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Most people have heard the famous quote by Albert Einstein that “Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the universe.” While it resonates quite well with our daily experience that everyone, despite their great talents, good intentions, and education does err, it is questioned whether Einstein actually said it or it was just a mistaken attribution by Frederick S. Pers, yet another ironic example of human ignorance. Either way, certain mistakes sound a bit… wild! As they are more unexpected than others and probably bigger, as it is clear from this list online, where people are answering one Redditor’s question “What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve heard someone say that they were 100% serious about?” Depending on the specific situation, sometimes the best strategy probably is to just have some fun with it, while also staying aware and empathetic of this human feature.

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30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” My cousin was not the sharpest tool in the shed, he was convinced he could make love unprotected with any women as his current girlfriend was pregnant so there was no risk he could get another girl pregnant…

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Call the lifeguard, this guy has got to get out of the gene pool!

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” I knew an American guy who claimed that bears were not dangerous to humans. He claimed that if you were ever attacked by a bear all you would need to do is stick your thumb up its a**s and it would immediately fall asleep.

    Yeah I can just see an angry bear stop attacking you the minute you tell it to "Bend over."

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” "Why do they call one side of the Sun the Moon?"

    This 30 yr old legitimately thought the moon was just the other side of the sun.

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a teacher in America I'm not entirely surprised. In my area (Ohio) all information about the sun, moon, and space in general was cut from the curriculum. We're only able to teach astronomy if we somehow get through the entire curriculum weeks early. That doesn't generally happen, so our students never learn anything about space. The things my students say about the sun and the moon sometimes makes my jaw drop. Not all of them can tell me how many moons the Earth has. I wish it was different but teachers don't get to choose state curriculum.

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” My mom said the craziest thing I have ever heard a person say in real life. She was driving me and herself to her place of work so I could spend the day helping. I don’t even remember what led up to it, but she told me she thought it was the government’s job to round up gay people and give them the choice to either covert to Christianity or die. It was, to this day, the most shocking thing I’ve ever heard someone say in seriousness.

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” She was very serious that a useable hand-held shower head without a hose, because the hose was “ugly”. Asked if she meant an overhead or a wall-mounted shower head because those didn’t require a hose. Nope. She wanted the water to flow from the wall into a handheld shower head without a hose. I tried to tell her that wasn’t possible and ended up sending her to a different home improvement store.

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” This weekend my 75 year old neighbor told me with absolute certainty that women are allowed to get an abortion up to two weeks after the baby is born.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Luckily, your neighbor is beyond childbearing years. Don't need this sort of "wisdom" being passed down.

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” Recently I went to a market and a woman was selling incense that protected against 5G and and WiFi signals.

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” I work in gynecology…gonna skip over the tons of incorrect terms used for genitalia…and the top 10 outrageous patient comments…and go to-I am SO sick of explaining to women they don’t have prostates.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But Google said my symptoms point to prostate issues. I must have one because the internet said so

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” My mom said that my daughters nursery couldn't be blue because that would make her a lesbian.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah yes. Everyone knows blue makes lesbians; it's science. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go huff some paint to try and erase this stupidity from my brain

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” My co-worker. We were all having a conversation. I don't remember what we were talking about, but I said something to the extent of "Crazy, it's like someone thinking the earth is flat." His response was "well, it is." My other co-worker and I looked at each other confused. Flat-Earth co-worker continues explaining why the earth is flat.

    He was saying it like he was stating facts. We're engineers for crying out loud. You paid too much money for your glasses, and degree to see things this way!

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I will never understand flat earthers. They have idiots AROUND THE GLOBE (their words) and actually proved by their own testing that the earth is round. How would it even be possible to have a flat earth with all other planets being round? Blows my mind

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” The Caribbean coast is on the coast of England because they have British accents in Pirates of The Caribbean. This man was in the military and had no knowledge of geography.

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” "Wouldn't it be cool if we could see in 3d?"

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean I have special glasses that let me see 3d in real life; though I'd rather not need them

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” "Did you know that slipknot wear masks because they're wanted criminals".



    Now imagine me wasting 15 minutes of my life trying to explain that if they were wanted criminals, they'd just arrest them on stage.

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” The covid jabs are to turn people into 5g antennas

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm still waiting for something to happen and getting really annoyed at this point. No 5g, no mutation, just nothing.

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” Dinosaurs never happened, because the earth is only (5000?) years old. From a teacher. To my daughter in 5th grade.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All too common bs from those religious zealots. No profession is safe from that insainty; all sane thinking is gone and there is no explaining science because god.

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” My ex wife got so angry she didn’t talk to me for a day when we went to the beer cave in Walmart and I stopped at the counter to pay there (and get the things bagged to carry easier) before going to the rest of the store and getting our other needs because “you’re going to get taxed twice”. Took me a minute when she said that because my first reaction in my head was yeah that’s how sales tax works but obviously I know how percentages work. And she stood there angrily and said that’s double taxation. That I’m wasting money by paying taxes twice. I said if sales tax is 10% and we make 2 $50 purchases, we are paying the same total as making 1 $100 purchase. She has an MBA, but after that example just seethed more and said I’m wasting money by checking out twice and getting taxed twice. Then just stopped talking to me the rest of the night…

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” My brother, against all laws of known physics, is absolutely certain that if he was ever in a tsunami he could just "swim under it".

