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Had a coworker ask me what denomination I am. I replied I don't believe in god.

She was so dumbfounded that she didn't have a reply. 3 days later she came back and asked if I was worried about going to hell, or what jesus would think. Had to explain I didn't believe in those either.

She had no idea atheism existed. She was told in church that atheists were just people who were mad at god, but she thought that still meant they were religious.

She was 43 years old.

Ganglebot Report

Final score:

296points

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Nancy T 1 year ago

Brainwashed

192points

24 People Share Stories About Some Of The Most Out-Of-Touch Individuals They Know Some years ago, I worked in a mailroom. The boss of my boss was talking about one of her family members, who had some kind of emergency, and had to come up with $30,000. She said to my boss and I...and I'll never forget this: "I don't understand the problem..I mean, who DOESN'T have $30,000 saved for an emergency?!?" .....B***h, I work in a mailroom.

Epilogue: I have been out of the mailroom for 8 years....I still don't have an extra $30,000 lying around.

BoxingRaptor , Pixabay Report

Final score:

286points

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N Miller 1 year ago

Ah, yes. Let me just put (checks current exchange rate) just under my entire pre-tax annual salary into an emergency account. This is dumber than any of the rich kids stories - at least they'll learn pretty quick by being part of the same real world as their friends.

69points

24 People Share Stories About Some Of The Most Out-Of-Touch Individuals They Know I live in london as a welfare rep for American students. Knowing that American college costs a bundle, and the programme to come over costs a load too, these students tend to be the richest and whitest of suburbia.

One day the WiFi went down and I may as well have told them that there was no drinking water in the U.K.

About 40 students were knocking on my door telling me it wasn't acceptable and that they were calling their 'daddys' to sort it "My daddy is a lawyer, so if you think you're getting money for this accomodation when I haven't had WiFi you've got another think coming." (that sorta thing!)

I tried to calm them down, let them know it would be back on in an hour or two when one of them said the following line;

"You can't blame us for being upset, we grew up in 'THE FIRST WORLD'"...

I was flabbergasted, not only did she talk about being from 'the first world' (who does that) like that is something to be proud of. But her entire arguament was 'Everything in my life has always been easy and perfect... how dare you take away the most minor of utilities for 3 hours'

I despair

anon , Compare Fibre Report

Final score:

263points

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Potty pagan panda 1 year ago

Kids. Privilege. Ignorance. That mix is scary

169points

24 People Share Stories About Some Of The Most Out-Of-Touch Individuals They Know We were at a table, 6 of us, eating.

The conversation turned to jobs/employment. One of the guys, a rich kid that had most of his life handed to him, including his tech job at mommy's company, made the comment that he didn't understand why if someone couldn't find a job, they just didn't go back to school, get a degree, and try some more.

He couldn't understand two things.

One, *most* family's cannot support an unemployed adult student for the time it takes to get a degree.

Two, the jaw dropping one, was he thought that ALL colleges, EVERYWHERE, were FREE.

His 'logic' was that students go to college straight from high school and 'they don't have money' so how else could they afford school.

We live in the U.S. and this guy was *27 years old*!

And we had to tell him school costs money......

KMApok , Ekrulila Report

Final score:

240points

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Pound Cake 1 year ago

Through my school system’s program I can take community college classes and even after all the county’s deductions I still have to pay! Unless you can bribe quite a few people, your college will not be free in the US

39points

24 People Share Stories About Some Of The Most Out-Of-Touch Individuals They Know My brother's best friend married a pretty rich girl. He said the first time he saw her do laundry she was going through her pockets and throwing her loose change in the garbage. She had no idea that people kept their change. Genuinely thought everyone just threw it away.

i_want_that_boat , Steve Johnson Report

Final score:

213points

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Nathaniel 1 year ago

For years I picked up any loose change I found. Got a couple of hundred pounds worth in the end. Thought I would spend it all and treat myself. Regret it now, I was thrown out of the strip club for coppering up.

118points

24 People Share Stories About Some Of The Most Out-Of-Touch Individuals They Know I had to give my friend the sex talk... Junior year of high school.

