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The great question of our time is not whether AI would eliminate humans, or whether there is some form of life living out there. It's rather why so many of us, despite being well into our adult lives, surrounded by all kinds of info, still have no clue how basic things work.
You don't have to be Einstein to know that windmills turn wind into power and can't just use it up. Well, apparently, not everyone does. Let’s take a look at some funny people who aren't the sharpest knife in the drawer. You know, the ones who walk with their head in the clouds.
Warning: when reading this article, no Panda is protected from a sudden shower of cold sweat upon realizing they thought so too. Any other examples of dumb people who were a few bricks short of a load are very welcome in the comments!
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#1
I've posted this story before but this seems like another appropriate thread for this story.
One night during high school, my friend and I got invited to a party. I didn't drive back then so my friend picked me up. All went well on our way to the party. On the way back however, he got pulled over. As we were pulling to the side of the road, I told him that I was gonna pretend to be sleeping (since I was the passenger). Anyway, I hear the cop get out of his cop car, walk towards our car, stops at the window but doesn't say anything. I can feel the brightness of his flashlight but I don't hear him or my friend say anything. After about what seemed like an eternity, I decide to open my eyes to see what's going on. That's when I see my friend, the guy who is driving, is pretending like he is sleeping too.
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#2
Coworker was anti wind mills. When I asked why she said “there are way too many popping up and we’re going to use up all of the wind.”
I was speechless. I’m never speechless.
#3
My brother and i were in the kitchen one day as teenagers. My brother was filling the sink to wash dishes. When the sink was nearly full he went to turn the tap off but it wouldnt budge so the water kept flowing. I tried turning it too but with no success. This is when the panic set in. The level of the water was rising fast and we didn't want to flood the kitchen. He took big saucepans out of the press to fill with water to keep things from over flowing, while i was in a frantic scramble under the sink trying to find the mains to turn it off there. I couldn't find it!! Now really panicking i took over the pot filling duty and my brother went running off to look for dad as quick as he could. Dad came running in with my brother while we were shoutng at him about looking for the mains. Dad just came over to the sink and pulled the plug out of the hole letting all the water down the drain. Ha ha
Lois Hoffer 4 years ago
Ha ha! I would've made that same mistake! Just like you! Thanks for the laugh...
We’d like to believe that humans are rational animals gifted with an ability to evaluate nearly every situation and give it a sound explanation. So why do so many people not seem to really have that common sense? Well, it’s been reported that “when people face an uncertain situation, they don’t carefully evaluate the information or look up relevant statistics. Instead, their decisions depend on a long list of mental shortcuts, which often lead them to make foolish decisions.”
This is how fake news works—if a fact appears to be true, many of us will take it as true. Think about it—if you've believed something to be true for a long time, it's unlikely you'd fact-check it out of the blue. It will probably take a very long while for you to realize something seemingly obvious—for example, that a penguin is a bird.
#4
I had manager named Roxanne (Rocky). She was a bleach blonde (literally bleached her hair once a month and then wondered why it broke/fell out) bubble head who only had the job because daddy owned the restaurant.
Rocky was really obsessed with her looks and not much else. One day she told me, and a co-worker, that she had her nose job done so that her eventual children wouldn't grow up with the same nose as her. She wasn't kidding. The co-worker and I just looked at each other and walked away. We knew it wasn't worth the effort.
Cynthia Souza 4 years ago
A friend told me her new husband had a history of twins in his family. She hoped she would get pregnant with twins, too. When I told her he really wouldn't have anything to do with it, it depended on her eggs, she looked at me like I was speaking Martian. Then she asked about identical twins. I told her that depended on the egg, too. She was a fellow teacher who taught a unit on human reproduction.
#5
I’ve told this story before, but I like telling it because f**k Tammy. I had a boss named Tammy. One night, we were all working late doing stocktake, and we were discussing the impending lunar eclipse. Someone asked what happens during an eclipse. Tammy grandly explained that the eclipse would occur when America went in front of the moon, blocking our (Australia’s) view of it. Like she literally thought the earth stretched itself into like a U bend or neck pillow shape, and half of it stayed in our normal orbit, and the other half stretched itself over and around to casually block the moon for the rest of the earth.
#6
my friends sister was 20 and pregnant, she said something about how upset she was her vagina would be ruined, i jokingly said “maybe he’ll come out of your butt instead” she said “what do you mean? can they come out of there too?”, i thought she was joking so i just said “duh, it’s a 50/50 shot” she thought i was serious and asked her doctor if he could tell if the baby was gonna come out of her vagina or ass.
