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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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#1
I can't believe there's full grown adults with working brains that still believe abortion should be outlawed.
Tabitha 2 months ago (edited)
And then proceed to not give a single s**t about the child after they’re born. They obviously didn’t care about their mother, who was also already born years before. Oh yeah, and I have never once seen that crowd line up to adopt those unwanted children. No. They just firebomb abortion clinics and murder the doctors. So much for their “pro-life” stance. F*****g criminal hypocrites.
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PattyK 2 months ago
I can’t believe that there are WOMEN who believe that abortion should be outlawed.
Lydsylou (she/her) 2 months ago
I am religious and for religious reasons I don't personally agree with abortion. However I'm still pro choice because I believe that not having an abortion based off my religion is my own personal choice and other women should be allowed to choose what is best for their own bodies and not be forced to keep a baby because of a religion they don't follow. I do disagree with the idea of using abortion as birth control but I don't think that's really a prominent issue
Rahb in Oz 2 months ago
Thank you for understanding that it is a PERSONAL choice, regardless of religion.
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similarly 2 months ago
I find it more surprising that the vast majority of people who believe that abortion should be outlawed, also don't believe in helping to feed, educate, or give health care to the poor. It's like "We want you to be born, but after that, you're on your own."
Sand Ers 2 months ago
I don’t. It’s been obvious for a long time that oppressing women is their goal. They don’t care about the woman, they don’t care about the fetus, and they don’t care about why she wants one.
Load More Replies... tom 2 months ago
I wonder what their stance would be if their daughter was r##ed, and got pregnant
Penny Fan 2 months ago
They have a get-out clause for their own abortions. "Do as I say, not as I do"
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Linda van A. 2 months ago
There's only one rule: let every woman make her own decision, it's het body, her life and her responsibility.
LaserBrain 2 months ago
Abortions will continue to be performed (or attempted) whether they are outlawed or not. Even if you believe that fetuses should have legally protected status, the fact is that denying women access to the procedure results in many illegal/botched abortions, all with sad or even fatal results. That's enough for me to support full legal access. It's just not about balancing the rights of the mother against those of the baby.
Sand Ers 2 months ago
Don’t cede low hanging fruit to the misogynists. A pregnancy is not a baby. It has no rights.
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Brenda 2 months ago
Either way, it's a purely PERSONAL decision. No one should be able to make that decision, for abortion or against abortion, for you. I am extremely Pro-Choice. All options should be given, with no pressure for either side. Women are smart. Give us all the information and we Can make intelligent, informed choices. If you're Pro-Life, good for you! Stand by your beliefs and make those choices - for yourself. If you're Pro-Choice, good for you! Stand by your beliefs and make those choices - for yourself. No one, I mean NO ONE, has the right to take your choice away from you. Especially not a male politician who will NEVER have to worry about it!
Earthquake903 2 months ago
Gotta keep women subservient somehow. Controlling uteruii is an excellent way to control women.
Diddle 2 months ago
As hilarious as this is coming from a country that's famous with mass school shootings. I'm gonna come out and say it's really not about the idea of a baby dying. Y'all literally have actual living breathing children, who were born and raised and loved, get murdered by school shootings every year and still don't give a bloody fxck except for thoughts and prayers. So no. It's about controlling women. Not keeping the fetus alive. You can't even keep your children alive. Pathetic.
Colleen Glim 2 months ago
“But the aborted baby might grow up to be president one day!” But the mother might have gone on to win the Nobel peace prize if she hadn’t had to give up her education to have that baby. That argument works both ways
CanadianDimes 2 months ago
It always baffles me that we value potential over actual contribution - the potential contribution of a fetus shouldn't outweigh my actual contribution to the world.
Load More Replies... Johnnynatfan 2 months ago
I can’t believe there still full grown adults in the US who still support Donald Trump
Auntriarch 2 months ago
I really want to reply to Papa, who I already have respect for, but the downvoting won't let me, so Papa: on the subject of "convenience", I absolutely would not want to be born to a woman who felt I was an inconvenience.
Sand Ers 2 months ago
His thesis falls apart at “feel that life has begun”. He can “feel” all he wants about “when life begins” Something that doesn’t have a central nervous system is not a person, and the feels of random ignoramuses don’t enter into the equation.