Before that, he thought you took your wife to the hospital, they put you in a room, you peed on her and the baby would be conceived... Sweet Jesus.

lukemike , Omar Lopez Report

Final score:

207points

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TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago

I'm so glad that i got my education in a country with proper sex-ed. Sex differences in 4th grade, detailed anatomy, pregnancy, STDs and protection methodes in 6th/7th grade and finally genetics and biochemical processes in 10th grade

131points

24 People Share Stories About Some Of The Most Out-Of-Touch Individuals They Know Went on a trip with an ex to Asia. She didn't like it because she couldn't understand why people didn't speak English. So she would just yell at them, I need a napkin! Bathroom, where?!

I pretty much told her to have some respect for people. Talk to them politely. She got all mad and fussy at me the whole trip.

badass4102 , Janko Ferlic Report

Final score:

206points

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CH1990 1 year ago

Going on a holiday is the best way to find out if a relationship is going to work or not haha

167points

My dad was in the US Marines for Desert Storm and Desert Shield and had to escort a fallen soldier home for his funeral. When he attended the wake, the family was understandably upset except for the father. After talking to him, he explained that he knew his son had been selected to be a secret agent and that the body in the coffin couldn't possibly be his son. Very sad.

pssnindawind Report

Final score:

197points

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Vanessa Bakic 1 year ago

Poor guy, grief manifest itself in different/unique ways.

144points

Cockdieselallthetime Report

#10

24 People Share Stories About Some Of The Most Out-Of-Touch Individuals They Know Knew a guy who was really into rage against the machine, and getting pretty radicalized about government.

One day thought he was being tailed by the FBI, so he threw it in reverse and rammed the car.

Turns out it was the FBI. He was on a watch list, and now he's in prison.

Final score:

195points

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VonBlade 1 year ago

I think you have to do more than listen to a band to get on an FBI watchlist.

196points

PhAnToM444 , eberhard grossgasteiger Report

#11

24 People Share Stories About Some Of The Most Out-Of-Touch Individuals They Know Oooooh this question is perfect for me.

I grew up in the richest and whitest of suburbia. Everyone I knew had a doctor/lawyer/CEO for a dad it felt like. Where do I even start?

- I knew a girl who didn't want to go to school in the 8th grade... So her parents paid her. $400 a week just to *show up* to middle school. She's now addicted to pills and not going to college.

- One time I was at a friend's lake house and they asked if they could come to mine next weekend. When I told them I didn't have one they were actually floored. Everyone has one of those, right? Similar thing happened a few times with country clubs.

This one is the best:

- I went to France on a school trip (I know, I know) with another school from my area. I saw one of the girls from the other school who I had made friends with over the course of the trip crying. I went and asked her what was wrong and she said she found out her maid got deported back to Bolivia. I was like "that sucks was she really cool or something?"

Nope. She didn't even speak English. The girl was just pissed she'd have to clean for herself until they got a new one. Then come to find out that wasn't even their only maid... They were going from 2 maids to 1 for like a week or two and it was the worst thing that had ever happened to her.

Final score:

179points

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Allison B 1 year ago (edited)

My dad's a doctor and honestly I'll admit to having been quite spoiled as a child but this is insane! I think the only "rich kid" moment I had was being confused when I visited a friend at their apartment since the setup reminded me of a hotel with the entry doors in a hallway. I had never seen that before and was confused if they were living in a long term hotel or something. I was like 20. Not my smartest moment. He's my best friend and im still teased about it 15 years later.😂🤦‍♀️

87points

#12

24 People Share Stories About Some Of The Most Out-Of-Touch Individuals They Know My father, by far. But the coin incident was the farthest from reality he's ever been.

My dad collects coins, because his extremely Hungarian immigrant grandfather convinced him that the Bank (capitalizing it because to him, all banks are just one huge world bank) is determined to steal all his money from him, so he has to have a backup plan. This in and of itself isn't too extreme; plenty of people choose self-sustenance due to a distrust in government and economics, but the real kicker happened when he tried to roll his coins.

He has to order his coin rolls online because he doesn't want to go to the bank and get coin rolls because then the bank will know how much money he's hiding from them. I'm not kidding. Anyway, he ordered a bag of coin rolls and waited about a month for them to come before he started getting curious where they were. He asked my mom to check the order tracking while he was at work one day, which led to this conversation:

Mom: [Dad's name], it says here that the package made it to [town we live in] two weeks ago, but got sent back. It says you gave no delivery address.

Dad: Yeah, why would I do that? I don't want them to know where I live, they might tell everyone.

