it should anyway.
Load More Replies...Well, stem cells were part of the treatment Trump received when he had Covid.
They don't care because their god-king can do no wrong. I mean look, we are talking about a bunch of people who call themselves 'christians', but elected a guy who did every single one of the Seven Deadly Sins. They are not rational people.
Load More Replies...There can be stem cells from aborted embryos/fetuses in vaccines, yes. I read that the fetal cells in one of the Covid vaccines were from abortions done in the 80's. The cells are taken from already aborted embryos/fetuses, they are not aborted to be used for vaccines. Similar to hearts and lungs and livers and corneas and skin are taken from people who have died. They have not been killed to harvest organs from them.
I shared this article a few months ago with people who claimed they couldn't take the COVID-19 vaccine because fetal cell lines could have been used in its development. The fact that aspirin, ibuprofen, Benadryl, Sudafed, Maalox and so many other common medicines are in the exact same boat floored them. If you're claiming a religious exemption yet take any of these drugs, you're a hypocrite. I'm glad this hospital is requiring their employees to confirm they take none of them. https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20210918/some-medications-also-tied-to-religious-vaccine-exemption
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.
They are actually "making" pancreas with a 3D printing machine. https://interestingengineering.com/bioprinted-pancreas-could-end-diabetes
Load More Replies...i have a mate who had the cops called on him for been a junkie , yeah he had needles for his insulin and needed to inject himself , she noticed him taking the needles out his pocket when he walked towards a public toilet , bad enough he feels the need to hide away to take his meds but calling the cops is low
Omg I never thought of that! Bad enough you have to self inject! My diabetic grandma always had a box of needles on her dresser. I faint from needles sometimes so I just avoided them.
Load More Replies...My dad passed away from pancreatic cancer last year. Before that he had to inject himself with insulin and test his sugar regularly. He tested his sugar in a resturant (when he injected himself he liked to do that in private) , patrons at the next table started screaming he shouldnt set a bad example for their kids and prepare for his drug addiction in front of kids. Dad was around 80 when this happend.
OMG. I'm so sorry. Same cancer got my dad. Hugs.
Load More Replies...How can anyone be so stupid? Like an illness can be turned on and off to suit. I'm sure patients wish it were true.
Yeah, I just love having to take my blood sugar and watch what I eat. It is a great addiction.
That’s as bad as all Type 2 Diabetics are just fat and greedy and can’t help themselves. I have 1.5. That really confuses the idiots
just like, "people aren't born gay....they choose to be gay". I say Diabetes is a choice GD!
Being Bipolar is a choice. Yea sure it is sweetheart. I don’t talk to them anymore
Well, I've been told my bisexuality was a choice too.... Seems like a lot of people make strange choices
Load More Replies...Not always, my friend :D some people are natural idiots
Load More Replies...i wish i had that choice. maybe i could even choose how i'd feel half of the time
Most stupid people don’t actually realize they’re stupid. Because they’re too stupid to figure it out. Seriously! [Addition]: Ignorance is a different story, that’s just willfully closing your eyes, ears, and brain to what is going on around you!
Load More Replies...I watched a video reaction (of a psychologist) criticizing a tiktok video where a random christian said the same about depression. Its sad people think this.
Imagine the mental strain it would take someone to chose or “pretend” to be bipolar.
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!”
It always amazes me how confidently stupid people make up facts out of thin f*****g air and then act like everyone else is stupid for not knowing about their "fact". But I've encountered that over and over again in my life.
My poor little cat who keeps having to be catheterized for bladder crystals would like to disagree.
But the bladder is connected to male genitalia, so it's logical to include a bladder in a diagram of male reproductive anatomy.
Load More Replies...I was in a college-level human sexuality class and one of the women in there didn't know why she had periods.
"Informed people don't make better decisions than uninformed people. That's a myth." He wasn't joking.
