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“That’s Advanced Stupid”: 46 People Share How They Were Baffled By Someone’s Sheer Ignorance
People can surprise you every day. You might hear some bad news and think, "Oh no! I can't believe this person did that!" You might also learn some new, cool facts about the world and wonder, "Wow! How did they do that?"
But other people might astound you with something else: their ignorance. It's not nice to make fun of people's intelligence, but we all have to have at least some common sense, don't we? Apparently, these folks don't, at least according to those who shared their mental lapses in an online thread after one netizen asked, "What's the most out of touch, lack of common sense thing you've ever heard someone say?"
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#1
That Tylenol causes autism.
CalamityOne 3 months ago
And ignore the fact that "Tylenol" is a brand name not a chemical or ingredient. And that autism existed before "Tylenol" was created. And can't pronounce "acetaminophen".
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 3 months ago
To be fair, most people know acetaminophen by one name or another. In the UK it's universally "paracetamol". And we can't even agree on the pronunciation of that!
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Sam Trudeau 3 months ago
Apparently a lot of scientists are autistic. So autism causes Tylenol
JK 3 months ago
I hope the Tylenol brand sues the pants off them for this. The only research I've read is that if you consume alcohol, don't use Tylenol because it can exacerbate liver damage.
Jane Doe-Doe 3 months ago
So the BBC had to put a statement out that paracetamol (Tylenol) doesn’t cause autism, I’m hoping the we Brits aren’t THAT stupid
Dirk Daring 3 months ago
That's just his handlers giving him a script to read at a third-grade level in order to manipulate the stock market.
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#2
They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people who live there.
Astrid 3 months ago
Yeah and the truth of it is just that someone fished for carp and ate it. I mean I can totally understand that, it's a fish. If they did eat it, i doubt they'll do it again. They taste of lake. They're gross 😝 .
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Jane Doe-Doe 3 months ago
And not 1 single word about it since the orange orangutan got re elected
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 months ago
Also (by the same arsehole) that the crosses on the side of a road were the graves of white people and not a temporary memorial to people from farms who'd been k!lled across the country.
Jane Doe-Doe 2 months ago
I wish someone would ask the orange orangutan now about that, he will probably deny ever saying it
#3
At a family event and walking in on my near 30 cousin arguing adamantly with her late teen and early 20s sisters that women pee put of their private part hole which is why she removes her tampon to pee. Sisters arguing no it's a smaller one above. She refuses to believe this. They see me, guy who went to med school a while and worked in hospital administration, and the sisters ask me to explain it to her.
So I draw it out on a piece mail my aunt had laying around. She looks around dumbfounded. Gets up and goes into the bathroom. About 2 minutes later we hear a loud "what the. No way"
She came out to us nearly unconscious from laughing.
otiose 3 months ago
Give her credit - willing to learn. Bonus points for a sense of humor. Even though this was made up, what school did she go to? Homeschooled?
Ashtophet 3 months ago
Lots of US schools do not teach adequate human biology or anatomy. If you’re planning on having kids it’s important to research the schools where you live…
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 3 months ago
Yeah, this is a failure in education. If, after being informed, she still insists she's right, then that's on her, but if she listens, (in this case) puts it to the test, and accepts the results, then that's on her education.
Upstaged75 3 months ago
I thought that same thing. When I was 11 and wore a tampon for the 1st time. 🤣 Unfortunately too many people still think it's true.
Saltypepper 3 weeks ago
Had a friend when I was younger that was absolutely convinced that we peed from the clittoris not kidding.
Learner Panda 2 months ago
Imagine how many tampons you would use in the course of an average period.
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
I had to explain this to my best friend and her sister, whose family was extremely conservative. It came up because they never used tampons (pretty sure parents said it would mean they weren't virgins anymore) and asked whether you had to take them out to pee. Even their mum used pads exclusively so I'm not sure if she knew the anatomy either.
Jake Bertz 3 months ago
There will literally be women like this, but women will still give men s**t for not knowing.
#4
When I worked at a law office, I overheard a bunch of the lawyers discussing their salaries (all in the 6 figure range) and they couldn't understand how anyone could survive on less than $60k.
They were paying me $30k. .
Day Andie 3 months ago
Only real human beings should be able to have a minimum 60K salary. Plebs and slaves deserve less.
Load More Replies... Yrral Spavit 3 months ago (edited)
Was on a ski lift once (early 90s) and overheard the people I was riding up with talking about one of their friends having a very rough go. Then a pause and one of them says "How do you even survive on $80K a year?"
Tyranamar Seuss 3 months ago
Lower middle class in California is officially $120K/ yr. I felt like I was living in poverty when I was only making $100k there. Depends on where you live I think.
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Mike Price 2 months ago
There should definitely be a minimum wage, say $20/hr. Shouldn't there also be a MAXIMUM wage? I mean. let's be generous and say $250,000 a year? I figure, if you can't live a good life on that much, you're a financial i******e.
Stephen Pringle 3 weeks ago
As of July 1, 2025, Australia's National Minimum Wage for adults not covered by an award is $24.95 per hour or $948 per week, with casuals receiving an additional 25% loading, making their rate $31.19/hour. However, many workers are covered by specific industry awards that might offer higher minimums, like the Retail Award or
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I was taking a zookeeping program. One of my classmates (they were vegan or vegetarian or something) said they wanted to one day build a zoo where they would only feed the animals plants and tofu. We were like... how can you be in this program and not know that many animals need meat to survive? Eventually we convinced her and she was like "fine but I'm getting the meat from a grocery store so no animals have to die for it." There was a lot to unpack that day.
