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Carbon monoxide alarm mounted on wall, highlighting safety awareness. My neighbours taking the batteries out of the carbonmonoxide detector because it was making noise almost every day.

Stoneway933R , Abi Begum Report

Final score:

298points

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mcborge1 3 years ago

Oh no!

113points

Map of Nigeria with state boundaries and capitals highlighted. One of my classmates told me I was racist and reported me to the principle after I mentioned Nigeria in geography class

NeoCropolis_ , Wikipedia Report

Final score:

286points

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Linus Nilsson 3 years ago

Oh, the Irony...

94points

Electric kettle on a kitchen counter next to a box, featuring a Philips logo. My old roommate. He put an electric kettle made of plastic on the stove. I came upstairs to black smoke as it melted. I threw it in the trash and yelled at him for nearly burning the house down. It has a cord sticking out of it and everything

An hour later I came back upstairs to the same thing. [He] went through the trash and put it back on the stove.

I get the first time if he's never seen an electric kettle before but a second time? With the same kettle? A melted kettle? The guy doesn't even do drugs.

Haboobalub , Wikipedia Report

Final score:

274points

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Eslamala 3 years ago

What kind of moron doesn't know plastic melts?

67points

Various colorful crystal points displayed under light. Flat earthers

Anti vaxxer

People who think crystals can heal you

bruteski226 , Hasan Can Devsir Report

Final score:

267points

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Max 3 years ago

My anti-stress crystal is very effective. I just pick it up and throw it at the person causing me stress and it all just goes away.

203points

Aerial view of New York City skyline at sunset with a sprawling urban landscape. My former boss was worried that the island of Manhattan would sink with all the extra visitors for New Years and the ball dropping. She thought islands float and when she found out that wasn’t true she thought it was so funny that she told everyone the story.

She was later fired for withholding a pay raise from someone on her team because he didn’t accept her sexual advances. He had the texts to prove it.

joao2706 , Brandon Jacoby Report

Final score:

254points

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Phendrena 3 years ago

Dark. Quickly. Much.

109points

Grilled corn on the cob at a market stall. A friend’s partner said she was vegan. Another friend jokingly said ‘you’re not vegan, you eat corn on the cob, which is actually the spine of a cow’. Aforementioned friend’s partner started crying about how much she loved eating cow spine and was really upset, genuine tears of sorrow at how she wasn’t a vegan at all.

From that day forth, corn was known as Cow spine on the cob and their relationship didn’t last for too long, probably a week after she asked why Mel Gibson didn’t just phone the English King to negotiate in Braveheart.....

Neon_Tusk_of_Camblor , Prasad SN Report

Final score:

231points

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Amy Smith 3 years ago (edited)

My gfs sister had an ex who took the stupid cake. 1. Thought pasta grew on trees - dragged us around Harlow looking for the "Fusilli Tree" he swore he had seen. 2. Thought that cows couldn't produce milk unless they ate "milk grass" and that human women didn't produce milk. He couldn't provide an explanation for what he thought we breastfed babies. I'm not sure I'd want to hear it.

118points

Two dolphins swimming and interacting in clear blue water. Ex-girlfriend. I once said out loud "I wonder how dolphins have sex?" She said, with conviction "There aren't boy dolphins and girl dolphins. They're just dolphins." You know, like magical.

And she argues with me for about 2 hours.

OttieandEddie , Ranae Smith Report

Final score:

224points

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troufaki13 3 years ago

You should see Unicorns have sex! It's majestic!

135points

AnthropomorphicMango , Meg Jerrard Report

A close-up of a rhinoceros in low light, emphasizing its horn and textured skin. My ex-gf thought rhinoceroses were dinosaurs. Then, we were watching King Kong and toward the end of the movie she asked if it was based on a true story.

Final score:

221points

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Hooked 3 years ago

Hence the "ex" in ex-gf

88points

#10

American flag on a pole with a blurred background. Met a dude sophomore year of college. I told him the story of the dumbest person I had ever met up to that point and his response was “well.. that’s understandable though... up until last year I didn’t know the U.S. and the United States were the same thing”

We went to college in the U.S. and again this was our sophomore year. Dude was an 19 year-old full blooded American.

Sauced_Churchill , Raúl Nájera Report

Final score:

221points

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Matt Du 3 years ago

This comment has been deleted.

84points

#11

Mount Rushmore under clear blue sky, depicting carved faces of four U.S. presidents in a mountainous landscape. Girl in my high school history class thought mount Rushmore naturally grew like that

adamkane13 , Uniq Trek Report

Final score:

210points

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Vicky Zar 3 years ago

Grew?

107points

#12

one of my coworkers once said “racism didn’t start until the early 2000s”. i almost fell in the floor after he said that.

SpookyGucci Report

Final score:

206points

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Anne 3 years ago

Nah.. it started to end.. but we are still very much in the process of it ending.. we have some way to go.

39points

CylonsInAPolicebox , Vlad Tchompalov Report

#13

Red car with futuristic headlights under reflective lights, showcasing modern automotive design. Uncle telling us about a guy he worked with. Guy buys a nice, new car. Car comes with cruise control and built in GPS. Guy wrecks new car. Apparently he typed in an address and set the cruise control... He thought that he didn't have to drive after setting in where he wanted to go, the car would just take him where he wanted to go.

Final score:

184points

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Anne 3 years ago

He was just ahead of his time!

105points

RaulTheHorse , Arlington Research Report

#14

Open office with people working at desks, featuring bright lighting and modern design, related to dumbest person topic. A girl I used to work with in a call centre. She used to ask me stuff like “why do trees grow upwards?” or “the sun goes round the earth doesn’t it?” Then one day she asked me “does the earth spin and clouds stay still, or does the earth stay still and the clouds move?”

I miss you Ria!

Final score:

182points

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Anne 3 years ago

At least she asked

169points

s0mestrangeangel , Pranjall Kumar Report

#15

Kiwi fruit on a wooden platter, with a couple of sliced pieces showing the vibrant green interior. in third grade, i was talking with another kid about kiwi birds and she proceeded to tell me that those birds laid kiwi fruit instead of eggs

Final score:

170points

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Rose the Cook 3 years ago

This is cute.

46points

#16

Close-up of a baby's feet cradled in a gentle hand, capturing warmth and tenderness. In college a girl told me she had SIDS when she was a baby.

AznHeidrun , Omar Lopez Report

Final score:

163points

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TahNisha Hutcherson 3 years ago

Surprisingly I'm Dumb Syndrome

87points

#17

Raw turkey breast on a wooden board with salt and basil garnish. Friend thought syphilis was what you got from eating raw chicken. He told our whole economics class he got syphilis one time.

rklab , Eiliv-Sonas Aceron Report

Final score:

163points

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Kristof De Smet 3 years ago

The question is: did he really get syphilis? Or did he eat raw chicken?

113points

#18

In high school, there was this one girl in my history class. She went for an IQ test once. We wrote a history test in class, and a week later we get our tests back. This girl failed miserably and she decided it would be a smart idea to tell the teacher he can't give her an F because "she scored 70 on an IQ test so she's not allowed to fail." The worst part is, she genuinely believed an IQ test would give her a pass on failing tests, so she failed EVERY SUBJECT that year. I still talk to her on Twitter now and then, turns out she's a flat-earther now.

pizzaking95 Report

Final score:

157points

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MauKini 3 years ago

Figures.

