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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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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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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

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

You mean there are places that are... Like... Not America ?

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

I have a sneaking suspicion that there's another one, called Europe. But only those two countries exist, right? Right?!? (Sarcasm so heavy that it puts a blue whale to shame)

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k1ddkanuck
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hehehe... I'm just gonna hope this is a joke. If it's not... the Blue Jays are a Canadian team in an American league... much like the Raptors in basketball. By your logic, there are American hockey teams in Canada, one of which is in Montreal called the Canadiens!

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

When he was on a Canadian satirical comedy show called "This Hour Has 22 Minutes", ( its reference to a Canadian version of "60 Minutes), comedian Rick Mercer used to go to the US and seriously ask citizens their opinions on the most ridiculous, hilarious things about Canada and Canadians that were completely untrue. He made up really stupid questions, for example, "Canadians are up in arms about the government deciding to provide skis, free of charge, to summer vacationers from the US who didnt realize they would need them. Do you think its fair for Canadians to be forced to bear the cost, or should visitors have to pay a surcharge?" and they would seriously believe him and give serious opinions. We're watching this laughing so hard that they actually believed this stuff.

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

I have noticed that in the USA geography is not taught very well. I barely graduated high school in Italy, but I am a genius compared to American general knowledge of geography. And History, and English, Physics, Astronomy... I am starting to think there may be a problem with the education system.

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

We were in the USA and my kids (Australian) aged 10 and 12 had been talking to a man for 20 mins when he asked them where they were from. They told him , Australia, and he then asked if they spoke English!

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

But are sure it wasn't another cannadian posing as one? Just saying I seen this joke before, and seen people try to keep it going...

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

No big surprise there. I'm always dumbfounded at how little Americans know about us in Canada.

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

I (Canadian) was in Boston once for a school band trip, and one of the judges of the competition asked our teacher, "Do they speak English, or only Canadian?" Like, f**k off bud, we, ya know, talk normally like the f****n' rest of ya total hosers...

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

Americans don't know their own country/territories geography, so don't be insulted by their abysmal ignorance. There's just so much of it that it gets quite exhausting.

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

This is probably more common than you think. Americans know very little about geography. Washington State and Washington D.C. are the same thing to many, as is the State of New Mexico and the country of Mexico. They're flummoxed when they are corrected.

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

A lot of Americans are geographically challenged. I was asked so many questions when I lived there. UK native.

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

No shock there! Most Americans cannot come within 100 miles if asked to point out where they live on an UNmarked map.

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

In our defense, i do get plenty of calls at my job making the same mistake about Buffalo being in Canada. Its not a country thing, it is a stupid person thing.

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

I like to do a challenge with Americans to demonstrate just how much people outside the states know about geography. I ask them to give me a state or a city, and then I give the corresponding acronym, capital, state, etc. I then ask them the same about my country, and they have no idea. It's quite bad. Really needs work.

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

Tbf the American Studies system sucks. I've seen a YouTuber who asked Americans on omegal to name a few countries in Alphabetical form, which they failed obviously.

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

I say we exile people like this...aftganistan can have them, no neither party has a choice in the matter.

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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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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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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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