Unorthodoxy_af , Pixabay Report

Final score:

171points

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RedBadgerCan'tSwim 1 year ago

I've never heard of a store shipping product without an address.

88points

#13

24 People Share Stories About Some Of The Most Out-Of-Touch Individuals They Know Got a good one. I went to school in At UBC for a year and lived in the dorms. One of the super rich Chinese kids that populated my school lived on the same floor as me. Her first day there she took a shower in the public bathroom and then just left all her clothes strewn about. She assumed the maid would come pick them up an wash them.

FunctionBuilt , Robert Gomez Report

Final score:

152points

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YetAnotherSarah 1 year ago

I looked it up. OP specifies "Chinese" because the students from China make up a very large and specific (exceptionally rich to the point of being culturally distinct) demographic at the University of British Columbia. OP's shorthand description doesn't translate well for those of us that had to even look up "UBC".

112points

#14

About 3 years ago and I had a young woman, probably early 20s, come into the cafe I work at. She ordered herself and drink and a pastry of some sort. Her total around $6. She proceeded to hand me a 1 dollar bill and 6 quarters. I took the money and waited for her to procure more but she just stood there staring at me. I told her, "I'm sorry, it's $6.87," or whatever. She says, "I know I gave you 7." I said, "No, this is only $2.25." She took the money from my hand and counted each item in front of me like I was stupid, counting each item as $1. I pointed to the quarters ans told her, "Those are quarters, not dollars." Keep in mind this person was obviously not foreign or anything. She had no accent and seemed completely American. Anyway, her response was, "I know they're quarters, but they're dollars." She then proceeded to pick up one of the quarters and point to the word "dollar" inscribed on the bottom beneath George's head. At this point I was thinking, this is the single dumbest person I've ever seen or this is the worst con ever conceived, but she didn't give up. She demanded to speak to a manager. I got the manager and he told her the same thing. She started getting visibly upset, and holding back tears. She might have been embarressed. Best I can figure is that she somehow never learned about money and change somehow and used it so rarely that she assumed quarters were dollars because technically the word "dollar" was on the coin.

pachacutec Report

Final score:

146points

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VM37 1 year ago

Maybe the girl was mentaly chalanged in some way.

97points

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#15

24 People Share Stories About Some Of The Most Out-Of-Touch Individuals They Know "You don't have to go to college and I'm not helping you with fafsa because Armageddon is coming soon and we'll all be in a heavenly paradise. You should spend your time going door to door in the field ministry until Armageddon comes instead." - my mom.

CylentShadow Report

Final score:

144points

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Weim Central 1 year ago

It's hard when you come to the realization that one or both of your parents are dumb as a stump.

110points

Thatkamloopsguy 1 year ago

And it's because of a church.

13points

Mabelbabel 1 year ago

A friend of a friend really bought into the 2012 end of the Mayan long count calendar hysteria. She sold or gave away most of her stuff and started preparing for the end times, stocking up a survival room and spending a fortune on tinned food, survivalist equipment etc. When the world didn't end, she went off the deep end, really disturbed behaviour and ended up in psychiatric care. Her friends and family had tried to get through to her during the time she was making preparations, but she had bizarre ideas that they were sent by the devil to tempt her away from the only thing that was going to save her. Awfully sad-10 years later she's not any better.

8points

OnAFreakingRollercoaster 1 year ago

Yeah I'm just waiting for my kids to catch on 🤦🏼‍♀️😉

2points

JP Purves 1 year ago

This isn't dumb, this is pure delusion.

0points

Nathaniel Garrett 1 year ago

Ah, Christian nihilism. The dumbest philosophy you could ever possibly have.

17points

zak 1 year ago

Scientologists: "Hold my beer"

14points

Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago

My mom's mom was one of these. Jehovah Witness. Only a few survivors that side. I mean that literally because that outlook is so messed up and hopeless that out of four cousins, one committed suicide, two disappeared and one is serving a sentence for drug crime.

16points

Luna Crow 1 year ago

I hope for the two who disappeared that it was because they got out. I had to take that route to escape my fundamental religious relatives

1point

SlothyK8 1 year ago

My mother was just like this. I ended up having to pay my own way through college (back when you could do that with a full time job...I worked 40hrs, nights, and carried a full load in the daytime) because, even though we were dirt poor and I was eligible for financial aid, she wouldn't sign anything.

12points

ILoveMySon 1 year ago

I am so sorry. Kuddos to you for your hard work.

