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35 Funny, Ridiculous, And Seriously Stupid Things People Witnessed Their Friends Doing, As Shared In This Viral Thread
We usually think of our friends as pretty great human beings. Whether we’re facing troubles, need encouragement to pursue our dreams, or simply want to celebrate the good times, they’re always by our side. Yet, even they are not immune to doing something dumb.
But instead of letting them spend hours obsessing over their blunders, we’re here to laugh with them. And Pallavi Gunalan, a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor, provided a perfect example of that. A few days ago, she made a tweet about her friend who tried to microwave a frozen burrito. Here comes the silly part — when it didn’t work, "she threw the burrito away and tried heating up a different one".
Pallavi’s story inspired hundreds of people to share the funny, ridiculous, and straight-up stupid things their friends ever said or did. So get ready to dive into some of the best answers Bored Panda has selected from the thread. Upvote the ones that made you laugh and share your own stories in the comment section below.
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Henry Russell 3 years ago
and im guessing he thought thomas jefferson was a robot cause she is on the nickel
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Trillian 3 years ago
And probably the last person in that family to have actually been to Italy was her great-grandfather.
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May 3 years ago
Took me a minute to make sense of this one - until I realized she was American.
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago (edited)
Yea, we're not all that bright but our ignorance can be hilarious in situations like this.
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Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
Teacher had to share that immediately to keep her head from exploding.
Hedgeh og 3 years ago
Ah yes, Americans who want to shout all day about how their country is the best AND THEN also claim other people's countries. No, you are not "Irish" because great-grandma came from Ireland. You are American. You have Irish heritage. Stop with that b******t that just pisses off everyone ACTUALLY FROM THOSE COUNTRIES.
Jerry Ryan 3 years ago (edited)
I'm American but I've German heritage and how do you know it pisses off everyone from said country show me a poll stating this fact I'd be more then willing to bet a lot don't care and what if mom and dad was born Ireland but moved to the u.s. before you was born in the u.s.do you still lose the right to say your Irish?
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Karin Jansen 3 years ago (edited)
Reminds of the jersey shore season when all the self proclaimed "Italian" participaters went to Florence and only one of them actually spoke Italian. I was confused.
Marco Conti 3 years ago
As an Italian with US Citizenship, I find this very funny and incredibly sad all at the same time.
Janet Graham 3 years ago
We should go back in time to when everyone got a solid 8th-grade education and then went on to a trade school. Or, if they had a brain, finished high school, and continued to a career or college or both.
#3
Jon Steensen 3 years ago
...and that is why you need some control over who you allow to own a gun. A frighning large amount of people end up killed by toddlers, because guns are all over the place, without people showing the proper level of respect for these killing tools.
Anne Edwards 3 years ago
You know that the US has plans in place to fix this. They will lock those toddlers up for the rest of their lives.
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Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
This is why guns should be illegal except for hunting. And no semi- automatic.
Silas Rose 3 years ago
One thing is for sure, don't trust an airhead with a gun!
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JuJu 3 years ago
And now, somebody please explain to me (very slow and in easy words) why on earth you allow people like him to get a f*cking gun????????????
ZAPanda 3 years ago (edited)
So apparently... no gun use or gun safety courses are required to get a gun... well. Maybe they ought to be a requirement, like you know, normal countries? Hmmm. maybe tell him the correct way to check for bullets is to look down the barrel.
Anne Edwards 3 years ago
OMG......how many people will take your advice to heart......I can see the headlines now, Florida man accidentally shoots himself in head checking that gun was correctly loaded.
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Stephanie Goadsby 3 years ago
I get what you're saying but this is exactly why idiots do need guns, so they can shoot themselves. Natural selection at work culling the herd.
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Janet Graham 3 years ago
Let's just file him in the Darwin Award Runner-Up category. Too dumb to live, but not quite there, yet.
Pallavi Gunalan’s tweet prompted a deluge of reactions. Many users chimed in with countless encounters where they witnessed their friends doing something ludicrous or downright dumb. Later on, Pallavi also posted a follow-up tweet about her friend’s situation: "I gave her an extra microwave I had. Really hoping she didn’t throw it away."
Well, let’s face it — we all have friends whose approach to life seems a little outlandish. While moments like these make us wonder whether people around us are not the smartest ones, we also start to remember the little mishaps we have done in our past. Basically, everyone has had their fair share of foolish moments.
While we easily brand many situations in life as "stupid", the word still sounds a bit subjective. Just think about a situation where you miss your bus stop, believe you’ll ace a test without studying, or trip over because you were captivated by your social media feed. According to scientists, we instantly call these things stupid because we are very quick to label it.
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Evil Little Thing 3 years ago
I think the mother just wanted a break from awful kid recorder practice
madbakes 3 years ago
That was my first thought. No one wants to listen to a kid playing a recorder.
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DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago
This reminds me, when I was a kid, I was not allowed to say the word 'snake' aloud, for snakes would hear it and come and bite me. -_-
Ellis Tamura 3 years ago (edited)
Same! I thought it was just my anxiety tbh.
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Anine C 3 years ago
That's just a mom making up a story so she can have some quiet evening time.
nibs sbin 3 years ago
Tep, my mom did that (successfully) with me when I complained my bedtime was earlier than all the other kids in neighborhood; said boys needed sleep to grow up big.
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Donkey boi 3 years ago
It reminds me of an incident I had with rats, back when I used to live in Hamelin.
Killer Kween Gunpowder Gelatin 3 years ago
bruh, I'm not allowed to whistle at night, my mum and grandmother says that snakes will come to the house as they are attracted due to the shrill noises :]
OhForSmegSake 3 years ago
In my culture we aren't allowed to whistle at night or the Hairy Man will come snatch you
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Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
Who was that politician who said that solar panels are bad because we'd use up all of the sun?