Of course, IQ score is one of the most common universal measures to determine the rational capabilities in person. However, according to David Perkins from Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, IQ is very overrated. “"A high IQ is like height in a basketball player," says David, who studies thinking and reasoning skills. "It is very important, all other things being equal. But all other things aren't equal. There's a lot more to being a good basketball player than being tall, and there's a lot more to being a good thinker than having a high IQ."
#7
I can sum it up very easily: We were at the shooting range, his gun jammed, he looked down the barrel to see what was wrong.
#8
Back in my younger and crankier days I worked with as young woman who was hands down the dumbest person I've ever met.
Her highlights include
Winning a basket auction that included a copy of The Beach Boy's album Pet Sounds and complaing because she "didn't want to hear a lot of mooing"
On a day she was driving me up a wall I convinced her to wait to open her bottle of Coke because the bottle said there was a winner every five minutes. She was disappointed she didn't win after waiting exactly five minutes. I however enjoyed her sulky silence for the rest of the day.
The best/worst one involved her chatting with a manager who was African American (she's white). They were discussing their shared slightly uncommon name and then realized their families both came from South Carolina. She thought for a few minuted and then excitedly exclaimed "I bet my family owned yours!". She was so proud of herself for figuring out that historic connection. The manager didn't say a word and just walked away.
Dave P 4 years ago
Wow! that is dumb. And do people not realize less than 5% of southerners owned slaves back then (though most supported the institution? odds are if you are old line southern your family did not own slaves, but supported the system and fought on the wrong side of the civil war
#9
“Why do the crossings beep.” “For blind people.” “But blind people can’t drive?” “...”
#10
When I was in the Navy, there was a cook on my ship. He once served "rare" chicken. I genuinely couldn't tell whether he was trying to cover up his limitless incompetence or if he genuinely believed that rare poultry is a real thing. He was dumb enough to believe it. Another time, he just filled a pan with ground beef and called it meat loaf. Another time he was supposed to make sugar cookies, you know, several hundred of them for the whole crew. He didn't bother to read the label on the container he opened, and apparently he didn't taste the batter at any point, and he actually made salt cookies. He used up all the remaining salt in the pantry and we had unseasoned food for the remaining several weeks of the mission, during which time the captain assigned someone to be the cook's bodyguard.
#11
We shall call him Chad. Chad was a guy I worked with years ago and he was terrible with directions. He had no idea where he was, or where he was going, and was terrible at identifying landmarks. So we are working less than 5 minutes from our store on this particular day in a small residential area about a mile and a half down the road. Including the turn out of the driveway you have to make 3 turns, all right hand turns, and cross one intersection and you'll be at our store. A short time into what is an all day job we realize we have some equipment at the store that would help us out tremendously. I ask Chad to go get it. He doesn't know the way. I explain it to him. He stares at me. It's 3 right hand turns, Chad, I think you can do it. Chad wants a map. Fine. I draw a map. Chad leaves. 25 minutes go by. Chad should have been back by now. I call the store and I'm told that Chad left 10 minutes ago. As I am on the phone I hear the truck coming and he drives right by the house. Well, [crap]. Poor Chad forgot what house we were at. No big deal, the road is a giant circle and he will come around again in a moment. So I walk up the driveway, and sure enough here he comes again. I wave, and he pulls in the driveway. As he gets out I laugh and say, "Haha, aww man, you forgot what house we were at?" Chad deadpans, "Naw man, ya moved the truck." ... Chad was looking for the company truck in the driveway. The very same truck he was driving.
Kiss Army 4 years ago
I was in a parking lot and couldn't find my car, people starting helping me look. I told them the personalized tag said KISSRMY and that it was a brown piece of s**t. I was about ready to call the police when a guy calls out "Here is a car with that tag but it isn't a piece of s**t, it's a blue convertible sports car." I was like "Oh s**t, I forgot I got a new car!" One of the dumbest moments of my life.
#12
My room mate for the last 3 years once said that if solar technology keeps advancing at the rate it is, we will absorb all the energy made by the sun and fix global warming. Not 5 minutes later after attempting to inform this poor fellow about how the suns energy output is not determined by what the energy eventualy interacts with, he states that wind farms are worse because they cause tropical storms. I hope he is just an epic troll. I just... I don't know...
Zenozenobee 4 years ago
Here we go!!! let's not breed him with the girl that thinks wind mills can use all the wind!
#13
This French - Italian guy I used to work with. I could seriously write a book about how ignorant, idiotic and illogical this man was, but this story sums it up pretty well:
He's against vaxinations, because he thinks everything in the world is a government conspiracy and he's also a nature freak who believes in homeopathy. He believes clay has a lot of almost supernatural healing qualities. When he lived in Denmark he and his wife couldn't enroll their son in kindergarten unless he had some basic vaccinations because that's the law.