0points

Hex Gurls 1 year ago

witnesses 😑

12points

Toothpaste guy 1 year ago

Yep

0points

Kathleen Olsson-Nelson 1 year ago

Jehovah's Witnesses. Almost word for word, my parents and family. NOT me. Left that cult when I was 14, never looked back. Thankful to have escaped.

8points

MidwestAngst 1 year ago

My teen years as a JW are triggering my left eye twitch at this.

8points

Lynne Hammar 1 year ago

R U N

8points

brandiej14 1 year ago

Ah the JWs strike again. Had a new JW try and tell me they don't believe that anymore, tell my estranged father that lol

6points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

what is fafsa?

6points

Powerful Katrinka 1 year ago

Federal Student Aid.

6points

Michael Largey 1 year ago

Those most opposed to education are usually those most in need of it.

5points

Pandaroo 1 year ago

This is jehovahs witnesses, who have taught for 100 years that you don't need education or to build a career because Armageddon is just around the corner and will solve all your issues. It's been around the corner since 1914. They sincerely believe this. Source: 14 years of my adult life as a JW.

4points

Just Another Girl 1 year ago

But what if they’re right?

0points

Emily Phillips 1 year ago

Sounds like my ex mother in law who is a Jehovah witness

3points

Libstak 1 year ago

My dad's whole family are JW, thank Christ we live in Australia and they all stayed in Europe...cos why immigrate when Armageddon is coming right? We moved in 1970, the world was ending in 1975 and so on and so forth with the new end of world dates, 52 years later......

0points

Dragons Exist 1 year ago

Ah yes, the first thing I think of when I think of Armageddon is "heavenly paradise"

3points

Victor Trejo 1 year ago

Well, someone is really wrong in some point, since JW believe in an EARTHLY paradise.

3points

Epona 1 year ago (edited)

I had to look up what FAFSA was, because the OP did not bother to hit caps lock when referring to something that should be in all caps. This is why I’m such a stickler for accuracy! It eliminates a large percentage of confusion when you bother to be clear and specific from the beginning 🙄😒. It’s like the people who don’t do this enjoy being misunderstood and having to clarify unnecessarily! I don’t understand why you (the general “you”, not a specific person) want more work for yourself conversationally but whatever. I’ll stop ranting about this now. Sorry if it annoys anyone. I’m right, but I’m still sorry for annoying anybody who does not agree with me. *I am aware that I sound arrogant but I’m not actually very arrogant, normally, this is just something that I cannot understand or at least agree with. Please do not downvote me because I’m voicing my opinion that may be different to someone else’s!!*

2points

Anja VanKe 1 year ago

Sounds familiar.. JW parents 😕

1point

Notyomama 1 year ago

😬

1point

Michelle Rutherford 1 year ago

Yeah, this is my mum. She watches YouTube videos all day & believes in all sort of weird random s**t. I just roll my eyes & walk away.

0points

Elizabeth Molloy 1 year ago

Why are Christians so excited about the end of the world?

0points

Kent Simon 1 year ago

One of my friends grandparents told him that when he graduated in 1974.

0points

K. Anderson 1 year ago

Technically, this mindset is kind of true as it has been & will be true when it eventually happens so one generation who thinks this isn’t going to be crazy. We could say that about life in general as we don’t know on the day we die, the morning that we wake up is going to be our last

0points

Adam Francis 1 year ago

well... she's not wrong

0points

RajunCajun 1 year ago

that sounds Mormon.

0points

Abigail Strong 1 year ago

isn't Armageddon a bad thing

0points

Just Another Girl 1 year ago

JWs believe Armageddon will be the end of this system of things. (Crappy man made government, hunger,sickness,war,etc. ) And that it will bring about a government or kingdom ruled by god in a paradise earth as was originally created for Adam and Eve.

1point

BoredPandaSucks 1 year ago

Every time i hear someone claiming to know that "the end is near" I always wish it were true, but sadly it never is... One day it will though, and it will be our own damned fault.

