30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box

Whether we're opening our mouths without thinking, have social anxiety, or are just trying to cut through an awkward silence, everyone is bound to say something foolish every once in a while.

So it should come as no surprise that when Reddit user AlgorithmOmega asked people on the platform to share the dumbest statements they've heard, the responses came pouring in, showcasing just how common and relatable these moments are.

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30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box My personal favourite was the anti-vaxxer who told me all about how dangerous vaccines are. How many weird and toxic chemicals are in them, and what those chemicals would do to my body. Then she lit up a cigarette…

Buboribetra , Lindsay Fox / flickr Report

Final score:

234points

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Nilsen 4 months ago (edited)

A friend works in a jail. Some inmates discussed vaccination and decided against it. "You never know what's in them". Most were incarcerated for d-rug offences.....

111points

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30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box
“Women are responsible for men’s loneliness epidemic.”

My dudes: Go get yourself a friend, a hobby, a dog. Your relationships, entertainment, and play dates are not our responsibility.

lifeuncommon , Vera Arsic / pexels Report

Final score:

222points

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xolitaire 4 months ago

Awww, these poor men. Sadly, women have the right to look at you and decide: "NO. That is not a person I want to spend time with." Sucks, huh?

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30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box Have a misogynistic coworker who claimed the male lions do all the hunting, because he couldn't stand the idea of a female anything being better.

anon , Charl Durand / pexels Report

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207points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago

How do people that dumb live to adulthood?

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30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box The US has “never been a racist country” is up there. Leaving out the fact that the civil war was fought over slavery is pretty stupid too.

germane_switch , Jakayla Toney / pexels Report

Final score:

198points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago

The USA was born a racist nation. Slavery is a black mark on our history that can never be cleansed.

105points

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30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box "Healthy women don't get periods."

SadlyNotDannyDeVito , Sora Shimazaki / pexels Report

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194points

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zububonsai 4 months ago

Oh. Okay, that's really bad.

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30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box Windmills cause cancer.

Global warming isn’t real because it’s cold outside.

AlgorithmOmega , Kervin Edward Lara / pexels Report

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186points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago

Some people actually think that windmills are stealing the wind and that's why the world is getting warmer. I wish I was making this up but that stupid is a congressman for the state of Georgia.

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30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box "The vaccine can't survive 24h outside the fridge, and our body is not a fridge, so the vaccine can't last more than 24h in our body."

It took me 10second to even comprehend and recover from the stupidity of the statement.

Keysrin , Thirdman / pexels Report

Final score:

175points

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Twilight 4 months ago

This is how dumb humans can be.

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30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box The earth is flat and only 6000 years old.

Persephone2009 , Christian Reinke / pexels Report

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167points

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troufaki13 4 months ago

Does earth really exist? 🤔🤔

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30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box "American Healthcare has some issues, but it's still the best in the world" some ignorant redneck to me, a literal nurse working in an American ICU while he accumulates tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt

JHKtheSeeker , Cedric Fauntleroy / pexels Report

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167points

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Twilight 4 months ago

Australia is so much better

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#10

30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box "You shouldn't speak Spanish if you're not Mexican"

- a customer who got mad at me for helping another customer in Spanish

ZijoeLocs , Leeloo The First / pexels Report

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165points

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Kira Okah 4 months ago

Spain called, they are having issues now because they can't speak Spanish due to not being Mexican.

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#11

30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box "The center of the Galaxy and the earth are aligned! We so are in the end times!"

To which I responded, "two points are always aligned, it's called a line!"

He was super religious by the way...

TheEPGFiles , Pixabay / pexels Report

Final score:

154points

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Phantom Phoenix 4 months ago

The Mayan calendar ended in 2012. We're living AFTER the end times!

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#12

30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box "If we're going south, how are we going uphill?"

AnimatedHokie , Nans 82 / pexels Report

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151points

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Twilight 4 months ago

This is by far the most dumb thing i have ever heard.

79points

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#13

30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box Had a friend insist Hawaii is a seperate country, not a US state. (We're both Americans) I'm still very embarrassed that we both attended the same high school.

Scribe625 , Jess Loiterton / pexels Report

Final score:

144points

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PattyK 4 months ago

Must have been one of those people who insisted Barack Obama wasn’t American because he was born in Hawaii.

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#14

In the middle of a "Bill Gates created Covid to microchip us" (which itself is pretty up there) rant: "He tested it in Africa. There were no diseases in Africa until Bill Gates went there and started spreading them"

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Final score:

141points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago

This some Alex Jones stuff. It has to be.

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#15

I was talking about how terrible the homeless situation in America is and my step mother said "well It's mostly brown people and that's what they get for coming here illegally". All I could do was lol and say you need to quit watching Faux news 24/7. The struggle is real people.

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Final score:

136points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago

No idea where you would get this idea. I live in Portland Oregon and I'd say about 80% of the homeless folk I see on a daily basis are white born free American citizens.

95points

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#16

30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box “The way you’re raised has nothing to do with the way you turn out”

- my mom to me when I called her out on her behaviour

JoeyJoJoShabadooYEAH , LightFieldStudios / envatoelements Report

Final score:

134points

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Gabriele Alfredo Pini 4 months ago

Kinda like saying that the big five fingers welt on your cheek has nothing to do with the slap I gave you earlier...

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#17

30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box "If you don't have children, God will punish you".

Remote-Direction963 , Pixabay / pexels Report

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133points

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Sergy Yeltsen 4 months ago

Of course. Because then the priests miss out.

