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Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. I’m not going to waste energy trying to convince you that olives are an elite pizza topping if you hate them, and you’ll never be able to change my mind about autumn being the best season. But there are certain things that we should all be on the same page about, especially if they can be backed up with facts.

Redditors have been recalling the most ridiculous arguments that they’ve had with other adults, so we’ve gathered some of their facepalm-worthy stories below. From people being adamant that bacon is a vegetable to swearing that space doesn’t exist, enjoy reading through these stories that might make you feel like the smartest person in the world. And be sure to upvote the ones that you find most amusing!

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I can't believe there's full grown adults with working brains that still believe abortion should be outlawed.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults I was discussing the need for contraception with my brother and his wife if they did not want to have a child. She stated she did not need to use contraception. I said that she would, and she promptly replied "No I don't, I'm infertile. Just like my mother."

To be fair, that stopped the argument.

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"Colonel, these men have taken a supreme vow of celibacy, like their fathers and their fathers before them ..." Hot Shots Part Deux, 1993

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults I used to take a train downtown and then a bus to work. One day, the train was a few mins late and so I literally had to sprint to catch the bus or be late to work. I got hot from running and pulled out my water bottle from my bag and some guy started an argument with me about there being no food or drink on the bus... while holding a Starbucks coffee.

His argument was that he wasn't drinking it, so there was no chance for it to spill where as my water bottle could have spilled. I ignored him, but for 10 or 15 mins he wouldn't shut up and was really getting in my face (and I'd long put the water bottle away). So when I saw my stop coming and felt the bus slow down, I jumped up, "accidentally" knocked his coffee out of his hand and onto his lap and then shrugged and said "oops, I guess it can spill" and jumped off the bus.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults That bacon wasn't a vegetable.

Had ordered a bacon cheeseburger at a fast food restaurant and asked for "no veggies." When I got the burger, there was no bacon. I went to the cashier to ask for the bacon and she just smiled and said, "You asked for no veggies." Thinking this must be a joke, I asked her, "since when was bacon considered a vegetable." With a completely straight face, she replied, "It's always been a vegetable. My boyfriend and I are vegetarians and we eat bacon all the time.".

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults Why two tablets of vitamin B6 do not equal one of B12...

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults I had a grown adult who was in possession of car keys and (presumably) a wallet with money they earned through employment… yell at me once that I was a “f*****g moron” because I was watering the plants for sale outside the grocery store I worked for. When I replied that it was hot and we were making sure they stayed alive for people to purchase she said “You’re too stupid to live. EVERYONE knows plants make their own water!!!

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Um. No?

Before I could react, she got in her car and cut the wheel too much while backing up and ripped off her entire front fender on the concrete barrier beside the car 🤦🏼‍♀️.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults No joke, I went to pick up an item at the grocery store and it was labeled "1/3 lb" and an older lady tapped me on the shoulder and pointed to a competitive item next to it for the same price, but was labeled "1/4 lb". She said, "It's smarter to buy the larger package for the same price. Your wife would know that." She could absolutely not be convinced that 1/3 lb was larger than 1/4 lb. Even explaining the math and showing her the weight in ounces on the package, she wasn't having it. I just laughed to myself and walked away.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is what always baffles me. Not knowing something - okay. But this sort of willful ignorance is scary.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults My friend's boyfriend thought that she got her period because she cheated on him...he was saying that they hadn't had sex recently and "all of a sudden" her period started

I had to explain to a fully grown, 23 year old man, that periods are part of a menstrual cycle and most women have them in varying degrees, and are not a direct result of vaginal sex, afterwards it went something like this

"so where does the blood come from"

"tissue from the lining of the uterus sheds which causes the bleeding"

"so girls get their period after sex then"

"why do you still think that?"

