People can be ridiculous sometimes. (actually most of the time tbh)

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One of my first jobs was as a cashier for a local grocery store. A woman came up to me holding an apple, and asked in a demanding voice, "is this apple vegetarian?". I said it's an organic apple, of course it is. She sneered, and said, "how can it be vegetarian if it's not a vegetable?!". Ugh. Face palm

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I once got told that period cramps couldn't be worse than growing pains >:(

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Ok, I'll start.

One time someone asked me if my friend spoke Asian.
(Probably not the stupidest thing anyone has ever said to me but it's definitely up there.)

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

Ok but someone said something similar to my best friend her brother and me. We make fun of him a lot.

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This is a whole entire conversation that is just incredibly stupid. Buckle up.
School counselor: Hello Happi Doggi! This is a get to know you meeting. Tell me about yourself.
Me:*signs the only thing I know* I have selective mutism, do you mind sharing first?
Counselor: Happi Doggi?
Me:*signs again*
Counselor: I only have 10 minutes with you, please speak up.
Me: *tries to leave*
Counselor: Sit down
Me: *tries to speak but Iā€™m having an sm attack*
Counselor: Why donā€™t you trust me? Iā€™m here to help!
Me:*takes out school iPad and types, I have sm.*
Me:*shows ipad*
Counselor:Get out, I donā€™t tolerate that attitude!
Me:???
Counselor: Sassy mouth, really?

I told you it was stupid.

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

iā€™m sorry that sounds awful they needed to be more perceptive since that is their job

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Climate Change isn't real. Covid isn't real.

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

That conversation wasn't real... the other person wasn't real...the WORLD ITSELF ISN'T REAL

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Not stupid in itself but because of who said it.

I was applying for a master in animal behaviour and the teachers asked me to send them some paper that i wrote from my previous degree. So I sent them one that I was quite proud of about the Permian extinction (a extinction around 250my ago). Its the period of time before the Triassic (more famous).

I went to meet the coordinators of the master and one of them was very upset about the paper "because I didnt mention mammals. Why didnt I mention mammals?". Now this woman was supposedly a mammal expert so I was very shocked. I told her that I didnt mention them because mammals appeared in the triassic, so after the extinction (actually i mentioned them at the end but i guess that she didnt read that far). She didnt believe me until the other teacher confirmed it.

I mean it is totally normal to not know when mammals evolved. But if you are supposedly a "mammal expert" and you are grading a paper perhaps you should know that? Or at least google it?

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Someone at work to me- You donā€™t ā€œlookā€ married! This was said in a condescending way!
I mean, what do you do to ā€œlookā€ married! Get my face branded or get a tattoo on head or something!

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Iā€™m female, and have a twin brother.
People ask me if weā€™re identical.

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

I get it, Iā€™m asked if me and my cousin are twins all the time, but Iā€™m 3 inches taller. Plus I have straight hair, he has slightly curly hair.

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I was born and raised in Italy, moved to the States in my early 20s, so I still have an accent. šŸ˜Š

While their thought process very endearing, it never ceases to amaze me when people ask me where I'm from:

Them: I hear an accent, where are you from?
Me: Rome
Them: Rome, Georgia?
Me: Rome, Italy šŸ¤—
Them: Oh cool! Do you happen to know such such?
Me: Doesn't ring a bell šŸ¤”...

(Rome is about 4 million people... And I'm an introvert šŸ˜‚)

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1. You are going to hell because you are not (insert any religion)

2. You are selfish because you don't want children.

3. This might sound stupid but... (they are indeed stupid)

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1 Space was created by Disney to further the hoax of space/earth being round. He was dead serious, and he quoted ā€œhis own brain after much researchā€ as his source. I wish I was kidding.

2 You shouldnā€™t wear a seatbelt because, in the event of a crash, youā€™re better off being thrown out of the car than being trapped in it.

3 You can only get covid-19 if you get bitten by someone who had it.


SO LIKE SO STUPID

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I'm a manager at dunkin. A few minutes after we just opened, a guy pulled up to the speaker and I said "hi. what can I get for you" and he goes "hey, are you open?"

I responded with "If we weren't, we wouldn't be speaking right now"

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

I was always worried of being fired if I got sarcastic with an idiotic customer. Even a little bit because these days, people get offended over ANYTHING.

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6 y.o. me: *looking at book about otters* šŸ˜ƒ

Some teenager: Oh look they're holding hands! šŸ¤—

6 y.o. me (animal nerd): They do that so they don't float away from each other while they sleep. šŸ™‚

Some teenager: No, I think they are taking a bath. šŸ™ƒ

6 y.o. me: šŸ¤Ø

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A girl I lived with was waiting for her water to boil in the kitchen. I noticed she had the burner on low. When I asked her ā€œWhy is it on low?ā€ She said she didnā€™t want to burn her water.

She also thought cheese came from chickens.

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A Karen once told me that I could not 'buy the groceries' because I was in front of her in the line. wtf?!

