Join the Fun!

Interestingly, when it comes to useless questions, "How are you?" is one of them. When you think about it, it makes sense since the person asking doesn't really want to know, and the person responding doesn't bother telling the truth.

But, according to Harvard researchers, the key to mastering small talk is to simply ask the other person follow-up questions. After analyzing more than 300 online conversations, the researchers found that those who were asked more meaningful follow-up questions (those that aren't "how are you?" or "what do you do?"), found the other person much more likable.

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults Had to explain to someone that islands don't tip over if you put too much weight on the edge.

Usefuldrone , Scott Report

Final score:

237points

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Pamela24 5 years ago

Okay - finally - I laughed at one of these. :D

77points

PracticalBrad , Aiko, Thomas & Juliette+Isaac Report

"When people are instructed to ask more questions, they are perceived as higher in responsiveness, an interpersonal construct that captures listening, understanding, validation and care," the researchers said.

At first, it can be tricky moving beyond the "hourly update" (traffic, sports, weather...), but try to get to things that are more important and personal to you.

If you're still not sure where to start, share some news that actually happened to you, for example, "I adopted a pet."

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults My wife and I had to explain to the neighbor that our dog is part of our family, and no they can't just have him.

Their kids wanted our dog, which was cute, until the mother also decided that she wanted our dog and it was only fair that they got to have him on the weekends because we get to have him all week long

Final score:

235points

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John L 5 years ago

I would then immediately get my dog chipped....

200points

Lastly, don't forget to commit to the moment and observe your surroundings. That means opening your eyes before you open your mouth. Find something to focus on in what's around you, like the piece of art on the wall, a quirky gadget on the table, there has to be something. It might ignite small talk and help lead the conversation into unique follow-up questions.

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults I had to explain to my mother that muscles are meat.

A piece of meat was tough, and so I must have said something about what part of the cow the muscle came from. No, we weren't eating muscles, we were eating 'meat'. She was sickened by the concept that anyone would eat muscles. Somehow this got to the point of her claiming that humans didn't have any 'meat' on them because they aren't food.

I did not 'win' that argument. Humans have no meat, meat is not muscles. Period. Oh, it turns out people are not part of the animal kindom either.

It was a dismal childhood.

jtclimb , Jun Seita Report

Final score:

229points

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Lenka Smetanová 5 years ago

My cousin argued with me that we are not animals and we are even not mamals

90points

custardandcrumble , Beatrice Murch Report

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults Scenario 1:

Them:” So where are you from?” Me: “South Africa.” Them: “Wait what?...Aren’t you supposed to be black?” Me: “uh yeah no”

Scenario 2:

Them: “So which country are you from?” Me: “South Africa.” Them: “Yeah but which country?” Me: “yeah I just said South Africa.” Them:”come on dude just tell me the country - I know where South of Africa is. Me:”No, actually South Africa is a whole country...”

Final score:

223points

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ADHORTATOR 5 years ago

Unbelievable....

82points

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults I had to explain to a teacher, in front of her class, that a penguin was a bird.

I didn’t want to be like that but she was adamant that if it didn’t fly, it wasn’t a bird.

chickenlaaag , Nigel Swales Report

Final score:

208points

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Jon S. 5 years ago (edited)

There is an old (like 200 year old) definition of a bird as a thing that flies and a fish as a thing that swims. Family relationships between animals were not known or understood, so not taken into account. I occasionally still come across fragments of this way of thinking, which is, I imagine, where this teacher got her ideas from.

62points

Antares25 , Dmitry EliuseevFollow Report

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults I had to explain to my friend that the earth wasn't 2019 years old.

Final score:

202points

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razan youssef 5 years ago

someone once had to explain this to me too...in my defense I was 6 years old!

123points

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults As a server, there are so many times I have to explain to guests that chicken can’t be cooked “medium rare”.

Anon29485382 , cattan2011 Report

Final score:

201points

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ƒιѕн 5 years ago

Ugh nasty..

72points

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults Why a room below sea level on a cruise ship would not have a balcony

JustSomeGirl31718 , Lyn Gateley Report

Final score:

196points

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Greg Hoggarth 5 years ago

Pfft, the Titanic has balconies and it's under water.

208points

#10

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults My mom asked me why you couldn't see the borders of states when you were in an airplane.

AClubOfLosers , David Shane Report

Final score:

195points

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Phil DeBlanc 5 years ago

Mom, Am I adopted? Please tell me I'm adopted.

190points

#11

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults That I couldn’t just go to the bathroom and pee my period out to be done with it. He was about 19/20 at the time and obviously didn’t have sex education....been married 25 years. He will never live that down.

csiddiqui , Mark Norman Francis Report

Final score:

189points

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chi-wei shen 5 years ago

Poor husband. One stupid comment at a young age and it got him a life sentence.

72points

#12

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults Don’t bring your dog to work and let her pee/poop on the carpet. Tiny poop and little puddles are not ok just because they’re tiny. She weighs 4 pounds. He said she’s so little it doesn’t matter. He said he never even notices at home and if I had a dog, I’d feel differently. (Have a dog. Still don’t want urine and feces in my carpet—at home or at work.)

mystyry , osseous Report

Final score:

186points

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Vic 5 years ago

Good God!!

82points

#13

I had to explain to a lady that dinosaur bones at the Museum of Natural History in DC were real. She thought dinosaurs were mythical creatures...not real.

maritagator Report

Final score:

186points

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DemPugs 5 years ago

So are her brain cells, apparently.

149points

#14

That drinks have caloric content. A coworker was complaining how she was having trouble losing weight and didn't realize drinking 4 hot chocolates a day was not really conducive to weight loss.

freemasonry Report

Final score:

185points

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Vic 5 years ago

My evil mind thinks, tell shes not having enough hot chocolate..😈😈

71points

#15

Had a coworker who said she didn't eat eggs because they're "forced abortion babies"... Chick refused to accept that unfertilized eggs don't hatch and she didn't have to worry because she's just eating the chickens' periods. After this conversation carried on far too long, she proceeded to eat a bowl of pasta that I'm 97% sure was made with eggs.

isyssot_7399 Report

Final score:

184points

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SykesDaMan 5 years ago

Ok, you confused me when you called her "Chick"... :p

165points

Iza Yusop 5 years ago

Like she is having conversation with young female chicken about eating her own egg...

14points

Kathy Baylis 5 years ago (edited)

Now THAT’S a conversation on this particular subject I’d be interested in seeing!

6points

panda_legerdemain 5 years ago

Me too!

1point

Electric Ed 5 years ago

"eating the chickens' periods" Thank you for that mental image!

24points

Ang.stl 5 years ago

I’m so glad I already hate eggs!! Otherwise I’d totally puke the next time I went to eat one. If it’s in something so I don’t see it, I don’t mind, but I don’t need to see the period in full force!

0points

mulk 5 years ago

Yeah! And Honey is bee's vomit ^^

11points

SashaAlexandra 5 years ago

The next post should be about someone explaining you a simple thing that eggs is not the chicken periods.

