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adiiantryx 2 years ago

by chance, had she and her parents lived life solely in the us

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J. F. 2 years ago

Let me guess where on earth that happened...

262points

Rage of Aquarius 2 years ago

Florida would be my guess.

100points

Scarlett 2 years ago

Florida. The rest of America doesn’t associate with them.

51points

Emo Sloth 2 years ago

As a Floridian, I can tell you the other comments are very much true and boy I wish I lived somewhere else

40points

DorkLimester6000 2 years ago

Florida, in of course, murica

16points

Synsepalum 2 years ago

I'm guessing Florida

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Phill Healey 2 years ago

U.S.A! U.S.A!

11points

Tom Spade 2 years ago (edited)

Florida?

10points

Marilyn leger 2 years ago

Texas, where else?

8points

Caro Caro 2 years ago

Uhm ..... hahaha

8points

Ogre Juan Canolli 2 years ago

Murika !

5points

theoneandonlynoira 1 year ago

*banjo music intensifies

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Polar_bear_lover 2 years ago (edited)

MURICA!!!

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NO NO NO But yes 2 years ago

AMERICA 🇺🇸 GET BOI GET.

3points

Scoraria 2 years ago

As a Floridian ... Yeah it’s probably Florida.

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Kelley Baltierra 2 years ago

So much diss for America...

2points

Derek Skiba 2 years ago

Florida Man is at it again...

2points

Denise Melek 2 years ago

The land of freedom to hurt and kill other people and yourself by stupidity?!

2points

Marleen Watson 2 years ago

Sounds like West Virginia or Kentucky

2points

Grover underwood 2 years ago

USA! USA! USA!

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Corey Adams 2 years ago

MURICA

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Goose 2 years ago

Africa. Definitely. (It's a joke.)

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TheElementalGod️️ 1 year ago

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Cal the dragon (she/her) 1 year ago (edited)

Øhīø or Texas if not Florida.

1point

Kelsey Rivera 1 year ago

Either Florida or Texas...

1point

tater_tot 2 years ago

'murica!

1point

Summer Mason 2 years ago

Flordia

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chaotic awesome 2 years ago

florida?

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Nezuko_Chan 1 year ago

It’s Florida or Texas

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LadyLion2012 1 year ago

ohio*scoff* duh

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i love doggos. 1 year ago

Probably Florida, if it's in the US.

0points

Cal🤘 (she/her) 1 year ago

A Florida man did it!

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Ashley Spurlock 2 years ago

100% my fabulous state.. ✨F L O R I D A✨ 🙄💅

0points

Toy Slaughter 2 years ago

Definitely Florida

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Marissa Watterson 2 years ago

Florida, obviously

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Dayton MooreMonge 2 years ago

Gotta be Florida

0points

Blake Travis Hikaru 2 years ago

outside of hes house might?

0points

Lazarus Long 2 years ago

Florida?

0points

Harry Potter 2 years ago (edited)

🎶America America so full of stupidity 🎶 (I live in America btw so don't hate me)

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Ula Wojciechowska 2 years ago

Florida

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Frank Miller 2 years ago

Had to be Florida...

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Emma Jolivet 2 years ago

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Cecily Holland 2 years ago

Hole in ONE!!!

22points

xolitaire 2 years ago

hand

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Jon Steensen 2 years ago

...and that is why you need some control over who you allow to own a gun. A frighning large amount of people end up killed by toddlers, because guns are all over the place, without people showing the proper level of respect for these killing tools.

19points

Anne Edwards 2 years ago

You know that the US has plans in place to fix this. They will lock those toddlers up for the rest of their lives.

11points

Sara Pocklington 2 years ago

I never forget how dangerous a loaded toddler can be.

2points

Allen Lavine 2 years ago

But My rights my 2nd amendment my freedom what if the government do something I don't like

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Dorothy Parker 2 years ago

This is why guns should be illegal except for hunting. And no semi- automatic.

17points

Silas Rose 2 years ago

One thing is for sure, don't trust an airhead with a gun!

9points

JuJu 2 years ago

And now, somebody please explain to me (very slow and in easy words) why on earth you allow people like him to get a f*cking gun????????????

15points

Mindghost 2 years ago (edited)

Because 'murica OR because money

9points

ZAPanda 2 years ago (edited)

So apparently... no gun use or gun safety courses are required to get a gun... well. Maybe they ought to be a requirement, like you know, normal countries? Hmmm. maybe tell him the correct way to check for bullets is to look down the barrel.

