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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.

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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#3

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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#5

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

Intelligent men won’t get hit with a textbook. So step closer, please,

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

More like the other way round. If you're unhealthy you might not get them

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

Probably just a guy who doesn’t know any girls well and never got a sex ed

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

If anyone is confused, healthy women of child-bearing age most definitely get periods

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

There are men who believe a woman can 'hold her period like you hold your pee'. Another certain moron in the usa govt claimed in all seriousness that when a woman is graped, her body will shut off to prevent pregnancy. I seriously worry about the level of Stupid in our government.

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

I personally feel offended, seriously, only women who are 50+ish age don't get periods. This may be due to the person being infertile though and just try to make themself feel better.

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

Nope. Menopause is ONE reason why periods stop. Being underweight, stress, anxiety, endometrial hyperplasia, PCOS etc etc

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

Whoever said that??? I heard that menstrual cramps weren't "real" they were all in our heads for a long time

SCP 4666
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read a statement somewhere from a young woman to the fact that a mutual acquaintance had bloody urine: "Oh he just had his period"

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

If said by a man, it's sexist and beyond stupid. If said by a woman, that can be dangerous...

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

Who was the elected official (I use the term loosely) who said that woman can control their periods but use them as an excuse or something like that?

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

I have periods but I can turn them off when I need to. Also, I can’t pee while using a tampon because everyone (man) knows we pee out of our vaginas.

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

If that was true, every woman would have a really healthy lifestyle, lol. Not getting periods would be a great motivator to work out, no matter how much you don't want to.

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

How can people be this stupid and still manage to keep themselves alive?

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

Who said this? They should be disqualified from almost everything

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

Maybe healthy women in their 70s don't. Although I've heard of women still getting menstrual cramps even after menopause. I think that proves there is a god and he is a misogynist prick.

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

The men who believe that a menstruating woman is unhealthy, then by all means, only mate with women who do not have a period. They are perfect for you. No, Thats not true either, just stay away from all females ya moron

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

oh my word,can anyone actually still be alive and make a statement like that?

Becca not Becky
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saw a woman on Facebook make a similar claim that periods are the result of eating processed meats

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

I'm with the ovary crew, shriveled though they may be, they're big enough to punch a weenie head in the face!!

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

And healthy men with that attitude get a swift knee to the knackers!

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

I hope that's a shadow in the picture. If not, she really needs to get off the couch before it stains.

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

That's true but only if the women (or girls) are younger than 11 yrs. old or older than 45-50 (Ok, women who've gone through menopause).

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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.

AlgorithmOmega , Kervin Edward Lara / 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

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.

Keysrin , Thirdman / pexels Report

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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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#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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#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!" 

SnooMemesjellies7469 , Anna Shvets / 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

"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'.

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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#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.

anon , Jonathan Borba / pexels Report

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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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