Well-informed people can be as stupid as anyone, when it comes to, say, sex.
there's the difference between knowledge and wisdom
Load More Replies...“ There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” - Isaac Asimov
I'm glad you believe that. Because I have a new business where I hire high-school drop-outs that will perform your colonoscopy or a mammogram or do your taxes or defend you in a court of law all for the low low price of $29.99
Sound like the same idiots who misquote Eisenhower, saying "plans are worthless" because they are garbage at planning anything, and of course everything they do results in a complete s**t-show. The actual quote is, "plans are worthless, but planning is indispensable".
That's somewhat true when it comes to consumer decision-making. Like if you're going to buy a car and do too much research you can reach analysis paralysis. And you're likely to buy the one you like and justify your decision retroactively anyway. When to comes to other types of decision-making analysis paralysis is also a possibility. I think you have to vet your sources carefully, instead of listening to every person on the internet who comes along.
If he's saying that stupid people can be just as "informed" as sensible people, and go on to make equally stupid decisions, then I'd say he's actually not particularly wrong :-( People who watch Fox News can be "informed", it's just that the information has a different value to what the rest of us consider reasonable.
This guy is obviously an anti-intellectual. There are way too many of them out there, so we should never let them procreate. And she should add functional illiterates to her list of Automatic Left Swipes on Tinder.
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.
Load More Replies...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
Load More Replies...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'.
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...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.
Rabbits lay eggs.
I have sad news: the Easter bunny is an egg thief!
Load More Replies...They don't lay eggs. That's stupid. They lay Cadbury Creme Eggs. Everyone knows that. 😆
I'm glad you cleared that up for them! I was going to tell them!
Load More Replies...I can see a small child saying this...under 5 years old...but not an adult...this wasn't an adult right?
Sure they do. Little tiny brown ones, about a centimetre in diameter. Here, just try one... 😈
Also I know the platypus is a mammal and lays eggs but forget about it
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Maybe the thing about injecting bleach into your system to kill the coronavirus
I wish he set the example and did this live on tv. That would have been a hoot :D
And shoving an ultraviolet light tube up his... nose.
Load More Replies...The best thing about this is watching the body language of the experts around him. I swear I saw one woman actually flinch at the depth of his stupidity
The funny part is that Trump never mentioned "bleach." He seems to be musing out loud about whether some some sort of inhaled disinfecting agent or light therapy might be used to treat the lungs: "And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful." When pressed about injecting disinfectants, he clarifies: ""It wouldn’t be through injections, almost a cleaning and sterilization of an area. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t work, but it certainly has a big effect if it’s on a stationary object."
If this is exactly what he said. I have to be honest and say it sounds like he's asking about it and he no doubt talks very dumb like. But if these are his actual words, I want to know why people are making it out like he said something totally different? Not gonna lie, Trump definitely is not the smartest or best speaker. But this definitely sounds like him inquiring about the virus and just asking questions wanting to know more and saying someone should look into it. I mean we only find things out by talkin guessing asking experimenting and doing things. Surely people know that at some point in medicine people are being experimented on or going through trials to see what happens or what the outcome will be. Just wondering why what he's saying is dumb?
Load More Replies...They may have already done that. Apparently bleach has been injected in people before for all kinds of useless experiments.
Load More Replies...That one is a myth perpetuated by the Democrats, actually. What actually happened is the Great Orange One got distracted while giving a press conference, had a weird idea, and instead of saving it for after the conference, he turned to a nearby medical professional - Doctor Fauci in fact - and asked if it was medically feasible. Upon being told it was a very bad idea, Trump dropped it and continued the press conference. He never told anyone to inject bleach.
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.
Not at all. You get out of education what you put in. Teachers cannot force you to retain info
Load More Replies...I have to admit, though I knew HI wasn't off the coast of CA, I was surprised how far from the mainland it is. It really brought home the realization that HI is an occupied nation.
On those maps there's always this kind of box around them: Are these 100mile wide walls? How tall?
And sometimes, it appears that Alaska is even further south, depending on where they found room on the page for the insets. But try explaining the numbers on the edges of the little pictures using polysyllabic words like 'latitude' and 'longitude' and you lose them completely.