5points

Roxy Eastland 5 years ago

Drives me nuts when people refer to eggs as 'a chicken's period'. Sorry, but that shows a complete contempt for basic biology. If you don't want to eat eggs because you don't agree with how chickens are treated in industrialised poultry units then good for you, that makes sense, and I understand why you'd want others to know about what goes on. But trying to put people off by likening eggs (which humans have been eating since before we were humans) with the shed lining of a woman's uterus is an embarrassingly poor attempt at emotional manipulation that anyone that's resorted to it should be ashamed of.

2points

dev mehta 5 years ago

Tell her that eggs come out of chickens a*s

2points

Kathleen Barlow 5 years ago

I had a colleague that refused to drink milk because 'of where it came from', yet had absolutely no problems eating cheese and didn't believe anyone that told her that it's made from milk and rennet. In fact, also refused to believe that rennet is enzymes from the lining of a cow's stomach. Apparently she 'grew up on a farm'. Yeah, right.

2points

F. H. 5 years ago

Weeell, nowadays it's usually produced by bacteria.

1point

LadyAna 5 years ago

This is so wrong on so many levels.

1point

Verena Abt 2 years ago

"the chickens periods" sounds appetizing!

0points

Redfox 5 years ago

My now ex-boyfriend is a vegetarian, but he would eat cheese and have yoghurt. I asked him one day why he didn't eat eggs. "Because they are animals, and I don't eat animal products." I explained that you need a rooster to fertilise the hen's ova to create a chick in the egg, he said, "No, that's not what I meant, I don't eat animal products." I explained that the milk from cows/sheep/goats made milk for yoghurt and cheese that he ate, which are animal product. His reply? Blank look on the face. Nothing. Na-da. Still eats yoghurt but not cheese now. Nor eggs.

0points

Sue Rogers 5 years ago

LMAO!

0points

Ashley Wright 5 years ago

Loony. Bird.

0points

Bunzilla 5 years ago

.... what does she think a period is then?

0points

elfin 5 years ago

There's nothing forced about laying an egg. What is the poor chicken supposed to do? Store them inside for her whole life?

0points

Darlene Michuk 5 years ago

Chicken.....

0points

Victoria Swift 5 years ago

R/thathappen

0points

Elizabeth 5 years ago

I'm surprised this person isn't a vegetarian. Eating the chicken is more murder than eating the egg would be

0points

Claire 5 years ago

And milk is cow breast milk. I have never really understood why 3+ year-old kids get scorned for breastfeeding from their mothers when adults and most of the world forcibly impregnate cows, take their babies, and then drink THEIR breast milk. I guess cow milk is so much less gross than human milk...

-1point

Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago

Why would you care about a chicken abortion if you don’t care about a chicken!?!? Where have I heard this before...? Any guess, anti-choicers?

-1point

Foxxy 5 years ago

Where does it say in the post that the women who doesn’t eat eggs, eats chicken though?

4points

pebs 5 years ago

Only in USA.

-2points

#16

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults 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.

MeddlingDragon , pxhere Report

Final score:

179points

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Helen Haley 5 years ago

That they wanted to do this was clue number 1.

124points

#17

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults When a 'smart' bomb strikes a building and blows it up, it doesn't just kill the bad guys, it kills everyone in the building. Smart only means it's going to hit the building instead of a random location.

Patches67 , bnpositive Report

Final score:

178points

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Monday 5 years ago

....please tell me this person doesn't work for the military.

156points

#18

New Mexico.

Is.

A.

State.

You have no idea the number of people that believe we are a part of Mexico.

Electro522 Report

Final score:

177points

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ƒιѕн 5 years ago

Mexico can be South South Canada

142points

#19

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults Told my roommate that if he cooked food on less than the highest level of heat, he wouldn't burn as much food, and would generally have more success.

A week later, I explained to him that when he was just boiling water, high heat was okay.

CrazyRainbowStar , Matt Buck Report

Final score:

172points

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Monday 5 years ago

At least he was trying. Lots of parents don't teach their kids how to cook anymore.

168points

#20

Had to explain to a female friend of mine that she doesn't have to take out her tampon to pee because it's two completely different holes.

batataasfritaas Report

Final score:

172points

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mulk 5 years ago

WTF?!?

89points

Frugal_Midwestern , Emmett Tullos Report

#21

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults That Earth has one moon. The new moon on the calendar every month confused her.

Final score:

170points

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Flameclaw 5 years ago

But on QI they said that we have no moon.... Or was it two, or 10, or 100's???

42points

#22

Food isn't vegetarian just because it has vegetables in it, and lack of vegetables doesn't automatically mean it isn't vegetarian.

Story time. I went to a restaurant and was looking over the menu, which had vegetarian friendly options marked. Pretzels with cheese weren't marked, so I asked the waitress if she knew why. If it was just something in the cheese, I still wanted to split the pretzels with others at the table and skip the cheese dip. Her answer? "Well, it's like, um, so pretzels don't have any vegetables like broccoli in them, they're just bread, so they aren't vegetarian. But if you wanted something that is, then you could maybe get the chicken and broccoli because it does have a vegetable with it. But like the mac and cheese wouldn't be because it doesn't have vegetables." Mac and cheese was marked vegetarian friendly.

Lowe314 Report

Final score:

167points

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ZombieGirl 5 years ago

Oh bless her heart...

112points

#23

That dropping "water bombs" on the Notre Dame fire is [frikkin] stupid. He just wasn't hearing it, because of course I couldn't know more about firefighting than the president... I'm a firefighter, I was in uniform.

Gnarbuttah Report

Final score:

162points

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chi-wei shen 5 years ago

What do you expect from a president who wants to buy Greenland with more than 50,000 people living there? Of course he knows everything better than you and anyone else.

108points

#24

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults In regards to the North and South poles, neither is "the one that is always hot."

mizboring , Sean Report

Final score:

159points

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Lenka Smetanová 5 years ago

"You mean central africa?" 😂😂😂

44points

#25

At my work a lady wanted a hamburger but with cheese on it. I said "Oh, so you want a cheeseburger"

The lady said "No, I said a hamburger with cheese on it"

I said "That's called a cheeseburger"

Lady screams "No!! I want a damn hamburger!!!!! with cheese on it!!!"

Cannonfury Report

Final score:

158points

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Signe Kyster 5 years ago

I have had customers who wanted a cheeseburger - without cheese!

130points

#26

That Halloween has never and will never fall on Friday the 13th. It was my mom.

theawkwardmermaid Report

Final score:

155points

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ƒιѕн 5 years ago

Every year I tell some gullible person that this is the first year in 666 years that Halloween falls on Friday the 13th.

115points

#27

Every St Patrick's day in San Antonio they dye the river green. I work hospitality and I had a middle age woman asking me if she could drink the water from the River. I laughed thinking it was a joke but she was really serious about it and got mad saying I was being condescending. I told her no, you should not drink that water and she said that since there was green beer she thought the river could be beer. I reminded her there are ducks living there and I don't think the city wanted drunk ducks going around downtown. She called corporate saying I insulted her. She was not drunk.

Mantuko Report

Final score:

153points

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Daria Z 5 years ago

The less intelligent always seem to feel outraged and/or insulted the most.

