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Headaches are a very common symptom when it comes to being sick. Everything from the common cold, influenza, and migraines to various infections, injuries and even more lethal stuff can cause one. Under the right (or not so right) circumstances.

But there’s one thing that causes a headache that is 100% unavoidable, because it can catch you off guard like a slap in the face with a fish that’s just been ejected from the sea. And that is stupidity.

Folks online have been sharing their biggest, most headache-inducing moments of being told something so profoundly stupid that it was immediately obvious.

And we thought it would be great to pass on the headache on to you, our dear reader, in a curated list below. Scroll down, read, enjoy it (the list, not the headache), and leave some upvotes and comments!

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#1

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group A mutual friend suffered a miscarriage. My coworker told her, “Everything happens for a reason. God must have wanted this to happen.”

DareWright , Johannes Jander Report

Nathaniel
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What an absolute b***h of a woman.

Sinead Kenny
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3 years ago

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Maybe she thought she was giving comfort to her because of her own beliefs. If she believes in her religion then she may have felt her words as comforting not demeaning. Just a thought... (My family are crazy into their Religion. I respect them for it. Though it isn't me but could see my ma saying something like this without realising the impact it could have in the wrong context)

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Tamra
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This has been said to me so many times, I've lost count. Three miscarriages were greeted with choruses of "All things happen in God's time", "God has a different plan for you", "It will happen if God wills it", and a real gem from a Jehovah's Witness: "God called your children back because you are a sinner". I have no use for Christians.

Wondering Alice
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me too, also everyone I ever spoke to who had suffered the same. I'm still a Christian, I don't associate any more with these people than thinking because some people can even think such terrible things, I should not have use for people in general

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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

God might want to smite that insufferable cliché spouter, but sometimes God delegates that task to mere mortals. "God told me to slap some decency into you."

Manic Mama
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hand on my heart, swear to God: after my miscarriage my ex-fiancé's mother said - "well thank God you didn't give birth to a vegetable". Never spoke to her again.

HarriMissesScotland
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

MM, I am so sorry for your loss. What that sorry excuse of a woman said was reprehensible. You did the right thing by cutting her out of your life. I hope that things are better for you, and that are able to find joy in your life.

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Scotira
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, the same reason why I have to treat 3 mth old babies with cancer 🤬 I know violence is not the answer, but these people do test me to the max! 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Mrs. Jan Glass
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When my best friend lost her baby at childbirth, multiple "kind, loving, Christian, family-minded" women couldn't WAIT to "console" her. She heard all of the "God wanted another angel" b******t. She heard about "GoD'z SpEsHuL pLan" multiple times. And she had some a*****e offer to pray with her after telling her, "Well, the good thing is, it's not like it was a REAL baby that you'd been raising yet." Yes, this same b***h goes off about the evils of abortion, but my friend's infant's death "wasn't a REAL baby." Keep your God/Jesus b******t away from the rest of us, effing insensitive clowns.

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Cathy Hurd
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3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like something my mother-in-law would say. She once started a sentence with "not to minimize your loss". This was after my 25 year old son had died (her step-grandson). She was comparing the loss of her abusive husband who had lived long enough to see grandchildren. My son died on his honeymoon.

N Gregory
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can we join the queue to slap that insensitive tw@t?

Audrey Schuster
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I gave up going to a building for my religious practices when a 'friend ' told me on mother's day (while holding her was to be same age child as the one I miscarried) that I should really think about them (the dead child that I thought of every second) today and what I did. To them. Idk if she understood that a miscarriage is different from an abortion.

Ansi
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's so cruel! To say that about your baby. 😲 No wonder you left that toxic place!! Who need to be social with people that think that's an acceptable expression of faith. 🤬 Hope you have good people around you now, that can give you the love and support you need. ❤️

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Ansi
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's like the saying: "God doesn't give you more then you can handle". Yes, he does. Life can be so unfair and sometimes, even though it sucks and you did all things correct and are a good person, that unfairness happens to you. Everything isn't karma or God testing your faith.

Mrs. Jan Glass
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone told me that when I was 7 years old, being sexually abused regularly by two different men, relentlessly bullied at school, and suicidal. Telling me God did this to me to test me, or because I was supposed to "handle" it was one of the most sadistic things, and was my first step to deconversion. Do NOT tell people, especially kids, this. It's not in any way helpful.

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Heather Glomb
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If god wanted that baby to not be born, why did he let the mom get pregnant in the first place? And if he's so cool with just spontaneously aborting babies, what's the issue with medically induced abortions? Can't have it both ways.

Mrs. Jan Glass
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you read the bible, you know God is 100% okay with killing innocent babies. LOTS of them.

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    #2

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group "I don't want to take the vaccine it will make me sterile." "You are 65."

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    Tamra
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just... don't think I have the strength for these people anymore.

    censor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've just become brutal. I just say how many people i know died and say, well, I hope you don't die, but if you do, it's 100% your fault.

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    SlothyK8
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My post-menopausal bestie refused the vaccine because she said "shedding" would make HER daughters sterile. We don't talk much anymore..which sad because we've been friends for nearly 50 years.

    Daniel LaDue
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I prefer when they complain that the vaccine is meant to place a tracker on them, while they carry a cell phone everyday.

    Just a ray of f'ing sunshine
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And drive in their new cars that have computers on board and live in a house with an address - that you can see all the pretty flowers in your backyard if you have a mind to and work in a job with all of its computers and security cameras and simply walk/drive down streets where your every move is recorded on somebody's security camera, etc., etc., etc.

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    David Brown
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Them swimmers are most likely nothing more than dust at this point. And honestly, do we really want anyone this stupid reproducing?

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    James Doohan, Scotty, fathered a child when he was 80. Just saying.

    Kat
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who knows maybe he still has plans to have another child. I seriously doubt, vaccine plays any role in making it impossible though.

    Greta Denmark
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    More likely he's the type who thinks that if he's sterile he's not a "real man" anymore, and that everyone around him will be able to tell that he's not a "real man" anymore.

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    Shane S
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Toxic masculinity. Reminds me of men who refuse to get vasectomies because it will make them “less of a man” but yet have no desire to ever, ever have any more kids.

    Ñ
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is talking about sterelity in general

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    Jods
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Today (14.06.22) our local newspaper reported on the number of Victorian diseases that have made a big comeback in the UK. Why? Because of the number of parents refusing to have their children vaccinated. Not to mention the cases of rickets and malnutrition too.

    Kelli
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ugh! Don’t even get me started on the unvaccinated.

    Crewposter
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if i jumped form that persons ego to their iq i would have died after 14 days of falling

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    #3

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group "Why should I be responsible for my son's late fees?" I dunno, lady. Maybe because he's 12 and can't get a job yet? Also there's the matter of the letter you and he signed when he got his library card that says you're responsible for any fines on the account, as his parent or legal guardian. Just a shot in the dark.

    bowlbettertalk , Morris County Library (NJ) Report

    Kookamunga
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cough it up, kid. Get that lemonade stand up and running.

    TKA
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And then get shut down by the city because someone complained & he doesn’t have the proper permits 😣

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    Valerie G.
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, I am OCD and have been since I was very little. One of my siblings, I don't know which one took one of my books and hid it. I was mortified that I had lost a book. It was found when my parents died and their house was being cleared out. It was in a box in their study, under a huge pile of c**p. They were both hoarders. I'm 71 now and still will never know who did this dastardly deed.

    Kate Jones
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I work at a bank and we get the same thing. A parent gives their kid their cellphone to play with and so the kid goes and buys a game and then they call and try to dispute it. "Why do I have to pay for what he did?" Because he's 5 and you shouldn't give a machine with your bank information in it to a 5-year-old. Or they give their online banking login information to their family members because it's easier, then get angry when they abuse it and want us to now give them their money back.

    Megan Lauhon
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    See this all the time with orthodontics. Parents will straight up blame their kid for not brushing/wearing rubber bands/using their invisalign/etc. I want to shake them screaming "THEY ARE 12! YOU'RE THEIR PARENT! ACT LIKE IT AND HELP THEM DO THE THING!" If kids were responsible we'd toss them in the street the minute they got the whole walk/talk/using the toilet bit down.

    Debrina Blackmoon
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Despite flossing, brushing and rinsing at least 3 times a day for over 40 years and trying to at least cut way down on a bad diet( just not enough willpower), I still need all new teeth.

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    David Brown
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some folks just don't know how to parent or adult. Most of them can't hardly take care of themselves let alone another human being.

    Otto Maddox
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our libraries stopped charging late fees on children's books years ago.

    Debra Phillips
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I worked in a library (precovid) and found kids easier to deal with than parents. It's also one of the reasons the job reference is past tense.