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Riley Quinn 2 months ago
You know what fries my brain with these christian anti-abortion freaks? There is no explicit reference to abortion in the Bible. Their claim that fetuses have full moral status and are equal to humans (outside the womb) is contradicted in several Biblical texts. Exodus 21 advocates a pregnant woman’s life is more valuable than the fetus’s. Oh, and Jesus wasn't grossed out when a menstruating woman touched his cloak (Mark), so this whole idea of "unclean" women is some cooked up male BS.
George Costanza 2 months ago
I get that if someone truly, truly believes that some god instills life into a new embryo at conception then anything that eliminates that embryo is forbidden. But you can follow that religious belief in your own life without forcing it on others. I don't follow your religion or your beliefs. And I shouldn't have to legally.
Sand Ers 2 months ago
I think it was Atwater who fabricated abortion as a wedge issue, after overt racism became counterproductive.
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Steve Robert 2 months ago
Or willing to vote for a convicted felon who is also a rapist and liar for president.
Philly Bob Squires 2 months ago (edited)
The Bible, The Quran and the Jewish bible (old testament) all state that life begins at birth. "BUT GaWd TaWkS tO mE!" Yeah, he talks to me too, and he tells me you're all full of s**t! Pick and choose. Wanna start a new religion? Hey, a passage in the Bible, you know that book you consider God's LAW? It has a passage that says "Judas went and hanged himself" and there IS another that says "Go ye thou and do likewise!" SO.... according to MY ByeBull... Judas betrayed Christ and went and hanged himself. Which means to ME that we must all hang ourselves to get right with Christ!!! RIGHT??? It's there in the GOOD BOOK! Let's go get those nooses ready!! WHAT??? it out of CONTEXT??? NOOOO! The Byebull says it! I believe it, and that settles it! GET THOSE NOOSES READY because we all NEED to get right with Christ for our betrayal of him. Think about it... If I could convince 1000 people to give me all of their worddly posessions and money to prey on that fact. I'd be rich and they'd be dead.
Winter 2 months ago
I'm also sure that they certainly don't know that ALL nubile (sexually developed and active) women's bodies toss out lots of fertalised eggs every month, before the woman even *thinks* she might be pregnant. If the body feels that the fertalised egg is not viable, it tosses it out with the monthly period, and nobody (except - maybe - god) is any the wiser! And NO right to life fanatic can do anything about it! (s'true!)
Marissa Voleta 2 months ago
Funny how in this world you can take a pill for pretty much ANY source of pain, discomfort, inconvenience, etc. because "oh, you shouldn't have to go through that"....but when it comes to a human life that will impact EVERYONE and EVERYTHING around it, some people are like "no no, you keep"
Sand Ers 2 months ago
Trump? Reagan invited those aßholes into the political arena. They’ve been around a lot longer then the current fascist shitstaìn.
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Jane Hower 1 month ago
You are brain dead if you don't understand the difference between abortion in the first 3 mo, or at 9 mo. OMG
Tom Metzger 1 month ago
And there are full grown adults with working brains that don't realize a fetus is a live human being.
Savannah greenleaf 2 months ago
What kind of life would the child have if the parents were not ready and they had a poor family support? My mother was 16 when I was I was adopted twice by relatives. My sister ended up in foster care.
Jess Smith 2 months ago
They are not adults. Nor even babies; those are nice. No. They are geese.
Rigor Moreno 2 months ago
This issue creates a divide. I dont see an agreement on this lifetime.
Westy 2 months ago
Some people believe human life begins at conception. Regardless of whether people agree with that (I don't), it's not a complex concept.
Sand Ers 2 months ago
Some people base opinions on reality. Others believe bizarre fantasies like “a fertilized egg is a person”. I can believe that I’m the king of the moon. That doesn’t make it true.
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Peter Bear 2 months ago
I'm anti-abortion. I'm also pro-choice. How do I explain this? Simple: I acknowledge that it's not my place to force my beliefs on other people. Also, I'm a cis male, so I will never have to address this issue myself, so it's doubly not my place to tell a person with a uterus what to do with it. Also also, I'm adopted. I'm living proof that there are other options... but that means I'm inherently biased, and I acknowledge that bias. You can be anti-abortion and still be pro-choice. Because choice = freedom, simple as that.
Sand Ers 2 months ago
What valid fact-based points do the compulsory gestationists have? I’ve been following this topic for decades, and I’ve never heard one yet.
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Eric Tapril 2 months ago
You shared your opinion, dumb bullsh!t that it was, and now I'm sharing mine by downvoting you. See how that works?
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Sand Ers 2 months ago
Why should anybody give a fùck what you’d “accept”? It’s none of your business. Unless you’re the one who’s pregnant. The rest of that list should be a given, and isn’t pertinent to abortion.