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

How DARE you be in line in front of the poor innocent Karen?!?!?!? So incredibly rude to exist in front of her. /s

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ā€œIs pink panther a cougar?ā€

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When my daughter (now 8) was about 3, she loved Batman and had a little Batman figure she carried around like most kids use a stuffed toy or blankie. One time, we were at the laundromat, and I struck up a conversation with another customer. We were just chatting about this and that until she noticed that my daughter had this Batman toy. She asked me why my daughter had that toy instead of a baby doll. I didn't really think anything of the question, so I just shrugged and said that it's what she wanted. I mentioned that my husband and I are both into gaming and science fiction and fantasy, so she probably picked it up from us. This woman got kind of a pinched look on her face and said that parenting like that is why we have a "trans problem." I was so taken aback by the way she just blurted that statement that I couldn't even respond.

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

I hate people like that! Kids should get to choose whatever type of toys they like playing with instead of it being forced on them , i had my little ponies and a dolls house as well as plastic dinosaurs and cars.

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"Covid is fake."

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Lifeā€™s too short, you two should get married.

Uncle Frank, you were an idiot.

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I said it to someone actually, so I was in kindergarten and had a ā€œboyfriendā€ and we were talking at recess and a ladybug landed in his hand and he said ā€œlook a bee landed on my hand!ā€ and I'm just like ā€œok so if you can't tell the difference between a bee and a ladybug you can't be my boyfriendā€

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#21

One of my friends keeps asking me if my ear cuffs I wear are piercings even though I have told him about 5 times that I have no piercings on my ears, and if I got some they probably wouldn't be on the top part of them where my cuffs are.

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"IM 20 PERCENT BLACK SO I CAN SAY THE N WORD!"
but u also make fun of Jews, and me. Who is Mexican. Are u those to??šŸ˜’šŸ˜’šŸ˜’

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

The N word is just a no for me. It doesnā€™t matter who Iā€™m talking to, just no.

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Once in my Drama class a girl asked me "Is a bat an insect?"


She was completely serious.

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I worked one summer during college at a hotel restaurant in southwestern Virginia, which is a rural, mountainous area of the state. There was a very opinionated, older local woman who worked there too. Somehow the topic of evolution came up and her response was "Ain't nobody gonna tell me my great great great grandpappy was a monkey".

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ā€œAre penguins descended from fish??ā€ This person refused to believe they are birds šŸ˜³

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

What? Ok, if you go very far back in time, we are all descended from fish šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‰

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A coworker was asking me about veganism.
ā€œNo meat at all?ā€
ā€œNo, I donā€™t eat any animals.ā€
ā€œWhat about chicken?ā€
ā€œNo.ā€
ā€œFish?ā€
ā€œNo.ā€
ā€œShellfish?ā€
ā€œNo, Paula, I donā€™t eat any animals at all.ā€
ā€œInteresting.ā€
She leaves the shop, and then pokes her head back a full minute later. ā€œWhat about snakes?ā€

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

Good grief. I've had those same questions asked of me. People are so disconnected from their food source.

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I've also been asked what cuppa means... no one in America seems understands my British slang. Granted, it is America, but I can't even say poppycock without getting the strangest looks. And, good lord, call someone "mate"...

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

Tell that wanker you'll be by in the morning to knock them up and share a f*g.

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I am a designer by profession.
Some then often say ā€œDesigners are totally creativeā€ šŸ™„. Nope. We are no more than anyone else. We solve challenges our own way. From my point of view everyone gets creative in their own way to solve challengesā€¦

Or some say: "You designers are really good at drawing" Nope. 98% of the designers I know can't even scribble. Illustrators are very good at drawing ...

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I've been doing my own research on facebook......

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

This one just kills me. Teams of actual researchers have to do research to earn their masters and doctorates, and they research their specialties that they devoted years or decades to, but if iknowmorethanscientists6969 on the Donā€™t Tread on Me channel on YouTube says itā€™s a hoax, well, his misunderstanding of the Old Testament and the Second Law of Thermodynamics is the more valid opinion.

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Had a lovely couple stop me on the highway while I was walking my dogs (they were driving) to ask me where the island was (it used to be a big camping area that was connected to the highway by manmade causeway, but several years of flooding and major storms have made a mess of things). When I told them where it was (by the way, there is ONE paved road here and it turns off from one highway and ends at the island/lake) the man then asked me if he could get to the neighbouring state from said island.

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A former co-worker told me they got jet lag flying from Flordia to New York (same time zone).

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That my mental health symptoms were my imagiatio n.

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A woman once asked me if tuna was poultry or fish. We were both waiting in line at safeway, it was the first time i visited the USA.
to me it's obvious, it's fish. so i went home, told my husband about it and said one of the most idiotic and ignorant sentences of my life: "what a stupid person"

actually i was the stupid one. and arrogant.
the tuna i was buying was called "chicken of the sea", the question was really smart. and i should not be this judging.

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#34

I was talking to my sister and she said and I quote "Last year, when I was stupid." She is still stupid. So now Everytime she does something stupid I make fun of her.

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#35

The girl sitting behind me in class was confused as to why money was missing from her bank account... right after she bought a HUGE amount of in-game money for a MOBILE GAME. Like, one of those clickbatey, full of ads kind of games.

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#36

While working multiple retail jobs, I've had more than one customer ask if I worked there...when I was wearing my work outfit. There is absolutely nothing anyone can give me to go back to working retail.

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#37

That we don't need road laws.. huh?

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