So they went to get the boy vaccinated, but as soon as he's gotten the shot and they've walked out of the doctors office he took the bandage off and slapped a lump of clay on the boys arm right where he got the shot. This, he believed, would suck the liquid that was in the syringe out of the boys vains and get absorbed into the clay to be disposed of safely. So in his mind he had basically "un-vaccinated" the boy and the silly reptilian surgeon general had no idea! Haha in your face NWO!
It's kind of a happy ending though, stupidity saved the day and the boy now has the vaccinations he should despite his insane father.
Kimberly Young 4 years ago
You should make a website with this clay theory. Get a lot of anti-vaxers to vaccinate their kids and then "unvaccinate" them with clay!
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
Those knot-heads would probably fall for it.
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Bláthnaid O’Loughlin 4 years ago
I’d be worried the child might get an infection because of this idiotic father.
Jace 4 years ago
I was just out with a bunch of people for a meal and a walk. These are people I actually choose to be around because of shared ethics... but they’re kind of anti-vax. I didn’t realize it until they started saying things that let me know they’re following FUD mongering and conspiracy stuff. It didn’t help that one of them had an article about horrifyingly unethical acts from an anthropologist in a fairly decent newspaper/website... which ended up being old, heavily disputed by actual investigation, but never linked to a retraction ... which was probably never even posted. B******t “news” sells itself easily to fearful eyes, but the facts never catch up to it. I did some research to see if this was a legit issue and found out the facts. People who want to believe in evil government or scientific monsters don’t want to do the research to find out if allegations are disproven.
Julio Herrera 4 years ago (edited)
Using stupid theories to fool stupid ppl into protecting their kids with science.. that's awesome!
Henry Saravia-Melara 4 years ago
this could save millions of kid who parent are anti-vax.God DID mame people with clay, so I see the logic.
Christopher Morgan 4 years ago
It's "vaccination" not vaxinations and "veins" not vains. Pot calling the kettle black, eh?
Trish Greene 4 years ago
Well, I use homeopathy as well, but that doesn't mean I'm against vaccinations. I'm all for them!
MadRatter 4 years ago (edited)
Are you serious or being sarcastic? In case it's not sarcasm: Polio was almost eradicated because of vaccines (it could kill). And the reasons thousands aren't dying is because of herd immunity. And some of the preventable illnesses can kill or maim. A baby can be born handicapped (if the mother gets infected by some of these diseases). Not to mention that measles and mumps were almost eradicated (because of vaccines) but are now on the rise due to ANTI-Vaxxers.
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#14
I once had a property manager (person in charge of the rental I lived in since homeowners who lived out of state) who did a bunch of obnoxious things. My husband and I thought she was greedy and maybe getting money for herself and hiding it from the homeowners for repairs or something like that because of shady seeming things she would do when we had repairs.
Then we mentioned something about gardening.
She said "You know, I've always wanted to try growing tomatoes and just watering them with salt water. That way, the tomatoes would already be salted when you ate them!"
Huge reminder to never attribute to malice what is just pure old fashioned being dumb as a rock.
#15
Work with a guy who honestly believes he will not die. Also believes that doctor's are"part of the system" and that they lie to you for profit and personal gain. He does believe in Eastern traditional medicine however. And if you're interested to know his secret to eternal life, it's 6 raw eggs a day and a keto diet.
#16
My mom's coworker claims she doesn't care about the price of gas. She says "it doesn't matter how much it costs because no matter what I only put in 20 bucks."
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
And next she'll complain that gas isn't what it used to be because she gets less milage for her 20 bucks. I know that coworker too....
#17
I am half-korean going to high school in the Midwest during the 1992 LA riots. My typing teacher pulled me into the hallway and asked if I had an uncle or something I can call in LA to make the riots stop. She said she knew that we are all close and we all have stores and what not, therefore I must have a connection there. I was like, "lady, even if I did have an uncle I could call do you think he is Batman?"
#18
One of my roommates. I live in a house where we give interviews to prospective new roommates to make sure they're cool. We were interviewing a deaf guy, and he was looking like a good fit. We also have a list of rules and guidelines for living in the house, and one of the current roommates asks "oh man, are we gonna have to get the rules printed in braille?" For. A. Deaf. Guy.
Far from an isolated incident.
#19
There was a,,, troubled kid I went to high-school with. He struggled with school but had friends but was starting to do drugs and go down a bad way. He decided to photo copy the front and back side of a 20 dollar bill, cut it out of normal paper, and glue the two half’s with Elmer’s glue. Whats even more sad is that to test his new money he went to the gas station and bought some gum and it ACTUALLY WORKED?!? So in his mind it must have meant that it was fool proof. So he then tried to go and deposit the glued up money at an actual bank. He was obviously found out and arrested. I don’t know where he is now but I’m assuming he is making similar life choices.