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Anne Edwards 2 years ago

OMG......how many people will take your advice to heart......I can see the headlines now, Florida man accidentally shoots himself in head checking that gun was correctly loaded.

10points

Scipio Africanus 2 years ago

And this is why idiots don’t need guns

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Stephanie Goadsby 2 years ago

I get what you're saying but this is exactly why idiots do need guns, so they can shoot themselves. Natural selection at work culling the herd.

5points

TheDivineMsM 2 years ago

That's a person that definitely DOESN'T need to be owning a gun

5points

Daniel Mattock 2 years ago

America!!! F**k yeah!!

5points

Janet Graham 2 years ago

Let's just file him in the Darwin Award Runner-Up category. Too dumb to live, but not quite there, yet.

3points

Jackie Nettleton 2 years ago

This is why people want others to pass a test to be able to own or fire a gun! Imagine if that idiot was pointing it towards the side and others were also using the range

3points

Mateo Bouri 2 years ago

Florida man thinks gun is broken , shoot's hand to test. Ends in hospital

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Arizona 2 years ago

You think the Florida man joke is funny until you live in Florida and people from other states make fun of you.

1point

Me123456789101112131415161718 2 years ago

Wow

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Elaine Mattingly 2 years ago

At least that is progress, his hand instead of staring into the barrel.

1point

John Otruba 2 years ago

True lack of muzzle discipline.

1point

KT 2 years ago

oh lord please say he wasn't doing this in his yard

1point

DorkLimester6000 2 years ago

No, he was doing it in the basement.

1point

Terry Tobias 2 years ago

Well, he could have looked down the barrel...

1point

Nat. Jones 11 months ago

Americans... I say, bloody good show chaps!

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3 AM 1 year ago

I remember when a comedian referred to Alabama as God's waiting room. They are so grateful to Florida for taking the flak.

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Danish Susanne 1 year ago

Do you meen that he was able to hit his palm?

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KieLeaHar 1 year ago

My father shot the tip of his finger off as a teenager… 🤦🏼‍♀️ 🙄

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Klopec 1 year ago

OMG, are people really that dumb?

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Jayson Gill 1 year ago

florida

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ARTHUR HENSLEY 1 year ago

Thismotherf*****

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Nikoloz Machaidze 2 years ago

oh jeez

0points

Kelley Baltierra 2 years ago

Ouch

0points

Corbin 2 years ago

Umm, wow....future Darwin award winner?

0points

Blake Travis Hikaru 2 years ago

wow so dumb, maybe the bullet was stuck in the gun for a little.

0points

Blake Travis Hikaru 2 years ago

wow so dumb, maybe the bullet was stuck.

0points

Gladys Hayes Southerland 2 years ago

He should not own a gun. He should get lessons first.

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Katelyn Lee 2 years ago

minion

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Chloe Barnes 2 years ago

This guy is stupid 😑

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Jerry Ryan 2 years ago (edited)

If it was america s**t like this makes us all look bad here

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Sandra Easley 2 years ago

My Dad got a semi-automatic pistol badge. He was shooting at his target, supposedly, and hit all of his shots at the guy next door.

0points

Cori Crabb 2 years ago

0-0 who needs hands anyway.

0points

GramDB 2 years ago

OUCH OOPS!

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Susan McClure 2 years ago

Darwin Award nominee...

0points

Ela Hali 2 years ago

Damn. I so wished you'd add bazinga at the end...

0points

Cheyanne Pavan 2 years ago

Florida man is at it again...

0points

Lisa Anne 2 years ago

I love it.

0points

Rachel Bluth 2 years ago

Wow. So instead of (Occam's razor) him assuming he was a bad shot and that's why the target was unscathed, he thinks it's gotta be the gun? Lol. People, mate.

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Lxvi_XD 2 years ago

ouch

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Herobrine 2 years ago

Almost as bad as looking down the barrel of the gun tho.

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Pjerrot 2 years ago

🙈😭

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Marty Mcfly 2 years ago

Should have looked down it instead

0points

DandiPandi 2 years ago

Why didn't he just aim at the ground??? 😱😱

0points

Repo 2 years ago

Smrt

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Mayo 2 years ago (edited)

This is exactly what we have a class for a "first-time gun permit" or bar the first timer from getting their hand on any weapon.

0points

Marco Conti 2 years ago

Stigmata.

