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50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult

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Most of us have heard the phrase, ‘There is no question that is a silly question’. And while that’s usually true, there are times when you can’t help but wonder if some questions are a little, well, ridiculous. For instance, when Reddit user BlueCaracal posed the question, "What’s something so obvious you couldn’t believe you had to explain it to another adult?" the internet responded in full force, sharing stories that ranged from amusingly clueless to downright shocking. Keep scrolling, Pandas, and brace yourselves—these questions might seem surprisingly obvious, but they’re definitely worth a look.

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#1

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult When COVID first hit the US and there were no real treatments for it or vaccines or anything, I caught it and got lung clots and had to spend a week in the hospital. Numerous people on the floor I was on died. The guy in the bed next to me had it and they had him under an oxygen tent. He fought with every single person that came in to check on him, refusing to believe that he had COVID. He thought literally everybody was lying to him about what was wrong with him.

He wound up dying about the fourth day I was there. To this day I hear people make comments that it doesn't exist or never did or whatever dumb thing they have to say about it. I have to turn around and walk away from them or ignore them on whatever platform I'm on to avoid smacking them up beside the head.

PickleManAtl , Tima Miroshnichenko / pexels Report

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#2

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult I talked about this before and will until the end of days because this man deserves to be shamed.

A 23 year-old man, who had the right to vote, who had a driving license, who had a job, and could get married and start a family...

THOUGHT PEOPLE WERE HANGING THE MOON IN THE SKY.

Like, the moon, Earth's natural satellite, was being hung on the sky like... a painting on a wall?

I'm still reeling over that one. This man had gone to school, had a formal education and was actually going to college. He *learned* about that in primary school!

And the kicker? I was the one to explain it to him, because I was his girlfriend at the time.

And let me tell you, things unraveled real fast when I started paying attention and saw through the smokescreen.

Dude was willfully ignorant, and bone-dead stupid on top of it. He was really, really good at hiding it.

I dropped him like the mess he was and dived into more and more books to compensate the loss of brain matter I suffered from going out with him.

MerryMelody-Symphony , Pixabay / pexels Report

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#3

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult I had to explain to my mom that my daughter was growing in my uterus and not my stomach so the hot sauce on my burrito wasn’t going to cause her skin burns. I also explained if she were growing in my stomach, my stomach would certainly cause way worse burns than hot sauce.
It was then that I understood why the school nurse had to explain to me in 5th grade why I kept bleeding through my pants every month at school, and not my mom.

WeAreAllBetty , Amina Filkins / pexels Report

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Whether it’s at a party, at work, or during a casual conversation, we’ve all encountered situations where someone asks something that makes you want to pause and question the state of human knowledge.

Here’s the thing: asking questions isn’t bad—part and parcel of development and learning. None of us are born with all the knowledge in the world, and curiosity is an essential part of our lives. There are times, however, that people ask questions that seem to defy basic logic or common knowledge.

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#4

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult I worked tech support for an internet provider a few years back.

A woman calls in, complaining her wifi isn’t working.

Go through the normal troubleshooting questions, what’s your device, how are you connected, and finally “what can you see on your screen?”

Crazy woman (CW): it’s black

Me: how do you mean? Are you getting errors?

CW: the whole screen is black.

Me: have you turned the laptop on?

CW: I can’t.

Me: …. Why not?

CW: I’ve lost the charging cable

Me: ok…uh, do you have another device I can help you connect with? Maybe a tablet or your phone?

CW: no, you need to get the laptop reconnected.

Me: …can you go and buy another charging cable?

CW: no, you need to send me one.

Me: we don’t supply them…also we didn’t supply you with your laptop, we just provide internet

CW: yes, and now you’re not providing me internet, so you need to fix it

40 mins this went on, as my team around me stared in incoherent disbelief that this woman couldn’t understand why her internet provider couldn’t connect wifi to a computer with now power.

I remember hanging up the phone and putting myself on break. My manager looked at me and told me to take a walk, while barely hiding her unrestrained giggles.

Katastrophiser , Los Muertos Crew / pexels Report

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#5

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult I was picking up Italian Liras one time (1999 - pre Euros) from a bank in Tennessee. The teller brought me the envelope. When I opened it to count the money, she looked at me with total surprise and asked, “Do other countries have different money?” A bank teller. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Pirate-Legitimate , scan by F l a n k e r / Wikipedia Report

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#6

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult That her power was shut off because she didn't pay her electric bill for three straight months, and the letters on neon yellow paper from the power company were sent to warn her of this happening.

She thought she was legally entitled to free electricity because "it's a requirement for human survival."

Edit to add: She wasn't in need. She worked a very well-paying job, and she enjoyed shopping for expensive things. This was *not* one of those situations where she needed assistance or mercy. She needed a foot lodged firmly in the backside, and the power company put on its boots.

Anything-Happy , Kelly / pexels Report

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You might find yourself sitting in a meeting when someone asks if the office will be open on Christmas Day—despite it being a national holiday. Or you may even be engaging in a conversation with one of your friends who, out of nowhere, asks whether brown cows give brown milk. You cannot help but blink at these questions, wondering what planet you are on.

But before we jump to conclusions, it is worth analyzing what makes such questions possible in the first place. There are situations where people are just credulous or ignorant about certain things. It could be, somehow, they never got the opportunity to know it, or perhaps they’ve been given wrong information.

#7

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult (from a vet tech)

1) That the ticks on a male dog were actually nipples...and that male dogs have nipples...just like every other mammal.
2) That a rabbit that clearly has visible testicles was a male.
3) That you cannot feed an animal that is strictly a carnivore (a ferret, fyi) a "vegan" diet (that thing so SO sick when it came in).
4) That yes, when you have two animals (same species) of opposite genders in the house and they aren't spayed/neutered...they will breed. Even if they're mother/son, brother/sister, different ages, different sizes, different breeds, etc. You'd be shocked at how many people "didn't think this would happen". O_o Like...do you understand biology at all?