#20
When I was a teenager my friends older brother was one of the dumbest I'd ever encountered. We once witnessed him trying to see inside a motorcycle gas tank using a bic lighter. He assured us a lighter flame isn't hot enough to ignite gasoline.
On another occasion, we got into a debate concerning the power of an atomic bomb. He was dead set that it could only take out " like two houses max!" O___0
This man went on to have multiple arrests before I moved away, also fathered 3 children by 2 women. We all lived in a trailer court as well...not saying it's a prerequisite for idiocy, but some of us get out and some do not.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago
Speaking as a survivor of the trailer park, this statement is 100% true.
#21
I once called an Uber driver. When he arrived, he immediately asked me: "Are you going to (X location?)?". I said: "No." He responded: "Great, because I'm not going to take you to (X location)." "Fine", I said. The journey got underway, and I was curious as to what he would've done if I'd said that yes, I wanted to go to X location. So I asked him: "Hey, what would you have done if I had said that I DID want to go to X location?". He responded: "Look man, I'm not going to [frikinn] take you to X location, OK? I told you already." I was a bit befuddled, but I tried again: "No no, I don't want to go there. In fact, you already know where I want to go, it's on your destination map. I'm just curious, what if I DID want to go to X location? Would you have refused me the trip? Would you have driven off?" He said: "Look man I can't change the trip now. And anyway I told you I refuse to go to X location. You gotta understand I'm busy." we spent nearly 15 minutes with variations of this back and forth. He was a fluent English speaker, by the way. By the end of it, I was 100% convinced that he couldn't understand the syntax of a hypothetical. He literally couldn't understand the question "if (X situation which is NOT the case) then what action would you take?" I wasn't even mad, just astonished. How had he navigated through life thus far? What were his financial decisions like? I really wanted to follow him home and make a reality TV show about him or something.
#22
An old co worker named James. We worked at McDonald's and were both 16. One time, while mopping the lobby, he for some unknown reason decided to chase a number of customers around with the mop yelling "I'm gonna getcha". He was fired on the spot.
tuzdayschild 4 years ago
That's not stupid. He was having a moment of whimsy. And he was probably ready to quit.
#23
I know a guy smokes a lot of weed and is fairly overweight. He had been trying to find work but was having trouble finding a job since everything he was interested in drug tested. He told my boyfriend that he had a plan that might help him pass a drug test. Since weed supposedly gets stored in your fat cells, he proposed that he should just eat even more than he normally does so he can gain weight. That way, the fat that he gained would replace the “weed fat”. Boom. Problem solved.
#24
Had a guy in a third year undergrad developmental psych course raise his hand in a full lecture hall and ask the professor; "Prof, do infants diagnosed with SIDS get asthma later in life... like are they more likely to get asthma??"
SIDS stands for sudden infant death syndrome.. He just kept pursuing the question the prof didn't understand how she could answer it, she thought there was some kind of logic in it that she wasn't seeing. Finally some girl took the initiative to shout across the room, "No they are not more likely to get asthma, they are dead.. they have died suddenly, and will thus not be at risk of developing asthma." Great day. He always sat in front of me and I would see him writing just absolutely horrible poetry and song lyrics .
#25
A girl my dad dated for a while. Even while dating her my dad would say she was dumber than a bag of rocks.
One day, she sat down to watch a movie with my dad. Movie was all about this guy and his twin brother. She sits and watches the whole thing, no interruptions. At the end, she turns and asks, "So there were two of him?"
Would explain why she always had the TV turned to a music channel. Apparently she couldn't follow normal TV or movies.
#26
My cousin. All through public school, she was a snob who looked down on everyone. She was super stylish and struggled academically.
We graduated in 2014. We both went to colleges (not the same one.) She got a job at a bar, stayed out late drinking. Her boyfriend told her she didn’t need to complete college, so she just stopped showing up. Didn’t drop; just stopped showing up. Completely flunked out.
Here comes the mega stupidity: Our families live hours away from her college at the time. Her family went to move her back home. My cousin’s mom noticed a pile of clothes in the corner. The mom said ‘what’s that, your laundry? Pack it and we’ll wash it when we get home later.’
My cousin (I kid you not): ‘you can wash those?!’
Turns out, she’d been throwing away clothes instead of washing them. She claimed she didn’t know she could, yet she washed her undergarments and bras without a hitch.