    Trophy Husband
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't let my kids have a library card until high school and I have never signed any of those forms about being responsible for school books other than the high school library. If you send them home with a book that cost $10 to print but you paid $200 for, that's your bad. What really bothers me is the schools that send home computers. You expect me to be responsible for a $2,000 laptop? They have $500 ones that aren't made by Apple and do everything that one does. The people who come up with these ideas clearly have never been poor or had kids!

    Blackheart
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And this is why the kid has late fees. His parents are incapable of teaching him responsibility. Or too lazy. Or both.

    Brenda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mom made us pay fees our of allowance or working it off

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    #4

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group I have seizures and I had somebody ask me if they were contagious. My cousin was right next to me and elbowed me and whispered for me to start coughing. By the way, my cousin is blind and when I started coughing she chucked her cane behind her fake panicking that she suddenly couldn’t see and the guy ran away so he wouldn't “catch the seizures”. My cousin busted out laughing when she heard him run off saying she wished she could see his reaction and that it must have been priceless. I explained what it looked like to her and she fell onto the ground laughing. She’s just as evil too when people ask her dumb questions about her being blind as she had someone ask her today if it was deadly even though she was born blind.

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    HarriMissesScotland
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate the stupidity of people who insult people with disabilities. My best friend uses me as her "guide dog." Anytime we go into a doctor's office, she always tells me to" sit, stay, no noise." Her guide dog went blind and has since left this earth.

    GoddessOdd
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Awwww.... it's sad when service and companion animals shuffle off this mortal coil. Is she not considering another dog, or are you conscripted forever ?😂

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    Frisinator
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm an identical twin. People used to ask us if we could read each other's minds. I would say "yes and we both think you're stupid."

    C W
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your cousin is amazing! 😂

    David Brown
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's allot of folks that are thankful stupidity isn't contagious.

    Kim Kermes
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After the last several years, I've concluded that it is.

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    Agent 8433599
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want to be friends with your cousin!!! 🤣

    ArodTheHorrible
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ohhhhh! Is there a vaccine for THAT? Still seeing myself out

    LEGOPernille
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hugh her. She sounds wounderfull and hillarious...

    BlackPanda Is My Name
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah yes, we should all "Hugh" our cousins. In all seriousness though, you are right

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    Micah
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a friend call me in a panic because a woman who had HIV/AIDS drank from her own soda can and put it on the counter near my friend. He thought it was airborne.

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    #5

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group "I went to Spain last summer." "Where is that? Mexico?" My eye twitched so hard that I thought it might fall out.

    ayarbee , Nathan Hughes Hamilton Report

    Remi
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With the rate U.S. is reusing place names from Europe, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a town called Spain or new Spain somewhere.... Edit: Looks like it's in North Dakota, lol.

    BJames
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You mean places in the US that were named by European settlers after the place they came from?

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    Lem
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, it’s in Chile. Come on, guys.

    David Brown
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sadly allot of folks don't even know the capital of their own state let alone other countries throughout the world.

    Andy Frobig
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a kid, I lived in the town of Mexico, Maine. I don't talk about it much, it's not worth the trouble.

    tecolote
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Begs the question; where's Old Foundland

    CookieCrump
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They both speak Spanish, but this person's so off.

    GoddessOdd
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was talking once about retiring to Mexico, but worried because I don't speak Spanish. A co-worker said "OMG, that is ridiculous. They speak Mexican!"

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    Jette Wang Wahnon
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nah....a little bit more to the right and then follow the coast-line up...can´t miss it !

    I I
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Malaga is a great place in Spain to go to, not to many tourists and has all the great weather and food/drinks and the people are very friendly

    Bug
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So that's in Mexico too, Right..🥴😱

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    Olive Smith (She/They)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once met someone who thought Australia was a country in Europe 🤦‍♀️

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    #6

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group "The government wants you to think we're running out of oil, we're not because it comes from bones. We could extract it from chicken bones". I was fascinated by how he had interpreted fossil fuels and then come to the most hilariously wrong conclusion.

    zerbey , joiseyshowaa Report

    Zero
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, you can make (process) oil out of bones. Just not much, very low quality, and it's not fossil fuel any more than olive oil is.

    Vic
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You have a chicken named Olive? :-)

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    Robert T
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Surely we could make some form of bio-fuel from stupid people? It would solve so many problems... overpopulation, congestion, housing, healthcare.... /s

    ThumbsUpGuy
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yes, you can steam usable oil out of chicken offal... it makes a low-grade oil similar to diesel... oil can be made that will burn in diesel engines from plant material. Soybeans and peanuts have large percentages of oil in them. The glycerine must be extracted first, or it will damage the engine. Some saltwater algaes can be processed into the same sort of oils. The current technology is not efficient enough to compete with regular well extraction of diesel.

    DC
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A fossile is NOT the actual bone anyway...

    Ivy Rutherford
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Am I the only one who feels like this photo is alive? I can just see ripples

    DUCKYWUCKY
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ....what? im- who-? What-? WHERE??? bro like who THINKS THIS

    Touch Connors
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But even "Fossil Fuels" is false. Yes, that;'s what we were taught in schools, but oil, gas & coal come primarily from biomass and “single-celled bacteria”.

    Armin Tamzarian
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why don't we just bury some bones then come back in a few years and see if the oil fairy came?

    Alicia GriffonLady
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What happened with bio-disel? I remember hearing about how it was the future, but never really got big. And that was over two decades ago!

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    #7

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group A work colleague coming in the day after a visit to the zoo telling us that panthers aren't really pink.

    Bumblebee-Bzzz , Aardwolf6886 Report

    Nathaniel
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But do they like treading on insects? Dead ant. Dead ant. Dead ant dead ant dead ant. Dead ant dead annnnnnt. Dead ant.

    Lizzy Crit
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The look on the panther's face is perfect

    tw 72
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, he has heard that "pink panther" thing one too many times

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    Steven Bennett
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I suppose you expect me to believe that bears don't wear neckties and steal picnic baskets either!

    MotorcycleDoggo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Obviously the pink ones were on their day off .

    Bonesko
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Luring us in with the promise of pink panthers, despicable! It's just a scam to sell zoo tickets!

    Peppy Piplup
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nah, the pink ones are just like Shiny Pokémon. They're just so rare that the zoo hadn't caught one get /s

    Zoe's Mom
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sorry folks, but you all forgot about the elusive Pink Panther that roams Hollywood. They have been a few sightings but luckily, no one has been harmed. They have coined it the Peter Sellers Panther because, you know.

    censor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was disappointed when I watched the first peter sellars movie and it turned out there was in fact no large pink cat. Granted, I was like 6.

    Jette Wang Wahnon
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Work colleague is living in the past....They were pink in the 60ties,but only if Peter Sellers was around caring for them...

    WildHoneyPie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even the panther thinks they're not too bright..

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    #8

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group While standing in the middle of Disney World and staring at a foldable paper map of the park in her own hands, my sister in law goes, "Why doesn't this map tell me where I am? These maps usually have a little arrow that says something like 'You are here' so you know where you're at."

    mox44ah , Loren Javier Report

    Aidan Wells
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    huh i guess Disney now sells copies of the marauders map,

    TheDivineMsM
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She believed in the Disney magic a little too literally

    Tash
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean...that would be very useful but not very possible.

    -
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An app would do it, but not on paper.

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    Chris Cristo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the disadvantage of paper maps. You probably need a Disney World dedicated GPS. I'm considering selling maps and compasses labeled, "American survival tools for Disney World (guns and horses not included)."

    Jamie Marie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe in a Harry Potter movie 😂

    Daniel LaDue
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's actually kinda cute. I'd want to pet her on the head like a child.

    Ladyvischuss
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe she should look down, follow the little red dot, follow the little red dot. Follow, follow, follow, follow,follow the little red dot.... My apologies to that great movie, The Wizard of Oz.

    Ladyvischuss
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You have entered the Twilight Zone...There is no location...no little arrow...

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    #9

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group “Evolution is b******t. If I threw a million people off the Empire State Building, *not one of them* would evolve wings!” Yeah, Randall (his real name because f**k him), that’s not evolution, that’s magic. Now go back to getting drunk after church and driving your kids home, and when you come back to work, don’t forget to f**k another 18 year old server on the tables after close. Don’t worry, I’m sure your wife will never know. Idiot scumbag.

    Swampwolf42 , XoMEoX Report

    Kat
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope his wife reads it.

    Withered Warrior
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was probably sarcastic in the way that says that she already knows (was probably told)

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    BadCat
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And I keep hoping to morph into a mermaid when I swim. Never happens.

