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They say "There's no such thing as a stupid question." The phrase implies that the quest for knowledge includes failure and the fact that you know less than others must not prevent you from learning. But whether or not you think it's true, I think we can agree that sometimes people present their questions in such a funny way, you don't know if you should just laugh or answer them seriously.

Interested in these situations, Reddit user u/Yurtle_212 submitted the following question to the platform: "What was the stupidest thing someone has asked you 100% seriously?" And everyone immediately started replying with their stories. As of this article, the post has nearly 37K upvotes and 25K comments. Below are some of the best ones.

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm The insurance company asked if there was a chance that my dad's amputated leg would grow back.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Of course. It's his secret power because he's half human, half salamander

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm Waited on a woman who asked me what kind of meat was in our beef taco salad.

Lady: what kind of meat is in your beef taco salad?

Me : Beef

L: what kind of beef?

Me: Beef, ground beef seasoned with taco seasoning.

L: No, I mean is it pork or chicken?

Me: Ma’am, it’s beef, it’s from a cow. It’s beef.

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u/Yurtle_212 said they don't remember what exactly inspired them to make this post.

"Some people just don't think before they ask something, but I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing," the Redditor told Bored Panda.

"There definitely are stupid questions. But asking them doesn't make you stupid. [That is if we disregard the ones that are self-explanatory, like] 'What day of the week is Good Friday on?' or "What time is the 3 o'clock parade?'"

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My 21 year old sister once asked my entire family at dinner if Nuns don’t have sex where do they get more nuns. That takes the cake for me.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mitosis, like the rest of us asexual folks.

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm I'm a postpartum nurse. A patient asked me "when will the doctor be here to pierce my nipples so I can breastfeed?"

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm Because I am a dwarf I get a lot of hilarious ones, but one of my favourites was "do you need to get a smaller engine for your car?"

I really wish I could have seen your internal process that led to that question, lady.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Internal process haha, remember those projects at school with 2 empty cans and a long bit of string and voila, you had a "phone". Yeah, that's the one.

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm People visiting Alaska on a cruise would walk onto the dock-- a dock portruding into the pacific ocean-- then look up at the mountains and ask what elevation we were at.

1 foot, ma'am. You are standing on a dock which is at sea level.

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It was me. I'm white, ended up dating a long time friend of mine, who is black.

We were talking about going to the beach the next day, and I mentioned that I needed to buy some sunscreen. GF tells me she has some, so no worries. I asked her why she had sunscreen.. She was puzzled, for a moment.

She then responded "Yes, black people get sunburned. Just because you haven't seen it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen."

And she was right, I just assumed, in all my whiteness, that black people didn't sunburn. She still makes fun of me for this. I am in my 30's..

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Alright, I'll be the idiot: I don't exactly think black people don't sunburn but it's harder for them to burn, right? The lighter your skin, the easier it is to burn?

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm Someone was placing an order once at my family’s restaurant, and they had asked me for a side of French fries without the potatoes. I assumed she was joking, so I laughed...she wasn’t joking. She got offended and left the restaurant

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm still trying to find a cheese-bush but I'll see if I can find the frenchfriesfern. Maybe (and I hope) this was a brain fart.

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#9

People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm Do you think they're a little old to be lesbians?

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When a lesbian reaches the age of 28, she lays her clutch of eggs. Her optic gland then starts secreting a hormone which triggers an intense mothering instinct. For the next year, she doesn't do anything except protect her eggs. She doesn't eat or sleep during this period, so her body slowly deteriorates. Finally, after a year, the eggs hatch, and out swim hundreds of baby lesbians. Then the mother lesbian dies.

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm The Scene: Meeting some new people in a college class.

I introduce myself, "Hi, I'm LoveIsLegallyBlind."

New classmate: "Don't you mean DifferentNameThatSoundsALittleLikeMine?"

Me: "No..."

He thinks it's time to double down. "Are you sure? Why not?"

Me: "Because that's not what my parents named me..."