161points

#28

If you don't pay your utility bill then said utility will be turned off - everyday at work I have to say this to customers. Every. Day.

Spellflinger2019 Report

Final score:

151points

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Vic 5 years ago

I certainly don't envy your job..

62points

#29

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults Canada is part of North America

Jonouy , mapswire Report

Final score:

149points

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ƒιѕн 5 years ago

And the US is South Canada.

148points

#30

You can't/shouldn't iron your clothes while you're wearing them. One guess as to how this came up.

PerilousAll Report

Final score:

147points

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Mangoes'nRum 5 years ago

You can, but you shouldn't.

126points

#31

That you can't get aids through sexual intercourse if you don't already have the HIV virus inside your body or your partner is carrying it. A guy I talked to once thought that gay men got AIDS simply by having gay sex, and that the disease just spontaneously appeared through the act of inter-anal insemination. I don't even think that he understood the concept of a virus.

uninc4life2010 Report

Final score:

145points

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Vic 5 years ago

So the HIV hides in the a**s and waits for a penis to show up?😆😆

170points

#32

An ex was convinced that the reason the ozone layer is thinning is because airplanes poke holes in as they pass through. No telling her otherwise.

hamlin6 Report

Final score:

145points

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Beh Pnkt 5 years ago

as long as there are no m**o snakes on that m**o plane, I'm fine.

69points

Tsitsiripitsitsiri Report

#33

Press up when you want to go up in the elevator and down if you want to go down. She thought you had to guess where the elevator was and if it was under you lets say, you had to press up.

Final score:

144points

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Kaisu 5 years ago

I know there are a lot of people who think you control the elevator like that using the buttons

63points

#34

Had to explain to a neighbor that the sun and the moon were not the same thing.

afinelittlefrenzy Report

Final score:

142points

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Vic 5 years ago

Hope this neighbor was 3yrs old..

126points

#35

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults Yes sir, when you sign up for insurance you're agreeing to pay for it.

Emperor_Cartagia , Alex Indigo Report

Final score:

140points

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DemPugs 5 years ago

Nah, Imma get a mortgage, and not pay for it. Ain't no one taking my proper-tay!

51points

#36

That Spain is a real place.

That not everyone who speaks Spanish is a Mexican. And that Mexicans are called that because they’re from Mexico.

That titties and boobies are not the anatomical words for breasts.

theressomanydogs Report

Final score:

136points

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ƒιѕн 5 years ago

Titties and boobies in South South Canada

61points

#37

There are more than 6 bones in the human body... she thought it was head, back, arms and legs.

CommonCreator Report

Final score:

135points

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DemPugs 5 years ago

Ok, some of these are reasonable to not know, but has she ever felt her hands or toes?

52points

#38

45 People Share The Most Obvious Things They Had To Explain To Fellow Adults You can still get diarrhea even if you believe in Jesus...

CrossYourStars , Elliott Brown Report

Final score:

135points

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Vic 5 years ago

I'd like to know the whole story behind this..😄😄

16points

#39

"Well, sir, it's not illegal to serve food that tastes bad....No, this isn't a police issue".

IamFuzzyWuzzy Report

Final score:

134points

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DemPugs 5 years ago

Reminds me of the time two people called the cops because they were fighting over a parking spot and wouldn't move. People can be stupid sometimes.

51points

#40

How to use packing tape! You haven't lived until you've told a 40 year old man to put the sticky side on the box.

The_UniCorgi Report

Final score:

133points

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Vic 5 years ago

I have not lived!

58points

#41

I once had to explain to a college friend that Indians didn’t have spices running in their blood that allows them to eat spicier food.

barackandrollband Report

Final score:

132points

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Vic 5 years ago

As an Indian, the chilly running in my blood just stopped to shake it's head in disagreement..

167points

#42

When you travel at 60mph you will cover sixty miles in an hour.

howverysmooth Report

Final score:

131points

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A B C 5 years ago

If you up it to 88 mph, you can travel back in time. But don't tell them.

165points

#43

Turn off the high beams for cars traveling in the opposite direction.

_Poopacabra Report

Final score:

129points

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Jon S. 5 years ago

Arrrgh! This drives me crazy

74points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

See Also on Bored Panda

Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

#44

That the North Pole is an actual place on the planet and not just a mythical place where Santa and his Elves live. Also had to explain that the South Pole is real.

Granted, they did not think Santa is real. But they also didn't believe me flat out about the poles, they first argued saying I was crazy and then Googled it.

happykittysmores Report

Final score:

124points

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A B C 5 years ago

Oh you're dumb, the earth is flat, how should there be a south pole? *sarcasm off*

64points

#45

That chickens can lay eggs without a rooster around. My dad and grandma kept trying to tell me there HAS to be a rooster or they don’t lay. I got to explain that to have fertilized eggs you need a rooster but regular eggs for eating don’t need a rooster

stephmaybe Report

Final score:

123points

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Electric Ed 5 years ago

I thought so too. Quick googling confirms that a rooster isn't needed. Feels weird to be wrong.

58points

#46

Had to explain to my 26 year old coworker that the moon does not in fact emit its own light and is simply glowing from the reflection of the sunlight

OV3NBVK3D Report

Final score:

119points

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Vic 5 years ago

A lot of people who didn't get enough education might not know this

59points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

See Also on Bored Panda

“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

#47

"No, you should not perform an auto-vasectomy at home. You should see a doctor for that"

QuickNPainful Report

Final score:

116points

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Jon S. 5 years ago

Oh dear...Darwin Award candidate?

109points

just_visiting_earth Report

#48

That Australia and India do not “share a border.”

Final score:

114points

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ƒιѕн 5 years ago

Australia can be Down Under Canada

109points

#49

If you don't go to work you won't get paid, especially when you're constantly complaining about always being broke. You can't call out whenever you don't want to go in, and then wonder why you have no money.

llcucf80 Report

Final score:

113points

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ƒιѕн 5 years ago

All of my employees

40points

#50

That a prairie dog and a coyote are 2 different animals, this was a high school teacher.

nora1981 Report

Final score:

109points

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Viviane Katz 5 years ago

Sounds as if someone took "prairie dog" literally.

48points

#51

If you've found a dog and are making a sign it should say "found dog" not "lost dog"

marlynn Report

Final score:

109points

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tuzdayschild 5 years ago

This dog is not mine. Is it yours?

3points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

See Also on Bored Panda

French Diver’s “Jewels” In Tight Swimming Trunks Become Talk Of The Town At Olympics

#52

A coworker of mine recently quit without notice. A few weeks later, she wasn't liking her new job much and said she wanted to come back to the store. She could not comprehend the concept of being ineligible for rehire. If you quit without notice, they're not going to take you back!

MorwensCats Report

Final score:

106points

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Wil Vanderheijden 5 years ago

I bet she even called a lawyer to sue the business.

34points

#53

My friend worked at Office Depot and had to explain to a customer why he couldn’t make him photocopies of a 20 dollar bill

ynm666 Report

Final score:

103points

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Vic 5 years ago

The easiest way was to let him..