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Vix Spiderthrust 2 months ago (edited)
And yet, the very essence of pluralistic society demands that people must have rights regardless of what your emotions say. Of course, YOUR right to bodily autonomy isn't under threat, which explains why you are surprised that people are taking threats to their bodily autonomy seriously - in much the same way that a well-fed man cannot understand why the destitute queue for rice
Load More Replies... Disgruntled Pelican 2 months ago
If your morals include believing that a 10 year old should be forced to carry a pregnancy to term after she was raped, you need serious help.
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Tamra 2 months ago
So much ignorance and misogyny in one little paragraph. What a delusional, pathetic little world you live in. A woman has the right to have whatever kind of sex life she wants, and your opinion doesn't matter. A woman has every right to determine what happens to her own body, and your opinion doesn't matter. Glad I could clear that up for you, feel free to re-read it when you're inevitably feeling confused again.
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Gaerwing 2 months ago
To be fair an issue which effects the liberties of 50% of the population is a pretty big fücking deal.
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Vix Spiderthrust 2 months ago (edited)
Not even slightly how it works. Where is the statute that says using the internet is legal? Or reading books? Or breathing air? In common law jurisdictions such as the USA, freedom is residual, which is to say that all that is not banned is permitted. Where a freedom is granted by statute, the statute does not say "X is legal", it precludes state sanction against the practice of X.
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Vix Spiderthrust 2 months ago
What a ludicrous equivocation. The process of terminating a pregnancy for medical purposes is called "abortion". Because it's an abortion.
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Vix Spiderthrust 2 months ago
Thanks for that contribution to the debate. It's always important to hear the stupidest possible take, and you made it with admirable brevity.
Load More Replies... Eric Tapril 2 months ago
As BWC rightly said elsewhere: "Zygotes, fetuses. Not babies. That's your gun laws allowing actual children to be shot in schools."
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viimatar 2 months ago (edited)
That's a so-called late abortion, after 14 weeks of pregnancy, and in most countries, only allowed in the case of unviable pregnancy or a considerable risk to the mother's health. The last date is usually at 16 weeks at a maximum, and in the case of severe congenital defects, the extreme line is drawn at 24 weeks - and this category is usually reserved to anencephaly (lack of brain) and similarly lethal defects, out of mercy towards the mother who would otherwise need to carry to term a child that will not live a single minute after the umbilical cord is cut. And, as it happens, in almost no countries at all, are gender based abortions legal. Even and especially those countries where they're prevalent in the illegal side. They're actively combated against by the governments.
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BWC 2 months ago
It's not murder. It's church dogma. Even the bible has instructions for abortion and claims that life does not begin until first breath which occurs after delivery. Did you get that?
Load More Replies... Vix Spiderthrust 2 months ago
Women have found for millennia that "just don't get raped" isn't as simple as people like you want to make it sound
Load More Replies... viimatar 2 months ago
What a wonderful straw man, if your purpose was to argue against abortion by stating that "many people" celebrate the possibility of extremely late abortions. There is only one medical definition that draws a line between miscarriage and (still)birth, and it's the likeliness to survive outside the uterus. Currently, the reasonable viability is considered to be somewhere between 23 to 24 weeks, and out of these premature babies, a huge percent dies, and the majority of the survivors will have permanent multiorgan damage and brain damagefor the rest of their lives. About 32 or 33 weeks is the current benchmark after which most (otherwise healthy) babies will live. An embryo is considered a fetus at 10 full weeks (8 full weeks after conception, in other words), and not a day before that. In medical care, medical definitions and ethics should weigh more than baseless claims or misinformation, and therefore, 10 weeks at a minimum should be allowed as the last date of elective abortion.
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#2
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.
#3
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.
#4
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.".
#5
Why two tablets of vitamin B6 do not equal one of B12...
#6
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 🤦🏼♀️.
#7
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.
#8
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.
#9
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.
#10
I met someone who didn’t believe in space. Not space travel, outer space. Just didn’t think it was real.
#11
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.
#12
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?”.
Full of Giggles 2 months ago (edited)
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.
#13
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...
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 2 months ago
Scary that the voters were just as dumb, it would seem, to vote for another dumbass
#14
"STD's aren't real" and also, "I've had syphilis in the past" from the same person.
#15
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.
#16
That a child should be able to say if they want to be hugged or not🤷🏽♀️.
#17
Reindeer are real, I am not trying to convince you that there are actually flying deer that pull Santa Claus' sleigh.