Stardust she/her 3 months ago
Guys I swear we’re all not like this. It’s basic knowledge at this point that a lot of animals require meat to survive and besides, even herbivores sometimes consume meat in the form of smaller animals
k1ddkanuck 3 months ago (edited)
I am a vegetarian of 17 years who will happily cook meat for you if you come over for dinner. If I ever went back to eating meat, it would be with the full understanding of what I am eating, would probably get a firearms license and hunt it for myself. I will probably never do so, but everyone should be fully cognizant of what they eat. I won't judge anyone for eating meat, ever. The thing that annoys me is when "animal" gets somehow transmogrified into "food" by way of packaging and distribution, and through that process, ceases to become "animal". For most of my life, a meal wasn't a meal without meat. I was still comfortable with acknowledging I was eating an animal. When people who eat meat (as is their rightful choice) recoil at the suggestion it is indeed an animal, it bugs the living f*ck out of me. If you wanna eat animals, do so, no harm no foul (or fowl if you prefer, lol). Just don't pretend it's somehow just "meat" and be grossed out by what you're eating.
Martin König 3 months ago
I'm sure it's a fabricated story, glued from two old separate internet posts. Or people are just plain stupid, this is also a possibility.
#6
All the idiots in 2020 fighting against the use of face masks saying Covid wasn't dangerous for them.
The masks aren't there to protect you, YOU are the risk.
Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
Now a lot of them are ICE "agents". Guess they managed to get over struggling to breathe.
Brain-In-A-Vat 3 months ago
But that's exactly the attitude; 'if this thing doesn't affect me directly, why should I do it?'
Brad Jackson 2 months ago
Then those with brains entered the conversation with the realization that 50% effectiveness is basically useless so there's really no point in wearing them unless it's an N95 which is CRAZY uncomfortable.
#7
I heard a woman say that New Hampshire was hotter than Florida because New Hampshire was higher in elevation. She reasoned that it was closer to the sun.
Jumping Jellyfishes 3 months ago
"It's not the heat, it's the humidity..." As a native Floridian I used to roll my eyes every time I heard this... then I moved to a place with very low humidity. Turns out, it IS the humidity (one of several reasons I don't miss Florida)
Lady Eowyn 3 months ago
At a summer camp in Maine one year, high school age kids, I heard one girl say it would be cheap to drive to Florida because it's lower and and you can coast most of the way.
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 months ago
Like that joke about the two blondes in Jozi arguing over whether Cape Town or the moon is closer. "Duh, the moon! Can you see Cape Town from here?!"
Sly Schlang 3 months ago
I like the joke but you as a Vulcan should not 🖖🤨
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Only if everyone gets together to hold the country up on its edge!
#8
When I joined my company, I wrote my bio for the website that said (among other things), "Charlie has 15 years' experience ..."
Five years later, we redid the site, and since I was in charge of writing it, I changed my bio to say "20 years experience"
One of the VPs, who'd been with the company longer than I had, sniffed and said, "Oh, so suddenly you have five more years of experience?!
Not wanting to be rude, I could only stare at her dumbfounded. I thought these MBAs were supposed to know basic math but apparentlu not.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
All MBAs learn is how to kiss up, kick down, steal and cheat.
GalPalAl 3 months ago
While in college and dealing with some PhD instructors, co worker reminded me that anyone with a PhD knows a lot about one specific thing; not to be confused with smart by proxy. Same with MBA or any other degree. Being smart in one area does not magically make you smart about everything and does not imply common sense
#9
“When I heard all scientists saying the same thing, that’s when I knew it was a conspiracy.”.
michael Chock 3 months ago
Yeah, those weather "predictions". We know there is a weather controlling cabal. California is in a drought because they want to be in a drought.
PeepPeep the duck 3 months ago (edited)
Caught up with my cousin last week and he mentioned the bff to our childhood trio went with him to an event and met someone from holland and asked if she was hollandaise 😂 and I believe it cos when we were 14 we nearly had a punch up argument over her thinking Japan was chinas capital 😂 lucky she’s pretty and has a rich husband.
Verena 3 months ago
A French speaking person would use that word... even though "Holland" is only two provinces (North-Holland with Amsterdam and South-Holland with The Hague and Rotterdam), and the entire country is called The Netherlands = The Lowlands.
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My old boss once said, ‘Just buy a house, renting is a waste of money.’ …on my $14/hr salary.
nicholas nolan 3 months ago
How we do home loans is an absurdity. I've not missed a rent payment in the entire time I've been a renter, nearly 25 years. But I'm a bad risk for a mortgage for less money per month because of some s**t(aka the 2008 economic collapse and idiotic medical debt) that wasn't my fault. NOTE: If you're gonna come here and tell me my medical debt was my fault, cut out the middleman and call yourself a w****r for me. Save time.
Kitty Smith 3 months ago
Wait is the naughty word w.a.n.k.e.r that is something we used to call each other in primary school.