85points

#19

Nike sneakers with red accents in an open red Nike box. A customer who thought he should be able to get the Jordan Bred 11s for 90% off because of 2 "coupons" he had. One of these coupons was a print out of a 70% off clearance promotion from Nike's website and the other was a 20% off coupon from Payless that expired in 2017. I've never been more confused, frustrated, and exasperated than I was during the 10 minute interaction where myself, two managers and a customer tried to explain to this man why this wasn't going to happen.

DarkManX437 , Ryan Plomp Report

Final score:

156points

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Jenny Rosbach 3 years ago

I actually kind of feel sorry for this guy, this has probably happened to him before.

46points

Theearthhasnoedges , Alex Munsell Report

#20

Grilled pork chop topped with sautéed apples, served with roasted potatoes and broccoli on a white plate. Let me tell you about this woman that my uncle dated for a while. She was really a special kind of dumb. I'm just gonna go ahead and list the top 3 that I can remember, but I'm sure there's more. These were all relayed to me years later as I wasn't around at the time. It's a running joke between some family members.

•Thought pork chops came from horses.

•Met a guy who had lost a portion of his ear in some kind of accident. Upon meeting she just asked him with no class at all: "Hey, what happened to your ear?" His response: "I turned my head too fast and bit my earlobe off." She was totally cool with that answer.

•Went grocery shopping and assumed that whatever number of chicken legs came in a pack was how many legs that chicken must have had.

There was also something to do with a moose, but I can't remember the specifics on that.

Final score:

142points

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Phendrena 3 years ago

Moose? There's a Moose Loose about this hoose ;)

62points

#21

In fourth grade we had a motivational speaker come in and talk to us who was completely blind since birth. At the end they had time for questions and a girl asked why they didn't just wear super thick glasses. When the person replied that they cannot see ANYTHING, so there would be nothing to magnify, the girl said "No like SUPER thick glasses." We were only in fourth grade but we all were looking at her like how do you not get this. The blind dude just shook his head.

LieBackground7185 Report

Final score:

140points

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Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

83points

Justme124 , Jose G. Ortega Castro Report

#22

Starry night sky with small faint stars scattered across a dark background. Had a friend in HS that could predict rain by looking at the stars....if the big dipper was upside down "the water would pour out and it would rain tomorrow" She was 17

Final score:

138points

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LuckyL 3 years ago

But the main question here is - was she right? ;)

127points

#23

Close-up of a check for $0.87 with a handwritten signature, illustrating a humorous financial mistake. Worked at a bank for a (blessedly) short time. Had a 60 year old woman that asked, “What do you mean my account balance is negative?? I still have checks, so I still have money!”

raspberryhefe , wikipedia Report

Final score:

135points

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I want cake 3 years ago

Hoo boy, you'd think someone would have explained that to her sooner.

53points

Bill 3 years ago (edited)

You would be surprised how many widows don't know. Had to explain a few things after their husbands died when working in insurance. He handled everything.

22points

Y T 3 years ago

America is like the last country who still uses checks.

6points

Kira Okah 3 years ago (edited)

This is much more common than most people expect, it's sad.

3points

lorrie rothstein 3 years ago

Maybe her husband handled the finances and he never taught her.

3points

Deb Johnston 3 years ago

Back in the early 80s it would take several days or a week for a check to clear your bank. You could call your bank and they would give you your balance. A girl I worked with would call every morning and ask what her balance was, and she would write checks accordingly. She became overdrawn by hundreds of dollars. A sweet older lady at our office sat her down and showed her how to keep a checkbook.

2points

Kim Shannon 3 years ago

I worked at a bank for 7 years and used to hear this quite often. People used to ask, "How do I make a withdrawal from my checking account? Can I even do that?" One lady came in on April 15 and asked how much cashiers checks were. The teller (not me) told her $3.00. She said, okay, I need one for $1200 and another for $1400. The teller takes them to her and the woman passed her $6.00. The teller said, well, okay, but how are you going to pay for them ? The customer was confused and said, "I just gave you $6.00. I paid for them." Poor teller thought she was being Punk'd. The customer got angry and was very confused. She left saying, "Well, how am I supposed to pay my taxes?" I've since found out this is not an uncommon occurrence.

2points

IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago

If only.....

2points

Camille Paek 3 years ago

$0.87, shes sooo rich

1point

Mark Johansen 3 years ago

A lot of these stories -- like this one -- I wonder if they're true. I read this same story in a joke book decades ago. Presented as a joke, not claiming it was a true story. Yes, some people can be pretty stupid. But some of these stories seem rather over the top.

1point

Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

No, as a former banker I actually had one customer (a college girl) ask me this. Her parents closed her account shortly thereafter.

0points

I love physics 10 months ago

Well, not so old.

0points

I love physics 10 months ago

So innocent and naive even at such an old age.

0points

Amanda Matthew 2 years ago

If only this was how it worked!

0points

bigboy10809 2 years ago

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0points

Jos Riv 2 years ago

well are those checks for depositing money :)

0points

Maria Ribaulo 3 years ago

That's a very, very, very old one and totally made up. There are plenty of real stories out there, no need to pull this one out.

0points

Peter Korsten 3 years ago

A bank representative once told my wife and me about a customer who included his overdraft facility in his assets. No, it doesn't work that way.

0points

ADHD 3 years ago

the stereotype of Americans being stupid is fairly true, well a good % anyhow. if i had to guess a good 15 to 25 %

0points

Amanda Hunter 3 years ago

If only it worked that way.

0points

Kelly Von Tee 3 years ago

I've used that line before in jest. lol

0points

Damon Hill 3 years ago

That happens way more often than you'd think. Worked for a bank that in the infancy of ATM's, customer went to one, withdrew the $200 limit, went to another and did the same which resulted in overdraft when business tallied at 1PM. She said the machine said she had the money so it's the banks fault. They actually went to court over it and the judge sided with her and told the bank if they couldn't keep their computers up to date any better than that then they should close.

0points

Polly Culberson 3 years ago

Exactly, I had to explain to a friend that she couldn't write checks to cover her bills when there wasn't enough money in her account, Her response: they keep taking my checks.

0points

Oerff On Tour 3 years ago

Bank manager:"Your balance is negative. You owe us $10,000" client:"No problem. Let me write you a check "

0points

Sasy 3 years ago

I was very surprised when in the U.S that you have singular cheques that come in a box and can have any pictures you choose on them (very cute) here we only have books of cheques, with a stub so you can keep track of balances and cheques written. I can see how having all these loose cheques could get confusing.

0points

I want cake 3 years ago (edited)

We don't use cheques anymore in the Netherlands. It used to cost either 14 euro or 10% of the amount in admin fees depending on the type of cheque to process it and now since last year or the year before a number of banks have stopped processing them entirely.

1point

Seabeast 3 years ago

This sounds like an urban legend that has been around for a very long time. I've heard variations of it before.

0points

Ron Santos 3 years ago

I worked with a lady who actually believed that. I saw that she had been charged with passing bad checks several years later. (True story)

0points

Soulstice 3 years ago

When I was younger we had to pay for something in school, and one of my classmates brought in a check from her mother. I just remember that she didn't have to turn it in anymore, so I told her to rip it up to prevent someone from cashing it in. She was so upset about my comment because she thought the check itself was worth the money, and thought her mother would be loosing the money.

0points

Damon Tripodi 3 years ago

That's a really old joke

0points

Liza Jones 3 years ago

Like the one where it is tradition to put money in the coffin of the deceased. So the first few people throw in five, ten, twenty in notes until there's about $100 in the coffin. Then the last guy takes the $100 out and writes a cheque for $200 and puts that in the coffin instead.