Affectionate-Owl183 , Tima Miroshnichenko / pexels Report

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#8

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult We cannot hold period blood in

miz_moon , Sora Shimazaki / pexels Report

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#9

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult Africa is a continent and not a country

Mission_Literature44 , Cup of Couple / pexels Report

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Other times, it could be possible they are nervous or distracted, leading them to ask something they’d usually know the answer to. We’ve all had those moments when we asked something we later realized was a bit silly. Let’s say you finally get to see your sports idol, and out of excitement, you ask rather silly questions like, “Do you like sports?”

#10

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult I had to explain to a friend of mine who had grown up with me that no you cannot vote for Trump in the Australian election. He is not a candidate for anything here.

CourtSenior5085 , Sora Shimazaki / pexels Report

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#11

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult I hope this isn't too racy for this sub...

I had to explain to a grown (college-educated!) adult that no, a**l sex does not "cause" AIDS. That no, if both parties are HIV-negative, they cannot "create" AIDS by engaging in this activity. NO, Daniel, that's not how viruses work!

candlestick_maker76 , Ketut Subiyanto / pexels Report

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#12

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult Why a room below sea level on a cruise ship would not have a balcony

rosiewayffu , Samson Bush / pexels Report

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What’s more interesting is how many people are afraid to ask questions because they don’t want to appear stupid. The fear of looking foolish in front of others can stop us from seeking out the knowledge we need. In a way, this fear can be more damaging than asking an ‘obvious’ question. It hinders us from learning, growing, and understanding the world better.

#13

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult That the aztecs and incans are not interchangeable, they were in completely different parts of the americas, and that neither of them built the nazca lines. but especially not the aztecs, who were not in f*****g peru

this person kept trying to tell me it was "up to interpretation" like no its not!!! its geography

blueschists , Unknown author / Wikipedia Report

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#14

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult Volunteered in a charity shop. Lady came to the counter with a top and asked if I could look in the back for one of the same colour but a larger size. Tried to explain we don't do that because we're a charity shop. She insisted that other shops, like H&M, have done that for her. Wouldn't take no for an answer.

Eventually I just went in the back for a few minutes, made a cup of tea for a co-worker, and came out saying we don't have any. She got mad at that too.

Aquashinez , cottonbro studio / pexels Report

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#15

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult When I was 19, I explained to a middle-aged woman that Jesus was not blonde haired, blue eyed, spoke English and from America.

AWL_cow , RDNE Stock project / pexels Report

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Consider a situation where you’re new at a job, and during the orientation, the presenter talks about “the cloud.” You know you came across the phrase some weeks ago, but you can’t place what it implies.

Everyone around you seems to know, so you hesitate to ask for clarification. Now since you were afraid to ask, it could potentially lead to bigger misunderstandings later on.

#16

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult When I worked at a doctors clinic, I had a lady on the phone wanting to book an appointment to have her flu shot. She specifically asked it to be a telephone appointment.

I could not believe that I had to explain to her that we cannot inject her through the phone.

ItBeginsAndEndsInYou , Gustavo Fring / pexels Report

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#17

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult That the earth was bigger than the moon. Long story short- this was the beginning of the end of our marriage. He and I had an argument in front of the kids the entire five hour drive. He was telling the kids how stupid I was to correct daddy.

Omfg

Realistic-Most-5751 , Pixabay / pexels Report

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#18

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult I had to explain to 2 teenage girls (15 and 16) that the reason the candle went out was because they put the glass lid back on it's jar. 1 of them said that fire can only be put out with water. I explained that fire needs oxygen and putting the lid back on it cut the supply. When they didnt understand after explaining a few times I had to explain it to them like toddlers. "Fire is hungry, so it eats the air. When all the air is gone, it goes to sleep. Bye bye fire." The double "ohhhh" was too much.

P.S. The look on their mama's face was so funny. She turned to me, threw her hands up, and said "I've failed." In the most defeated tone. That poor woman.

Edit: I would like to point out that we did, in fact, have a serious talk to these girls about proper fire safety, and when to NOT use water on an open fire.

AntibellumMoon , Anete Lusina / pexels Report

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In reality, making requests, even the simplest ones, should be allowed and even encouraged. It’s easy to forget that at some point, everyone was ignorant of something.

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The person who doesn’t know what the cloud is might be an expert in a completely different field, with knowledge you don’t possess. We all have gaps in our understanding, and the only way to fill them is by asking questions.

#19

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult That dogs are artificially bred, and that there aren't wild golden retrievers, wild chihuahuas, and wild Maltese just running about that we're catching to make into pets.

ooOJuicyOoo , Helena Lopes / pexels Report

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#20

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult That you can still get pregnant with the woman on top 🤦🏻‍♀️ "gravity doesn't work like that!"

Mysterious_Silver381 , Pixabay / pexels Report

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#21

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult My husband had to explain to a co-worker that she couldn’t take a train from the U.S. to Europe. She insisted she had to because she didn’t like flying.

Munchkin-M , Pixabay / pexels Report

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As a matter of fact, these are some of the most successful people in the world; they got to where they are today because they did not care how crazy the questions they posed were. It is the quest for answers—for more information, more detail—that fosters purpose and new ideas.

#22

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult That no matter how much you might want to put a camo pattern on your walls, you (not the paint) have to determine what that pattern looks like and you will also have to purchase multiple cans of paint tinted differently because "camo" doesn't come out of a can that way.

VelvetWhisperer12 , Ksenia Chernaya / pexels Report

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#23

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult I had to explain to a restaurant worker that eggs are not dairy. Chickens do not have mammary glands. Someone who is allergic to dairy can eat eggs and chicken. Mayonnaise, containing eggs and oil, is therefore not dairy.

She was looking at me like I was the stupid one, the whole time.

annotatedkate , Krisztina Papp / pexels Report

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190points

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#24

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult That each country does not, in fact, have its own sun.

Reasonable-Cat5767 , sergey mishakov / pexels Report

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Even if a question seems silly at first, it’s better to ask and learn than to remain ignorant. Life is full of mysteries, big and small, and the only way to solve them is by staying curious and never being afraid to ask.

#25

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult I was amazed in my old workplace how many young adults, like early 20s or so, couldn't tell the time from the wall clock.

KindHermit , Caio / pexels Report

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#26

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult North is not whichever way you’re facing!

