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“That’s Advanced Stupid”: 43 People Share How They Were Baffled By Someone’s Sheer Ignorance
Article created by: Rugilė Žemaitytė
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?"
- Read More: "That's Advanced Stupid": 46 People Share How They Were Baffled By Someone's Sheer Ignorance
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#1
"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.
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#2
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.
#3
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. .
#4
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.
#5
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.
#6
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.
#7
“When I heard all scientists saying the same thing, that’s when I knew it was a conspiracy.”.
#8
My old boss once said, ‘Just buy a house, renting is a waste of money.’ …on my $14/hr salary.
#10
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”.
#11
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.
#12
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”.
#13
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.
#14
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.".
#15
"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.
#17
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.
#18
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.
#19
I was playing with my kid and this older man goes, “You know, you’re not a real parent until you have 2 kids.”.
#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".
#21
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.
#22
Someone once told me they don’t drink water because ‘it makes them thirsty.’ I’m still trying to process that one.
#23
Boss handing me my paycheck: "Don't spend it all in one place."
Me: "So, don't pay my mortgage?".
fortis etfelix 7 months ago
The term, "don't spend it all in one place" is a well-known term used when you are giving someone a pittance, a small amount of money - and the comment is a satirical or sarcastic way of saying, "There's not enough here to even do one thing!" Maybe that makes you understand your boss was saying, "I'm not paying you enough."
#24
"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.
#25
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.
#26
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....
fortis etfelix 7 months ago
Been there too, my friend. And ...to point out the painfully obvious right now, that little joke people used to say--> "And they vote!"
#27
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.
#28
"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.
#30
“We never use that insurance so I cancelled it.” An $85/year plan to cover $10,000-40,000 emergencies.
#31
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.
#32
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.
#34
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.”.
#35
"Why don't we just have clones fight our wars?" Asked seriously in a science class in a high school some decades ago.
fortis etfelix 7 months ago
Yes, and look at our country today...we know where they all went, right?
#36
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.
#37
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!".
#39
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 .
fortis etfelix 7 months ago
As an educator (in the UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA system, no less) I can say that I fully believe that this happened.
#41
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.
#43
They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people who live there.
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