“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.
Hahaha, probably heard Australian instead of Austrian.
Load More Replies...I hope this was one of those common mistakes when someone mistakes Australia with Austria
“Dumb and Dumber” has a whole bit just like this in the beginning of the movie.
If you wash your hands in the hot water you don't need soap. Hot water will kill all germs
Technically true. The question is, can you withstand washing your hands with boiling water?
Depends what you are trying to do. Sterilization requires high temperature and will kill all germs, but will also kill your hands. However, according to the WHO, most viruses are sensitive to heat, and something like 60C will kill them. See https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/Boiling_water_01_15.pdf
My mom is like this. She still doesn't believe that the water from the tap isn't hot enough to kill germs. She made me hand wash dishes in water so hot I am still able to dip my fingers in hot water my husband can't touch. He jokes I have no nerve endings, sometimes I wonder. I prefer to wash my hands, and hair, in cool soapy water.
I went to the restroom with my then 7 year old grand daughter at a restaurant once, and she just rinsed her hands in water. I said No soap? She giggled.
I had just moved into a new place and had a roommate told me that women who get raped while drunk deserve it.
That mother.f.ucker is probably a rapist and deserves to have his di*k cut of with a blunt knife.
Could be female. I had a woman tell me this...my mother. After I told her I had been raped. So, yeah...edit: thank you all for the empathy and support. THIS is why I love this site, you guys are the sweetest. Doing a lot better now, it helped going no-contact with her.
Load More Replies...Anyone who says something like that while confident deserves a punch in the face.
I hope your not female living with, what sounds like, a potential rapist. I can only imagine one saying that and not someone who wouldn't.
Word of friendly advice: either find another new place, or a new roommate.
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.
I've had a long, hard, conversation with myself and have come to the conclusion that I see what you did there.
Load More Replies...Ah, but that is quite common. I went out with a coworker who couldn't stop talking about his ex and even said he'd go back to her in a heartbeat if she'd ask. So I told him to go talk to her. I didn't say "and go back", but I thought that was pretty clear. Why would I want to date someone who really wants to be with his ex? Next day he needed to talk and told me he went back to his ex, fully confident I was about to cry. I just looked at him bewildered. I mean, what did he think the point of talking with his ex was?
Yes, "Just gonna let him think it..." let him think he's a genius. It's more peaceful that way.
Load More Replies...Oh I dated someone like that.... it was on the 2nd date (he was so different & controlling) and about a month later he sent back a pic of had sent him on the phone.... just delete it idiot hahahaha
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.
But wouldn't the "diseased, deformed" be a hint that this crossbreeding isn't going so well?
Load More Replies...And Centaurs, minotaurs, Harpies, Lamias, Egyptian mythology,...
Load More Replies...i mean... if his father and mother are his brother and sister it's not hard for him to think that.
Overheard in a doctor's waiting room: that black squirrels are the offspring of grey squirrels and black cats. *facepalm*
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.
I would come with a banner: 'I live in a FLAT, Earth is not it.' just to confuse him.
Turns out it's from a scam for 25 cents. square-618...8d135d.jpg
If the Earth truly was flat, wouldn't the edges be a really popular tourist attraction ?
I want a friend. I want a friend so bad... even if it's a friend I argue with
Hello, what do you want to argue about? :D
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"This bacon is so raw, I can still hear it mooing!"
(For the record, the bacon was precooked.)
To be honest, if im a pig about to be slaughtered im gonna start mooing in the hopes they go, oh no bacon here, and move on
Must be the same guy who thinks that beef and cows are two different things.
indeed, I spent hours smoking a pork belly on Saturday and then hours today slicing it into bacon.... and it tastes great!
Load More Replies...An adult told me that the sun isn’t a star.
It's just a large lamp. What do you think happens when there is a solar eclipse? The government is replacing the light bulb! I hear they used an LED bulb last time and now we have Covid... coincidence?!