Vasana Phong 3 years ago
It’s crazy how people are still superstitious, I was told that my MIL said fireworks angered the Lord because it came too close to him
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Steve 3 years ago
There always seem to be that one weird person who does weird things because that's how their family does it and goes surprised Pikachu when they go into the real world and are confused by everyone else that DOESN'T do the thing.
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Otter 3 years ago
I have a friend who has 2 advanced degrees from top universities and who speaks 7 languages... give me wrong directions to her house. Where she'd lived for 10 years.
Caro Caro 3 years ago
Just because you're intelligent doesn't make you smart :)
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May 3 years ago
I have a colleague with a phd who can not be trusted to find her way anywhere on her own. She once spent 2 hours at a party before checking her phone and seeing our texts asking where she was - realizing she was at the wrong house (a complete stranger) and in the wrong town. She still managed to have a great time though
Rylosalex 3 years ago
Well, at least she had a good time.....and the OP has a story to tell. So....win win right?
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Alexandra Comeau 3 years ago
If I had nothing to clean the sink with, I would use soap as well. I dont get how thats stupid, unless you know more context than me.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
That family must be wealthy or parents are very overprotective of her, for her to have never cleaned anything in her life.
Timothy Leung 3 years ago
Our (Hong Kong) Chief Executive (highest government official) does not know how to take a ride on the MTR (underground railway) or where to buy toilet paper. Intellectuals are not necessarily intelligent.
Izzy Curer 3 years ago
I feel like that could work, though. Soap is soap. As long as you actually scrub the sink and then rinse off the foam
A study by researchers from Eotvos Lornand University in Hungary and Baylor University in Texas argue that studying why and when people call certain actions stupid can offer psychological insight. Not only because finding and declaring something as "stupid" is a simple everyday activity but also because it reflects how "people adjust their own behavior and expect others to."
The researchers wanted to find out "why we call certain actions stupid irrespective of [a person's] cognitive abilities," and to do that, they needed to understand what people mean by it. The main author of this study, Dr. Balázs Aczél, told Medical Daily that he and his colleagues were surprised to find very few studies have been done on this topic before.
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Seanette Blaylock 3 years ago
How old was the son at the time? If he was little, he gets a pass. Double-digit age, not so much.
Anne Edwards 3 years ago
On the positive side, it will keep him busy and out of trouble for a week or so.
Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
Like watching Titanic over and over again hoping that they'd eventually get the hint and not hit the iceberg...
NonbinaryIdiot 2 years ago
Omg yeee it does. Upvote for simpsons reference
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Ayla pentz 3 years ago
Bro my sister did the same things with mac n cheese. I'm losing my faith in humanity.
Sophia York 2 years ago
The only thing is, I have done it before, 3 times, 3 different days, 3 years apart. now people have to remind me.
Nay Wilson 2 years ago
I once lost the flavour sachet to my packet of noodles and found it in the bowl of noodles I’d been cooking in the microwave. But I was 11 at the time
#9
Johnny Rodriguez 3 years ago
Maybe he should just freeze some boiling water for the next time..
JuJu 3 years ago
Oh boy, I know one of that kind...during my apprenticeship I had to share a flat with her and whenever she cooked for the both of us rice, pasta or potatoes were never properly cooked. So I watched her. She didn't boil the water in the pot - at all! It was because she "didn't like the sound boiling water makes". *facepalm*
Peej Maybe 3 years ago
I'll never forget our halls of residence being evacuated because two guys tried to boil pasta in an electric kettle.
Janet Graham 3 years ago
Her parents did not teach her how to cook! Sad. That is why we need Home-Ec classes in high school.
Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
Like your steaks REALLY rare? That's one way to achieve your goal.
Frozengeckolover 1 year ago
I dated a guy who thought you could simmer food faster if you turned the burner on high. Then he would say the recipe was bad because the food burned.
Deann Culver 3 years ago
When my daughter was 16 she decided to cook herself ramen noodles and asked me how to know when water is boiling. Umm... When it had bubbles? Her excuse was that she knew for chemistry class but not for cooking. Yes, I raised a nerd.
Izzy Curer 3 years ago
I take it she meant that water has a different boiling point at altitude than it does at sea level? Maybe she was thinking that the water wouldn't be hot enough even if there were bubbles, and she was trying to ask how you're supposed to tell when it's hot enough to cook ramen
Load More Replies...While it may seem odd to learn how people decide that a thought or an action is straight-up dumb, scientists went on a mission to tackle this challenge. "Given how frequently we find situations in everyday life in which we do, or would, call someone's action 'stupid,' one would think we should understand when and why people experience this feeling," Dr. Aczél said.
Researchers collected and analyzed real-life examples of what people constitute as foolish. They gathered a sample of 180 news stories and other online content from news sites like The New York Times, BBC, and TMZ, and also blogs, forums, and other publicly available publications where people characterized actions described there as stupid.
They presented the stories to more than 150 Hungarian undergrad students, who had to fill out a questionnaire. People had to rate "the intensity of the stupidity on display," as well as explain why they thought any given action was stupid by choosing one of many categories (such as overconfidence and fatigue).
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Trillian 3 years ago
What's it with people in the US not believing anything they haven't personally tried or witnessed and yet this being such a religious country? I mean, come ON?
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago
The US was colonized by criminals and religious weirdos that got creeped out of Europe. You can't expect us to be normal.
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Paul Davis 3 years ago
A lot of Christian anti-evolution people use this argument. To try to make the theory sound ridiculous these dumbasses decided that the theory says living creatures just spontaneously evolve, rather than that their offspring have mutations that affect their success for survival. My uncle would say "I bought a monkey and watched it for hours to see if it would evolve into a human and it didn't" thinking this display of crass ignorance was somehow convincing.