Tobias---Funke , Supushpitha Atapattu / pexels Report

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#27

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult I work in travel. I've had to explain time zones more than you'd believe. So, if you leave Sydney at 2pm and fly ~14 hours, crossing the international dateline, you arrive in LA at noon - about 2 hours "before you left." I've watched this emoji 🤯 happen in real time.

Majestic_Tangerine47 , Stefan Stefancik / pexels Report

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#28

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult That you have to have a printer to print things at home. Tech support, and I wish I was lying.

i__hate__stairs , Mahrous Houses / unsplash Report

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So the next time someone asks you a question that makes you do a double take, just like the ones in this list, remember that we’re all just trying to figure things out. Embrace the moment, share your knowledge, and maybe even learn something new yourself.

#29

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult People on the internet can and will lie to you

Boring-Report-4257 , Alex Green / pexels Report

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#30

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult That New Zealand, the country we were both born, raised and living in, is not in Europe. Edit to answer most of your questions: her reasoning is that when she fills out forms and has to tick a box for her ethnicity, she ticks "New Zealand European". She thought that option was there because we are European and therefore in Europe. I had to explain to her that just means SHE is of European decent. That her ancestors lived in Europe. I also had to explain that not every New Zealander ticks that box. That there are other ethnicities here too.

AriasK , Mario Amé / pexels Report

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#31

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult In regards to the North and South poles, neither is "the one that is always hot."

LeraViiiiii , Nothing Ahead / pexels Report

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#32

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult That women do not all have their period at the beginning of the month all around the world at the same time.

itsteeeee , Sarah Chai / pexels Report

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#33

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult A girl was staying with my family and had brought her dog. The dog got hurt at one point (freak accident) that required surgery on a back leg and the "Cone of Shame" to be worn.

At one point, she started cutting off a bit of the cone.

Me: Careful, cut too much, and he'll be able to reach his stitches.

Her: That's alright. He'll be able to keep them clean.

I had to explain to her, very slowly, that the purpose of the cone was to keep him from licking the stitches and pulling them out. She honestly thought the cone was just an aesthetic thing.

talledega7 , mazzy Fritzel / pexels Report

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#34

I had to explain to a doctor's receptionist from Michigan once that Canada was not located somewhere mysteriously "across the ocean?", but rather across the border... from Michigan. My mom and I spent the car ride home in stunned silence.

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#35

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult That driving north meant the whole trip was uphill.

I laughed at her until I realised she meant it, ended up laughing at myself cos there’s no way I was going to explain it to her.

AliHea59 , Tobi / pexels Report

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#36

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult That raw meat juices, especially that of chicken, should in no way come in contact with other foods.

I learned this in 8th grade home ec, so I was 13 years old.
I had to explain to a 40-year old that no, you can't put grilled chicken back on an unwashed cutting board that still has raw chicken juices.

Throwaway03461 , Towfiqu barbhuiya / pexels Report

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156points

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#37

New England isn't part of Europe (to three different people). Get your s**t together, Arizona public school system.

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#38

Orange juice from concentrate doesn't come from a place called "concentrate".

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#39

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult Used to work at a daycare. One day a little mouse entered the premises and caused an uproar until we caught and released it in the playground.

After the whole ordeal, one of my colleagues (who was the dumbest person I've ever met) said: "let's hope it didn't lay eggs anywhere!"

I was too stunned to speak and just stared at her, while my room leader/friend said, in the most done-with-this-s**t way: "Mice don't lay eggs, ." and walked off.

EDIT: I love how so many people in these replies are trying to find a different interpretation of what she must have meant, or say that she must have been joking :D but no, unfortunately I have to tell you she was 100% of the opinion that mice lay eggs because she even doubled down about it later.

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#40

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult A friend asked me how the sun knows the clocks have changed when we have daylight savings.

CommunicationEasy142 , Pixabay / pexels Report

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#41

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult My bosses wife was learning how to use a computer. She typed in the numbers 1 to 9 and then asked how you typed in a number 10.

We were very diplomatic.

Rubberfootman , RDNE Stock project / pexels Report

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#42

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult That you cannot give your child a “smaller amount” of medicine that is only to be given to an adult. Boy that was a stressful night of very close observation and many calls to the nurse/poison control line.

Remote_Match_6280 , cottonbro studio / pexels Report

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#43

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and Italy is not a town in France. Same guy. My sister dated him for far too long.

GravityLands2018 , Davide Cacciatori / pexels Report

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127points

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#44

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult I had to explain to someone you can't buy like two pounds of lunch meat and eat it for a month. The concept of things spoiling was new to him. To be fair, we were both college students and he was living alone for the first time.

I used to work at a coffee shop and had to explain what filling something halfway meant to a woman I was training. She didn't understand the concept of half.

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#45

I had to explain to a 22 year old friend of mine when I was 18 what ovulation was. We’re both women, she had no idea.

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#46

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult I had to explain to a fully grown adult that yes...your car's keyless entry remote does indeed have a battery in it just like a TV remote and yes the button stopped working because the battery is dead and you need to replace it. I also had to tell him that if you're going to buy huge bags of dry dog food and keep it in your garage which you leave open most of the time...you might want to actually close the bag and maybe even put the closed bag in a container with a lid instead of letting it sit completely open and then always wondering why the dog food is full of bugs, spoils fast and attracts rats and raccoons.

I wish I could say he was a super brilliant engineer or something but yeah...no.

EasyBounce , Amar Preciado / pexels Report

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#47

I had to explain to someone that New Mexico is in fact part of the United States, not a part of Mexico. I assume they failed Geography.

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#48

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult Incremental tax brackets. a dude at my work thought he was going to make less money if he got a raise

smashisbeast , Mikhail Nilov / pexels Report

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#49

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult When you save a file on Windows, the save window actually lets you save the file into a particular folder. You don't have to go into your recent items to find it and then move it to where you want it to be saved. This person had been working an office job at a computer for more than 5 years at that point

Dr_Octahedron , Mikhail Nilov / pexels Report

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#50

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult Whales don’t lay eggs.

