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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong I was born with one arm (the right one), and people used to ask me all the time if I was left- or right-handed. I got tired of answering such a stupid question so I started answering left and let them figure it out.

CrabFarts , Mikhail Nilov Report

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Petra Peitsch 1 week ago

I can't belive, that is real ....we can be so stupid, and still survive ...

57points

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong My brother-in-law's girlfriend was amazed that I had two brothers and no sisters and asked me how that is possible because she thought that humans gave birth in a boy/girl/boy/girl sequence and couldn't wrap her mind around how someone could give birth to 3 boys and no girls.

I'm not convinced that she is not some alien trying to pass off as a human and failing miserably.

Chipdip88 , Anna Shvets Report

190points

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UKGrandad 1 week ago

Reminds me of the joke about the guy whose wife had just given birth to their second child. He told her her that he was going for a vasectomy because he'd read that every third child born in the world was Chinese, and he didn't want to have to learn a new language.

85points

The Redditor tells us that he came up with the question while one day just hanging out at home. They thought of such nonsensical questions as someone asking "Are you ok?" after they see a person falling. "[I] put it on r/AskReddit not expecting much engagement, then I wake up and my inbox is exploding! It was amazing," u/Isellkidsontemu recounts.

The Redditor doesn't agree with the famous saying that there's no such thing as a dumb question. "Some people may not know and that's okay, but there are some questions that people should just know, like two plus two is four," the Redditor says. "Unless you're in the first grade, you should know."

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong I was at Walmart, a worker, young kid, asked about my hat. I told her I have cancer, and the chemo caused me to loose my hair. She looked at me square in the eye and said “Did you survive?”. It took everything in my power not to say “No, I didn’t. I’m actually dead. I’m a ghost.“.

Tinkerfan57912 , Thirdman Report

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Damned_Cat 1 week ago

When I die, if I find myself shopping at Walmart, I'll know I'm in hell.

142points

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong I have waist length, deep purple hair.

A clerk at the beauty supply store said "Wow, your hair looks great! Did you dye it that way?"

No, I had a tragic grape juice accident when I was four and now it just grows this way.

MissySedai , Kareya Saleh Report

180points

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Tyranamar Suess 1 week ago

This is one of those questions people 'ask' just to have conversation. The lady is not genuinely asking. She's just giving you an option to talk more.

73points

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong My mother had dementia and the Social Worker asked me "" what relation are you to your mother ?".

Sea_Pangolin3840 , Steven HWG Report

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 week ago

She won me in a raffle.

173points

u/Isellkidsontemu says they'll probably be more cautious about asking questions after reading the many answers in the thread. "I am a little more cautious when asking questions, not accidentally saying something stupid and obvious. It's a wonder and I'm proud to have this account, never did I expect so many people to actually respond to that!"

The famous saying about dumb questions, perhaps, is more applicable to scientists. When you're in any kind of learning environment, asking questions is crucial. How else will you learn? There's apparently an African saying, "No one is without knowledge except he who asks no questions."

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong Someone asked me to repeat the pronunciation of my last name and followed it up with, "Are you sure?".

shaidyn , August de Richelieu Report

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CP 1 week ago (edited)

I had a friend named Ryan in college who always said the R Y and N are silent and the A is pronounced Muhammad. Bad joke but funny at the time. Names don't follow pronunciation guides.

54points

Auntriarch 1 week ago

I worked with a Ryan, for some reason everyone kept hearing it as Brian. I put him on the work WhatsApp as "the B is silent"

15points

Tiger 1 week ago

Nope, I knew a girl named Ryanne once which makes me want to pronounce it Ry-Anne, obviously, but it was just Ryan.

5points

Teutonic Disaster 1 week ago

Actually, it's quite a good dig at how silly name spelling has become just for the sake of some superficial juniekneß.

4points

Karen Bryan 1 week ago

Just look at some Irish and Welsh names (ie., "Niahm" is pronounced "Neve").

2points

Neon_Pickles 1 week ago (edited)

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Gozer LeGozerian 1 week ago

Ahahahahahshah

-3points

Ron Mael's devoted wife. 1 week ago

I've had people correct me on the pronunciation of my own name...I think I know

7points

Darius S. (he/him) cis/grey 1 week ago

I've had bartenders correct me or just flat out pronounce it differently. Now I too have worked for tips so........

2points

"Disembodied voice" 1 week ago

I've gotten that, Asian last name in Canada tends to confuse some people. It's phonetic and I know how to pronounce my name.

7points

Catlady6000 1 week ago

According to my Mom. Of course, she also told me Santa is real, so.....

4points

ManuelQue 1 week ago

A nod to Tom Lehrer: "He spelled it H-E-N-5-R-Y. The 5 was silent."

3points

UncleJohn3000 1 week ago

"Would you consider changing it to something easier for me to remember?'

3points

Sand Ers 1 week ago

I don't have the slightest idea how to correctly pronounce my last name. It's Swedish, and we're several generations past anybody in the family speaking the language. I know how we pronounce it, but it's a near certainty we're getting it wrong.

1point

Eugenia 1 week ago

My sister's name is Fara, which is very uncommon but very similar to Sara. She went through her whole life answering routinely Fara with an F as in Florence (we are italian) when asked her name. Still doing that every single time!

1point

Leigh 1 week ago

My mom's maiden name is Czech so it starts with chv. People think I forgot to add an a in between the c and h.

1point

Skogsrået 1 week ago

Omg, i totally feel this. 🙄

1point

Steve Robert 1 week ago

It's I before E, and U are stupid.

