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Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. I’m not going to waste energy trying to convince you that olives are an elite pizza topping if you hate them, and you’ll never be able to change my mind about autumn being the best season. But there are certain things that we should all be on the same page about, especially if they can be backed up with facts.
Redditors have been recalling the most ridiculous arguments that they’ve had with other adults, so we’ve gathered some of their facepalm-worthy stories below. From people being adamant that bacon is a vegetable to swearing that space doesn’t exist, enjoy reading through these stories that might make you feel like the smartest person in the world. And be sure to upvote the ones that you find most amusing!
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#1
I can't believe there's full grown adults with working brains that still believe abortion should be outlawed.
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#2
I was discussing the need for contraception with my brother and his wife if they did not want to have a child. She stated she did not need to use contraception. I said that she would, and she promptly replied "No I don't, I'm infertile. Just like my mother."
To be fair, that stopped the argument.
#3
I used to take a train downtown and then a bus to work. One day, the train was a few mins late and so I literally had to sprint to catch the bus or be late to work. I got hot from running and pulled out my water bottle from my bag and some guy started an argument with me about there being no food or drink on the bus... while holding a Starbucks coffee.
His argument was that he wasn't drinking it, so there was no chance for it to spill where as my water bottle could have spilled. I ignored him, but for 10 or 15 mins he wouldn't shut up and was really getting in my face (and I'd long put the water bottle away). So when I saw my stop coming and felt the bus slow down, I jumped up, "accidentally" knocked his coffee out of his hand and onto his lap and then shrugged and said "oops, I guess it can spill" and jumped off the bus.
#4
That bacon wasn't a vegetable.
Had ordered a bacon cheeseburger at a fast food restaurant and asked for "no veggies." When I got the burger, there was no bacon. I went to the cashier to ask for the bacon and she just smiled and said, "You asked for no veggies." Thinking this must be a joke, I asked her, "since when was bacon considered a vegetable." With a completely straight face, she replied, "It's always been a vegetable. My boyfriend and I are vegetarians and we eat bacon all the time.".
#5
Why two tablets of vitamin B6 do not equal one of B12...
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
So if I take 4 tablets, that would be B24, which should be ever more super-duper healthy for me, right?
#6
I had a grown adult who was in possession of car keys and (presumably) a wallet with money they earned through employment… yell at me once that I was a “f*****g moron” because I was watering the plants for sale outside the grocery store I worked for. When I replied that it was hot and we were making sure they stayed alive for people to purchase she said “You’re too stupid to live. EVERYONE knows plants make their own water!!!
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Um. No?
Before I could react, she got in her car and cut the wheel too much while backing up and ripped off her entire front fender on the concrete barrier beside the car 🤦🏼♀️.
#7
No joke, I went to pick up an item at the grocery store and it was labeled "1/3 lb" and an older lady tapped me on the shoulder and pointed to a competitive item next to it for the same price, but was labeled "1/4 lb". She said, "It's smarter to buy the larger package for the same price. Your wife would know that." She could absolutely not be convinced that 1/3 lb was larger than 1/4 lb. Even explaining the math and showing her the weight in ounces on the package, she wasn't having it. I just laughed to myself and walked away.
#8
My friend's boyfriend thought that she got her period because she cheated on him...he was saying that they hadn't had sex recently and "all of a sudden" her period started
I had to explain to a fully grown, 23 year old man, that periods are part of a menstrual cycle and most women have them in varying degrees, and are not a direct result of vaginal sex, afterwards it went something like this
"so where does the blood come from"
"tissue from the lining of the uterus sheds which causes the bleeding"
"so girls get their period after sex then"
"why do you still think that?"
"because you're penetrating the uterus"
"the vagina is different from the uterus, you're penetrating the vagina"
"I thought vagina was the word for how it looks on the outside"
and that's also how I found out (it became increasingly obvious with each new sentence) that this guy is a total idiot who doesn't know anything about the female reproductive system or anatomy.