    Bobby
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hard core creationists have a very skewed idea of what evolution is. They only think of macro-evolution. Tell them that selective breading is basically man controlled evolution and they will freak out. Might not be the most solid evidence in macro-evolution(one species evolving into another all together) but micro evolution(a species developing new traits or sub species) is irrefutable and strongly supports the former

    ArodTheHorrible
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is OP one of the 18 year old servers? Lots of vitriol here...

    Blackheart
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am thinking this is not about evolution...

    New Everywhere
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OP has had enough of you Randall!!

    foofoofloofy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I knew a really dumbass Randall too! Something about the name...

    David Brown
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Randall better pray evolution take a giant leap forward with him if his wife finds out.

    CookieCrump
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't like the description at the bottom of the quote...

    Party Poison (They/She)
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is one theory of evolution. Just not Darwin's. But Larmarck's theory could work here if it would be true, which it isn't!

    Marie Vallier
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not really, even with Lamarck's theory, humans growing wings upon being thrown off a building would not be possible. Lamarck theory still included gradual progressive change, just he thought that small changes that occur during the life of an individual could be passed down the next generation. Growing wings on a wingless animal instantly would go against all evolutionary theories, both current and previous.

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    #10

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group Actually a doctor. So hear me out. September 18th 2021, my mother unfortunately passed away. Her and I both had Covid, as we lived together and unfortunately her body couldn’t handle it. This lead to anxiety, panic attacks, stress, and guilt. I felt like it was my fault for my mother's [passing]. Anyway, to the doctor. I decided in December that I couldn’t go on the way I was. I was never leaving my boyfriend's house. I chose to go to therapy in seek of some help with my issues. When I got an intake appointment, I had to see a doctor there to prescribe, what I expected to be an antidepressant. The moment I sat down, I already had a weird vibe from him. He was quiet, his tone was dull. We started going over my charts and why I was there, etc. and I told him everything he needed to know. I told him about my guilt, and a prior issue I had even before my mother's [passing]. I have a phobia of vomiting, so I brought it up. This doctor told me to just “throw up”, and i would no longer be afraid. He then proceeded to say that I was a very anxious person who is “on the spectrum”. and finally, the KICKER, he told me all my loved ones would go to hell. Needless to say, I walked out of there sobbing my eyes out. I called the place to file a complaint and thankfully—haven’t seen that man since.

    eryismum , Lisa Brewster Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That man was a cockwomble. Good riddance.

    Remi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He should have his license revoked. Not an idiot, just a psychopathic s.o.b

    scott woolard
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    3 years ago

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    He doesn't exists no therapist said that

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    Kusotare
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you barfed ON him, that might have changed his mind. Even if not, I guarantee you would have felt better.

    CultOfBambi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Absolutely what I was thinking too!! Not to diminish OPs experience but the unintended pun had me giggling: "I have a phobia of vomiting, so I brought it up."

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    CammyCat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Was this Dr in AZ? Sounds a lot like one I went to for depression after a suicide attempt that just told me to “remember that other people have problems too” and sent me on my way

    Daniel LaDue
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Holy c**p. I went to an anger management counselor once to quickly settle a custody dispute. While waiting to meet the Dr., His waiting room was adorned with posters of the 9/11 attack. Burning buildings, and people jumping out of the buildings in huge photographs. I couldn't believe it. When the Dr asked me about my anger problems, I told him I don't really have them, but my ex was asking me to jump through hoops during our custody dispute, and I'd rather just do whatever and get the issue over with. He called me a liar, and proceeded to spend 40 minutes talking about how much he hates his ex-wife. I was stuck with that for 6 weeks.

    David Brown
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some people just need a big hug with a brick.

    DeVonnah Woodruff
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope this person also filed a complaint to the licensing board.

    Emma Starr
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    HOLY C**P! What??? As a therapist I am appalled. There are no words.

    George Macbeth
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of a Doctor I saw when my anxiety and depression was at its absolute worst and I was borderline suicidal. His advice was to go for a run and lose some weight. It would make me feel better. I came out of that doctors in tears. Amazingly this guy was the Head doctor of the surgery.

    FreshGanesh
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Medical Post Traumatic Stress. It’s fücking real.

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    #11

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group One of my ex-coworkers was convinced that the sun and the moon were the same thing. He thought it turned around at night and became the moon. He was astonished one morning when I pointed to the moon in broad daylight. I thought he was going to have a panic attack. Luckily, we were sharing a joint behind the warehouse and he calmed down a bit. He still didn’t fully understand and kept glancing at the sky for the rest of our shift.

    UnderThat , llee_wu Report

    Robert Trebor
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Moonlight is just the afterglow after they turn the sun off for the night.

    -
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sun rolls over and goes to sleep while the moon lies awake and basking in the afterglow... Maybe I anthropomorphize just a wee bit much.

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    UpQuarkDownQuark
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is an astonishing amount of people who don’t know that the moon is visible during daylight. And it’s visible exactly half the time! I find this weird, because it’s right there in the sky where you can f***ing see it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    Robert T
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Technically moonlight is actually sunlight. Cheese flavoured sunlight, seeing as the moon is made of cheese. :D

    Cathy Hurd
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who reminds this person to breathe?

    Trophy Husband
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I (former professional astronomer) can remember being fascinated with the sky when I was 5 or so and I'm pretty confident that I understood how the sun and moon and earth moved even at that age.

    Kim Kermes
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You and I had people who helped us learn. I often wonder what happened to these people as young children.

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    Sue From Michigan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What schools are these people coming from ???

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    #12

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group "If I wear a mask, I can't breathe"

    LimpGur556 , 7C0 Report

    Kookamunga
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ever been to a hospital? Those doctors and nurses are falling over dead every day. Oh the humanity!

    Tamra
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then don't breathe. Fixed it for ya.

    tw 72
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exactly. Then, don't breathe. It is apparent that we need to thin the herd anyway.

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    TheDivineMsM
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait till you have a tube stuck down your throat

    Karin Gibson
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to wear masks for pretty much all of my 12 hour shift in theatres.

    Allison B
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've said it before. Masks are hot, irritating and I don't like wearing them. However I'd much rather wear one than get sick!

    Cat Palmer
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Watching my little sister dying in hospital, struggling for every last breath in a body destroyed by covid: now that's "can't breathe". Put a mask on, you selfish sod.

    Nikole
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My anti-vax, anti-mask uncle told me he doesn't wear a mask because it messes with his glasses... He said this as I was wearing both a mask and my glasses. I can't anymore.

    Terry B
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    3 years ago

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    So don't nobody cares

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    -
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If they have panic attacks, that's one issue. If they're just being willful, then they might reconsider if the other option is to breathe in toxic gas, dust or fibres.

    Angi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have panic attacks and can't wear a mask so I test before I go out and stay 6ft away from people.

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    Kat
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe use only one at a time then.

    Lydia Owen the Bi-tch
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sadly I've had a nurse at my orthopedic drs office say they don't let you breathe and don't do anything. I'm like... 🤔

    BluEyedSeoulite
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Makes me worried about the competency of the doctor and if the staff can even bill your insurance correctly. My mom worked in billing for clinics and there usually is a correlation...

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    #13

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group There was an advocate on TV for science education for women. She said "Not enough teenage girls are studying science, we need to turn this around 360°."

    w0mba7 , Pejman Parvandi Report

    Lem
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Her science teacher: 👌

    Don't even
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just like I've never understood why people say "so and so pulled a 360° and turned their life around." So they're right back where they were originally heading? Wouldn't a 180 be proper?

    Robert T
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, unless you are talking about BMXing.

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    Trophy Husband
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sorry girls, we turned too fast and missed you!

    Procrastinating Panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently there isn't enough education for math either

    Bobby
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have had people acknowledge that 360 is a full circle and try to argue that spinning a full circle some how points your life in a new direction

    Remi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Proving her point 😂

    L.a. Williams
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love when I hear someone did a 360○ turn around so she is still taking drugs no she did a 360○ yeah that's called a 180○ . Blink at you like they don't know what language you are speaking.

    Paul Davis
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She was a poster child for why more women need STEM education

    Micah
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a common mistake, but I don't understand how it became common.

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    #14

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group A girl once asked how [illegal substances] were sold. I told her the black market. Then she shouts in front of everyone. “Wow, that’s SO racist.”

    SlimJim31415 , Kai Hendry Report

    Lem
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My friend though that the black market was a store in each city that you could go walk around and buy guns and poison and stuff.

    Christina Hill
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember thinking this at like 6-8 and asking why they didn't just shut the market down😅

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    Trophy Husband
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually, no one is quite certain how the phrase black market came about, but some the theories do revolve around the slave trade, so you could make a case that the phrase is racist. However, an equally valid theory states that it relates to shadows and darkness, which would not be. Not to be confused with black Friday, which is definitely not race related. Black Friday is called that because it was the day that some businesses would move into the black (i.e. their revenues for the year would become positive for the first time and printed using blank ink instead of the red ink traditionally used for negative values.