"because you're penetrating the uterus"

"the vagina is different from the uterus, you're penetrating the vagina"

"I thought vagina was the word for how it looks on the outside"

and that's also how I found out (it became increasingly obvious with each new sentence) that this guy is a total idiot who doesn't know anything about the female reproductive system or anatomy.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults We live in Canada.... and we were on a road trip. we stopped to take a p**s and a tumble weed comes rolling across the way. he tells me that "did you know tumble weeds come from Texas" at first i thought i was a joke. but the guy was dead f*****g serious. these things just tumble across 100000 of kilometers across the mountains and countless fences, river and lakes. it was the dumbest conversation i ever had. and he's one of those guys that always thinks he right. so me an all my buddies call him Texas tumbleweed Bryce. still do to this day.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually it's a plant native to Russia. It came to America in contaminated flaxseed that was imported from Russia.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults I met someone who didn’t believe in space. Not space travel, outer space. Just didn’t think it was real.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He thought Galileo was just some dude in a song by Queen?

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults With a 40 year old woman in South America. I had to explain where babies came from. She had like 17 kids and didn’t know why god kept blessing her with more children. She just wanted it to stop as she had been pregnant pretty much her entire adult life. I’m not sure if her husband knew or not.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults I had to have a long chat with someone in their 30s about Mexico not being a US state. She was sure that Cancun was an American city because most of the people there were white & black Americans and not Mexicans. I asked how far outside the resort she had gotten and she said “what do you mean?”.

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandmother is one of those people who tells anyone she hears speaking Spanish, “This is America. Speak American.” I told her Puerto Ricans are Americans and they speak Spanish. She countered with “Ricans speak Spanish because they’re owned by Mexico” and then proceeded to tell me that I needed to go back to school to learn geology.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults Someone who was an ELECTED OFFICIAL at the time was completely unaware of the fact that the seasons are at opposite times of year between the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

Convinced that I was "f*****g with her" when I tried to explain that Christmas is observed in the summertime in Australia, she took to google, confirmed the date for xmas being 25th of December, and decided that I was indeed full of s**t...

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Scary that the voters were just as dumb, it would seem, to vote for another dumbass

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults "STD's aren't real" and also, "I've had syphilis in the past" from the same person.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults I once had to explain that going 60 miles per hour meant you would literally travel 60 miles in an hour to a colleague. We were both in our mid 20s at the time. I don’t know how they passed math class ever.

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That a child should be able to say if they want to be hugged or not🤷🏽‍♀️.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults Reindeer are real, I am not trying to convince you that there are actually flying deer that pull Santa Claus' sleigh.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults I knew a lady who had two sons.

We were visiting and I had to use the bathroom and I was on my girly time. Even though I wrapped it up you can see the wrap in the trash can. She approached me and started screaming how I was a w**re out of nowhere.

Long story short, she was under the belief that a woman only had a period if she was a w**re. Because it was God's way of punishing a woman. I had to sit and explain to her that a period was a natural thing that women had and it was not some divine retribution

Again, this was another woman. And she had two children which means she had all of her body parts. And obviously they functioned correctly because she had children. Which means she has had periods in her life

She wouldn't believe me, just went completely wild screaming until I had to leave because she wouldn't stop screaming how I was a w**re and my period was proof of it.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults When I was a kid my neighbor had set cage traps for a possum that was tearing up his lawn at night searching for bugs, apparently.

One day I came home from school and noticed a cat in the trap, obviously someone's pet as it was wearing a collar. I walk over into his yard to free it and the guy comes out and goes berserk as I was trying to let it out. I explained it was a housecat, which he could obviously see but insisted to keep it trapped. I told him to p**s off or whatever and let the cat out. He continues to yell at me as I walked away and ignored him. F**k that guy, 30 years later and it still pisses me off!

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's a possum trap, so what's in it must be a possum, obviously. The real question is: who put a collar on a possum?

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults That Africa is NOT a country in and of itself, it's made up of many countries. A paraprofessional in my classroom started to argue with me as I was teaching my students about continents. She was trying to say that Africa is a country and I said Nooo, it is made up of many countries. I had all the kids pull out their laptops and Google the countries of Africa.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults I had to argue with a woman that thought Africa was the center of the earth and it was a giant island... not connected to the crust... that just floated around and all life came from it and any humans that weren't African were gross malformations of genetics that the glorious people of Africa kicked out for being bad genetic code.
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder how long you can hold your laughter in when you talk to people who say things like that ?