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PenguinEmp 3 months ago
Sure an average price of a home here built in 1949 is 1.7m with a 20% down payment and land transfer tax, up front you need 407k and 7k a month mortgage over 25 years. Also property tax is 6500 a year.
#11
'Just manifest it'. Like rent really cares about my vibes.
JK 3 months ago
Magical thinking will not solve your problems. Focus and intention is better. So is having a job. I am looking and it will not manifest itself by my wishing for it.
Ace 3 months ago
Is that what "manifest it" means? You just wish for it and it happens if you believe strongly enough? Wow.
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Local farmer was pulling out the old windbreaks planted during the dust bowl to plant more beans and corn. His reasoning was “we haven’t had any dust storms and don’t need them anymore”.
Nicole Weymann 3 months ago
Only back then people didn't know about the consequences, whereas peopla these days DO know and actively deny the facts.
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#13
Was representing a client against their employer years ago. The employee was claiming the employer breached their contract.
The employer states emphatically at one point, in response to my question about if he recalled the parameter he's accused of breaching, with: "I put her contract through the shredder so it's not even valid and I can terminate her whenever I choose"
He legit thought if he tore it up like in aovie it just goes away.
Uncle Panda 3 months ago
The copier sat next to the shredder so I started calling them Brahma (the creator) and Shiva (the destroyer). Since that time, I've always known where Vishnu is (in the middle, ie, you).
#14
While in a study group for chemistry final, one of my classmates looked at me in amazement when I pulled out 3 spiral notebooks worth of notes. She asked me, “why don’t you use an iPad? It’s easier than carrying so many notebooks.” Which I politely responded by saying,” I don t have enough money to buy myself an iPad.” She then quickly asked why don’t you ask your parents to buy you one?” I then had to explain to her that I was paying my college tuition through grants and scholarships, and by working 32 hr shifts a week at a fast food restaurant to make the difference. She then proceeded to say confidently in front the study group, “I thought that only happened in tv and movies”.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 3 months ago
Honestly, I would rather both read and write on paper than on a tablet.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
It’s supposed to help you learn better if you write with your hand. “ Engaging the fine motor system to produce letters by hand has positive effects on learning and memory.” Scientific American, Feb. 2024. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-writing-by-hand-is-better-for-memory-and-learning/
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GalPalAl 3 months ago
While in college and working in study groups, was paired to many times with girls specifically who were there because their parents paid for them to b there. Like poster, here, working full time, managing school and trying to get through while they skated by and did nothing.
#15
Executive board member voting to give Executive director a 10% raise every year for five years. I objected after five saying I didn't mind giving them a 10% bonus but raising their pay buy 10% per year was a little much. The board member told me the Executive director was only getting 10% of their salary once a year and it was the same as a bonus.
I had to explain to him the difference between a raise and a bonus. He was the president of our board.
Onahogar Emmanuel 3 months ago
One thing I've learnt in life is, the higher ups is filled with stupid people e.g DJT and his ex-best friend/co-president
Doug Moyer 3 months ago
Unfortunately, my company knows very well the difference, which is why I don't get a cost-of-living adjustment, much less a raise, but I do get a substantial bonus.
michelle 3 months ago (edited)
I once read an article explaining why some people in high positions seemed so dumb. It turns out these people aren't smarter than us, and in many cases they're dumber, but they got the job because they happened to be in the right place at the right time. If your CEO, Director, Manager, etc, seems dumber than you, it's because they probably are.
K Barnes 3 months ago
Most places I've worked promotion is DIRECTLY related to schmoozing ability and has little to do with intelligence and competence.
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#16
When I was having an asthma attack as a 6 year old, the teacher I told said, "just breathe."
This wasn't something she was saying to calm me until help came. She refused to let me go to the nurse or go inside (we were outside on the playground during winter). She was basically saying, "if the problem is that you can't breathe, then breathe! See? I'm doing it.".
Mike F 3 months ago
Thankfully that nonsense was not in effect when I was in school. I carried my inhaler in my pocket and had an extra that stayed with the gym teacher.
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Any kind of vaccine causing any kind of mental disorder/disability. .
Lotekguy 3 months ago
How would RFK Jr handle it if somebody were to invent a vaccine that cured autism?
Barbara McCullough 3 months ago
Probably 99% of Anti-vaxxers have had every childhood and adult vaccine given in America. why so many childhood diseases were reduced down to practically none. Lately some are coming back brought by people from countries who didn't have the programs to eradicate or even prevent the diseases. And it used to be you couldn't even go to school unless your vaccines were up to date. then some doctors gave in to the anti-vax nuts about not getting their kids vaccinated, because it causes autism. and Jenny McCarty the actress help push the autism BS. It has come out that Dr. Andrew Wakefield an English surgeon, now former doctor. made up the autism diagnosis and all the studies. He lost his license permanently. and the reason we are seeing so many children with disabilities is because they have stopped putting them in institutions and mainstreaming them into regular schools. stopped treating them like outcast and letting them be seen. for the individuals they are.
#18
"Raising a child isn't that hard."
- A woman who was financially secure enough to hire a long-term live-in nanny and maids also had her mother move in with her to help with childcare.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 3 months ago
I had my granddaughter all day on Monday and it was EXHAUSTING. Stay at home parents have my full respect.