Twodogsandapicnictable 3 years ago (edited)
Humans have selectively bred cabbage into cauliflower, nightshade into grapes and wolves into beagles. And the egg came before the chicken, because something not quite a chicken laid the egg. With all the evidence, you'll still never convince the willfully ignorant of what is obvious to the reasonable.
Load More Replies... Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Look up the catfish of Chernobyl when anyone says this. Axolotl history is another lesson in evolution but happened a lot slower than the catfish. People are too lazy to learn
ZAPanda 3 years ago
I prefer these: they're easier to see. Go to google. Click image search. Search for the following items in image search. "Gobi fish." "Mudskipper". "Epaulette shark". Thanks. After doing that, Google: "Hoatzin bird baby wings". After that google "Archaeopteryx".
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Noir 3 years ago
Again with the random overwhelming US hatred. Like creationism isn't a belief that's widely believed throughout many religions and countries in some form or variation. I get being annoyed with the people that refuse to believe proven science, but this is not a uniquely US thing as all the mandate protests going on the lasts months around the world have shown us. Every single country has its embarrassments.
Evangelical Catholics 3 years ago
Problem is that much of evolutionary theory is NOT proven and can never BE proven...unless we can go back in time and prove the earth is billions of years old. Until that happens, no one should make evolutionary theory into its own religion.
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Steve Riddle 3 years ago
Primitive Religion has been keeping Humans ignorant for thousands for years.
Brian Droste 3 years ago
Thst is true. I haven't seen any species evolved either. I believe in the creation account.
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Trillian 3 years ago
Wealthy or not, would you not like ... I don't know ... TALK to your daughter if she did something like that even once?
madbakes 3 years ago
Right?! It isn't just replacing an appliance, it's a serious fire hazard.
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May 3 years ago
None of this makes sense - why are the cans of Dr Pepper frozen? Why didn't the cans burst when they froze? How this happen multiple times?
Julia Winfield 3 years ago
The only way I can think this could happen is if the cans had been opened and some of it either poured out or consumed before putting in the freezer.
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ZAPanda 3 years ago
so she didn't learn the first time the microwave exploded in fiery nuclear death?
Stephanie Goadsby 3 years ago
Probably set it and walked away. Likely have staff that noticed.
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otplus 3 years ago
i assume that "puts cans in microwave" can be totally related to "puts can in freezer"
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Shortstack 3 years ago
I once put a bag of popcorn in the microwave for 4 minutes in 8th grade... Bag caught on fire, set microwave on fire... I was banned from using a microwave at that school.
Tony Verrilli 1 year ago
MULTIPLE microwaves? at what point do you realize that this destroys microwaves? I would have thought one would be enough. Also wondering how many cans of dr pepper exploded in the freezer? and ..... and.... if you wanted them liquid in the first place.... the refrigerator may have been the obvious choice.. theres soo sooo much to unpack here.
jdtimid123 2 years ago
Why would she keep doing it though? There's no way that she got the results she was looking for any of the times she tried it...
#12
Night Owl 3 years ago (edited)
And so much perfectly good food thrown away because of the fails
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LangiStudios 3 years ago (edited)
I thought they were talking about a young child and was about to give a little grace when I checked the source. The friend was in their 20s at the time. 🤦🏾♀️
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TyrantrumGogoat 3 years ago (edited)
He thought that somehow his breath could change...his voice???
Dawn ;))) 3 years ago
Because when you inhale helium (which is usually in balloons) your voice changes so apparently they thought that any air in a balloon would make your voice change 🙄
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Paul Davis 3 years ago
These are the same type of idiot who yell at party store clerks because their air-filled balloons don't float.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
I had a classmate who thought you could blow them up and they would float . . . She was turning 16 when we told her that's not how it works and we needed helium to make them float.
Francis Wright 2 years ago
Probably thought the helium would make his voice funny as this happens but you need helium balloons.
Fletch Bodenschatz 3 years ago
Did you work at the Beavis and Butt-Head institution for lower learning?
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Gwyn 3 years ago (edited)
I bought a house at 20. Was a one bedroom tiny condo for 65k ( 20 yrs ago). We were both minimum wage and it was cheaper then renting at $500 payment and only 1k down. Felt like a step down because it was so small but sold it 5 yrs later and had equity for a down payment on the next house. Totally worth it.
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Anton Kider 3 years ago
That's because you never showed him or even share the chores with him when he was younger.
Amanda 3 years ago
Yeah n wouldn't he have had to get it from there to take the picture he sent to her holding the lint that's in a perfect rectangle just like the damn lint trap he got from
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Pile o' lint in 3 mos = cats. 24 yr old w/house/cats = perfect mate for my unmarried daughter.
Candia Lee 3 years ago
One of my friends was excited that her fancy new dryer announced when the lint filter needed emptying. DR if she already knew what it was.
The researchers divided participants’ answers into three distinct categories. The first one was called confident ignorance, when someone takes risks without having adequate skills and knowledge — and overestimating oneself is the highest level of stupidity. As an example, they provided a story about a burglar who meant to steal cellphones but lifted GPS devices instead, which led the police straight to him.
The second kind of stupidity was called absentmindedness, and it refers to people who failed to do the right thing because of a distraction or, again, inadequate skills. The last category, a lack of control, results from obsessive or addictive behavior, "such as someone who cancels on a friend because they can’t pull themselves away from something."
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DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago
Cuz it was the burrito's fault for not heating up inside the broken oven. What a shtupid burrito!
Guy Incognito 3 years ago
Must not have been comparable with her microwave. Better try updating the burritos software.
Tony Verrilli 1 year ago
Did she try to thaw Dr Pepper right before the burrito? asking for a friend.....
james stevenson 1 year ago
"i can call you betty. and betty when you call me you can call me al"
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Cecily Holland 3 years ago
I’ve got one like that… If her brains were TNT she couldn’t concuss an ant
Tony Verrilli 1 year ago
she realized that three cups wou;dnt fit..... there might be hope for this one.