0points

Adele Xie 2 years ago

the name of the person tho- clickster-

0points

BasedWang 2 years ago

Maybe he was just goin for that Jesus look

0points

Blackadams 2 years ago

Again...you cant fix stupid

0points

Katherine Boag 2 years ago

WHYY

0points

AW 2 years ago

and this year's Darwin Award goes to...

0points

shodokai 2 years ago

Could just as easily been Alabama, Mississippi, or Texas.

0points

shodokai 2 years ago

Oops, I forgot, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska, Louisiana, Tennessee and Kentucky.

0points

Bobby 2 years ago

Something malfunctioned alright...

0points

Dog Fanatic 2 years ago

I facepalmed so hard I have a mark lmaooooo

0points

Mateo Bouri 2 years ago

Florida man thinks gun is broken shoot's hand, ends in hospital

-1point

Hello 2 years ago

Florida

-1point

Jaxx Roa 2 years ago

Florida man like 🤦‍♀️

-1point

🥖baguette~be~vibin🥖 2 years ago

Only in Florida

-1point

Joseph Kastorff 2 years ago

Florida Man strikes again!

-1point

j_m m_j 2 years ago

Indiana

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Freder 2 years ago

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Pallavi Gunalan’s tweet prompted a deluge of reactions. Many users chimed in with countless encounters where they witnessed their friends doing something ludicrous or downright dumb. Later on, Pallavi also posted a follow-up tweet about her friend’s situation: "I gave her an extra microwave I had. Really hoping she didn’t throw it away."

Well, let’s face it — we all have friends whose approach to life seems a little outlandish. While moments like these make us wonder whether people around us are not the smartest ones, we also start to remember the little mishaps we have done in our past. Basically, everyone has had their fair share of foolish moments.

While we easily brand many situations in life as "stupid", the word still sounds a bit subjective. Just think about a situation where you miss your bus stop, believe you’ll ace a test without studying, or trip over because you were captivated by your social media feed. According to scientists, we instantly call these things stupid because we are very quick to label it.

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Evil Little Thing 2 years ago

I think the mother just wanted a break from awful kid recorder practice

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adiiantryx 2 years ago

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Otter 2 years ago

I have a friend who has 2 advanced degrees from top universities and who speaks 7 languages... give me wrong directions to her house. Where she'd lived for 10 years.

200points

A study by researchers from Eotvos Lornand University in Hungary and Baylor University in Texas argue that studying why and when people call certain actions stupid can offer psychological insight. Not only because finding and declaring something as "stupid" is a simple everyday activity but also because it reflects how "people adjust their own behavior and expect others to."

The researchers wanted to find out "why we call certain actions stupid irrespective of [a person's] cognitive abilities," and to do that, they needed to understand what people mean by it. The main author of this study, Dr. Balázs Aczél, told Medical Daily that he and his colleagues were surprised to find very few studies have been done on this topic before.

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UncleRussian 2 years ago

Well he is persistent I'll give him that

151points

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Lovin' Life 2 years ago

That's sad! Never heard of instructions?

101points

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adiiantryx 2 years ago

when you don't go to science class

142points

While it may seem odd to learn how people decide that a thought or an action is straight-up dumb, scientists went on a mission to tackle this challenge. "Given how frequently we find situations in everyday life in which we do, or would, call someone's action 'stupid,' one would think we should understand when and why people experience this feeling," Dr. Aczél said.

Researchers collected and analyzed real-life examples of what people constitute as foolish. They gathered a sample of 180 news stories and other online content from news sites like The New York Times, BBC, and TMZ, and also blogs, forums, and other publicly available publications where people characterized actions described there as stupid.

They presented the stories to more than 150 Hungarian undergrad students, who had to fill out a questionnaire. People had to rate "the intensity of the stupidity on display," as well as explain why they thought any given action was stupid by choosing one of many categories (such as overconfidence and fatigue).

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Trillian 2 years ago

What's it with people in the US not believing anything they haven't personally tried or witnessed and yet this being such a religious country? I mean, come ON?

244points

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Trillian 2 years ago

Wealthy or not, would you not like ... I don't know ... TALK to your daughter if she did something like that even once?

169points

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Pumpkin Spice 2 years ago

*ulp*

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TyrantrumGogoat 2 years ago (edited)

He thought that somehow his breath could change...his voice???

93points

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Buren 2 years ago

Wait, he bought a house at 24?????