JK 3 months ago
Had my tubes tied at 25, so lucky to find a gyno that would do that. Never regretted it. Partial hysterectomy at 27 due to uncontrolled bleeding. I'm 55 now. I also thank my mother, who was a reproductive health pioneer starting after Roe. I don't care if i have to die alone. From what I know of friends, they regret having children but won't readily admit it.
JK 3 months ago
To the poster below. Absolutely not. I made an informed choice. In fact, I did a survey of community college students on their opinions of women who chose not to have children. This was before I made my choice that I am very proud of. It was immensely difficult to get that procedure at 25. Later, I ran into my gyno and asked him why he did it without a psych consultation. His response: "Jaim, you know what you wanted." I made jewelry gifts for his staff. I have an immense amount of respect for all my Gynos, I've been lucky.
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Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
Recall some actor who actually had to look after her own kids over xmas and went online looking for sympathy.
Lady Chelsea (LadyChelseaoftheVoid) 3 months ago
okay, then you do it *hands them the child* I'm going to McDonalds
#19
One of my college professors said “you can’t work for a corporation and be anti-corporation.”
My brother in Christ there are no other jobs.
Luke Branwen 3 months ago
People love smugly saying "if you're against capitalism so much, why do you still participate in it?" as a gotcha, but in fact... that's another thing that's bad about it. You're FORCED to participate in it, otherwise you die. That's not a "choice" they think it is.
Andrew Bridge 2 months ago
The correct answer is "You're right, let's stop now. How?"
Load More Replies... Lady Chelsea (LadyChelseaoftheVoid) 3 months ago
did you tell him that higher education has its fair share of corporations? textbook manufacturers that mark up books to ridiculous prices, high af tuition, stupid fees to use databases and programs
Cindy Brick 3 months ago
Welll, actually there are -- like working for yourself or a small business. But I get your point.
Day Andie 3 months ago
No, if you rent a house, own a house, live in your car--you're participating in capitalism. If you buy groceries, have a bank account, own and use a cell phone, you're participating. Get real. This is a capitalist society. Anything you do living in the US involves dealing with capitalism in one of it's manifest forms.
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#20
“I can’t stand the word empathy actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage, but it is very effective when it comes to politics".
nicholas nolan 3 months ago
And he was wrong. Sympathy is worthless. You're only seeing the issue from your perspective, and can't use that for a viable solution. No, I'm afraid Charlie was worried people might get out of their own viewpoint, and it would be more difficult for him to continue to foment the homogeneous society he so craved.
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nicholas nolan 3 months ago
Still s**t in context. Sympathy is not a better word.
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Squirrel Chaser 3 months ago
Where did you learn this definition? Because it's wrong.
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I was playing with my kid and this older man goes, “You know, you’re not a real parent until you have 2 kids.”.
otiose 3 months ago
In great leader trump's maga usa, six is the 'real parent' magic number. real american™ status if you have 11 or more. (This message brought to you by project 2025).
sturmwesen 3 months ago
Reminds me of the Mutterkreuz the Nazis gave to "good a***n women" with 4 or more children...dystopian bullsh!t
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 3 months ago
I've raised four stepchildren and currently helping raise one step grandchild. No biological children, so I guess I'm not a real parent, despite the last 15 years of effort.
UnicornSnotRules 3 months ago
My DIL and I had someone say this to us. My son (her husband) is an only child, and they only have one child at the moment. Go pound sand, you old MAGAT.
Emily Ly 3 months ago
So close, thats actually cows, not humans! (Cattle are considered "heifers" until they've had two calves. Some people will call them cows after just one calf but I know a lot that wont until their second calf.)
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
Conservatives think of human beings (especially women) as “resources” to be used, so that’s not far off.
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Learner Panda 3 months ago
There are too many people on this planet already; why would they advocate larger families.
#22
Someone once told me they don’t drink water because ‘it makes them thirsty.’ I’m still trying to process that one.
Martin König 3 months ago
Hey, I tried water once, and indeed I had the urge to drink more of it ad more and more! A coincidence? I Don't think so, it's strongly addictive.
Stardust she/her 3 months ago
Sounds like that person may have an electrolyte deficiency if water makes them even more thirsty
Jan Rosier 3 months ago
While sounding silly, some bottled water (like our belgian 'spa') will make me thirsty. All depends on the amount of calcium and the 'sandy' taste it gives. Plain tapwater does not do that.
#23
I knew a woman who, well into her 20s, thought that "quarter past/ quarter till" on the clock was 25 minutes because an American quarter is $.25.
JK 3 months ago
I can't believe the number of posts on various forums where people do not know that an hour is 60 minutes, and X2 is 120. It is four increments of 15 minutes = one hour.
Neb 3 months ago
But then why you get one minute heating when you enter 100 seconds on the microwave? It is clearly 100 seconds! /s
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AlithenewMC 3 months ago (edited)
I was thinking about these terms the other day. No one (that I know) says "quarter past/after" or "quarter to" except older people- like, older gen x or older. Everyone else just says "6:15" or "9:45". Could be different regionally, obviously. I know it's heard people saying "half past" when we were in the UK this summer, but I didn't take note of their ages.