#9
We live in Canada.... and we were on a road trip. we stopped to take a p**s and a tumble weed comes rolling across the way. he tells me that "did you know tumble weeds come from Texas" at first i thought i was a joke. but the guy was dead f*****g serious. these things just tumble across 100000 of kilometers across the mountains and countless fences, river and lakes. it was the dumbest conversation i ever had. and he's one of those guys that always thinks he right. so me an all my buddies call him Texas tumbleweed Bryce. still do to this day.
#10
I met someone who didn’t believe in space. Not space travel, outer space. Just didn’t think it was real.
#11
With a 40 year old woman in South America. I had to explain where babies came from. She had like 17 kids and didn’t know why god kept blessing her with more children. She just wanted it to stop as she had been pregnant pretty much her entire adult life. I’m not sure if her husband knew or not.
#12
I had to have a long chat with someone in their 30s about Mexico not being a US state. She was sure that Cancun was an American city because most of the people there were white & black Americans and not Mexicans. I asked how far outside the resort she had gotten and she said “what do you mean?”.
Full of Giggles 1 year ago (edited)
My grandmother is one of those people who tells anyone she hears speaking Spanish, “This is America. Speak American.” I told her Puerto Ricans are Americans and they speak Spanish. She countered with “Ricans speak Spanish because they’re owned by Mexico” and then proceeded to tell me that I needed to go back to school to learn geology.
#13
Someone who was an ELECTED OFFICIAL at the time was completely unaware of the fact that the seasons are at opposite times of year between the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
Convinced that I was "f*****g with her" when I tried to explain that Christmas is observed in the summertime in Australia, she took to google, confirmed the date for xmas being 25th of December, and decided that I was indeed full of s**t...
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 1 year ago
Scary that the voters were just as dumb, it would seem, to vote for another dumbass
#14
"STD's aren't real" and also, "I've had syphilis in the past" from the same person.
#15
I once had to explain that going 60 miles per hour meant you would literally travel 60 miles in an hour to a colleague. We were both in our mid 20s at the time. I don’t know how they passed math class ever.
#16
That a child should be able to say if they want to be hugged or not🤷🏽♀️.
#17
Reindeer are real, I am not trying to convince you that there are actually flying deer that pull Santa Claus' sleigh.
#18
I knew a lady who had two sons.
We were visiting and I had to use the bathroom and I was on my girly time. Even though I wrapped it up you can see the wrap in the trash can. She approached me and started screaming how I was a w**re out of nowhere.
Long story short, she was under the belief that a woman only had a period if she was a w**re. Because it was God's way of punishing a woman. I had to sit and explain to her that a period was a natural thing that women had and it was not some divine retribution
Again, this was another woman. And she had two children which means she had all of her body parts. And obviously they functioned correctly because she had children. Which means she has had periods in her life
She wouldn't believe me, just went completely wild screaming until I had to leave because she wouldn't stop screaming how I was a w**re and my period was proof of it.
#19
When I was a kid my neighbor had set cage traps for a possum that was tearing up his lawn at night searching for bugs, apparently.
One day I came home from school and noticed a cat in the trap, obviously someone's pet as it was wearing a collar. I walk over into his yard to free it and the guy comes out and goes berserk as I was trying to let it out. I explained it was a housecat, which he could obviously see but insisted to keep it trapped. I told him to p**s off or whatever and let the cat out. He continues to yell at me as I walked away and ignored him. F**k that guy, 30 years later and it still pisses me off!
#20
That Africa is NOT a country in and of itself, it's made up of many countries. A paraprofessional in my classroom started to argue with me as I was teaching my students about continents. She was trying to say that Africa is a country and I said Nooo, it is made up of many countries. I had all the kids pull out their laptops and Google the countries of Africa.
#21
I had to argue with a woman that thought Africa was the center of the earth and it was a giant island... not connected to the crust... that just floated around and all life came from it and any humans that weren't African were gross malformations of genetics that the glorious people of Africa kicked out for being bad genetic code.
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This is NOT a s**tpost I swear to God this is a real converstion that I had with a woman who called me things like *rice rascal* (I'm fillapino).
#22
That the first amendment protects both your right to follow any religion AND your right to abstain from it. There are apparently people who believe that it only means freedom to follow a religion of your choosing, which is insane.