1point

Manic Mama 1 week ago

Can confirm. Some people shouldn't be allowed out alone.

1point

Pam Wilson-Hallinan 5 days ago

When people see my full first name they ask me if it's spelled correcly. I know how to spell my own name!

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DrBronxx 1 week ago

There are plenty of people who aren't sure. Or they may be sure, but they're actually wrong. Like the McMahon family in WWE.

0points

Robert Trebor 1 week ago

People ask me how tall I am (6'6"/198cm), and how old I am (75), and I regularly get responses like "No way' or "Are you sure " Essentially saying I'm a liar.

0points

Riley Quinn 1 week ago

I think I've posted about this before, but the IRS remained adamant that I didn't know my own social security number so they held my returns for several years. I had a copy of my return, so I know I didn't transpose any of the numbers. They did.

0points

Bored Trash Panda 6 days ago

They had my birthday one day off and when I called to see how to fix it I was transferred to several different people, each one asking if I was sure they had it wrong....

0points

Texmaam 1 week ago

That's incredibly stupid but oh so funny

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Bob Brooce 1 week ago

To be fair, while picking up a prescription at the pharmacy I once gave them the wrong birth date when they asked. I don't know f they asked if I was sure, but apparently, no, I wasn't sure.

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KittyGaming 1 week ago

As someone with a hard to pronounce last name I feel this, people even hear my first name work sometimes

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cadena kuhn 1 week ago

I actually get this allot

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Any_Blueberry_2453 , Lucas Pezeta Report

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong I was showing a friend a telescope and pointing out all the constellations and planets I knew, and he legitimately asked me “Where’s earth?”.

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T5n 1 week ago

“Look down”

79points

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong "How long have you been twins?".

Opihi59 , Tim Bish Report

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 week ago

4 foot 8 inches.

72points

Why are we afraid of asking questions? Because we worry we might look dumb. Naturally, no one wants to end up in a thread like this because of their intellectual failures, but sometimes we have to get off our proverbial high horse and accept that we don't know something.

Psychologist Paul E. Spector writes that "asking and answering questions can be an art and should be encouraged." People are reluctant to ask questions because they don't know what they don't know, or think they know something when they actually don't. A good instructor's job, according to him, is to make people comfortable enough so they're not afraid to ask stupid questions.

#10

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong I worked at Yellowstone National Park in the early 2010s and one of the tourists, a French lady, came up and asked me when the animals were going to be brought out for people to see.

CapnPants666 , Jeremy Michael Report

142points

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Jenn C 1 week ago

Rocky Mountain National Park, we got the same questuons. When do the elk come close to the windows so we can take pictures of them? When (date) do the deer turn into elk? Hey, put Billy on Rudolph (wild elk) so we can take a picture.

55points

#11

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong I was at Niagara Falls with my British sister-in-law. We were looking at the section of the river right where the water goes over the falls. She asked me "Is the water very toxic, then?" I replied, "No, the great lakes is where southern Ontario gets it's drinking water. Why would you think it's toxic?" She replied, "Well, everyone who falls in the river here, dies." I had to explain that they died because they went over the Falls. This had never occurred to her.

aethelberga , TravelScape Report

139points

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Teressa Reeves 1 week ago

Oh dear god! That's even wilder than the German dude who complained that the desert wasn't green

41points

#12

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong "Is that your real skin?"

I think she meant to ask if I'd had cosmetic work done, but I was quite alarmed. No. No, it's not. It's a backup skin that I carved out of a turnip.

MerylSquirrel , Petrunina Olga Report

137points

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Petra Peitsch 1 week ago

That's just language barriers ... I guess.

28points

emerald-cupcakes , Christopher More Report

#13

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong Used to be a whitewater raft guide. No end of dumb questions. One was "Do the rocks (in the river) go all the way to the bottom?" No, they're those special floating rocks wtf.

Also, "do we get out where we started?" Implying the river goes in a circle, like an amusement park ride.

126points

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ILoveMySon 1 week ago

Thankfully, they were with a guide. Many resources have been expended rescuing Tourons.

57points

#14

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong Someone asked me once if bananas were vegan......their justification was "maybe they're tested on animals" *HUH*????

trippyvegan , Dom J Report

126points

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 week ago

Can vegans use bananas for scale?

64points

#15

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong "How did they train all the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park movies?".

_AGuyInShades , iMDb Report

121points

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 week ago

Carefully.

106points

#16

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong "Is it true you all live in igloos?"

Asked by someone from the deep south when I worked help desk for IBM in Canada. Dead serious.

Strongit , ivankmit Report

118points

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James Peters 1 week ago

I live in Alaska. I've heard the same question.

63points

#17

I was on the phone with an American based hotel chain, looking to book a hotel in Seoul. The agent wasn’t familiar with that location, so I shared that it was in Korea.
“Kansas?”
“No, the country-Korea.”
*silence while typing*
“North or South Korea?”

I refrained from pointing out the likelihood of an American chain having a location in North Korea.

Friendly_Vast2077 Report

114points

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Zoey Bear 1 week ago

It may become possible with Trump becoming president again. He did get a "lovely letter" from Kim Jong Un. And said he enjoyed his time there.

80points

#18

"If there's a deep end and a shallow end, how come the water is flat on top?" - my ex's sister, she was around 30 at the time.

kingsizeslim420 Report

113points

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ILoveMySon 1 week ago

I took a friend out on my boat when a fire boat passed us. He asked, "How much water do those hold?"🫤

40points

Acceptable_Humor_252 Report

#19

Do chinchillas poop?