Spencers slave no more 3 months ago
I use those terms, as do my kids and grandkids. We also use the 24 hour clock which my grandkids also understand. I've got friends and neighbours who use quarter past, quarter to, half past etc. It's very common time terminology.
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Someone told me they thought eyeglasses were scams because they were supposed to be "corrective lenses" but they never saw anyone's eyesight get corrected from using them their vision only got worse and they needed stronger and stronger prescriptions.
Stardust she/her 3 months ago
Oh man, this is my mum to a tee. She’s needed glasses for 5 years now but absolutely refuses to wear them because she believes that they make your vision worse. It’s super annoying when she’ll interrupt us during our tasks and ask us about the expiry date on labels because she can’t read
alchemilla vulgaris 3 months ago
This might be the result of what was normal practice in the '50s and 60's, less popular now but for some cases still in use. We were given "orthopedic" shoes that would correct your foot posture and prevent growing up knock-kneed or flat-footed, and "corrective specs" that would train a lazy eye or a squint. You only needed these for a brief spell at an early age, and the issues would be corrected (or so was the idea. In quite a few cases they worked too). After that, you were cured and didn't need the correction anymore, similar to dental braces for older kids or adults. Glasses that correct your myopia are not like that, they "correct" as in "compensate", not as in "cure".
Jumping Jellyfishes 3 months ago (edited)
Some vision conditions can be fixed by wearing glasses- I'm assuming this is mostly for growing children. This was the case for one of my kiddos who couldn't see more than a few feet in front of him as a toddler. He was 20/20 by the time he hit his late teens.
Lynchamigsakta 3 months ago
Yep I wore glasses early on as a kid and my nearsightedness got a lot better when reaching my late teens
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I have to say that over the last decade I've seen many ophthalmologists and they have given my wrong prescriptions. I lost my current one and am using one a decade old and it is so much better than the ones I've had. I'm still keeping my distance driving 'scrip.
joann fielding 3 months ago
I thought that was just me! Can't get a proper 'scrip no matter where I go!
Load More Replies... Jane Doe-Doe 2 months ago
Sorry Americans but WHY do you say ‘ eye’ glasses? Why not just ‘ glasses’? It’s not like you can use them anywhere else on your body!!
#25
Boss handing me my paycheck: "Don't spend it all in one place."
Me: "So, don't pay my mortgage?".
Spencers slave no more 3 months ago
I find it very strange that pay cheques are still a thing in the US.
#26
"Why do you think your husband is taking so long to find a new job?"
Said to me by my therapist 3 months after my husband got laid off.
She is 60 and has never had to search for a job. She had no idea what the job market is like in the past few decades. I lost it.
liam newton-harding 2 months ago
"You should be out there, pounding the pavement...handing out typewritten cv's...go in, demand to speak to the manager...shake them by the hand, and tell them three things they are doing wrong...go back every day, and harass them until they give you a job!"
highwaycrossingfrog 3 months ago
Perhaps it was the particular way she said it, but therapists typically ask non-leading questions to draw out hidden emotions. Which worked - clearly the patient was feeling anger and possibly fear of judgement over the job market on top of anxiety about her husband's unemployment.
Sly Schlang 3 months ago
This sounds like a great excuse for talking s**t.
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Annabelle 3 months ago
I'm reading this as though the partner in session DOES have empathy for their husband, in response to what the therapist seemed to be lacking. There is no way to know all that has been said or not about what's happening in the relationship, but "I lost it" sounds like they were bothered by the therapist's question, which could have been said in a judgmental tone about the client's husband not yet finding work.
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Expressing discomfort and concern at the situation surrounding a spouse not having a job isn't necessarily complaining that they don't have a job. Supporting a spouse takes energy also, and expressing that you are feeling the stress isn't complaining either. Sounds like it's a c**p therapist who is bringing her own issues into the session, as you most likely are, also. Projection concerning your feelings about marriage and women, much?
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During COVID I worked at a heavily conservative employer, 90% or so of the employees were ardent Republicans. When the antimask thing started I tried to reason with them, I would email scientific papers, and videos of studies to them but they were ignored. Then the antivax fun started and things got worse, but even then I tried to explain how vaccinations worked but it didn't help. I was the only one who wore a mask and I did so until I was vaccinated, and I was ridiculed the whole time for it.
Late into COVID one of the loudest antivaxers, who was recovering from it, after nearly being hospitalized, was spit balling about how if only there was something we could take that would prepare our bodies for it ahead of time and I just started hitting my head against my desk and kept my mouth shut. I gave up. I decided that humanity is too stupid to be reasoned with, and to let natural selection sort them out. You can't help people who don't want to be helped. You can't reason with close-minded people.
Oh, her and her husband have long-term health issues associated with their long illness, I don't believe she can work anymore, but I don't keep up with her after she left. I never got COVID, along with any of the vaccinated employees who hadn't already gotten it. There were even employees who knew they had it and came in anyway, despite one of us being treated for cancer....
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
It crept in gradually. It always was somewhat idiotic, but it really picked up momentum around the time of Nixon.
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Gen X Feral 3 months ago
I hate to break it to you, but it's still going around. My daughter got it last month and is still having problems.
Load More Replies... joann fielding 3 months ago
I masked and vaxxed. Still vax. Never got it. I'm what they call a 'novid.'