LadyLion2012 2 years ago
there is a saying "if brains were gas you couldn't power a p**s ant's go cart 'round a cherrio."
Janet Graham 3 years ago
I hope she was pretty young when that happened. If not, she may need some special training.
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Julia Winfield 3 years ago
Growing up, my sisters would do this I started telling them to give it to me and I'd take care of it. I was the youngest so I was their slave anyway lol. I amassed quiet a nice savings over my childhood years. They were really mad when my dad took me to the bank to cash in on all of it because it was a lot! :)
An Unpopular Opinion. 3 years ago
Meanwhile me and my sisters would fight over pennies! We never saved up to buy anything on our on though lol
Load More Replies... Deutschland Mädchen 3 years ago
Repeat this handy little phrase to ward off evil coins without wasting them: "Keep the change."
Elena Wong 3 years ago
My flat mate at uni used to do this! And I, not as wealthy as them, used to unashamedly go through the trash and collect all the unwanted change. It paid for a fair amount of my food shop each week!
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Whenever people in high school got change from their lunch orders/ canteen they would throw their 5 & 10 cent coins on the ground for the year 7 scabs to pick up while being entertained watching them snatch wildly.
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Melissa Powell 3 years ago
Worked for a police department. People called 911 when the power went out. Called 911 for many reasons.
L.a. Williams 3 years ago
I hope the operators kept the recording for teaching purposes. This is the stupid you will deal with every single day.
Janet Graham 3 years ago
Did he get through to Emergency Dispatch? Because that is who we call when the power goes out. They let the correct electric company know.
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Spock's Socks 3 years ago
I suppose she thought it got flushed out by the new gas, or automatically emptied. To the ground I suppose.
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Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
Worked with a woman (early ‘80s) who got her license and bought her first car late in life. She kept complaining that her car battery kept dying. And, it did. But, mechanics couldn’t find anything wrong with it. We gave her a jump every day for a week before a chance remark she made revealed that every time she parked the car she made sure to leave the parking lights on. She thought that’s what they were for.
marianne eliza 3 years ago
But... but... if you use it all up before refilling, gunk doesn't get a chance to build up.
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Guy Incognito 3 years ago
This is why some people look both ways crossing a 1 way street.
Load More Replies... Deutschland Mädchen 3 years ago
For some reason I thought they were talking about farting until the last line. Maybe I need to be in this list...
Dr. Aczél revealed they found 90 percent of students agreed on whether they would call an action stupid or not. "It shows that we use this label very similarly. Based on this, we would think that we must know what 'stupid' means," he explained. "People often think that it is strongly linked to low IQ. Our findings show that people attribute stupid to three independent situations."
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Scipio Africanus 3 years ago
Depends on how far you put ‘em through the hole
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Janet Graham 3 years ago
That is too funny! Action and reaction. When being taught to cook, knife safety is at the top of the list. Did anyone teach this guy how to use a knife?
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Klorx 3 years ago
Welcome to everyone’s favorite game: Sheltered, sleep deprived, or plain ignorant?
Paul Davis 3 years ago (edited)
MR Chicken sounds pretty good to me. I mean whatever it wants to identify as should be that chicken's own business.
David Martin 3 years ago
The world literally has fancy grilled cheeses with French names meaning Mister Crispy and Missus Crispy...I could totally get behind the Mr Chicken sandwich, not one single thing wrong with that idea
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Isaac Harvey 3 years ago
When they said "hit the drive through window," I thought that meant something very different for a second.
TheHalloweenTeen 3 years ago
She was probably just joking, I joke about stupid stuff all the time- doesn't mean I'm stupid.
Janet Graham 3 years ago
Well, using other fast food drive-thru's as a comparison, it is always best to check that they will give you what you ordered. It might have meant something else.
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
Hey, Jessica Simpson couldn't figure out that "Chicken of the Sea" was a brands of tuna, not chicken. She also didn't want to try the wings, because she "doesn't eat buffalo".
Karen Clark 3 years ago
Going to Wendy's and ordering a Mister Chicken is now on my bucket list.....😄....
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Sawdust 3 years ago
There was once a world leader who thought it was in Russia!
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Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
And that the moon landing was done on a soundstage in Hollywood..
Cal the dragon (she/her) 3 years ago
It was, according to the Imagine Dragons On Top Of The World music video.
Load More Replies... Marco Conti 3 years ago
To be fair, they look a bit similar. At least she knew India and South America existed.
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Lucas Angerer 3 years ago
I AM DISLIKER!! I DISLIKE COMMENTS BECAUSE THEY SUCK!!! (dislike this comment I just want dislikes)
Alice Parsons 3 years ago
My cousin washed a roasting chicken with dish soap and didn't even bother to get the soap rinsed off before she put it in the oven. I want to think that she did it on purpose so as not to be asked to cook again, but I'm haunted by the possibility that it was an honest mistake.
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Timothy Leung 3 years ago
My (ex) boss asked me to set up a password for his email account. He is not computer-savvy so I worked out an easy to remember password for him. He said this was rubbish and insisted on a difficult password made of random combination of letters. I ended up giving him 'mBi1Sah' with which he was happy - that was the first letter of every word in the sentence 'my Boss is 1 Stupid ass hole'.
Luna Lovegood for Justice 3 years ago
Notice it is his email address password not his iPad password. This mean he will still not be able to sign in.
Shelly Graham 3 years ago (edited)
I had a friend like that, every time a computer was slow(cuz she downloaded malware & viruses daily), her phone wasn't working the way she wanted, she'd buy another one. I asked her why she had 6 laptops and 8 different brands of cellphone's. I couldn't believe it, but I got a new laptop cheap!
