Have you ever found yourself stunned, truly speechless by someone’s complete lack of knowledge about something everyone seems to know? Like someone asking who Picasso was... during an art class. Or not knowing that the Earth orbits the Sun.
We’ve all had those moments where we didn’t know whether to laugh, cry, or just blink in disbelief. So, I asked the Bored Panda community to share the times they were totally flabbergasted by someone’s ignorance—and the answers did not disappoint. From hilariously clueless to downright outrageous, these stories might make you feel like a trivia champion.
Got one of your own? I'd love to hear it!
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Every time Donald Trump opens his mouth
Yet he seems to know what the American nation wants to hear as he's be elected twice, and the last time with more votes than any other candidate. Older white Americans seem especially attracted to his neo fascism.
Downvote me if what I said upsets you and downvoting me provides you with comfort - but the statements are all factual. As a Canadian I am well prepared to absorb hatred/aggression from Americans.
Load More Replies...He is neither intent on lying or telling the truth. He has only one focus - "Look at me!"
Rep. Todd Akin (MO): "legitimate" rape rarely results in pregnancy. because women's bodies have a way to shut that down.
This is also why we desperately need to get rid of ignorant, fear-mongering, christian conservatives in government.
Load More Replies...OMG. I remember this. If I recall correctly, his daughters spoke out against him for that.
See "All Rape is Real Rape" by Alice Vachss, written twenty years ago and sadly just as important now. For states that still manage to get a rape exception into their abortion legislation, my worry is who decides what is a "real" rape. The same people who want outright bans on abortion?
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A very young couple moved in downstairs from me. She was very pregnant, but had nothing in place for a baby - no diapers, clothing, etc. I got her some stuff when the baby was born and checked in on her a couple of times. She broke down in tears because she had no idea how she had gotten pregnant and was scared she would be pregnant again immediately. Her ignorance was so profound. I spent some time with her 1 on 1 having sex ed classes. She was amazed at everything I told her. So sad. She was so alone. Her husband was a pig.
withholding education is a good way to rule over someone. 😶😕
Load More Replies...In 1979 America was first in maths and science. We now hover in the high 20s to low 30s, with comparably bad literacy rates. An entire generation of conservative PTA moms went to bat for abstinence-based s*x ed and prayer in schools through the 80s and 90s, rather than going to bat for STEM. And here we are. You saw the same resistance to the HPV vaccine in this community.... My daughter is abstinent, why are you libs corrupting her with s*x ed and HPV vaccines. This country is how it is because it's been weighed down by a profoundly bigoted, willfully ignorant, faith-based population. That you'd think at some point would feel enough shame in their constant wrongness to eventually STFU. Nope only gotten louder. I'm waiting for Republicans to go after birth control. ... That ought to wake some bible banging conservative bitches and their "saving it for marriage" (yeah, f*****g right) daughters real fast with voting for ignorant nonsense.
Even sadder, the very Bible these people claim to believe in is very frank about s*x. In Leviticus, everyone is Required to listen to the on a regular basis, grandparents to newborns. A law that talks about seminal emissions, periods, childbirth and even r**e , incest and b*********y. But I guess they know better than the god they claim to worship.
Load More Replies...This was the good ol' USA, rural ranching. farming, some country/southern culture.
Load More Replies...I do too, but... Odds were not good. They were evicted shortly after, I don't know where they went. Both her parents and his had kicked them out before she even had the baby. This was 60 years ago, but I'm not sure the same thing is not still happening. Such great Christians, yes?
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When I was living in Maryland, I told a classmate that I was born in New Mexico. They asked when I got my green card. They were serious. US geography was one of our classes together.
Note: for any Panda wondering, New Mexico is a state in the US, not a part of Mexico. I wrongly assumed that a US student taking a US geography class just might know all the 50 states.
Can't vouch for anyone else in the US, but...I had to learn this stuff in the second-third grade. We had activities to memorize the states and everything.
Load More Replies...From my wife’s new high school classmates, when she moved from New Mexico to Indiana in 1987: “So, you’re from Mexico?” “Your English is good for a Mexican.” “Did you have electricity in Mexico?” And my favorite: “Did you live in a cardboard box?” WTF?!
A beautiful photo magazine put out by the state of New Mexco once had, and maybe still has, a back page of similar things sent in by readers, every month. They were never short of material. I wish I could remember the name of that page. It was funny.
It's called "One of our 50 is Missing" -- a New Mexican who once had Amazon cancle an order bacause the company "Did not do international shipping. (The were in VA)
Load More Replies...Whats up with the geography education in USA? As a swede i had to learn all 40+ countries in Europe, at least locate majority of the others countries in the world, extra bonus if I could name all the 50 states of America
Our geography teacher had this fun thing where she would go: Oh! 5 min until the end of the lesson - time for a quick test! and give us a bunch of random country outlines we had to identify and list their main export and import articles. For a while I could draw the entire african political map from memory😂
Load More Replies...It was when I was a kid and my dad was in the Navy. We moved every couple years.
Load More Replies...When I was a young Boone whilst visiting grandparents in Texas, told some neighbor kids I lived in Arizona. They asked, "is that a state? Like in the US?"
Always amazes me that some Americans don't even know all the states of our country....or could locate them all on a map....or all the capitals.
Load More Replies...The 2016 election. Still cannot believe how many people in this country are so... let's say undereducated or mentally deficient.
Anyone else thought it was a prank? Because I'm not sure who decided voting in the guy with no political experience whatsoever was a wise decision.
I was sure he would quit and leave us with Pence. But his ego is too big. Right now I'm surprised he hasn't decamped to Russia, China, or North Korea to escape the charges.
Load More Replies...“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” - George Carlin
I Can kind of understand wanting to vote for someone who isn't part of the establishment. Not that I personally would have ever voted for Trump, can't stand the POS, but I can understand people who are absolutely sick of politicians and thought trying something new might work. It's the people who voted for him AGAIN in the 2020 election that I don't understand. Like, the clusterfuck that's been the past four years clearly didn't work, so there's nothing wrong with admitting that and moving on. And yet somehow our "amazing" democratic system gave us the two absolutely worst choices to choose from for the 2020 election... smh
We need a None Of The Above option on our ballots. That would mean if that option got the most votes, that no one who was on the ballot that time could run again.
Load More Replies...This thread was on Bored Panda's front page again today. So as a traveller from the future: I regret to inform you that we can add 2024 as well. Higher stakes, perfect knowledge of the past, and he's doing everything he promised he would and many MAGAts are shocked and upset about this.
I'm noting how many replies are from two years ago. Well me in the future has some *really* bad news for you in the past...
Actually longer than that, over 450 years to be exact.
He ran on the classic "Vote for me, because I'm not my opponent" campaign - and sadly, it worked.
NO that's what the left tried and luckily it didn't work since everyone woke up to see how wacked out the left really is
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When a girl says, 'No,' that's what she means. No matter what your (destructive) friends may tell you. As a matter of fact, the chance that she on a later occasion, might be open to whatever she said 'no' to now, will increase when you accept her 'no' at this time, with all the respect and consideration a woman deserves.
This is what I've taught my son: no means no, maybe means no, and "I don't know" means no. Anything other than an emphatic, consensual yes...then assume the answer is no. And respect that.
My stepfather told me that if I say "no" and the person persists I'm allowed to physically harm them because it's self defense. I got in trouble with my elementary school once. My stepfather said in front of my principal and teacher that I was NOT in trouble, and if I get any punishment he is suing them and making each of their individual lives hell. I was no longer in trouble.
I'm curious how many actually get told this (That if they say no, it's just them playing games, that is). Growing up, not once have I ever been told that no means anything other than no from a male friend. That's great, I enjoy having friends that aren't overtly rapists. Still, the problem persists, so I mean it's gotta be happening somewhere...
Male role models, even female role models who think this is the way its supposed to be. Back in the day, an initial No was expected in order, idont know, protect a reputation or conscience? The holiday song Baby, It's Cold Outside is an example. Then there's the generic psychopath who will use any excuse, or no excuse. Every now and then a woman will shock and sadden me by seeming actually, verbally ask for it. My first job after Covid, woman announced to a half full break room that she wanted to end her dry spell and hoped she'd get Roofied (druged and ra ped)
Load More Replies...I partly blame the entertainment industry. In So many movies and TV shows the woman saying "no" means "stalk me until I change my mind"
The waters are not muddied, this is just another excuse bad people will try to use for their bad behavior.
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I teach college math and had a student use a calculator to average two numbers. Both numbers were 27.
My math brain is not really good. I would have done this just to be extra sure.
This isn't maths though. It's understanding what a word means.
Load More Replies...Absolutely not. And... This class was so easy already that this particular student got an A.
Load More Replies...I can understand in a way, they may have had a brain freeze. I remember back in primary school, I had a quick test on my times tables as I was the first to correct.y get my six times table. I was asked what 3 x 5 was, and my mind went blank. Absolutely blank. I just went errmm for about five minutes when I quickly remembered and shouted it out! I remember there was a girl a few seats away looking at me like she was disgusted with me (we were actually friends, as we bonded over laughing at the words to a hymn we sang in assembly. The trees were bare, so imagine how hilarious that was to a couple of seven year olds) saying g “this is so easy!”
Brain freeze was my thought too. Anxiety, exhaustion, any number of things can make the brain just freeze on something that otherwise wouldn't be a problem.