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That the first amendment protects both your right to follow any religion AND your right to abstain from it. There are apparently people who believe that it only means freedom to follow a religion of your choosing, which is insane.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

God isn't mentioned in the US constitution, although it does reference religion (1st amendment [freedom of religion] and Article 6 [government not taking religious tests].) God IS mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. People forget that they are not all one document

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I had a co-worker say “how do you know this stuff?!?”, when I told her that the Winter Solstice was the shortest day of the year.
The subsequent conversation was hard to have without using my speaking to a child voice.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Co-worker told me I wasn't a good manager because I used big words that made people think I was a snob, and that she had to keep a dictionary at her desk to look up words after we spoke. She was another manager in my department. The word that prompted this feedback was "exhausted."

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults I argued with someone r/Aww that because male cats are mammals, they are going to have nipples.



He spent the entire day arguing that male cats don’t have nipples since they don’t breastfeed.




I went through his post history just to see if it was a s**tposter, nope, it was a man working as a mechanic.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

weird story, as the man himself must have nipples. but perhaps he did not consider himself a mammal (a pappal perhaps ?)

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Trying to convince my spouse that Electric Bills are more important to pay than buying LuLu Lemon clothes, while the electricity was cut off by the utility company.

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They thought that the universe is 5000 years old and dinosaurs is a lie.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah. Once worked a night shift with a guy who converted to some sort of evangelical church - he'd been raised a Jew. Convinced Genesis was correct. It was a long, frustrating night.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults I had an undergraduate university professor (subject: French) who would not, for the life of her, believe her students when we told her that a kilogram of feathers and a kilogram of stone weighed the same. It was a true or false question on an exam and she graded us all incorrectly on it.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why are math questions being asked on an exam in a French class ??

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults My cousin was bagging his own groceries at Walmart, those bags are thin and weak as hell so he was double bagging. The check out monitor lady came up and said that he isn’t allowed to double bag, it’s too wasteful. He informed her that their bags were c**p and that he didn’t want his groceries to fall out. Her solution was to take half of the groceries in that bag and put them in another bag.

He explained multiple times that this would be using the same amount of bags but she couldn’t understand how that was the same thing.

After awhile he just said F it and went about bagging his groceries.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds more like she's just an idiot. I've never had any of them say anything to me about double bagging.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults Explaining to someone that a stop sign means stop.....

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Met someone who believed he didn't need to brush his teeth because he had some gene that made his teeth have some kind of self-cleaning abilities. Apparently, the gene he was referring to actually just meant he was less susceptible to build-up than others may be. I argued with him about the general hygiene, odour, and his inability to get a date if he continued to avoid brushing. Thanks to this argument, he finally started to brush his teeth...at 24 years old.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Parents have a major part in it, but at 24 years already he should known better ....

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults I was managing a chuck e cheese, two kids redeeming prizes, 2 parents, The kids were being kids bouncing between the two prize windows even though they are the same, parent 1 is annoyed with kid 2 and asks parent 2 to control their kid, I inform the kids and parents that both prize windows are the same so each kid can look in one, kids continue to be kids and are flip flopping from side to side like a fish in a boat hoping to find water. Parent 2 was seething from the comment parent 1 made so when kid 1 touches kid 2 parent 2 says parent 1 needs to control their kid and the parent start to yell at eachother, when I address the adults as kids, "Can we all act our age and I'll get you both out of here as soon as I can?"

To which parent 2 looks me dead in the eye and says "She started it!!"

I responded incredulously "How old are you?" Thankfully that shut them both up and the kids picked their prizes.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults I was the dumb one. I had the "ducks can fly?!" realization after arguing with friends that ducks just sit in ponds and quack, quack, waddle, waddle only.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think we'd all be amazed at the silly things we said, just because we'd never thought about it before. How many of us have not thought deeply about ordinary things, and just assumed our experience was universal. I'm sure I'm someone's story of "this dude actually believed this"

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That adhd doesn’t in fact exist. That adult was my mentor teacher that said that it isn’t real in front of her whole class. Me… a 17 year old had to respectfully take her out of the class for a second to tell her “what are you doing? These are six year olds.” She responds with “it’s only because their parents never say no. It’s not real.”  Me: ”ma’am I have Adhd, tell me to my face it’s because my parents didn’t know how to parent me.” She froze so I ended the conversation with “at least my parents gave me knowledge.” She told my teacher she didn’t think I was fit to be one.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Didn't matter what she thought! Saying that, especially to such young children, was out of line!