56points

#54

You shouldn't put scotch in your baby's formula.

WeirdJuul Report

Final score:

103points

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DemPugs 5 years ago

If you do that, you don't deserve to have a pet rock, let alone a child.

121points

#55

That power tools need to be turned on in order to work.

TheRealNERFninja Report

Final score:

102points

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Vic 5 years ago

*Looks for power switch on the hammer*

97points

#56

Had to explain to my wife that pickles were made of cucumbers

She didn’t believe me, still not sure she does

Brownale78 Report

Final score:

100points

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Emma B 5 years ago

Someone did not watch Magic School Bus as a kid!

45points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

See Also on Bored Panda

Mom Leaves $250k Inheritance To Son, Throws A Fit When Daughter Stops Looking After Her

#57

Retirement is something you have to actually prepare for. Magic money does not create itself in a fund that you never started.

dattsok Report

Final score:

98points

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Signe Kyster 5 years ago

I work at a retirement company. You would be amazed how many people thinks that! Also that if you just have the smallest saving, you will be set for your entire retirement. "But I have 50.000 dollars in savings". Yes, that will last you how long?

33points

#58

i was explaining to my ex girlfriends brother that i will be travling to hawaii he asked “can you drive or do you have to take a plane to get there?” he’s 35

THEREALKEVINSANE Report

Final score:

96points

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Signe Kyster 5 years ago

A friend of mine in high school was traveling to Berlin. She said that she might just take the airlift build in WW2 to get there.

26points

#59

Had to explain to a 40 year old woman that the clitoris and “pee hole” are different.

lubodogg Report

Final score:

95points

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Finn Fickle 5 years ago

Had to explain this to my 70 year old grandma.

32points

#60

That our sun is a star. It was one of the things that made me say out loud "seriously?"

conmarap Report

Final score:

95points

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ƒιѕн 5 years ago

Yes the Sun is one of the many many stars in the Milky Eh

40points

#61

That getting a bunch of morning after pills from the student health center and having me take one every time we had unprotected sex was a recipe for disaster. And before you ask, he grew up in the Bay Area and was the child of two professors, so it’s not because of a lack of access to sex ed.

frig-off-mr-lahey Report

Final score:

95points

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Wil Vanderheijden 5 years ago

Learn the difference between "a lack of access to sex ed." and actually having "a factual sex ed." other then "Just don't do it"

43points

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

See Also on Bored Panda

“This Breaks My Heart”: People Stunned—And Angry—After Woman Buys Lost Luggage From Airport

#62

To make pasta you have to boil the water

caprijew Report

Final score:

91points

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SmittenKitten 5 years ago

Or eat it raw... 🤪

30points

#63

That Michigan wasn't the capital of Detroit and that Jerusalem, not Jewersilum exists. My former best friend was and still is the dumbest person I've ever met.

MommySaysBadWords Report

Final score:

88points

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Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch 5 years ago

and Al Bundy is the capital of New York.

20points

#64

I am a manufacturing engineer and had to explain to a 33 year old engineering technician what a nut, bolt and washer were Friday.

This is just the icing on her grossly incompetent cake, and I have been logging these incidents with the intent of firing her Monday morning.

ForgeIsDown Report

Final score:

88points

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Kath Leen 5 years ago

i recently met a canadian guy who applied several jobs with the goal of learning things.. he said he will apply for a certain job that he has no knowledge of, asks a lot of stuff like how do they do this and that. he will learn a thing or two before he get fired within a day. the process continue til he already became expert for certain process.

9points

#65

There’s a girl I used to work with who didn’t know submarines actually existed.

lacroixisbad Report

Final score:

86points

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Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch 5 years ago

They exist. And they are delicious.

101points

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

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Guy Divorced 3 Years Ago Drops Off 3 Y.O. With His Ex-Wife Completely Out Of The Blue

#66

Had to explain to someone in college that "3 seconds of dish soap" was not necessary for each plate you wash. As in he would turn the dish soap upside down, and squeeze for "1...2...3". For. Each. Plate

Mynameisnotmckenna Report

Final score:

86points

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LuckyL 5 years ago

never heard about measuring dish soap in seconds

108points

#67

Alcohol has calories.

I had to be the one to tell my friend when she was in her mid-20s that the vodka she loved has calories. She was so shocked and said, "What!! I thought since it was clear like water it didn't have any calories."

-eDgAR- Report

Final score:

86points

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DemPugs 5 years ago

Cyanide is also clear, so it's completely harmless because it looks like water!

77points

#68

That milk comes from a cow the same color as you see it in the carton and is not in fact actually red milk that has been dyed white in the factory

empb85 Report

Final score:

86points

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Giovanni 5 years ago

There's this myth among some vegans that milk it's filtered blood, i don't know who came up with it, IIRC nipples are highly modified sweat glands so milk it's more akin to fatty sweat.

50points

#69

My mother told me nobody can live on $40,000 (USD) a year, and I was unable to get her to understand that it is pretty normal to make $40,000 or less and people do fine with that salary.

SyntaxGiraffe Report

Final score:

84points

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kasa alex 5 years ago

I used to live on waaay less than that, in Australia where living costs are expensive

33points

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

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College Student Does Exactly As Told After Roommates Demand They Keep Their Stuff In Their Room

#70

You can't use an electric blanket to dry your bedsheets.

221 Report

Final score:

80points

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DemPugs 5 years ago

Ugh, warm, damp sheets...So comforting...

48points

#71

A dear friend of mine phoned his mother, on his first week away at college, to ask her how you cooked eggs. He was having trouble working the shells in. He wasn't kidding.

mranster Report

Final score:

80points

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DaVo 5 years ago

I don't even know what this means....

37points

#72

6 inches isn't 0.6 of a foot. She had been slowly, unknowingly, overcharging our company for materials for years.

fronchtoast Report

Final score:

79points

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Martha Meyer 5 years ago

She was ahead of the rest of the country and already using the metric system.

119points

#73

That oil isn't easier to get in the Middle East because "you only have to drill through sand".

hakoMike Report

Final score:

78points

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A B C 5 years ago

Actually, drilling through sand isn't that easy, cause it tends to stick. But I reckon that's too much for them to understand anyways.

2points

#74

That all babies, including the first one after marriage, take 9-10 months to develop. Just because the first one comes along in under 9 months, doesn't mean that it takes less gestational time.

I was in my mid twenties, and she was several years older.

Pudacat Report

Final score:

75points

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Dynein 5 years ago

Well, people used to think that... back when premarital sex and children out of wedlock were a huge no-no. Ever since opinions changed on that, the durations of first pregnancies in a marriage miraculously switched to taking around 9 months exactly like for every following child...

29points

#75

That's having sex on your period doesn't automatically create AIDS. One of the two people need to already have AIDS.

grumpygusmcgooney Report

Final score:

75points

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A B C 5 years ago

That.... that just doesn't make any sense at all.

37points

#76

That raisins are dried grapes

alexzanderrrrrrrr Report

Final score:

73points

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CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago

Wait until you hear about prunes.

5points

#77

That you cannot convert between square meters and cubic feet without additional data.