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#18

30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box “If China’s been around for so long, how come they never invented anything?”

If it were a genuine, ignorant question, that’d be one thing, but it was rhetorically asked as if to say China’s never accomplished anything. Baffling.

sodapaladin , Nothing Ahead / pexels Report

Final score:

133points

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Charlie the Cat 4 months ago

Just Googled it. China has been the source of many innovations, scientific discoveries and inventions. This includes the Four Great Inventions: papermaking, the compass, gunpowder, and printing (both woodblock and movable type).

79points

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30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box "pseudoscience is still science"

ewing666 , Polina Zimmerman / pexels Report

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130points

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Savahax 4 months ago

Hahahaha!!!

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#20

30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box Coworker: "If vegans care about animals so much, and they eat all the vegetables, then all the animals who eat vegetables will go hungry"

He genuinely thought it was some gotcha about vegans and I had to jump out of the argument for a minute to be like "wait is that actually something you think could happen?" Apparently we're competing with rabbits in a zero sum game of who can eat the most carrots

CakeLikeLadyGaga , Wendy Wei / pexels Report

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129points

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james stevenson 4 months ago

What about all the animals that have to be killed & stuff to actually grow the veggies anyway?

6points

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#21

30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box Heard from a guy I was working with over the weekend. He was on the phone with his mom.
"Im not even going to vote. I just hate politics nowadays. Now if I say i hate black people, they say I'm a racist. What's so racist about that?!"

Feanlean , cottonbro studio / pexels Report

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126points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago

The fact it is actual racism. Bro is describing actual racism.

78points

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30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box On a conservative forum, some person was lamenting cost of his medical procedure AFTER insurance paid their part.

"I can't image how much it would cost if it were free!"

SnooMemesjellies7469 , Anna Shvets / pexels Report

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122points

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james stevenson 4 months ago

"I can imagine how much money I would have to spend if I didn't have to spend any money!"

56points

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#23

30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box That’s why you have autism!

Response to “Well I’m getting the vax being I don’t want to die”

My response to that was “I thought you get Autism **after** the vaccine?”

H010CR0N , Gustavo Fring / pexels Report

Final score:

111points

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censorshipsucks 4 months ago

Tell them having autism is better than dying anyway.

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#24

“I’m not racist my dogs black”Heard it more than once. Abhorrent statement to make. And yes that is the first time I’ve used that word Abhorrent in a sentence, but needs must.

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Final score:

109points

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L.V 4 months ago

What's sad is that black dogs and cats are less likely to be adopted...

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#25

30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box I write software, had a boss with little technical knowledge for a bit.

He asked me to 'make the software do X or Y depending on what the user wanted when they clicked the button'. I asked what he meant, he got upset, told me it was simple. If the user wants X to happen when they click the button, do that! If they want Y to happen when they click the button, do that! At first I thought maybe he meant there was some other way to figure that out from context.. but no, ultimately he meant 'read the users mind and intent when they click the button'.

supercyberlurker , Christina Morillo / pexels Report

Final score:

108points

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HTakeover 4 months ago

I want that! Permanently and legally transfers $1 million to my bank account from whichever person I'm thinking of at the time.

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30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box There was a certain politician that, speaking about some military business, said "I know more about that than the generals". He was wrong.

Upstairs-Radish1816 , August de Richelieu / pexels Report

Final score:

108points

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Kira Okah 4 months ago

...do you realise how little that narrows down the identity of the speaker?

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#27

30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box "I don't get why they keep changing the all the sciencey facts in schools." - Some lady at a truck stop in Louisiana.

Past-File3933 , Tima Miroshnichenko / pexels Report

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104points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago

Because Science adapts to new information and evidence. Dogma does not.

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#28

30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box It's your duty as a woman to have a child and whether you want one or not, doesn't matter.

anon , Jonathan Borba / pexels Report

Final score:

98points

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Ba-Na-Na 4 months ago

Let me guess, said by either a male or a religious person or a female “brainwashed” by a religious person

96points

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#29

30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box "I don't date people with pronouns"

*insert eyeroll.*

Charming_Wrapper , Alexander Grey / pexels Report

Final score:

96points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago

"I" don't date "PEOPLE" with pronouns.

45points

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#30

30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box "The Bible is historical fact and never contradicts itself."

"No matter where you are, you're always going North."

"You can't cook with gas."

"Cool ranch doritos are ranch flavored?!?" -Me-

Sparkyninja38 , Tima Miroshnichenko / pexels Report

Final score:

84points

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KDS 4 months ago

The Bible constantly contradicts itself.

63points

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Dream 4 months ago

No one mentioned this gem---"All I know about magnets is, if you put water on them, they don't work!"~ 3 guesses which orange faced criminal said this.

37points

Bored Trash Panda 4 months ago

Oh, did you hear the one about the boat, boat battery, and the sharks? If it wasn't so worrying that this man is running for president again, it would have been hilarious.

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you forgot the injunction to inject bleach.

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Richard Graham 4 months ago

I was watching "Schindler's List" with a friend. A half-hour into the movie she said "What war is this?" About an hour into the movie she said "You mean they were doing all of these terrible things to people just because they were Jewish?" She was a college graduate.

22points

Jessica SpeLangm 4 months ago

If her parents, school, or friends didn't talk about it, she didn't know all the facts. I say she's mostly innocent in her question if her upbringing supports what I said.

8points

roddy 4 months ago

I once made a comment about a concentration camp only to discover that the person I was speaking with thought a concentration camp was somewhere you went to meditate. He was in his twenties and had never heard of them.

14points

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