If it's a star, why doesn't it have five points? I'll pause for applause now.
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.
Depends on what generation you are talking about and where you are. In the UK, we used the term "bless him/her" as a sweet compliment, especially for very young children.
Load More Replies...My brain skipped over the word park and read "I once drove past a car being demolished with my mum in the car." When I tell you I gasped-
Nevermind the rain over the last 20+ years since the car park was built...
That's cute. That's the sort of thing my dad would tell me as a small child. Of course I'd believe him, he was my dad! I sure do miss him.
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
People saying that are so bloody stupid. They think all the people who suffer from ADHD can't sit still and are jittery all the time. It's much more than that ... Maaaaan.
Right? I'm pretty sure my struggles were due to ADHD, but I had the inattentive type that girls tend to get.
Load More Replies...Right because if I'm not constantly clicking or spinning something I can't possibly have ADHD...righhhtttttttttt.
I was once told by someone that I should just ignore my ADHD and it wouldn't be a problem and I was just using it as an excuse. He claimed to know this because he had it worse than me. For the record, I have very severe ADHD (like, I check every single box for the symptoms, even the less common/ known ones) that was undiagnosed until I was 15, and he did the classic "Google the symptoms, see that he didn't concentrate/ sit still, and just went around telling people he had it. I obviously haven't spoken to him in years. Rant over
idiot, my sister has ADHD and tourettes and she doesn't really need or have any fidget toys.
As an older person diagnosed as a teen, with an above average IQ... many won't believe me either, until they work with me and realize how different I really am. Ancient ways of the 80's and 90's did not include medication or physical distractions. We were taught mental organization, self control, note-taking, and reminder alarms.
I didnt have fidget toys, wish i had they might have helped me in school 🙁
My roommate once told me we were in South America. We live in Canada.
Was it that time Canada was over 50° C? Maybe he got confuse for a bit. A heatstroke can do that to you.
Yeah that one time! All 8 of us in Canada got together and cheered as the whole country was 50c at the same time.
Load More Replies...hadn;t heard that one before, but i did once hear of someone who thought Canada was North America, the US was Central America, and Mexico was South America.
Were they looking at an upside down map or globe? Because, as we all know, south is down, north is up, east is right, and west is left. (/s)
Had a Canadian kid tell me on Social Media that he hates Americans. I tried to tell him he's an American because Canada as in America and called me a liar.
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.
That was strictly true. Penis envy as described by Freud was nothing more that women wishing they had more of the societal privileges granted to men, but that's not envy, that's just basic fairness. True penis envy is experienced by men.
No. His theory was specifically about the anatomic difference, not any societal differences.
Load More Replies...Both versions of Freud's theory (BoredPanda and actual) are equally comedic for how ridiculous they are.
Exactly. Both equally wrong. At least men being jelous of other mens penises is a real thing.
Load More Replies...The only time I have penis envy is when there's a queue for the ladies loo.
Tbh this is what I thought of too. I had never heard this before now
I have had adult women tell me they would bleed to death if they went swimming while they were menstruating. Another tell me it was impossible to get pregnant also during their period.
pe·nis en·vy /ˈpēnis ˈenvē/ Learn to pronounce nounPSYCHOANALYSIS supposed envy of the male's possession of a penis, postulated by Freud to account for some aspects of female behavior (notably the castration complex) but controversial among modern theorists.
Well, that's because it is. Freud was a crackpot and sex addled. LOL
A friend once told me that all cancer was a completely man made phenomenon.
No. Give them bone cancer. That's hell, but has an end. And will teach them about cancer.
Load More Replies...I remember that story going round social media. How there was no cancer before 1800 and animals didn't get it. I can't remember what miracle cure it was selling, but I'm pretty sure it was trying to sell something.
Lots of things existed before people had names for them or maybe they were called by other names.