0points

#24

Stack of newspapers with a focus on "World Business" section. My first girlfriend, about 20 years, I showed her one of those newspapers at the time that had made up stories about alien abductions etc, Weekly World News I think it was. One of the headlines was "Belgium Destroyed By Giant Asteroid And No One Noticed For 2 Months" and she thought it was real. Thing was she wasn't actually dumb, just really innocent and naive

MCBMCB77 , AbsolutVision Report

Final score:

134points

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I want cake 3 years ago

There is that, but it can also be insecurity or social fear/anxiety. In my case it definitely was. I've accepted stories from people because I was scared that if I took it as a joke or pushed back and it was actually true, they'd be offended or get angry at me. I'm sure that a fair few people in my past think I'm gullible or dumb, but the truth is I'm just terrified of saying or doing the wrong thing. I'd rather be seen as stupid than cause offence.

64points

#25

Dated a girl from work first year of college. On first "date", we decide to just make something simple at her place. Being rich college students, we settled with Mac and cheese and wine.

Get to the kitchen, and she says, "OK honest question. When boiling water, do you get the pot hot first, then add the water, or the other way around?"

Yup, she didn't know how to boil water. I just... don't know how someone makes it through life not knowing how to boil water on the stove.

tjn182 Report

Final score:

133points

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Premislaus de Colo 3 years ago

I blame this on overprotective parents doing everything for her, including boiling water

168points

Affectionate_Ad_6902 Report

#26

Ex-friend. Got in to an massive, almost physically violent argument and told her to leave my apartment and get out of the complex since she didn't live there. She said "I don't have to! This is government property!" I was like... no...just no...

The police came and informed her opposite

Final score:

130points

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El muerto 3 years ago

like people that goes to "public" places, like stores and restaurant and actually think that they are own by the state...because they are " a public place".

60points

#27

Everday I have people on the phone that redefine the words dumb, stupid and ignorant.

For example one customer had trouble sending back a sack of birdseed. He outright refused to send it back himself, because he feared the big sack would kill him if he was caught in a car accident. So he demanded that we personally sent someone to him to take the bird seeds away. That isnt something we do so when this "request" was denied, he, and Im not kidding, set the fucking sack on fire, sent us the the pictures of it per mail and still had the audacity to demand a refund plus a fee for bothering him so much.

Yab0iFiddlesticks Report

Final score:

129points

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Susan 3 years ago

Thanks for the laughter!

40points

#28

Aerial view of a coastal landscape with blue waters and cloudy sky. We were in history class, taking a pop quiz. one of the questions was "where is pearl harbor?" someone raised their hand and asked "who is pearl harbor? and why would I know where he is?" it's me. I had trouble focusing in school and thought pearl harbor was a person

harpervalleyyy , wikipedia Report

Final score:

123points

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Melanee Upton 3 years ago

My last name is Upton and in history class someone told me I must be related to Upton Sinclair. How cool!

44points

#29

watching star wars with friends in high school. some girl we knew said " when did this happen?" I said the movie was made in the 70s . she said " no, the space fight?! when did we get into a space fight?!" she was dead serious, thought star wars actually happened.

joeyjojo-shabadoo Report

Final score:

123points

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Linus Nilsson 3 years ago

Well, it was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

235points

#30

Stacks of 1000 denomination banknotes arranged closely, capturing a sense of abundance. For months, I've been dealing with a client who doesn't get their bills.

Every month, they call and ask where it is, we confirm their address and the expected arrival date, I manually generate a new invoice, and e-mail it over.

Today, when confirming the address for like the 6th time, they said "oh, no, that's not my town or zip" and submitted an address change.

How the hell do you not know where you live?

MyNameIsRay , Macau Photo Agency Report

Final score:

122points

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Carrie Laughs 3 years ago

I've seen that quite a lot. People getting their UK postcode or even their Post Town wrong.

16points

#31

A girl I was friends with purposely disagreed with legit facts because it 'made her different'

cutiegirl88 Report

Final score:

109points

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Bill 3 years ago

She has a bright future in the GOP.

184points

#32

Person holding a pencil above a blank notebook, with art supplies nearby. Had a guy tell me that he could write with his left and right hand equally well. He said that he was “amphibious”.

dwalters43 , Kelly Sikkema Report

Final score:

105points

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Premislaus de Colo 3 years ago

ambidextrous - just a mistake...

85points

#33

“I’m on a soup and water diet”

“Tonight’s soup is creamy bacon potato”

whine-0 Report

Final score:

104points

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IzzieM 3 years ago

My kind of soup diet!

81points

#34

Person counting money, representing the concept of financial decision-making among individuals considered lacking in wisdom. When I was in middle-school (like age 12-14ish), we went to the local college. I stopped by the college bookstore and bought a pack of gum. The gum was like $0.96 after tax.

The clerk, a college-age girl, entered the gum in the cash register, and I gave her a dollar for the gum. She proceeded to count out $0.96 in change to me. I was so embarrassed for the girl, I didn't dare say anything, so I took the money. But then I felt bad and thought she might get in trouble, so I went back and asked her if maybe the gum cost $0.96 and she only owed me $0.04 in change.

I mean, hard to judge a person for one interaction. Maybe she was thinking hard about quantum mechanics and just couldn't devote enough mental energy to the Gum-Dollar Exchange Deficit Function. But it definitely lowered my opinion of college students at the time.

JohnBarnson , Sharon McCutcheon Report

Final score:

103points

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Dynein 3 years ago

Oh, I can totally see myself doing that, and I'm a PhD student. I tend to switch to a sort of automatic mode when doing tasks that don't require creativity or deeper understanding, and it's definitely caused me to miss steps on occasion. She probably forgot to enter the sum you gave her and jumped to the next step, hand out the amount of money that's shown on the display. Since 0.96 is the kind of small sum you normally return as change, it wouldn't slap her out of automatic thinking.

71points

#35

I'm sorry, but I can't provide a description for this image. I remember when I was little my brother continued to have many strange misconceptions, but I can’t remember any except the one where he said “Martin Luther King Jr. was one president of the U.S. Otherwise, how could he have stood on a podium?”

Platypus-Olive-27 , wikipedia Report

Final score:

87points

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I want cake 3 years ago (edited)

Isn't that just kid logic though? I know I thought some very weird things when I was little.

91points

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#36

35 People Reveal Who Is The Dumbest Person In The World They've Ever Met I was put in charge of training a girl at a coffee shop I worked at. She didn't know how to make coffee, I literally had to tell her "ok, now pour the coffee in until it reaches this line, no, pour it slower don't dump the whole pot over the cup." When trying to train her on register I don't know if she couldn't or just refused to count. A total would be $5.98 and she'd tell the person it was $6, when people gave her anything but bills she'd stare at the change and ask me how much that was or she'd say "that's $2 right?" And there'd be like 50¢ on the counter in dimes and pennies. I tried training her on sandwich station, she would pack the food frozen into the bags and just hand it out. On her breaks I'd have to constantly remind her that 15 minutes means 15 minutes, not 20, not 30, not an hour. We were allowed to have food at work for free within reason and only in the back. She would reach into the pastry case with her bare hand, pick up an item and just eat it at register or right next to the case. There was a lot more she'd do wrong and it got to the point where I thought she was trying to purposefully get fired

2baverage , LAUREN GRAY Report

Final score:

52points

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Matt Du 3 years ago

This comment has been deleted.