Brad Jackson 2 months ago
And now that we see that the vaccine has done to your immune systems, I'm 100% justified in never taking that poison!
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 3 months ago
No, I fully believe this. Sadly, the world is full of people too stupid to understand science, and too willfully ignorant to try.
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Redpillers insisting that you have to make 6 figures to get a relationship.
If that were the case humanity wouldn't be making nearly as many babies as we are.
Luke Branwen 3 months ago
Redpillers will blame literally all factors on their lack of love life except their egregious personality.
Nicole Weymann 3 months ago
Matrix refernce. Wiki extract: Red pill and blue pill are metaphorical terms representing a choice between learning an unsettling or life-changing truth by taking the red pill or remaining in the unquestioned experience of an illusion appearing as ordinary reality with the blue pill. [...] "taking the red pill" or being "red-pilled" typically means becoming aware of perceived political biases in society, including those in mainstream media, and viewing oneself as an independent thinker; whereas "taking the blue pill" or being "blue-pilled" generally means unquestioningly accepting these perceived biases. Individuals who identify as "red pilled" often espouse conspiracy theories, antisemitism, white supremacy, homophobia, and misogyny.
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When I was 19 I was homeless for like a week with no job, no money, just the clothes on my back and sofa surfing until I moved in with my best friend. While I was looking for a job and staying at a friends house for the night my friends sister went to me and told me to just rent a place. Yes Beth but please explain how I am meant to do that with no income and £5 to my name.
JK 3 months ago
Beth the b***h. My sister is Jody the b***h. I hope you get on your feet and write her off.
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Mike F 3 months ago (edited)
That can be difficult, I've been trying to "manifest" this d@mned fly out of my house that's been buzzing around all morning. I can deal with them on my own, in my own time, but my dog is terrified of flying insects and has spent most of the day cuddled at my feet because of said fly. I'm manifesting my @ss off trying to get rid of that devil but it just ain't working.
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#30
"Anybody can become a millionaire, it's super easy, you just start with about $10k and invest here and here, then buy this and take those profits and invest them here and there, ya go!"
Yep, everyone just has $10k lying around waiting to be invested. Also, investing is always profitable and never fails, the market never crashes, and nobody loses money - K Pal.
Lady Chelsea (LadyChelseaoftheVoid) 3 months ago
reminded of the d****e who went broke on purpose to show how he could make 1 million dollars easily. he failed big time
#31
"Well, if there wasn't any money in the bank account, why did I still have checks left?"
The stuff I had to explain to people when I worked for a bank would boggle your mind.
#32
They should take down those caution deer crossing signs, deer shouldn’t be crossing there.
Upstaged75 3 months ago
This is an old joke. I'm sure at some point though there was someone who believed it.
Philly Bob 3 months ago
They say that 20% of car accidents involve deer. I say we stop letting them drive.
#33
Many years ago, I was having dinner with my in-laws. My SIL asked if we were going to join the family for the annual 4th of July stuff in Faith, NC. I replied, "I don't know. It depends. Are there still confederate army reenactors marching in the parade?" At which point, she went on a crazy diatribe that began with "the Union soldiers did horrible things to plantation owners..."
If I never see my in-laws again, it will be too soon.
michael Chock 3 months ago (edited)
Yes, and the Allies did horrible things to the Nazis. (Ki led them. Nazis did much worse)
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
Stuff like this is why I boycott the south as much as possible. They’ve been sulking like sullen teenagers and dragging the rest of the country down for 150 years, because they lost a war which the rich people conned the poor people into fighting, so the rich people could keep other human beings as slaves.
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#34
Russia wouldn't be aggressive if they were let into NATO.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
Sometimes I think the old people in the Cold War who wanted to reduce Russia to subsistence farming had the right idea. Russia has done nothing but cause trouble for the past 120 or so years.
AmazingUsername 3 months ago
They did want to join after the soviet Union collapsed
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“We never use that insurance so I cancelled it.” An $85/year plan to cover $10,000-40,000 emergencies.
JK 3 months ago
Its like an after-market car warranty. Read the paperwork and ask questions. Do your research. If it sounds like a scam, it is. Also, if you buy a used car that that is only two years old, the five year manufacturer warranty is voided.
#36
Dad explaining why he was disappointed i was moving into another apartment, instead of "sticking it out and saving up for a house";
"When I was your age, I'd just gotten out of the Army, was working 3 jobs while going to school, and had a house"
Sure dad, it's not 1985 anymore.
Brian Droste 3 months ago
Hey, dad you want me to live here for 20 years so I can just save up for a down payment.
JK 3 months ago
Apartment living is great! Just need to have good neighbors and an attentive landlord.
Tropical Tarot 3 months ago
My mom built a house for 42k in 1991. She already owned the property. Same house today is almost 200k.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
So work 3 jobs and have no life until you’re 70….and then you can buy a house. Ten years before dėath.
#37
I had to explain to a customer that in order to return a product for a refund, they had to literally RETURN THE PRODUCT. He wanted a full refund on something he'd installed and was still installed at his home. The argument was:
"I want a refund"
"Sure, bring it in and we can"
"How can I when it's already been installed?!"
"Then we can't refund it unless you bring it back in."
"HOW CAN I BRING IT IN? IT'S ALREADY INSTALLED!!!"
Repeat that about 5 times, before he asked to see the manager.