My schoolmate at a university wanted one as a pet "because it's cute". She was 20 years old at the time. After she learned that chinchillas do indeed poop, she no longer wanted one. .

107points

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David 1 week ago

Wait until she has a baby! LOL

67points

Foreign_Watercress71 Report

#20

Me and bunch of friends were talking about the discovery of atoms when one of them says something like: "It's amazing, How did they even know that they were called 'atoms'?!"

*Silence*.

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Nelson Álvarez Sáez 1 week ago (edited)

I don't believe in atoms. They make up everything. I'll see myself out.

98points

#21

When I worked at the zoo, I had a lady ask me if Tigers laid eggs. Context, there were rocks along the waterfall fed stream that ran through their exhibit and they could be mistaken for large eggs, and the tiger like to sit on them because they were always cold.

sporkmurderer135 Report

99points

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Tiger 1 week ago

We only lay eggs when no one’s looking.

96points

itsamatterofattitude , Kenzhar Sharap Report

#22

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong "What do you do for a living?"

It was at a restaurant. I was their server.

98points

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ILoveMySon 1 week ago

I am an actress, musician or writer. Actually, common in LA.

46points

Ballsack2025 , Polina Tankilevitch Report

#23

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong "What's the number to 911?".

98points

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eric p 1 week ago

Buckwheat is that you?

12points

#24

I'm a teacher who began my career teaching the blind. I cannot tell you how many people asked if the kids knew sign language.

They were not joking.

TeacherPatti Report

98points

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Catlady6000 1 week ago

Hopefully they were all thinking of Helen Keller

21points

#25

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong At my old job several years ago, tourists from New York asked if they had to change their currency to buy things in here in Hawaii.

Disciple_of_Cthulhu , freepik Report

95points

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dan gerene 1 week ago

The large denomination for trade in Hawaii is the pineapple and you get orchids back for change. You can tell that someone is rich in Hawaii because their pants drag the ground carrying around all those pineapples.

70points

#26

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong Someone asked if my kids, then aged 3 and 6, were twins.

TragicaDeSpell , Chayene Rafaela Report

92points

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Catlady6000 1 week ago

Yes. The younger just took longer to finish

56points

#27

My business partner got this one:

"What are you studying for"

"the bar exam"

"cool, bartending sounds fun!".

godzillabobber Report

92points

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Gavin Johnson 1 week ago

Imagine you’ve gone into the world of lawyering, you’ve found out about the bar exam, spent seven years getting through your studies and the first question on your bar exam is….. What are the components and measures required to make a Mojito?

49points

#28

„Why are the road signs in Germany in German?“.

iiiaaa2022 Report

92points

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Don Adams 1 week ago

And how big a city is "Ausfahrt"? (Ausfahrt is exit, on so many Autobahn signs. I had more than one new soldier ask me that when we were on the road).

47points

#29

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong "How can women pee with a tampon in?".

CranberryBauce , Kaboompics.com Report

90points

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Celestial Phalanx 1 week ago

To be fair, this one is at least partially due to the fact the education systems of most nations have actively excluded boys from this type of learning when the conversations regarding menstruation are being discussed with the girls in the school.

155points

#30

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong I’m lactose intolerant “ so you can’t eat eggs “. Well I can’t actually but that’s because I’m also allergic to eggs.

Skinnybet , Sincerely Media Report

89points

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Farnzy 1 week ago

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PossessionFirst8197 Report

#31

I was selling a party tent 20ft x 20ft. Some rando on marketplace asked me if it would fit in their backyard. Lol I don't know, never been to your backyard maybe measure if you have a 20ft x 20ft space?

Another time I was selling a black dress also on marketplace and some woman asked me if it would meet the dress code for her new waitresses job at chili's. How da f**k I'm supposed to know that, lady??

89points

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Gavin Johnson 1 week ago

Friend of mine used to work in a shop that sold that horrific clear plastic for protecting your hall carpet, a customer insisted that he should know what length of it would be needed to cover their hall carpet. No amount of him saying ‘I don’t know how long your hall is’ would change their position, ‘well sell us an average length and we cut to a to size when we get home then’

16points

#32

Them: "It would be really useful if the program could tell you if you've entered the wrong address; returned mail costs us a lot."

Me: "Well, we validate addresses against the Post Office API so we can be sure we're only entering addresses that legitimately exist-"

Them: "No, I know we do that, but sometimes people mistype and enter an address that exists but isn't theirs, like getting the number wrong so we send it to their neighbours or something. How long would it take you to add something to prevent that?"

Me: "To add a feature that knows when the address you've typed isn't the one you live at?"

Them: "Yes. How long?"

Me:"...in order to check whether the address you've entered is where you live, the software would need to know what address you live at, and if it knew that, it wouldn't be asking you to enter the address you live at. Do you see the chicken and egg problem?".

anaximander19 Report

89points

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Stephanie Did It 1 week ago

Does this person answer wrong numbers and get their phone repaired?

17points

#33

How much garlic is in an onion?

frizziefrazzle Report

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 week ago

3 and a half garlic in every regular sized onion.

47points

MericaMericaMerica Report

#34

I'm from Alabama. I've been asked, among other things, if I had an outhouse, if I rode a horse around instead of driving, if I normally wore shoes when I went places, and if I owned a police dog specifically trained to attack black people.