She’s now at home with her family and has started doing more chores to show an increase in responsibility. She still tries to throw clothes away, citing that she didn’t know they could be washed and reused. Makes me wonder what she thought all those years before college, before she left home. She wore some of the same outfits repeatedly — she had to have known they could be washed.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
Arrogance + being a few clowns shy of a circus = poster child for birth control.
#27
Old coworker of mine. He was helping me move and while we were carrying a couch he dropped it. Thinking he was hurt I asked if he was ok and with the most serious and frightening look in his eyes he said pointing : ‘Look it’s the moon and it’s day time.’ .... he was 25 at the time.
#28
My mother rolled down the car window to clean it... from inside the car... right after the car wash started.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Ii's s just as bad as the woman that used one of these DIY powerwash cabins and litterally powerwashed the outside and inside of her car with it. Dashboard, frontseats, backseats and trunk. The video went viral.
#29
My ex. My favorite moment was when I had to stop him from giving his bank info to the Nigerian prince. I was honestly in disbelief. He was mad at me for whatever reason exactly and in retrospect I probably should've just let him do it.
Aurelia Grey 4 years ago
When a Nigerian King sent his condolences that my entire family had died in a fire (news to me at the time) and that since he was dying of cancer, he wanted to give me 100 million dollars. I wrote back, telling him I wanted 100 million US dollars deposited in a bank in the Cayman islands, a Porsche, puppies, kittens and ten race horses. Never heard from him again....
#30
A guy in my high school who was convinced that the Dutch had sore throats at night from their accent/language
What do you think ?
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
These people vote. Let that sink in. They vote people in power who have a lot of impact on your life. DO NOT SIT AT HOME THINKING IT WILL BE FINE! Go vote to offset the enormous stupidity of these people.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
Sadly, they also breed. Many politicians even pay them to do so, since they will produce more dumb voters down the line.
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Worked at a movie theater and one of my coworkers any time it was their turn to clean concessions at closing, they would dump all the popcorn onto the floor, instead of directly into the trash, then proceed to sweep it up. They claimed it was easier and faster their way.
Random Panda 4 years ago (edited)
Middle aged woman at the zoo, standing in front of the lions' cage: "The one with the hair is the female, right?".
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
Albert Einstein said the two most common things in the Universe were hydrogen and stupidity.
KatKaleen 4 years ago
The dumbest person I've ever met happened to also be the nicest person I've ever met. Her dream was to open a yoga studio, but I really hope she got hired by an already existing studio as a yoga instructor instead, it's pretty hard to run a business on your own when your reply to "2+2=4" is "Okay, but why?". Such a lovely person, though, she was almost unreal.
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Too many of these so-called stupid individuals sound like they have a clinical condition or are developmentally disabled. Not to funny in those cases.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
I started a new job as an assistant manager in retail and the store manager was showing me how to close out a cash register. She slowly counted out ten 20-dollar bills, then whipped out an adding machine to compute 20 times 10. There was an accompanying shift worksheet to record the numbers in case if the math confused you, and she informed me I could save some time when I counted out the ones because the dollar amount always ended up being the same as the quantity. I complimented her on discovering this neat trick and then took a walk, never to return.
Jaguarundi 4 years ago
I have two incidents to relate: 1. A co-worker saw a plane flying over the horizon, you could clearly see the undercarriage, and shouted that it was crashing. I told him that the earth is round Columbus! 2. My Niece, a very highly skilled RN, took a lactose pill because her drink had coconut milk in it and she didn't want a stomach ache. My husband joked about cows wearing coconut bras on their udders.
Nadine 4 years ago
On Netflix on Zumbo's Just Desserts, a contestant said she didn't know what to make for an outer space challenge, because she never took biology. said she didn't know what to make for the outer space challenge because she didn't take biology in school.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
I'm gonna send her to outer space, so she can find another race.
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CbusResident 4 years ago
I can't resist sharing these: I live in Ohio, and once went on a trip to Cedar Point w/ friends and one of their friends - who was a young woman, 18 at the time. We get up to Cedar Point, which is on the Lake Erie coast, and park and she says: 'What's that?' Me: 'What's what?' Her: 'All of that water.' Me: 'Umm, that's Lake Erie.' Her: 'Oh, I didn't know we had that up here.' Oh goodness.
