Person Goes Around Asking Professionals What Weird Questions They Have Been Asked, Delivers A List Of The 12 Best Ones
Knowledge is one of the most crucial aspects of human life. We’re born into this world without knowing the basics, yet with the amount of information that is constantly circling around us – we’re able to grow into these intelligent creatures.
We do things for the first time; we learn about our past and our present; we expand our creative thinking by listening to our mother’s bedtime stories – and it all allows us to develop an understanding of life and its gripping wonders. Some folks have a better relationship with the whole learning process, for instance, good old math. The majority of us don’t do well with the science of numbers, but once we come across a person who’s good with the subject, we get taken aback by their outstanding skill.
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There’s no such thing as a stupid question, though sometimes folks ask the oddest things
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Knowledge is knowledge, and if someone wants to fuel their mind with information, no one should ever be ashamed to ask things. This online user has a similar viewpoint – in fact, they have a whole collection of answers to amusing questions that folks didn’t hesitate to ask.
This online user shared their collection of “weird” questions that people ask educational personnel
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The person began their entertaining thread by revealing that whenever they run into educational personnel – folks that work as professors, teachers, etc. – they like to ask a specific question: “what’s the weirdest question someone’s ever asked you?” They share that the reason why they’re referring to the question as “weird” and not “dumb” is because even the craziest query could have an important answer. The author later adds that it simply warms their heart to know that people are eager to learn things, regardless of how limited their starting point is.
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The grand opening for this excellent collection is a question that an art museum host managed to receive from one of the visitors: a thought-provoking sentence that could trigger an existential crisis if read too many times, which entertained the gallery employee to the point where he thought that it’d be a marvelous title for an artwork.
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It’s understandable that asking a question, whether you believe it to be ridiculous or not, puts us in a vulnerable position. Folks are afraid to expose themselves as no one knows if they’ll get judged or scolded for being a fool. It’s a life-harming habit that hinders us and makes it difficult to celebrate our existence.
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Society has trained us to believe that it’s an absolute must to be a responsible and all-knowing individual that doesn’t require help every once in a while. Our ability to unapologetically ask things was the very first step that helped us to get to where we are now. Just imagine what kind of questions and the amount of our never-ending “why’s” our parents had to endure.
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Yet, nobody ever thought about pointing out how weird our questions might’ve sounded. Our family understood that we were growing and trying to comprehend what this thing called life is, so why is it so shameful now? A lot of people don’t have their lives figured out, plus it’s highly impossible to know everything there is to our existence. Each person specializes in their own subject and it’s normal to exchange information, no matter how odd you think you might look.
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Knowing things is wonderful, so why should you limit yourself? Of course, there’ll be a few individuals that’ll act as if you’re asking something too unorthodox, but folks like that could be encountered at any point of your life, whether you barrier yourself from them or not. Moreover, by asking something creative, you can brighten the day of multiple people without even knowing it, just like folks from this thread did.
Fellow users were amused by the inquiries, and some shared their own experiences
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My dad and I used to do Civil War reenactments when I was in high school. Gave us some bonding time (embarrassed me to death though when he had to "escort" me to the porta-a-johns because females were not allowed to go anywhere unaccompanied....another story). We got so many ridiculous questions. My favorite, as we were sitting around a campfire, "Is that a real fire?" Seeings how I am a professional firefighter (and professional smart ass) I answered, "No. Sadly we can't figure out how they started fired back then."
The t-rex bbq story is the best. I love how seriously they took it and yes I agree we need that drawing. 😂
Me too. I'm so glad that story went the way it did and also that it made its way onto the internet for all of us to enjoy. But the drawing would make it all come alive.
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Guy approaches me as I'm walking my dog and asks: "Is this a whiskey?" He meant husky. It was a malamute.
My daughter called a husky a sledding wolf recently bc she couldn‘t remember the name husky
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There's a photo out there of a deer at a body farm munching on a human rib. It's pretty great. Bone is one of the best sources of minerals that are otherwise hard to come by in the wild, so yeah, it's not too unusual to find deer having a bite.
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Apparently there are more tigers as pets/in private collections in the United States than there are left in the wild.
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Also forensic anthropology graduate...you can actually get fingerprints from fingers after carnivores have eaten and regurgitated the digit. I read this through a study about Carnivore voiding in which Baboons that had been control killed were fed to lions and leopards to see if the digits that came out either end could retain fingerprints. Helpful in identifying remains that go missing in the woods. Wrote a paper on it for one of my professors who was also a Captain in the local PD. He loved it!
I love it when they take their time to answer seriously, I bet it made a huge difference for that woman who just left her church (to get such a kind, patient and interested interested answer instead of being brushed off or laughed at) and maybe sparked an interest in science in the young T-Rex guys.
DONT HATE ME but are people who go to religous schools/groups? just taught wrong history?
I just asked my spouse who went to Catholic school in Canada and he said they were taught the same science curriculum of any secular school. Of course there are many factions of Christianity--maybe this woman was in a cultish type one, as she feared for her safety when leaving...good question. I'm curious now.
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I taught a computer class in elementary school for a few years. A member of the school board came in and asked what we were covering. I said, "Today we are learning about cyberbullying." She looked at me and said, "You are teaching them to cyber bully?" 'Yes. Yes, that is what I am doing." Walked away.
I genuinely think the bear spray one is a legit question... I live in England.., we don't have bears... I didn't even know you could get bear spray
I live in England too. I think I first read about bear spray on BP.
Load More Replies... I was asked, and he was very serious, why we didn't just fly along the edge of a wildfire in a helicopter and throw grenades at it. He was very upset when I told him we would not be doing that.
His point was that he wanted to throw a grenade, or at the very least, watch you throwing grenades.