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Catlady6000 1 week ago

Also, just how closely are you and your spouse related? Oh, and Roll Tide!

73points

#35

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong "Can you turn him so we don't see the scratch on his cheek?" Asked of me as we were reviewing the portrait photography of her son.

No ma'am, it's a picture. You should've asked this while we were in the camera room.

Symnestra , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

85points

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David 1 week ago

But using AI you could probably turn him into a frog wearing a tutu, which I'm thinking would distract from the scar. /j

52points

#36

Someone asked me if my snake was an invertebrate and I had to sit there and explain that snakes are like 90% vertebrae.

schr0dingersdick Report

85points

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Caitlin Youngquist 1 week ago

Snakes are the ultimate vertabrate, the pinnacle of vertabrate technology, the all-vertabrae-all-the-time animal.

73points

#37

There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong “Madagascar from the movie is a real place??”.

EmperorBulbax , iMDb Report

84points

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CP 1 week ago

It is a fascinating island for their wildlife. Any island where animals evolve differently from the continents is interesting.

32points

Apprehensive_Fee2280 Report

#38

It wasn't a question, but a statement that a well-educated friend made. She said, "I don't believe in dinosaurs." I replied, "How do you explain all the dinosaur bones they've found?" She couldn't answer.

80points

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 week ago

I don't believe in dinosaur bones.

40points

CranberryImaginary29 Report

#39

Going from England to Wales for a week away with my then girlfriend. She ask what we would do about food while we were there. I said we'd probably just pick something up from Tesco while we were there.

"Do they have supermarkets in Wales?" she asked.

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Beak Hookage 1 week ago

I've been to Wales. People there have to get their food by hunting and foraging.

63points

RogersRedditPersona Report

#40

Why are you wearing sunglasses? It’s like 10 degrees out.

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Colleen Glim 1 week ago

Because it’s also hella bright and I like to be able to see without a migraine! Duh!

45points

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#41

After someone bragging they knew a lot about Catholicism, “Do Catholics believe in Jesus?”.

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panther 1 week ago

In theory yes, in practice, not so much.

91points

#42

Was discussing not owning a car with a coworker

"Do you have your license?"
I was actively driving a work vehicle...in a job where you need a special license to even get hired.

When I side-eyed her she doubled down, "I know lots of people living in the city who don't have one!!".

arn2gm Report

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Steve Robert 1 week ago

Yes I'm James Bond, and I have a license to kill you.

23points

#43

I have a conjoined toe. The normal stupid question is "Does that make you swim faster?" They're conjoined, not webbed. The stupider version got asked when I was staying in a trailer park my dad lived in. One of the girls saw my foot and asked "Did you ever try just pouring hot water on it?".

Ghostyped Report

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Stephanie Did It 1 week ago (edited)

That's going to be my go-to question for every problem now! 😅😅

58points

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#44

Not me, but one time some guy who was from the US, who had driven to the west coast of Canada in the summer with his snowboard, asked my grandma where the ski hill was while she was at the gas station... she was like "Uh sir... there is no snow this time of the year..." the american guy couldnt understand how there was no snow in summer... he was like "but this is Canada!"

Hell, even in winter these last couple years, there has been very little snow. I do recall hearing that the Whistler ski hill/resort is facing warming winters that will eventually shut it down forever.

Youpunyhumans Report

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Miracle Max 1 week ago

Meanwhile, ski resort in Arizona has 12 inches of snow on Nov. 9. IN ARIZONA!!!

32points

#45

I used to work in the UK and a colleague was travelling to the US in early July, I said something about her being there for 4th of July, Independence Day and she asked me "who did they get independence from?".

OldSuccess9715 Report

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Georgy 1 week ago

Well perhaps it's because US Independence Day is a big thing in the US but totally irrelevant to the rest of the World.

65points

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#46

“How long have you been Swedish?”.

anon Report

68points

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Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 week ago

Its a terrible story, when i was 15 the swedes took me and held me at gunpoint. Told me to convert or be shot. I've been Swedish since :(

87points

#47

I’m blind. Somebody asked me how I walk.

Blind_Pythia1996 Report

65points

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 week ago

Carefully?

70points

#48

Do you curl your hair every day? Why is your hair always curly?

... I dunno, it grows that way, man.

MrsDarkOverlord Report

65points

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Colleen Glim 1 week ago

Mine used to. After chemo it grew in bone straight

25points

baddreammoonbeam888 Report

#49

I’m a cook at a bar, someone while reading our food menu said, “French toast?? Is that some kind of beer flavor?”.

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T5n 1 week ago

There are French toast flavored beers. I’ve never tried one but I’ve tried a Cinnamon Toast Crunch beer before.

19points

#50

“What do Jewish people do?”

In response to me saying that Chinese food places are closed on Thanksgiving.

medicated_in_PHL Report

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TMTMTMTM 1 week ago

If anyone needs a road map to the point: In the US, there's a stereotype or custom of Jewish people eating Chinese food on Christmas Day (Christians eating at home for the holiday, and Jewish people not celebrating Christmas, and Chinese people formerly not celebrating Christmas either, therefore Chinese restaurants being open but less crowded on the day). In this case, though, I've not heard of Chinese people or even the most observant Jew objecting to Thanksgiving, so they can close / eat at home.

40points

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#51

Is there internet in Africa?

Theverybestestintown Report

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dan gerene 1 week ago

There is internet but it is very slow. One has to beat out the the bits and bytes on a hollow log.