Load More Replies...I had a co-worker that I tolerated because I was young and wanted to be "professional." The day he told a group of us that the reason a child we knew got cancer was because the said child's parents sinned against god and that was their punishment. I. lost. my. sh!t. I didn't care if I got in trouble, the level of rage I felt literally made me feel my entire body had been lit on fire. I couldn't not say (yell) something.
There may be a tiny element of truth in that. Cancers may be more common now due to all the chemicals and processes man uses.
There are some studies about some people who might have gotten sick because they experienced strong stress, anger, resentment, and feelings like this. But I can't ever imagine this being true on a 4 year old... maybe on a 40 year old, I might believe that.
Load More Replies...except the inconvenient find of dinosaur cancer. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/04/899060875/scientists-discover-malignant-cancer-in-a-dinosaur
You should have told the friend that he/she is a man made phenomenon, a rare example of Dickus Humanicus Brainlessian.
Technically, it kind of is “man-made”. It DOES occur in human (the “man” in “man-made—-hell, “man” is the last three letters in the word!) DNA, and can also develop from exposure to poisons created and/or spewed as pollution, by humans (again, the “man” in “man-made”). (/s). (Most bullshit statements throughout history have been real stretches, so I’m just taking this one to its ludicrous extreme.)
I had an anatomy instructor who told us there was no cancer before the year 1900. He was trying to sell us on some illegal, dangerous and ineffective fake vitamin that you can only get in Mexico. So he claimed people stopped swallowing apple seeds and that's why they get cancer now. I lost track of all the crazy stuff he kept trying to sell us on for his side business.
I don’t get how selling ‘homeopathic’ - or any other fake - remedies is legal. Blatant profiting from lying to and conning suffering, desperate people, risking their health in the process - it’s despicable and vulnerable people should be protected from it. Granted, it’s illegal to talk people out of real medicine and sell fake “cures” for severe conditions such as cancer where I live - but why is it legal in any capacity? I’ve seen too many good people get really hurt by this immoral cràp, I don’t understand it.
Load More Replies...Well that friend was an extremely fortunate person to have known no-one in his life that had cancer. Not many of us have had that privilege.
"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.
90% of all people should not be allowed to have pets, imo. Too many people give no s**t what their pet actually needs.
Load More Replies...Why on earth wouldn't you at least google how to take care of a new species of pet? Glad you saved the poor thing.
He doesn't even have his fish knowledge down. Koi don't eat algae and they don't live in small tanks.
Unless you've got a sideneck or softshelled a heater isn't really needed for turtles as long as you have a basking light that raises the temperature in the basking spot to over 80° and covers the proper area in proportion to the enclosure. Tropical fish require a heater set to 72° or above.... Tell this person to stock with koi, they're just extra fancy looking goldfish and require virtually no care to keep alive (to thrive as a whole different story). Speaking from over 30 years of aquarium experience.
And if all you feed the poor thing is "turtle pellets" you'll soon end up with one.
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that i'm stupid for checking reviews on products before ordering them.
Meh, should you believe the reviews then? Sometimes the companies post reviews about their own products. (Law being made in the Netherlands for this btw).
I only check the bad reviews, LOL, to avoid the obvious "rave rave paid for!" reviews. :-)
Load More Replies...To be fair, the reviews are only as good as the person who writes them. Take a look at this thread and go from there. Although, it's still worth checking.
Never trust the 5 star reviews and only belief half of what the 3 star reviews tell you. Don't forget to examine the bad reviews and that's how you get a fairly good impression of what you won't be buying.
Actually the more review I read, the more I am beginning to think this person is right. So many reviews are now written by bots and are not representative of the product at all. Trying to tell which are the genuine reviews is getting harder and harder, as they get buried in the mire of bot-generated rubbish. I guess if things have bot-generated reviews don't read them, just avoid the product completely, as it is likely to be rubbish anyway.
