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Take a moment to think of how many times you have called someone dumb or a fool. That's probably because what you saw them do or heard from him made zero sense. Although you might’ve been right, to define who is the stupidest person in the world (or could be eligible to claim that title), you must know what stupidity really means. 

In the Cambridge dictionary, stupidity is described as being silly or unwise. In other words, a stupid person is someone whose behavior is funny and unreasonable or someone whose acts are out of a lack of intelligence. The formal term to define such a person is "imbecile," which is the antonym of intelligent. 

In terms of IQ Score, most mid-level intelligent people score between 85 and 115. Those who fall under 70 on IQ tests are considered to be cognitively impaired. And although we can't jump to conclusions to determine someone's sheer stupidity just from a few foolish moments, it doesn't mean we can't at least eye-roll on repeat.

So when someone on Reddit asked a seemingly basic question, “Who was the dumbest person you met?” the answers started flowing, with each one overshadowing the previous one. Thus, we won't respond with the name of the stupidest person in the world. Instead, we will list 35 moments people believed they’ve met the dumbest person in the world.

#1

Cartoon starfish with a board on head, holding a hammer, sitting by a saw and toolbox in a humorous setting. I know a woman who bragged on Facebook that she scored 84 on her IQ test.... She thought it was out of 100.

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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.

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    #3

    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

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    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.

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    #5

    Various colorful crystal points displayed under light. Flat earthers

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

    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.

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    #6

    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.

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    #7

    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.....

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    Amy Smith
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    3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #8

    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.

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    #9

    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.

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    #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.

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    #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

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    #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.

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

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

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    #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.

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    #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!

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    #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

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    #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.

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    #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.

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    #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.

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    #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.

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    Jenny Rosbach
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    #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.

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    #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.

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    #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

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    #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!”

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    #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

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    I want cake
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #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.

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    Premislaus de Colo
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    #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

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    El muerto
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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".

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    #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.

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    #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

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    Melanee Upton
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    #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.

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

    The temple in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" depicts this in the hieroglyphs

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    Owen Engelhart
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a cousin who thinks it’s pronounced “dark” Vader. This is what I have to grow up with

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

    I was very disappointed to learn that the actual star war was the US and Soviet Union having a p!ssing contest.

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

    I knew a girl who couldn't answer in which country The Great Wall of China was...

    Darla Hallmark
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So... who did she think "we" were in the movie? The rebellion? The empire? The Jedi?

    Darla Hallmark
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So... who did she think "we" were in Star Wars? The Rebellion? The Empire?

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

    In high school my son got into an argument with a girl who legit thought a thesaurus was a dinosaur. She called him stupid.

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

    Is that worse than someone asking me if Apollo 13 was real or not?

    MnM2520
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A common fan-theory states that episodes IV-VI take place in the 1950s

    James016
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I live within walking distance of Elstree studios. The largest building is the George Lucas Stage.

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    #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?

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    Carrie Laughs
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    #31

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

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    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”.

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    #33

    “I’m on a soup and water diet”

    “Tonight’s soup is creamy bacon potato”

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    #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.

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

    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.

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    #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?”

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    I want cake
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    3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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

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    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”.

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    #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.

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    Yugan Talovich
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    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.

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    Mark Johansen
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    #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

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    J. F.
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    3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sable Island in the north atlantic actually changes position though

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    #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.

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    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.

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    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 ¯

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    #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."

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    Vasana Phong
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #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

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    #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”

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    Demi Zwaan
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    #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.

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

    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.

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    #48

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

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    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.

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

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

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    #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.

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    Beth Arriaga
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #51

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

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

    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

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    #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.

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    #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

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

    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.

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    #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.)

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

    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

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    #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"

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    #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

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    Yugan Talovich
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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)

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    #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

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    #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?

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    M O'Connell
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #60

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

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    Vasana Phong
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    #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.

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    #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

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    #63

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

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    #64

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

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    Ray Martin
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    #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.

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

    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.

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    #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.

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    #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.

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    #68

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

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    #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.

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    #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.

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    #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.

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    #72

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

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    Vicky Zar
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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")

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    #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.

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    M O'Connell
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    #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.

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    #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.

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    #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

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    #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

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    Arctic Fox Lover
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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. ._.

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    #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.

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

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

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    #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.

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