#23
I had a co-worker say “how do you know this stuff?!?”, when I told her that the Winter Solstice was the shortest day of the year.
The subsequent conversation was hard to have without using my speaking to a child voice.
Sarah 1 year ago
Co-worker told me I wasn't a good manager because I used big words that made people think I was a snob, and that she had to keep a dictionary at her desk to look up words after we spoke. She was another manager in my department. The word that prompted this feedback was "exhausted."
#24
I argued with someone r/Aww that because male cats are mammals, they are going to have nipples.
He spent the entire day arguing that male cats don’t have nipples since they don’t breastfeed.
I went through his post history just to see if it was a s**tposter, nope, it was a man working as a mechanic.
#25
Trying to convince my spouse that Electric Bills are more important to pay than buying LuLu Lemon clothes, while the electricity was cut off by the utility company.
#26
They thought that the universe is 5000 years old and dinosaurs is a lie.
Cee Cee 1 year ago
Yeah. Once worked a night shift with a guy who converted to some sort of evangelical church - he'd been raised a Jew. Convinced Genesis was correct. It was a long, frustrating night.
Oerff On Tour 1 year ago
Rule #1 in a professional environment: NEVER talk about religion or politics with coworkers or clients
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Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago
I had someone a while ago try to tell me that evolution is an anti-Christian position. They couldn't explain why, if this is so, Charlie Darwin is buried with honour in Westminster Abbey alongside Isaac Newton
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
I spoke to someone online who insisted that everything in the Bible was ‘literally true’. Literally. And that ‘evolution couldn’t be real’, because she bet I’d never seen an animal ‘in the middle of evolving’. I pointed out all animals are in the middle of evolving. I then asked her if she could see trees growing, and whether that meant trees growing is fake too. She never got back to me.
Debby Keir 1 year ago
There was a biology teacher at my daughter's school who was a creationist - UK here, so pretty rare. His head of dept had to have a long talk to him to get him to teach the UK syllabus......
Michael Largey 1 year ago
We had a creationist in our science department. They only let her teach chemistry.
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_physically_insane_(he/they/any) 1 year ago
Met someone recently who thought humans lived with dinosaurs, because she believed in the bible. She also worked in the education industry :/
Weasel Wise 1 year ago
My dad is a geologist...who devoutly believes the Earth is 6000yo. His work often takes him to the Grand Canyon....which he believes is 6000yo. The brainwashing is strong with him.
Hobby Hopper 1 year ago
I've seen documentaries (I use the word lightly) to that effect. It's interesting but also terrifying the mental gymnastics people will perform to fit their observations into their worldview, and how they will then indoctrinate others with those same ideas. Unfortunately, I fell into the same trap when I was young, and I consider myself a fairly intelligent person. Those who don't grow up with this kind of brainwashing don't understand how hard it is to change your frame of mind.
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Joanne Mendonza-Earle 1 year ago
My mother actually pondered this aloud to me one day. I was shocked. 'How do the dinosaurs factor in when the world is only 6000 years old.' I said, 'If you actually are that ignorant to believe that, then I can't talk to you anymore.' Seriously.
Lyone Fein 1 year ago
Yeah. People who mistakenly think that "true" means "literal". Some people will just always think like children.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
I was told that Satan laid down the fake fossils to tempt Christians into believing in them. No s**t. I still don't see Satan's angle on that but ok.
Al Padilla 1 year ago
Yes. Everything was created in 4004 BC. Just ask Archbishop Usher. He calculated stuff from the Bible and came up with that number. ... and it was good.
MotorcycleDoggo 1 year ago
A buddy used to have an old encyclopedia that had an actual date the earth was created. I don't remember exactly but it was a Tuesday in March, some time around 700BC ?
Ray Horowitz 1 year ago
If Good Omens is to be believed, it was Octber 4004 BC
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Rowan Kohler 1 year ago
I had a friend that tried the dinosaur and people coexisted in earths 6000 year history. He sited carbon dating was wrong because a jellyfish was carbon dated and it said it was crazy old. That was his evidence beside what his parents told him. I said it sounds like a bad test but now we know some jellyfish are truly immortal as long as they don’t get killed. So maybe the test wasn’t wrong.