I check the bad ones to see if there's any issue that comes up regularly and if so, if I can live with that issue. (Like for a phone, the issue was that the casing gets scratched easy. Which is not important to me so I bought the phone) So far, that's been a good directive
Load More Replies...This seems like the kind of person who buys from DH Gate or Facebook sponsored ads.
well in today's world of fake bot reviews, and paid reviews you have to read a bunch to see if they fit a pattern of well being fake. then you have to filter and look for all the bad reviews as they will mostly be honest with a few entitled idiots just looking to talk smack.
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…
Oh my god. Go check the original post, that’s what everyone else was saying! Haha!
Load More Replies...Well, they purr when they’re happy, they can purr when they’re insecure and they sometimes purr when they’re in pain - but buddy, they don’t purr when they’re dead. That’s the one thing I can absolutely guarantee.
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
The fact that a person is injured does not make them an expert on their injury. Some people overestimate; others underestimate. If the injury was "pretty bad", the individual may have been in shock. The person at fault here is the medical provider who failed to take care of their patient.
This doesn't really belong here. Hope the guy heals ok and is able to tell that humorous story many times over to all of his friends.
I'm a regular blood donor. Once there was this man, tall and a bit overweight, who insisted he needed to leave immediately after donating blood (it was his first time). The doctor and nurses advised him to wait at least 5-10 minutes, maybe drink some water or eat something, to make sure he'd be ok. He wouldn't listen and heft in hurry. He fainted as he exited the building. Later they found out he hadn't eaten anything since the previous morning, because he wanted "to look more slim"
People just tend to overestimate their ability to cope by themselves, especially if they are a usually independent person. I had a medical intervention this year where at one point the doctors checked on me in their cabinet and asked me afterwards if I needed help to get back to my room and I was like: "no need, I've got this", only to squat in pain, folded in half, a meter from that cabinet's door.
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Pigeons are fat because they are pregnant.
They are fat because they keep the poop inside until they find the perfectly clean car
Cool. Now I can say "I feel so pregnant" after stuffing my face.
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Cuba is in Asia.
In the 90s a friend of mine was a guide for Americans touring Europe for 3 weeks. She overheard two ladies arguing " how can we be in Spain if we're in Europe, Spain is the beautiful little country south of Mexico" The other was "wow they have cars and electricity here also!!"
Load More Replies...Well, Taiwan is an Asian island just a few miles of the coast of mainland Asia. So Cuba is just an Asian island that is several thousand miles further east. Duh!
Geography aside, I wish I were there listening to these guys play right now! They look like they're having fun.
Cuba can't be in Asia. It's in South America, which is the capital of Europe.
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.
Technically, clouds ARE made of water that used to be on/in land. But I don't see it raining upwards anytime soon.
Hey, my mother believed that fog was the clouds falling out of the sky and down to the ground, so…
I live in the mountains, and some times "fog" is a low lying cloud.
Load More Replies...My mom always told me that "rain smell" was nitrogen. Yep, the same nitrogen that makes up ~70% of our air whether it's raining or not. She said this EVERY @#$@#$#@! TIME IT RAINED THROUGHOUT MY CHILDHOOD. When I discovered that the smell is geosmin and told her, she just shrugged it off like, oh, that's nice. WOMAN DO YOU NOT REMEMBER YOUR LIES IN MY CHILDHOOD.
Gullible people are hard not to mess with. My sister is hella gullible, I try very hard not to go there. I have seen some mind blowing interactions with her believing peoples crazy stories, just to see how much she will believe
Nitpicking perhaps, but you have to be very detached if you're just a farmer's wife. If you have a farm, the whole family are surely farmers; you can't shut the farm down at 5 PM and start it up at 9 AM; it's there 24/7, and everyone needs to pitch in, both adults and children (as much as the children are able).
You'll never find anyone who will love you more than me. If that was love, I shudder to think what hate was like.
Went to the funeral of a friend that drowned. After, we went to his father's house where his father and brother were sitting on the couch. His father turned to the son and said "Don't ever let anyone tell you they know how you feel because they're lying. They don't know how hard this is." Like none of us had ever experienced a close relative dying. I grabbed my things and left. Never spoke to them again.
