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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…

joeyboii23 , cottonbro studio Report

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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."

ElvishMystical , Brett Sayles Report

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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.

JoisChaoticWhatever , Mahdi Soheili Report

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#4

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.

monkeymanlover , Ian Taylor Report

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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.

Lone_Ronin_ , Pixabay Report

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#6

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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Tamra
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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.

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

Unless that neighbor has already beared children and those children have beared children. Then all hope is lost.

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

Nah if it was FOX then she'd think the fetus is a human being at under 1 week of conception (ie. When its still the shape of an egg)

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

I have met many children, and my strong feeling is that abortion should be legal through 43rd Trimester...

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

I am looking for ALL the righteous people to be fighting over all the unwanted infants. Not seeing it, Just lots of miserable families that are being tortured for NO reason!

7chickens12
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've wondered why women denied an abortion don't seem to use adoption. Or maybe it's just not reported?

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

They are getting this nonsense from Facebook memes meant to inflame and whip up hysteria.

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

I bet he votes on women's reproductive and health issues. Pisses me off.

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

my grandma has told me the same thing on many occasions, and that they "take the newborn baby and cut its arms and legs and head off"

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

Clearly, we need to do a better job of teaching the definition of "abort" and all its derivatives.

33Possums
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How many times have i heard someone, including politicians, say that some states allow abortions “up to the moment of birth”? I have yet to have someone explain to me how that works even though i have asked on many occasions. The stupidity of some folks is astounding .

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

As far as I know it's only Oregon that allows that. You can terminate a pregnancy legally at any time in Oregon. I can't find any information on logistics though, since by the looks of it nobody actually aborts that late into a pregnancy except in cases where there's something wrong with the baby, in which case labor is simply induced early and no life saving measures are applied to said baby.

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

I thought this was a parenting joke meant to poke fun at how hard it is to be parent so you can still "abort" the kid post-birth...

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

"Lucy, we've been doing this for almost two weeks now, but I just don't think it's for us." "You're right John. I was thinking the same thing; lets just abort mission. We shouldn't be parents after-all." *facepalms*

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

AFTER the baby is born? You wouldn't need an abortion then.

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

Maybe, true and really good if we can extend that to five years.

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

I thought two weeks before birth was bad enough then re-read it and realised it actually said two weeks AFTER. I mean that *has* to be a joke right?

Historyharlot93
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was a proposal in California, by some state representative. It was thought “unhinged” thankfully

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

This is likely to be indoctrination as much as stupidity. Both the grifter in chief and the 2nd smartest senator from TX have both made claims along those lines.

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

That's a variation of a joke doing the rounds recently.

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

Well, according to modern American Republicans, it's fine. They want to/do regulate human bodies more than they do for guns.

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

Hopefully she was remorseful and repentant when she realized she was describing post-natal infanticide?

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

What is this, Neal Shusterman's Unwind series? (Excellent books, incidentally.)

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

Hoping that somehow the old lady confused "being conceived" (still wrong, but less so) and "being born" but probably not

Ample Aardvark
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1 year ago

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

It was actually a discussion in our philosophy class, bc some Italian philosophers pleaded 'after birth abortion' to be morally right until the 9th month after birth, or until the child could sustain itself. Man, that was a heated debate!

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

There's a really good stage play set in a post-apocalyptic (due to climate change) dystopia that revolves around that very idea.

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

I agree with the neighbor it’s NEVER to late for an abortion /s

Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me". The person on the left of the photo

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

Was she speaking physically, mentally, religiously, or legally ?

Mental Liberals
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The demonrats ARE pushing for this! It might not be absolute today, but this is what they want. Look it up! https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/abortion/partial-birth-abortion

Cindy Brick
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Yep, that's just as horrible as letting abortions happen right up to the moment of birth! (Yes, this is legal in Colorado.)

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

Performing an abortion after twenty-two weeks gestational age except in limited circumstances is prohibited in Colorado.

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Black Rabbit
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Former governor of Virginia is on video talking about delivering the baby and making it comfortable, then the mother gets to decide to keep it or not. The implication is that they'd terminate it even after birth because "it's her choice" and some pro-babymurder people are okay with that. Fùcking psychopaths.

Jared Robinson
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Even worse in canada you can now give suicide to a one year old. just a matter of time before it comes here if you baby murdrerers aren't stopped.

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#7

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.

Witwebiss , MART PRODUCTION Report

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#9

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.

rowenaravenclaw0 , Juan Rojas Report

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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!

Boyblack , Panegyrics of Granovetter Report

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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.

Aware_Statement_205 , Walt Disney Pictures Report

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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?"

Born-Potential , cottonbro studio Report

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#13

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.

Ramiren , Gene Smirnov Report

#14

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

Rough_Conversation_3 , Maksim Goncharenok Report

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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.

Lifeisg00dlier , José Luis Photographer Report

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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…

magyarjm , energepic.com Report

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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.

Magic_Man_Boobs , GEORGE DESIPRIS Report

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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.”

BreatheMyStink , Kelly Report

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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.

sirdigbykittencaesar , Tobi Report

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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 (...?)!

FruityPresident , Waldemar Report

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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

lightsaber_lobotomy , Nico Smit Report

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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.

Bridge-etti , Pixabay Report

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#23

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.

Veritaserum25 , kvnga-UmciMDWtocw-unsplash Report

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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.

ksbyrd , MART PRODUCTION Report

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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.

moseisley99 , Hızır Erdem Uygun Report

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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..

midnight-king18 , Jeffrey Report

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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.

fuzzycuffs , Cassie Matias Report

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#28

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.

TheRealLifePotato , Benjamin Voros Report

#29

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.

SaraSmashley , Kelly Report

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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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#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.

robkat22 , Ahsan Avi Report

#32

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.

AngelWithAPencil , David Menidrey Report

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#33

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.

EveRommel , Tim Marshall Report

#34

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

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#35

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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#36

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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#37

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

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#38

"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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