0points

#16

I had a friend who was going to Greece with her family and asked me to come. I told her "sorry, I'd like to but that's too expensive." She responded with "just ask your parents to pay, I'm sure they will." I could not for the life of me convince her that no, my parents would not pay to send me to Greece. She literally could not wrap her mind around the fact that some people's parents would not pay for them to go on vacation.

anon Report

Final score:

136points

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Hex Gurls 1 year ago

i go to a wealthy school on a scholarship, a buttload of rich kids who all have like doctors for parents, and they always ask me to just ask my parents to buy me the expensive stuff i can’t afford. i can’t??? because it’s expensive???? and they don’t understand that

56points

#17

My grandmother told me women especially moms can't be alcoholics. It's just not possible. Only men are alcoholics because no matter what women don't have it in them and don't have time to be alcoholics. And that everyone always know who is an alcoholic and who isn't. If someone is an alcoholic they always show it in some way you can't act happy and be an alcoholic! My moms an alcoholic and obviously grandma is in denial and struggling to accept it despite the fact that her own sister died from health issues caused by drinking. But yeah women can't be alcoholics.

TruClevelander Report

Final score:

135points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

I dated a girl who was an alcoholic and it was a nightmare. Fine when sober but when drunk most unreasonable and aggressive and frankly stupid.

63points

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#18

24 People Share Stories About Some Of The Most Out-Of-Touch Individuals They Know I work at a recording studio. The amount of people who think they're going to be the next big thing is scary.

WetHotTrots , Pixabay Report

Final score:

129points

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Nathaniel 1 year ago

They be crazy, they should know for sure that I am going to be the next big thing.

106points

underlavenderskies , Anastase Maragos Report

#19

24 People Share Stories About Some Of The Most Out-Of-Touch Individuals They Know I have a co-worker who once got visibly upset because I said he was about the same age as my parents.

He's 51. My parents are 53.

I'd like to point out that I didn't just say this out of the blue. He asked how old my parents were, and I knew his age, so I made the comparison. He also said things like "I work out you know, I'm stronger than guys half my age". Very much a man child in denial.

Final score:

122points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

aha, so he was hoping you'd be "interested" in him.

80points

#20

24 People Share Stories About Some Of The Most Out-Of-Touch Individuals They Know I've met a few people who are really brilliant in one field, yet lack even the most basic level of sense in certain areas outside of it. Sort of like the thing about Einstein not being able to tie his shoes (if that's true).

My favorite was a university professor: absolutely brilliant knowledge of middle eastern politics, particularly around the Israel-Palestine conflict. He could remember insanely precise historical details going back thousands of years, and seemed to understand the subtlest of nuances on both sides of the conflict. His lectures were amazing. Or they would have been, if he had turned off his cell phone. He simply couldn't figure out how to silence his phone, or even turn it on and off. He had let his TA do it for him a couple of times, but then he'd leave with it still off and couldn't figure out how to turn it back on until he came back the next day, so after going through that twice he decided he would just leave it on. And it appeared that every telemarketer on earth had his number, because it would ring at least 5 times an hour at full volume, and he'd just talk over the top of it like it wasn't happening. He also never answered his email, because he apparently didn't realize that he had one or might need to use it.

One day he'd forgotten to bring his little water jug, and sent his TA to the vending machine in the middle of a lecture to bring him a bottle of water. She brought it back and handed it to him, and he turned red in the face trying to get it open, before handing it back to her and declaring that something was wrong with it. She opened it quickly and easily: he'd been turning the cap the wrong way.

I should specify here that this was not a super old guy who you'd expect to have issues with technology and life in general: he was in his mid or late 40's.

john_gee , NordWood Themes Report

Final score:

121points

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Lynne Hammar 1 year ago (edited)

Oh, I worked in academe for years as a secretary. All of the secretaries shared stories about the faculty's cluelessness. One of the funniest was when a visiting professor asked for some Wite Out, then proceeded to white out the expiration date on her driver's license, put it into the typewriter, and type in a new date.

77points

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#21

24 People Share Stories About Some Of The Most Out-Of-Touch Individuals They Know I used to work in a pizza place and my boss (the owner) was one of the strangest guys I've ever met.

He used to tell me that the world was run by "reptilian aliens" and that the moon was their base. He knew this because NASA once hit something off the moon and it "sounded like a bell" and thus must be hollow and full of lizard people.

Left that job after 3 weeks.

Gyratetojackjarvis Report

Final score:

114points

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Nathaniel 1 year ago (edited)

It is well known that the British Royal family are our secret reptilian overlords.

95points

#22

A guy I know once told me that dinosaurs were a hoax. And dinosaur bones were floating in space when God formed the Earth, that's why they're trapped in the ground.

anon Report

Final score:

111points

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Nathaniel 1 year ago

Actually dino bones are the left over equivalent of KFC bones left behind by giant aliens visitors to this planet.