The findings of this study "bring us closer to understanding people’s conception of unintelligent behavior while emphasizing the broader psychological perspectives of studying the attribute of stupid in everyday life."
"We would like to explore whether discovering incongruities in our environment has an adaptive function," Dr. Aczél mentioned. "Maybe if we observe stupid actions of others, then it may make us less likely to make mistakes ourselves. So, if we are right, then finding something stupid may make us upset, but also a bit smarter in our actions."
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A Jones 3 years ago
1. Lack of self-care skills, 2. Lack of self-reliance, 3. Lots of dough, 4. Lack of realizing how things are made, 5. Lack of respect for farmed goods. and the list goes on.
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Sawdust 3 years ago
Her parents pr'y learned to buy paper after the first time. :-)
Load More Replies... Cecily Holland 3 years ago
Lazy, self entitled, uppity little Madam. Did she have a Groom of the Stool as well?
GaeFrog 3 years ago
I had a friend who if she got a scratch on her phone screen protector she would throw her phone on the ground so it would crack a lot and her parents would get her a new screen protector without scratches
Mary Mosher 3 years ago
Any bets her new dishes didn't get washed before they went in the cupboard?
Kiss Army 3 years ago
That was my first thought... my second thought was how gross it would be to use new dishes straight out of the box!
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Randolph Croft 3 years ago
That's what Count Dracula did with the dishes he fed Jonathan Harker with. It's in the original novel - a stack of shattered, dirty dishes down the side of a cliff.
Cheyanne Pavan 3 years ago
Reminds me of my sister-in-law, who told me her parents "didn't want to bother" with college loans, grants, or scholarships, so they just paid $30,000/year in CASH. I guess I get not wanting to take out loans (though with such low-interest, they'd make more money over time with a loan), but turning down grants & scholarships — potentially tens of thousands of dollars over 4yrs — just to "avoid the paperwork" is insane regardless of how rich you are!
Giulio Verdekiwi 1 day ago
No matter how rich, after the 3rd set the parents will either buy plastic/paper plate instead or disown her
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Janet Graham 3 years ago
I want to blame who ever did not introduce this guy to the kitchen at a young enough age to solve these kinds of problems.
Susanne B 3 years ago
I know what you mean. I wanted woodworking in school and one of the boys wanted to learn cooking. Neither was allowed to. I suppose a man is expected to find a woman to cook for him.
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Lady Gypsy Rain 2 years ago
Well, I’m particular about my toast. Preferring a toaster oven for everything but bagels and definitely prefer the higher end models that you can set for the type of bread and if frozen or not. Now I just have an air fryer that is also a toaster, dehydrator and rotisserie. Can hold most store bought pizzas too. Basically, my oven only gets used a couple of times a month at most and only for dishes cooked in my enameled cast iron or my oven safe ss. Usually casseroles that I like to make from scratch as make ahead meals. Also some potato dishes I’ve developed over the years I’ve been cooking. And baking.
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Dorothy Parker 3 years ago (edited)
There is a large nail-like kitchen item that you use for exactly that purpose. It's called, wait for it, a potato nail.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Potato nails are a real thing but most people don't understand that the metals with high enough thermal conductivity to make a difference are somewhat unhealthy. If you insist on using them, use aluminum ones rather than copper, as it is less poisonous. Or just develop some semblance of patience and not put any extraneous metals in your potatioes.
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Jeff Striks 3 years ago
Can't blame them for this. "Stick forks in them" and "Poke holes in them with forks" are drastically different instructions for someone who doesn't know how to cook
Steve Fischer 3 years ago
I did that and grabbed the fork after it was done. Never did that again
Tony Verrilli 1 year ago
that actually isnt stupid at all. Its a well thought out and based on a scientific principle. Worried about y'all who thought it WAS stoopid. This comment is null and void if the main characters grabbed the forks with their bare hands after they were cooked.
Lady Gypsy Rain 2 years ago
Saw that coming from a fork stick away. Reasons I let my kids have free reign in the kitchen to learn and experiment. Both are excellent cooks now and my oldest is better at (propane gas grill) grilling than anyone in our family to include extended
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Anne Edwards 3 years ago
I still have that. They are very popular and cost so much less to use than the electric ones.
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Tony Verrilli 1 year ago
gas dryers are a thing.. a very common thing. and there is debate if gas stoves and appliances in general can be harmful..... peroxide, however...... i guess that maybe the "broken clock is right twice a day" rule applies here
Lady Gypsy Rain 2 years ago
You still see gas dryers to this day. Word of caution on built in water and ice dispenser. I had one in my previous home. While my husband spent his last six weeks of life on life support, I never left his side until he breathed his last. Got home to find out my intake line on the fridge had been high pressure leaking the entire time. Had to gut my kitchen, back hallway and laundry room down to the floor and wall joists. Had to replace absolutely everything and I couldn’t be in the house while work carried on due to my severe allergies to mold and mildew. Learned at that point, either use metal tubing between fridge and water source or just get a bottom load water cooler (5 gal jugs) and a counter top ice maker. This was what I chose and love.
Nikki Gross 2 years ago (edited)
Our dryer is electric but if it ran on natural gas that would be fine with me since that is much cheaper then a electric one. Of course I live in Oklahoma which has a huge industry when it comes to Oil and Natural Gas.
High Mamii Melo 2 years ago
I couldn't figure out why my boyfriend (29) kept washing the dishes by hand instead of putting them in the dishwasher. Turns out he'd never had one before!
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Rijkærd 3 years ago
Damn...she had an iron stomach....bet she could eat a railroad if it was slathered in ketchup
A Jones 3 years ago
I do this with frozen corn and other frozen things intentionally (including pizza rolls and sandwich pockets). It just feels right. I think it's some kind of pica though.
