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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.

#1

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…

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Nilsen
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3 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.....

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#2

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.

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xolitaire
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Lewis KR
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Videos of male lions hunting are amusing because they are so clearly not used to it. They just barrell into a full size antelope or buffalo getting the c**p kicked out of them. You can practically hear the females watching on like 'oh my God just get a small one!'

Fat Harry (Oi / You)
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We've obviously seen different videos because the ones I've seen have the females doing an OK job and then a male barreling in on his own and bringing the prey down. Just search for "male lion hunting" on YouTube and you'll find plenty of cases of the males doing just fine.

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KDS
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apparently this coworker never watched the Lion King Scar himself said it the Lioness job to hunt for food.

winterwidow87
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anyone who has ever seen 1 documentary knows the female lions do the hunting and they also teach the little ones how to hunt.

Guess Undheit
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Proving that the clown has never read ANYTHING about lions. Male lions are among the worst, the only thing they kill reliably are lion cubs born to a different father. They kill babies so the female lions go back into heat.

Danish Susanne
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is not really true. Male lions have to hunt when they don't have a pride of females doing it for them. But it is true, that they will kill another males offspring.

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TheGoodBoi
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like we'll be watching a documentary on lions today! Watching a bunch of lionesses take down a giraffe!

JMOpinion
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He could literally watch just one show about lions and find that isn't true! 🤦🏼‍♂️

Fluffy mommy panda
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh yeah...... like there not even a such thing as a pride........lol.

Bored something
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In a pride the male lies around while the females hunt. They spent even part of the hunting team.

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Bret Sander
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"the mother bear stalks and the queen of the hawks are the ones who bring home the bread. the lion that is regal and the bald headed eagle need a woman just to keep them fed"

Nancy Parker
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not a wildlife biologist or anywhere close. We learned how the lionesses do all the hunting in grade school.

Mark Hastings
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just returned from a photo safari in Kenya. Saw at least 4 kills by female lions. The males hung around to get what they could from the left overs.

Lady Lestrange
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3 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I recently saw a video that claimed that the previous theory of men being the ONLY hunters, and females being the gatherers is totally wrong. Females were good hunters along side males. It's just that some historians were overtly misogynistic. This lion theory just reminded me of that video.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I guess he's safe around lionesses. Seriously, I see the point in letting the males guard the pride - they're bigger.

A Jones
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ide give them a DVD about a documentary of lions as a "gift". Don't say anything else other than, "oh hey, I got you this gift since you seem to like lions"

CK
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lions aren't exactly feminist. The lionesses bring in all the food, and the only reason they're not in charge of the cooking is because lions eat their food raw.

Phil Green
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Of course they do, which is why the females do all the hunting! Males are there for one thing only, mating.

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#4

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.

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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#6

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.

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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#7

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.

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#9

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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#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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Kira Okah
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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...

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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?"

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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.

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PattyK
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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#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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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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

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Gabriele Alfredo Pini
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

#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.

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Charlie the Cat
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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).

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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

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james stevenson
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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?!"

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#22

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!" 

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james stevenson
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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

#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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L.V
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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'.

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HTakeover
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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#26

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.

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Kira Okah
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

...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

#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.

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Ba-Na-Na
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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

#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

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