Load More Replies...Plot twist - He got the wrong answer. (Quite possible. "27 + 27 / 2" will give you 40.5.)
i would've done it, just cuz i have nothing better to do
He might have been brought up to "show your working" and "don't assume, calculate". Yes it's painfully obvious, but if you ever got marked down for just writing the answer, the next time you're going to go through all the stupid motions because a good half of maths is not in obtaining the correct answer, it's in showing that you know how to arrive there.
That's just muscle memory. I work numbers and I catch myself doing things like this.
By my own dad; I can’t be asexual because asexual means that I’m a hermaphrodite and can breed with myself. Literally wtf.
If I were to guess, it’d be “desperate” or really wanting to disobey God.
Load More Replies...I'm pansexual, so every time I go over to their house, Dad hides the Calphalon.
You hear this quite often, and it always confuses me. Because nobody says that people can't be homosexual because 2 men can't create a baby together. Everyone understands that homosexual is about sexual attraction and not about procreation, why do so many people not understand that it's the same thing for asexuality.
Homosexuality doesn't share a term with a scientific term that means, roughly at least, what the dad above claims it means. Don't get me wrong, I don't think they're making an honest mistake, they're just being d***s, but it's likely to continue happening so long as the sexuality (or lack there of?) shares its name with a scientific term.
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WTF????? I always wonder whether these people are on drúgs and they shouldn't, or they aren't but they should.
Maybe Google suggested "asexual reproduction" and that's what he went with.
Load More Replies...Ummm wrong flag BP. That's non binary, not Asexual. To be fair they are only one colour off
Have you seen the bigoted troll on this site who thinks transphobia does not exist so he cannot possibly be transphobic?
Troll: "They're MAKING me say They/Them!!! GRRRRARRRRRRR!!! Stop MAKING me be a sensible, compassionate human being! GRRRRARRRRRRR!!! I'M GOING TO IMPLODE!!!" (If only...)
I also think trolls should not be fed. It's an honourable goal to defend people and try to educate ignorant people, but trolls live on attention. Let's starve them to death.
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This girl told me that the gender wage gap and income tax unfairness were caused by Jewish people, and they brainwash our kids and there’s no evidence of this because they erase it all.
I think that you're being generous by ascribing to simple ignorance that which is really outright bigotry.
Bigotry is one of the most simple minded forms of ignorance.
Load More Replies..."There is no evidence because they erase it all". What a perfect fail-safe against anyone trying to debate or reason with the them. A cult leaders favourite maxim.
With current events and conspiracy theories, gotta say: this aged beautifully.
Load More Replies...This is actually done by Space Camels! You've never heard of Space Camels? That's because they brainwash you and erase it all!
My favorite pin: Secret Jewish Space Lazer Corp - Mazel Tough! https://dissentpins.com/products/secret-jewish-space-laser-corps-challenge-coin?gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwtO-kBhDIARIsAL6LorfKT-qgD79XFl2FL7AgUUCqWpIDF89jfClvc7d8bfEtqMVZcOqwBo4aArbsEALw_wcB
Load More Replies...For the funny bone, yes. For hope of intellectual discussion or debate? Chance is fatter than the current sitting U.S. President.
Load More Replies...So, Jewish people have the power to "obliviate" all of us? If I convert to Judaism, will I get this super power?
Along with a space laser. Get it AFTER the mikvah. My friend dropped hers in the bath and can't get it to work. Really sad, she was so looking forward to using it to make creme brulée.
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Grown, 45+ y/o man who didn't know women have a period about every month. He thought it was like "once every year or so."
Tell me you don't have a woman in your life without telling me you don't have a woman in your life.
There could be women in his life if they are very private and bodily functions, and he is not very observant.
Load More Replies...It is the one type of bleeding that society keeps in the creepy category. Gory movies? No problem! Bloody video games? Bring 'em on! Violent sports? Get with the compound fractures NOW! Red fluid in a tampon commercial? EWWWWW! IT'S ICKY PERIOD BLOOD! EWWWWW! MAKE IT BLUE SO I DON'T GET SICK! EWWWWWW!
Yep, it's kinda funny how easy it is to get those guys who brag with how much blood and gore they have in their movies. Just mention your period and they turn into little babies. Turned, I should say, I experienced this the last time in my teenage years, 40 years ago. Men (at least those around me) have become so much better about it in the meantime!
Load More Replies...And then there is us unlucky people who have unknown medical issues and have been on their period for pretty much the last three months with only a couple days or not here and there...
The first time I read Trump's Twitter feed - the next few hundred weren't as shocking...
Trump's twitter feed would be hilarious if he didn't have his MAGA cult believing every lie
And he still clings to them. The lies, his literal cult following...
Load More Replies...That's the real danger - his crazy becomes less shocking and more normalized.
And America elected him, twice. The second time with more votes than any other candidate. America also gave him control of congress. America chose this path and this is who America chose to lead them.
Yep.. because Harris was the other "option"... no thanks!!
Load More Replies...Oh they are better!! A lot better than the previous FOUR!!!
Load More Replies...Does Trump actually write that feed? He never wrote any of "his" books. According to one of the actual authors, he hasn't even read all of them either.
Apparently he dictates most of his tweets, right down to the random caps, but it’s a poor assistant typing it
Load More Replies...Only on twitter once. Signed up to send the orange t**d "LOSER" when he lost the election.
I once told someone I come from Spain and they asked "How long does it take to drive there?" It's a whole freaking ocean away Susan and I don't exactly have my magic flying car just yet. I've also been asked how I have 2 last names and no middle name since " no you're wrong that has to be your middle game and the other one is your last name" I think I'd know by now Karen.
When I lived in the USA in the early '70s, I was asked if I came by train ..... I'm an Australian.
OMG. I so hear you. I've been asked "Are you sure" when spelling my own name, on 3 separate occasions.
Got asked the same question in LA in the 80's . How long did it take you to drive from Australia to Los Angeles? When did you learn to speak English?Your accent is real cute where you from? I said Australia,oh she said that's a real nice part of Europe. Australia not Austria. 🤣
Load More Replies...Once upon a time, elementary schools had a US map on one side of the blackboard and a world map on the other, handy to stare at when bored.
We had a giant map on our playground and every once in a while we would go outside and the teacher would test us. She would say which of our groups and tell us to go to a state. It was pretty fun.
Load More Replies..."It all depends on whether I'm driving the Nina, the Pinta, or the Santa Maria."
Do American schools not teach geography any longer? I mean, geez, these questions are downright idiotic! How long does it take to drive to Spain from the U.S.? Did you travel by train from Australia to the U.S.? Do American schools not have the money to invest in a globe for the schoolrooms? Maps? Or are they more concerned about kids learning about gay rights, transgenders, furries, etc? Exactly how does that help kids nowadays with learning about the world? It doesn't. Study maps, kids! Read books (and not the Bill thinks he's a girl, so call him Bell type of books, either!) You can read those on your own time; in school, study on the three Rs - reading, writing, 'rithmatic. Get the schools to go back to the basics. Study WWI and WWII so we don't repeat history.
I'm currently a high school junior in Colorado, and I've never had a geography class in school, yet I seem to have a far better understanding of geography than most of the people on this list, so it's not just school that's the issue
Load More Replies...I understand people who don't live on a particular continent not knowing where all the countries are, but one really should know where the continents are.
I blame Repugnicans who have been actively undermining our education system for decades. Now they're actively destroying it. Stay tuned for more idiocy.
Always thought it was a joke but had someone from Washington state come across the border into BC in summer and astonished that we didn't have snow on the ground. (For those not familiar - Washington state borders BC to the south).
The entire Covid pandemic. From March 2020 to present. Just... Gobsmacked. Stunned. Amazed. Appalled.
It. Is. A. Virus. It kills. It could've done so much worse than it has. And people still cling to "it was a hoax", mostly because we didn't get a zombie-apocalypse-level event.
Seriously, they needed an apocalypse to think it was real?
As someone who endured the 1-2 punch of my aunt and cousin dying of Covid early in the pandemic 1 month apart, devastating my family, I will flame anyone who calls it a hoax to my face.
I have had two customers I was unprofessional to in the over 15 years I worked at a charity bookshop (there would have been a third but he stormed in, slammed the door open, threw his donation of books on the desk and left with the same energy before I could even register what was happening lol) and both were covid deniers and continued to tell me it did not exist AFTER I had told them I suffer from long covid. You don't call me a liar to my face and get away with it. The first was as I was changing shifts so I just told him he was an idiot and then left my co worker to deal with him (a regular customer followed me out to check I was OK because I was so angry I was about to cry), the second I told to get out because I wasn't serving him and I work alone.
Load More Replies...Measles is also making a comeback, because idiots are not having their children vaccinated.
What bothers me so much is everyone who is currently playing Monday morning armchair quarterback, mainly GOP politicians saying that we should have known better and never quarantined, had the lockdowns, b/c now kids have fallen behind in school, the economy is a mess, etc. We were dealing w/ a new virus that was killing people by the thousands every day, learning literally day by day new information about it, hence the "flip-flopping" on masks & other policies, & the Trump admin threw out the plan the Obama admin had written in case something like this ever happened. So states, cities, & govt agencies were doing the best they could w/ the info they had at the moment, preferring to err on the side of caution. What we've really learned is just how gullible the US people truly are.
Given the responses in Brazil, and other nations, I think we can safely say "All humanity" was terribly gullible.
Load More Replies...Totally my ex, he went out every day, sometimes just for a ride, had groups of people over and suddenly developed asthma when we had to wear masks
I still am amazed it wasnt so much worse. It could of been like end of times. And the WHOLE WORLD. The WHOLE WORLD shut down. Come on guys.