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
For those of you who don't know, a pica is a craving for a non-food item, generally as a result of some dietary deficiency :).
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Sparkysheep 1 year ago
I had a classmate in HS who would drink soda and then, I kid you not, EAT the can! 😱😰 He would bite into it and peel it off in strips.. it's painful just remembering it..
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UncleRussian 3 years ago
On a side note I love lint rollers but god damn it I for the life of me can't peel them properly half the time
Caro Caro 3 years ago (edited)
Why not use an old fashioned thingie. It's like a brush with velvet .... I can't explaint and don't even know what they are called. I'll see if I can find the name. Lint Brush.
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Candia Lee 3 years ago
Yep, a loop of packing or duct tape around your hand, sticky out, and it rolls, or you can tap it.
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Lyn Moffett 3 years ago
I only discovered lint rollers we're multi usesble a couple of year's ago and I'm 62
ThatOmniCapybara(she/they) 2 years ago
im dumb. i never knew to peel away the layers... i just reuse it.
Theresa Long 3 years ago
That's if you can get the stupid layers peeled off in the first place!
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UncleRussian 3 years ago
It's one of them magical Bluetooth speakers that converts air particles into mana... The air crystal must've been broken
Wondering Alice 3 years ago
Sister and her husband seemed very unlucky with printers. They went through quite a few in a short space of time so I asked what brand of ink they used. Turned out they didn't realize they had to replace ink.
Anne Edwards 3 years ago
Sometimes it's cheaper to replace the printer. Those ink/cartridge prices are crazy.
Load More Replies... Thomas Sweda 3 years ago
I had a friend that tried to throw away his Boomerang. Many times. Many times!
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
My, my, my Darwin is so unimpressed by all of us
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I'm guessing it was wireless because I have heard of others who did that, thought wireless meant they didn't have to plug in to charge.
Big Blue Cat 3 years ago
Well it says it was a bluetooth speaker so yes it's wireless to use but needs a cable for charging
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Nikki Gross 2 years ago
Or it happens to be storm season in the South. People get religion real quick when the tornado sirens start going off. 😁😂
Load More Replies... Glirpy 3 years ago
I used to work with someone that thought dinosaur skeletons were put in the earth by God to trick humans into thinking the earth was older than 6000 years and test them about their belief in Him.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
The group Alice in Chains even titled an album after that -- "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here"
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Insert Generic Username 3 years ago
She believes in god despite never meeting him therefore she should believe in the mob without ever meeting an actual mobster.
Load More Replies... raincloud the whalien 2 years ago
It's another name for the american mafia
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UncleRussian 3 years ago
Ocean Bread, take me by the hand, lead me to the land that you understand
Dinah Brand 3 years ago
Ocean Bread, the crust of a tan slice imbibed by the sand
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Deann Culver 3 years ago
My father's story. A guy saw my father and another guy eating pistachios and not only said he hated them, but couldn't figure out what they were doing. Shelling them. The guy had only eaten them shell and nut together.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
"If you are a fish and you want to be a fish stick, you have to have very good posture" Mitch Hedberg
Anne Edwards 3 years ago
His timing and delivery were impeccable. Gone far too soon.
Load More Replies... Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Remember that it's time to switch the winter air out of your tires and switch it for summer air 😜
Anyone-for-tea? 3 years ago
I didn’t know they were grey before being cooked until I was at leat 33, I’ve never bought them, never eaten them or had to cook them - hope that’s not too unusual!
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BlackestDawn 3 years ago
This is much more a failure of their parents than it is them themselves.
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Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Seriously. I learned at like age 8 not to put metal in microwaves or heat anything up other than pots and pan on the stove. I was very independent and my mom a terrible cook so I learned quick after mom said "if you don't like it then cook your own food". I ate alot of soup
Cat Dragon 1 year ago
Welcome to a day in the life of the author of "Diary Of An Overgrown S-Class Dolt".
Janet Graham 3 years ago
Wow, I have seen jars blow up from that. I hope she was told how to add the sauce to the meat.
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BiroAce 3 years ago (edited)
wonder if she just kept cutting it crooked and pulling more hair from the back
ZAPanda 3 years ago
I've never quite understood this word. Does it mean like what we call a peapot cut, or does it mean a fringe? And if so, why "bangs" because that's plural? Surely "bang" then? It's really odd. Can anyone explain?
Glenn Schroeder 3 years ago
I was standing in line for our Thanksgiving lunch at work, a week or so before Thanksgiving. A college student who worked there part time asked me "Is Thanksgiving on Thursday this year?"
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Julia Winfield 3 years ago
😂 yep that's how they get cleaned.. the just soak in water the entire cycle as if you'd left them soaking in a sink.. lol
Glirpy 3 years ago (edited)
On another note, why would you open a dishwasher while it's running?
TKA 3 years ago
To add something or take something out, and you get a nice facial steaming in the process (it actually feels good 😂). You just hit start again when you close it and it will start where it stopped.
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Random Anon 3 years ago
People complain about how dumb and brain-dead the instructions are with our appliances. Who is that big of an imbecile you ask? I present to you, these blessed summer children.
A Bobcat From Philly 2 years ago
Reasons they put "do not eat" on silica packets...
Load More Replies... Frozengeckolover 1 year ago
My husband doesn't believe in preheating the oven (because of a George Carlin bit) so, most of what he bakes is aweful. He usually tests meat temperature for doneness, but every thing else comes out soggy and undercooked in the middle. Gross!
ZAPanda 3 years ago
If you aren't quite understanding the concept of reaction rates and denaturing of proteins, which requires high school chemistry, this is a reasonably innocent mistake to make.
Candia Lee 3 years ago
I didn't take HS chemistry because the teacher didn't think girls should be studying hard science and I didn't want to mess up my grade point average.