    Felix Feline
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The term "black market" only came into existence a decade after the conclusion of WW1, and first appeared in print in 1931 in the Economist. There is no evidence whatsoever tying the term to slavery or any kind of racism. And "Black Friday" was a term made up by Philadelphia police in the early 80s to describe the chaos that occurred the day after Thanksgiving (US).

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    Barbara Gibson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Once had someone go off about Black Friday by being racist.

    Paul W
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And Bull Market is where people sell bulls, bear market is for bears.

    Beck
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am 43 and THIS MORNING looked up the meaning of bear/bull market.

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    Kat
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That made me laugh for some reason 😂

    I I
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    dont tell her about the "dark web"

    Paul Davis
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is making me think that maybe Black Friday isn't what I thought it was

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    #15

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group "If Earth is spinning, why my front door is always facing east?"

    SuvenPan , Kevin Gill Report

    David Brown
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Makes you really wonder how some people even make it to adulthood.

    Bryan Keeney
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cuz you don't need to be smart to survive anymore

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    Miles Mawyer
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I watch a lot of flat earth debates (for the LULZ). They say stupid c**p like this all the time, like Australians are upside down. Seriously, some of them thing north and up are synonymous.

    Orillion
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The problem is that they don't understand frame of reference. The sentence "Gravity pulls everything down" is only acurate when your frame of reference is on the surface of the Earth. Once you look at the Earth in its entirety, the frame of reference shifts and you have to define it differently.

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    L.a. Williams
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one scares me the most so far.

    Daniel LaDue
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He would just get confused if you explain the Door is fixed to the earth while it's spinning around the sun.

    New Prometheus
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When your knowledge level equals medieval catholic peasant, in internet era.

    Cat Palmer
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sun always rises in the east, too. Global rotation is a lie!

    Fred L.
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just east of the planet, not of the universe.

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    #16

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group The first person I dated after my amputation, freaked out over it and said to stay away because they didn't want to catch what I had, as if amputations due to cancer are contagious. This was right when Myspace had started getting popular, and texting costed you like, 10cents per text.

    SlaterVJ , Richard Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And how many of your family and friends have caught amputations since?

    foofoofloofy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Amputationsduetocancer virus is sweeping the Earth, with a death toll of 1.5 million!

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    Joice Moreira
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The first person I dated after my amputation told me he was only dating me because I had lost only 3 fingers on my hand, and if my whole hand was missing he would NEVER go out with me. =/

    3Woodstock
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope you could count on your injured hand how many more dates you had with this asshat!

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    tecolote
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stupid is infinite. I don't care what my brother says, people keep proving my point.

    -
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, amputations due to cancer can be contagious - some folks end up losing their dang minds.

    Ozymandias73
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Good thing they learned early how much of an a*s they were. Hopefully OP found someone not ignorant like the first one.

    George Macbeth
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dodged a bullet there i would say.

    ArodTheHorrible
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OMG, that's scary! Is there a vaccine? I'll see myself out...

    Debrina Blackmoon
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Damn, tempest-what ABOUT my Heath? That's a perfectly delicious candy bar!

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    Brenda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Must be how I lost my breast

    Mary Rogers
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That same person that freaked over the amputation probably thought covid was a hoax...

    Lara Verne
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seems like you dodged a bullet.

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    #17

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group A colleague of mine thought jellyfish were a myth.

    Historical-Tie-7390 , Pedro Szekely Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is, spread by our Lizard Overlords. To distract us from the 5g towers giving everyone the virus.

    Henry Russell
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    they have already taken over the goverment by electing people president and built the pyramids so they could hide all their evil doings. J.F.K found out and nows he is dead

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    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do jellyfish think humans are a myth? Asking for a friend.

    T5n
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This reminds me of the time I had to explain to a friend that narwhals actually existed.

    Asher Tye
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nickelodeon created them for SpongeBob.

    Winter's Dream
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm from the desert (southern Cal) and I've had friends in other states tell me they thought roadrunners we're just cartoon characters

    Pandaroo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The box Jellyfish is offended

    Carla Anderson
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait til the colleague finds out that male seahorses give birth.

    Robert Beveridge
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But they're right next to the jam fish! And just wait till they find out about...PRESERVES FISH

    Bubs623
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of my son's girlfriends (back in high school) was in all AP classes and scored high on the SAT and ACT tests, landing spots at both Stanford and Berkeley. She also thought dwarves were a myth and just about had to go to the ER with a panic attack when we met a person with dwarfism. She just had no clue.

    Frisinator
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read that as Meth. Still funny

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    #18

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group Went to make dinner reservation for “a quarter to 7.” The hostess on the phone said they didn’t have anything available at that time but has a table available for 6:45.

    beard_lover , Dennis Sylvester Hurd Report

    Johnny U
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some people grew up saying "15 till", and may not have heard "quarter to/of".

    Sky Hicks
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah that still doesn't fly. If you misunderstand, you ought to clarify rather than assume you know what they said.

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    Robert T
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My gf has trouble with this, but that's because her first language is not English. Not every language phrases time the same way. The French literally as "7 o'clock minus a quarter".

    Heather Talma
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't wanna know how many reservations that hostess has screwed up.

    David Brown
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These are also most likely the same type of person that can't make change when you hand them the change to get back an even amount.

    Trish Smith
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was thinking the same thing. I remember once teaching a teenage cashier how to count my change back to me because the cash register was down. My items were $1.19, I told her to count my change up from there and she'd never get it wrong. Even after much explanation, she never could comprehend it. I felt so bad for her!

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    Zack Podany
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just realized. She thought quarter to meant 25 minutes to. I think I just had an aneurism over that.

    Roxy Eastland
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Younger generations now often can't read a dial clock face at all, but only read digits off a digital clock display. I've seen it with my own eyes. It's astonishing. I wonder when I'm very elderly whether analogue clock faces will be a thing of the past.

    Johnny U
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, they call it a "face clock". It's fun to also watch them try to read poorly written cursive.

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    Rebekah Conard
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We told a new hire to be back at "quarter after" from their 15-minute break and they came back at xx:25 because a quarter is 25 cents. /shrug

    Littlemiss
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Went to the supermarket deli counter, asked for a dozen slices of ham. Got told they didn't have any of that flavor.

    Sir Beer Korma
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Good grief, although in the UK ham doesn't necessarily come from a pig (but usually does so) as it can refer to how the meat is processed e.g. you can have a turkey ham (usually cured thigh meat from the turkey, sometimes reformed and sliced).

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    Daniel LaDue
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's actually common. Some night assume 25 till is a quarter, not thinking of the conversion of 60 from 100.

    Mary Rogers
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is pretty easy to visualize it though from a traditional clock face. But maybe some people are so used to digital that they are not able to do that.

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    Robert Trebor
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You were late! you were due at 6 and didn't get there until half-past. Response: That's less than a minute late.

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    #19

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group "Why did the attorney withdraw from my case?" "Because you didn't respond to our emails and you failed to appear in court." "But I don't check my email." B***h, you hired us by email. Second favorite: "They never saw me driving, though." "Ed, you were passed out in the driver's seat next to an empty bottle of vodka, covered in your own urine. They're gonna suspect you were driving drunk." "Yeah, but who saw me driving though?"

    Maxwyfe , persand Report

    Zero
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    IIRC, if the keys were on you or in the ignition, and you were in the driver's seat, that's all they need.

    Trophy Husband
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once was drunk and went to sleep it off in my car. I slept in the driver's seat with the car on in the parking lot outside the bar. Later I was telling a friend of this, he's a lawyer and he explained that under Florida law, drunk driving is being over the legal limit in the driver's seat of a car with the ignition turned on. If I had been caught, I could have gone to jail for being responsible!

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    David Brown
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah the old "if the glove dont fit" defense. Let me know how that one works out for ya.

    James G. Currie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All they need is to prove you were "in control" of the vehicle. Know of one gent that was nailed in a Courtesy Suite at a hotel, because; since the clerk at the Front Desk could not refuse to turn over his keys on demand (he had turned them over at the start of the party, as he knew he would be drinking, and did not want to be tempted...), he was Legally "In Control" of the vehicle...100m away from it, in a hotel room, in the middle of a party.

    Praegard
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All states in U.S. are not the same. In SC if you do not have video of vehicle on highway you cannot make a DUI charge stick. In NYS you CAN make DUI case as cited byOP

    Alditekim
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But what if it was a setup?