When I was in graduate school - I will repeat, GRADUATE SCHOOL - I was assigned a group project on Islam. When the group met for the first time to work on our presentation, this woman asked where Islam was. I thought she was joking, because how do you get all the way to grad school thinking that Islam is a geographic location? She was not joking. I told her that I would do the project myself and put her name on it. We got an A.
Muslim here, this is hilarious! That and the fact too many people can’t connect that Muslims follow Islam. They either think the followers are Islamic or Muslim is the name of the religion
"but if Muslims follow Islam, does that mean the country just uproots itself and wanders around the world whenever it wants??"
Load More Replies...How did she get to grad school? Obvs by idiots doing her work for her.
Did she expect to find Jehovah's Witnesses in courtrooms? Or Methodists in acting classes? Do Holy Rollers run the Zamboni machine at the Vatican ice rink?
I live in Israel. During one of the wars the Beeb asked someone in the street who he thought would win. The guy replied. "They will because they have Islamic ray guns!
A co-worker mentioned to me that the new hire had a speech impediment. He had an Australian accent.
I have never met an Aussie who had any impediment whatsoever to their speech.
When visiting England, a retail worker assumed I was from New Zealand. I'm South African (with a lot of British ancestry).
A doctor I used to work refused service, often times lifesaving interventions, if people didn't have insurance. He for informed me that the only reason people don't have insurance is because they spend money on phones and TVs. When I pointed out the price difference he called me a stupid, uneducated, whore and threw a used scalpel at me.
Okay - so you didn't call the police for him throwing a weapon at you because.....
Because, as HR informed me, I was a 21 medical assistant and the doctor was a "well respected pillar of the community", his word against mine.
Load More Replies...No, continued working and retired a few years ago, while I quit that job about six months after that incident (2002ish).
Load More Replies...Gee, I practiced for 40 years in Greenwich, CT, where things are more civilized. The docs ultrasound the wallet before deciding on therapy.
Anybody wearing a MAGA hat. I know…… too easy.
Red used to be my favorite color, now I can't even bring myself to wear my all red shirts because I live in a red state and have convinced myself people will assume I'm conservative (since I'm white living in said red state it wouldn't be an unfair assumption either!) and therefore can't wear my red shirts anymore. Kinda sad.
Load More Replies...I had a friend who was a huge Trump supporter, and wore a MAGA hat, who was so intelligent in other ways, but had a blind spot when it came to Trump. I know other people who are so loyal to that orange creep, and I just don't understand it.
They were primed with decades of propaganda from the old talk shows like Rush Limbaugh. The lid blew up on it when it transitioned to internet style pod casts. All Trump did was capitalize on it. He did it well, but still; just another grifter-type hawking...bibles among other things by playing to people's insecurities and making them think they have a voice through him. My educated atheist BIL got hooked the same way. He just refuses to believe any contradicting evidence even if he's complaining about Trump. Total indoctrination!
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When my doctor had me sent to see a specialist, strongly believing I was suffering cluster migraines … & the specialist doctor (female) told me that women don’t get cluster migraines; she legit said “No, it can’t be cluster migraines … you’re not the right sex!”. Both my mum & I were like WTF. I eventually was diagnosed (by another specialist with a little more common sense) with cluster migraines & they started me on long-term Palexia tablets. Even now, I still SMH when I think about that specialist doctor. 🤦♀️😅
I wish it were a joke, but I swear that’s how it went. They weren’t going to just give me stronger meds without a solid diagnosis, so; I was bounced around between different ones, until they gave the official diagnosis for cluster migraines, then I got sent to the pain clinic for my (then) new meds. I used to have one cluster migraine every 1-2 months (& the worst ones left me in absolute agony for weeks), had to keep my bedroom as dark as a bat cave, lights dimmed all the way down, wearing sunglasses & my nieces/nephews had to be reminded to keep the noise to a minimum when visiting … it’s THAT painful. Since I’ve been getting Palexia, though, I don’t get them quite so often (unless triggered) & it’s not nearly as intense; I can usually ride it out, as long as I follow the same routine to the letter. 🤷♀️😄
Load More Replies...I started getting migraines when I was 15 (this was back in '91). Went from Dr to Dr, each male, each tried to blame it on my period, except by the time I was in my early 20s, I was having 23-26 migraines a month. How is my period doing that?! The best was when a Dr told me I was just imagining I was having migraines b/c I'm bipolar & I was looking for attention. (Seriously, couldn't make this s**t up if I tried.) I almost believed him. Thank goodness I found a migraine expert who told me, "You are absolutely not imagining them. Your migraines are real. You aren't crazy, just bipolar, & those quacks are too afraid to admit that they don't know what's causing your migraines. I don't know, either, but we'll figure it out together." God bless that man, b/c he restored my faith in doctors.
Omg, yeah! I had to wait a long time for my PCOS/endometriosis diagnoses as well, but they knew I was having insanely heavy periods in my teens & they also tried to blame the head pain on that (thankfully my fam weren’t going to let that slide & shut them down when they tried it). Also the attention-seeking thing, because I had a VERY brief history of self-harm; on one occasion, when I hurt myself out of severe emotional pain from being SA’d when I was 15. They claimed I wanted attention (having autism, I hate being centre of attention) & that I was lying about the pain for that reason … except I’m incapable of lying to people, due to my Aspergers; which makes me say even the most brutal of honesties sometimes (& why I often get so many downvotes on BP sometimes, LOL). Lucky I ended up with such a wonderful GP, who set things right eventually. I’m glad you found your “Good Doctor”, too & I hope you’ve been able to get some relief for your pain. 🙂💖
Load More Replies...I am a woman and I got cluster headaches for YEARS. Turns out I'm just allergic to chocolate and chick peas. F**k these medical people. Womens' pain is real.
Omg, they said that?? Oh, I’d be so mad … as I like a bit of hummus myself sometimes & chocolate is practically a staple food for some people! LOL. Allergies don’t even work like that (I only know because my 2nd youngest nephew has dozens of allergies, including an airborne nut allergy). Many of these backwards doctors would rather claim it’s “hysteria” than give women appropriate medical treatment these days, saying “you can endure childbirth, so what’s a little more pain to you” … though they’re not stupid enough to say it out loud. Having had so many pain conditions, I totally feel your frustration. I hope you’ve found some kind of relief, my friend, despite your negative experience with doctors. 💖
Load More Replies...WTF? What Mickey Mouse med school did that doctor go to?!! I’ve had cluster headaches my entire life.
I suffer from them as well ,they threw so many o****d meds at me it made me an a****t ,it's awful seems like when you have to have state insurance they don't give a s**t about you ...
Load More Replies...I remember my best friend took a University class once, where the Professor (a supposed expert on the topic) confidently stated that "only men get Spina Bifida" and that "they rarely live past early childhood!...........when she told me (I was 19 at the time) I had to check for boobs and pulse, because I am both cis female AND alive! Lol it's disturbing how often "experts" don't know what they are talking about!
Absolutely agree with you there, especially when some of them have the nerve to get angry about being proven wrong. Sure, there was a time when they didn’t use anaesthetic for infants, claiming they didn’t feel pain; so even major surgeries were done with the paralytic meds, but no pain relief. Scary stuff. You’d think medical “professionals” would have enough professionalism to eat a bit of humble pie on occasion. 😅
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Load More Replies...Same thing happened to me, cluster headaches and here I am, female, so I *can't* get them.
IKR? At least it gives us a reason to laugh, though. Goodness knows, we need it! 😄
Load More Replies...I started getting cluster migraines when I was 13, and I am a 52 yr old woman now. About 5 years ago my Dr...a woman...finally put me on topiramate. But shoot. Women can't get them? I'd have to go the ER sometimes to get shots of Demerol bc the pain was so bad and I couldn't stop vomiting.
I’m sorry you had to wait so long for an appropriate prescription. I have to admit, there were occasions before my diagnosis when my mum would take me to A&E screaming my head off in absolute agony, out of sheer desperation. For a few times, they’d give me a quick dose of IV morphine & send us home … but they eventually refused to give me any more, despite the disruption I’d be making in their waiting area & so many gawking people (as they pretty much accused me of faking or suggesting my mum had “munchausens by proxy”, which p*ssed off my entire fam). At least I got help in the end, though. I only hope yours has been reduced, too. 😯
Load More Replies...My heart goes out to her. It isn’t easy, that’s for sure. One thing that helps me is Coca-Cola (original), as the caffeine is said to help with some of the worst headaches/migraines. That, plus a dark room & as much sleep as possible. I actually wear earphones & use my iPad to play white noise or specific music to help me sleep through the worst of the pain, even during the day. Just whatever helps, y’know? 💖
Load More Replies...It really is s shame that some doctors are like this. Took my cat to the vet with a growth on her gums. Nurse asst or whatever her title is instantly gave me the it's probably cancer look and even went as far as to prepare me of it being cancer which I truly believed it wasn't. Growth removed, not cancerous. So now I don't trust you and why would I come back for more wrong disagnoses?
Omg, that’s definitely not okay! Our fur-babies definitely deserve the best of health care, so it’s a good idea to “shop” for the best veterinarians (& it’s perfectly okay to want second & third opinions if you feel a diagnosis is totally wrong). If it was only the veterinarian assistant who was out of line, you might want to discreetly mention it to her superior, as they can’t just make diagnoses like that. Good thing your kitty has such a brilliant advocate! 💖
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During an animal rights discussion in a college class on ethics, a student claimed fish weren't animals so weren't relevant to the discussion.