117points

#23

My friend during high shool had all the videogame consoles from the current generation as soon as they were released. Along with a bunch of games. My parents could afford new consoles only 2 years after release (in Brazil, games are EXPENSIVE). My friend would argue why my father didn't work more to make more money, because whenever his father wanted more money, he'd make extra hours. His father was a director of a big car tires company.

hank_moo_d Report

Final score:

97points

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Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago

Yeah, but what was in the tires they shipped?

48points

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#24

24 People Share Stories About Some Of The Most Out-Of-Touch Individuals They Know Ok. so I was 15, and working at McDonalds. I was at the back window where you take peoples money. A customer came, and blew past the back speaker where you order. That was pretty typical, so I figured it was just a normal mistake.

When they get to my window it is the very old lady. She smiles at me, holds a grocery bag up, with frozen chicken and a two liter of soda. She holds out a 20$ bill and asks "how much for the chicken and soda?"

15 year old me didn't have the coping skills for this. I stared at her for what felt like forever. Finally I said "Uh, I think you're confused".. She drove off, with her car half way over the curb.

berfica , Thabang Report

Final score:

92points

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Lily bloom 1 year ago

Dementia perhaps?

91points

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Full of Giggles 1 year ago (edited)

I have the misfortune of knowing American politician, Wendy Rogers. The woman is absolutely bat s**t crazy and stupid. She makes Trump look like an actual stable genius. Anyways. A few years back, a group of pro-lifers burnt down the Planned Parenthood in a severely impoverished community. A year later, the number of government assistance recipients almost doubled from the previous year. Wendy couldn’t put two and two together. I had to explain that many families in the community relied on PP for free condoms and birth control to prevent unwanted pregnancy. Without those services women were having babies they couldn’t afford to feed and thus, needed government assistance. Wendy said that wasn’t an excuse because condoms are only 25 cents at the gas station and everyone has 25 cents. I then had to explain that most of these people can’t afford a $1 loaf of bread so there’s no way they have 25 cents to spare. Her reply? “Surely preventing pregnancy is more important than feeding their kids.”

42points

Full of Giggles 1 year ago (edited)

I ran out of room. I highly recommend googling Wendy. She frequently pops up on Reddit because of the stupid s**t she says.

19points

Stump Rumpersonne 1 year ago

Sadly that garbage truly is a representative of a segment of the population

10points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

My condolences. Her name comes up at pro-legal-choice meetings occasionally for the "condoms over cereal for the kids" remark, as my one acquaintance put it.

7points

Shannon Epps 1 year ago

When my daughter was about 13 years old I had a friend who had a 9-month-old baby. My daughter asked if she could hold the baby and my friend asked if she was on her period. Of course I was confused and asked her why that would matter. She looked at me like I was the crazy one and proceeded to tell me the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!! She said," Don't you know that if your daughter is on her period and has cramps she can give them to my son?" Of course I had a lot of questions! I asked her how she thought my daughter possibly having cramps would affect her son. She explained that the hormones my daughter would be giving off would cause him to have cramps too. I asked her where would he be getting cramps on his body because he doesn't have the same parts as her. She then fumbled around trying to explain that the same place my daughter would get cramps her son would get cramps. I then open my laptop and some of my nursing school books and gave her a full health lesson! I had to explain to her what a uterus was or babies come out how babies are made the difference between the two genders. And after 45 minutes of that she still said that she doesn't quite believe it and that she seen it happen before. We weren't friends after that. It's one thing to have never learned something it's another thing to dig your heels in on stupid and die on that hill of crazy!

33points

Stump Rumpersonne 1 year ago

I've removed every dumb mf'er and vaguely bigoted person from my life and I've been incredibly happy since. Sometimes it's not about bringing good into your life, it's about removing the bad.

19points

Seabeast 1 year ago (edited)

Wait, she gave birth to a baby nine months previously and she didn't know anything about male and female reproductive parts?

6points

Nitka Tsar 1 year ago (edited)

I’m a bit sad about this one. She might just have been confused. Who knows if anyone tought her anything or if she just could not process that much information. Could have been embarrassed too. And without sex ed at schools she will teach her children the same, if anything at all.

2points

J 1 year ago

Did she expect to never have a period again while raising her kid?