In a wild twist, the manager didn't help him anymore than we did. I love working retail.
alchemilla vulgaris 3 months ago
How old was the customer? Back in the day, many many moons ago, programs came on floppy disks, and had a limited number of installations. So, after that number was reached, the disks didn't work any more, you might just as well put a bit of tape on the safety and format them, it was a useless piece of plastic otherwise. If it was for more than one installation, it would say at the beginning of the process something like "5 installations left", and afterwards "4 installations left", as if you had lost a life or something. A customer of a certain age might think that if they have already installed one copy there is no way they can "put it back in the pack".
Luke Branwen 3 months ago
Knowing retail, the d!ckhead probably got the refund even without returning the item.
#38
A substitute teacher in 4th grade kept sending me back to my desk to correct a paragraph they has us write because “there aren’t two Bs in the word probably.”.
#39
Someone tried to argue me “Aloha” was Spanish for hello…..
#40
I once overheard a nepo baby complain that their “hardship” was only being able to vacation in Europe twice a year instead of three times because their parents were cutting back on expenses. They said it with a straight face, like it was the same as someone stressing over rent or groceries, and I remember just sitting there thinking, “Wow… we really don’t live on the same planet.”.
Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
Recall a rancher trying to get sympathy because he couldn't afford to fly his plane from his private airstrip as much as he once did.
K Barnes 3 months ago
I have a few coworkers with rich parents who have had help like paying for 50% of their home, buying them new cards as adults, and taking them on overseas trips several times a year.I often feel like we aren't on the same planet even though we spend 40 hours a week together.
#41
I worked with a lady who thought there was no rain (at all, ever) until Noah's flood because that was the first time that rain was mentioned in the Bible.
michael Chock 3 months ago
What is this cold, white stuff around Christmas? Is snow the devils work?
SCP 4666 3 months ago
Nope, God and the angels are having a party and doing lines but someone knocked the tablet over
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In the beginning, there was nothing. Then God created light. There was still nothing, but now you could see it.
Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
I used to invite JWs in and talk to them. Asked one about conflicting accounts in the bible and he said "well you can't believe everything"
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The fact is -- we don't know for sure. Some 'experts' (ha, how would they know!) posit that everything was watered by a heavy dew, instead...and that was another reason by Noah's neighbors were so skeptical about his claims. ("Rain? What's rain?") But honestly, we don't know. So it's not as ridiculous as this person is trying to make it sound.
Phantom Phoenix 3 months ago
My indoctrination began when I was 4½. I once accepted the bible as "god's word", its history as truth. At 40, having developed some critical reasoning skills, I examined my beliefs. They crumbled. The Jesus of the gospels (which contradict each other around some key events) did not exist. At best there was a teacher who was worked into some fan fiction. e.g. Read Matthew's crucifixion/resurrection account that includes earthquakes and long-dead saints rising from their graves and walking around. It's odd that *no-one else* in or outside the bible mentions this zombie uprising. Honestly, is that believable? Truth can stand up to scrutiny. If you're willing to question the authority of the bible, you will discover that it's lacking credibility. There was no worldwide flood that only marine life, 8 humans and the land animals they rescued survived. And rain has occurred since before there were humans. No matter how many believe it, a lie is a lie. Christianity is not built on truth.
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#42
Working at a high school, I made a suggestion to improve a bad situation while teaching the student’s a little responsibility in the process. The Administration’s response: it’s not our job to teach the students responsibility .
#43
"Why don't we just have clones fight our wars?" Asked seriously in a science class in a high school some decades ago.
Cindy Brick 3 months ago
A Star Trek episode addressed a similar problem -- people were supposed to hop obediently into a neutralizer because their area had been targeted for a hit. I thought that was ridiculous, too. Certainly the crew of the Enterprise not only refused to play ball, but got the others to rebel, as well.
Onahogar Emmanuel 3 months ago
Not that bad if you ask me, although I can fight my wars, so long as it doesn't involve going to work dealing with people and relationships
JK 3 months ago
They should all be clones of the trump family. Nah, they will just fck it all up.
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#44
I sat down beside our receptionist to help her find an Excel file she'd saved somewhere but couldn't find where.
I had barely started speaking before she stopped me, angry that I was talking over her head.
"Wait wait wait what are you even talking about, the desk top. It's not on my desk it's in my computer!".
highwaycrossingfrog 3 months ago
Back in the mid to late 90s I had a summer job doing admin in a college. The college started introducing a computerised system for student records, and an IT guy came in to show us how it worked. When he told us to use our mouse to move the cursor over, one of the woman picked up her mouse and waved it about in the air. Guess he had to go back to the basics with her
Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
Back when Desktops were fairly new office things I had a fellow ask me to look at his. His coffee holder wasn't working. Yeah, that's your CD drive.
#45
"Autism isn't real,
You're just immature!
You'll grow out of it.".
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 months ago
Åssholism is real, though. And people who bully autistic people only grow out of it if somebody stands up to them and kicks their åss.
#46
My step sisters husband said, "The only people who said charlie kirk was hateful are the people who disagreed with him." No way Sherlock, people who agree with him aren't going to say he was hateful.
Upstaged75 3 months ago
And he was OK with some kids being shot at school, because that's the price America pays for the 2nd Amendment. 🤬 That worked out well for him didn't it?