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#51

That bocconcini, Parmesan and feta are dairy cheeses. I used to work in a pizzeria and had to explain to this vegan couple on multiple occasions that these cheeses all were made from dairy.

It got to the point I had to grab the original containers and read the ingredients on the third try to get it to sink in.

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#52

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult Where pineapples come from.
That orcas and narwhals are real animals.

popsibaby , Cezar Bulat / pexels Report

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#53

Her child (my child's half sibling) could not have inherited a trait from my child, because that trait was inherited from me.

"But they're brothers!!"

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#54

That the sun was a star.

“No it isn’t, it’s a Sun. I learned that when I was like 6.”

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47points

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#55

When i was in culinary school i had someone ask me if their water was boiling. It was bubbling. I said yes.

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#56

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult The difference between Chinese and Japanese people.

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#57

A small pizza is not the same size as a large pizza even though they have the same amount of "slices".......

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#58

My mother once had to explain, to a fellow teacher, that humans only have one appendix.

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#59

That the moon wasn’t self illuminating from within.

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#60

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult That an item damaged in a car crash did not qualify as a manufacture defect covered under warranty. The store refund policy was 90 days, and she had a receipt over a year old.

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#61

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult That cold sores are herpes.

I’ve also had to explain repeatedly that mice are not baby rats. Like…a lot.

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#62

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult How to make ramen.

The directions are on the packet. I pointed that out, their response was "i thought it was too simple to have directions on it".

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#63

Blood is red and not green

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#64

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult I had to explain to my two coworkers that it wasn't some magic fairy that was throwing away their coffee cups. They were joking around one day that their (old) coffee cups always disappeared by the next day and I had to tell them it was me and that I had to start doing it because they kept getting left in the way and being knocked over. I was off for a few days and came back and there were cups everywhere.

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#65

50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult It was at work. I had to explain that if they didn't do their job me or the next shift had to.

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34points

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What do you think ?

Damned_Cat 2 months ago

We were watching a NASCAR race once when an accident occurred on track. My mom commented that they wouldn't have wrecks if they stopped driving so fast.

28points

Noproblem 2 months ago

I had a coworker who had to be reminded numerous times how to spell our manager’s name. Our manager’s name was Tim.

27points

BeesEelsAndPups 2 months ago

Were they a native English speaker? The way Tim is pronounced, perhaps in their language it would have been spelled differently. And it was a confusion for them. It took me a long time to understand that "of" is not spelled "ov".

6points

Steve Robert 2 months ago

I once knew a girl who thought Moby Diick was a venerial disease!

17points

Sam Lombardo 2 months ago

We had to tell our history teacher in 6th grade, that the statue of liberty was a gift from the French. A HISTORY TEACHER!

9points

IamMe 2 months ago

In fifth grade, we moved to West Virginia, because my dad was building a dam there. I had to explain to my new teacher, that my previous home of "Ver-mont", was nowhere near "Californy". She was convinced it was, because I "talked like people from T.V." The quotation marks, are all as said, by the teacher.

9points

Amelia Jade 2 months ago

My cousin's husband thought if you went over the international date line while in a plane that it would change from day to night like a switch had been flipped.

9points

Sven Horlemann 2 months ago

This was... hilarious and frightening at the same time.

8points

frederick clause 2 months ago

The number of people that slip through the cracks in the education system is staggering. It's almost as though the powers that be don't think an education is important.

8points

Don Adams 2 months ago

Worked as office manager for a nationwide relocation services company. Had a coordinator that constantly would ask what state Washington DC was in. Could not accept it was a district (hence the D) and not part of a state. Also requested a replacement Desk calculator, fooled with it all day, then complained it was not working right, that the numbers would not change. I peeled the label off the display....

6points

Freya the Wanderer 2 months ago

I get the impression that a lot of these people are ignorant rather than stupid. Ignorant is better than stupid because you can cure ignorance.

5points

Bamamom2boys 2 months ago

I live along the Gulf Coast (U.S.). I used to work in vacation rentals. I can't tell you how many times I would get this question when a fire alarm was going off in a building; "There seems to be a fire alarm in the building. What do we do?" I would always answer as politely as I could, "Get out of the building!" I would also get these calls: "Yes, there are sharks in the water. Who do we call to get them out?" Me: "Well, no one. That's where the sharks live."

4points

Dan Flo 2 months ago (edited)

Telling my co worker about a stupid online argument I read about someone wanted to know any food with high energy but low kcal. He didnt get it... So I told him that kcal is the unit for the amount of energy in food so you cannot have high energy and low kcal. He said, and I kid you not: "But there must be something with few kcal that gives lots of energy. Im thinking water... or is that zero kcal? No energy?". A part of me died that day.

4points

Michelle Seasor 2 months ago

Los Angeles and New York City are not close to each other or San Francisco. I also had to explain East Coast and West Coast

3points

DeoManus Argentem 2 months ago

The father of one of my best friends in high school was so cheap he removed the light bulbs from their refrigerator to save money, but kept a flashlight with D-Cell batteries next to it so the family could see inside... As you may know, batteries (especially disposable) are expensive. I asked my friend if his father knew the light goes off when the door closes, he kinda just shrugs. Father was an immigrant from Mexico (maybe fridges work differently down there?), but neither poor enough to be that cheap nor uneducated - he was a practicing pediatrician (physician for children) in a wealthy area of the US.

3points

Penny Hernandez 2 months ago

I wonder what, if anything, they are teaching in U.S. schools today. Most. if not all of of the ignorance displayed above, I learned in elementary school, during the 40s and 50s.

3points

James King 2 months ago

We were on a cruise in the summer north of the Arctic Circle, so 24 hours of sunlight. The cruise was called "Into the Midnight Sun". A woman asked "What time does the midnight sun come out?" She actually thought a second sun would appear. I heard someone nearby mutter "We're not on Tattoine, ffs!"

2points

Hey! 2 months ago

We are doomed.

