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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.

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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…

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Nilsen
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2 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.

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2 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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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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2 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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2 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.

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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

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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

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2 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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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

show him how the center of the clock is aligned with the numbers

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

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

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

I have to tell you; I grew up where the North was hillier. Even though in no way could I rely on North = up, I had a good instinctive sense of direction. Then I moved to a place where South was uphill and it completely screwed up my sense of direction. I just couldn't develop the instinct to override the base-level presumption that North was up.

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

"I always like going South, somehow it feels like going downhill." - Treebeard

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Fora Nakit
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always think of the South as "down" but not "downhill". I'm curious about what do Australians consider "down". Any Aussey pandas here ?

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Stardust she/her
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had this misconception cleared up when I was 6. How can adults like this exist?

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MushroomHead22
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

just wait until they get to the top and tell them about north and going down.

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Miles Mawyer
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another flerfer it sounds like. For some reason some flat earthers think that North is up. They just can't think in 3D.

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François Carré
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had a coworker tell me rivers should not flow from South to North because South is "lower" than North on the globe (at least he was not a flat earther) and water is only supposed to go downhill. Still wonder if he was joking or not.

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

Much as I enjoy seeing people be stupid about politics, this is a refreshing change

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

They must have been lost in the desert and had heat stroke poor soul.

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

Not totally uncommon. Had a professor ask the class to close their eyes. Then asks us to point east, then west. When asked to point north, a surprising amount of grad students pointed upwards. North south up down kind of run the same track in people’s minds.

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

Yeah, yeah, we're obviously supposed to be going downhill.

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Regina Holt
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I actually knew someone who said she thought that uphill meant north. Sigh.

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

The REALLY stupid part about this is that the Earth IS BIGGER as you approach the equator. Because of rotation, the Earth's circumference at the equator is 40,075 km. It's only 40,008 km in a circle going through the north and south pole.

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

From the same stupidity that claims "all rivers flow south". I've lived in northern Canada. Trust me, the Mackenzie River (13th longest in the world) flows north, to the Arctic Ocean.

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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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2 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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2 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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2 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".

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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.

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2 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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#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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2 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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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?”

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

the original statement was that ONLY mpr vaccine caused autism. If you look datas, in japan there was a great reduction of mpr vaccines, if the statement was true you should have observed that the autism numbers should have decreased in proportion when it was not (they was in line with the normal trend)

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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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2 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'.

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

do it doesnt matter how long it will take. If you retire and is not done is not your fault...

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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.

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2 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.

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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.

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2 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.*

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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-

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