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).
They simply asked the earth, "how old are you?" Nobody tried it before!
Load More Replies...I once had someone try to convince me of this by saying that carbon dating is inaccurate and that based on another isotope(don't remember which now, but it was HIGHLY unstable) the dating showed 6000 years. I just said so you're disproving radioisotope dating by using radioisotope dating?
Perhaps. But the stuff the earth is made out of is much older. Like a new Lego house made from old Legos.
That my friend told everyone that the titanic wasn’t real.
Well, the one in the movie was a real ship, 90% the size of the original Titanic.
Load More Replies...My brother in law worked at a movie theater when the Titanic movie first came out. A woman was getting a popcorn refill partway through and overheard brother in law off to one side telling a coworker "Sucks it sinks at the end". She yelled at him for spoiling the ending.
I guess is because it’s in a movie and movies are not real. I was in the us for a school year and sadly knew more about their history for the movies I’d seen than my classmates. They watched them without realizó that we’re based on true facts.
That they didn’t believe in western medicine
must admit my cell reception is great now , plus the magnets mean i never lose my keys now
Load More Replies...I just don't like when advanced medicine is called 'western'. It is egocentric and incorrect. Many breakthroughs are owed to some great eastern physicians and researchers who are the founders of morern medicine (think Avicene).
"western medicine" is more of a method of critically examining processes and outcomes using statistics than individual discoveries. It didn't really start until the late 19th/early 20th century in Europe and America. It is more incorrect to call it western medicine because it is now practiced the whole world over and contributed to by every developed nation.
Load More Replies...I always want to say, "OK, I know a great funeral home for your family to call when the time comes"....
Western medicine has its limitations as does Traditional medicine. With the way Western medicine professionals treat people these days, I don’t blame anyone for looking for alternatives. Of course then there are people like boxer Tommy Morrison who contracted AIDS, blew off western medicine in favor of weed, meth and Cocaine, causing his death in his mid 40’s.
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.
Knowledge is not the same as intelligence. And it was knowledge she was lacking...
Load More Replies...Maybe she wanted the more complex answer, or she could have been a foreigner who never heard the English word before. Instead of laughing just tell her.
To be fair it's always good to tell people when they ask these questions, you never know what their background is. Also it's good she asked because she would have felt way more embarrassed if she used it incorrectly, there are no stupid questions, although I see the irony in this i don't think it's fair for making fun of people who are curious
Having or showing the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. There, fixed it.
In grade 12 history class the teacher was explaining something and a student put her hand up and said "what do you mean when you keep saying 'international'" and the teacher started laughing and then stopped when she realized the student wasn't joking. The teacher said "If you made it to grade 12 and still don't know what it means don't worry about it"
This doesn't count. It could have been any word; it's just a funny coincidence that the word was "intelligent".
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.
He may be onto something. I swear my my wife's farts hit me at light speed.
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...
They meant North Korea. Kim Il Sung brought them to life. They also have dragons that clap to the Supreme Leader.
Obviously no T-Rexes then, as their arms are too short to clap. That's uncommunistic.
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Load More Replies...I'm leaning that some people are just really good at sarcasm and joking with a straight face and just pulling legs.
Technically they aren't wrong, sharks, crabs, and turtles are all found in Korea and have all been around over 100 million years. No T rex though :(
I somehow really wonder what the world looks like for stupid people like that
Maybe they imagine they all live in a giant fenced off park so the poor dinosaurs don't accidentally wander off the edge of the flat earth.
Load More Replies...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...
I mean even being alive is a brief phase between two infinite stretches of nonexistence
I'm still going through that "straight" phase with my wife. I'll wake up one morning with a clear head and remember that I'm actually gay.
My cousin must be confused about her relationship with her wife even though they have been together for a while.
Ah yes, the phase that starts at birth and lasts 'til death. What do we call that again? Oh right, "life".
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.