SQUARE meters. CUBIC feet.

drsameagle Report

Final score:

70points

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Joseph Georgiadis 5 years ago

You can! Any number of SQUARE METERS = ZERO CUBIC FEET (as height=zero).

66points

JonathanWantsToDie Report

#78

You have to use water to cook rice in a pan

Final score:

68points

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Thomas Vinters 5 years ago

To be fair, you CAN prepare rice in a somewhat similar manner to popcorn.

5points

#79

How to use a new type of electric hand-drying machine (mounted on the wall) in a public men's room.

The guy tried everything to make it work, other than following the simple instructions on the hand-dryer (it even had arrows pointing the way where his hands should be inserted to activate it).

Back2Bach Report

Final score:

66points

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Wil Vanderheijden 5 years ago

Instructions are so overrated.

40points

#80

I had to explain to my friend that we didn't actually gain an hour of sunlight when we changed the clocks in the spring.

TheNightRumbler Report

Final score:

66points

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CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago

Can we explain this to the government? Because I fricking hate the twice a year change.

10points

#81

Pasta does not grow on trees.
Mybe she was an adult yet though, but she definitely wasn't a kid either. Late teen I suppose.

RedVlvtPanda Report

Final score:

64points

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Steve Barnett 5 years ago

Maybe she watched this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU

33points

#82

I work with this guy who thinks that average precipitation us, like... Some sort of quota that nature is obliged to meet. For example, if it's a particularly dry summer, he thinks it will just rain a lot in the last few days before summer ends.

metal_falsetto Report

Final score:

61points

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Alexandru Bucur 5 years ago

I say we sue nature for breach of contract for failure to deliver goods in drought years! Now who's with me? XD

40points

#83

No you can't put that metal pan in the microwave . He was also driving a golf cart with my other friend and when he was close to hitting something he hopped out and tried pushing it away. Other friend hit the brake.

minimaximoo Report

Final score:

61points

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Elizabeth 5 years ago

well you can put a metal plate in a microwave and there will be sparks! Fireworks show!

16points

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DemPugs 5 years ago

I felt like I lost a few IQ points reading these.

55points

Norman van Druten 5 years ago

I was just contemplating exactly the same thing.

15points

Pittsburgh rare 5 years ago

Same. And this was a loss I really couldn't afford 😂

1point

Natalia Brown 5 years ago

It made me feel like a genius in comparison!

1point

Týna Ef 5 years ago

same here...I can't believe somebody can be stupid THIS much :D

1point

Skarlet Panda 5 years ago

I'm Native American, so my favorite one went like this. Them: "Hey, you are pretty tan, Cuban?" Me: "Nope, Native American." Them: "Can't be, you people died out a long time ago." Me: "Haha, na we are still around believe or not." Them: "So you telling me, you are like (proceeds to make the Woo Woo noise with hand over their mouth) Indian? Like Tonto in that movie with Jonny Depp?" Me: With a very serious face, repeats the Woo Woo noise while looking them in the eye "That is the sound of my people, how did you know!?"

40points

Martha Meyer 5 years ago

Kudos for not murdering that dumbass!

31points

Master Markus 5 years ago

F*****g hell...

6points

Pseudo Puppy 5 years ago

Skarlet Panda, I am SO SORRY that you've met so many inherently stupid people. (*banging my head on the desk because it's less painful than dealing with the thought of that level of stupidity*)

5points

pebs 5 years ago

I feel sorry for you. It's just unbelievable how stupid can be some white trash.

5points

Chris Sprucefield 5 years ago (edited)

sometimes, murder should be legit....

4points

Knytt Wytch 3 years ago

Shakes head sadly (well done for not thumping them!)

0points

Norman van Druten 5 years ago (edited)

Beautiful, I love it! That arsehole brings the cringes in all around. Love the way you just shut the fool down.

0points

Bob Beltcher 5 years ago

How dumb are the people around you?

0points

Joshua Binsfeld 5 years ago

I had a friend who ran up to me years ago in high school and with the most sincere look on her face ask me "there are 100 seconds in a minute, right?!"... I had to physically "reset" myself after hearing that absurd question lol I then try to explain there are 60 seconds in a minute by showing her an analog clock, having her count each line on it out loud only to have her at the end ask "but where did the other 40 seconds go?"... SMH Learned a valuable lesson that day, you can't fix stupid! haha

25points

comboplush 5 years ago

Best thing is if they have such a serious look on them and the discussion goes on for so long that you start to question yourself. Like how some word start to feel weird to you when you repeat them too often.

19points

Guilherme Taffarel Bergamin 2 years ago

At work I also frequently use minutes in a decimal way in 15min intervals to facilitate some calculations of spent time in activities. Every 15min equals to 0.25 of an hour. So if I spent 1.75h in a task, I did it in 1:45.

0points

Guilherme Taffarel Bergamin 2 years ago

Fun fact: the French tried to decimalize time, so it becomes easier to calculate. A minute would then have had 100 seconds

0points

DP von Icecream 5 years ago (edited)

.... & this is 1 of the reasons I think Trump could be voted in office, yet again :-/ As I unfortunately believe lots&lots of Murican-adults aren't any better then whats is displayed in this post........So sad to see a former great nation loose all of their WW2-credits in just a single decade :-/

11points

Parmeisan 5 years ago

Germany lost all their pre-WWII credits in a single decade. A lot can happen in 10 years.

6points

Wil Vanderheijden 5 years ago

Seeing that the democrats are fighting amongst themselves who is running for office and a lot of democratic voters won't bother to vote because "Trump is never going to be reelected", chances are actually very high that America will suffer his presence for another 4 years. My commiserations. On the other hand: It will be another four years of stupidity, delusions of grandeur and hilarious tweets confirming America's reputation of Backwardistan. It will be a blast for Europeans, not so for the Americans though.

3points

Aimee Elizabeth 5 years ago

Who knew that democracy depends on a well informed electorate?

2points

Kel Gal 5 years ago

Politics again?

0points

Master Markus 5 years ago

Considering that it's looking like he might be impeached, even if he doesn't leave the office, he wouldn't be able to run again in that situation.

-1point

Elizabeth 5 years ago

The Dems aren't helping this much. The options they are giving us aren't exactly inspiring. I hate voting for someone just because they aren't so-and-so. I really want to vote for someone because they are the right person for the job and with political polarization being as bad as it is, the right person for the job can't win their own primary.

-2points

Magpie 5 years ago

In Australia in High School the biology teacher had to explain to the lone American that men and women have the same number of ribs.

9points

Melanie Peapell 5 years ago

I've had to explain multiple times since moving to the US that Christmas is still on December 25th in New Zealand even though it is Summer there in December.

9points

Whatever... 5 years ago

When my condescending niece was in her last semester of college for a bachelor's degree in education, she asked, "Which is closer, the sun or moon?" and " How do they not collide? ". She was not amused by my 10 minutes of laughter.

9points

NoJo 5 years ago

I once tried to explain to a group of adults what cardinal directions were -- evidently they're not big on teaching that in New Jersey. They insisted that the direction depended on which way you were facing (i.e., North is always in front of you, East to your right, etc.). After a good 10 minutes I finally gave up.