CbusResident 4 years ago
1. When I was in high school, a kid called in a phony bomb threat to the school. In some highly sophisticated detective work, the police traced where the call came from: a pay phone inside a convenience store. They checked the surveillance tapes from the store, easily saw who it was. He was expelled, increasing the avg. IQ of the student body. 2. Columbus, OH where I live, was in the final running to land Amazon's 'HQ2' - and I was chatting about that w/ someone, how this would've been a huge change, the pros and cons. Her response: 'That would be great, some people here could get jobs packing boxes for Amazon!' - I politely tried to explain that this would have perhaps been 50,000+ six figure, white collar jobs, not 'some jobs packing boxes.' I don't think she was able to understand that. 3. On a city bus, a weird guy sees I have a book and asks me: 'What you readin'?' I reply: 'These are some short stories by Thomas Hardy.' His response. smiling: 'I sure like The Hardy Boys!'
Steve 4 years ago
The last 2 are ignorance, not stupidity. Big difference.
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1. A person telling me: 'You've drunk the Kool-Aid' - since I was arguing that gay marriage should be legal. He then went on to explain: 'You might not know what I mean by that, drinking the poison Kool-Aid is what those people in Heaven's Gate did.' 2. Another time, I tried to explain to a creationist that evolution was real (a generally fruitless endeavor). I pointed out to him that over 99% of the DNA of humans is the same as that of Chimps. His response: 'That's also true for humans and every other animal also.'
Redfox 4 years ago
I always wonder about people who when they change out a light globe and turn on the power and look directly at the light globe then go "arrrgh! That is BRIGHT!" Here's your sign...... Youtube Bill Engvel's song; You will love it, or perchance not understand any of the quotes. Meh...
J.G 4 years ago
My former mother in law would park in a way that meant she didn't have to back up, because she couldn't. That was bad enough but when she came to see us over at my grandmothers house one evening, I saw her coming down the road toward the house, which was on her left. She pulled up right in front of us, stopped, looked behind her like she was confused, then kept going down the road. The next thing I know, it's deja vu. There she is again, coming down the road, exactly as she did before. That's when I realized she had drove around the block, hoping to avoid having to back out when she left. Because, naturally, in her genius mind, simply driving straight ahead, just like she did when she made the block, would have been going out of the way or maybe she was thinking it would have been going the wrong way. Who knows? Her thought process wasn't exactly known to be logical. ;) :D
Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
My ex and he was about 38 at the time. We were discussing the abortion issue (pro choice. It's not MY body/future, so it's not my decision) and I cited an article I read about a woman in an anti state who couldn't get an abortion for the pregnancy resulting from rape. He said, "Well, obviously she enjoyed it." I was like, "enjoyed being raped?" Well, yeah. He actually believed a woman could only get pregnant if she had an orgasm. Wait until you find out where chocolate milk comes from ...
Lara Verne 4 years ago (edited)
My coworker's mother was chicken farmer and I bought some eggs from her. I thanked my coworker, our boss heard us talking and asked me what I need eggs for. I told her: The usual, cooking, baking... She told me I'm disgusting. I was confused: She eats eggs regularly, so what's disgusting? Turned out she believed only store-bought eggs are "clean" and fresh eggs from farmer are "dirty" and "disgusting".
Nicole Bowman 4 years ago
I had someone ask me where I'm from. I was living in California, I grew in Minnesota. She was convinced Minnesota was part of Canada. I had to show her google maps. She still believe me.
Unaffected 4 years ago
My colleague (a nurse) asked me what is hypoglycemia.It scared me to think she's in charge of a 110 bed facility overnight!
Harleen 4 years ago
Some of the dumbest things that I've personally experienced...... "I wish I knew how to play the kazoo professionally"......"Where do you get exchange students from - like do you have to buy one? What do you feed them?"......."These dorms are so confusing. On one side, it's 101, then on the opposite side, 102, and they keep going like that"...... a boy in our high school class who, on a field trip to Sea World, tried to PICK UP a dolphin.....and the girl who COULD NOT grasp why, when you purchase an acre of land, you CANNOT make it your own country.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
Well, why can't you make your land your own country? It belongs to you. Did God Himself grant governments the right to our possessions, our bodies, our very souls? The government seems to think so. My apartment is its own nation, with a population of exactly one, but 100% of its citizenry are armed to the teeth and will vigorously defend its sovereignty with lethal force.
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selioraxemaia 4 years ago
One of my bosses, a PhD honestly believed that your brain capacity was finite. Once you filled up your brain with information, you had to forget something to learn something new. Thankfully his field of study was in something that couldn't hurt anyone or anything.
Steve 4 years ago
Actually, your boss is at least partly right. The memory capacity of a human brain is estimated at about 2.5 petabytes.
Load More Replies... CbusResident 4 years ago
Also, Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, on NPR's How I Built This: 'I failed the LSAT.' I'm a barred attorney, Sara, there is no passing or failing of the LSAT. If you missed every question you'd get a scaled score of 120, if you aced each one you'd get 180. Obviously where you place on that scale has a major bearing on which, if any, accredited law schools it would be realistic for you to apply to, but there is no way to 'fail' it per se. Sigh. They do explain that when you take the LSAT.