Sue 1 year ago
Funny, because the trailer for Ancient Aliens the other night mentioned jellyfish could be immortal. They did have some cool info on octopi.
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queer little autism frog 1 year ago
“how is sharks minions years old if the earth is 2024 ?” “they lived in the ocean, not earth” “ohhh that makes sense”
Pablo Ramos 1 year ago
Well, respectfully, you are completely wrong. Evolution is a very long process. So what you are saying it that Noah boarded, say, a lion couple, and after the flood they evolved into tigers, leopards , jaguars, cheetahs, etc. in two thousand years or less? Completely ridiculous and impossible.
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ShellsBells 1 year ago
I was in the Navy with a guy that 100% believed that dinosaurs didn't exist since they were not in the Bible. The bones? Every single one of them were rocks that happened to be shaped like bones. Things you learn/hear being out to sea for 6 months. Dude also cheated on his wife that he had 6 children with. I guess that was in the Bible.
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I had an undergraduate university professor (subject: French) who would not, for the life of her, believe her students when we told her that a kilogram of feathers and a kilogram of stone weighed the same. It was a true or false question on an exam and she graded us all incorrectly on it.
#28
My cousin was bagging his own groceries at Walmart, those bags are thin and weak as hell so he was double bagging. The check out monitor lady came up and said that he isn’t allowed to double bag, it’s too wasteful. He informed her that their bags were c**p and that he didn’t want his groceries to fall out. Her solution was to take half of the groceries in that bag and put them in another bag.
He explained multiple times that this would be using the same amount of bags but she couldn’t understand how that was the same thing.
After awhile he just said F it and went about bagging his groceries.
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Sounds more like she's just an idiot. I've never had any of them say anything to me about double bagging.
#29
Explaining to someone that a stop sign means stop.....
#30
Met someone who believed he didn't need to brush his teeth because he had some gene that made his teeth have some kind of self-cleaning abilities. Apparently, the gene he was referring to actually just meant he was less susceptible to build-up than others may be. I argued with him about the general hygiene, odour, and his inability to get a date if he continued to avoid brushing. Thanks to this argument, he finally started to brush his teeth...at 24 years old.
#31
I was managing a chuck e cheese, two kids redeeming prizes, 2 parents, The kids were being kids bouncing between the two prize windows even though they are the same, parent 1 is annoyed with kid 2 and asks parent 2 to control their kid, I inform the kids and parents that both prize windows are the same so each kid can look in one, kids continue to be kids and are flip flopping from side to side like a fish in a boat hoping to find water. Parent 2 was seething from the comment parent 1 made so when kid 1 touches kid 2 parent 2 says parent 1 needs to control their kid and the parent start to yell at eachother, when I address the adults as kids, "Can we all act our age and I'll get you both out of here as soon as I can?"
To which parent 2 looks me dead in the eye and says "She started it!!"
I responded incredulously "How old are you?" Thankfully that shut them both up and the kids picked their prizes.
#32
I was the dumb one. I had the "ducks can fly?!" realization after arguing with friends that ducks just sit in ponds and quack, quack, waddle, waddle only.
XenoMurph 1 year ago
I think we'd all be amazed at the silly things we said, just because we'd never thought about it before. How many of us have not thought deeply about ordinary things, and just assumed our experience was universal. I'm sure I'm someone's story of "this dude actually believed this"
#33
That adhd doesn’t in fact exist. That adult was my mentor teacher that said that it isn’t real in front of her whole class. Me… a 17 year old had to respectfully take her out of the class for a second to tell her “what are you doing? These are six year olds.” She responds with “it’s only because their parents never say no. It’s not real.” Me: ”ma’am I have Adhd, tell me to my face it’s because my parents didn’t know how to parent me.” She froze so I ended the conversation with “at least my parents gave me knowledge.” She told my teacher she didn’t think I was fit to be one.
#34
A coworker insisted Okinawa was a Hawaiian island and couldn’t be convinced otherwise.
#35
That bigger circuit breaker panel doesn't mean you are gonna have a bigger electric bill 😂. The client called and said that the circuit breaker panel is big and it's gonna use a lot of electricity and that's the reason why I need to replace it with a smaller size one. 😅.