8points

Mikey 5 years ago

When I worked as a CSR for a service with a monthly premium, I ran into a LOT of people that didn't understand how credit cards worked. I'd get customers who'd think it's just free money they don't have to repay or after paying for the service on their credit card, they thought by not paying their credit card bill they'd get out of paying us. Mind-boggling to be sure.

8points

Jesper Rasmussen 5 years ago

I have met people who think that praying can actually prevent accidents and other bad events from happening.

7points

Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago

I've been praying recently (after years as a dyed-in-the-wool atheist) but my prayers are more like a journal addressed to God or expressing thanks rather than asking for stuff.

4points

Nunya 5 years ago

While working for a cell phone company I had a customer who got heated and ended up having to answer a question about their contract: "Well, if it's 2 years, why did you say it was 24 months?"

7points

AzKhaleesi 5 years ago

One of my favorite moments was with my daughter, she was a teen, and had a complete "blonde" moment if you will. She came up to me one day and said "Mom, how long have you been a mom?" .... now because I have routinely told my children I was going to give them just enough dysfunction to make them funny couldn't resist. I said. "That depends.... How long have you been a kid?" She thought for a moment and busted up laughing "OMG mom, I was seriously adding up me AND my siblings" I was like, "There it is....." lol. I promise you she's a bright young lady but sometimes....... lol

5points

Becky 5 years ago

One of the first conversations I had with my Freshman roommate Her: Are you Christian? Me: Yes, I'm Episcopalian. Her: So you're NOT Christian? Me: No.... I am. Her: You cant worship anything other than Jesus and say you are a CHRISTIAN! Me: ....? Her: You worship CATS!!!! Me:... are you thinking about Egyptians? Cue a 30mins conversation where I have to explain the concept of DENOMINATIONS to a West Texas Non-Denom.

5points

Terah Sutley 5 years ago

I had to tell a high school teacher that just came here from Europe that native people to this land are called indigenous. Nope they don't where loin cloths and head dresses. I had to tell her she probably passed many on her way to work. ?!??!?!? wtf?

4points

Robyn Wilson 5 years ago

Here's mine. My Seventy year old mother called me once...there were growths on her potatoes. Me..."You mean eyes?" Her "WHAT?" Me: "Growths on potatoes are called eyes." Her (in a very concerned/frightened whisper "Are they just called eyes or are they really eyes?" Me: "What...no the are just called eyes." As my husband choked on orange juice....

4points

Laci 5 years ago

I had to tell a 32 year old woman that clouds in the sky aren't "in space".

4points

deanna woods 5 years ago

Many of these are sad because the person is an adult and you wonder how they got there not knowing basic things.

3points

Morph 5 years ago

Growing older takes no effort and will happen with just the passage of time. Learning something takes effort and won't happen unless you try.

3points

Pheonix 5 years ago

I remember in fifth grade we were doing a worksheet on different types of energy. One of the questions said "Susan is moving a box into another room. What type of energy is she using" or something like that. My teacher said she was using thermal (heat) energy because she would be hot and sweaty, and the entire class agreed. I raised my hand and told her it would be mechanical energy because she was in motion, but she told me I was wrong. It wasn't until ten minutes later when she realized I was right and told everyone. In my mind, I was yelling "I told you so!" So that's my story of having to tell an adult something simple.

2points

Marnie 5 years ago

There are many people who think that the atmosphere has many, many times more volume than it does. They think the sky goes up so far that we can just dump as much soot, smoke, and any other gas into it and all that will just end up being the teeniest, tiniest proportion of the all the atmosphere. And therefore they really think that humans can not noticeably impact the composition of the air that surrounds earth. Most of the air in the atmosphere is within 10 miles of the surface. There really isn't a lot of room for all the c**p we pour into the sky to spread out.

2points

Aimee Elizabeth 5 years ago

I walked and hitchhiked the Western United States for a few years. In San Francisco it was explained to me that when you're walking south you are always walking downhill. Have you ever met the hills in San Francisco?

2points

BUMMERS 5 years ago (edited)

Ever try to explain to someone that the new millenium didn't start until 01/01/2001? You'd think they'd get it when I point out that the first year was not called "Year Zero", so the end of the second thousand years was not till the the LAST day of 2000. The last day of 1999 was the end of the 1999th year, not the 2000th.

2points

Marnie 5 years ago

It makes sense, and I don't know why they wouldn't get it when you explain it. But I hadn't realized it. Mainly because I don't care enough to give it any thought. (There is nothing special about the number 2000. If we used a different base, it might not seem any more unusual to us than 1971. So, once I knew my and most companies had fixed their Y2K problems, I just didn't give it any more thought.)

1point

Kira Leseman 5 years ago

Had to explain to a family member that they were wrong in thinking that if you are under the age of 2 and lose a limb it will grow back. Like a lizard.

2points

CbusResident 5 years ago

a.) I was moving out of a rental duplex, explaining to a new guy coming in he needed to set up utilities. 'In my name or yours?' He asks. 'In yours.' I replied as calmly as I could. (Many communication issues w/ this guy). b.) That Sherrod Brown is one of the US Senators for Ohio, not our Governor (admittedly a tad confusing since he'd talked of running for Gov. before). c.) That in 49 states there's a State Senate, and all 50 also have two US Senators - but US Senators for a state are not that state's State Senators (admittedly it's a bit confusing the way that's worded, and b/c sometimes the same people have been both things - e.g. Obama in Illinois).

2points

Kathleen Barlow 5 years ago

When I was a child, I went to this big building in my town, five days a week, where people told me stuff about the world and the things in it. We called it a school. Sometimes, I wonder that perhaps not every town had one.

2points

Random Panda 5 years ago (edited)

My one big dumb blonde moment is when mom had to explain to me, her 13-year-old daughter, that you can't get pregnant on your period. Somehow when I learned that getting your period is what signals fertility I decided women can only get pregnant while on their period. Thankfully mom corrected me before we learned about the reproductive system in school, so I didn't embarrass myself in class.

2points

Inservio Letum 5 years ago

In fact, you can. The only 100% effective method is abstinence or (temporary) sterilisation. Your period is the shedding of the uterine lining, not just the egg, and the egg is by no means the first out of the gate. If you don't want to get pregnant, always always ALWAYS use protection. ;)

1point

Afrizal Giofani 5 years ago

Never argue with dumb people. They will drag you down to their realm.....

2points

Jlynn Hoyle 5 years ago

At least I am smart enough to realize that I am too stupid to reproduce. It's too bad most people don't think this way.

2points

Cynthia Souza 5 years ago

I explained to a colleague that a history of twins on the father's side does not mean a greater chance of a twins pregnancy. I told her that it's the woman's eggs that determine the number of babies, not the man's sperm. She looked so confused. She was a fellow teacher who had taught the reproductive system to fifth graders.

2points

Gipsy Kings fan 5 years ago

When he was living in Chicago, my grandfather knew a guy who had a close friend who lived in Gary, Indiana, very close to Chicago, just across the state line. The guy's friend was going to move to Illinois -- SOUTHERN Illinois, much farther away than Gary, Indiana. The guy was overjoyed that he and his friend would be living closer to one another because they'd be living in the same state. My grandfather explained that southern Illinois was farther away than Gary, Indiana, but the guy couldn't wrap his head around that concept!