2points

Lara Verne 1 year ago

My cousin once dated girl from very rich family. She was like child. Never been in public transport before, so she was all excited about it. Until she found out that public transport does not stop in front of her house.

16points

Irma 1 year ago

I had this friend who did not know how to open a bottle of wine cause he had people do it for him. When my toilet broke he also said 'why dont you go to the one upstairs' i dont have a second bathroom heck i dont even have an upstairs

0points

Wonderful 1 year ago

A police woman was getting tattooed one day at my shop, and this was right after that tsunami in Thailand. She just couldn't understand why so many ppl died cause, "They live on a island don't they know how to swim?"

10points

Seabeast 1 year ago (edited)

A very large percentage of the dead were women, precisely because they'd never learned to swim. Well, that and wearing yards and yards of fabric. Christina Fonfe started up a swim school for women after the tsunami that carries on to this day. __ http://www.icanswimcanyou.com/news_list.asp?lang=en

6points

30_Helens_Agree 1 year ago

One of my best friends, god love her, doesn’t have to work because her husband takes care of everything and she has an easy life. She’s a doll but a little clueless. When me and another friend were talking about how sick we are of working full time, especially during the warm months, she said “why don’t you guys just take summers off?” We had to explain that most people have to work year round and our bosses won’t simply let us take 3-4 months off and come back to work after.

7points

Jude Laskowski 1 year ago

I had a friend who was somewhat older than I am, and she was a teacher. She could never understand that other people didn't have the summer off. I was a police officer; I told her that crime doesn't stop in the summer.

0points

TheFloydist 1 year ago

I had a heated discussion with one of my friends because he kept blaming his behavior on a variety of allergies, some days it was an artificial food coloring, other days it was that he was allergic to paper. Then he mentioned that he was going to a chiropractor that was a member of our church to treat his allergies. I tried explaining that the immune system and the skeletal system just don't interact in any way that make treating allergies with chiropractic techniques plausible. I'm not much of an expert in either so I didn't do a very good job and we had to end the discussion agreeing to disagree.

5points

Irma 1 year ago (edited)

I do get what you are saying but its not the immune system per se. That is more like an intolerance. Its hystamine going crazy for no reason? I dont fully understand it either. I just know i have a ton of allergies and am prone to creating new ones for some reason, getring more every year and i can tell you, no one ever has suggested me to go to a chiropractor

0points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Girl I knew in uni refused to believe I got an academic scholarship b/c I claimed to be a farm kid. She didn't believe I eally lived out in the sticks, on a farm. So we all took a road trip to see my family. We get out of the car, she realizes the only thing besides farms is trees and hills to the horizon, and she said in utter shock, "Holy sh*t, you really are a dumb farmer!" She went on to get a PhD at an Ivy League university, and I always wonder if she ever just walked under a bus b/c the bus was beneath her notice...

5points

Jude Laskowski 1 year ago

She must think her food "grows" in the supermarket.

0points

DrBronxx 1 year ago

A story that comes to mind is the YouTube channel Good Good. They're a golf channel, mostly made up of guys in their early-mid 20s. A very successful group of young men. Anyway, I enjoyed their YouTube videos (instructional videos, games, lots of different stuff, all golf-related), so I decided to check our their podcast. Turns out the podcast is not limited to golf, and they'll talk about anything. In a recent episode, the topic of engagement rings came up, and they were discussing how much you should spend on a ring. "The equivalent of three months' salary" seemed to be the consensus, although one of the guys was absolutely flabbergasted at that. No way was he paying three months' salary on a ring. No way. Uh-uh. So, the others asked him how much he would pay, if three months' salary was too much. In the end, he settled on $20,000. Not a penny more. His complete lack of touch with what is considered a lot of money made me switch the podcast off.

4points

Nitka Tsar 1 year ago

Three months salary is always too much, no matter how much you earn. I‘m a woman, by the way.

5points

LB 1 year ago

I was working two jobs - as a receptionist and a hostess - and really struggling. My well-paid boss at the receptionist job, who knew full well what I made, couldn’t understand that I wasn’t working my second job just to have a little extra “fun” money. After she brought it up a few times, I told her that was I was working two jobs because it I had to in order to pay my bills. She was offended and thought I was ungrateful that she had hired me. She was then furious when I quit to go back to school in hopes of getting out of poverty.