#36
That making hollandaise sauce with vanilla soft serve ice cream was not acceptable in this universe or any other.
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
It’s not a sauce with arbitrary ingredients. Sure, the acid can be varied, but it’s pretty specific 375 year old sauce.
#37
A pair of Marmots is not a Marmoset!
#38
Cheating on someone isn't just a mistake or an accident.
#39
That LGBTQ people are a hoax to keep women enslaved to men. She was around 30 or so and I was 15 at the time. So this women came up to a 15 year old boy(me) to ask if I knew about what men were doing to keep women enslaved.
I have to admit it was quite entertaining.
#40
That washing with soap thoroughly after sex does not "get rid of" any stds you could have caught......no matter how fast you do it........grown a*s man jfc.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Jacob Zuma took a shower to stop himself catching HIV after having sex with a woman he was not married to.
#41
I once needed to actually give a lecture of poultry reproduction to a 45 year old man who was claiming that chickens are hermaphrodite and that they do not need to have sex to procreate 🙄 it was surreal.
Sweetie Dahling 1 year ago
And then there are some people who call eggs "chicken periods" 🤦🏻♀️
#42
Explaining to my 2nd grade teacher that Alaska is bigger than Texas and yes, the picture on the wall map is smaller, but that is because they are at different scales.
#43
This is going back quite a few years now. Back when I was in college, I had a teacher who was a flat eather... you can probably guess how that went.
#44
Somebody very close to me thinks all of evolution is a lie. Not even a strongly religious.
#45
Why concentration camps were dehumanizing... yup, someone I know thought they were good...
#46
That dictionaries are better source of definition of words than twitter is.
They said western dictionaries are propaganda and can't be trusted for the definition of words.
Edit: Their point was not even the use of words in the general population of twitter users(which still doesn't represent the total population), it was the definition according to a handful of posts by some twitter accounts.
#47
Drinking rubbing alcohol can kill the coronavirus bacteria and cure you.
You cannot believe how triggered I was, after hearing this.
#48
A friend of mine believes wholeheartedly that there are fairy people and giant people living secretly in new zealand, and that giant people were also the ones who built the pyramids.
He's convinced that he is actually a hybrid too, that he doesn't truly belong in human society.
He's 40.
#49
I once had to explain to a grown-up that you can’t just microwave metal. They were convinced it would be fine because “it’s just a little bit.” I mean, come on! I thought we all learned that in middle school. 🤦♂️.
#50
My dad had to explain to my sweet mother that hamburgers were made out of cow meat, not pig meat. She had gone forty years of her life at the time not knowing.
#51
That anxiety isnt something you have from being lazy. It was with my cousin and she said anxiety disorder comes from being lazy. When I asked her to elaborate she said that she keeps busy and she has never had anxiety. I honestly couldnt even keep arguing with stupid.
Jaya 1 year ago
While it is true that lack of exercise can exacerbate the symptoms of an anxiety disorder, her statement of course is ridiculous. Does she also believe that an anxiety disorder is caused by your name, because she is called Linda and doesn't have anxiety so if everyone would just be called Linda, they wouldn't have anxiety n'either?
#52
I waitressed at a pretty high-end sushi restaurant. A lady ordered her sushi and proceeded to act shocked when she received it and her shrimp was cooking. She called me over, asked what was going on because she ordered shrimp *sushi* and in her words "sushi means *RAW"*. So I tell her (in much more professional terms) 'lady, you're wack. you can't have raw shrimp.'
She proceeds to make a scene and demand my manager (the owner) come over, to which my owner laughs and goes "Raw shrimp gives you worms" before turning around and leaving it at that.
Edit: I’m learning now that you CAN have raw shrimp but it’s one of those “very specifically picked” type deals.
#53
Not an argument, but I had to explain to a lifelong friend how to brush his teeth when we were roommates for a couple of years in our early 20’s.
This is a guy who had constant dental problems since we were kids, and was a real concern for him so much that he would even express it to his friends at usually insecure ages. He swore that his dental routine was top notch — and he genuinely believed it was.