    Just a ray of f'ing sunshine
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You and I watch far too much true crime! I thought of this also. 😆

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    DC
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... so, if you need to have it running in order not to freeze to death, better do on passenger's side?

    Flash Henry
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Working in a law office, can confirm both of these have happened more than once.

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    #20

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group Fellow in my class said Ketanji Brown was not suited for the role of supreme court justice because she's a "woman" and is "soft" thus she will "get too attached to cases".

    AdolfBonaparte69 , bswise Report

    Procrastinating Panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    RBG, Sonia Sotomayer, Elena Kagan, Sandra Day O'Connor.

    David Brown
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    God forbid someone rule with compassion and common sense.

    Lissah Mackenzie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uh... no, we don't need people who will be "honest" and "just." That would be ridiculous

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    Susanne B
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I really thougt, that saying a woman is unsuited to a job because she is a woman was a thing of the past century or more

    KENOBI
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Women are better court justices I mean have you seen the speed a mother can break up a fight between her kids and find out who caused it while fairly convincing them to make good decisions

    PVR
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, so was Margaret Thatcher. Soft and cuddly. SMH.

    Random Anon
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah something needs to be re-attached alright. This fellow's head. It's screwed on wrong.

    Jesse Taylor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That fellow is soft in the head

    Brenda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That fellow is a great big dumbass

    Kim Kermes
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know some Women Marines who could change his mind about women being soft. Probably a lot of Girl Scouts, too.

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    #21

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group My ex’s brother in full confidence said lava was 2 words. Tried to explain its 2 syllables, not words. I was the idiot apparently. For context, we were watching a Phineas and Ferb movie they were all on a chain over lava. Phineas tells them to let go of the cliff and Candace says something along the lines of “I have 1 word for you! LA-VA!” And then his brother looked at us and proudly said “that’s 2 words, dumba&s”. He was/is notorious for having little to no common sense.

    RevolutionaryEggRoll , Scot NelsonF Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is a French phrase, it means "The Va."

    Lem
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    👏👏 It could also be Là—va (There, Go) but the grammar there is iffy

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    Kamie Jones
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The end comment at the movie is priceless. I would have lost my s**t laughing.

    Brenda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Please tell me he hasn't reproduced!?!

    Scagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The fact that he is using cartoons to hone his language skills tells a story.

    Bobby
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pretty sure it comes from lavos, the planet eating monster in the earth's core. The name comes from a cave man language la meaning big and Vos meaning fire

    DC
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... a real gem, seems he to be...

    El Dee
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'The Go' if it's French..

    Adriana Santos
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    3 years ago

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    Do you know if this person has any kind of mental health problems? Sounds like an autistic spectrum disorders behavior

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    #22

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group That public libraries are irrelevant in today's society.

    Cat_Astrophe_X , Gord Webster Report

    Ruby
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who else thought this in Goofy's voice

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    Lisa Elliott
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not to the low income community, elderly, homeless, kids who need a safe space when it's hard being home. I dropped out of school in grade 10 struggling with adhd,anxiety, addiction and bullies and found my sanctuary there. Bullies don't seem to like books much...

    Scagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm really sorry for your struggles but glad you found the library. I was bullied as a kid too and it's true what you say - they must be allergic to books or something. We couldn't afford books growing up so the library was like a treasure trove of stories that I could (FOR FREE!) escape into. It's really sad that, here in the UK, they are shutting down libraries including the one where I found solace. I think all the local ones have gone now, leaving only the main one in the city, which is hard for a kid to get to. Anyway, I hope you continue to enjoy a good read and be well.

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    David Brown
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's always going to be a need for libraries. People would lose their collective s**t if they all of a sudden didn't have access to the internet.

    Janelle Gilbert
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Based on this thread, they are DESPERATELY needed.

    Josh Carpenter
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean, they almost are. Not because they have no value, but because society stopped valuing them. Thinking is hard and not many people want to do it, so they let someone else do it for them and social media has just made it so every idiot has a platform to spread idiocy

    Christina Gomez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But people who can't afford computers/internet need them

    Izzy_
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sadly some people think this is true and are decreasing libraries' budgets

    GoddessOdd
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In my community, libraries and boys and girls clubs are designated "safe areas" where anyone can come if they need a place to chill and be safe.

    Abby
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    lol considering all the homeless I see sleeping in mine. yes they are very much needed, there's no where else for those people to sleep at during the day.

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    #23

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group That of course Cats and Dogs are opposites, like the opposite of up is down etc. And that of course they're not mammals...

    a-jm93 , reader of the pack Report

    Kat
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My husband actually asked me the other day where baby chicks get their milk... We have chicken and one hen is brooding and he was seriously worried what the babies eat when they hatch... 😕

    -
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not brilliant, but caring, at least.

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    Josh Carpenter
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a friend who can't navigate with left and right as descriptions in the moment. She said she couldn't remember which was which in time to make turns. So I invented up blinker down blinker. If I tell her up or down she can hit the blinker lever and a lighted arrow blinks that points the direction she needs to turn. It works flawless 20 years later and I still love her to death, but wow...

    Beck
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every morning my kids aunt and i drive too a different location for work, usually around and hour or two away. I am the navigator. I am very bad about saying right and pointing left and saying left pointing right. I told her to always go the way I point. For some reason my words get mixed up in the moment.

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    Kusotare
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If a dog ever catches a cat, the commingling of matter and anti-matter between them causes an explosion and they both disappear, generating heat and light but leaving no trace of existence.

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not mammals? What are they then? Dinosaurs?

    Arnetha Elliott
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a kid I thought dogs were boys and cats were girls. I wasn't very bright. Still questionable.

    GoddessOdd
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this must have been relatively common for older Southern folks. One of my neighbors always called my dog a he, and when I would correct her she's say, "but it's a dog". A friend's gran did the same thing... called her male cat 'she' because it was a cat.

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    Kate Jones
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I heard a guy on the subway arguing with someone that he wasn't a homosapien because "I'm no homo!"

    Asher Tye
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That cat does not look happy to be a pillow.

    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Overheard in a doctor's waiting room...that black squirrels are the offspring of grey squirrels and black cats. Also, a former co-worker insisted that scallops are just cookie-cuttered from fish cheeks.

    BreGerEu
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    😂😂😂 This opposite-thing made me really lough.

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    #24

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group Pregnant with my first at the time. Was dragged over to my in-law's place for my husband's birthday lunch or whatever I was required to show my face at. They're not the most intelligent people despite holding degrees, but this is forever burned in my mind: " ...don't let your OB do the ultrasound too long! No more than 10 seconds or you'll fry the baby alive!" My MIL teaches ultrasound technology at a local college. And she told me this. She was always into fear mongering, but good god, all I could do was stare at her dumbfounded and eventually say, "uh, no, that's not how ultrasounds work..." Bonus just because it's a common stupidity. My FIL claims you can't get COVID if you're vaccinated. He works in the medical field.

    magicrowantree , Christopher, Tania and Isabelle Luna Report

    Jess
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and these people are allowed to work in colleges and medical field.. We need better education!

    Nikole
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Education doesn't help stupid people, assuming they even retain any of it.

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    Kat
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mother got covid TWICE despite being vaccinated...

    LW
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just to clarify, did your mother test positive for the virus or actually become ill with covid the disease? The vaccine doesn't protect well against getting infected, but it does significantly reduce the liklihood of developing severe covid and dying. That's why they're called covid vaccines as opposed to SARS COV2 vaccines.

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    Nathaniel
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ultrasound. Sound. Sound. Frying babies? Good god.

    -
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does one have to turn them over? Asking for a friend who either loves or hates babies, depending on the context.

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    Remi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I bet their parents were rich enough to get them the degrees and cushy jobs

    Brenda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How, just how are they qualified for jobs?

    StarlightPanda!
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These people should not be working their current jobs..

    Robert T
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She must have been watching this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FpXQ3kFrNk

    Susanne B
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would be bad, if they were High Schoolars but in grown up working in the medical field. This is really frightening.

    Cathy Hurd
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She TEACHES ultrasound technology? Imagine the intelligence of her students. I'm vaccinated and got covid. I now have long covid. Although the first time I got covid I was not vaccinated.

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    #25

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group Years ago, I was living in South Dakota and went to Michigan to visit family for Christmas. My aunt asked me if the cold weather in Michigan was bothering me. I confusingly told her that the weather in South Dakota is about the same, if not colder. She was shocked and said she didn't remember seeing any cold spells on the weather channel, in the South. That's when it dawned on me that she thought South Dakota was in the south part of the US because it has the word "south" as part of the name. My whole view of her shattered at that moment.

    budderocks , Chad Davis Report

    Procrastinating Panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    North Carolina person here. It is currently about 100 degrees.