2points

M G----no 2 months ago

I had an air-headed cousin growing up. She was the princess of the grandparents and was spoiled rotten, so my bro and I never felt bad making fun of her. At my house, we grew up w/o a dishwasher, so we had to do dishes by hand. As she stood there complaining, my mom said, "Just think, before we had running water, we had to wash the dishes down by the creek. And my cousin replied, "Really???" Now, this was probably around 1990. Then once, while we were in the car, I turned to her and said, "Look! Trees!" and she replied, "Where?" ... as we were passing a forested area. I could go on with these. She also would go to pay for something that was maybe $12... she'd hand the cashier a $20 and walk off without change. She just thought that if it was above one denomination, you had to give a higher one and that was it. We had to explain that she would get cash back. She was a teenager at the time.

2points

Charlotte A. 2 months ago

Small wasps are not "baby wasps". Fellow uni student, we were both in natural sciences. 30 years later she's still one of my best friends, though :) My sister, when starting biology class in uni had to explain to her fellow students that bumblebees don't "burn", but sting.

2points

Mike F 2 months ago

Wow!

2points

Crycket 2 months ago

I had to walk someone through knocking on a door. I was at school and a co-worker went to knock on the custodian's door, as someone had sent her to get something. I gestured her to the custodian's office, and she reached for the doorknob of the closed door. It was locked. She then stopped in her tracks and looked completely lost. I had to explain to her that she could either knock on the door and see if the custodian was there, or to go and come back later. She had to be in her mid 20s.

1point

Ruud T. 2 months ago

A friend of mine knew for sure, the top part of a doubledeckertrain goes to another destination than the lowerdeck part.

1point

Rebekah Krause 2 months ago

My friend had kidney stones and was told to pee into this strainer type contraption to catch the stone. She began to feel better but had not yet caught the stone- she theorized that because she was on her period maybe it got stuck on her tampon. She was over 40. I tried to explain to her how this was impossible but she absolutely could not grasp even after I pulled up a couple google image diagrams of female anatomy and pointed out the bladder does not empty into the vagina.

1point

Marnie 2 months ago

My sister (an academically gifted and very sweet person) had some mental discrepancies. I told her when she was in college that the contents of every non-fiction piece of writing just came from someone's head - their imagination, their observations, their conclusions, their summation, their hypothesis. It was just a person. She was astounded. To her, books were sort of "written in stone". They just WERE. They simply existed. Yes, she knew they had an author. But it was like she couldn't question it, either to dispute it, or to wonder about additional information on the subject. She couldn't understand that a book was the product of it's time. She especially did not understand that you and I could also come up with hypothesis or summation, etc. It's hard to explain her mindset. Also, she became a K-12 teacher. She, a very sweet person with absolutely no intellectual curiosity whatsoever.

1point

Caia Calabrese 2 months ago

I hate that this site is censoring my words! Fascists!

1point

Elizabeth Deighton 2 months ago

I worked in a nursery and we were having staff training. The deputy manager was talking about horistic play. All I could think of was holistic medicine. She asked if we all knew what she meant and I said no. She started to explain and the manager said It's what we called a bit box when we were young. Later, a student came up to me and admitted that she didn't know and was so pleased when I said that I didn't as she didn't like to admit it.

1point

jennifer brinkman 2 months ago

The stupidity of humans is astounding!

1point

Neb Skram 2 months ago

i had to explain to my SIL that Trump is a Republicain. she has voted for him twice, stupid just cant be fixed

1point

Lizz 2 months ago

I had to explain to a triple A guy how to change a headlight lightbulb in my truck. I studied art in school.....

1point

Stephanie Did It 1 week ago (edited)

My friend, an older woman, worked in the medical manufacturing field. She made post-mastectomy bras for women, along with inserts, wigs and other products for women. She believed that the color white killed germs and that's why bandages were white. This also applied to bras and prosthetics, even to doctors' white coats. She would not be persuaded otherwise. (P.S. I know white isn't technically a color; I'm using it as a descriptive term)

0points

Margaret Brazear 1 week ago

I had to explain to a grown woman that training a dog to do something involved more than just telling him to do it.

0points

Margaret Brazear 1 week ago

Driving my mother, a Londoner, through country lanes with fields either side, she remarked: All this land's wasted ain't it? They could stick houses on this. I asked her where she thought she got her weetabix and her bread from. Her reply: Supermarket of course.

0points

Margaret Brazear 1 week ago

I had to explain to my mother, who had lived in London through two world wars and raised five children, that my rabbits would breed, even if they were brothers and sisters. I had to explain to a friend that dogs do not all know 'drop it', that they know whatever they have been taught and I could say fluffy pink fairy cakes if that is what the dog had been taught. I had to assure someone that going to look at a car in a muslim area was quite safe and they would not all be making bombs. I had to explain to my mother that there was nothing really clever about a 3 year old French child speaking fluent French. I had to explain to a 17 year old girl that the posters declaring 'don't drink and drive' were referring to alcohol, not just anything you drink. I am sure I can think of more.

0points

Kay 1 week ago

The stupidest thing I have ever heard was my ex, who asked me, 100% seriously, why I needed good headphones, as I haven't even taken music at university.

0points

Richienotsorich 1 week ago

Had to explain to a 40+yo colleague that that "$hit version of the Statue of Liberty" in the Seine is the original that the NY version was designed from and which the French built and gave to America. Do a little bit of research on your holiday next time!

0points

Jen Nunyabiz 1 month ago (edited)

When I lived in Colorado, I got in five separate arguments with people who couldn't understand that at a four-way stop, if the car on your right goes first, that means traffic moves in a clockwise direction.

0points

Maria-Luiza Lobo 1 month ago

Na transmissão ao vivo do eclipse solar de hoje, um cara perguntou aos cientistas se haveria eclipse de novo amanhã ...

0points

Isabel Galvez 2 months ago

My ex boyfriend said our children should get my eyes and for that I had to drink a lot of juice to be strong.

0points

Danish Susanne 2 months ago

I much prefer people asking stupid questions, to people not asking when they do not know. So many years ago I started asking questions at meetings, when I knew that others didn't know the answer even if I knew myself. The surprising outcome was, that the others thought me intelligent because of my questions.

0points

Phil Cookson 2 months ago

I once asked a college educated intern to send an email to all the engineers in our tech company. I came by an hour later and asked if she had done it. "Still doing it. You know there are 84 engineers?" She was copying it, changing the email address and posting it, 84 times. I was too stunned to explain CC.