It wasn’t until we became roommates and he had to have yet another root canal that I paid attention to his daily dental routine which consisted of him actually brushing for maybe 5 seconds and then walking around with a toothbrush in his mouth for the next five minutes while he did laundry, or found his work clothes, or wallet, etc, etc. In his mind he was truly paying attention to his mouth, but in reality he had not really learned how to brush his teeth until he was in his 20’s. The one thing that probably saved him from it being worse than it was is that he flossed 3 times a day.
#54
Had an argument with a substitute teacher that you cannot add the last 2 digits of a number to 4 or 8 and it will always be divisible by 4. She still argued with me that 12 is not divisible by 4 because the numbers added up to 3.
And just to clarify the actual rule to the minority of people who do not know, if the last 2 numbers are divisible by 4, the entire sequence of numbers is divisible by 4. If the entire set of numbers add up to 3,6, or 9, then it’s divisible by 3.
#55
That the 5th of July was not the 2nd Wednesday of the month.
After 20 mins I handed the call off to my manager and admitted defeat.
#56
"I just don't see insects as animals.".
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 1 year ago
Well, they are certainly not minerals or vegetables, lol.
#57
Credit cards- I said you should utilize a max of 10% of your limit on credit cards and pay it off every month.
They claim that is very, very wrong and in order to improve credit score you can charge the card up to your limit and pay the minimum every month. So the credit card company “can see you have money” to pay it off every month.
This person is in their 40s. And credit is in shambles.
The conversation ended with me telling them okay you’re right!
#58
As a low level AV engineer, I was gobsmacked when I had to explain to our highest level engineer, with decades of experience in video, down to the component level - that a projector doesn’t project ‘black’. He just would not accept the ‘black’ on the screen was the same as the ‘white’ that was there just before we turned on the projector. He had been installing these systems for countless years.
#59
A lady once called the cops on me because I wouldn't take her bottle return slips. I worked grocery stock and was nowhere near the cash registers.
#60
I had to tell a 30 year old woman that it is the man that determines the gender of his children. .
Jaya 1 year ago
Fun fact: it isn't just the chromosomes that determin the sex, everything else has to work "normally" for xy to lead to a male body and xx to lead to a female body. For instance, if the body doesn't respond to androgens at all, someone can have xy and a female body. Similarly, some people with xx have a male body. And not everyone has xx or xy. There are different kinds of intersex conditions, they're super interesting.
What do you think ?
Jenna Kay 1 year ago
Quite honestly, given all the people I have met and spoken with in my 50 years, they are all likely true. From a college roommate who thought you got pregnant from holding hands, to a teacher who thought Alaska was an island next to Hawaii off the California coast, to my uncle who believed that people hunted dinosaurs in the 1920s ... it makes me wonder what I have wrong!!!
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Myoviridae 1 year ago
A few years ago I had to order something by phone. The customer service person insisted that my zip code meant I lived in Arizona (I live halfway across the country and had done for many years). I had her repeat the zip code back to me and even looked it up on the post office website for her. No dice... she kept insisting I lived in Arizona. By the time I finally hung up, she had half convinced me that I really did live in Arizona.
Pablo Ramos 1 year ago
Back when I was in college, engineering, a group of classmates were discussing petroleum production. The number of 3 million barrels per day was mentioned. I asked one person in the group the following question with evil intentions: "Can you imagine selling THREE MILLION BARRELS PER DAY!? Where do they get so many barrels?" To which the person responded: "Well, I guess whoever wants oil have to bring their own barrels."
The Doom Song 1 year ago
Got halfway through.... I feel MENSA smart after reading these... I cannot believe people are that stupid
Melissa Harris 1 year ago (edited)
This entire article remains me of an interaction I had with a grocery store cashier a few years ago over mushrooms. I was buying oyster mushrooms and when she looked at them in the paper bag she clearly didn't know what they were, so I told her "oyster mushrooms" expecting her to look them up on the produce code Rolex. Instead she insisted they couldn't be that as they weren't oysters but couldn't tell me what my mushrooms actually were! She asked me why they'd be called oysters mushrooms if they're not oysters. While I sympathize with the question on an intellectual level I wasn't about to Wikipedia dive about the etymology of mushroom naming in the checkout line. The cashier was so adamantly dumbfounded that my fiance had to get a manager to check us out.