    Collin Blatt
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your aunt making us Michiganders look stupid lol

    Victoria Kimball
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My late husband thought North Carolina and South Carolina were one state. He also thought Northern California and Southern California were two states. L

    Brenda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Houston hit 100 the end of May. It's been over 100 for the past week

    Zack Podany
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    God forbid she ever finds out where West Virginia is...

    Theresa Pierson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Makes me embarrassed that she's from Michigan.

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    #26

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group "If people evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?"

    JohnKlositz Report

    Kat
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My kid asked me this the other day and I had no good answer...

    Fat Harry
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We didn't evolve from monkeys, we evolved from a common ancestor with monkeys. As Queenie-Poo puts it, we and monkeys are like cousins and we share a grandparent.

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    Kusotare
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you know the answer to this, you're smarter than GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker. (Admittedly a very low bar.)

    Tamra
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, that bar is flat on the ground, it's so damn low. 😂

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    Lucky
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Have you never seen a monkey evolve? First there is the monkey and then - kaboom - a politician!

    Johnny U
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We have a common ancestor that we both evolved from. That common ancestor is extinct.

    Marie Vallier
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually we don't know that the common ancestor is extinct. It's just a scientific consensus to put any species current or fossil on tips of evolutionary tree, because with genetics, we can only tell how closely related two species are, but we cannot tell what their relationship are. So maybe our ancestor is still leaving, maybe it's not and we got a fossil of it, but we'll never know. It's actually the same principle with paternity/family test. The test will say how closely related two individuals are, so we will know if their degree of relatedness is coherent with a parent/offspring or siblings relationship, but it's only because we have other context that we can say that person A is the dad of person B.

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    Just a ray of f'ing sunshine
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think, especially after reading this thread, that not all of us have completed the evolutionary process...

    RP
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My brother literally brought this as an anti-evolution argument. I wished I had had the presence of mind to say "it's kind of like how we can be related".

    Flexiegirl94
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because we didn't evolve from monkeys

    Lily Robertson
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait... are you trying to say the planet had more than two primates?!?!? Madness, i tell you! Madness!

    Milk13Man
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People didn’t evolve from monkeys. They evolved from a COMMON ANCESTOR.

    Chris Kane
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We didn't evolve from modern monkeys, we share an ancestor.

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    #27

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group Years ago a couple proudly told me they had been going to Spanish classes for a year because they wanted to immigrate to Brazil. When I pointed out that they speak Portuguese not Spanish, I got told that ALL of Latin America speaks Spanish! Even bigger idiot: I thought everyone was in on the brown cows make chocolate milk joke. But apparently there was still some idiot who wholeheartedly believed it.

    Difficult_Stuff6112 , L.C. Nøttaasen Report

    Lem
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At least they weren’t trying to learn Brazilian… Edit: Turns out that it’s called Brazilian Portuguese. So learning “Brazilian” actually makes sense

    Jette Wang Wahnon
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Living in Portugal and with relatives in Brazil,yes it is Portuguese but »Brazilian « is very different sounding and with many words completely different from its Portuguese counter-part...

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    Ana Benham
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm Brazilian and I was working in a restaurant in Portugal when a North American girl said "muchas gracias" (thanks in Spanish) after asking where I was from. I poletily correct her saying we actually say "Obrigada" in Brazil. She spent several minutes arguing with me that Brazil is in Latin America so OF COURSE we speak Spanish and I was messing with her. Smh

    Shawn Woodbury
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sad thong is when I asked a kid where milk came from he said and I quote "Are you dumb or something it comes from a store" about lost my s**t right there

    Robert Trebor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They also speak Dutch, French, and English in some SA countries.

    Marianne
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, here in Germany everyone knows that chocolate milk comes from purple cows. 😉

    Daniel LaDue
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've met a few that believe everyone below the United States speak Spanish.

    Paul Davis
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's amazing there are evidently people out there who literally don't even know what chocolate is.

    Alditekim
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So, brown cows don't speak Spanish?

    Al Padilla
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's only relatively recently that all of Latin America was speaking perfect Latin, too.

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    #28

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group Bit of a story but many a year ago I was eating with my now ex. It was 2am, and an older lady came into the place and asked if someone can give her a ride home, her car had broken down, she worked in the plaza and showed us her work ID, so we gave her a ride, wasn't very far. No idea how the conversation ended up about jurassic Park but it did. She said she took her kids to see it when it came out and one of them asked "how do they keep the dinosaurs from running out of the view of the camera?" We all laughed and she said "you believed he asked that???" My ex said "idk maybe they have people off camera making sure they stay in the shot?" Both look at my ex in complete disbelief. She didn't understand why we were shocked until I said "they were CGI tiff..." the sudden realization on her face was incredible.

    wmnplzr , David Kryzaniak Report

    Remi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of the parents who were dissatisfied because the dinosaurs in a dino park weren't live. It was on not always right, I think

    Bobby
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My buddies high-school girlfriend watching a chase scene in a movie taking place in Florida "are they gonna drive to Cuba? " she's a geography teacher now so I hope she knows better today

    William Dennett
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are still people who think that Steven Spielberg killed a dinosaur because of the promo photo of him in front of a “dead” triceratops.

    Robert T
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which Jurassic Park film? The original contained very little CGI...

    Jane Dorothy Warner
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Years ago, there was a sci-fi film where the dolphins learned to talk, and MIL gasped and asked, "How did they teach them that!"

    Leo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That dinosaur is not from the movie

    Crewposter
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WHAT ARE THOOOSE WHAT ARE THOOOSE WHAT ARE THOOSE

    Angi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After watching the new Lion King movie my mom asked me how they made them look like they were talking.

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    #29

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group Someone once tried to convince me that my coat makes me gay.

    crabbyfranklen , Garry Knight Report

    Lem
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s like saying this pride month bracelet makes me a lesbian. Oh, wait—

    Kassiopeia
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It can't make you lesbian, if you already are lesbian. I'm breaking the matrix here

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    David Brown
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They also probably think that being gay is contagious.

    tw 72
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Had a guy ask if he could catch "gay" by going to a predominantly gay restaurant. Nope but ya might catch some glitter... (BTW: He was simply naïve and had a strict childhood. He learned about the world and became one of the most loving, accepting people ever.)

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    Frying Pan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Guess what...it wasn't the coat that did it

    -
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thanks for mentioning that. Now I can tell my husband that wearing his shirts and sweaters is all that keeps me interested in getting into his pants, heheh...

    Ophelia Vandergurgleduffen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My sister said I turned gay because I mowed our parents’ lawn and that wasn’t a girl’s job.

    Sabrina Fisher
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's like saying kissing my fiancé makes me gay... just cuz she is a woman. Oh, wait-

    Christine Jemison
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Soooooo by me hanging a pride flag from my window will make me gay? OH WELL!!!!

    Zedrapazia
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh, you don't want to get wet from the rain and cold in the wind? Gay!

    Jenn C
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of the post "People really be grown and still using umbrellas" "You supposed to become waterproof after you turn 18 or something?"

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    Upstaged75
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once had a beautiful black trench coat/rain coat that had satiny pink trim on the cuffs and pockets. When my brother saw me wearing it he told me I looked like a gay Nazi. :)

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    #30

    I heard this conversation a few days ago in Spanish class Girl: dude, you keep eating my food, at this point it's gluttony Boy: gluttony? That sounds like algebra.... Is that algebra? Girl: *trying not to lose her mind* dude, context clues, is your brain made of one brain cell? Boy: wait.... is it????

    f---thezodiac Report

    Remi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One braincell is optimistic

    James G. Currie
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nah...unless you're using a silent "functional" in the sentence! ;)

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    reaper
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you got two braincells and they’re fighting for third

    Sandy Kumar
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are we sure he was not just messing with her ?

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    #31

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group Something about how heating food in microwaves is really bad for your health, because they make food radioactive, so you shouldn't use them. The guy was also a hard [illegal substance] addict...

    some_clickhead , osseous Report

    Kat
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think microwave makes food soggy, that's why you shouldn't use them.

    Trophy Husband
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They make things that should be crisp soggy (pizza, pastries, etc) but things that should be moist dry (pasta, meat, etc).

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    Jette Wang Wahnon
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Used the right way,microwaves are great...

    Saint Thomas
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same people who smoke but don't want vaccine because they "don't know what's in there and it could be dangerous for your health".

    kat lia
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my patient's blood pressure is high despite of the blood pressure meds that was prescribed to him by his physician. and he said i consider my body as a temple, i don't want to put anything on it unless it is natural. his drug screen is positive for cocaine.

    AmAndA_Panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Safer than cooking your food in all those pans with the non stick coating.

    Courtney Christelle
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When we were kids we were told not to stand in front of the microwave while it was cooking because it would give us cancer.