0points

Catherine Hutt 2 months ago

I had to explain how the alphabet works to a high school student who was interning in our dental office - she didn’t know how to use the phone book. She also filed the patient files by first name instead of last.

0points

Lorraine Woollands 2 months ago

I have always been treated as if I am stupid,,thick, but these make me feel like I am a genius

0points

Wielder of Yielder 2 months ago (edited)

My mum had to explain to her husband's daughter-in-law that we live on the outside of the globe, not the inside. It's hard to make sense of, but from the way my mum told it to me, it seemed this 20-something woman thought that Earth was a shell around the universe (so, like, if you fired a rocket from Earth, and it kept going in a straight line, it would hit whichever country was opposite from yours on the inside of the shell - get the picture?). She grew up in Communist Czechoslovakia; maybe their education suffered under the political system? Might that be the case?

0points

Patricia the Grey 2 months ago

My husband used to say that if we lived in caveman times, the dinosaurs would eat me because I am a late sleeper and wake up slowly. I was the first person to tell him that dinosaurs and humans did not coexist. He has a PhD!

0points

Lady Clarimonde 2 months ago

When teaching my student the correct steps before a blood transfusion, I asked her what she thought she had to check first. We had been through it the day before. She told me to secure the patient's genre. She literally went to my patient and asked him "Excuse me, are you a man or a woman?". She was 22. The face of my patient was beyond words... And when she knew she had failed the practicum, she still asked me why.

0points

Liz Butt 2 months ago

I loved all the comments and answers to these silly statements and questions. More like this please.

0points

J K 2 months ago

Yet another article I cannot finish in one sitting as I either start to get depressed, or get frustrated, or start to get angry, or start to get demoralized, or a combination of more than one of those. Or something else.

0points

ronniebeaton00 2 months ago

Over the years, I've had to explain to multiple people that if a bar or club offers "Three free drinks" but you have to pay a cover charge to enter the bar/club, then your drinks are not free.

0points

Cory Tollman 2 months ago

I worked with a thirty something woman from Kansas City that did not know that it was on the Missouri river.

0points

LynzCatastrophe 2 months ago

And my faith in humanity goes down again!

0points

Ray Perkins 2 months ago

Car-pooled with a PhD (laser designer) who was always asking things like "how does a car work?", "how does a record player work?".

0points

Nitka Tsar 2 months ago

Hey, does anyone know what might be the reason for me making more and more errors while typing? Is it most likely that I‘m getring old or my fingers maybe getting to thick, or might it be something more serious? I‘m getting really frustrated here

0points

The Other Guest 2 months ago

Had to explain to a man in his late 40s that the sticky side of a panty liner goes against the fabric, not the skin.

0points

Caia Calabrese 2 months ago

It must be the d***s. Or the Soviet Union put something in the water years ago. Or anything like that. People can't be like that in the US! How did you manage to become so powerful!?

0points

Sarah Léon 2 months ago

In high-school, there was this... very nice but very dumb girl. First cold day of the year, -15°C. I used my scooter with 2 pairs of gloves and a double mountain coat. I was warming up near the heater when she came in, all shivering, and told me she was *so* cold. She came in a moped and wore a crop top under a thin leather jacket. "But I have style"... Another day, I was listening to music with a friend during recess. It was Die Moldau (Smetana). She came in, listened a minute and asked what it was. I answered. She said "oh, ok. I thought it was classical music". I told her it was. "Oh, I thought classical music was Mozart". It was to much to explain. And last but not least, one day she told me she could never be a sports teacher. I assumed "yes it's a lot of work and studies and you have to understand the human body, it's not that easy", and she said "Yes ! And you have to wear the same sweatpants the whole day !". She passed her final exams with honors !

0points

FluffButt Central 2 months ago

My brain hurts now.

0points

Lyone Fein 2 months ago

These people vote. And they're not all Republicans!

-2points

Verena 2 months ago

In some countries, you have the choice out of numerous parties

5points

Damned_Cat 2 months ago

We were watching a NASCAR race once when an accident occurred on track. My mom commented that they wouldn't have wrecks if they stopped driving so fast.

28points

Noproblem 2 months ago

I had a coworker who had to be reminded numerous times how to spell our manager’s name. Our manager’s name was Tim.

27points

BeesEelsAndPups 2 months ago

Were they a native English speaker? The way Tim is pronounced, perhaps in their language it would have been spelled differently. And it was a confusion for them. It took me a long time to understand that "of" is not spelled "ov".

6points

Steve Robert 2 months ago

I once knew a girl who thought Moby Diick was a venerial disease!

17points

Sam Lombardo 2 months ago

We had to tell our history teacher in 6th grade, that the statue of liberty was a gift from the French. A HISTORY TEACHER!

9points

IamMe 2 months ago

In fifth grade, we moved to West Virginia, because my dad was building a dam there. I had to explain to my new teacher, that my previous home of "Ver-mont", was nowhere near "Californy". She was convinced it was, because I "talked like people from T.V." The quotation marks, are all as said, by the teacher.

9points

Amelia Jade 2 months ago

My cousin's husband thought if you went over the international date line while in a plane that it would change from day to night like a switch had been flipped.

9points

Sven Horlemann 2 months ago

This was... hilarious and frightening at the same time.

8points

frederick clause 2 months ago

The number of people that slip through the cracks in the education system is staggering. It's almost as though the powers that be don't think an education is important.

8points

Don Adams 2 months ago

Worked as office manager for a nationwide relocation services company. Had a coordinator that constantly would ask what state Washington DC was in. Could not accept it was a district (hence the D) and not part of a state. Also requested a replacement Desk calculator, fooled with it all day, then complained it was not working right, that the numbers would not change. I peeled the label off the display....

6points

Freya the Wanderer 2 months ago

I get the impression that a lot of these people are ignorant rather than stupid. Ignorant is better than stupid because you can cure ignorance.