Like what? Who corrects someone on their own name? I have a somewhat unusual name. People misspell it or mispronounce it all the time, but this was special.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My sister had a teacher constantly changing her name on her test's. He really thougt an 18 year old girl in Uni didn't know how to spell her own name...

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I was asked how far the luggage plane usually flies behind the passenger plane. The person who asked me went to an Ivy league medical school.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes i think that's what happens when i wait and wait and wait for my luggage to come out

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find it annoying when it’s insinuated that a medical degree or top tier education in general, automatically makes a person unable to make mistakes and faux-pas. It’s half the reason why some privileged people, funnelled into privileged positions, are also self-entitled and dangerously arrogant, believing themselves incapable of wrongdoing.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As if I didn't already have a major distrust of doctors. Thanks.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe he was used to a private plane and his family taking Ng so much luggage they needed a second plane. No stereotypes about Ivy League schools here on my side whatsoever.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some of the most intelligent people have zero commonsense.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

After working for doctors for years and years and going through the computerization (is that a word?) of the work place, I've discovered some doctors are really intelligent, but not very smart.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

About a hundred feet but lower because the luggage is really heavy and the wheels don’t work in the air.

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Kelly Hartle
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Education doesn't always equal common sense--some of the dumbest people I've met were in law school.

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Karin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, it's in a trailer that the plane tows through the sky.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah well, I read that to enter an Ivy league you have to have parents with lots of money, your intelligence is not so important.!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, this IS the very reason medicine is called a practice

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wouldn't laugh, when I was little I thought that the whole world was black and white until the 1940s when color was invented.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah an ivy league medical school doc tried to have a conversation about evolution with me when he heard I was a freshman bio student. It was beyond idiotic

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh dear me. Hoping I never encounter that person as a doctor.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know a person with a PhD in science from an Ivy League university... who gave me wrong directions to the house where they'd lived for 20 years.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually this is a fairly common characteristic of academics and has been satirized elsewhere.

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Steven
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And newly minted medical doctors can also be really dumb in medical situations.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

no one said u needed common sense or or b life smart to get into an ivy league school. they could b highly intellegent in the medical smarts department just nothing else

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well I've once flown a plane without my lugage ariving with the same plane. It is a bit hard to go skiing without your boots, jacket, gloves etc.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As often as luggage gets lost I don't think it's unreasonable to assume they must be on another flight.

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Jennifer Detmar
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is exactly what happens sometimes. The luggage does not go on the same place

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

to be fair, sometimes luggage does end up on a different plane - but that plane also has passengers.

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Riley Quinn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay then, explain to me what all those cargo planes are carrying if it's not our luggage.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Makes you worry about Ivy League trained doctors.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it's a secret but you should tell him about 5 miles depending on how windy it is up there

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Erik Ivan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The luggage is Always on a different continent from wherever you are. Always.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just because someone graduated from a university doesn't make them learned or knowledgeable in all things. I met a 14 year old ski instructor, she had 10 years experience skiing, really knew her stuff and didn't take any $#!t from adults trying to talk down to her. She had a wicked wit and was very knowledgeable in skiing and teaching it but obviously a 14 year old has lots of things to experience still. We all do.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

His luggage probably did fly behind him. You know how the great unwashed just assumes the Ivy League just means a lot of parents were so worried their little darlings were never going to get that piece of paper and prestige that carries on the family fraud.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But that is how it works sometimes. If there's overflow on a busy flight, luggage gets put on the next plane out that isn't so full. They probably didn't mean they thought there was just a plane full of luggage following them, they were just asking specifically about that plane's overfill. It was probably an international flight.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mr or Ms "Ivy League" probably thought passenger planes had servant planes to carry their things too.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't you just love those "intellegent" people with no common sense?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand in non-direct flights luggage does travel on a different plane? At least by the time I arrived at my destination, my check-in baggage was already there.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I missed a connecting flight because my travel agent did not inform me of the changed schedule. My luggage, however, traveled on without any problems...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, Ivy League is based on sports… blah blah blah… I’d have said it travels on the jet powered car on the ground.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It kinda did happen to me, I had a very quick connection (I think it was 20 min from landing and yes I was running through the airport) and my suitcase stayed behind, I had to wait a couple of hours until the next flight arrived with it

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#12

People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm While working as a butcher, I showed a deli clerk how to break down a whole chicken into pieces. I show her, "two breasts, two wings, two legs, two thighs." she looks at me and asks, "which part does the turkey come from?"