CbusResident 4 years ago (edited)
It was 2004, I was taking a community college course in sociology. The professor was a white guy, saying how it was valuable to learn about the p.o.v. of some traditional Native American groups, and how he annually did a trip to spend time out in Arizona on a Native American reservation so he could observe and participate in their religious and cultural events, and he encouraged students to inquire about going on this trip w/ him that summer. A woman then asks in total, innocent seriousness (and she was in her 40s, had grown up in NYC): 'But if you go stay with them, will you have to sleep in a teepee? Don't they all still live in teepees?'
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
These people vote. Let that sink in. They vote people in power who have a lot of impact on your life. DO NOT SIT AT HOME THINKING IT WILL BE FINE! Go vote to offset the enormous stupidity of these people.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
Sadly, they also breed. Many politicians even pay them to do so, since they will produce more dumb voters down the line.
Load More Replies... Niffler_13 4 years ago (edited)
Worked at a movie theater and one of my coworkers any time it was their turn to clean concessions at closing, they would dump all the popcorn onto the floor, instead of directly into the trash, then proceed to sweep it up. They claimed it was easier and faster their way.
Random Panda 4 years ago (edited)
Middle aged woman at the zoo, standing in front of the lions' cage: "The one with the hair is the female, right?".
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
Albert Einstein said the two most common things in the Universe were hydrogen and stupidity.
KatKaleen 4 years ago
The dumbest person I've ever met happened to also be the nicest person I've ever met. Her dream was to open a yoga studio, but I really hope she got hired by an already existing studio as a yoga instructor instead, it's pretty hard to run a business on your own when your reply to "2+2=4" is "Okay, but why?". Such a lovely person, though, she was almost unreal.
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Too many of these so-called stupid individuals sound like they have a clinical condition or are developmentally disabled. Not to funny in those cases.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
I started a new job as an assistant manager in retail and the store manager was showing me how to close out a cash register. She slowly counted out ten 20-dollar bills, then whipped out an adding machine to compute 20 times 10. There was an accompanying shift worksheet to record the numbers in case if the math confused you, and she informed me I could save some time when I counted out the ones because the dollar amount always ended up being the same as the quantity. I complimented her on discovering this neat trick and then took a walk, never to return.
Jaguarundi 4 years ago
I have two incidents to relate: 1. A co-worker saw a plane flying over the horizon, you could clearly see the undercarriage, and shouted that it was crashing. I told him that the earth is round Columbus! 2. My Niece, a very highly skilled RN, took a lactose pill because her drink had coconut milk in it and she didn't want a stomach ache. My husband joked about cows wearing coconut bras on their udders.
Nadine 4 years ago
On Netflix on Zumbo's Just Desserts, a contestant said she didn't know what to make for an outer space challenge, because she never took biology. said she didn't know what to make for the outer space challenge because she didn't take biology in school.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
I'm gonna send her to outer space, so she can find another race.
Load More Replies... CbusResident 4 years ago
I can't resist sharing these: I live in Ohio, and once went on a trip to Cedar Point w/ friends and one of their friends - who was a young woman, 18 at the time. We get up to Cedar Point, which is on the Lake Erie coast, and park and she says: 'What's that?' Me: 'What's what?' Her: 'All of that water.' Me: 'Umm, that's Lake Erie.' Her: 'Oh, I didn't know we had that up here.' Oh goodness.
CbusResident 4 years ago
1. When I was in high school, a kid called in a phony bomb threat to the school. In some highly sophisticated detective work, the police traced where the call came from: a pay phone inside a convenience store. They checked the surveillance tapes from the store, easily saw who it was. He was expelled, increasing the avg. IQ of the student body. 2. Columbus, OH where I live, was in the final running to land Amazon's 'HQ2' - and I was chatting about that w/ someone, how this would've been a huge change, the pros and cons. Her response: 'That would be great, some people here could get jobs packing boxes for Amazon!' - I politely tried to explain that this would have perhaps been 50,000+ six figure, white collar jobs, not 'some jobs packing boxes.' I don't think she was able to understand that. 3. On a city bus, a weird guy sees I have a book and asks me: 'What you readin'?' I reply: 'These are some short stories by Thomas Hardy.' His response. smiling: 'I sure like The Hardy Boys!'
Steve 4 years ago
The last 2 are ignorance, not stupidity. Big difference.