At least California did that to protect the bees.
Load More Replies...Animal, vegetable or mineral? If fish are not animals, what are they?
This is the opinion of many people. According to the Catholic Church, fish isn't meat, either.
Used to be that the Catholic Church said that eating beaver ( the actual animal, get your mind out of the gutter ) on Friday was OK, because beavers are fish.
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Load More Replies...right. I mean what is with that?! they don't even come from a mammal (apart from platypus) , so they're not even a different thing produced by a dairy producing animal
Load More Replies...When I was a waitress at Glacier National Park in the 80s, I had 2 things happen regularly. We wore name tags with the state we were from, Illinois, in my case. I could not count how many times I heard “Illinois … Chicago?” typically in a smug voice. I did not understand where the smugness came from. Part 2: People would ask how a meat dish was, and I’d tell them what I’d been told. I was vegetarian and did not know. So many people would latch on to that and say “but you eat chicken and fish, right?” To this day, I haven’t found a chicken or fish tree. Many people treated me like a moron or something. Once a man told me that my bike brakes did *not* work in the rain. In another restaurant, I served somebody prime beef or some slab of meat. He was over the moon about how good it was and demanded I try it. While I was working. As a waitress. After I told him I was vegetarian. There was no protocol for that because surely that would never happen, right?
For the kosher angle: Fish doesn't look like meat on a plate (can't be confused for chicken or beef), so doesn't fall under the meat and dairy rule. The Torah only specifically calls out eating cows with milk, but because of reasons (antisemites looking for excuses to attack Jews) chicken gets categorized with beef despite not producing milk. So chicken, beef, etc cannot be eaten with dairy, but fish can be included in a dairy meal.
No, lamb is what they were told they couldn't eat when cooked in the milk of the mother.
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I used to live in Banff, Alberta Canada. Banff (and the surrounding areas) have these super blue lakes. A tourist asked how often we drained the lakes to paint the bottom. Also, another asked where we pen up the animals at night. Sadly, had to inform them it was a national park so they just wandered around.
Of course they don't drain the lake, they just ask the fish to paint it for them. /s
Well, some people wouldn't notice the obvious even if it fish slapped them in the face.
Load More Replies...They don’t paint the bottom of the lake, they just add dye to the water. Duh. /s
"No, sir. We spray paint the sky blue, and the lakes just reflect it."
Oh!! I have been there! Can't wait to go back some day. Absolutely loved it there. Freaking BEAUTIFUL!!
They don't have to drain the lakes to paint them anymore since they started using waterproof paint. Duh.
This can't be true about the lakes, can it? No one can be that incredibly stup....can they?
My mother genuinely believed transgender people are transgender because of their parents. So, for instance, a couple have a daughter but really wanted a son. The daughter subconsciously senses the desire for a son and changes gender to become the child their parents wanted. Nothing I could say to her could convince her otherwise.
That's totally it. That's exactly why a lot of transgender people are rejected by their families. *eye roll*
Parental vibes do not make you anything but, occasionally, a good osurce of income for a therapist.
Elon Musk's trans daughter rather disproves that. He apparently prefers IVF specifically because he wants sons more than daughters. It's no wonder he hates her so much since was born the s*x he wanted but transitioned to the gender he has no respect for. He's never confirmed that all his kids are IVF, but it would definitely make his absolute loathing of his daughter make more sense because it's so vicious it seems to go beyond just the fact she's trans. If he really is choosing to only have sons and she's now shown he doesn't have complete control over that it would definitely press all his buttons.
right. he sees her as "faulty goods". he paid for one thing, and got another.
Load More Replies...I mean… •-• whenever my dad said something about me acting like a big brother, or if family commented on how I did “such a nice job” on looking like a boy in a musical I was in… it felt nice lol. Not that I wanna be a boy. But I was like “Whaaa?? I looked like a boy even though I looked like a girl?! Sign me up!” Though, I could tell behind their “nice job” they didn’t like that I looked different from a girl.
Magical thinking on the mother's part. The pre-scientic mind in action.
When a close family member of mine changes their opinion almost every other day - depending on what they see on the news. They just completely gave up on thinking autonomously.
That's scary, especially if they are getting their news from some of the less reputable news channels out there.
I can;t find the reputable ones anymore. They're all owned by someone with an agenda.
Load More Replies...He only watches Fox News. And the problem isn't that he believes everything they say. The problem is that they believe everything he does.
Load More Replies...And that is how you have our current, lovely American climate. send help
I have a friend who literally believes aliens exist, that the Queen was a lizard alien and immortal, and that all technology comes from aliens. Furthermore, Jesus is a 'benevolent alien' and he came to protect us from the evil lizard aliens. Who are also the same as the illuminati. And satanic, apparently. And OBVIOUSLY the world is flat. Etc etc. Guess what his job is? Working for the eudcation department teaching science. uDarwin sikilele iAfrika.
Could we gather up all the flat Earthers and just push them off of edge of the Earth? Oh… wait…
I believe aliens exist but they won't talk to us for those exact reasons
My son's (12) theory about aliens and us on earth is that they came and put us here as an experiment. And that whenever people have sightings, it is them checking on our progress, and the only reason they haven't come to collect us is because we are failing horribly. I kinda agree with him.
Load More Replies...I believe aliens exist, somewhere. I think it is POSSIBLE that some technology is based on reverse-engineered found tech. Yeah, that's about it.
I was pretty cool with everything until they mentioned flat earther.
This is scary. Too many people in professions who should know better.
I mean, I believe aliens exist. I think it would be extreme arrogance to look up at the stars, and assume that none of those stars have a planet in their system that supports some form of life. now, whether or not any of them have the technology or inclination to come here, that's something else entirely. it's pretty unlikely
Here in the US rump just gave the green light to dismantle the education department entirely. The head of the education department is not qualified in any way, and is so stupid she kept talking about A1. How great A1 was, and how A1 will help children in school. The kicker, folks? She was actually talking about AI (artificial intelligence) but thought it was called A1. (Steak sauce) Were in bigly trouble here.
This is more pure stupidity than ignorance, but I was asked how I could be both Asian and Indian
When some people hear "Asian", their minds just go to the Pacific Rim countries. It would never occur to them that a country like Israel lies in Asia.
in America we think of Asian as East Asian, people forget South Asian, Central Asian (I mean we spent 20 years in Afghanistan), and West Asian (Middle East Region). Asia is big, from the Med coast to the Pacific, from the artic to Indian Ocean
Load More Replies...Where were yo uat the time? I noticed many years ago that where we in the UK used to use Asian to mainly refer to brown-skinned peoples, the Americans used it primarily for ethnic Chinese, Japanese and SE Asian. Could have been just that?
Please, think about it for a moment.India is a country on the Asian continent. So you can be both.
Load More Replies...As an Aussie, we always think of " Asia " as SE Asia, i.e. China, Japan, Korea, etc. etc. I really didn't consider India as part of Asia until I visited there in '91.
Speak for yourself, not as if all Aussies are that ignorant.
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When my mother declared how "men are men and women are women. none of this transgender nonsense. God made man and woman, husband and wife that's it and everyone else us going to hell because they think otherwise" her evidence of this? tiktok MAGA girls. OH and she homeschools me and my older brother because "I don't want my daughter (ew. that's me) to end up a "gay they" (I gotta say the rhyming was decent) because that's all the school system teaches now." just putting it out there I'm a nonbinary bisexual.....I'm literally a "gay they"
Can't wait for her home school lessons on evolutionary biology, Calculus, Ancient Greek, Advanced Physics.....!! 🤷🏻♀️
honestly same. my aunt is secretly teaching me POC history because my mom refuses. mom won't teach me anything that isn't "of the bible" aka if it isn't low key cult ish im not learning it. like I'm about to be a freshman in HS. I can't just not learn about things that don't effect me when it effects BILLIONS of people across the world.
Load More Replies...Hooray for the gay theys! (Please seek out a good school when you’re an adult so that you can see what you’re missing out on in regards to science and history. You won’t regret it.)
I plan to go to Knoxville Tennessee and get my doctorate in forensic anthropology. thats about about a 8ish hour drive one way from home. I'm going to get out of this hellhole.
Load More Replies...But wait...I thought only gay parents raised gay children? Surely if you're raised by straight CIS parents then you must be a straight CIS person too? No? That's B.S.? No no, it's the T.V. with gay people on it that makes people gay. That's it. You must be watching shows that "shove the gay agenda down your throat". That's what is happening surely. (/s in case that's needed!)
I started reading and really REALLY hoped this was going where I thought it was.........was NOT disappointed!
I hear crazy stuff like this all of the time. Once I heard a guy say the pay gap between women and men is fair because women do less work than men. The girl he said this to agreed with the him. This same guy also has a lesbian mom but is super homophobic. I could probably keep going.
"They are just living together and sharing a bed for financial reasons"
Load More Replies...HUH, lesbian that's homophobic,soooooo she hates herself or just gay men I'm confused.
He has a gay mom, he is homophobic. The gay mom is (hopefully) not. Internalized homophobia IS a real thing though, and can be pretty harmful to people's mental health.
Load More Replies...To get to work and back I need to drive over a 10 km (about 6 miles) mountain pass that tends to flood a bit during the rainy season. Nothing serious, just water streaming across the road. My car tires were worn, and I had to replace it to ensure my safety during these mini floods. My ex Gf got upset that I spend the money on my safety instead of the bottle of perfume she wanted (I didn't promise to buy it, she just hinted a lot). Her words were to the effect that " You drive over the mountain, not me..." So I dumped her a*s.
