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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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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

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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.

anon , Charl Durand / pexels Report

#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.

germane_switch , Jakayla Toney / pexels Report

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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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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

#8

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

And/Or. There are two different threads in this idiocy. Generally though it's and. People who believe Earth is flat also believe it is young.

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

As a paid actor pretending to be from a non-existent place called Australia I'm wondering when my cheque is coming?

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

I said on another thread that if the earth was flat, then cats would have knocked everything off the edge already. Seriously, the pyramids are 5,000 yrs old and Göbekli Tepe is 12000 years old. And what about radiocarbon dating and the fossil record?

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

Tests of faith. If you choose to believe "evidence" over ancient writings said to be inspired by God, He will punish you for your disbelief. Also, errors, contradictions, and nonsensical stories are only in the book to test your faith that they really aren't there. Just trust me. (Oh, & send me your money. God really needs your money)

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

Fool, you believe in the earth? This is the Matrix /s

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

I always wondered how the Bible Thumpers felt whenever they find a dinosaur skeleton or something like that and they date it hundreds of thousands of years

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

I'll answer that. God scattered random bones around the Earth and invented science in order to test our faith in him! (Please read the heavy, dripping sarcasm here)

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

When you meet a flat earther , turn the tables. "The earth is flat you know." "Psh you believe in the earth?? Weirdo."

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

Tell them to disprove "The Earth didn't exist before Last Tuesday, all your 'memories and experiences' are just delusions." https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Last_Thursdayism

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

Ten years ago I was told the Earth is 6,000 years old. So it is actually 6,010 years old. So there!

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

The second is Biblical literalism, and the first is scientific illiteracy.

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

Oh so you're one of those people... Who belive in an 'Earth'.

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

Look, I keep telling y'all - CATS have given us *scientific proof* that the world is NOT flat! If the world was flat, nothing would exist, because they would have pushed everything off it by now, including us!

R.A. Haley
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Remember Buttons and Mindy from Animaniacs? My favorite response to these people is something Mindy often said: "Okay, I love you, bye bye!"

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

Dear gravy. I actually dated a man that believed this. Proof that women can be dumb, too.

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

Religious/conspiracy theorists really don't like to agree on how old the Earth is - some say 5000 (the bible says Earth's 3000 years old, 2000 years ago), and some say things like 3000, 2000, 248, 10000, etc

Bluonthefront
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Governor of Montana on the 6000 yrs old. So wish I was kidding. But he has a mugshot too.

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

I hope it is flat, then I can push that person at the edge of the earth and said oh it is really flat. Or maybe make them travel for east to west just to confirm.

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

Yes. The satellites and all the space missions are made up too. Right? I suppose if you took these idiots into outer space they would still deny it.

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

I think the Apollo astronauts pretty much ended the flat earth argument. As for 6,000 years, radioactive carbon dating says otherwise....more like 4 billion years.

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

Had a boy in my ANCIENT history class in high school. His face would crinkle when we'd talk about people a million or so years ago. Why was he there, and what did he expect? He was also crazy religious.

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

If you listen closely you can hear swearing from the ISS.

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

Ferdinand Magellan`s ship fell of the earth edge so they replaced him with his twin....

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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...

TheEPGFiles , Pixabay / pexels Report

#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

#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

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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

JoeyJoJoShabadooYEAH , LightFieldStudios / envatoelements Report

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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.

sodapaladin , Nothing Ahead / pexels Report

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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

CakeLikeLadyGaga , Wendy Wei / pexels Report

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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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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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#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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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

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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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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.

anon , Jonathan Borba / pexels Report

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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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