13points

Cheese_BasedLifeform , Billy Huynh Report

#37

35 People Reveal Who Is The Dumbest Person In The World They've Ever Met A girl in my class in high school asked the teacher where the sky was. Like she genuinely had no idea and when we tried to explain to her that the sky was above us outside she was like “no that’s the ceiling”.

Final score:

48points

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IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago

Or God’s floor

25points

#38

I knew a girl in my year 9 geography class who was convinced bears don’t exist. She did however believe in polar bears. Just not other types of bear.

thejonkeler Report

Final score:

48points

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Yugan Talovich 3 years ago

Take her to Yellowstone, smear her with honey, and step back. She'll find out soon enough.

35points

#39

A woman who was a troop leader in my Boy Scouts troop (who was Mexican) said I was racist towards Mexicans and initiated an argument with me at camp. All because I didn’t like jalapeño peppers because I thought they were too spicy.

Ripkabird98 Report

Final score:

45points

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Mark Johansen 3 years ago

Someone once told me I was anti-semitic because I said I wasn't a fan of Barbara Streisand.

6points

#40

Dude I used to work with asked “how do islands stay in one spot if the ocean tide changes the way it does?”

I had to walk away

Redd889 Report

Final score:

42points

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J. F. 3 years ago (edited)

Sable Island in the north atlantic actually changes position though

9points

#41

A girl who believed Doner Kebab (The large versions of spits that they shave into gyro/kebab meat) were elephant legs. She was 21.

StillGayNotLying Report

Final score:

41points

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Anne 3 years ago

Someone probably told her that

18points

#42

A girl thought you had to poke your (rather women had to poke their nipples), nipple for the milk to come out. Like with a literal needle.

Avery_777 Report

Final score:

41points

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Giulia 3 years ago

ouch!

26points

HmmWhatDoIUseForThis Report

#43

Not me, but my father. He had gone hunting with a group of his friends (2-3 people), but one of his friends invited someone else. To keep this persons identity anonymous we will call him Kevin. Now, Kevin was an interesting one. When they first set out Kevin unloaded a clip into the air to and I quote "Warm up his rifle". Him doing this scared off all deer that were in the area. Kevin also consistently pointed his rifle at everyone in the group. Lets just say, my father didn't go hunting with him again. The only thing I'm confused about is how the hell did this guy pass hunter safety, the world may never know ¯

Final score:

41points

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K Witmer 3 years ago

He scared the deer off on purpose bc he hates hunting then played dumb

41points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

#44

In recent memory, the lady picking up photos from my workplace who said, "I'm not worried about COVID. I'm a healthcare worker. If I was going to catch it, I would have already."

queenthistle Report

Final score:

41points

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Vasana Phong 3 years ago

My ex-coworker thought the same, had signs and symptoms for more then a week, got my manager sick, put all of us and loved ones in danger due to this thought process in her pea brain... yes she tested positive for COVID.

21points

Sensitive-Cherry-398 Report

#45

A girl who agreed on time changes but disagreed I was talking to her on my Sunday when it was her Saturday. I lived in Australia at the time

Final score:

39points

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Eslamala 3 years ago

So many people who don't understand how time zones work...

20points

MuffytheBananaSlayer Report

#46

I don’t know about “dumbest person”, but I once had a student complain her grade changed every time I graded something. I use a total points system, points earned/points available *100=%

I said yes, it will change every time because the numerator and denominator are changing every time I grade something; that’s how math works. Student said “I know how to do math” Me “I don’t think you do or we wouldn’t be having this conversation”

Final score:

39points

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Demi Zwaan 3 years ago

You could've just said 'the average changes', but yes, still dumb.

8points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

#47

Today a friend told me that her coworker bought her THREE year old a VENTI Starbucks coffee because the kid wanted it??? It apparently has FOUR shots of espresso in it. My friend flipped on her coworker about it and the coworker said she didn’t know it was bad (?????????) because she doesn’t drink coffee and her child just told her what she wanted and she ordered it (?!!?????!!!?????). So, I guess I have not met her, but she is the dumbest person I’ve heard of in awhile and my brain is exploding thinking about this again.

kitttykatqueen Report

Final score:

38points

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Eslamala 3 years ago (edited)

Another one of those parents who give their little shïts whatever they demand just so they don't have to deal with them and teach them.

28points

#48

“Trees aren’t real, because they don’t move” -kid I overheard at a bus stop

WiltedMrlincoln Report

Final score:

36points

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Carrie Laughs 3 years ago

Oh no! I am surrounded by fake trees 🌳

28points

PlayfulOtterFriend Report

#49

I met a woman in a small town in Alabama many years ago. While chatting, she said “I’ve never been outside the state. Well, except for that one time in Mobile.” [For those not in the US, Mobile is a city in Alabama.] The whole room got really quiet as we tried to figure out how to react.

Final score:

36points

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Eslamala 3 years ago

Reminded me of Britney Spears, who once said she got to go to a lot overseas places, like Canada 🤦🏼‍♀️

14points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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French Diver’s “Jewels” In Tight Swimming Trunks Become Talk Of The Town At Olympics

#50

I remember a few years ago I was in the middle of a French class with this girl I knew. I don’t know what started it, but the pair of us ended up in an argument which then turned into an argument of who was smarter. The teacher decided to test this by asking her where the Eiffel Tower was. She full heartedly replied that it was the massive glass building in the city we were in.

She thought the Shard in London was the Eiffel Tower...while we were sitting in the middle of a French class...in South London...with a view of the Shard from our window.

And she was serious about it too. I thought it was just a joke but then afterwards she refused to listen to reason after claiming the River Thames was in Africa. I’m pretty sure she was pulling my leg but I just had to stare at her for a second to try and process what she was thinking.

O_R_D_I Report

Final score:

35points

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Beth Arriaga 3 years ago

My SO and I played Pictionary a long time ago with 2 other couples. Women VS men. Women lost horribly because one of the guy's girlfriend had no idea what basic things were. She would pull a card and then ask the men 'what is this?' Eiffel Tower was one. Empire State Building. Every single book title that came up... she had no basic knowledge base. I felt so badly for her.

11points

#51

A lady said you could get AIDs from sitting in a chair.

pinkflower200 Report

Final score:

35points

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Anne 3 years ago

you technically could.. if the seat is covered in sharp spikes with on them fresh blood with the virus and you sit on it with bare skin, the spikes breaking through your skin. I think you have a better chance at winning a lottery

33points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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Mom Leaves $250k Inheritance To Son, Throws A Fit When Daughter Stops Looking After Her

#52

My 25 year old gf had no idea how time zones work. She didn't believe me when I told her it was a different time on the east coast. I drew a rough sketch of America with the zones and she thought I was lying to her until I showed her that TV programs have different time listings.

Yes, she was very pretty.

MilosSword Report

Final score:

34points

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I I 3 years ago

pretty , pretty dumb

21points

#53

I don't know if she was joking or not but my mother asked me the other day why the earth wasn't sinking from becoming heavier from the increased amount of people living on it

Maybe I'm the idiot for falling for it

SiBea13 Report

Final score:

33points

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Susan 3 years ago

This brought back a memory to me. I hadn't seen my bio-family for over a decade, when I finally visited them. (They're not smart people.) They believe getting an education is stupid, and they're racists. We were having dinner, and they started making fun of a neighbor. They said she was the stupidest person they had ever met. Next day she drops by for some reason, and my father walks into another room to get something or other for her. They're talking to each from separate rooms when she says something absolutely crazy to my father. I look up at her, and she looks at me and gives me a big wink, and a grin. My father comes back into the room protesting the validity of what she just said completely seriously. She can hardly keep from laughing. She's pressing her lips together to keep from doing so, but my father doesn't notice. He just continues ranting. I realize that she is amusing herself by playing this game with my relatives who are not smart enough to realize that she is joking.