    Al Padilla
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, but without the wire screening in the window, it could mess with an electronic cardiac pacemaker. But not to worry. The now-defunct Cordis pacemaker company offered a "lifetime guarantee."

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    Da lazy panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It bombard them with radio waves, no dangerous then using a telephone

    O.M.Miki
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i hate microwaves - actually they really arn(t good for you depending on the brand and how old it is

    TheElderNom
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've heard many people claim that microwaves blasts all the nutrition out of food, literally all of it. When I ask them why more people aren't using this amazing micro diet they never have any replies.

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    #32

    I was in an argument with someone. I cannot remember the contents of the argument. But I stopped when he mentioned his IQ and said to me "I'm right because I'm confident I am right." realized right there it was not worth the frustration of it because I'm not getting through to him.

    Nervousemu Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I'm right because I'm confident I am right." Sounds like a recent President of the USA.

    Daniel LaDue
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You mean the last one, right? It was the last guy that said he knew everything.

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    Jonathan Panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That right there is the Dunning-Krueger effect in action.

    FreshGanesh
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I came here for the first person to mention this! It’s no longer an effect, but a fricken epidemic.

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    Donnie Mc00
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    someone once said : "the most disappointing thing i have discovered about being intelligent, is the realisation that i can never change a stupid persons point of view".

    Xander Man
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

    panda123
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pretty sure Stephen Hawking said people who brag about their IQ are losers or something like that

    I I
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    thats the whole thing , they think they are right so no matter how many FACTS you throw at them they'll never accept them as facts

    Cayanna P
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's when you back away slowly....

    BWC
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Self deluded confidence.

    Stephanie A Mutti
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An example of the Dunning-Kruger effect in the wild.

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    #33

    The earth really is flat, you see it's about density. They would not elaborate further.

    SlenDman402 Report

    Kusotare
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The denser you are, the more likely you believe the Earth is flat.

    Scotira
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wish I could upvote you more than once for this 🤣🤣🤣

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    Kyl Glan
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You see the earth is more than 70% water and uncarbonated, therefore, flat.

    Angi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I asked a flat earther where the edge was they explained its like Pac-Man and you just appear on the other side.

    -
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Makes sense. If you're really dense, then the earth is flat.

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    Ernie Tabuena
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of the guy who told me the constitution SPECIFICALLY prevents you blocking people on Twitter.

    Armin Tamzarian
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is though. Seventy-one percent of the earth is water, and that water is not sparkling. So the earth IS flat.

    Aidan Wells
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if you replace earth with universe then it does make sense

    Remi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    On a let's cram 4 dimensions into 3 way? And is that when it's the right amount of dense not to be a saddle or a ball or was it doughnut? It's been a couple of decades

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    EeveeExpertShadow
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If the Earth was flat, cats would have pushed everything off it by now.

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    #34

    My brother (45 years old) once said that if you were looking at the Sun through a telescope (I know, a lot to digest there), and the Sun exploded, you would know it long before everyone else.

    TerribleMud1728 Report

    Remi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Breaking news: Local idiot looks at sun through a telescope! Fries eye, discovers a loophole to speed of light being constant! "It smells like fried eggs" -The idiot

    Dave Freeman
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, I have a telescope and I look at the sun all the time. The difference is I use a solar filter so I don't go blind. Guy is still an idiot though.

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    censor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well he's not wrong, if a telescope is say 1m long, he will receive the news precisely 1/ 151 940 00 000 000 th of a second earlier.

    Matthew Jameson
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm gonna look at the sun through a telescope until this happens. I'll be on the roof if needed...

    Susanne B
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let us just hope he doen't try it

    ArodTheHorrible
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow... We're not clear on how vision actually works, are we?

    Nilsen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I really doubt you'd see it though

    Jette Wang Wahnon
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sun has many explotions which seen through a telescope naturally will be visible to the eye...and not to a casual onlooker without a telescope....some years have more outbursts than others...

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    #35

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group Glass is made from wool.

    Hades_Moon , dion gillard Report

    Lem
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And socks are made from sand

    Henry Russell
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    paper si made from plastic, dirt is made from rubber, and metal is made of wood

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    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This does not even makes the tiniest bit of sense. How is wool turned into glass? What was the thought process?

    Remi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Spun glass or something and then their brain went *bllaaaaargh*

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    Fred L.
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean just because there is glass wool ...

    Al Padilla
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Perhaps you haven't searched with sufficient diligence to find silicon sheep.

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    Mark Hougaard
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    IKR? Everyone knows steel is made from wool. 😏

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    Brandy Dor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've worn wool....I think they got this backwards....wool is made from glass shards!

    Sir Beer Korma
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on the wool, cashmere and merino are lovely soft, but fleece from mountain sheep is only suitable for carpets.

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    Philly Bob Squires
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe they heard of "spun glass" or something and thought of spinning wool. Now I gotta hope I don't drop my sweater or...

    Zack Podany
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the same logic that witches weigh the same as a duck. Glass makes fiberglass, fiber glass is itchy. Wool is itchy. Therefore, glass is made of wool.

    Jill Hojnacki
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Spun glass and fiberglass are colloquially referred to as “wool glass” because of the way it looks. I assume they heard this at some point and thought it was meant literally.

    Robert T
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well there is such a thing as wire wool, so why not glass wool?

    James G. Currie
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, wool *is* made from rock... ;)

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    #36

    “It’s ok to smoke when you’re pregnant, I did and my kid turned out fine.”

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    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I fell down the stairs, I am fine. so go ahead people, throw yourselves down the stairs. It's okay.

    Remi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Been there, done that 😂🤕

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    Spellflinger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Born in 1965 and my mother was encouraged to keep smoking to lower my weight and this be easier to deliver.

    georgia layne
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My sister in law. Sweetheart but not the brightest crayon in the box. Heavy smoker, pregnant with my nephew, the doctor said she would hurt the baby if she quit smoking now, after 6 months of being pregnant. But wouldn't drink the very clean well water at my grandma's because it might have something in it. Still pissed about that every time I think about it

    William Dennett
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Once again anecdotal evidence beats science. Curses!

    Patrick McKemie
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Narrator: They DID NOT turn out fine

    Kat
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, 25% of possiblity they turn out fine when the mother smokes during pregnancy.

    Craig Silberman
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm willing to bet her mom smoked while pregnant with her.

    Brenda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I went from 1.5 packs to 4 or 5. OB was happy. I was under a lot of stress during my pregnancy and he said trying to quit cold turkey would be too stressful on the baby. I had a healthy baby but I wish I'd been able to quit completely

    Rost it
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my mom smoked with me. All nine months. I can count that all on one hand.

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    #37

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group Mexico is the capital of Spain.

    MicahBell9999 , Nathan Hughes Hamilton Report

    Lem
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mexico City is the capital of Mexico. Madrid is the capital of Spain. And Toronto is the capital of Canada.

    Fat Harry
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Perhaps I'm missing a joke here, but the capital of Canada is Ottawa.

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    Pisco
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My partner lived for a while in USA. He was asked if "Belgium was the capital of Paris" by a coworker.

    L.a. Williams
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a screen shot of CNN showing a map of South America was where Hong Kong is.

    Danish Dynomummy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, too many still refer to Denmark as the Capital of Sweden

    Jette Wang Wahnon
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can testify to this...I worked at an hotel in Copenhagen when a group of blue-haired American pensioners arrived....the trip of a life-time See Europe in 7 days...naturally they were tired and a bit confused and 1st thing being asked was...if Denmark was the capital of Stockholm (sic)....They were cute so I just smiled and told the lady how we are two different countries with each our own capital....2nd thing on their wish list was a hairdresser and I sent them to mine,he was good and inexpensive.....that got me in trouble with the Concierge who lost the commision from «his» hairdresser...

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    oktopus
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No no, Spain is the capital of Mexico.

    Adriana Santos
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like people who thinks Argentina is part of Brazil

    Allan Felipe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Buenos Aires is the capital of Brazil" - and I've heard gringos saying that 🤦

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    Fred L.
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, to be fair Mexico City was the capital of New Spain.

    Susanne B
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I heard that Denmark is a city in Sweden.

    Ernie Tabuena
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Had a sales rep tell me they couldn’t drop-ship a PC outside the US and had canceled my order going to Albuquerque. Seriously.

    David Pierce
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And Dogpatch is the capital of 'Merica.

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    #38

    One time I overheard someone ask a co-worker how tall he was, and he replied "5 foot 12." This is the same guy who when I asked him how long a task should be expected to take answered with "Twenty minutes... fifteen at the most."

    Salarian_American Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Last year I turned Thirty-Ten. This year I will be Thirty-Eleven. Denial? I'm not in denial, you're in denial!