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm If it was possible to even land a plane on Japan because it's so small.

Because, you know, maps are a 1:1 description of the world

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm "What time is the 3 O'clock parade?"

I worked at Disney World. This is the #1 most common question you'll get asked as a Cast Member in the Magic Kingdom.

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm First day working a tech support job, I answer a phone call from a woman whose laptop won't turn on. She's at the airport trying to get some work done and is very frustrated because she had been working for several hours during a layover and the laptop suddenly shut off. I asked her if she had the laptop plugged in when it shut off, or if she was just running it on the battery. "It can be plugged in? I thought it was supposed to be wireless."

I honestly thought I was being pranked because I was the new guy. After a lengthy pause to decide if this was a serious call, I advised her to try plugging it in. Laptop turned on, she was amazed that it didn't just recharge itself when she wasn't using it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why did she bring a charger if she didn't think it needs charging? Doesn't add up.

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm “Do we have the ability to open digital files?”

This is the guy who would print PDFs from our server then scan the print to his email so he could save them to his desktop...

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm In high school, we were warming up before a baseball game one evening and some really ominous ,dark clouds started rolling in. One of my teammates very seriously asked “Is that a storm or is that just night coming?”. I will never forget that.

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm Did your grandpa ever have any kids?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Marry a woman with kids, kids have babys - boom grandpa without kids

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Not me, but our safari guide in South Africa said he once heard a woman ask her husband, “Honey, is that the same moon we see in Texas?”

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For context, I work in a phone shop.

Customer: What is this? (Hands me his bill)

Me: This is your bill.

Customer: But I already paid it.

Me: Well then, don't worry about it.

Customer: No, I mean I paid it last month.

Me: Oh, this is just your second bill then.

Customer: BUT I ALREADY PAID IT!

Me: Last month's bill, yes. This is your next bill.

Customer: YOU MEAN THEY KEEP SENDING THESE EVERY MONTH?

Me: ... yes ... that's what a phone contract is. You signed a contract for 2 years didn't you?

Customer: Yeah.

Me: So you will get a bill each month for 2 years then.

Customer: WHAT A RIP OFF!!!

He legit thought he would only get a single $90 bill for his brand new iPhone over the entire 2 years of his contract...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Might be first time paying own bills, imagine when he finds out electricity and water aren’t free

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm Was a Mac Genius for 7 years, customer asked if her iPod would get heavier as she puts more music on it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually it will. Data has a weight, albeit miniscule, because maintaining a binary 1 in memory requires electrons and electrons have mass.

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm What day of the week is good Friday on?

Do you mean what date?

No, what day of the week. It was on a Thursday last year.

No

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wednesday has been postponed to Friday due to scheduling conflicts.

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I work in a toll booth and was working on the westbound side. A lady drove up to my booth really mad, which is par for the course but I digress. She told me that every day she takes this route home from work, and every. single. day. the sun is directly in her eyes... Well of course, shes driving westbound at 6 pm. When I mentioned this she brushed it off and asked "well can't you change the direction of the road or at least put a cover over it?! I can't be the only person who is bothered by this!"

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm I am an identical twin and one time a girl asked me if we get each other confused.

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#25

My grandpa left my place, immediately called me to ask if he left his cell phone at my place.

"How are you talking to me?"

".........bye."

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s cute, he gets a pass, like looking for your glasses that’s on your head or face already

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I live in a high-altitude town in the mountains. Every week, I hear this question:

"At what elevation do the deer turn into elk?"

WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THINK THIS!? WHY!?