#18
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.
#19
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!
#20
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.
#21
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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This is NOT a s**tpost I swear to God this is a real converstion that I had with a woman who called me things like *rice rascal* (I'm fillapino).
#22
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.
Brenda 2 months ago
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
#23
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.
Sarah 2 months ago
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."
#24
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.
#25
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.
#26
They thought that the universe is 5000 years old and dinosaurs is a lie.
#27
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.
#28
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.
Beth Wheeler 2 months ago
Sounds more like she's just an idiot. I've never had any of them say anything to me about double bagging.
#30
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.
#31
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.
#32
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.
XenoMurph 2 months ago
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"
#33
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.
#34
A coworker insisted Okinawa was a Hawaiian island and couldn’t be convinced otherwise.
#35
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. 😅.
#36
That making hollandaise sauce with vanilla soft serve ice cream was not acceptable in this universe or any other.
ॐBoyGanesh 2 months ago
It’s not a sauce with arbitrary ingredients. Sure, the acid can be varied, but it’s pretty specific 375 year old sauce.
#38
Cheating on someone isn't just a mistake or an accident.
TheBlueBitterfly 2 months ago
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 🤭
#39
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.
#40
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.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago
Jacob Zuma took a shower to stop himself catching HIV after having sex with a woman he was not married to.
#41
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.
Sweetie Dahling 2 months ago
And then there are some people who call eggs "chicken periods" 🤦🏻♀️
#42
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.
#43
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.
#44
Somebody very close to me thinks all of evolution is a lie. Not even a strongly religious.
#45
Why concentration camps were dehumanizing... yup, someone I know thought they were good...
#46
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.
#47
Drinking rubbing alcohol can kill the coronavirus bacteria and cure you.
You cannot believe how triggered I was, after hearing this.
#48
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.
#49
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. 🤦♂️.
#50
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.
What do you think ?
Jenna Kay 2 months ago
Quite honestly, given all the people I have met and spoken with in my 50 years, they are all likely true. From a college roommate who thought you got pregnant from holding hands, to a teacher who thought Alaska was an island next to Hawaii off the California coast, to my uncle who believed that people hunted dinosaurs in the 1920s ... it makes me wonder what I have wrong!!!
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Myoviridae 2 months ago
A few years ago I had to order something by phone. The customer service person insisted that my zip code meant I lived in Arizona (I live halfway across the country and had done for many years). I had her repeat the zip code back to me and even looked it up on the post office website for her. No dice... she kept insisting I lived in Arizona. By the time I finally hung up, she had half convinced me that I really did live in Arizona.
Pablo Ramos 2 months ago
Back when I was in college, engineering, a group of classmates were discussing petroleum production. The number of 3 million barrels per day was mentioned. I asked one person in the group the following question with evil intentions: "Can you imagine selling THREE MILLION BARRELS PER DAY!? Where do they get so many barrels?" To which the person responded: "Well, I guess whoever wants oil have to bring their own barrels."
The Doom Song 2 months ago
Got halfway through.... I feel MENSA smart after reading these... I cannot believe people are that stupid
Comment Deleted 2 months ago
I live in Canada. Before cell phones we had to stop to use a phone booth. We stopped in front of two booths. 1 booth said Bell Canada , the other AT&T. Boyfriend stepped into the AT&T booth and I watch him step out and go into the Bell Canada booth. I asked him why . He said because the AT&T booth was only for calls to the USA. Confused I asked him to explain. He said that the phone booth provided by AT&T was a direct link to the USA. You pick up the phone , put your 25 cents in and you can call anywhere in America. The Bell Canada booth was for Canadian calls only. I am not the sharpest tool in the shed by a long shot but this mid thirties man was just to dumb for me. No amount of explanation could convince him otherwise. He was convinced that for lowly sum of 25 cents you could just step into that AT&T phone booth and call ANYWHERE in the USA. He did not believe that AT&T was just the company that provided the phone booth.
Melissa Harris 2 months ago (edited)
This entire article remains me of an interaction I had with a grocery store cashier a few years ago over mushrooms. I was buying oyster mushrooms and when she looked at them in the paper bag she clearly didn't know what they were, so I told her "oyster mushrooms" expecting her to look them up on the produce code Rolex. Instead she insisted they couldn't be that as they weren't oysters but couldn't tell me what my mushrooms actually were! She asked me why they'd be called oysters mushrooms if they're not oysters. While I sympathize with the question on an intellectual level I wasn't about to Wikipedia dive about the etymology of mushroom naming in the checkout line. The cashier was so adamantly dumbfounded that my fiance had to get a manager to check us out.