That's some major narcissism; you could literally die but at least she'd smell good while sympathy-baiting at your funeral.
Sometimes it takes an extreme shocking moment to open one's eyes.
Load More Replies...I’d be intrigued to know what you found attractive about her to start with?
She was nice at first, but over the years she changed. I was young and stupid, and do admit I was obsessed with breasts. And she could give a poloneck a cleavage.... like I said, young and stupid.
Load More Replies...Very proud that I stood up for myself
Load More Replies...I do wish her all the best. In the end, we simply were not right for each other.
Load More Replies...Good for you ,she was a selfish twit ..I'd rather have my man spen on safety over something for me ..
She was, yes. Last I heard she got two baby daddies, and getting married. I actually wish her all the best.
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Any time I get Quora notifications. That site is full of idiots.
The amount of stupid s**t I’ve seen on there is lovely. Some person asked if you could eat the products of a chemical reaction. I don’t remember the reaction but I do know that nobody should ingest that product
Well, cake is a result of a chemical reaction...but so is cyanide gas.
Load More Replies...I had a nice time on Quora for a few months. I quickly found a niche, in which I would thoroughly and patiently explain, often by making illustrations myself, basic science concepts to people with poor science understanding but genuine curiosity. Gravity, astronomy, the Big Bang, the scientific method, etc. But it quickly became more work than it was worth to work around their algorithm, which insisted on sending me to willfully ignorant flat earthers, creationists, conspiracy nuts and general science deniers—and by extension the MAGA crowd. The simple, two-part “hate science/love Trump” Venn diagram has a LOT of overlap. So I gave up. 🙁
Fr. I have blocked them THREE TIMES AND THEIR STUPID ADS WONT STOP
Anyone know how to make the damn emails stop?
.....................have you tried asking on Quora? (Sorry, couldn't help myself.)
Load More Replies...Once the bots started being sanctioned by the mods, it fell off a cliff REALLY fast. I miss the old days at Q far too often for my own good.
Me 10years old in texas visiting my dad and hangin by the community pool when a 21 year old came up to me to chat and asked where im from.
Me: Im from Finland.
Her: Wheres that?
Me: its in Europe, between Russia and Sweden.
Her:Where is Europe?
Me: O_O How old are you and have you been to school?
Most teenagers know where Europe is don’t worry. It’s just that the dumbest people get the most attention
Load More Replies...When I visited Texas I was asked if I "caught a bus" there... I'm from Australia
Me, an Estonian who used to tell people Estonia "is a small country south of Finland" 😱😱😱 They dont even know Finland!!!
Oh, I understand that. I took geography, I promise. It’s my weakest subject, I think. I remember the large continents, but all of Europe and that area confuses me, and I don’t know the positioning of Hawaii, nor that Alaska is mostly attached to North America. I’ve been getting better, but school just didn’t get it to stick for me
I'm shaky on Europe, but that's because Europe keeps changing names and borders. WWI - names and borders change. WWII - names and borders change. Soviet Union breaks up - names and borders change in Europe AND in Asia. Same thing in Africa, but names change more than borders.
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A classmate in my graduate program argued with me about the name of the river in my hometown. He was adamant that I was wrong, despite the fact that I had lived there my whole life, and he had only driven through. I still think about this every time I am tempted to argue with someone on the internet.
Don't mess with those "google geniuses" they know everything /s
If they would actually google they would see they were wrong. I respect a google genius for actually looking things up.
Load More Replies...I lived across the country from where I grew up for about 20 years. I was interpreting and a town from my home state came up. I pronounced it correctly. One of the hearing people stopped and made a big deal of how I said it wrong. "The interpreter is pronouncing it weird....". Everyone stared. I said "The interpreter used to live in (city, state) and several family members still do." I said it politely.
Hey, the same river can have different names depending on the country it's going through? * Here's hoping someone isn't that stupid*
A man in a group I go to still thinks only gay men get aids. He is in his 70's.
On a 9 hour road trip my ex husband says "hmm the oil light is on". He won't stop to check the oil and eventually the engine throws a rod. I mean hello! the light is not on as a suggestion.
Went on a road trip without checking all the fluids? Were you also rolling on a donut (tiny spare)? LADIES! Don't rely on the man to take care of it..know how to do things yourself. This can be your contribution to the relationship.. and to yourself
Yep! My father taught me how to do basic check-up and maintenance on a car before I was 10 years old XD He also taught me how to change a tire and how to change brake pads (hard to do by myself, but I can do it in an emergency.) I know more about cars than any of my male friends. It also REALLY helps you prevent fleecing by the mechanics when you do have to take the ol' heap into the shop.
Load More Replies...The first car I ever killed was from thinking when the oil light came on, I probably had the same amount of time to rectify that as I did when the gas light came on. Very expensive lesson, but I learned it well... 34 years without blowing an engine since.
My best friend's now ex-wife truly believed that if you pay the minimum payment on a credit card, you won't accrue interest. She couldn't understand why her 10K in debt is now 16K. Yeah, she is that dumb. She also thought that if she didn't tell him about the credit card, he'd never find out. Luckily, because she took it out in her name only, the judge wouldn't let her bring it up in the divorce.
Credit companies want you to be ignorant about finances. It's how they take advantage.
Maybe, but they can't force you to be ignorant about finances.
Load More Replies...My credit card company tells me how much I will eventually have to pay if I only pay the minimum. I respect them for that.
It took me so long to convince my now ex-husband that you can't pay your monthly bills with a credit card and only pay the minimum balance. Blew my mind.
It may be minor, but I once had a boss "correct" a report I wrote because I used the phrase "ever since" (as in "Ever since he moved to this neighborhood..."). She insisted that the correct term was "every since". She was in her 50s and had a masters degree in English. I actually had to pull up and internet article to convince her that I had written it correctly.
Oy vey. I had a similar experience with my first boss (Masters, ex-IBM). Dictating a letter to me, he insisted that the word was spelt "wholistic". I wouldn't back down (age 17) that it was "holistic". He got really angry till I produced a dictionary. He calmed down, then told me 'i think you'd be one of the 5% who'd pass the Millgram experiment ' 😀
The etymology of "holistic" is neither from "hole" nor "whole". It comes from the Greek word "όλος".
Load More Replies...At least she was capable of being convinced she was wrong. Rare in a lot of bosses.
Dementia will slowly steal your memories and most things you've learned in your life, language being one of the earliest to go.
A wonderful relevant poem by Zar: "Candidate for a Pullet Surprise" It's too long to enter as a comment, but here's the URL: https://www.graceguts.com/poems-by-others/candidate-for-a-pullet-surprise
The time a kid in my class said, “The Amazon rainforest, which is present in Africa…” I questioned my sanity for a while after that
I wanted to send a package to Peru (I live in the US) and the postal clerk said he couldn't find the correct postage. He was looking in South Africa.
He either didn't pay attention or was absent from that geography class.
Basically every flerfer and antivaxxer.
I was so shocked to hear I worked with a flat earther. WTH
Load More Replies...i am 41 years old, I never imagined when I was a kid, that there would be humen who deny gravity!!
When I was 16, my beloved German Shepherd, Ember, developed mammary tumors (basically breast cancer.) She was 12 and the vet said she was too old for surgery or chemo, so he recommended we make her comfortable with pain meds and enjoy whatever time we had left with her. My mom started freaking out that Ember was "contagious" and that she (my mom) was going to "catch" cancer from my dog. My mom would go on tirades literally every day about how my dog's cancer was "contagious". She would bleach and scrub the backyard every time Ember walked anywhere. She forced me to euthanize Ember after a few weeks. I have never forgotten her screaming in my face that I needed to kill my dog NOW because cancer is "contagious". If my mother happens to be diagnosed with cancer someday, I will say to her face, "Gross, cancer is contagious, I don't want to catch it, you're on your own."
That’s absolutely disgusting. Are you an adult? If you’re a minor, when you move out, go NC. She’s just cruel and haven’t you also had other issues with your mom?
Ffs, Lakota. This is horrific. I have been through watching animal abuse and it breaks my soul for them to suffer. If your "mom" gets cancer, please euthanize her immediately. Eta: your precious dog that loved you more than anything had to watch your mom scream in your face before she passed. That's f*****g heartbreaking. I would never forgive her. I am so sorry. F*****g inexcusable.
She probably also hates all MAGA people. Sounds like her level of IQ!!
Back in the 1950s this was a common belief. I thought we had learned something by now. Guess not.
Uh. Cruel. How could she force you, ... I mean, all 3 ways this implies, by what means, how could neither know nor accept proof for cancer not being conatgious, and how has that belief even come to be?
DC, I doubt Lakota's Mom really thought cancer was contagious. She probably didn't want to deal with a sick dog and distressed daughter and used her pseudo ignorance as an excuse to get her way. Despicable.
Load More Replies...I had been in a relationship with a guy for over two years - a highly sexual relationship - when one day, a propos of nothing, he asked me "How do women pee with a tampon inside them?". Guy thought women only had two holes. He was completely unaware of the urethra. 🤯🤯🤯
Could not have been a highly satisfying sexual relationship with a derp like that
I'm not shocked anymore by the lack of knowledge of anatomy (both male and female) and specifically female bodily functions. The U.S. is woefully uneducated on these subjects.