Load More Replies... adiiantryx 3 years ago
you could play around with the values hypothetically with newton's law of cooling or so, but this is not it.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
I think you mean Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Kelvin), and Sadi Canot. Newton is law of motion and optics.
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Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
And it rained once and he slid down the street in a hail of bubbles??
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DandiPandi 3 years ago
In all fairness, this just sounded like an honest mistake, like the cutting board was made to resemble a pizza stone 🤷🏽♀️
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Dorothy Parker 3 years ago (edited)
Those last three words have never before been spoken or written. Remember where you were when you read them.
Ray Martin 3 years ago
The words "Too much bacon" are a sure sign of demonic possession. The only cure is more bacon.
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Julia Winfield 3 years ago
My ex husband would order a BLT and say "but no bacon". Seriously. I would interject and ask the server to please let me have the bacon. He literally just wanted a dry lettuce and tomato sandwich. No mayo..nothing. Part of the cost of a BLT is oh..I dunno..the B! 😑
ZAPanda 3 years ago (edited)
Inform him that he has officially been stripped of british entry permit, order HM QE2. This is nothing short of not british. BLT is the national sandwich.
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Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
No such thing as - A: Too much bacon B: Too much cheese and C: Leftover wine. These sentences should never be spoken.
Frozengeckolover 1 year ago
That coworker is a psycho. Never trust them. "Too much bacon", that's nonesense!
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Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
I think this is more passive-aggressive "Put your own cheese away" than stupidity, though
Giulio Verdekiwi 1 day ago
Weaponized incompetence. Done un purpose so next time you don’t ask them
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Candia Lee 3 years ago
Most people outside the US use unwashed eggs. Ours have been washed of (most) henhouse filth; the washing removes a waxy coating, so the eggs need refrigeration. They last a very long time in the fridge.
Load More Replies... Not A Panda 3 years ago
Where I live, cheese does not go in the fridge section. I don't keep cheese in the fridge. Just in a special cheese box. Cheese doesn't need to go in the fridge.
ZAPanda 3 years ago (edited)
it depends on your weather. If you live in europe it seldom gets hot enough to require cheese in the fridge. Real cheese matures and therefore probably ought to be in a dedicated cupboard, if you are extra civilised. However, if you think that squares of yellow plastic are cheese, well ... it's probably got enough preservatives to not go in the fridge either. Here in Africa we put it in the fridge or it sweats its oils out and dries out. But again it depends. I sometimes leave the Brie or Camembert in the cupboard rather to let it mature a bit more. Or in a butter dish.
HighNMightyBigshot 2 years ago (edited)
We didn’t eat too much fresh fruit when we were growing up, but once I moved out fruit was my go to ( I do NOT like cooking) so years later when my brother bought and started to use that $600 blender that was all the rage, he complained that his lemons went bad too quickly. I asked him why didn’t he just put them in the fridge, his answer was —- he only saw fruit in movies and houses on tables as center pieces so never thought of putting them in the fridge.
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Memere 3 years ago (edited)
I would say he's both stupid & lazy. And definitely a Grade A wanker.
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Gladys Hayes Southerland 3 years ago
Some people are not stupid- they are lazy but they think you are stupid
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Daniel Mattock 3 years ago
There’s no Canada like French Canada, it’s the best Canada in the land….
ZAPanda 3 years ago
and ze ozzer canada is ze sheet canada, live one day zere and you'll understand.
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elysse stands with the ukraine 3 years ago
They do speak French in Quebec though, so maybe that was why?
Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
We speak it in every province. It’s one of our two official languages.
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Tom Hanlin 3 years ago
I know, right? And you figure that the Eiffel Tower has to be in Quebec, but it turns out to be in Vancouver. The whole thing is baffling.
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Cecily Holland 3 years ago
Degrees mean nothing when it comes to intelligence. 3 of my cousins are Surgeons. Still idiots
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago
Surgeons aren't big on pondering things, they just cut and sew.
Load More Replies... Memere 3 years ago
We went on a vacation once with husband's extended family. I saw his nephews washing dishes this way & tried to correct them. I was called a "clean freak" when I rewashed the dishes with hot water & soap. With 5 different family groups, there's no way I'm eating off dishes not washed properly!
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An Unpopular Opinion. 3 years ago
I uhhh, did that once. I was like... eight though. I learned carrot ribbons taste really good though lol
Memere 3 years ago
I don't peel carrots - just give them a good scrubbing with a vegetable brush.
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Charlie Eatough 3 years ago
I did this exact same thing when I tried kombucha. Stuff is gross.
MiniMaus 3 years ago
You're drinking the wrong brand if you think it's gross.
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Klorx 3 years ago (edited)
I’m guessing the downvotes are by people who actually drink kombucha and weren’t sheltered all their life, but that’s just a guess. Lol
Load More Replies... An Unpopular Opinion. 3 years ago
My mom used to make that stuff! It was good. Idk why she stopped
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ZAPanda 3 years ago
was this the same person who threw away a burrito after it failed to heat up? I see a market opportunity: self-heating food. hmmm.
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Magentablu 3 years ago
Both parents working. Children rised by daily care, school, and tv... or youtube
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Rijkærd 3 years ago
Yep...this one cant finish a pizza cut into 8 slices because they are to many but can finish the same if its 6 slices...
Glirpy 3 years ago
There is a pizza place near me that makes square pizzas, but then cuts it diagonally, so that the slices are all right triangles. It actually make the slices difficult to eat because you can't make a perfect fold in the middle of the slice. It's always lopsided and the the toppings slide off. I only ordered from them once because of how they slice their pizza.
James Nall 3 years ago
To be fair, some restaurants serve pizza cut into square slices, and some frozen pizzas are square.