5points

Bamamom2boys 2 months ago

I live along the Gulf Coast (U.S.). I used to work in vacation rentals. I can't tell you how many times I would get this question when a fire alarm was going off in a building; "There seems to be a fire alarm in the building. What do we do?" I would always answer as politely as I could, "Get out of the building!" I would also get these calls: "Yes, there are sharks in the water. Who do we call to get them out?" Me: "Well, no one. That's where the sharks live."

4points

Dan Flo 2 months ago (edited)

Telling my co worker about a stupid online argument I read about someone wanted to know any food with high energy but low kcal. He didnt get it... So I told him that kcal is the unit for the amount of energy in food so you cannot have high energy and low kcal. He said, and I kid you not: "But there must be something with few kcal that gives lots of energy. Im thinking water... or is that zero kcal? No energy?". A part of me died that day.

4points

Michelle Seasor 2 months ago

Los Angeles and New York City are not close to each other or San Francisco. I also had to explain East Coast and West Coast

3points

DeoManus Argentem 2 months ago

The father of one of my best friends in high school was so cheap he removed the light bulbs from their refrigerator to save money, but kept a flashlight with D-Cell batteries next to it so the family could see inside... As you may know, batteries (especially disposable) are expensive. I asked my friend if his father knew the light goes off when the door closes, he kinda just shrugs. Father was an immigrant from Mexico (maybe fridges work differently down there?), but neither poor enough to be that cheap nor uneducated - he was a practicing pediatrician (physician for children) in a wealthy area of the US.

3points

Penny Hernandez 2 months ago

I wonder what, if anything, they are teaching in U.S. schools today. Most. if not all of of the ignorance displayed above, I learned in elementary school, during the 40s and 50s.

3points

James King 2 months ago

We were on a cruise in the summer north of the Arctic Circle, so 24 hours of sunlight. The cruise was called "Into the Midnight Sun". A woman asked "What time does the midnight sun come out?" She actually thought a second sun would appear. I heard someone nearby mutter "We're not on Tattoine, ffs!"

2points

Hey! 2 months ago

We are doomed.

2points

M G----no 2 months ago

I had an air-headed cousin growing up. She was the princess of the grandparents and was spoiled rotten, so my bro and I never felt bad making fun of her. At my house, we grew up w/o a dishwasher, so we had to do dishes by hand. As she stood there complaining, my mom said, "Just think, before we had running water, we had to wash the dishes down by the creek. And my cousin replied, "Really???" Now, this was probably around 1990. Then once, while we were in the car, I turned to her and said, "Look! Trees!" and she replied, "Where?" ... as we were passing a forested area. I could go on with these. She also would go to pay for something that was maybe $12... she'd hand the cashier a $20 and walk off without change. She just thought that if it was above one denomination, you had to give a higher one and that was it. We had to explain that she would get cash back. She was a teenager at the time.

2points

Charlotte A. 2 months ago

Small wasps are not "baby wasps". Fellow uni student, we were both in natural sciences. 30 years later she's still one of my best friends, though :) My sister, when starting biology class in uni had to explain to her fellow students that bumblebees don't "burn", but sting.

2points

Mike F 2 months ago

Wow!

2points

Crycket 2 months ago

I had to walk someone through knocking on a door. I was at school and a co-worker went to knock on the custodian's door, as someone had sent her to get something. I gestured her to the custodian's office, and she reached for the doorknob of the closed door. It was locked. She then stopped in her tracks and looked completely lost. I had to explain to her that she could either knock on the door and see if the custodian was there, or to go and come back later. She had to be in her mid 20s.

1point

Ruud T. 2 months ago

A friend of mine knew for sure, the top part of a doubledeckertrain goes to another destination than the lowerdeck part.

1point

Rebekah Krause 2 months ago

My friend had kidney stones and was told to pee into this strainer type contraption to catch the stone. She began to feel better but had not yet caught the stone- she theorized that because she was on her period maybe it got stuck on her tampon. She was over 40. I tried to explain to her how this was impossible but she absolutely could not grasp even after I pulled up a couple google image diagrams of female anatomy and pointed out the bladder does not empty into the vagina.

1point

Marnie 2 months ago

My sister (an academically gifted and very sweet person) had some mental discrepancies. I told her when she was in college that the contents of every non-fiction piece of writing just came from someone's head - their imagination, their observations, their conclusions, their summation, their hypothesis. It was just a person. She was astounded. To her, books were sort of "written in stone". They just WERE. They simply existed. Yes, she knew they had an author. But it was like she couldn't question it, either to dispute it, or to wonder about additional information on the subject. She couldn't understand that a book was the product of it's time. She especially did not understand that you and I could also come up with hypothesis or summation, etc. It's hard to explain her mindset. Also, she became a K-12 teacher. She, a very sweet person with absolutely no intellectual curiosity whatsoever.

1point

Caia Calabrese 2 months ago

I hate that this site is censoring my words! Fascists!

1point

Elizabeth Deighton 2 months ago

I worked in a nursery and we were having staff training. The deputy manager was talking about horistic play. All I could think of was holistic medicine. She asked if we all knew what she meant and I said no. She started to explain and the manager said It's what we called a bit box when we were young. Later, a student came up to me and admitted that she didn't know and was so pleased when I said that I didn't as she didn't like to admit it.

1point

jennifer brinkman 2 months ago

The stupidity of humans is astounding!

1point

Neb Skram 2 months ago

i had to explain to my SIL that Trump is a Republicain. she has voted for him twice, stupid just cant be fixed

1point

Lizz 2 months ago

I had to explain to a triple A guy how to change a headlight lightbulb in my truck. I studied art in school.....

1point

Stephanie Did It 1 week ago (edited)

My friend, an older woman, worked in the medical manufacturing field. She made post-mastectomy bras for women, along with inserts, wigs and other products for women. She believed that the color white killed germs and that's why bandages were white. This also applied to bras and prosthetics, even to doctors' white coats. She would not be persuaded otherwise. (P.S. I know white isn't technically a color; I'm using it as a descriptive term)

0points

Margaret Brazear 1 week ago

I had to explain to a grown woman that training a dog to do something involved more than just telling him to do it.

0points

Margaret Brazear 1 week ago

Driving my mother, a Londoner, through country lanes with fields either side, she remarked: All this land's wasted ain't it? They could stick houses on this. I asked her where she thought she got her weetabix and her bread from. Her reply: Supermarket of course.