    Robert Trebor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I tell people I'm 5-18. Makes their brains fizz. Also, if someone calls me Too-tall, I say, "If I was any shorter my feet wouldn't reach the ground." More fizzing.

    Robert T
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can see a large number of people scratching their heads at this one. The idiotic imperial system of measurements has 12 inches in a foot. A more sensible system of measurement has 10 toes in 2 feet. ;-)

    Chip Waters
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We get it! Enough already! It must be tough being so sure of your superiority because you use metric.

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    Brenda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This year I will celebrate the 27th anniversary of my 30th birthday

    Psycho Cat
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What's wrong with 5 foot 12? I don't get it.

    Cuppa tea?
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm lost here. Why is that supposed to be funny? I only know a proper measurements system of International Standard.

    L.a. Williams
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My husband lists things backwards sometimes. But say 20 to 15 minutes. It takes my brain a second when he does.

    tecolote
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Eleventy billion comes to mind

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    #39

    I had a classmate ask if an ancient Greek philosopher is still alive... To whoever wondering, it was Thucydides.

    FrozenInABlaze Report

    Dave Freeman
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As least ot wasn't Testicles!

    LaToya Mack
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just saw him last week😜😱🤷🏽‍♀️

    -
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "...next to Elvis. Elvis Presley."

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    memyselfandI
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thucydides was a historian by the way, not a philosopher. The philosophers are way more interesting to read.

    Lori
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope it was in Elementary School.

    Donny Bereznak
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe it was a philosophical pondering.

    James G. Currie
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, he is...he's a hemovore, and can only come out at night.

    Emma Starr
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I firmly believe that he is the most boring writer of all time. Oof.

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    #40

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group “Don’t run outside in the winter, your lungs will crystallize. It’s not good for you.” Said while smoking a cigarette. Yes, the WATER in your lungs can crystallize and destroy your cells at very low temperatures, but I did some reading and sports doctors say there’s no chance of this happening above -50C/-68F. It was the sanctimonious dismissal of running as a healthy activity combined with the idea of a lung somehow crystallizing (?) that sealed the deal for me on this one.

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    Emiloy
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to run long distances and this was something we heard often when training during winter, especially by folks who were middle aged and older. It was a really common misconception

    Duh
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can get frostbite or worse, hypothermic from air that cold going straight to your lungs, though. Best to wrap a scarf around your neck / mouth that's under your coat so you're drawing air that's slightly heated by your body in -10 F and below.

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    Joe Reaves
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow, someone needs to introduce them to the concept of winter sports...

    Dominik Creeper
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sure, your lungs won't crystalize except for extreme temperatures, but my lungs full with a liquid (asthma)

    Zack Podany
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The moment anyone actively smoking tries to tell me anything about lung health, I'm out.

    Isabel Care
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Had a really bad cold, lungs full of gunk, went outside in freezing weather and the gunk froze. Very painful, I coughed and passed out. Used a hot water bottle to defrost the gunk. Made sure I had decongestants available from then on

    Peeka_Mimi
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well if you're asthmatic you should avoid strenuous exercise in cold weather.

    Dominik Creeper
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *cold weather The amount of exercise doesn't matter

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    Steve
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, I've been in -68f, and your lungs really can start to freeze. Of course, your eyeballs start to crystalize before then, which I thought was a bigger problem

    Coffee panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Saw a documentary abt the coldest place in russia. The mom keeps on saying the children will not be sent to school if temperature is - 50C or below. Always wondered why. Now i know.

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    #41

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group A friend of a friend was badly injured in a bike accident. A car blew a red light going west, causing the biker going north (who had the right of way) to plow into the car and flip over it. This person said the biker deserved to be hurt because they're the one that crashed into the car.

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    Jesse Taylor
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I knew a guy who got hit while on his motorcycle by a drunk driver. He was wearing a helmet and leathers, so he was okay, relatively speaking. The cops were there. So when they told him it was a drunken driver who hit him, my friend got up off the stretcher, grabbed his helmet and clocked him as hard as he could with it, walked back to the ambulance and laid back down on the stretcher.. The cops acted like they didn't see anything.

    HarriMissesScotland
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Speechless. A good friend of mine was killed while riding his bike cross country. July 4, 1995. A woman just had to put in a new cassette.

    Susanne B
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I certainly hope the biker got a sizable compensation, and the court didn't accept his assertion

    Logan Garwacki
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait the biker deserved to be hit be he crashed into the car. Could some one please help me understand this.

    Theresa Pierson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Scary to think that fool is behind the wheel.

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    #42

    40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group My cousin insisted that her ex husband, who she cheated on multiple times including on their wedding day, owed her child support for the daughter she had before she met him.

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    Zoe's Mom
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If the man had been in the life of the child for a longer period of time, regardless if he adopted her/him, a judge MAY grant child support but that's not the law. U.S. here.

    Kat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a cow... Seriously, who does that to other, especially on their wedding day...

    Brenda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not unless he adopted her

    Deborah B
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If he adopted his step-daughter, then he probrably does.

    George Macbeth
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I bet she's got a beaver like a wizards sleeve

    Daniel LaDue
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    That's not dumb. It's s just the "equality" that women are taught to believe in nowadays.

    #43

    "I don't trust these so called scientists" said a lady who was visiting the public astronomical observatory while I was presenting stuff to the public, after she asked me this weird question about aliens and the center of the galaxy aligning or some s**t.

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    Jette Wang Wahnon
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stephen Hawkings tell of a little old lady attending one of his lectures....she insisted that the Earth was flat and held up by a giant Turtle...Hawkins asked what held the Turtle up?...quick to answer she said...It Turtles ALL THE WAY DOWN !!

    TCW Sam Vimes
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually it's four elephants on the back of a turtle called A'Tuin. The fifth elephant fell off...

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    Otto Maddox
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I taught in a public planetarium for 8 years or so. The shows were all live, and people could ask whatever questions they wanted. Fortunately, I did not work during this weird era of internet woo peddlers and flat earth nonsense. I had a few people question the age of the universe, but nothing like what we see nowadays.

    UpQuarkDownQuark
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don’t waste your time on these pigheaded fools.

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    #44

    Cousin:"So what have you been up to?" Me:"I am working on an education grant for the EPA making...." Cousin:"Oh, so your an environmentalist. I guess not all of them are bad. So what's with those environmentalists that torched all those cars in California? That can't be good for the environment either? Never thought of that, did ya? You know what environmentalist I like? Ellen Degeneris, she's funny. But don't tell my dad I said that."

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    Kusotare
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would go home and burn the family tree to try to erase all evidence we were related.

    Tina B
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cousin can't spell either?

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    #45

    When someone said they had gotten into the senate 180 years ago.

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    Mark Hougaard
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looking at some of them, they might be right...

    Amanda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Was that person Mitch McConnell?

    tecolote
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I keep telling them I don't do time travel

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    #46

    For 2 painful years at my former employer, I worked for a very dangerous idiot. He got hired in because he rubbed elbows with the right executive, and now this buffoon was responsible for $40M of business of which he had no grasp on reality. One day he walked around the place praising himself for winning another major contract (everything he "won" wound up being a disaster). I looked into it out of fear and within 5 minutes I discovered that he under-quoted the job by *at least* 50% (wound up being ***far*** worse than that after a more thorough look). I brought this up to him. His response was "Yeah but I sold it at 40% margin."

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    tw 72
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, a little too number-y

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    Brenda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate math but geez! Even I do better

    Robert T
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We have one of those. He's responsible for £1,096 billion of business and he likes to party. You may have heard of our cockwonble of a Prime Minister.

    Reenzy Bennington
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sad thing is my "boss" would do the same.

    Mistiekim
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If anyone has seen Birdemic they would recognize that as Rod’s work. 2 million dollar contract and he gave them a 50% discount 😂

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    #47

    "The C in recipes stands for cans"

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    Lem
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Radishes, eggplants, cans, icings, pies, eclairs and salads.

    Emiloy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like where you’re going with this! Maybe Recipes also = “Render Every Can Into Pans and Eat Stuff”?

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    Kusotare
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    T stands for tubs, while t stands for smaller tubs.

    Miss Ann Thrope
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Mix two cans of flour with one can of sugar..."

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So.... what do the rest of the letters stand for? P for pans right?

    Emiloy
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is suggesting “i” for “imaginary acronym” too much of a stretch? :)

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    censor
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe they mean when they see "heat the oven to 180 C" they think it means "heat the oven to 180 cans"

    Poultry Geist
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You just say “ oh .. ok “ smile and leave the situation !

    jBeachey
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My head dropped in disbelief so many times reading this post.

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