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm I was at my cottage looking at the stars at night with a friend and she turned to me and asked: "are there countries in the sky?" I didn't know what she meant so I asked her to explain and then she said: "Well, are there any countries in the world that are just kind of, in the sky?" I was so confused that I just sat there in silence but eventually she says "I mean, is there land on the earth in the sky where people live that are countries?" At that point I just gave up and said "no" and she replied "oh, okay" so reassuringly

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a classmate from the big city. At a school trip we went outside at night. She was surprised to see stars. She thought it was special effects in movies and ig pictures to make it look less dark.

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm Work in retail. Guy comes in. He looks pretty average. Has a nice suit, nice glasses, well kept hair. Above average I guess.
He's looking for a particular stock pot that the store carries and I bring him over to where they're kept.
He begins to stare at the box, a deeply troubled look emerges slowly on his face as he places his hand on his chin.
The box art depicts the pot in use, with some photoshopped water and a corn cob bobbing out of it (this is relevant, trust me).
After about 10 seconds of him staring perplexedly at the box I ask, "Anything else I can help you with?"
He replies, sounding confused, "So... this thing can only be used to cook corn?"

I stared blankly at him. Was he fucking with me? His vexed demeanor told me no, he was indeed concerned about the product's potentially limited use.

I honestly have no idea how long I was speechless. It felt like minutes. I couldn't speak. No one is that dumb, right?

He eventually says, "It's ok, I'll figure it out from here", and continued to gaze at the box in hopes of gleaning the answers to the troubles he had encountered.

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#29

People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm A girlfriend of a friend of mine asked. “ I wonder what it was like before color”. This chick thought the WORLD WAS BLACK AND WHITE not film.

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm Working for a rafting company I’m asked far too often at the end of the float if we are back at the start. Rivers don’t flow in god damn circles!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There ARE rafting rides in amusement parks where people are taken around in almost a complete circle, with MASSIVE water pumps to recirculate the water and belts to take the raft back uphill.

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm My current boss asked me to "make the pages smaller" so she can see all of them" she had excel zoomed in to 200% and thought I was just sending things in font 46. This person has been in her position for 12 years. Ugh.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My old boss got upset with me, as the spreadsheet I sent him didn't have all the data on it that I had assured him it had. I then had to teach him to scroll down. He did the same thing a week later

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I worked in a pizza restaurant when I was 16. They had a pizza they called a UFO pizza. It was just another slab of dough on top of a regular pizza, and it made it look like an orb, hence the name.

One day a guy that worked there was writing down a telephone order, turns around and says "hey guys, how do you spell UFO??" The owner looked mortified and just repeated "youuu eefff ohhh!!". He stared back in silence for a few moments before it hit him.

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm My twenty-something daughter asked why we never see squirrel eggs. Us parent types responded that's because squirrels are mammals and don't lay eggs like birds do. To which she responded, then show me an infant squirrel / "breastfeeding" squirrel.

This led to a conversation that was much longer than needed to be.

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A woman asked me if gorilla glue was made from real gorillas. I laughed at first, but she was serious. She told me she was vegan and wouldn't use the product if it was made with real gorillas.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. The glue is just bajillions of tiny, miniscule gorillas working tirelessly day and night to keep things stuck together.

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#35

People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm How did we know that they were called dinosaurs?

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#36

Had a lady insist that "the lights outside that you don't plug in and don't have batteries" were not solar lights. She got furious when she asked two more employees who both said solar lights. She then described the solar panel on top of those decorative garden lights, and demanded a manager. Who also told her solar lights.
Yes- she meant solar lights. She came back later, clearly embarrassed and bought some.

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm Literally had a guy ask me yesterday “if I hit the cash back button, does the money come out of my account?”

Dude was like 30 and he thought cash back was just...free money I guess?

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#38

People waking other people and asking if they were sleeping. Widespread stupidity this.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Coworker woke me up at 8 this morning to tell me to enjoy my day off. >.<

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People Share 40 Stupid Questions They Got Asked For Real That Made Them Facepalm I have a buzz cut. A guy at work recently asked, dead seriously “Do you cut your hair? Or does it only grow that long?”

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In 8th grade science class, the girl sitting next to me asked - “How do we get into outer space if we have to break through the Earth’s crust?”

She thought we lived in the mantle.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Age 13-14, for those who don't have 8th grade in their country

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