Load More Replies... CbusResident 4 years ago
1. A person telling me: 'You've drunk the Kool-Aid' - since I was arguing that gay marriage should be legal. He then went on to explain: 'You might not know what I mean by that, drinking the poison Kool-Aid is what those people in Heaven's Gate did.' 2. Another time, I tried to explain to a creationist that evolution was real (a generally fruitless endeavor). I pointed out to him that over 99% of the DNA of humans is the same as that of Chimps. His response: 'That's also true for humans and every other animal also.'
Redfox 4 years ago
I always wonder about people who when they change out a light globe and turn on the power and look directly at the light globe then go "arrrgh! That is BRIGHT!" Here's your sign...... Youtube Bill Engvel's song; You will love it, or perchance not understand any of the quotes. Meh...
J.G 4 years ago
My former mother in law would park in a way that meant she didn't have to back up, because she couldn't. That was bad enough but when she came to see us over at my grandmothers house one evening, I saw her coming down the road toward the house, which was on her left. She pulled up right in front of us, stopped, looked behind her like she was confused, then kept going down the road. The next thing I know, it's deja vu. There she is again, coming down the road, exactly as she did before. That's when I realized she had drove around the block, hoping to avoid having to back out when she left. Because, naturally, in her genius mind, simply driving straight ahead, just like she did when she made the block, would have been going out of the way or maybe she was thinking it would have been going the wrong way. Who knows? Her thought process wasn't exactly known to be logical. ;) :D
Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
My ex and he was about 38 at the time. We were discussing the abortion issue (pro choice. It's not MY body/future, so it's not my decision) and I cited an article I read about a woman in an anti state who couldn't get an abortion for the pregnancy resulting from rape. He said, "Well, obviously she enjoyed it." I was like, "enjoyed being raped?" Well, yeah. He actually believed a woman could only get pregnant if she had an orgasm. Wait until you find out where chocolate milk comes from ...
Lara Verne 4 years ago (edited)
My coworker's mother was chicken farmer and I bought some eggs from her. I thanked my coworker, our boss heard us talking and asked me what I need eggs for. I told her: The usual, cooking, baking... She told me I'm disgusting. I was confused: She eats eggs regularly, so what's disgusting? Turned out she believed only store-bought eggs are "clean" and fresh eggs from farmer are "dirty" and "disgusting".
Nicole Bowman 4 years ago
I had someone ask me where I'm from. I was living in California, I grew in Minnesota. She was convinced Minnesota was part of Canada. I had to show her google maps. She still believe me.
Unaffected 4 years ago
My colleague (a nurse) asked me what is hypoglycemia.It scared me to think she's in charge of a 110 bed facility overnight!
Harleen 4 years ago
Some of the dumbest things that I've personally experienced...... "I wish I knew how to play the kazoo professionally"......"Where do you get exchange students from - like do you have to buy one? What do you feed them?"......."These dorms are so confusing. On one side, it's 101, then on the opposite side, 102, and they keep going like that"...... a boy in our high school class who, on a field trip to Sea World, tried to PICK UP a dolphin.....and the girl who COULD NOT grasp why, when you purchase an acre of land, you CANNOT make it your own country.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
Well, why can't you make your land your own country? It belongs to you. Did God Himself grant governments the right to our possessions, our bodies, our very souls? The government seems to think so. My apartment is its own nation, with a population of exactly one, but 100% of its citizenry are armed to the teeth and will vigorously defend its sovereignty with lethal force.
Load More Replies... selioraxemaia 4 years ago
One of my bosses, a PhD honestly believed that your brain capacity was finite. Once you filled up your brain with information, you had to forget something to learn something new. Thankfully his field of study was in something that couldn't hurt anyone or anything.
Steve 4 years ago
Actually, your boss is at least partly right. The memory capacity of a human brain is estimated at about 2.5 petabytes.
Load More Replies... CbusResident 4 years ago
Also, Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, on NPR's How I Built This: 'I failed the LSAT.' I'm a barred attorney, Sara, there is no passing or failing of the LSAT. If you missed every question you'd get a scaled score of 120, if you aced each one you'd get 180. Obviously where you place on that scale has a major bearing on which, if any, accredited law schools it would be realistic for you to apply to, but there is no way to 'fail' it per se. Sigh. They do explain that when you take the LSAT.
CbusResident 4 years ago (edited)
It was 2004, I was taking a community college course in sociology. The professor was a white guy, saying how it was valuable to learn about the p.o.v. of some traditional Native American groups, and how he annually did a trip to spend time out in Arizona on a Native American reservation so he could observe and participate in their religious and cultural events, and he encouraged students to inquire about going on this trip w/ him that summer. A woman then asks in total, innocent seriousness (and she was in her 40s, had grown up in NYC): 'But if you go stay with them, will you have to sleep in a teepee? Don't they all still live in teepees?'
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