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When you’re learning at school or university, teachers and professors constantly encourage you to ask them questions and follow that with adding that there aren’t stupid questions. But deep down we know that stupid questions exist and some people aren’t afraid to voice them.

Maybe the person who came up with that phrase really underestimated how stupid and clueless people can be. But Twitter user Pey didn’t. She wanted people to tell her what are some stupid question that they have ever received. And there were some ridiculous ones in the thread that were so bad they were hilarious.

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We all ask stupid questions from time to time so let’s just have a good laugh from this list. Also, we would be interested to hear what stupid questions people have asked you? If you’re feeling brave, you can share the questions you asked and realised where not necessary.

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

Personally i talk to my thermos but sometimes it does whatever it wants!

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The Twitter user who asked the question to receive more questions is Pay and she is a mother and a certified fitness trainer and a nutritionist. Pay explained that she asked the question because she was thinking of how people always ask where she last put an item she is searching for and can’t find. Because if she knew where she put it, it wouldn’t be lost. The tweet didn’t blow up but it got some pretty funny responses and we wanted to show you them.

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As mentioned, teachers often tell you that there are no stupid questions. By saying that they want to encourage students to don’t be afraid to show that they don’t know or understand something. They try to convince them that seeking knowledge is always a positive thing. 

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Another common phrase people say is that there are no stupid question, only stupid answers shifting the unwanted quality from the person who asks to the person who needs to answer. But all in all, the phrase is there to make sure a person seeking knowledge is not being punished for not learning the information yet.

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Carl Sagan who was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator and certainly an intelligent person entertained the idea. He wrote in his book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark: "There are naïve questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question."

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However, there are people who would argue with that. For example, the genius mind himself, Albert Einstein once said, “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” The physicist leads us to believe that the universe may have limits, but people’s lack of intelligence will never cease to surprise.

That could be applied to our today’s topic. If human stupidity is infinite then logically stupid questions do exist because people come up with them.

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

Friendly piece of advice: don’t call me at 3 am if you want to keep those legs of yours

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

Asking "were you sleeping" when you have already woke me up is the most annoying question ever

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

I used to work security monitoring on the graveyard shift. When an alarm came in, it was my job to send out police, then call the list of Responsible Parties to inform them. A shocking amount of people, upon being told of the alarm situation, would ask me "Do you know what time it is right now?" First of all, YES, because my butt has to be awake all night doing this job, and second, I'm sorry, I didn't confirm with the people breaking into the building to schedule a robbery around YOUR schedule, or I'd have picked the day time when I'm not here to deal with you. And third, it's probably the night cleaners forgetting to turn off the system when they got there...like it was the last time that alarm went off...like it ALWAYS IS when that alarm goes off...and maybe we could both skip these late night calls if you spoke to them about that

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

I hate it when someone calls me in the middle of the day and says "Oh, did I wake you?"

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

Tell them 'no', you weren't sleeping but you were on the toilet. Then don't say anything else.

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

My phone has a “silent mode” switch on the side that gets flipped at bedtime. Sorry, but I’m not going to know you called until I get up about 5:30-6AM.

L.a. Williams
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's impolite to call after 10 P.M.. 9if you are in a not in a city. As stupid as these people are. Don't learn some of the most basic facts. Where would they put manners in their tiny brain. You know some information would drip out of their head. They might lose something really important like how to breathe.

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

I did that unintentionally to a friend once, and thought about hanging up but considered it was already ringing and that would be even worse. So when he answered, I said lamely, "I hope I didn't wake you up." He replied, "That's okay, I had to get up and answer the phone anyway."

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

Why do so many people leave their phones on at night? I really need the answer to this question.

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

It's the little things in life that make me grateful. Like, I'm grateful that, with no job and no kids, I get to shut my phone off at the time of my choice.

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

Calling me at 3am someone better be dead... well... or too drunk to drive.

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

Why was she hunting Susan? (Illustrating the power of commas).

Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

when I ran the 911 computer for the fire department, dispatchers would call at 2am to ask a question. They'd ask if they woke me. "No, that's ok. I had to get up to answer the phone anyway"

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

I love the wrong number call: "WHo's this? I don't know YOU called me"....

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

Call from a different time zone is another option if the caller was not aware of author's location.

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

My friend calls me and wakes me up to go help at her house since she is disabled and she says, "Are you awake?". I say, "Now I am."

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

People go ghost hunting at 3am...where were you not doing that?

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

Every time my phone rings after 10PM I tense up and wait to hear screaming, crying or pleading (I AM MOM). If it's not one of those things, HOW DARE YOU??

Softball05
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

🎵Call me at 3AM telling me that i could be the one, oh, lord 🎵 (little NF reference)

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

Put your phone on "silent" and create a list of exceptions who can call in an emergency.

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And the proof is in the pudding. The questions people in this list ask are really unnecessary and you don’t always understand if they are being serious or you’re getting trolled. Maybe it could be fine if children were asking them but it should be unacceptable for grown adults. 

At the end of the day we can agree that stupid questions do exist but we shouldn’t be too mad at people who ask them. Maybe they genuinely don’t know and you can be the one to explain an important thing a person should have the knowledge of.

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

To be fair I often mix the words for elevator and bus in my language.

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

Reminds me of that XKCD comic where completing Mavis Beacon unlocks capital numbers.

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

A friend of mine could just pop one out and have a gander at it. Rather alarming when you find it out the first time.

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

What a dumb question. Everyone knows they don’t have birthdays in Korea. They just sort of slowly appear and it’s hard to tell the beginning date

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

I had a coworker whose religion banned tattoos. Every two weeks she went to someone and had a new henna design drawn on because she loved body art. They were often multicolored because she loved flowers. Depending where the question was asked, it may have been a legitimate query.

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

There was a strange phase in the early 2000s where girls who could see fine would buy non-prescription glasses from Claire's to look smart.

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

I have no idea how the USA's army work but yeah.. You are on the army, but which one? Air army, Sea army, Ground army... or whatever it is said in English

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

They were alternative hip hop with many considering them jazz fusion. It would be like someone reading a flyer saying there would be rock music so you show up expecting "Metallica" and you get 'They Might be Giants". Tribe Called Quest turned hip hop into art. If you've only seen "Dog's Playing Poker", its hard to understand Jackson Pollock.

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

Nothing wrong with this. You ask in order to find out where you last remember having had it and work from there. It totally narrows the search.

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

Scrolling doesn't necessarily mean that you will decide what to see before you fall asleep

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

For many people, riding a bike is a means of transportation, not a hobby. So what they are doing is not riding a bike, its delivering newspapers, headed to my girlfriends, or going to soccer practice.

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

Maybe a french person ? We have only one word for "grape" and that's "raisin", so we say "raisin sec" (dried grape) when we mean "raisin".

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

I mean people escape from north all the time so it's a valid question...even though it's common for people to call south just korea and north north korea

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