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The docent who got asked about time could have also used the seconds example: 1 million seconds is about 12 days, while 1 billion seconds is about 36 years. (Once that was comprehended, move on to bigger units of time.)
When I was teaching the American Revolutionary War in primary school, I was asked at least 100 times if I was alive when it happened.
Yeah, our class did Gilgamesh and they thought I should know where he ended up because "you must have been there."
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Banff National Park employees have been asked "Where do you keep the animals at night?"
Re: the forensic scientist. If you want someone to stop harming others, murder is better. If you 'only' want revenge, stealing their identity is better.
My favorite question, from my Trek loving daughter. If Councilor Troy got pregnant in earth orbit where would the Enterprise be when she gave birth.
A lot of these were equally adorable and funny. People should never be made fun of for being genuinely curious
I find it hilarious that they took them seriously about the T-Rex.
I drive School Bus. My student riders have asked me: 1) Is the Bus (my) daily driver? 2)Do I stay on the Bus inbetween routes? 3) If i park the Bus at my house. It's so cute coming from Kindergardeners to 2nd graders.
We get the question 'where do you sleep?' from preschoolers very often too!
People can donate their bodies to these in a couple of states in the US. Basically they're used to further the science that helps find buried/lost people. I'm planning on donating my body to one- I'm a scientist in life and I can help science after my death, all while being recycled back to the earth. Eventually the cremate the remains which get sent back to the family.
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My dad and I used to do Civil War reenactments when I was in high school. Gave us some bonding time (embarrassed me to death though when he had to "escort" me to the porta-a-johns because females were not allowed to go anywhere unaccompanied....another story). We got so many ridiculous questions. My favorite, as we were sitting around a campfire, "Is that a real fire?" Seeings how I am a professional firefighter (and professional smart ass) I answered, "No. Sadly we can't figure out how they started fired back then."
The t-rex bbq story is the best. I love how seriously they took it and yes I agree we need that drawing. 😂
Me too. I'm so glad that story went the way it did and also that it made its way onto the internet for all of us to enjoy. But the drawing would make it all come alive.
Load More Replies... Guy approaches me as I'm walking my dog and asks: "Is this a whiskey?" He meant husky. It was a malamute.
My daughter called a husky a sledding wolf recently bc she couldn‘t remember the name husky
Load More Replies... There's a photo out there of a deer at a body farm munching on a human rib. It's pretty great. Bone is one of the best sources of minerals that are otherwise hard to come by in the wild, so yeah, it's not too unusual to find deer having a bite.
Load More Replies... Apparently there are more tigers as pets/in private collections in the United States than there are left in the wild.
Load More Replies... Also forensic anthropology graduate...you can actually get fingerprints from fingers after carnivores have eaten and regurgitated the digit. I read this through a study about Carnivore voiding in which Baboons that had been control killed were fed to lions and leopards to see if the digits that came out either end could retain fingerprints. Helpful in identifying remains that go missing in the woods. Wrote a paper on it for one of my professors who was also a Captain in the local PD. He loved it!
I love it when they take their time to answer seriously, I bet it made a huge difference for that woman who just left her church (to get such a kind, patient and interested interested answer instead of being brushed off or laughed at) and maybe sparked an interest in science in the young T-Rex guys.
DONT HATE ME but are people who go to religous schools/groups? just taught wrong history?
I just asked my spouse who went to Catholic school in Canada and he said they were taught the same science curriculum of any secular school. Of course there are many factions of Christianity--maybe this woman was in a cultish type one, as she feared for her safety when leaving...good question. I'm curious now.
Load More Replies... I taught a computer class in elementary school for a few years. A member of the school board came in and asked what we were covering. I said, "Today we are learning about cyberbullying." She looked at me and said, "You are teaching them to cyber bully?" 'Yes. Yes, that is what I am doing." Walked away.
I genuinely think the bear spray one is a legit question... I live in England.., we don't have bears... I didn't even know you could get bear spray
I live in England too. I think I first read about bear spray on BP.
Load More Replies... I was asked, and he was very serious, why we didn't just fly along the edge of a wildfire in a helicopter and throw grenades at it. He was very upset when I told him we would not be doing that.
His point was that he wanted to throw a grenade, or at the very least, watch you throwing grenades.
Load More Replies... The docent who got asked about time could have also used the seconds example: 1 million seconds is about 12 days, while 1 billion seconds is about 36 years. (Once that was comprehended, move on to bigger units of time.)
When I was teaching the American Revolutionary War in primary school, I was asked at least 100 times if I was alive when it happened.
Yeah, our class did Gilgamesh and they thought I should know where he ended up because "you must have been there."
Load More Replies... Banff National Park employees have been asked "Where do you keep the animals at night?"
Re: the forensic scientist. If you want someone to stop harming others, murder is better. If you 'only' want revenge, stealing their identity is better.
My favorite question, from my Trek loving daughter. If Councilor Troy got pregnant in earth orbit where would the Enterprise be when she gave birth.
A lot of these were equally adorable and funny. People should never be made fun of for being genuinely curious
I find it hilarious that they took them seriously about the T-Rex.
I drive School Bus. My student riders have asked me: 1) Is the Bus (my) daily driver? 2)Do I stay on the Bus inbetween routes? 3) If i park the Bus at my house. It's so cute coming from Kindergardeners to 2nd graders.
We get the question 'where do you sleep?' from preschoolers very often too!
People can donate their bodies to these in a couple of states in the US. Basically they're used to further the science that helps find buried/lost people. I'm planning on donating my body to one- I'm a scientist in life and I can help science after my death, all while being recycled back to the earth. Eventually the cremate the remains which get sent back to the family.
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