150points

The researchers divided participants’ answers into three distinct categories. The first one was called confident ignorance, when someone takes risks without having adequate skills and knowledge — and overestimating oneself is the highest level of stupidity. As an example, they provided a story about a burglar who meant to steal cellphones but lifted GPS devices instead, which led the police straight to him.

The second kind of stupidity was called absentmindedness, and it refers to people who failed to do the right thing because of a distraction or, again, inadequate skills. The last category, a lack of control, results from obsessive or addictive behavior, "such as someone who cancels on a friend because they can’t pull themselves away from something."

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DUN DUN (she/her) 2 years ago

Cuz it was the burrito's fault for not heating up inside the broken oven. What a shtupid burrito!

111points

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Cecily Holland 2 years ago

I’ve got one like that… If her brains were TNT she couldn’t concuss an ant

138points

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Cecily Holland 2 years ago

Disgusting

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Silas Rose 2 years ago

I wonder what he told them when the power went out?

80points

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TyrantrumGogoat 2 years ago

Where did she think it went??

92points

Dr. Aczél revealed they found 90 percent of students agreed on whether they would call an action stupid or not. "It shows that we use this label very similarly. Based on this, we would think that we must know what 'stupid' means," he explained. "People often think that it is strongly linked to low IQ. Our findings show that people attribute stupid to three independent situations."

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Leet_loves_space 2 years ago

this only works 10 times 11 for males

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Klorx 2 years ago

Welcome to everyone’s favorite game: Sheltered, sleep deprived, or plain ignorant?

151points

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Cecily Holland 2 years ago

And the earth is flat

142points

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Buren 2 years ago

I bet it's fragrant rice

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Rijkærd 2 years ago

I wanna be this rich but not this stupid...

239points

The findings of this study "bring us closer to understanding people’s conception of unintelligent behavior while emphasizing the broader psychological perspectives of studying the attribute of stupid in everyday life."

"We would like to explore whether discovering incongruities in our environment has an adaptive function," Dr. Aczél mentioned. "Maybe if we observe stupid actions of others, then it may make us less likely to make mistakes ourselves. So, if we are right, then finding something stupid may make us upset, but also a bit smarter in our actions."

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adiiantryx 2 years ago

'12 sure signs you were a spoilt and rich child'

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Cecily Holland 2 years ago

That’s a special kind of dumb

137points

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Dorothy Parker 2 years ago (edited)

There is a large nail-like kitchen item that you use for exactly that purpose. It's called, wait for it, a potato nail.

124points

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Not A Panda 2 years ago

I actually owned a dryer that ran on gas.

92points

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Rijkærd 2 years ago

Damn...she had an iron stomach....bet she could eat a railroad if it was slathered in ketchup

139points

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UncleRussian 2 years ago

On a side note I love lint rollers but god damn it I for the life of me can't peel them properly half the time

131points

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UncleRussian 2 years ago

It's one of them magical Bluetooth speakers that converts air particles into mana... The air crystal must've been broken

96points

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TyrantrumGogoat 2 years ago

Only when it works for you.

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UncleRussian 2 years ago

Ocean Bread, take me by the hand, lead me to the land that you understand

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Cecily Holland 2 years ago

How do these Dolts survive infancy?

106points

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TyrantrumGogoat 2 years ago

It's possible if you can do it right, but still!!

66points

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Julia Winfield 2 years ago

😂 yep that's how they get cleaned.. the just soak in water the entire cycle as if you'd left them soaking in a sink.. lol

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KJ 2 years ago

And then complain about the poor quality of the product because it didn't taste/look correct.

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Tristan Kenyon 2 years ago

Just really useless people

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DandiPandi 2 years ago

In all fairness, this just sounded like an honest mistake, like the cutting board was made to resemble a pizza stone 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Dorothy Parker 2 years ago (edited)

Those last three words have never before been spoken or written. Remember where you were when you read them.

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Kimi Tomminello 2 years ago

I think this is more passive-aggressive "Put your own cheese away" than stupidity, though

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Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago

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Stannous Flouride 2 years ago

More red flags than a Soviet May Day parade.

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Daniel Mattock 2 years ago

There’s no Canada like French Canada, it’s the best Canada in the land….

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Cecily Holland 2 years ago

Degrees mean nothing when it comes to intelligence. 3 of my cousins are Surgeons. Still idiots

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Johnny Rodriguez 2 years ago

Peel Forest, peel..

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Charlie Eatough 2 years ago

I did this exact same thing when I tried kombucha. Stuff is gross.