    We've both been in the ocean plenty of times, surfed a bit, and have definitely had our share of waves wreck our s**t, but he's still certain he could do it if he got the timing right.

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    #18

    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” “I never wear a seatbelt.”

    Why the hell not?

    “Because if I am in a wreck, there’s no way I’d be thrown to safety.”

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hubby used that line while we were dating. I had him talk to a cop friend, who said he had never unbelted a dead person. Had many thrown out of the car who died.

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” My ex-husband was a horrible driver. Wrecked everything he ever owned and then some, but he somehow thought he was an excellent driver.

    We were riding through a town with a 4-lane main road. He started to change lanes oblivious to the car that was located exactly where he was headed. I told him to stay in his lane, and fortunately, he did.

    He said, 100% seriously, that if he'd changed lanes and crashed into the car that was already there, it would have been their fault because they didn't honk their horn to warn him.

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” I overheard a guy talking to someone at the bus but sadly i could not hear it all:
    "The government is secretly burying peoples corpses to prevent earthquakes (...?)!

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm just enough a glutton for punishment to want to know how he came to this absurd point in space and time?

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” I'm 43 now, but used to do a fair bit of traveling in my younger days, up until I was about 30. Always coming back home for Thanksgiving/Christmas. Anyway, I had hitched back into town and was walking to my grandmas where I'd be staying, carrying my alice pack. A girl got to talking with me on my way, and it came up that I'd just got back from Oregon..and dead faced confused she was like "they have towns out there, like cities and stuff?" She genuinely believed it was still like the Oregon trail days...this was in like 2005 lol

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” Used to work for a place that didn’t allow outside food unless it was for babies or medical reasons. Woman brought a liter of fancy french sparkling water for the baby formula. 100% seriously. I had to explain why sparkling Similac would be a bad idea for a newborn. That kid would have belched to the moon.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh my goodness, seriously people should have to obtain some type of license or something to verify that they have enough common sense to actually raise a child.

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” A nurse I used to work with asked why we can't drive to Hawaii. She was absolutely serious and I wasn't surprised when she didn't last beyond her training period.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because we live in England Janet. That’s why we can’t drive to Hawaii

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” I was doing an OB ultrasound on a patient. The patient was worried the baby was going to chew through the umbilical cord.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Attention all expecting parents: please do not watch horror movies during pregnancy. You may not be thinking clearly at all times and experience brain fog. That is all

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” Nurse at our elementary school mistook allergies for pink eye. When I said that it cleared with eye drops she told me allergies are contagious too.

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” "The titanic was fake. The ship can not be in the Pacific Ocean" said my science tutor..

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tru dat, tis in the North Atlantic Ocean. Ah, details...

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” My old coworker said he went to Antarctica in college for a month for research, and had to be careful of polar bear attacks.

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” Off the top of my head, one of my co workers VEHEMENTLY arguing that the moon isn't real.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, the Moon in this picture certainly is. You can see stars through it.

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” Putting in a roundabout was stupid because now they had to stop 4 times instead of 1 if they had just left it a 4-way-stop.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hahahahahhahaaaaa - you Americans have no clue about roundabouts ; if you want a truly hellish example, Google ' Magic Roundabout, Swindon UK' then reply and tell me how lucky you are. Strangely my Stepdaughter passed her driving test in Swindon and had to negotiate her way round this bloody thing 3 times during her test !!

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” The northpole is the closest place to space on earth.

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This might actually be true, on average: the earth is an oblate sphere because it's spinning: The atmosphere is likely thickest at the equator for the same reason. Thus the shortest distance from the ground to "space" above the atmosphere would be at the poles. (I said 'on average' due to the variability of air pressure). Edit: Adding link to the NOAA website: Thickness of the lowest layer of air (Troposphere) is: "It is 11-12 miles (18-20 km) high at the equator, 5½ miles (9 km) at 50°N and 50°S, and just under four miles (6 km) high at the poles." https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/atmosphere/layers-of-atmosphere

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    #31

    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” That when we were in the Caribbean we were seeing a different moon. Their moon.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If the earth had 1 moon for every place on it then all of them would’ve crashed into each other

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” I had a classmate in my constitutional law class who genuinely believed that the earth is flat, planets aren’t real, and neither is NASA. My teacher proceeded to show him photos of the moon and asked him “what do you think that is?”

    The class also asked him “when you look up in the night sky, what do you see?”

    He had no response lol. I avoided interactions with him ever since.

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    30 Hilarious Things People Said That Prove “Human Stupidity Has No Limits” I have a buddy who will claim to be an expert in military strategy and tactics, who at the same time claims studying history is pointless. He never served in any capacity.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah, educated by the internet. The scariest of them all. Sounds like a sociopath.

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    Pokémon is a satanist plot, they’re all based on Chinese gods.

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    Worked with a girl in a pretty nice neighborhood that would get on her hands and knees to look under her truck just in case a human trafficker was underneath with a knife trying to cut her Achilles tendon.

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    My SIL once said their father had a heart attack because they (my SIL) missed church one day. As in god punished her. Her father was not a man who took care of himself or watched what he ate. It was a minor thing and he totally survived.

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    A coworker told me that aliens from space were going through his apartment while he was at work.

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    "I'm pretty sure I was a dragon in a former life, probably explains why I'm such a pussy now, ya know, I used to f*****g fly and eat people and set s**t on fire for fun"

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