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Cindy Brick 3 months ago
So many people who disagreed with Charlie are also coming forward and saying he wasn't hateful at all. Just clear about his beliefs, and what he based them on. Sigh...
Nathan Hayden 3 months ago
Good they shoulc keep coming forward not everyone has to hate charlie you can disagree without being a b word about it
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#47
Husband overheard a grocery store employee trying to help a customer select some water. Employee suggested flavored water and customer responded they prefer the nonalcoholic type.
???
Quinn Goforth 3 months ago
This one kinda makes sense when you remember white claw (flavored SPIKED seltzer water) exists
Nicole Weymann 3 months ago
That, and several high voltage drinks are named after the some word for water (like vodka, whiskey, aquavit, French eau de vie or even some German "-wasser" like Kirschwasser)
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A Trumplican tried to explain that the oceans rising because of glacier melt is a myth. His reasoning was that water expands when it freezes and recedes when it thaws.
michael Chock 3 months ago
That's true! For icebergs. We are talking about water that is on land. It's the difference between an ice cube melting and not flooding a glass, and a bag of ice melting and soaking your floor.
Mike F 3 months ago
I worked with a guy who, while not a trumpanzee, was a climate change denier who said much the same thing. I could only think, no wonder you and your wife can't conceive, you probably can't figure out how it's accomplished.
Nathan Hayden 3 months ago
Theres idiots on both sides, the mention of trump was completely unnecessary to the comment, this app is so political it AMAZES me
Steve Kadner 3 months ago
And global warming isn't real because I get cold in the winter. I think this idiocy is pretty one sided. Global sea levels have risen 6-8 inches (15-20 cm) in the past century and a similar amount projected over the next 30 years. Turn off Foxnews.
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Project 2025 was liberal propaganda.
JK 3 months ago
I'm not downvoting you because I think you are correct in that this project 2025 a*****t on America is being achieved and the SCOTUS is enabling and backing it. The pity parties are starting to roll in on it. The s*****e rate is up 9% and a local scenic gorge bridge was recently closed due to jumpers. It is only going to get worse.
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Day Andie 3 months ago
Trumpian takeover of the US subsidized by billionaires.
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“It’s not possible that you have an IQ of 138. Because my mom’s is 140 and she’s a dentist.” -my roommate. Who was quite literally the most obnoxious and self entitled c-word on this planet.
The Goo King 3 weeks ago
Cat. His roommate is a cat, and they are all like that.
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"I'll just chug it, it won't hurt or something"
Says guy before trying to chug gell for disinfection because it said "80% alcohol".
michael Chock 3 months ago
Antifreeze is 80% water. Pools are even more. Don't chug that either.
Brad Jackson 2 months ago
Disinfectant actually uses ethanol, but they only way they are allowed to is if they add "denaturants" which are basically poisons to prevent you from drinking it.
#53
Someone shoplifting telling the cop but it was only 50$ worth of stuff so she shouldnt get a ticket lol.
JK 3 months ago
The local law governs that is a prosecutable offense on misdemeanor shoplifting. In the US there are shoplifting rings selling stuff on the black market. If they don't prosecute, there is no record of accountability. Serial shoplifters, although a misdemeanor depending on the cash value, should be prosecuted so cumulative offenses can not only bring them up to a felony, but it can also help bust other rings: d**g dealing, fencing, p**********n, human trafficking....
#54
My ex found out that my best friend of 30 years (she did not know him) took his own life and texted me “______ passed, just so you know and not that you probably even care”.
#55
A manager once told me ‘Just buy a house, it’s not that hard.’ While I was making $15/hr.
#56
This girl from Maryland said that since I was from Wisconsin I should have a New York accent, since Wisconsin is up by New York.
#57
My boss, when her assistant told her she would be late to work the next morning, because she had a dr appointment, 1st appointment of the day at 8.30am, vented to me later and said.....isn't that what vacation days are for? Hahaha...I told her no...that vacation days are for, guess what, vacation!! Her face!! Pikachu!! She was gobsmacked!!!
Mike Rodrick 3 months ago
I was under the impression that you could do anything you like on vacation days.
#58
“250k in student loan debt isn’t that bad”.
JK 3 months ago
Mine was that bad. I couldn't pay. Apparently they wrote it off and are not bothering me for it since my income is spotty. All mine were fed backed and not private lenders. If it is private, I'm sorry because they can and will go after all of your income and assets for the rest of your life.
tameson 3 months ago (edited)
They may not be bothering you about it now, but the federal government can and will take it out of your social security payments when you are old enough to start collecting them. https://fiscal.treasury.gov/top/how-top-works.html
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I was in college and made a comment when watching an ad for a Rolling Stones concert. I said, “Oh, look. The geriatric reunion tour.”
My friend sniffed and said, “I don’t even know who Jerry Atrix is.”.
Talis 3 months ago
I hate it when people wear Harley Davidson shirts, but don't even listen to her music!
DC 3 months ago
Yeah, these are the worst. Or, wear a Black Sabbath Shirt, on a Thursday or so. Dumb!
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Jay Scales 3 months ago
I didn't bother with the extra ones.... I feel depressed enough, thanks
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I didn't bother with the extra ones.... I feel depressed enough, thanks
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