0points

Margaret Brazear 1 week ago

I had to explain to my mother, who had lived in London through two world wars and raised five children, that my rabbits would breed, even if they were brothers and sisters. I had to explain to a friend that dogs do not all know 'drop it', that they know whatever they have been taught and I could say fluffy pink fairy cakes if that is what the dog had been taught. I had to assure someone that going to look at a car in a muslim area was quite safe and they would not all be making bombs. I had to explain to my mother that there was nothing really clever about a 3 year old French child speaking fluent French. I had to explain to a 17 year old girl that the posters declaring 'don't drink and drive' were referring to alcohol, not just anything you drink. I am sure I can think of more.

0points

Kay 1 week ago

The stupidest thing I have ever heard was my ex, who asked me, 100% seriously, why I needed good headphones, as I haven't even taken music at university.

0points

Richienotsorich 1 week ago

Had to explain to a 40+yo colleague that that "$hit version of the Statue of Liberty" in the Seine is the original that the NY version was designed from and which the French built and gave to America. Do a little bit of research on your holiday next time!

0points

Jen Nunyabiz 1 month ago (edited)

When I lived in Colorado, I got in five separate arguments with people who couldn't understand that at a four-way stop, if the car on your right goes first, that means traffic moves in a clockwise direction.

0points

Maria-Luiza Lobo 1 month ago

Na transmissão ao vivo do eclipse solar de hoje, um cara perguntou aos cientistas se haveria eclipse de novo amanhã ...

0points

Isabel Galvez 2 months ago

My ex boyfriend said our children should get my eyes and for that I had to drink a lot of juice to be strong.

0points

Danish Susanne 2 months ago

I much prefer people asking stupid questions, to people not asking when they do not know. So many years ago I started asking questions at meetings, when I knew that others didn't know the answer even if I knew myself. The surprising outcome was, that the others thought me intelligent because of my questions.

0points

Phil Cookson 2 months ago

I once asked a college educated intern to send an email to all the engineers in our tech company. I came by an hour later and asked if she had done it. "Still doing it. You know there are 84 engineers?" She was copying it, changing the email address and posting it, 84 times. I was too stunned to explain CC.

0points

Catherine Hutt 2 months ago

I had to explain how the alphabet works to a high school student who was interning in our dental office - she didn’t know how to use the phone book. She also filed the patient files by first name instead of last.

0points

Lorraine Woollands 2 months ago

I have always been treated as if I am stupid,,thick, but these make me feel like I am a genius

0points

Wielder of Yielder 2 months ago (edited)

My mum had to explain to her husband's daughter-in-law that we live on the outside of the globe, not the inside. It's hard to make sense of, but from the way my mum told it to me, it seemed this 20-something woman thought that Earth was a shell around the universe (so, like, if you fired a rocket from Earth, and it kept going in a straight line, it would hit whichever country was opposite from yours on the inside of the shell - get the picture?). She grew up in Communist Czechoslovakia; maybe their education suffered under the political system? Might that be the case?

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Patricia the Grey 2 months ago

My husband used to say that if we lived in caveman times, the dinosaurs would eat me because I am a late sleeper and wake up slowly. I was the first person to tell him that dinosaurs and humans did not coexist. He has a PhD!

0points

Lady Clarimonde 2 months ago

When teaching my student the correct steps before a blood transfusion, I asked her what she thought she had to check first. We had been through it the day before. She told me to secure the patient's genre. She literally went to my patient and asked him "Excuse me, are you a man or a woman?". She was 22. The face of my patient was beyond words... And when she knew she had failed the practicum, she still asked me why.

0points

Liz Butt 2 months ago

I loved all the comments and answers to these silly statements and questions. More like this please.

0points

J K 2 months ago

Yet another article I cannot finish in one sitting as I either start to get depressed, or get frustrated, or start to get angry, or start to get demoralized, or a combination of more than one of those. Or something else.

0points

ronniebeaton00 2 months ago

Over the years, I've had to explain to multiple people that if a bar or club offers "Three free drinks" but you have to pay a cover charge to enter the bar/club, then your drinks are not free.

0points

Cory Tollman 2 months ago

I worked with a thirty something woman from Kansas City that did not know that it was on the Missouri river.

0points

LynzCatastrophe 2 months ago

And my faith in humanity goes down again!

0points

Ray Perkins 2 months ago

Car-pooled with a PhD (laser designer) who was always asking things like "how does a car work?", "how does a record player work?".

0points

Nitka Tsar 2 months ago

Hey, does anyone know what might be the reason for me making more and more errors while typing? Is it most likely that I‘m getring old or my fingers maybe getting to thick, or might it be something more serious? I‘m getting really frustrated here

0points

The Other Guest 2 months ago

Had to explain to a man in his late 40s that the sticky side of a panty liner goes against the fabric, not the skin.

0points

Caia Calabrese 2 months ago

It must be the d***s. Or the Soviet Union put something in the water years ago. Or anything like that. People can't be like that in the US! How did you manage to become so powerful!?

0points

Sarah Léon 2 months ago

In high-school, there was this... very nice but very dumb girl. First cold day of the year, -15°C. I used my scooter with 2 pairs of gloves and a double mountain coat. I was warming up near the heater when she came in, all shivering, and told me she was *so* cold. She came in a moped and wore a crop top under a thin leather jacket. "But I have style"... Another day, I was listening to music with a friend during recess. It was Die Moldau (Smetana). She came in, listened a minute and asked what it was. I answered. She said "oh, ok. I thought it was classical music". I told her it was. "Oh, I thought classical music was Mozart". It was to much to explain. And last but not least, one day she told me she could never be a sports teacher. I assumed "yes it's a lot of work and studies and you have to understand the human body, it's not that easy", and she said "Yes ! And you have to wear the same sweatpants the whole day !". She passed her final exams with honors !

0points

FluffButt Central 2 months ago

My brain hurts now.

0points

Lyone Fein 2 months ago

These people vote. And they're not all Republicans!

-2points

Verena 2 months ago

In some countries, you have the choice out of numerous parties

5points

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