2points

Kel Gal 5 years ago

My MIL told me that any way you are facing you are facing north. Hmmmmm.

2points

Daria Z 5 years ago

That the moon light touching your face while you sleep does not make you age faster because of the moon's tidal power. We were both college students.

2points

Pamela24 5 years ago

Some of these I used to think when I was a kid. :) I almost forgot about those.

2points

Willa june Bonaparte 4 years ago

I had to explain to my idiot classmates that cake isn't bread with sugar. They kept arguing that it was. I kept telling them that I'd been baking since I was six. They kept saying more idiotic things. One of them was only in are class because they failed second grade. The other was at risk of failing fourth grade. Yes, we were ten. Almost two years later, and they still won't believe me.

1point

Viv Hart 5 years ago

I was in Norway, an American woman asked from where I came, I said 'Cape Town.' 'Oh, where is that?' 'South Africa.' 'Oh that's near Johannesburg, is it?' 'No, it's 1000 miles to the south, and I don't know your friend from Johannesburg.'

1point

darubyprincess 5 years ago

i... i lost a few brain cells. ow

1point

lilspiffy 5 years ago

I had to tell a woman in her late 60’s that thunder came from lightning. She argued with me, insisting that it just came from “the sky”, but could not give more detail. She then said she once heard that “if you hear thunder and count until you see lightning, that’s how many miles away the thunder was”... it was a very long day.

1point

Lauren Rench 5 years ago

1. Alaska is part of the United States. 2. You can drive to Alaska from the lower 48 3. People live in Alaska. 4. Alaska has airports and grocery stores and hospitals and ...

1point

Christine Ladyman 5 years ago

These really don't surprise me, but I can't score them, they're just too painful. No wonder people believe leaders like Trump and Johnson. 😢😢

1point

Mavia Kainaat 5 years ago

Having to explain that the Earth is not flat.

1point

Susan Riley 5 years ago

I'm not a genius, but I'm certainly not an idiot. Anyway, after reading these, I sure do feel a lot better about myself.

1point

Chris Sprucefield 5 years ago

so much facepalm....

1point

Mark CM 5 years ago

Every single day I see more and more evidence that 80% of the world's population are thick as f*****g bricks. And most of that 80% live in the U.S.

1point

Barbara Vandewalle 5 years ago

OKAY so much of this is politically correct revisionist education. Some of this is total lack of common sense. Can't fix stupid

1point

Dani 5 years ago

Honestly the funniest part of this post was ƒιѕн's Canada narrative :D

1point

Crycket 5 years ago

That there is no bone in the penis....to a guy friend, in HS. He thought there was a bone in there...we asked him, have you ever seen a skeleton with a boner?

1point

未周陸 5 years ago

People Nowadays ......

1point

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Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago

The lights at pedestrian crossings don't change faster if you keep pressing the button. Once you've pressed it, it is activated.

1point

Shelley DuVal 3 years ago

and more often in busy cities the lights are on an automatic setting regardless of traffic and pressing buttons.

0points

Nikki D 5 years ago

I had to argue with an old boyfriend that people do not have gizzards. We argued for an hour before he looked it up. He did not believe that a high school dropout could know something a college graduate didn't.

1point

Sandy 5 years ago

I know a fair amount of people who think in Brazil they speak Brazilian...

1point

Placebo Domingo 5 years ago

Might that be american speaking people

5points

Bunzilla 5 years ago

Oh, oh, I've got one! In elementary school, our teacher tried to tell us that green was a Primary Colour, and therefore you could never mix any colours and get green. I told her that yellow, blue and red were primary colours, and that you could mix yellow and blue together to make green. She refused to believe me.

1point

Martin 5 years ago

Depends if you are talking about light (red, blue, green) or paint (red, blue, yellow)

3points

Nomadus Aureus 5 years ago

That electrons are negativity charged. To a Biochemistry professor. That wasn't promptly let go of because she was the wife of the Dean. And no. It wasn't a one off mistake... She literally thinks that electrons are positive...

1point

razan youssef 5 years ago

I once had to explain to my cousin that saying you are a vegetarian does not MAKE you a vegetarian. this is how the conversation went: 7-year-old cousin: I'm a vegetarian! Me: your eating chicken. Cuz: Yeah? And? Me: So your not a vegetarian Cuz: Oh... I thought I was a vegetarian Me: do you even know what a vegetarian is? Cuz: shakes her head Nope!

1point

Angie Ma 5 years ago

A friend told me about a roommate who'd complain about her washed clothing always smelling weird, she asked my friend to have a look at how she handled the washing machine - everything was fine. A few days later my friend saw that in the room her roommate had small clothing piles all across the floor... wet clothing piles. That's how she was drying her clothes! So my friend had to explain to her that you need to hang your clothes to dry xD They where about 18 and the roommate obviously never had to do any housework while still living at home^^`

1point

Angie Ma 5 years ago

That roommate also did not know how to cook, she ate sushi everyday o.O and was really fascinated by my friend's simple cooking (pasta and such).

1point

Mandy French-Burkhead 5 years ago

My library held a viewing event during the solar eclipse. I explained some facts about the eclipse, handed out glasses, answered questions, etc. A woman asked me why she couldn't see anything. I had to explain that she had to wait for the clouds to move out of the way before she would be able to see the sun.

0points

Morph 5 years ago

When the planes hit the World Trade Center on 9/11 the woman sitting next to me at work asked "Why do people hijack planes? Do they not have any in their country so they need to take them from other places and take them home?"

0points

Victoria Swift 5 years ago

Most of these are made up clickbait

0points

Jo Choto 5 years ago

Should we talk about the flat earth?

0points

Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago

I have several co-workers who think a full moon means more patients. It's amazing how many people believe this but it's all confirmation bias. They don't think about the times we're busy and there isn't a full moon nor do they think about the times there is a full moon and we're not busy. One co-worker in particular said that when the moon is less full that the lower gravity has to affect us in some way. I had to explain to her that no matter what the phase of the moon the whole moon is still there even if you can't see it. The look on her face as the gears in her brain stripped was priceless.

0points

Wil Vanderheijden 5 years ago

Have been working in bars for some time and strangly when there was a full moon there were more incidents of people fighting, couples splitting up, drunks getting violent.

3points

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DemPugs 5 years ago

I felt like I lost a few IQ points reading these.

55points

Norman van Druten 5 years ago

I was just contemplating exactly the same thing.

15points

Pittsburgh rare 5 years ago

Same. And this was a loss I really couldn't afford 😂

1point

Natalia Brown 5 years ago

It made me feel like a genius in comparison!

1point

Týna Ef 5 years ago

same here...I can't believe somebody can be stupid THIS much :D

1point

Skarlet Panda 5 years ago

40points

Martha Meyer 5 years ago

Kudos for not murdering that dumbass!

31points

Master Markus 5 years ago

F*****g hell...