Maybe but that’s not a soup either Edit: but then again being that stupid they would probably make that mistake too
Load More Replies...Aaah, you just go to Stalin cooking classes: a pinch of political adversaries, two teaspoons of former friends, a lot of ice and sprinkle it with barb wire.
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
Just like men use Incognito mode only to search for anniversary gifts.
I don't get it (English isn't my first language). I guess the joke is around "you're in denial" but I don't really catch it.
"Denial (the Nile) ain't just a river in Egypt." is a common American colloquialism.
Load More Replies..."Denial (the Nile) ain't just a river in Egypt." is a common American colloquialism.
I heard "Tipping ain't a city in China" on Boy Meets World from Corey dressed as a waitress many yrs ago. Yeah, I watched because of the dad and Mr. Turner:).
Load More Replies...Yeah, you mean that I am in the Nile, and I've never even been to Egypt! Ha!
“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."
Unfortunately there are many people, in teaching positions, who think this way.
As a matter of fact there are "remedial teachers" who will diagnose you with learning disabilities so they can enroll you in their expensive "special care program" or to keep their job. A school without children without learning difficulties doesn't need remedial teachers.
I said in all seriousness “Mutton isn’t a real meat”
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
I watched it as a young teenager living in a beach side suburb at the time. Always kept as close to shore after watching that movie. Still a great movie though. Had the hots for Lorraine Gary too.
Load More Replies...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
Maybe K.I.T.T. and Michael if Knight rider were set in this/next decade.
Load More Replies...Just because the speedometer has a number on it doesn't mean it can reach that. I mean my '01 Camry's speedometer goes up to 140MPH, but I doubt it could hit that on anything less than a 70-degree downward slope that was 5 miles long.
240 MPH is clearly not a thing a stock Miata would do. 240 KMH it is more or less the manufacturer specs for the biggest engine (220KMH). So, going downhill you can probably get them. This miata may have a cheap update of speedometer (a sticker which says MPH instead of KMH) to reach this absurd speed.
That's pretty slow. The least powerful engine in europe had 66 kW of power, which made it capable of like 180 kph or so ... sure nothong's broken?
Load More Replies..."Mr. Teacher, it's because aluminum isn't a metal!" Still ashamed of that one.
I can actually kind of understand a kid making that mistake, because it's easy to mistake "magnetic" to be synonymous with "metal". It doesn't help that there are multiple bits of media that reinforce that idea and trust their audience to know that magnetism is not a universal trait of all metals, of course...
Grey is not a color
he is actually correct. it's identified as a color without "color" make of that what you will, but he has a point.
I made an argument about humans dealing with dinosaurs during a discussion, please don't laugh at me
No expenses were spared in making it, either....
Load More Replies...People deal with dinosaurs all the time. They're called paleontologists. duh :P
Well, we deal with their bones… and then there’s oil… so, technically…
I was homeschooled and around age 16 I had a creationism history book they said dinosaurs were around with humans, and also on the Ark. (Luckily I was a skeptic and didn't go spouting it off to everyone 😬)
I would assume that you've encountered a chicken in some form before (likely as food), so if nothing else you've dealt with a dinosaur's direct descendant...
its that 1 billion is less then a million
Billion and million OF WHAT. Negative billion and a million of a thing, the million is more of said thing.
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.
I am cracking up over the Into the Woods story. But I would love some more context on why OP said China.
Because he "watched a lot of stuff about China and heard the word a lot growing up".
Load More Replies...Wisdom teeth are there to replace teeth that fall out
But... that is correct. In the past before dental care was even a thing, we would loose teeth and later in life our wisdom teeth would come down at the back and push our molars forward helping to close gaps and allowing us to eat better. Now with modern dental care and diet being what it is, we loose less teeth and therefore wisdom teeth become redundant. This is an over simplification but it is the basic gist of it.
I suppose it would have been, in the days when you were likely to lose adult teeth at a young age. Now they're just a blasted nuisance
this one is wrong? i mean, i got mine growing not long after i lost a teeth. so, i thought it's kinda true
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...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.
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...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.