I as a female, change mine when I use the bathroom bc, yeah. Idk
He thought that, with a tampon in, the pee wouldn't be able to get out - as if pee blood and babies all came from the same place.... 😧
Load More Replies...This is how I explain it. Women are the default human. Men are the offshoots. They are "missing" a part of the standard chromosomes. It's why they have nipples. This means if we don't have the hole, they don't have the hole.
Saint Augustine, preaching humility, reminded his pupils that "we are all born between p**s and s**t". That was almost two thousand years ago..... So youd think a university educated man of 33yo would have figured it out
Load More Replies...There was a news item that an English citizen, on British soil, got in trouble for a speech denying the Holocaust. A friend said "I can't believe that the English Government went after someone for exercising his Fifth Amendment right to free speech."
US here. Humor me for a second: Shock collars for stupid people (of all nationalities, but there would be a lot of them in the US). Every time they utter something completely ignorant or as stupid as above...zap! Wrong country, wrong amendment...double zap! Imagine the silence as really stupid people just went completely quiet. Ahh, happy thoughts. Before anyone gets upset, I'm joking....or am I? hehehe
Careful...if the really stupid Americans get zapped too many times they'll just pull out their guns and start shooting.
Load More Replies...It’s not the fifth amendment right to free speech, first off, it’s the first, and second off, harmful comments don’t count and neither do comments causing unnecessary panic, and third off, you aren’t in the f*****g US! I’m sorry to hear about Holocaust deniers, and that friend needs a serious lesson about how laws work. SMH
To be fair, h*******t denial would fall fairly short of the harmful comment threshold. Still. It's the fifth amendment bit that gets me. You think they pled the first when they were getting arrested?
Load More Replies...H*******t denial isn’t a specific crime in the UK, but the person in question was prosecuted under laws around communications, I think for being grossly offensive. I don’t know when people will understand that ‘freedom of speech’ means the freedom to criticise the government without them coming for you. It doesn’t mean you can say anything you want, anywhere, without consequence.
When dumb idiots think that just because someone is different doesn’t mean they are not human. Racism, sexism, transphobia,homophobia. Also the stupid things TW!!!! Rape, child molesting, harassment. People look over these things like it’s nothing! People need to be educated. Sorry troll, I’m educated.
I feel that modern life and personal disconnect has engendered emotional numbness.
I once had a friend who applied for and received a student loan for college not knowing that she was expected to one day pay it back. She didn't discover this until months later when she received a letter reminding her when she was expected to start making payments.
Yeah, it’s always a great idea to give 18-19 years old six figures credits!
Much of the blame can be put at the feet of the colleges/universities and their financial aid departments. Not to mention, how exactly ARE they using those billion dollar endowments?
Load More Replies...Before getting any sort of loan or credit card people should prove they understand what they are agreeing with while writing their signature.
If the U.S. can't get behind free higher education then we definitely need to get behind student loan reform at the very least. They should not accrue interest, period. These loans prey on young people trying to better their lives and it's disgusting that it's allowed.
Well, I paid off my student loans so why should THEY get a free ride? I managed to pay for my degree with a part time job, why can't THEY do that? Etc etc etc... Might take another generation to finally have some people with empathy making decisions and, even then, many of them will have had a mommy and daddy who took care of it for them.
Load More Replies...So, they give you students loans, and then they claim repayments... While you are still a student? Amazing...
My mom once asked me why I never told her and my dad that I break down and cry at school. I said it was due to her not allowing me to cry or get angry and getting mad at me for doing so as a child. She said that never happened and I was making things up. Yes she continues to go into blackout rages if we do something that bothers her.
Pretty sure saying "that never happened" or "you're making it up" is textbook gaslighting.
Worst part is we’re not even sure if she means to. As I mentioned above when she gets really angry she seems to blackout and doesn’t remember what she does. So she might be unintentionally gaslighting me (not that it’s any better)
Load More Replies...Does she own gasoline and a lighter because that sounds like gaslighting
Narcissism. My mother is this person and always has been. She denies ever saying things she has said. She has been cut out of my life so I can keep my sanity. I cannot trust her with any information and know that when she speaks, most of what she says are lies or things she made up.
I think someone needs to have "gaslighting" showed to them in a dictionary.
I coworker was talking politics. She said "I know that the U.S. Constitution cannot be changed, but I wish they could change the part in the Constitution that says there can be only two political parties, Republican and Democrat.
"Reading is fundamental" if you are going to complain about something, maybe read it first!
The people who wrote the Constitution didn't want there to be any political parties and wrote the document on the assumption that there wouldn't.
American argued with me (Australian) that Australia and New Zealand did not fight in the Vietnam War, and it was America that “won” it single handedly. No convincing him.
I’m not sure if this counts but I heard someone in my class say ‘toads and frogs are the same, toads are only frogs who have eaten too many flies” And the same kid also said “tigers lay striped eggs” “The pyramids of Egypt is located somewhere in Asia” “America created Europe and the Europeans brainwashed us”
I garden and made homemade pickles and one of my less mentally gifted friends accused me of lying because you “can’t grow pickles” 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Is this fr or is this sarcasm/a troll?
Load More Replies...I imagine he's getting such nonsense from his parents. Ignorant parents raise ignorant children (I know, not ALL the time but it's a good bet).
Little kids are smarter then that. Teenagers. Always teenagers.
Load More Replies...The four years Trump was president.
And this term is much, much, much worse than the first. During his first term he had people who would say no to him or just ignore his orders. This time the administration is pure spineless sycophants.
On my skin I would have voted for Ozzy Osbourne if possible. At least when he yells Witch hunt! and Fake news! he would give that demented Ozzy laugh. We've hired an actor and a reality show host. Why not a rockstar?
Orange is the new black. lol 1900x1900-...d9e981.jpg
And guess what -- he's President again now. (This stuff is from two years ago!)
Everyone is so afraid of the orange baby because he lives on revenge and never gives up.
I once worked with a lady who got irate over “handicapped” people parking in “normal” people’s spots (her words). She would leave notes on cars, yell at people and just rant about it. I tried explaining multiple times why it could happen. The disabled person not being in the car so it would be illegal for them to use the spot, the person having a lift and needing more room than available, the standard spots being more convenient, etc. Never helped. She just ranted about “those people” stealing her spots.
What the hell now? Handicap spots are limited and always taken. Does she then think handicapped people have to go home because they are not allowed to park anywhere else? I could hit her so hard right now.
Oh, I agree. Sometimes I have to park in a non-handicap spot. Tell the jerks hogging the handicap spaces to move so I can park there.
Load More Replies...A person with a disability knowing they can cope with an ordinary parking space and leaving the disabled space for someone more in need?
I have a tag in my car for when my mom, who had a stroke a year and a half ago, is with me. We only use it on her really bad days or if there isn't a spot close enough for her that's not handicap. Most of the time she is ok walking a bit, so I don't take a handicap spot.
Load More Replies...I have good days and bad days. On bad days, I legitimately park in a handicapped space (I have a placard.) On good days, I park in "normal" spaces to leave the handicapped ones for people who need them.
It was a Friday Night. My then girlfriend said that she didn't feel like going out, just wanted to stay home and watch a movie. She asked for a very "intense" movie. So I got out my copy of "Schindler's List" - a VERY intense movie! About a half-hour in she says "What war is this?" I explained WWII. She asked "When was WWII?" I said "1940s". About an hour in she said "You mean the German Government picked on these people just for being Jewish? All those smart people..." She had never heard of the Holocaust. PS: She was a college graduate (Marketing).
I read someplace that 40-something percent of Americans have never heard of Auschwitz.... 😔
i did a report on Auschwitz and Buchanwald when i was 10.
Load More Replies...I don’t expect everyone to be war history buffs, but if you’re American and not familiar with the basics—the Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War—and roughly when they happened, then you’re not paying ANY attention!
Well obviously half of this country does not pay attention of we would not be stuck with Trump again
Load More Replies...No matter how much you know about the N**i atrocities in WW2 there is more to know and it is much worse than that. 6 million dead? No, 6 million Jewish dead. Total civilians m******d in occupied lands is around 11 million. Then there's what they did in Russia, k**l 19 million civilians, to add to the toll. That's 'only' the numbers. What was done was, unbelievably, even worse than murder - and that is saying something..
Not really, depends on which country you’re in.
Load More Replies...This is just sad. The H*******t actually happened, people. I not only learned about it in school; my dad was a WWII vet.
Marketing, Business Administration, and Communications are the three most common majors of people who go to college solely for the binge-drinking.
My coworker (who has become a dear friend) was explaining how they had handled their recent bout with COVID. I found her to be smart and careful with her decisions. I was therefore shocked when she said "...and I finally found a doctor who would prescribe ivermectin." I did a double take, and when I tried to explain how it had been proved to be ineffective for treating COVID (and potentially dangerous to people), she was very resistant. We remain close, but it was definitely eye opening!
I work in film and there was a vaccine mandate when we returned to work. I called a friend to hire her, asked if she was vaxxed and she told me she had a “homeopathic one” 🤦🏻♀️
My brilliant boss said the same thing. She said he immediately felt better. SMH. IDK how a dewormer helps cure a virus
Placebo effect. The mind is a powerful tool. People fool themselves into thinking they are feeling better and, 'viola!' - they are! (most likely the drug use coincided with the virus having run its' course.)
Load More Replies...For every ailment, there will be snake oil salesmen selling their "miracle cures."
Yeah, in the U.S. they're called Pharmaceutical companies.