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ZAPanda 2 years ago

was this the same person who threw away a burrito after it failed to heat up? I see a market opportunity: self-heating food. hmmm.

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Lovin' Life 2 years ago

Are children not taught anything from their parents?

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Rijkærd 2 years ago

Yep...this one cant finish a pizza cut into 8 slices because they are to many but can finish the same if its 6 slices...

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Seanette Blaylock 2 years ago

That's actually how I do it, since I prefer stronger taste and less broth.

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Lovin' Life 2 years ago

Many of these seem to be the fault of the parents for noth teaching their children about life. Sheltered children don't do so well in the real world..

22points

Evelyn Haskins 2 years ago

Many of these seem total fiction!

3points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

We've all been the stupid person.

18points

Tomas Anshelm 2 years ago

Sure... But there are levels of stupidity and I (and no one I've ever met) have never been this level of stupid. But I don't live in America. It does seem to be common place with people of this intellectual stature in the US 🤔

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Kona Pake 2 years ago

Worked as a AF machinist for a while. A marine machinist who was permitted to use our machines came in with a blood blister under his thumb. He put a tiny drill bit in a chuck on a drill press, turned it on and commence to drill a hole to drain the blood blister under his thumb. You can imagine what happened.

8points

Memere 2 years ago

My ex-brother-in-law was a construction worker (carpenter) & he always had at least one fingernail or thumbnail that was purple from bruising & had a hole in it. That's how a lot of construction workers relieve the pressure when they've mashed a finger or thumb, but most of them use a hand drill, not a drill press!

1point

David Martin 2 years ago

My mother both loves and hates this story because she knows it's a moment she's never going to live down. We'd been at an amusement park for a few hours when my sister needed a bathroom. My mom got the map from her pocket to find one close by, looks for a moment, and says she can't find the You Are Here dot. I calmly mentioned "Well...that's because that's a walking around map, not a stationary one". About twenty years later now, and still funny to me

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Bex 2 years ago

I had a friend who was pretty dumb (he knew this about himself) and would often ask stupid questions in total seriousness. But I was still thrown the day he wondered outloud how socks get holes in them. FYI, he was also confused about why his favorite Italian restaurant had a bust of the Pope since, and I quote, "The Pope's Mexican."

3points

ƒιѕн 2 years ago

And Columbus day is the day the pilgrims landed on the moon.

3points

Cheyanne Pavan 2 years ago

So this one is actually me: The first time my husband & I went to Rome, we were choosing among cheeses from a display. He looked very confused when I asked, "With all these amazing cheeses, why do they import from New York?" So I pointed to the buffalo mozzarella & he cracked up laughing while explaining buffalo was the animal, not the city.

2points

Kiwii Stone 2 years ago

Someone I work with thought that stars in the sky are little twinkly things that accompany the moon. She didn't realise our sun is a star. That took some explaining!

2points

That_jalapeno_floofball 1 year ago

Not my friend but a random old lady at Walmart- she asked one of the employees, "Can I have a can opener to, you know, open some cans?" and she even made a motion with her hands.

1point

That_jalapeno_floofball 1 year ago

Oh, and I was in Florida, of course.

0points

Amy Broderick 2 years ago

My son was going through TSA and the agent told him 'face down' when he handed her his ticket so he put his face on the scanner. To be fair he was stoned at the time

1point

Mr. Jones 2 years ago

In high school in the 80s, a mutual friend told my cousin that stop signs with white rings around them were yield signs if there were no other cars approaching the intersection. She believed her. One day while riding in the car with our dads, my cousin was blowing through stop signs. Her dad yelled at her to pull the f**k over. He was like, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" She said, "Dad, everyone knows that stop signs with white rings around them are optional." He looked back at me. I said, "Don't look at me, I would certainly never tell her something that stupid." We had to get a driver's ed manual to show her she was wrong. We joke about it to this day.

1point

Candia Lee 2 years ago

They are in Texas. Not legal, but practical.

0points

Ariom Dahl 2 years ago

Entertaining -- of the face-palming kind -- but very difficult to believe some of these could be true.

1point

Tony Verrilli 5 months ago

people who make a quick decision based on initial info may not be stupid (Mr Chicken). but when theres a thought process involved - with multiple steps that leads to stupid... then theres little hope of recovery .