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults A coworker insisted Okinawa was a Hawaiian island and couldn’t be convinced otherwise.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bet you he thinks New Zealand doesn't exist as its missing from some maps.

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That bigger circuit breaker panel doesn't mean you are gonna have a bigger electric bill 😂. The client called and said that the circuit breaker panel is big and it's gonna use a lot of electricity and that's the reason why I need to replace it with a smaller size one. 😅.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults That making hollandaise sauce with vanilla soft serve ice cream was not acceptable in this universe or any other.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s not a sauce with arbitrary ingredients. Sure, the acid can be varied, but it’s pretty specific 375 year old sauce.

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A pair of Marmots is not a Marmoset!

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Cheating on someone isn't just a mistake or an accident.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh no, accidentally tripped and fell on a penis! I thought it was a snake, and it looked cold. I was just trying to keep it warm, poor lil thing! /jk 🤭

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That LGBTQ people are a hoax to keep women enslaved to men. She was around 30 or so and I was 15 at the time. So this women came up to a 15 year old boy(me) to ask if I knew about what men were doing to keep women enslaved.

I have to admit it was quite entertaining.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

... HOW ?! I mean, in what way lesbians would a way to keep women tied to men ?!

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That washing with soap thoroughly after sex does not "get rid of" any stds you could have caught......no matter how fast you do it........grown a*s man jfc.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jacob Zuma took a shower to stop himself catching HIV after having sex with a woman he was not married to.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults I once needed to actually give a lecture of poultry reproduction to a 45 year old man who was claiming that chickens are hermaphrodite and that they do not need to have sex to procreate 🙄 it was surreal.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And then there are some people who call eggs "chicken periods" 🤦🏻‍♀️

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults Explaining to my 2nd grade teacher that Alaska is bigger than Texas and yes, the picture on the wall map is smaller, but that is because they are at different scales.

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This is going back quite a few years now. Back when I was in college, I had a teacher who was a flat eather... you can probably guess how that went.

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Somebody very close to me thinks all of evolution is a lie. Not even a strongly religious.

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Why concentration camps were dehumanizing... yup, someone I know thought they were good...

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did you know...Hitler got the concept of concentration camps from American History. He is quoted as saying how impressed he was with the Reservations that Americans put indigenous peoples in.

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults That dictionaries are better source of definition of words than twitter is.

They said western dictionaries are propaganda and can't be trusted for the definition of words.

Edit: Their point was not even the use of words in the general population of twitter users(which still doesn't represent the total population), it was the definition according to a handful of posts by some twitter accounts.

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good thing there is no propaganda on Twitter. Just imagine what a shithole that place would be then. /s obviously

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Drinking rubbing alcohol can kill the coronavirus bacteria and cure you.

You cannot believe how triggered I was, after hearing this.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, yeah, in a sense if you’re dead you’re cured.

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A friend of mine believes wholeheartedly that there are fairy people and giant people living secretly in new zealand, and that giant people were also the ones who built the pyramids.
He's convinced that he is actually a hybrid too, that he doesn't truly belong in human society.

He's 40.

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I once had to explain to a grown-up that you can’t just microwave metal. They were convinced it would be fine because “it’s just a little bit.” I mean, come on! I thought we all learned that in middle school. 🤦‍♂️.

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My dad had to explain to my sweet mother that hamburgers were made out of cow meat, not pig meat. She had gone forty years of her life at the time not knowing.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well it certainly confused me as a kid. We ate beefburgers at home, so when we saw hamburgers advertised elsewhere we assumed they were similar but just made from ham.

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#51

That anxiety isnt something you have from being lazy. It was with my cousin and she said anxiety disorder comes from being lazy. When I asked her to elaborate she said that she keeps busy and she has never had anxiety. I honestly couldnt even keep arguing with stupid.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While it is true that lack of exercise can exacerbate the symptoms of an anxiety disorder, her statement of course is ridiculous. Does she also believe that an anxiety disorder is caused by your name, because she is called Linda and doesn't have anxiety so if everyone would just be called Linda, they wouldn't have anxiety n'either?