Load More Replies...Ivermectin is used as a dewormer/parasite provention in horses, dogs, and other animals. I don't know if it's even been approved for human use.
It is approved for a few specific diagnoses involving parasites.
Load More Replies...Why would anyone be offended by being referred to by a neutral term? I don’t get mad when someone calls me “a person” instead of “a woman.”
Load More Replies...A 20-something girl I knew trying to name countries in Central America: "Zimbabwe?" Me: Nope, Africa. "Egypt?" Me: Africa again. "Conga?" Me: Congo, and still Africa. "Well I never was very good at geometry." I just got up and walked away.
I'm from the US and I learned geography while recovering from some gnarly surgery (I was bored). People are amazed that I know this. I met a woman from Cape Verde and I said "oh yeah, the island nation that's the Eastern most country in Africa. You speak Portuguese right?" She was stunned and asked me again if I was really American.
When some tourists at Yellowstone asked me, "What time do they turn on Old Faithful?" SMH. Don't they know it's scheduled to go off every hour on the hour? /s
Had a guy from L.A. ahead of me in line to pay for gas at Mammoth Hot Springs. Was complaining that they hadn't caged off the elk that were causing traffic to be slow. Dude, if you wanted a zoo, San Diego was a lot closer to home.
"I drove my car into an enormous elk living space, and what do I find but elk everywhere! The place was CRAWLIN' with them!"
Load More Replies...I'm from Yellowstone country too and the questions I'd get as a waitress were just too easy to pass up. I'd answer them as matter-of-factly as possible. "When do the deer turn in to elk?" "Oh man, you're about a month late! You might see some stragglers tho!" "What time are the waterfalls shut off?" "11:11 PM on the dot."
It's a famous geyser in Yellowstone National Park in the US. It erupts fairly regularly hence the name "Old Faithful." Really cool geyser in a gorgeous national park, if you're ever in the states, check it out.
Load More Replies...Niagara falls, on the other hand, can be turned off for maintenance.
A great portion of US citizens think that West Virginia isn't a state and is just western Virginia.
🎶 Almost heaven, West Virginia Blue ridge mountains, Shenandoah River, life is old there, olden than the trees younger than the mountains growin like a breeze Country Roads take me home to the place I belong West Virginia mountain mama take me home country roads.🎶
i always thought it said mountain llama for years
Load More Replies...As a child when people I knew moved to East London I thought they'd immigrated to the U.K! (East London is a city in South Africa.)
i don't know how it is now, but when i was growing up in Virginia, West Virginia was full of inbred hicks with no teeth (this was the impression that i got from adults around me). Virginians would be mortally offended if people thought they were from WVA!
I have never heard anyone say this. I think this person made this up to take part in the conversation.
The tourons of Yellowstone treating the park like an amusement park. Pet and pose with the bison! Enjoy the heated (boiling!) thermal pools! Kidnap baby animals that will have to be euthanized! Unbelievable!
Is a " touron " a moronic tourist ? If so, that a very appropriate name !
I lived in a tiny village in "cottage country", we called tourists "cityots".
Load More Replies...I quoted Adam Smith and someone said that it was socialist. I was in so much shock that I blurted out "So you are saying the Father of Capitalism is a Socialist?!".
The first Republican president is now considered "woke" by the modern party.
In college, I lived and worked in a dorm right by our football stadium. One freshman girl used to go up to the top of the stadium (about 200 feet) to tan on sunny days. I asked her why she climbs all the way up there to tan and she responded, in all seriousness: "Because it's closer to the Sun."
Quite a few people I've met in the skiing world, aware that sunburn can be more of a problem at higher altitude, believe that it's because they're closer to the sun...
Sir Isaac Netwon is flipping his s**t from beyond the grave right now.
Load More Replies...When I admitted to my friend I had ADHD (and still do) she said “But you don’t look like you have ADHD”. I’m sorry, but how does one “look like they have ADHD”???? Stupidest thing I’d heard in a while. She’s more educated now, and we’re still friends.
Had a medical provider tell me that I didn't look like I'm on the autism spectrum. ... I still don't know what that looks like. Me, I guess
I’ve been told I’m too smart to be autistic. By someone older than me. Wtf?
Load More Replies...When a coworker was typing a professional letter and wrote “seventy 3 dollars & thirty 6…..” and asked me where the “cents“ sign was on the keyboard. I told her to either type it all as words or all as numbers, not a mixture of both so she wrote “73.36$”. She’s lived in the US her entire life, I couldn’t figure out how a BANKER could be so clueless as to how to express US currency amounts.
Yeah, I mean, you could. A banker or accountant never would. But I mean you could.
Load More Replies...Junior year in HS, history class, about a million years ago. A girl of a certain type... "But, like, when the South seceded, I mean... What EXACTLY happened... I mean... Did they go out there with, like, chisels and shovels and stuff, or, like... What...?"
Yep the dug a big trench called the mason-dixon line. You can still see it between philadelphia and west virginia, which is just the western side of virginia. ;-) jk
To be clear. It's the south. It wouldn't have been the successionists digging anything.
Load More Replies...At a school district, talking with a few of the school psychs about the upcoming 2016 election. One of the psychs asked how long a term does a US president serve. We all went silent for a moment.
I fear for the future of this country.
ir either talking about america or Ukraine, imma guess the first one
Graduating senior in California goes off on how stupid schools are for teaching French as a foreign language. "No one speaks French except people in France." Spent 10 minutes trying to explain to him the number of countries that have French as a primary or secondary language, including Canada. Finally ended with him demanding that we prove to him that Justin Bieber speaks French. Teaching has introduced me to many teenagers who have super high GPAs and no sense.
Even if Freanch was spoken only in France, it still would be taught as a foreign language in other countries.
He was, likely, referring to the two choices for learning foreign language in a US high school. French or Spanish. Latin is sometimes offered, but trying to find a native Latin speaker is... difficult. Behind that is German, followed by a random assortment of other languages that very rarely are offered. Lot of schools just have French or Spanish though. I get the sentiment. Spanish is a heavily used language, especially on this continent. Plus, I'm still mad at France for the whole "silent x" thing.
Load More Replies...When I was a HS student ( '60s ), French was going to be the International Diplomatic and Business language.
“Graduating senior in California goes off on how stupid schools are for teaching French as a foreign language.” So… French is NOT a foreign language? I am currently wearing my confused face.
MOST of the super high GPAs are the result of either cheating (parents doing their homework) or teachers who are sucking up to rich kids parents. NOT because the kids would use a brain if they had one.
He was smart, just super oblivious. He also asked super loudly in class once how you type Roman numerals on a computer. Everyone just stared at him until someone eventually told him to just do capital letters for i and v.
Load More Replies...when I used the phrase I coined, "education eradicates ignorance," and they look at me weird.
Not going to lie. Even if they did, I'd still probably given them a weird look. It doesn't exactly roll of the tongue, and it doesn't present a new concept or put an existing concept in a different or clever light. It's not WRONG, but neither is saying "Education makes you educated."
Load More Replies...When my grandmother asked me why I was putting eardrops in both my son's ears for ear infections. I told her both ears were infected, and she said, "Doesn't it just run through to the other ear?" She wasn't uneducated by any means, but she was born in 1900 and I guess they didn't learn much anatomy in school. She looked shocked when I laughed, as I thought she was joking. And then I had to explain it to her.
Well, if the drops had been put in her ears, she would have been absolutely right.
When I was a child, about 11 or 12, I argued with another child at our church about what my name was. She kept insisting it was something else (can't remember what she thought my name was). The whole thing was stupid.
I had someone argue with me that my name couldn’t be pronounced the way it is. It’s both the most common spelling of an English name AND it’s phonetic.
11 and 12 aren’t really “little kids”. You’re nearly a teenager by then. I think of “little kids” as under 8 years old
Load More Replies...Had a job as a janitor once. Cleaned and locked up park restrooms at night part time. New hand towel dispensers had recently been installed at this location. It was a different design from the last one we were used to. Opened it up and spent five minutes trying to figure it out. Where do I feed the paper towel roll into? Hmm. Oh! Ok, just put the roll in, feed it out the bottom and close the thing, easier than the last one. Done. Both my other coworkers took a year and a half to figure this out.
Maybe they were assigned different restrooms that they always cleaned, so OP never saw their co-workers work so they never knew to offer? And the co-workers were too prideful or embarrassed to ask?
Load More Replies...My coworkers often struggle getting one of our hand towel dispensers open and filled. Yes, our dispensers are almost all different and open on different way, but all open with a simple pull. I can't understand how they can open all side- and bottom opening ones, but the top opening is so clearly impossible to figure out.
50 year old woman who insisted that mice had no bones because they crawl under doors.
Honestly, I've seen those little f*****s do it and it's unnerving how easily they squish under there. Not unnerving enough to stop me from giving them the boot, but it's a solid A+ for effort.
A classmate of mine thought Germany was in Africa, in addition to thinking that Australia was a country in Europe. I have also had my own experience of absolute ignorance when I was told to open a can of tomatoes. I had no idea whatsoever how to use a can opener. My dad was absolutely shocked and happily recorded my struggle for nearly ten minutes and plays it whenever he feels like crying laughing.
Your dad is a bit of knōb then seen as it’s literally his fault that you haven’t been shown how to use a can opener . . .
His dad sounds like the type of person who calls his teammates stupid in a game with skill-based matchmaking.
Load More Replies...I could see mishearing or misunderstanding and thinking the person is talking about Austria instead of Australia.