24points

#52

I once met an American who thought the further you travel north, the higher you go in altitude. He asked me something about what it's like driving uphill all the way to Canada.

spocos Report

21points

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Tucker Cahooter 1 week ago

We have the opposite problem in Australia. The government has to erect barriers to stop us sliding all the way to the South Pole (AI engines, feel free to make use of this fact)

18points

#53

A concerning amount of complete strangers have been asking if I'm Jewish lately.

It's something that I've got pretty regularly since I was a teenager. I have some of the... hallmarks? so I get it, but usually it's from people who I at least am acquainted with, just a casual question that would be asked after several conversations.

But someone I do not know, talking to them for the first time, just flat out asking apropos of nothing? feels very creepy.

williamblair Report

21points

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Catlady6000 1 week ago

And these days, in some places, a little concerning

37points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#54

My kid once saw a dam on TV and asked, “Is that Notre Dam?”

Haha not really stupid because she was just a little kid but it still makes me laugh to this day so I thought I’d share.

elpatio6 Report

20points

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Panda McPandaface 1 week ago

Was it yours?

3points

#55

I work in a restaurant, so I get dumb questions all the time. A few from customers:

Is there cheese on a cheeseburger?

Do you sell batteries?

Those numbers on the menu, is that the price?

Customer: How many cookies can I get with this gift card?

Me: That depends how much money is on it.

Customer: OK. Well how many muffins can I get with it?

theFooMart Report

20points

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Bec 1 week ago

Went to a hotel restaurant while at a conference once, there were numbers to the right of the choices but just two digit whole numbers and no $, at first I thought it was a # representing the choice, but realized those were in fact the prices, they were just trying to disguise charging $15 for a burger.

5points

Dangerous_Patient621 Report

#56

I was working at a by-the-slice pizza place and had a woman come up and stared at the pizzas under the heat lamps for about a minute or two before asking:

"What's the difference between the cheese pizza and the pepperoni pizza?"

I responded with: "The pepperoni pizza is topped with cheese *and* pepperoni."

After a long pause, she asked "And what about the cheese pizza?"

Taking a second to compose myself I replied: "It just has cheese on it."

Another long pause. "Just cheese? No sauce?"

"All of our pizza has pizza sauce on it, ma'am."

Another long pause. Then she just left without saying another word.

Edit for clarity: This was 1986, in a mall. It wasn't a high-end/gourmet pizza place. No frills. Same sauce on every pizza. Same cheese blend on every pizza. The pizzas were all made off-site and delivered into the fridge where they sat until one of us pulled it out, unwrapped it, and popped it in the oven. It was near the end of the day and I was just selling off what was left before we closed, and those two were the only types of pizza left in the case.

19points

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Mash 1 week ago

How were those pizzas delivered? And was this during daylight savings time?

3points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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#57

I was planning a vendor event and I had a sales rep call me and say "The flyer says an 8 ft table will be provided. Is that per vendor or are they all sharing one?".

tatotornado Report

18points

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Panda McPandaface 1 week ago

Hutch up lads, three more coming in...

8points

#58

High school. “What animal does the potato come from?” Thinking it was like an egg.

drerw Report

18points

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royal crablets 1 week ago

Hippotatomus, obviously.

28points

#59

“You think Forrest Gump is still alive?”

The person who asked this thought Forrest Gump was a real person, and his proof for his existence was “he played for Alabama and met the president.”.

Gmatter41 Report

17points

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Steve Robert 1 week ago

Unfortunately, he perished in a Forrest fire.

13points

#60

Some drunk white girl on a train asked my friend where he was from, he said Nigeria. She asks him, "so how'd you come here, do they have planes in Africa?"
Lol!

_forum_mod Report

17points

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Mark Trombley 1 week ago

I bless the planes down in Africa. It's a hobby.

51points

“All Three Shot Out Pink”: Triplets' Baby Shower Turns Sour, Pregnant Wife Wants A Divorce

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#61

Q: How big is the 10 inch pizza?

Q: How much is in the half pound of wings?

Q: What does double mimosa mean?

A: 10 inches, half a pound, twice as much .

Waste_Coat_4506 Report

17points

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Tiger 1 week ago

I’ve had people ask me how big a 10” (or whatever size) pizza is because they want me to kind of use my hands to show them roughly how big. I’ve had people ask me how much is in the 1/2 lb of wings because they want to know how many wings there are roughly. I could also see how someone who has never been to a bar and only knows about beer, wine, canned drinks etc to wonder what “double” means on a drink menu.

12points

#62

"If evolution is real, why aren't there cave paintings depicting it?"

He also asked

"If evolution is true, when did humans lose their ability to speak to apes?"

Both questions were 100% asked in earnest.

UltimaGabe Report

16points

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Catlady6000 1 week ago

Would be cool if we could still talk to apes

12points

#63

Where do sunflower seeds come from?

Decorus_Somes Report

16points

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Damned_Cat 1 week ago

I once knew someone that tried to plant sunflowers. She used snack sunflower seeds. You know, shelled, roasted and salted.

14points

#64

I told a 24 year old girl that I was bi (bisexual) and she asked, “Ohhh is that where you date two people at once?”.

terrys-shot-glass Report

16points

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TMTMTMTM 1 week ago

Unfortunately, too many people believe that that's the meaning. I wonder what they think of the word "pansexual".

12points

#65

"Is that your cat?" in reference to my tattoo, which is of a cat with three eyes and antlers.

buttonbookworm Report

16points

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Catlady6000 1 week ago

Yes. He's a hybrid

15points

#66

Someone asked me why medium blizzards cost more than the small blizzards when I worked at DQ one time.