4points

Nanda 1 year ago

My middle school best friend once told me that my parents couldn't afford vacations and better toys because if they knew that having kids was expensive why didn't they only had one, then they would be able to afford expensive toys. And I was like, you know I'm the youngest right?

3points

Wysteria_Rose 1 year ago

My boss will go on about growing up poor but I really feel life has made her out of touch since then. She is an executive at a university and makes SO much money. She buys starbucks every day, is able to shop for a diverse spread of food for rich meals at home, has a huge house with pool, but will go on and say "Oh, yeah, we don't have any money." I have to bite my tongue so hard as her assistant, living in a small apartment and making sure to budget the grocery list carefully each month. I don't get mad at her having things, just when she says things like "Oh, we don't have money to spend." Um, you just talked about spending thousands on fixing your pool for the season.

2points

Elio 1 year ago

Sounds like lifestyle inflation/bad budgeting. It's still annoying.

0points

GirlFriday 1 year ago

One of my suitemates in college was filthy rich, heiress to a billion dollar fortune rich, and while she was the sweetest girl, she had no concept of money at all. She did not understand why myself and another girl had to be back to campus before dining hours ended when we could just go to a restaurant. She was also flabbergasted when one of the girls got really excited because the girl got a birthday card from her grandmother with $25 in it. Rich girl came back to our suite asking why that would make her happy when all it was was $25. We had to explain that the girl, like the rest of us, was on work-study and didn't have a lot of spending money so this $25 meant she could treat herself.

2points

R Tate Dancer 3 months ago

She truly is dumber than a box of rocks! She used to be an Air Force pilot; frightening! So proud of another Arizona politician making my state look like we’re a bunch of yahoos!

1point

R Tate Dancer 3 months ago

Re: Wendy Rogers

0points

Irma 1 year ago

The alcoholic one.. i feel that. I know an alcoholic and she came out about it so that while she got clean people would know and wouldnt push it on her or ask why or the 'come on just one'. I think it was a strong move but she was a functioning acoholic which basically mean that people now just said 'cant be that bad cause you dont look like one'. Apparantly you also have to be a hairy homeless guy on a park bench with a can of beer at 8 am or else youre lying???

1point

Tothetaint42 1 year ago

Probably one of the better posts on this god forsaken site

1point

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Full of Giggles 1 year ago (edited)

I ran out of room. I highly recommend googling Wendy. She frequently pops up on Reddit because of the stupid s**t she says.

19points

Stump Rumpersonne 1 year ago

Sadly that garbage truly is a representative of a segment of the population

10points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

My condolences. Her name comes up at pro-legal-choice meetings occasionally for the "condoms over cereal for the kids" remark, as my one acquaintance put it.

7points

Shannon Epps 1 year ago

33points

Stump Rumpersonne 1 year ago

I've removed every dumb mf'er and vaguely bigoted person from my life and I've been incredibly happy since. Sometimes it's not about bringing good into your life, it's about removing the bad.

19points

Seabeast 1 year ago (edited)

Wait, she gave birth to a baby nine months previously and she didn't know anything about male and female reproductive parts?

6points

Nitka Tsar 1 year ago (edited)

2points

J 1 year ago

Did she expect to never have a period again while raising her kid?

2points

Lara Verne 1 year ago

16points

Irma 1 year ago

0points

Wonderful 1 year ago

10points

Seabeast 1 year ago (edited)

6points

30_Helens_Agree 1 year ago

7points

Jude Laskowski 1 year ago

0points

TheFloydist 1 year ago

5points

Irma 1 year ago (edited)

0points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

5points

Jude Laskowski 1 year ago

She must think her food "grows" in the supermarket.

0points

DrBronxx 1 year ago

4points

Nitka Tsar 1 year ago

Three months salary is always too much, no matter how much you earn. I‘m a woman, by the way.

5points

LB 1 year ago

4points

Nanda 1 year ago

3points

Wysteria_Rose 1 year ago

2points

Elio 1 year ago

Sounds like lifestyle inflation/bad budgeting. It's still annoying.

0points

GirlFriday 1 year ago

2points

R Tate Dancer 3 months ago

She truly is dumber than a box of rocks! She used to be an Air Force pilot; frightening! So proud of another Arizona politician making my state look like we’re a bunch of yahoos!

1point

R Tate Dancer 3 months ago

Re: Wendy Rogers

0points