My first time playing Gran Turismo was the funniest thing anybody watching had ever seen. I had no idea how to use the controller, nor do I drive. Even I was crying laughing at the replay.
One of my (American) classmates denied the Holocaust, Anne Frank, Helen Keller, and Albert Einstein all in one speech, claiming that “my parents believe it so that must make it true”. Really had to question the American school system for a good long while.
Wow, h*******t-denying so hard he's denying scientists that even Nazis acknowledged.
If this person had an all-knowing infallible parent, did the other students call him "Jesus" after that?
That has nothing to do with the school system, that is indoctrination and parents forcing beliefs.
Vandalizing national treasures like the recent moron carving initials in Italy's Colossal.
Worse. Some tourons take their stupidity with them when they go back home.
Load More Replies...A woman I know believes Israel is in Africa, because "middle east" is not a continent.
Well….Your friend is wrong about Israel being in Africa, but the Middle East isn’t a continent
Yes, I know.
Load More Replies...I remember when Trump "left the Middle East and flew to Israel." Is your friend Melania?
When soft can-openers think they're in charge.
People are comically referred to as soft can openers as noted by cats. You know when human servants pull the tab on a can of cat food
Load More Replies...My ex didn't know how to buy bananas. He was 47 at the time.
1. Fly to Brazil. 2. Change your USD to Pesos at the airport. 3. Ask the nearest perrson where is the jungle. 4. Walk into the jungle, and look for the banana trees. 5. Pay the native brazilian to give you a banana. Easy. Duh. /s
Thank you for this. I legit didn’t know how to do this. Does doing it this way cost a Brazilian dollars? sorry… I’ll show myself out.
Load More Replies...You need to elaborate on this. Did he not know where to purchase bananas? Did he not know how to pay for bananas? Did he not know how to convert bananas to metric?
Seconded. I can't believe I'm saying this, but we need more than a banana for scale.
Load More Replies...That's what you put the bananas on there in the produce section.
Load More Replies...I’ve known kids in grade six who don’t know what the holocaust was. NEVER FORGET.
Many are unaware that not only did the death camps industrialise murder but that they were the final step. They had been ghettoising and starving people well before that. Also what they did to disabled people. People know the basic but the more you find out the worse it gets..
Grade 6 is only what, 11 years old? That's not that old. Often the h*******t is taught in high school.
We learned about it in 4th grade so 8 and 9 year olds. We went through it again in high school and watched Schindler's list.
Load More Replies...I've gotta take an unofficial poll at work to see who knows what it was and when.
when a friend asked how long is the boat journey from England to Scotland.
I once worked with a young woman in an Engineering firm. She was an admin assistant. She was arguing with an engineer about whether the next town over from us was north of south of where we were. He just said 'Ok point to north.' She pointed to the sky and was incredibly puzzled when we all facepalmed and laughed. Second incident is with two different co workers at a different job. I was telling them that my sister had rescued some ex battery hens. One pipes up and says are they like the man made chickens or the real ones? Another asked where the battery went in them.
I had to google battery hens. I've heard of the situation, but never heard that term before, so I'm not surprised that person hadn't either.
Same. Just googled. They are hens stuffed into wire cages. Used for egg laying purposes only.
Load More Replies...Actually, I do fear for the future of this planet.
I am not worried about the future off this planet, it will survive for a very long time; humankind's future, however, is growing shorter by the hour.
Mid 20's roommate didn't know stars are suns, and kept trying to step out of moving vehicles because he didn't want to wait for them to stop.
When my boss told me he didn't believe in vaccines, he lost the last shred of respect from me. Vaccines is perhaps the best understood in human medicine.
Fair enough, but vaccines aren’t that easy to understand. For example the smallpox vax virtually eradicated the disease because (nearly) nobody could get the disease after getting the vax. Unfortunately, that not true for either influenza or Covid vax’s. Firstly those viruses keep mutating so we need new vax’s and secondly they don’t stop people contracting the virus. We were sold a lie that the the Covid vax would stop us getting the virus. Yes, I’m very happy to be vaxed, but I’m very disturbed about being lied to.
Load More Replies...As a teacher, I have had a lot. The one that stays with me is...I was casually talking with one of my high school students and we somehow got on the topic of evolution. She said, "You don't really believe that (evolution), do you? The dinosaurs are faked by the government to trick us. The Earth is only a little over 2000 years old, according to the bible."
A calculation done by a guy who sucked at math, based on Begats, and it's called "Young Earth Theory" now ----- I've run into it, can you tell? "Dinosaurs were on an earth before ours, and God used those pieces making our earth". Which, of course, contradicts Genesis directly, but hey! Don't ask for logic.
Load More Replies...I teach students in a program that serves low-high functioning ASD and related exceptionalities. I hold my students to high standards, and I am good at what I do so the kids meet those standards. I had a substitute once who babied the kids. And I mean treated them like actual babies, even spoke to them like they had some mental handicapped. I told her that what she was doing was detrimental to them and disrespectful to everybody in the room. But she kept treating them that way. And then was upset when I kicked her out of my room and told her that despite what admin might tell her, I will not be allowing her back at any point. Admin tried to tell me that I don’t have that power. Well, until admin knows how to teach my kids, they can’t tell me what to do either. Crazy how people can be in charge of programs and children that they have absolutely no experience or knowledge of. And eventually I just did not allow subs in my room period. Bc my students are better with me and/or my para.
I saw a lot of that sort of thing when my brothers were growing up. They went to a special school for kids with physical (and sometimes minor intellectual) disabilities and there were teachers and education support workers who did this. My mum was a huge advocate and particularly got annoyed when they (or the staff at the respite centre) would just sit kids down in front of the Wiggles, regardless of age. I mean, a lot of these kids would probably have been in regular schools if their physical needs weren't so high. We also had to put big signs on their wheelchairs introducing them and iterating that they could hear AND understand you because they got talked about all the time, even by doctors.
Load More Replies...(1) I once had a coworker tell me that sea scallops weren't actually shellfish, but were "fish cheeks" that had been cut into rounds. (2) While in a doctor's waiting room, my dad overheard a man earnestly telling his companion that black squirrels were the offspring of grey squirrels and black cats.
There are two types of stupid people, uneducated and wilfully ignorant. One I can understand, laugh about and think nothing more about, the other is just sad.
This thread is two years old, but now in 2025 it looks like things have not improved. :(
Yeah, I don't know why it's suddenly reappeared with today''s date on it. I made quite a few comments on it before I realised...
Load More Replies...When my boss told me he didn't believe in vaccines, he lost the last shred of respect from me. Vaccines is perhaps the best understood in human medicine.
Fair enough, but vaccines aren’t that easy to understand. For example the smallpox vax virtually eradicated the disease because (nearly) nobody could get the disease after getting the vax. Unfortunately, that not true for either influenza or Covid vax’s. Firstly those viruses keep mutating so we need new vax’s and secondly they don’t stop people contracting the virus. We were sold a lie that the the Covid vax would stop us getting the virus. Yes, I’m very happy to be vaxed, but I’m very disturbed about being lied to.
Load More Replies...As a teacher, I have had a lot. The one that stays with me is...I was casually talking with one of my high school students and we somehow got on the topic of evolution. She said, "You don't really believe that (evolution), do you? The dinosaurs are faked by the government to trick us. The Earth is only a little over 2000 years old, according to the bible."
A calculation done by a guy who sucked at math, based on Begats, and it's called "Young Earth Theory" now ----- I've run into it, can you tell? "Dinosaurs were on an earth before ours, and God used those pieces making our earth". Which, of course, contradicts Genesis directly, but hey! Don't ask for logic.
Load More Replies...I teach students in a program that serves low-high functioning ASD and related exceptionalities. I hold my students to high standards, and I am good at what I do so the kids meet those standards. I had a substitute once who babied the kids. And I mean treated them like actual babies, even spoke to them like they had some mental handicapped. I told her that what she was doing was detrimental to them and disrespectful to everybody in the room. But she kept treating them that way. And then was upset when I kicked her out of my room and told her that despite what admin might tell her, I will not be allowing her back at any point. Admin tried to tell me that I don’t have that power. Well, until admin knows how to teach my kids, they can’t tell me what to do either. Crazy how people can be in charge of programs and children that they have absolutely no experience or knowledge of. And eventually I just did not allow subs in my room period. Bc my students are better with me and/or my para.
I saw a lot of that sort of thing when my brothers were growing up. They went to a special school for kids with physical (and sometimes minor intellectual) disabilities and there were teachers and education support workers who did this. My mum was a huge advocate and particularly got annoyed when they (or the staff at the respite centre) would just sit kids down in front of the Wiggles, regardless of age. I mean, a lot of these kids would probably have been in regular schools if their physical needs weren't so high. We also had to put big signs on their wheelchairs introducing them and iterating that they could hear AND understand you because they got talked about all the time, even by doctors.
Load More Replies...(1) I once had a coworker tell me that sea scallops weren't actually shellfish, but were "fish cheeks" that had been cut into rounds. (2) While in a doctor's waiting room, my dad overheard a man earnestly telling his companion that black squirrels were the offspring of grey squirrels and black cats.
There are two types of stupid people, uneducated and wilfully ignorant. One I can understand, laugh about and think nothing more about, the other is just sad.
This thread is two years old, but now in 2025 it looks like things have not improved. :(
Yeah, I don't know why it's suddenly reappeared with today''s date on it. I made quite a few comments on it before I realised...
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