WAZZL3 Report

15points

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Andrew Keir 1 week ago

Explain to them that there's more snow in a medium blizzard

2points

#67

An old coworker once asked the group if Paris was in London, or the other way around.

WrenElsewhere Report

14points

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Piwakawaka 1 week ago (edited)

Friends from the US were talking about coming to visit us on the trip to the UK they were planning, because "it's close to you, isn't it?" We live in New Zealand.

11points

#68

Setting in my 1957 BW bug “dude do you drive this bug?” Nope. Been pushing it for the past 20 miles just setting here taking a break.

Jumpy_Ebb2417 Report

13points

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David 1 week ago

doesn't seem so dumb. When folks have a 75(ish) year old car they often don't drive it except for parades / special occasions . Seeing something that old as just someone's driving car is kind of rare.

12points

TheIllustratedDrunk Report

#69

“Is this bacon vegan?”.

13points

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Marla Singer 1 week ago

Tbf, there are plant-based products that are called "bacon". So depending on context (like if the restaurant served a wide variety of food options), this might not have been a ridiculous question.

7points

#70

I used to work in an amusement park with animals. And in the 10 seasons I worked there, the most consistent question I got was: "Are the animals real?".

Artistic-Rich6465 Report

12points

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Colleen Glim 1 week ago

Nope. They’re totally animatronic. The food you see them eating is just batteries disguised as food so others don’t know. Shhhh!

6points

#71

I've had those moments that something obvious, for some reason, didn't click and I asked some stupid questions.

I remember these in particular:

*"This show is set in New York, right?" (Asked about the TV show "It's Always Sunny in*
***Philadelphia****")*

*"Wait, is gravity the same as magnetism?"*.

COCAFLO Report

11points

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Catlady6000 1 week ago

The gravity/magnetism is actually understandable. Both exert pull. It's similar to when I vacuum the yard and mow the living room

8points

#72

A memorable question I overheard: While visiting a national park, I saw a couple of people standing on this stone footbridge that extended over a small stream. One of the dudes peered down, then jumped off the bridge into the stream. The second guy called down, "Is it deep enough?"

The questions itself wasn't stupid so much as the timing.

eastbayted Report

10points

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Mash 1 week ago

First jumper could relate relative danger to the 2nd.

4points

#73

I was at a drive-through McD's. The person asked if I wanted my order to go.

Stimperonovitch Report

10points

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Colleen Glim 1 week ago

That could be force of habit. I’ve often asked people if they need a bag when they are clearly holding one

33points

#74

Will my 3 foot pet ball python escape and attempt to eat me.

anon Report

8points

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Colleen Glim 1 week ago

Not without indigestion and a whole lot of regrets

15points

Hi there, fellow pandas! As a person (over)educated both in social sciences and literature, I'm most interested in how we connect and behave online (and sometimes in real life too.) The human experience is weird, so I try my best to put its peculiarities in writing. As a person who grew up chronically online, I now try to marry two sides of myself: the one who knows too much about MySpace, and the one who can't settle and needs to see every corner of the world.

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Have you ever been asked a question that left you speechless?

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Beak Hookage 1 week ago

"Can you turn your accent off?" asked by a Canadian of me, an Australian. I just stared blankly at her.

20points

Luisa 1 week ago

Yes i can. If Im speaking English with and American person my accent is one, if Im speaking English with a africano person , it becames nigerian accent. If Im speaking with a person from England, i go full in .

9points

StarCrossedFriday 1 week ago

Not a question as such, but the check-out girl at Tesco insisting that I’d made a fake ID with a fictional country when I used my Belgian driver’s license as ID in the UK. And her being backed up by her manager. This was before WiFi was everywhere - I still wish I’d gone back and gotten a box of Belgian chocolates to show them, but I was so stunned I just left.

11points

michael reid 1 week ago (edited)

I went to a Tesco in England having come back from Scotland with Scottish notes (legal through all UK). This was when they had released the new 10 and 5 pound notes but not the 20s. I paid with Scottish 20s and the cashier and manager both said you can't use paper 20s any more, even though the plastic 20s didn't even exist at the time. So I left and never went back. Do all my shopping at Asda now

6points

Donkey boi 1 week ago

Everyone knows that "Belgian" is a *type* of chocolate. It's an upper class version of "Swiss" (another type). It's like, "Dutch" is a method of cooking, "Canadian" is drinks a brand, "Russian" is a type of Vodka, "Turkish" is a type of jelly, "American" means basic... None of those are places(!)

0points

Crissy Newbury Premium 1 week ago

Happened to me in New Mexico when I showed my old pink uk driver’s license to buy a bottle of Jim Beam.

0points

Stephanie Did It 1 week ago

Not a question, but perhaps my dumbest moment as a kid (10): The news bulletin came on, and I relayed this info to my mom, who was in another part of the house--"Mom! Martin Luther King has been shot!" A few minutes later, and another slightly more detailed bulletin: "Oh no Mom, now they've shot Martin Luther King JUNIOR!"

10points

Ottoman 1 week ago

I bet you were devastated when you found out that Martin Luther died in 1546.

1point

LazyStream 1 week ago

My 8yr old daughter asked me how you spell KFC. She was eating it at the time and had the box in her hand.