6points

Pseudo Puppy 5 years ago

Skarlet Panda, I am SO SORRY that you've met so many inherently stupid people. (*banging my head on the desk because it's less painful than dealing with the thought of that level of stupidity*)

5points

pebs 5 years ago

I feel sorry for you. It's just unbelievable how stupid can be some white trash.

5points

Chris Sprucefield 5 years ago (edited)

sometimes, murder should be legit....

4points

Knytt Wytch 3 years ago

Shakes head sadly (well done for not thumping them!)

0points

Norman van Druten 5 years ago (edited)

Beautiful, I love it! That arsehole brings the cringes in all around. Love the way you just shut the fool down.

0points

Bob Beltcher 5 years ago

How dumb are the people around you?

0points

Joshua Binsfeld 5 years ago

25points

comboplush 5 years ago

19points

Guilherme Taffarel Bergamin 2 years ago

0points

Guilherme Taffarel Bergamin 2 years ago

Fun fact: the French tried to decimalize time, so it becomes easier to calculate. A minute would then have had 100 seconds

0points

DP von Icecream 5 years ago (edited)

11points

Parmeisan 5 years ago

Germany lost all their pre-WWII credits in a single decade. A lot can happen in 10 years.

6points

Wil Vanderheijden 5 years ago

3points

Aimee Elizabeth 5 years ago

Who knew that democracy depends on a well informed electorate?

2points

Kel Gal 5 years ago

Politics again?

0points

Master Markus 5 years ago

Considering that it's looking like he might be impeached, even if he doesn't leave the office, he wouldn't be able to run again in that situation.

-1point

Elizabeth 5 years ago

-2points

Magpie 5 years ago

In Australia in High School the biology teacher had to explain to the lone American that men and women have the same number of ribs.

9points

Melanie Peapell 5 years ago

I've had to explain multiple times since moving to the US that Christmas is still on December 25th in New Zealand even though it is Summer there in December.

9points

Whatever... 5 years ago

9points

NoJo 5 years ago

8points

Mikey 5 years ago

8points

Jesper Rasmussen 5 years ago

I have met people who think that praying can actually prevent accidents and other bad events from happening.

7points

Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago

I've been praying recently (after years as a dyed-in-the-wool atheist) but my prayers are more like a journal addressed to God or expressing thanks rather than asking for stuff.

4points

Nunya 5 years ago

While working for a cell phone company I had a customer who got heated and ended up having to answer a question about their contract: "Well, if it's 2 years, why did you say it was 24 months?"

7points

AzKhaleesi 5 years ago

5points

Becky 5 years ago

5points

Terah Sutley 5 years ago

4points

Robyn Wilson 5 years ago

4points

Laci 5 years ago

I had to tell a 32 year old woman that clouds in the sky aren't "in space".

4points

deanna woods 5 years ago

Many of these are sad because the person is an adult and you wonder how they got there not knowing basic things.

3points

Morph 5 years ago

Growing older takes no effort and will happen with just the passage of time. Learning something takes effort and won't happen unless you try.

3points

Pheonix 5 years ago

2points

Marnie 5 years ago

2points

Aimee Elizabeth 5 years ago

2points

BUMMERS 5 years ago (edited)

2points

Marnie 5 years ago

1point

Kira Leseman 5 years ago

Had to explain to a family member that they were wrong in thinking that if you are under the age of 2 and lose a limb it will grow back. Like a lizard.

2points

CbusResident 5 years ago

2points

Kathleen Barlow 5 years ago

2points

Random Panda 5 years ago (edited)

2points

Inservio Letum 5 years ago

1point

Afrizal Giofani 5 years ago

Never argue with dumb people. They will drag you down to their realm.....

2points

Jlynn Hoyle 5 years ago

At least I am smart enough to realize that I am too stupid to reproduce. It's too bad most people don't think this way.

2points

Cynthia Souza 5 years ago

2points

Gipsy Kings fan 5 years ago

2points

Kel Gal 5 years ago

My MIL told me that any way you are facing you are facing north. Hmmmmm.

2points

Daria Z 5 years ago

That the moon light touching your face while you sleep does not make you age faster because of the moon's tidal power. We were both college students.

2points

Pamela24 5 years ago

Some of these I used to think when I was a kid. :) I almost forgot about those.

2points

Willa june Bonaparte 4 years ago

1point

Viv Hart 5 years ago

1point

darubyprincess 5 years ago

i... i lost a few brain cells. ow

1point

lilspiffy 5 years ago

1point

Lauren Rench 5 years ago

1. Alaska is part of the United States. 2. You can drive to Alaska from the lower 48 3. People live in Alaska. 4. Alaska has airports and grocery stores and hospitals and ...

1point

Christine Ladyman 5 years ago

These really don't surprise me, but I can't score them, they're just too painful. No wonder people believe leaders like Trump and Johnson. 😢😢

1point

Mavia Kainaat 5 years ago

Having to explain that the Earth is not flat.

1point

Susan Riley 5 years ago

I'm not a genius, but I'm certainly not an idiot. Anyway, after reading these, I sure do feel a lot better about myself.

1point

Chris Sprucefield 5 years ago

so much facepalm....

1point

Mark CM 5 years ago

Every single day I see more and more evidence that 80% of the world's population are thick as f*****g bricks. And most of that 80% live in the U.S.

1point

Barbara Vandewalle 5 years ago

OKAY so much of this is politically correct revisionist education. Some of this is total lack of common sense. Can't fix stupid

1point

Dani 5 years ago

Honestly the funniest part of this post was ƒιѕн's Canada narrative :D

1point

Crycket 5 years ago

That there is no bone in the penis....to a guy friend, in HS. He thought there was a bone in there...we asked him, have you ever seen a skeleton with a boner?

1point

未周陸 5 years ago

People Nowadays ......

1point

$copper-fractions avatar$

Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago

The lights at pedestrian crossings don't change faster if you keep pressing the button. Once you've pressed it, it is activated.

1point

Shelley DuVal 3 years ago

and more often in busy cities the lights are on an automatic setting regardless of traffic and pressing buttons.

0points

Nikki D 5 years ago

1point

Sandy 5 years ago

I know a fair amount of people who think in Brazil they speak Brazilian...

1point

Placebo Domingo 5 years ago

Might that be american speaking people

5points

Bunzilla 5 years ago

1point

Martin 5 years ago

Depends if you are talking about light (red, blue, green) or paint (red, blue, yellow)

3points

Nomadus Aureus 5 years ago

1point

razan youssef 5 years ago

1point

Angie Ma 5 years ago

1point

Angie Ma 5 years ago

That roommate also did not know how to cook, she ate sushi everyday o.O and was really fascinated by my friend's simple cooking (pasta and such).

1point

Mandy French-Burkhead 5 years ago

0points

Morph 5 years ago

0points

Victoria Swift 5 years ago

Most of these are made up clickbait

0points

Jo Choto 5 years ago

Should we talk about the flat earth?

0points

Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago

0points

Wil Vanderheijden 5 years ago

Have been working in bars for some time and strangly when there was a full moon there were more incidents of people fighting, couples splitting up, drunks getting violent.

3points