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 1 year ago
Having worked in a retail pharmacy most of my life, I can sadly say I find none of these outside the realm of possibility.
DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago
I'll admit, I was 35 when I went to Home Depot (US home improvement store with a garden center) looking to buy pickle seeds. Sad part is, I've grown all kinds of herbs and veggies since I was a kid and even as an adult now have set up an entire bedroom as an orchid conservatory (grow lights, fan, humidifier, etc) - so I love gardening! Didn't start an argument, but I spent a long time looking for those pickle seeds before it finally hit me, lol!
Neb 1 year ago
Considering yesterday in shop I found regular cucumbers named "Persian pickles", I am not too surprised. Granted, that shop had "cutted" pork and "beef banana flank" so...
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Had to set a Hulu account for a client, she wanted the no ads plan. She calls me the next day saying her shows have ads. After questioning, I found out she was referring to live tv shows having commercials. I kinda had to explain the difference between live tv and streaming
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 1 year ago
I knew a social worker who believed the earth was flat. I laughed in his face.
Jenna Kay 1 year ago
Quite honestly, given all the people I have met and spoken with in my 50 years, they are all likely true. From a college roommate who thought you got pregnant from holding hands, to a teacher who thought Alaska was an island next to Hawaii off the California coast, to my uncle who believed that people hunted dinosaurs in the 1920s ... it makes me wonder what I have wrong!!!
Load More Replies... Myoviridae 1 year ago
A few years ago I had to order something by phone. The customer service person insisted that my zip code meant I lived in Arizona (I live halfway across the country and had done for many years). I had her repeat the zip code back to me and even looked it up on the post office website for her. No dice... she kept insisting I lived in Arizona. By the time I finally hung up, she had half convinced me that I really did live in Arizona.
Pablo Ramos 1 year ago
Back when I was in college, engineering, a group of classmates were discussing petroleum production. The number of 3 million barrels per day was mentioned. I asked one person in the group the following question with evil intentions: "Can you imagine selling THREE MILLION BARRELS PER DAY!? Where do they get so many barrels?" To which the person responded: "Well, I guess whoever wants oil have to bring their own barrels."
The Doom Song 1 year ago
Got halfway through.... I feel MENSA smart after reading these... I cannot believe people are that stupid
Melissa Harris 1 year ago (edited)
This entire article remains me of an interaction I had with a grocery store cashier a few years ago over mushrooms. I was buying oyster mushrooms and when she looked at them in the paper bag she clearly didn't know what they were, so I told her "oyster mushrooms" expecting her to look them up on the produce code Rolex. Instead she insisted they couldn't be that as they weren't oysters but couldn't tell me what my mushrooms actually were! She asked me why they'd be called oysters mushrooms if they're not oysters. While I sympathize with the question on an intellectual level I wasn't about to Wikipedia dive about the etymology of mushroom naming in the checkout line. The cashier was so adamantly dumbfounded that my fiance had to get a manager to check us out.
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 1 year ago
Having worked in a retail pharmacy most of my life, I can sadly say I find none of these outside the realm of possibility.
DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago
I'll admit, I was 35 when I went to Home Depot (US home improvement store with a garden center) looking to buy pickle seeds. Sad part is, I've grown all kinds of herbs and veggies since I was a kid and even as an adult now have set up an entire bedroom as an orchid conservatory (grow lights, fan, humidifier, etc) - so I love gardening! Didn't start an argument, but I spent a long time looking for those pickle seeds before it finally hit me, lol!
Neb 1 year ago
Considering yesterday in shop I found regular cucumbers named "Persian pickles", I am not too surprised. Granted, that shop had "cutted" pork and "beef banana flank" so...
Load More Replies... Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 1 year ago (edited)
Had to set a Hulu account for a client, she wanted the no ads plan. She calls me the next day saying her shows have ads. After questioning, I found out she was referring to live tv shows having commercials. I kinda had to explain the difference between live tv and streaming
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 1 year ago
I knew a social worker who believed the earth was flat. I laughed in his face.
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