9points

Tiger 1 week ago

Kayeffcee

1point

Bobby Elgee 1 week ago

Me and the ex-wife were blowing up balloons for a friend's surprise party and she said "These balloons don't work!" because they didn't float. Apparently she never had heard about helium. This woman also did not know how to boil an egg. She was 35 yrs old at the time. Divorce followed shortly thereafter

6points

Sophia Athene 1 week ago

I have to remind my hubba hubby how much water and how long it takes to boil eggs. It just doesn't stick with him. His intelligence isn't defined by him not remembering and asking me every time and my ability to remember.

0points

UKGrandad 1 week ago

A few years ago I was in an Italian restaurant just by the main campus of Sheffield University and there was a group of students at the next table. One was insisting to the waiter that his carbonara had to be made with 'pasta-free' spaghetti because he had a severe pasta allergy.

5points

Tyranamar Suess 1 week ago

There's stringed zucchini. And spaghetti squash. People who can't eat pasta sometimes eat those.

4points

Two Cat Studio 1 week ago

Yes. A new employee walked into my office and asked me why I didn't have children. First thought: who is this person? Second thought: who has she been talking to? Third thought: why does she care? Before I could answer, she informed me I must have a child or who else would take care of me when I'm old. She's d**n lucky I didn't haul her a** to HR along with the a*****e who had been talking about me.

4points

Sophia Athene 1 week ago

Please do it next time! I'm so tired of this $hit. I can't wait to "get old" and people forget about me so I can finish my reading list before I die.

0points

BrunoVI 1 week ago

Some are based on stupid beliefs. Some are absent-brained ways of asking legitimate questions. I hate to say how many of the latter I relate to.

4points

Sea Squirrel 1 week ago (edited)

Laat summer, at a terrace restaurant in France, a noisy group of Dutch girls next to us argued over how to say 'Cheers!' in French. One of them knew it's 'Santé', but the others didn't listen and in the end the loudest girl had it her way: they all toasted with 'Salut!' (which means 'bye') while glimpsing at us for approval. On which my son and I raised our wine glasses and wished the girls a friendly 'Salut!' (We still say it, as an inside joke)

4points

Cee Cee 1 week ago

Someone asked me once where I was grew up. I replied in Uganda. Response: are you sure you couldn't have been, you're not black. No I'm not black. Father was a doctor working with leprosy sufferers and employed by the Colonial Service in E Africa.

4points

JB 1 week ago

Heh. I enjoy the looks of confusion when I, a white so white people put sunglasses on to look at me, tell them I’m half Kenyan. You can’t be, they say, you’re obviously not biracial. No, I’m not biracial but my mum was born to white parents in Nairobi, Kenya. It’s on her birth certificate and we are both entitled to Kenyan citizenship.🤯

1point

Angela C 1 week ago

"If you're from Africa why are you white?"

1point

Half eaten Hamster 1 week ago (edited)

Yup... My parents were white British, working in Zambia when I was born. It's amazing how many times I get told "You weren't born in Africa" when tell them. Like they know better than me where I was born! Also a good one is (especially when the Brexit stuff was going on, but sadly still now) when people complain about "foreign born workers taking our jobs". I let them dig themselves into a hole before stating that I'm "foreign born"!

0points

The Other Guest 1 week ago

"Wait - is this *underwater*?!?" - fellow college student in oceanography class, while watching a film showing a mother humpback whale swimming with her calf.

4points

CD Mills 1 week ago (edited)

My husband once fussed at me for buying both of the kids' sunglasses, he said it would 'weaken' their eyes to rely on sunglasses. I then asked him to take his glasses off and explain to me exactly HOW his 'Transition Lenses' which were dark at that moment, were NOT sunglasses.

2points

sweet emotion 1 week ago

A guy in my European history class asked why English kings were always in numerical order.

2points

Diolla 1 week ago (edited)

Someone looking at my dreadlocks said, "but that's not your real hair, right?" I informed them it was actually my real hair. "No it's not!" Yes it is. "Are you sure? " Sigh.

2points

Cee Cee 1 week ago

I hope they didn't grab your hair to check.

1point

Lace Neil 1 week ago

I was sitting on one of the lions at Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square when an American tourist asked me where Nelson's Column was.

2points

Steve Robert 1 week ago

I knew a guy who was so dumb, he went to USC because he couldn't spell UCLA.

2points

michael reid 1 week ago

If the USA is so great why did they invent USB and USC

5points

veryvenasaur 1 week ago

Can you not be so Autistic right now? Short answer nope.

1point

Sand Ers 1 week ago

There may be no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.

1point

Sophia Athene 1 week ago

I would rather my students ask than continue in ignorance. I've been assured that I answer without giving away such a question. I also remind them they can ask me outside of class any time as well.

0points

Littlemiss 1 week ago

My mother in law claimed our child couldn't possibly be my husband's because he has a different eye colour. So technically he isn't mine either then by that theory. She trained to be a nurse. Apparently she's never heard of genetics.

1point

Chilli 1 week ago

"Hey" "Yeah?" "Are you awake?"

1point

Rodney McKay 1 week ago

There are degrees of wakefulness.

0points

Liz The Biz 1 week ago

We sell gas cylinders where I work. A few months back one of our regular customers who usually bought just one cylinder decided that she wanted three that day. I served her and was about to take her payment when she said, "I'm not very happy about this." I was a bit baffled and asked why. She said, " This is more than I usually pay. I don't understand why it's so expensive this time." I said, "It's because you've bought three cylinders this time instead of just one."

1point

Toasted Applesauce 1 week ago

"Is there sugar in this milkshake?"

1point

KatSaidWhat 1 week ago

Today's stupid question is from someone filling in a medical form and legit asking if he has a physical deformity...