Memere 3 years ago
There's a place in my city that makes party pizzas that way - they are 24" square & cut in rectangles or squares, depending on how many pieces you want. They make good pizza, but there's always too many 'middle' pieces without a crust edge for me.
Load More Replies... Candia Lee 3 years ago
I like my square pizza cut into 8 wedges so they all get equal amount of crust. How do you pick up the center pieces if they make 16 squares?
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Seanette Blaylock 3 years ago
That's actually how I do it, since I prefer stronger taste and less broth.
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
Not stupid. After all, when you cook spaghetti, you drain the cooking water.
DuchessDegu 3 years ago
I do that, I drain all the water then add the seasoning pack and a lot of vegetables, I don't like broth!
Kylie Shannon 4 days ago
That's a personal preference thing. Add the packet to the water while cooking - sure. Lots of water - sure. Only enough water to cover the noodles - why not. Drain, then season - if you want it a little stronger.
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Lovin' Life 3 years ago
Many of these seem to be the fault of the parents for noth teaching their children about life. Sheltered children don't do so well in the real world..
Tomas Anshelm 3 years ago
Sure... But there are levels of stupidity and I (and no one I've ever met) have never been this level of stupid. But I don't live in America. It does seem to be common place with people of this intellectual stature in the US 🤔
Load More Replies... Kona Pake 3 years ago
Worked as a AF machinist for a while. A marine machinist who was permitted to use our machines came in with a blood blister under his thumb. He put a tiny drill bit in a chuck on a drill press, turned it on and commence to drill a hole to drain the blood blister under his thumb. You can imagine what happened.
Memere 3 years ago
My ex-brother-in-law was a construction worker (carpenter) & he always had at least one fingernail or thumbnail that was purple from bruising & had a hole in it. That's how a lot of construction workers relieve the pressure when they've mashed a finger or thumb, but most of them use a hand drill, not a drill press!
Load More Replies... David Martin 3 years ago
My mother both loves and hates this story because she knows it's a moment she's never going to live down. We'd been at an amusement park for a few hours when my sister needed a bathroom. My mom got the map from her pocket to find one close by, looks for a moment, and says she can't find the You Are Here dot. I calmly mentioned "Well...that's because that's a walking around map, not a stationary one". About twenty years later now, and still funny to me
Bex 3 years ago
I had a friend who was pretty dumb (he knew this about himself) and would often ask stupid questions in total seriousness. But I was still thrown the day he wondered outloud how socks get holes in them. FYI, he was also confused about why his favorite Italian restaurant had a bust of the Pope since, and I quote, "The Pope's Mexican."
Cheyanne Pavan 3 years ago
So this one is actually me: The first time my husband & I went to Rome, we were choosing among cheeses from a display. He looked very confused when I asked, "With all these amazing cheeses, why do they import from New York?" So I pointed to the buffalo mozzarella & he cracked up laughing while explaining buffalo was the animal, not the city.
Kiwii Stone 3 years ago
Someone I work with thought that stars in the sky are little twinkly things that accompany the moon. She didn't realise our sun is a star. That took some explaining!
That_jalapeno_floofball 3 years ago
Not my friend but a random old lady at Walmart- she asked one of the employees, "Can I have a can opener to, you know, open some cans?" and she even made a motion with her hands.
Amy Broderick 3 years ago
My son was going through TSA and the agent told him 'face down' when he handed her his ticket so he put his face on the scanner. To be fair he was stoned at the time
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
Many of these seem to be the fault of the parents for noth teaching their children about life. Sheltered children don't do so well in the real world..
Tomas Anshelm 3 years ago
Sure... But there are levels of stupidity and I (and no one I've ever met) have never been this level of stupid. But I don't live in America. It does seem to be common place with people of this intellectual stature in the US 🤔
Load More Replies... Kona Pake 3 years ago
Worked as a AF machinist for a while. A marine machinist who was permitted to use our machines came in with a blood blister under his thumb. He put a tiny drill bit in a chuck on a drill press, turned it on and commence to drill a hole to drain the blood blister under his thumb. You can imagine what happened.
Memere 3 years ago
My ex-brother-in-law was a construction worker (carpenter) & he always had at least one fingernail or thumbnail that was purple from bruising & had a hole in it. That's how a lot of construction workers relieve the pressure when they've mashed a finger or thumb, but most of them use a hand drill, not a drill press!
Load More Replies... David Martin 3 years ago
My mother both loves and hates this story because she knows it's a moment she's never going to live down. We'd been at an amusement park for a few hours when my sister needed a bathroom. My mom got the map from her pocket to find one close by, looks for a moment, and says she can't find the You Are Here dot. I calmly mentioned "Well...that's because that's a walking around map, not a stationary one". About twenty years later now, and still funny to me
Bex 3 years ago
I had a friend who was pretty dumb (he knew this about himself) and would often ask stupid questions in total seriousness. But I was still thrown the day he wondered outloud how socks get holes in them. FYI, he was also confused about why his favorite Italian restaurant had a bust of the Pope since, and I quote, "The Pope's Mexican."
Cheyanne Pavan 3 years ago
So this one is actually me: The first time my husband & I went to Rome, we were choosing among cheeses from a display. He looked very confused when I asked, "With all these amazing cheeses, why do they import from New York?" So I pointed to the buffalo mozzarella & he cracked up laughing while explaining buffalo was the animal, not the city.
Kiwii Stone 3 years ago
Someone I work with thought that stars in the sky are little twinkly things that accompany the moon. She didn't realise our sun is a star. That took some explaining!
That_jalapeno_floofball 3 years ago
Not my friend but a random old lady at Walmart- she asked one of the employees, "Can I have a can opener to, you know, open some cans?" and she even made a motion with her hands.
Amy Broderick 3 years ago
My son was going through TSA and the agent told him 'face down' when he handed her his ticket so he put his face on the scanner. To be fair he was stoned at the time
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