30points

#54

My landlord is an idiot. Two examples:

We had an ant problem, and she cut the branch off the tree over the deck. Why? Because the ants were using the branch to get in the house to get water.

Squirrels were nesting under the deck. Solution? Spray them with water to get them out (worked). Cut off another tree branch so they couldn’t get to the deck. (Like trees are the only thing they can climb.)

IveBangedyourmom Report

Final score:

32points

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Phendrena 3 years ago

Squirrels eh? Oh those buggers are knackered if they haven't got a tree to climb? It's a Mission Impossible....... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY9GBl7UmVs

10points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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“This Breaks My Heart”: People Stunned—And Angry—After Woman Buys Lost Luggage From Airport

#55

Had a bunch of friends round for a party, one of my buddies brought his girlfriend who was a dental nurse. We were playing Cards Against Humanity with the home rule that you could put your hand up if you didn't know a word and you'd be relentlessly mocked but have it explained.

The girlfriend didn't know what the clitoris was.

Sex education is mandatory in our country.

She was a dental nurse so needed to have at least a basic understanding of human biology.

They eventually broke up and we still mock our friend for this! Usually by saying, "at least make sure your next girlfriend knows what her clit is"

peoplers Report

Final score:

31points

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Ray Martin 3 years ago

Clearly the guy didn't know, either.

23points

#56

The girl who asked me if me and my brother could feel the same pain cause we're twins. As if the question wasn't stupid enough, my brother and I are around three years apart and she was in his year in high school

VonAshley Report

Final score:

30points

POST

Yugan Talovich 3 years ago

Tell her you're twins, it was a very difficult birth. She'll believe you.

11points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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#57

Randy.

I worked with him when I was in my late teens, in a warehouse where we would put together Computer systems.

My name is Tracy, one day Randy looked at me and with the most serious voice/look asked me the following question...

Is your name, Tracy, "short for something"?

I said, hmmmm..

Well Randy, what do you think it could be short for?

He say's....Ummmm... Tracy-opolis.

Like maybe it was short for a Greek name. lol

On my Grave stone it will say....

Here lie's Tracy (short for Tracyopolis)

Significant_Choice93 Report

Final score:

29points

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Kristof De Smet 3 years ago

*lies*

8points

#58

1 girl in my friends class (17) legitimately asked if there have been people on the sun to her geography teacher, he almost died of a heart attack right there

Flying_Bobcat Report

Final score:

29points

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I I 3 years ago

only at night time when it's cooler ..........................

7points

#59

The lady who asked me how she was suppose to pour a pot of coffee.

"Uh, excuse me. How am I suppose to pour this?" While she's holding the pot of coffee.

"You pick it up and pour it?" I offered, with what was I'm sure, the saltiest look on my face followed by probably a good shock of wth?

mrsristretto Report

Final score:

29points

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M O'Connell 3 years ago

Was it one of those pots with the snap-in lid that has slots in it? Because I recall being very confused by how that works when I was a child.

1point

College Student Does Exactly As Told After Roommates Demand They Keep Their Stuff In Their Room

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#60

Had someone steal their roommates Credit card to buy a game at GameStop but used his own rewards card.

H__Dresden Report

Final score:

28points

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Vasana Phong 3 years ago

He or she probably also gave them his ID for the credit card when asked.

4points

#61

Coworker - 100% believed unicorns are real and pissed off that live entertainment shows clip off their wings so they can’t fly away. Also, made a frozen pizza with the cardboard underneath it. Also, 9-11 was an inside job.

alockbox Report

Final score:

28points

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ADHORTATOR 3 years ago

Unicorns don't have wings, Pegasus has :-)

38points

#62

I was helping a guy and he asked me for directions in a state I'm not from. I told him I lived in Michigan(I don't) he said oh I don't know what country that is.

Please don't breed

Trashbat8 Report

Final score:

27points

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Susan 3 years ago

Oh, but you know they do.

12points

#63

My brother’s ex. She couldn’t follow the plot line of a very simple Disney movie. She was in her mid-twenties.

gubbygoobyqt Report

Final score:

25points

POST

N G 3 years ago

Which movie?

17points

#64

My ex, convinced her that rubbing a portable speaker on her head would charge it because of the static electricity .

UrbanLegendd Report

Final score:

24points

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Ray Martin 3 years ago

If you had to convince her, that just makes her overly trusting and you an arsehole.

34points

#65

A classmate named Rebecca had many instances of just jaw-dropping idiocy. Two of my favorites were:

After listening to a presentation on why a pool hall would be a great addition to a bar, “That’s great and everything, but where’s the pool?”

Reading out loud her paper on recognizable structures, “The Parthenon is important. Because it is big and it is good.”

I think it’s the confidence behind anything she said that just made it hard to overlook the ignorance.

LilAufder Report

Final score:

24points

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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

It is a fact that only the ignorant are able to say the most absurd things with a level of confidence that would even silence Ben Shapiro.

12points

observatory-mansiion Report

#66

This dumb girl I went to middle/highschool with.

Blew the breaker to half the school when she decided to make instant cup noodles for lunch, but didn’t realize that she needed to use water.

The whole cup caught on fire.

Final score:

24points

POST

Yelena Yardeen 3 years ago

But... how?

4points

#67

I met a kid in Army basic training who said that he had P-pneumonia (pronounced Pee-neumonia). He was convinced that it was a more serious form of pneumonia because it was P-pneumonia.

DonovanMcLoughlin Report

Final score:

22points

POST

Adam Francis 3 years ago

Pneumocystis pneumonia, sometimes called P-pneumonia or PCP

50points

#68

The other day, my friend asked me how many toes he had.

pickindim_kmet Report

Final score:

22points

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Vasana Phong 3 years ago

Hey 11 or 12 can happen...

10points

#69

One of my closest friends can be painfully stupid. She thought human eggs were tiny babies, not a single cell. That’s the standout situation because she argued about it with me for like half an hour.

She also once told me and another one of our friends to stop talking about the classes we were thinking about taking because we were making her feel dumb. We were discussing our math class option for the next year and had decided we were probably going to take the basic one. The one she was going to do. Ugh.

AwesomeGirl_Quinn Report

Final score:

20points

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Yugan Talovich 3 years ago

Didn't people believe that in the Middle Ages? Something something homonucleus?

9points

#70

In high school, there was this girl who was in English and we were reading Mice and Men. We were all popcorn reading and when it was her turn. She asked me what page we were on. I clearly told her the page and then proceeds to read the first page. Like what?! I told her the page and she straight up went to the first page. Even the teacher told her the page and she was still confused until the next person volunteered.

FarConnection9 Report

Final score:

19points

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Aahzmandus Pervect 3 years ago

Popcorn reading?

20points

#71

I once had a friend who grew up in New South Wales (A state in Australia - with the capital of Sydney) upon hearing I grew up in Perth, (the capital of a the state of Western Australia) ask me “Is W.A. near Perth?” She was mid 20s. Imagine having lived your entire life in a country but having no idea about the states and capital cities. I was dumbfounded.

_walkerland Report

Final score:

19points

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Vasana Phong 3 years ago

Don’t feel bad, this is a common accordance in the US

17points

#72

My ex. She didnt know what animal beef came from.