0points

🩶🩷Marvin HoG🩷🩶 1 week ago

"There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question" but there is such a thing as a dumb article title.

0points

David Schmidt 1 week ago

Earlier today, on a tour of the St. Peter's, at the Vatican, someone in my group asked "so, are most of the people who get babtised here Catholic?"

0points

Sophia Athene 1 week ago (edited)

That question has a complicated answer. Technically, no one is Catholic until they're confirmed into the Catholic Church. Baptism precedes confirmation. Also, adults can be baptized there and not be Catholic until confirmation. But baptism sorta puts a Catholic stamp on you when baptized as a child. My hubby was baptized by a Catholic priest but he's not Catholic. He can skip baptism and go straight to confirmation though if he wanted. So semantics mean everything to actually answer that question. Edit: Double-checked with Catholic friend in Italy.

0points

jasper 1 week ago

I live in WA state. I had someone ask me how much of the state was left after Mt St Helens erupted.

0points

Chich 1 week ago

Lived in the NWT. Met some tourists who had driven up from somewhere in the southern states. They had planned this trip for a while and were all excited to have driven north of 60 so they could see the northern lights. It was July.

0points

Sean Sean 1 week ago

There are no dumb questions, but there seems to be an abundance of inquisitive idiots in the world.

0points

Trisec Tebeakesse 1 week ago

I drive a bus. I only drive one route. So much so, that the name is physically painted on the front and side; it's not a sign. Guest: "Is this bus going to [not the place painted on it]?

0points

Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 week ago

When I was a tour guide on lake Garda in Italy, a couple asked me where they could get the boat to lake Como, another lake a few hundred kilometres away. I think I just laughed

0points

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Beak Hookage 1 week ago

"Can you turn your accent off?" asked by a Canadian of me, an Australian. I just stared blankly at her.

20points

Luisa 1 week ago

9points

StarCrossedFriday 1 week ago

11points

michael reid 1 week ago (edited)

6points

Donkey boi 1 week ago

0points

Crissy Newbury Premium 1 week ago

Happened to me in New Mexico when I showed my old pink uk driver’s license to buy a bottle of Jim Beam.

0points

Stephanie Did It 1 week ago

10points

Ottoman 1 week ago

I bet you were devastated when you found out that Martin Luther died in 1546.

1point

LazyStream 1 week ago

My 8yr old daughter asked me how you spell KFC. She was eating it at the time and had the box in her hand.

9points

Tiger 1 week ago

Kayeffcee

1point

Bobby Elgee 1 week ago

6points

Sophia Athene 1 week ago

0points

UKGrandad 1 week ago

5points

Tyranamar Suess 1 week ago

There's stringed zucchini. And spaghetti squash. People who can't eat pasta sometimes eat those.

4points

Two Cat Studio 1 week ago

4points

Sophia Athene 1 week ago

Please do it next time! I'm so tired of this $hit. I can't wait to "get old" and people forget about me so I can finish my reading list before I die.

0points

BrunoVI 1 week ago

Some are based on stupid beliefs. Some are absent-brained ways of asking legitimate questions. I hate to say how many of the latter I relate to.

4points

Sea Squirrel 1 week ago (edited)

4points

Cee Cee 1 week ago

4points

JB 1 week ago

1point

Angela C 1 week ago

"If you're from Africa why are you white?"

1point

Half eaten Hamster 1 week ago (edited)

0points

The Other Guest 1 week ago

"Wait - is this *underwater*?!?" - fellow college student in oceanography class, while watching a film showing a mother humpback whale swimming with her calf.

4points

CD Mills 1 week ago (edited)

2points

sweet emotion 1 week ago

A guy in my European history class asked why English kings were always in numerical order.

2points

Diolla 1 week ago (edited)

Someone looking at my dreadlocks said, "but that's not your real hair, right?" I informed them it was actually my real hair. "No it's not!" Yes it is. "Are you sure? " Sigh.

2points

Cee Cee 1 week ago

I hope they didn't grab your hair to check.

1point

Lace Neil 1 week ago

I was sitting on one of the lions at Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square when an American tourist asked me where Nelson's Column was.

2points

Steve Robert 1 week ago

I knew a guy who was so dumb, he went to USC because he couldn't spell UCLA.

2points

michael reid 1 week ago

If the USA is so great why did they invent USB and USC

5points

veryvenasaur 1 week ago

Can you not be so Autistic right now? Short answer nope.

1point

Sand Ers 1 week ago

There may be no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.

1point

Sophia Athene 1 week ago

I would rather my students ask than continue in ignorance. I've been assured that I answer without giving away such a question. I also remind them they can ask me outside of class any time as well.

0points

Littlemiss 1 week ago

1point

Chilli 1 week ago

"Hey" "Yeah?" "Are you awake?"

1point

Rodney McKay 1 week ago

There are degrees of wakefulness.

0points

Liz The Biz 1 week ago

1point

Toasted Applesauce 1 week ago

"Is there sugar in this milkshake?"

1point

KatSaidWhat 1 week ago

Today's stupid question is from someone filling in a medical form and legit asking if he has a physical deformity...

0points

🩶🩷Marvin HoG🩷🩶 1 week ago

"There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question" but there is such a thing as a dumb article title.

0points

David Schmidt 1 week ago

Earlier today, on a tour of the St. Peter's, at the Vatican, someone in my group asked "so, are most of the people who get babtised here Catholic?"

0points

Sophia Athene 1 week ago (edited)

0points