0points

nasa xxx 1 year ago

these are so stupid

0points

Annie Steele 2 years ago

After years at boarding school, I came home and put the teapot on the hob to boil water, totally forgot about the kettle 😅

0points

Mykidsartrocks 2 years ago

I told my SIL (24) that the small dent on her head was a button to let air escape and help brain function. I was seriously joking but she started pushing it with one hand while holding the other hand to her ear to see if she could feel the air coming out. My brother loves this woman so we make the best of it.

0points

Nat Jones 2 years ago

My ex wasn't convinced that boy/girl twins can only be faternal & not identical. He said "nah, I don't think that's right...". Scary thing was, he was training to be a nurse! 😳

0points

Melissa Hollowell 2 years ago

Before leaving for school on cold mornings, I would make sure my blankets were pulled up all the way to the top of the bed--to hold in the heat--and never understood why the bed was cold that night. I did not have a strong grasp of thermodynamics at age 9.

0points

Candia Lee 2 years ago

I was an adult before I realized I could wear whatever I wanted to bed. I would fall asleep in front of the TV, then chill and wake myself when I changed into night clothes. When it got really cold, I wore ski pants, ski coat, gloves, hat, boots, over layers. My childhood bedroom was 58F, so a flannel nightgown and single blanket were really insufficient.

0points

Mindghost 2 years ago (edited)

When we were about 10 y.o. 2 friends and me found 130$ lying on the floor in a parking lot. We were there to go swimming. I said "let's take it", but my friends said "No, wE bRiNg It To ThE LoSt AnD FoUnD BuReAu ._." And we did. After 1 year and 23 persons who were visiting the bureau with no success it was their 130$ we were OK to get it back. Same friend said "LeT's GiVe ThE MoNeY tO ThE cLaSs FuNd FoR oUr NeXt ClAsS jOuRnEy". We did, never used it on a class journey or something like that and it was given to the school as extra budget. Imagine what you would do as a 10 y.o. with 1/3 of 130 $ and now imagine what a public school does with the 130$. Oh the school had so much joy with the extra 0.0001% money.... not >_>

0points

Lauren Caswell 2 years ago

I get that you would have had fun with it, but you guys did the right thing. Having moral fibre regardless of whether anyone knows or sees is important (imo anyway)

7points

Bruce Leibee 2 years ago

ALL COMPLETE BS.

-2points

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Lovin' Life 2 years ago

Many of these seem to be the fault of the parents for noth teaching their children about life. Sheltered children don't do so well in the real world..

22points

Evelyn Haskins 2 years ago

Many of these seem total fiction!

3points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

We've all been the stupid person.

18points

Tomas Anshelm 2 years ago

0points

Kona Pake 2 years ago

8points

Memere 2 years ago

1point

David Martin 2 years ago

5points

Bex 2 years ago

3points

ƒιѕн 2 years ago

And Columbus day is the day the pilgrims landed on the moon.

3points

Cheyanne Pavan 2 years ago

2points

Kiwii Stone 2 years ago

Someone I work with thought that stars in the sky are little twinkly things that accompany the moon. She didn't realise our sun is a star. That took some explaining!

2points

That_jalapeno_floofball 1 year ago

Not my friend but a random old lady at Walmart- she asked one of the employees, "Can I have a can opener to, you know, open some cans?" and she even made a motion with her hands.

1point

That_jalapeno_floofball 1 year ago

Oh, and I was in Florida, of course.

0points

Amy Broderick 2 years ago

My son was going through TSA and the agent told him 'face down' when he handed her his ticket so he put his face on the scanner. To be fair he was stoned at the time

1point

Mr. Jones 2 years ago

1point

Candia Lee 2 years ago

They are in Texas. Not legal, but practical.

0points

Ariom Dahl 2 years ago

Entertaining -- of the face-palming kind -- but very difficult to believe some of these could be true.

1point

Tony Verrilli 5 months ago

0points

nasa xxx 1 year ago

these are so stupid

0points

Annie Steele 2 years ago

After years at boarding school, I came home and put the teapot on the hob to boil water, totally forgot about the kettle 😅

0points

Mykidsartrocks 2 years ago

0points

Nat Jones 2 years ago

My ex wasn't convinced that boy/girl twins can only be faternal & not identical. He said "nah, I don't think that's right...". Scary thing was, he was training to be a nurse! 😳

0points

Melissa Hollowell 2 years ago

0points

Candia Lee 2 years ago

0points

Mindghost 2 years ago (edited)

0points

Lauren Caswell 2 years ago

I get that you would have had fun with it, but you guys did the right thing. Having moral fibre regardless of whether anyone knows or sees is important (imo anyway)

7points