BakedAs Report

Final score:

19points

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Vicky Zar 3 years ago

I can understand this one and I don't blame her. You can't really deduce the right animal from the word beef or pork, can you? I was an adult when I first bothered to look it up. But I am not a native speaker, so that's my excuse (we call it "cowmeat/ cattlemeat" and "pigmeat")

13points

#73

Had a roommate who asked me why i bake bread if i could buy bread. Also asked me what i was gonna use a brush for, when i asked if she had a brush for her dog. She let her dog eat a brownie then blamed everyone else in the house for not watching the dog. She owed the person paying the rent like 800 dollars and continued to buy expensive kitchen appliances.

sugarholicsheep Report

Final score:

18points

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M O'Connell 3 years ago

Was one of those appliances a bread machine? Because that would have been convenient for you.

9points

#74

Dated a girl for a while who couldn’t grasp the concept of a mail-in rebate. No matter how many times I explained it. Simply, step by by step, she still never understood.

serene_brutality Report

Final score:

17points

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Guy MacGregor 3 years ago

I have never heard of a "mail-in rebate" before.

13points

#75

35 People Reveal Who Is The Dumbest Person In The World They've Ever Met True story. Kid in my neighborhood. Someone must have told him that if he shone a flashlight in one ear, light would come out the other ear. He didn't know i was looking. He held a flashlight to one ear and his open palm at the other. He turned on the light and tried to turn his head real fast to see his palm. He did this several times. Never caught the light. I was in awe at his stupidity.

Jack6503 , Klim Sergeev Report

Final score:

16points

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Jenny Rosbach 3 years ago

Just a little kid it seems!

52points

#76

I had a girl in my class, biological sciences branch of studies, that asked the teacher if fish were affected by gravity. Also asked if giant squids ate cachalots with only one bite. I really have no idea how she get there

YtkaErganiv Report

Final score:

16points

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Jayne Kyra 3 years ago

Cachalot - old term for "sperm whale".

19points

TheCheesecakeOfDoom Report

#77

This guy I met when I was working at CFA. I was 15 at the time, and had just clocked off when we were busy. The guy walks up to me and says "Want some advice? Don't clock off when your team needs you" and he walked away.

A lady police officer who overheard the whole thing said "Want some advice? Don't listen to idiots like him." She was super nice and I talked with her for15 minutes or so.

By the way, there is a $25,000 fine for your employer if you work past 9 PM and your 15-17 where I live

Final score:

15points

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Arctic Fox Lover 3 years ago

Yeah, this is the same case for my brother. Before he was 17, he worked at a cruddy fast food restaurant that I'll be keeping the name of for privacy reasons. He had a really terrible boss (let's say her name is Spicy von Pepperbutt) who was horrible to her employees and even rude to her higher-ups sometimes. She once physically grabbed my brother's face and turned it so he was looking at the menu and asked something stupid like "Ok, so you see how the menu says [enter generic food name here]? Yeah? So why didn't you make a f***ing [generic food]?!" just because he accidentally got the order wrong. Anyway, she always begged all of her employees to work overtime or past the legal time they were allowed to work to (because my brother was under 17 and couldn't work past 9:00 until he came of age). Spicy von Pepperbutt left, sued that fast food place, and then was somehow rehired. Now she's the manager again, with her son being the co-manager. ._.

4points

#78

I worked a security post with a guy who didn't understand the concept of gravity. I thought he was joking at first, but he was serious. To be fair to him, he did pick it up pretty quick when I taught him.

Zjoee Report

Final score:

14points

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Eslamala 3 years ago (edited)

Not knowing something and asking or listening to someone who does doesn't make you dumb, though...

32points

#79

I worked in a restaurant with a woman who couldn’t give change back from a nickel. Needless to say, she lasted a week.

notcleverjustold Report

Final score:

14points

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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

That long?

10points

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McPanda 3 years ago

I think all of the ones that include children in this list are unfair. Children are obviously learning things- that's pretty much their only job.

22points

Chich 3 years ago

I recall this one clueless clod who declared that the covid outbreak was 'completely under control"

15points

It's just me 3 years ago (edited)

Would that be the same person who also said it would be gone by Easter 2020? Loll

8points

Steve 3 years ago

Hold my beer... Working at a fast food place in high school, watched as co-worker dropped a spatula in deep fryer. He reaches in with both arms, and fishes around for about 30 seconds. He pulls his arms out, and says "I lost it" while I watch his arms double in size.

7points

Sasy 3 years ago

I used to have nightmares of doing that, or just falling and landing palms down on a hotplate, so clumsy especially as a teen, so this was a real concern I had. We will often do some crazy things like go to catch a knife as it is falling and so on, I once grabbed a glass sliding off a counter but ended up smashing it against the wall and the force was so hard it went through my hand and needed stitches, reactions are often not well timed.

1point

Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago

My best friend in high-school babysat for a very famous Canadian poet and author. The students in her class were assigned to chose a poem, analyze it and do a class presentation. Ok, I'll agree this is cheating, but she picked a poem by this gentleman and out and out asked him what the meaning was. He told her. But this goes to what the teacher said. She told her the analysis was incorrect. They argued back and forth about it that she was wrong. My friend finally confessed and told her it is correct because the author told her what he meant when he wrote it. The teacher still insisted she was wrong and proceeded to explain why. 🙄

5points

Happy_Pandalover 3 years ago

The teacher was just plain ignorant in this case.

1point

Amanda Panda 3 years ago

I once had a nursing student ask me which side of the body the lungs are on.

4points

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François Carré 3 years ago

One of my coworkers once told me that he could'nt get how all rivers on Earth didn't flow from North to South because "North is on top and water is supposed to run down, right ?" He was often doing stupid jokes so I wasn't 100% sure he was serious there but this one was a bit too subtle and original compared to what he usually could say. I honestly felt puzzled and didn't know how to respond to this, because in case he was not joking, reviewing his whole notion of how the planet works could take a very long time.

3points

jjdubs W 3 years ago

A friend of mine's former boyfriend insisted to her that his name was spelled "Timmothy" with two m's. They argued for a minute. Finally, she said, "Look at your driver's license, Tim!" His only response was, "Oh."

2points

-Annelise- 3 years ago

Had to sell chocolates for school and give the school the money we earned. My twin proposed we buy all of each-others chocolates so we could be *rich* AND have chocolate. Took me 15 whole min to explain to him. 0-0

2points

Eleni Aggeliki 3 years ago

My flatmate was an economics student. She thought chicken was a vegetable. She was shocked and disgusted when I explained. She thought the seeds in the centre of cucumbers were signs of mold. She didn't know what seeds were. Once, she asked how to bake potatoes. Told her to preheat oven and then put the potatoes in the pan. She did preheat the oven but with an empty pan inside. When the temperature built up to hot-hot-hot she opened the door and threw the potatoes in one by one aiming for the pan. She missed many of her shots but she somehow managed to stick her bare hand on the red-hot grill resistance. Stood there like that screaming till I went and took her hand away from the grill. No survival instinct but she was in the top ten of her year.

2points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

I had that friend. She got a STEM PhD from Princeton, but do NOT let her cross a street alone. OMG. Love her, but she cannot be left unattended near anything lethal, like roads, cars, toasters....

0points

Yas Min 3 years ago

A christian swedish guy way over 30 ones tried to convince me that I MUST be moslem because I come from a turkish family :D Like the religion of your parents is in your DNA or something.. When I told him what's up and that he should be more sensitive and educated about that kind of things he accused me of being ashamed of "being a moslem" :D Dude, I'm not religious, why is that so hard to understand?