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I waitressed at a pretty high-end sushi restaurant. A lady ordered her sushi and proceeded to act shocked when she received it and her shrimp was cooking. She called me over, asked what was going on because she ordered shrimp *sushi* and in her words "sushi means *RAW"*. So I tell her (in much more professional terms) 'lady, you're wack. you can't have raw shrimp.'

She proceeds to make a scene and demand my manager (the owner) come over, to which my owner laughs and goes "Raw shrimp gives you worms" before turning around and leaving it at that.

Edit: I’m learning now that you CAN have raw shrimp but it’s one of those “very specifically picked” type deals.

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Not an argument, but I had to explain to a lifelong friend how to brush his teeth when we were roommates for a couple of years in our early 20’s.

This is a guy who had constant dental problems since we were kids, and was a real concern for him so much that he would even express it to his friends at usually insecure ages. He swore that his dental routine was top notch — and he genuinely believed it was.

It wasn’t until we became roommates and he had to have yet another root canal that I paid attention to his daily dental routine which consisted of him actually brushing for maybe 5 seconds and then walking around with a toothbrush in his mouth for the next five minutes while he did laundry, or found his work clothes, or wallet, etc, etc. In his mind he was truly paying attention to his mouth, but in reality he had not really learned how to brush his teeth until he was in his 20’s. The one thing that probably saved him from it being worse than it was is that he flossed 3 times a day.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And that's why you don't learn real life skills from movies.

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Had an argument with a substitute teacher that you cannot add the last 2 digits of a number to 4 or 8 and it will always be divisible by 4. She still argued with me that 12 is not divisible by 4 because the numbers added up to 3.

And just to clarify the actual rule to the minority of people who do not know, if the last 2 numbers are divisible by 4, the entire sequence of numbers is divisible by 4. If the entire set of numbers add up to 3,6, or 9, then it’s divisible by 3.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This makes no sense. Are they saying sequences that add up to more than 9 aren't divisible by 3?

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50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To Explain To Clueless Adults That the 5th of July was not the 2nd Wednesday of the month.

After 20 mins I handed the call off to my manager and admitted defeat.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jul means christmas in danish, or referers to a rapper from Marseille. Sometimes small facts seems to stop people telling me stupid stuff, and yet I'm sure I'll continue scrolling after this.

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"I just don't see insects as animals.".

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Credit cards- I said you should utilize a max of 10% of your limit on credit cards and pay it off every month.

They claim that is very, very wrong and in order to improve credit score you can charge the card up to your limit and pay the minimum every month. So the credit card company “can see you have money” to pay it off every month.

This person is in their 40s. And credit is in shambles.

The conversation ended with me telling them okay you’re right!

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No idea about credit scores as such, but where did this person get the 10% figure from? Paying it off in full every month is obviously the way to do it, but why would using only 10% of your limit be any different from using 90% or any other amount?

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As a low level AV engineer, I was gobsmacked when I had to explain to our highest level engineer, with decades of experience in video, down to the component level - that a projector doesn’t project ‘black’. He just would not accept the ‘black’ on the screen was the same as the ‘white’ that was there just before we turned on the projector. He had been installing these systems for countless years.

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had a business idea to sell dark bulbs (verses light bulbs) that make the room darker. I shopped the idea around and people didn't get it and wonder how I was making the room darker. I was proposing burned out light bulbs... sheesh

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A lady once called the cops on me because I wouldn't take her bottle return slips. I worked grocery stock and was nowhere near the cash registers.

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I had to tell a 30 year old woman that it is the man that determines the gender of his children. .

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fun fact: it isn't just the chromosomes that determin the sex, everything else has to work "normally" for xy to lead to a male body and xx to lead to a female body. For instance, if the body doesn't respond to androgens at all, someone can have xy and a female body. Similarly, some people with xx have a male body. And not everyone has xx or xy. There are different kinds of intersex conditions, they're super interesting.

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