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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.
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#1
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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#2
My neighbours taking the batteries out of the carbonmonoxide detector because it was making noise almost every day.
#3
One of my classmates told me I was racist and reported me to the principle after I mentioned Nigeria in geography class
#4
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.
#5
Flat earthers
Anti vaxxer
People who think crystals can heal you
#6
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.
#7
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.....
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.
#8
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.
#9
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.
#10
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.
#11
Girl in my high school history class thought mount Rushmore naturally grew like that
#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.
#13
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.
#14
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!
#15
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
#16
In college a girl told me she had SIDS when she was a baby.
Ian Koch 3 years ago
what's SIDS? or is 14 year old me too young to be able to know what that is.
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Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago (edited)
she caught a bad case of death, but got over it after a while
I want cake 3 years ago
It's very rare to be caught soon enough for resuscitation to have any chance of working but it does happen on occasion.
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Pusfarm 3 years ago
For many years there was a store near me in LA called Sid's Baby Furniture. Eventually, they changed their name and ultimately, I believe, closed altogether. But I don't think the closure had anything to do with the name; an enormous housing and retail project was contributing to the influx of hipsters and tech workers to "Silicon Beach," so I'm guessing real estate prices were getting ridiculous. But Sid's Baby Furniture was a running joke for many years.
Liz the Wanderer 3 years ago
They have alarms now for babies with SIDS, so the parents come and revive the baby. So thanks to technology, this is now possible.
Chris Winemiller 3 years ago
Is possible I had it as well but my mother resuscitated me after my heart stopped. It is in my medical records.
Hutt'nKloas 3 years ago
It makes you one of the lucky few. My baby brother died because of this [on christmas eve], there was none to be rescued... just one big family drama.
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Glynna Bowood 3 years ago
Well, maybe they were able to resuscitate her....but I can see why she should clarify such statements.
Valerie Smart 2 years ago
Did you now? And are you a descendent from Christ who came back from the dead too?
Rob Davison 3 years ago
My cousin's granddaughter is a SIDS survivor. She is in her 30's now. Not very healthy at the moment though.
Maria Ribaulo 3 years ago
In college? I'd like to know the name of the college that accepted her.
Philippe Jespersen 3 years ago
Technically she could be right... I mean, maybe her parents were just good at resuscitation. 🤷🏻♂️😂
Mikala Benson 3 years ago
I had 21 SIDS attacks as a baby. This girl is actually 100% correct - her wording might not necessarily be correct (like saying ATM Machine), but the meaning isn't stupid.
Mikala Benson 3 years ago
I suffered from 21 SIDS attacks. She's not wrong. The wording might not necessarily be correct, but the message is fine.
glowworm2 3 years ago
SIDS stands for sudden infant death syndrome. As the name applies, there’s no way she could have been diagnosed with it and still be alive.
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#17
Friend thought syphilis was what you got from eating raw chicken. He told our whole economics class he got syphilis one time.
Kristof De Smet 3 years ago
The question is: did he really get syphilis? Or did he eat raw chicken?
#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.
#19
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.
Jenny Rosbach 3 years ago
I actually kind of feel sorry for this guy, this has probably happened to him before.
#20
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.
#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.
#22
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
#23
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!”
#24
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
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.
#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.
Premislaus de Colo 3 years ago
I blame this on overprotective parents doing everything for her, including boiling water
#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
#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.
#28
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
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!
#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.
#30
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?
Carrie Laughs 3 years ago
I've seen that quite a lot. People getting their UK postcode or even their Post Town wrong.
#31
A girl I was friends with purposely disagreed with legit facts because it 'made her different'
#32
Had a guy tell me that he could write with his left and right hand equally well. He said that he was “amphibious”.
#33
“I’m on a soup and water diet”
“Tonight’s soup is creamy bacon potato”
#34
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.
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.
#35
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?”
What do you think ?
Chich 3 years ago
I recall this one clueless clod who declared that the covid outbreak was 'completely under control"
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
Load More Replies... 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.
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.
Load More Replies... 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. 🙄
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.
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.
-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
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.
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
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?
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.
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?
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.
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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.
Angie Falzarano 1 month 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
(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.
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
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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!
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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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.
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.
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!
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?"
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
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.
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.
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...
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
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...
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.
John Jaeger 3 weeks ago
These are all garden variety stupidity, really trivial. Real stupidity is evil and hell-bound as in Mao Tse Tung, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Theirs was stupidity on a colossal scale, involving tens of millions who suffered and died as a result.
Angie Falzarano 1 month 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.
Ryan Liang 1 month 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
Ryan Liang 1 month ago
there was a guy in my year 3 class who played games all day and didn‘t know 1 times 7
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.
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?"
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.
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
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.
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
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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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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Chich 3 years ago
I recall this one clueless clod who declared that the covid outbreak was 'completely under control"
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
Load More Replies... 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.
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.
Load More Replies... 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. 🙄
Happy_Pandalover 3 years ago
The teacher was just plain ignorant in this case.
Load More Replies... Amanda Panda 3 years ago
I once had a nursing student ask me which side of the body the lungs are on.
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.
-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
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.
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....
Load More Replies... 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?
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.
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?
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.
Load More Replies... 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.
Angie Falzarano 1 month 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.
Load More Replies... 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.
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
Load More Replies... 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!
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...
Load More Replies... 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.
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.
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!
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?"
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
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.
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.
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...
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
Steve 3 years ago
Next time, tell her she lives in the state of ignorance
Load More Replies... 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...
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.
John Jaeger 3 weeks ago
These are all garden variety stupidity, really trivial. Real stupidity is evil and hell-bound as in Mao Tse Tung, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Theirs was stupidity on a colossal scale, involving tens of millions who suffered and died as a result.
Angie Falzarano 1 month 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.
Ryan Liang 1 month 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
Ryan Liang 1 month ago
there was a guy in my year 3 class who played games all day and didn‘t know 1 times 7
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.
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?"
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.
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.
Load More Replies... 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
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.
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
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.
Load More Replies... 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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