2points

Amy Begun Saab 3 years ago

Dear Bored Panda-PLEASE STOP using grey print! Can you PLEASE use black PRINT because it's easier for humans to read. I would think most people would prefer to go easy on their eyes. Dropping this comment here because it's about stupid things people say/do.

2points

Dark Pigeon 3 years ago

We had to convince a woman that Ferrets do not eat cooked carrots but meat. We (I and other ferret rescuers) heard about her, got her phonenumber as she needed help with her ferret) I fear I have to tell you she did not believe us. Because a friend had told her about the cooked carrots had to be right! Because she owned a ferret once in her life. Unlike me, who had 6 rescue's running amok in the very same room as I had been in. Heard from a friend, someone that fed seeds to his owls.. because birds eat seeds. I do rescue work with birds now, especially parrots and parakeets. And the amount of stupidity of some bird owners is just... overwelming. In this time of information being so readily available to everyone! It absolutely dumbfounds me that people still do not know how to take care of their animal. Just read about it!!! just... lord... how absolutly stupid can one be?

2points

I want cake 3 years ago (edited)

I cannot imagine getting a pet of any kind and not doing my own research before. And by research I mean genuine research, talking to a vet or pet shop staff, reading specialist care websites etc, not the way that conspiracy theorists use the term.

2points

AzKhaleesi 3 years ago

My fave dumb moment I had.... I was super tired, had been working a LOT of overtime. I had just gotten up to get ready for another day at work when my buddy called me. (we worked together) he was on vacation and was stuck at the airport and wanted to pass some time. I said, "What happened, why was your flight (departure) delayed?" He said "Oh the plane got stuck in Great lakes." As soon as it left my mouth I regretted it but it was too late, I answered, "What the hell is the plane doing in the lake?" Lmao. He cracked up and said "not the actual lake(s) and thank you for the laugh I needed that, get ready for work." Not my shiniest moment but I'll never forget it lol.

2points

Angie Falzarano 3 weeks ago

Well not really dumb question after the plane landed in the Hudson due to a bird strike. I don't think it's dumb.

0points

Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

(1) A former co-worker believed that sea scallops were actually just pieces of scrap fish that had been cut into cylinders with a cookie cutter. (2) Overheard in a waiting room: That black squirrels are the offspring of grey squirrels and black cats.

2points

Sasy 3 years ago

I can understand the scallop one, potatoe scallops (In Australia) are just sliced and battered potatoes, and raw scallops do look like raw fish if you do not see the shell. Scallops the nuggets of the sea :p

0points

Eslamala 3 years ago

There's millions of people who believe some dude "created" the world in 7 days... It doesn't get any dumber than that!

2points

Display Name 3 years ago

Well to be fair they also believe that that same dude will punish them forever and ever if they don't live their life exactly the way a book says so...

0points

s. vitkovitsky 3 years ago

It must be wonderful to know you're so much smarter than millions of people!

-3points

ivan bolitekurac 3 years ago

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TheDutchGinger 3 years ago

A Dutch woman i knew, bought a car with an automatic gearbox(I think that's the right word for it) . the letters are in English . But she thought they were in Dutch. . Now if you think the letters are Dutch ''R' would be ''rijden'' which means drive. She went back to the car dealer angry and complaining. Each time she put the car in R , the car would go backwards instead of forward. When they told her it was in English, she said she knew. And then to try and save herself, she said '' in English it's Ride, so the car is broken ''. Then she demanded that the dealer would fix this problem. Eventually she traded the car for a shift gear car. She knew how to drive that.

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Renate Stargardt 3 years ago

When I was 9 or 10 years old (about 40 years ago), we had a girl in the class who everyone thought was stupid ... including the teachers. You could tell her the craziest lies ... like for example: houses were built on the Jupiter and people are moving there. I learned a while ago, that she is autistic. She just doesn't understand " the concept of lies "... she never has, same with irony and sarcasm, or jokes. Turned out she has an IQ of 148 😮 took her almost 25 years to find out.

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Lisa Shaw 3 years ago

This reminds me of what I believe to be one of the dumbest people I ever met, my BF's boyfriend. He won a contest, it was a trip to Australia, all expenses and spending money paid. the trip was in July, he heard that everything is opposite to us, so we spent hours trying to explain that it was just the seasons, meaning he was going to Australia in their winter, could not get him to understand that if he went in July that he would not miss Christmas with his family in Canada. He wound up selling a $5,000.00 trip for peanuts, so that he wouldn't miss Christmas with his family! BF broke up with him shortly after and everyone who knew her was so happy!

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Clayton Emery 3 years ago

College orientation lecture, 1971, during our summer visit. Two college students up front are talking about life on campus, answering questions. About 40 students in the room, ready to come to college. "Any questions?" First one, "Can we drink in the dorms?" "Well, you're not supposed to, but as long as you keep it low key. Next question." More questions. Then someone asks, "Can we drink in the dorms?" Same answer. More questions then, "Can we drink in the dorms?" I'm thinking, "These are students going to college, this lecture is Everything We Need to Know, and they can't pay attention to a 30 minute lecture?"

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pusheen buttercup 3 years ago

I'm a very smart person, but sadly I can't figure out my own address, my birthday, or the date

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Ally R 3 years ago

I used to think 'it fell through' or 'fall through' were positive things. I once said, 'the interview went well, I hope it falls through' to which my dad looked at me surprised and asked why and then explained what the expression actually means.

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Tammy Ralph 3 years ago

Years ago my partner asked me how many minutes you boil an egg for, I told him 3 minutes for a runny egg, he had 3 eggs so he left them on for 9 minutes and then blamed me because they were hard.

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Louloubelle 3 years ago

I'm not sure I've ever met anyone as dumb as most of these stories. Yes, a few of the more minor ones, but not the truly incredibly stupid ones. It almost seems like it would be fun to just hear them talk. How entertaining.

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Valentina Vitale 3 years ago

A college roommate learned in science class that mass is neither lost nor gained. She declared an amazing epiphany! Ghosts must exist because when you die your soul leaves, so it must be replaced by a spirit! Because, you know, all that mass a soul takes up...

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CatWoman312 3 years ago

Use to work with this girl who would ask me questions all the time where I questioned her intelligence. The one I remember the most is some sort of quiz she was doing where it asked what states she had visited. She asked me if Tennessee was a state and then proceeded to ask me if Asheville (a city in North Carolina) was a state too. I don’t know how she made it that far in life

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Steve 3 years ago

Next time, tell her she lives in the state of ignorance

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Skulduggery Pheasant 3 years ago

I'm not even a teenager yet and I am smarter than most of these people. Then again, in this case it isn't too hard...

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Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago

Just read through all these and wanted to assure you all, most of these people get a vote equal to yours.

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Angie Falzarano 3 weeks ago (edited)

Working for tsa I was at the supervisor podium. There's huge floor sign saying exit with an arrow right in front of the exit. Actually had a passenger standing next to the exit sign (no was not blind nor wearing glasses) demanded i tell them where the exit was. I just took my finger and pointed out the door. Another female passenger was pounding on a door between the mens and women's bathroom. I saw what she was doing and said ma'am that's not a restroom (storage closet). She demanded to know where the women's restroom was. I pointed to her left. It was an open entry and less than 3 ft away from her.

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Ryan Liang 4 weeks ago

there was a guy in my year 3 class who played online games all day and didn't know what 1 times 7 was

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Ryan Liang 4 weeks ago

there was a guy in my year 3 class who played games all day and didn‘t know 1 times 7

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Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago (edited)

My ex husband was arguing with my son about the Titanic, of all things. My son had done an extensively researched paper about the ship for a class at school, so he knew exactly what he was talking about. The ex kept insisting that it sank on December 7th 1941. Now, even my 12 year old knew that was the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor. I got between them and corrected my husband before things could escalate further. At the very same moment all 3 of us realized my son was smarter than my husband (it's true, he was actually a moron - I don't know WHAT I was thinking). He lasted less than a year.

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backatya 3 years ago

I see dumb people

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Clayton Emery 3 years ago

College orientation lecture, 1971, during our summer visit. Two college students up front are talking about life on campus, answering questions. About 40 soon-to-be students in the room. "Any questions?" First one, "Can we drink in the dorms?" "Well, you're not supposed to, but as long as you keep it low key. Next question." More questions. Then someone asks, "Can we drink in the dorms?" Same answer. More questions then, "Can we drink in the dorms?" I'm thinking, "These are students going to college, this lecture is Everything We Need to Know, and they can't pay attention for 30 minutes?"

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KCN 3 years ago

I am slapping my head at this. It's sad but true, but I bet most of these people live in the US.

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I want cake 3 years ago (edited)

Having worked in customer service and retail for nearly 13 years now, I can promise you there are so many idiots in countries other than the US. Never mind the kids in my academically high level secondary school who were so stupid no-one understood how they survived past childhood, let alone qualify for the school we went to. Honestly, I can talk for days about all th stupidity I've had to deal with over the years - and perhaps surprisingly, in the three weeks I spent in New York a few years ago I met mostly very interesting and intelligent people. I had a wonderful conversation with a random man in a Starbucks in Harlem and I wish I had remembered his name because I would love to know what happened with the play he was writing.

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Axolotl King 3 years ago

Oof so one time me and my sister were talking about where Covid started, She believed the lab theorey and i believed the Bat soup theorey. Anyways, she said "It can't have come from a bat, people don't eat bats" and i said "Some people do" and she said "Well maybe in China or something." She was totally serious too. She's not dumb she just doesnt think before she talks a lot lol

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Coleen Clark 3 years ago

This week you had two posting about stupid people and next time I see one I shall leave BP forever. 1. You are born with your IQ. Mine is in the top 1% (yes I know it from a Mensa test) ... that does not make me a better person, just more intelligent. 2. What you do with your IQ is up to you. How intelligent is a person with an IQ higher than the average of 100 if they have nothing better to do with their IQ than to make fun of people who were born less intelligent.3. This also applies to the so-called intelligent, creative folks at Bored Panda or do you not screen what is posted here.

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Helenium 3 years ago

My sister she will literally believe anything you tell her. One i will remember to my grave is that my dad, hes a joker, told her that sheep have one leg shorter than the other so that when the farmer needs them to come in at night he just pushes them over and they just roll in to the pen, hence the shorter leg. Anyway, he tells her this and forgets about it. so one day. shes doing the Duke Of Edinburgh, and she sees these army types on a run and theyre all chatting and what not and then she says did you know sheep have one leg shorter than the other lol following barrels of laughs, i mean i said to her when you go the butchers you dont ask for the shorter leg of lamb do you lol dear lord, dad gave her some sun glasses but she complained they were too dark, showed her husband they we welding goggles, asked her to ask her science teacher what CO CO A was, he couldnt work it out, she said its cocoa and she got detention, dad told her hors d'oerves was pronounced horses doufers lol omg

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Sasy 3 years ago

This is the perfect explanation of a lot of situations that people end up looking dumb, they have been told something and taken it on board as correct, trusting the teller and the teller thinking they must know I am joking etc.

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Not Proud British 3 years ago (edited)

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Monday 3 years ago

Or maybe not enough woman saw the post to contribute? Not everything is a war of the sexes bud. As a woman I didn't even notice the disparity until you pointed it out, so I certainly didn't feel belittled or attacked.

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Happy_Pandalover 3 years ago

same thought here. While some people seem genuinely dumb and mean as well, i do think most of them just didn‘t know a certain thing. Sometimes people are smart, but somehow have „stupid“ misconceptions. Usually because of something they were told as kids and somehow never found out in their adulthood.

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Andy Clara 3 years ago

It's from Reddit where it seems that most of the posters are male.

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McPanda 3 years ago

I think all of the ones that include children in this list are unfair. Children are obviously learning things- that's pretty much their only job.

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Chich 3 years ago

I recall this one clueless clod who declared that the covid outbreak was 'completely under control"

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It's just me 3 years ago (edited)

Would that be the same person who also said it would be gone by Easter 2020? Loll

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Steve 3 years ago

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Sasy 3 years ago

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Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago

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Happy_Pandalover 3 years ago

The teacher was just plain ignorant in this case.

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Amanda Panda 3 years ago

I once had a nursing student ask me which side of the body the lungs are on.

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François Carré 3 years ago

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jjdubs W 3 years ago

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-Annelise- 3 years ago

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Eleni Aggeliki 3 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

I had that friend. She got a STEM PhD from Princeton, but do NOT let her cross a street alone. OMG. Love her, but she cannot be left unattended near anything lethal, like roads, cars, toasters....

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Yas Min 3 years ago

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Amy Begun Saab 3 years ago

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Dark Pigeon 3 years ago

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I want cake 3 years ago (edited)

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AzKhaleesi 3 years ago

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Angie Falzarano 3 weeks ago

Well not really dumb question after the plane landed in the Hudson due to a bird strike. I don't think it's dumb.

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

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Sasy 3 years ago

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Eslamala 3 years ago

There's millions of people who believe some dude "created" the world in 7 days... It doesn't get any dumber than that!

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Display Name 3 years ago

Well to be fair they also believe that that same dude will punish them forever and ever if they don't live their life exactly the way a book says so...

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s. vitkovitsky 3 years ago

It must be wonderful to know you're so much smarter than millions of people!

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ivan bolitekurac 3 years ago

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TheDutchGinger 3 years ago

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Renate Stargardt 3 years ago

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Lisa Shaw 3 years ago

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Clayton Emery 3 years ago

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pusheen buttercup 3 years ago

I'm a very smart person, but sadly I can't figure out my own address, my birthday, or the date

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Ally R 3 years ago

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Tammy Ralph 3 years ago

Years ago my partner asked me how many minutes you boil an egg for, I told him 3 minutes for a runny egg, he had 3 eggs so he left them on for 9 minutes and then blamed me because they were hard.

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Louloubelle 3 years ago

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Valentina Vitale 3 years ago

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CatWoman312 3 years ago

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Steve 3 years ago

Next time, tell her she lives in the state of ignorance

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Skulduggery Pheasant 3 years ago

I'm not even a teenager yet and I am smarter than most of these people. Then again, in this case it isn't too hard...

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Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago

Just read through all these and wanted to assure you all, most of these people get a vote equal to yours.

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Angie Falzarano 3 weeks ago (edited)

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Ryan Liang 4 weeks ago

there was a guy in my year 3 class who played online games all day and didn't know what 1 times 7 was

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Ryan Liang 4 weeks ago

there was a guy in my year 3 class who played games all day and didn‘t know 1 times 7

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Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago (edited)

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backatya 3 years ago

I see dumb people

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Clayton Emery 3 years ago

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KCN 3 years ago

I am slapping my head at this. It's sad but true, but I bet most of these people live in the US.

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I want cake 3 years ago (edited)

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Axolotl King 3 years ago

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Coleen Clark 3 years ago

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Helenium 3 years ago

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Sasy 3 years ago

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Not Proud British 3 years ago (edited)

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Monday 3 years ago

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