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 2 months ago
Having worked in a retail pharmacy most of my life, I can sadly say I find none of these outside the realm of possibility.
I AM A LOLLY SNEK (she/her) 2 months ago
On year six camp i was gonna go outside for a little bit because i felt like walking around. One of the people i was sharing a room with said "Dont go out there, it's to cold. You'll get sick". I tried to explain to her that my mother, who i told her had a medical degree and was a certified doctor told me that the cold does not give us colds. "Then why are the called colds?" "Because they were named hundreds of years ago when they thought the cold made people sick" "Well i believe my mum not yours" "Mine literally has a medical degree" "I dont care". This same person believed blood was blue and could not be swayed.
Neb 1 month ago
Cold itself does not give you disease, but low temperatures can increase the likelihood of getting sick. The body is not as effective at fighting a virus when cold air enters the nose and upper airways. Basically, getting cold slows down your immune system reaction, so getting cold and getting sick afterwards is not totally unrelated.
Load More Replies... DeoManus Argentem 2 months ago
I'll admit, I was 35 when I went to Home Depot (US home improvement store with a garden center) looking to buy pickle seeds. Sad part is, I've grown all kinds of herbs and veggies since I was a kid and even as an adult now have set up an entire bedroom as an orchid conservatory (grow lights, fan, humidifier, etc) - so I love gardening! Didn't start an argument, but I spent a long time looking for those pickle seeds before it finally hit me, lol!
Neb 1 month ago
Considering yesterday in shop I found regular cucumbers named "Persian pickles", I am not too surprised. Granted, that shop had "cutted" pork and "beef banana flank" so...
Load More Replies... Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 2 months ago (edited)
Had to set a Hulu account for a client, she wanted the no ads plan. She calls me the next day saying her shows have ads. After questioning, I found out she was referring to live tv shows having commercials. I kinda had to explain the difference between live tv and streaming
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 2 months ago
I knew a social worker who believed the earth was flat. I laughed in his face.
Jenna Kay 2 months ago
Quite honestly, given all the people I have met and spoken with in my 50 years, they are all likely true. From a college roommate who thought you got pregnant from holding hands, to a teacher who thought Alaska was an island next to Hawaii off the California coast, to my uncle who believed that people hunted dinosaurs in the 1920s ... it makes me wonder what I have wrong!!!
Load More Replies... Myoviridae 2 months ago
A few years ago I had to order something by phone. The customer service person insisted that my zip code meant I lived in Arizona (I live halfway across the country and had done for many years). I had her repeat the zip code back to me and even looked it up on the post office website for her. No dice... she kept insisting I lived in Arizona. By the time I finally hung up, she had half convinced me that I really did live in Arizona.
Pablo Ramos 2 months ago
Back when I was in college, engineering, a group of classmates were discussing petroleum production. The number of 3 million barrels per day was mentioned. I asked one person in the group the following question with evil intentions: "Can you imagine selling THREE MILLION BARRELS PER DAY!? Where do they get so many barrels?" To which the person responded: "Well, I guess whoever wants oil have to bring their own barrels."
The Doom Song 2 months ago
Got halfway through.... I feel MENSA smart after reading these... I cannot believe people are that stupid
Comment Deleted 2 months ago
I live in Canada. Before cell phones we had to stop to use a phone booth. We stopped in front of two booths. 1 booth said Bell Canada , the other AT&T. Boyfriend stepped into the AT&T booth and I watch him step out and go into the Bell Canada booth. I asked him why . He said because the AT&T booth was only for calls to the USA. Confused I asked him to explain. He said that the phone booth provided by AT&T was a direct link to the USA. You pick up the phone , put your 25 cents in and you can call anywhere in America. The Bell Canada booth was for Canadian calls only. I am not the sharpest tool in the shed by a long shot but this mid thirties man was just to dumb for me. No amount of explanation could convince him otherwise. He was convinced that for lowly sum of 25 cents you could just step into that AT&T phone booth and call ANYWHERE in the USA. He did not believe that AT&T was just the company that provided the phone booth.
Melissa Harris 2 months ago (edited)
This entire article remains me of an interaction I had with a grocery store cashier a few years ago over mushrooms. I was buying oyster mushrooms and when she looked at them in the paper bag she clearly didn't know what they were, so I told her "oyster mushrooms" expecting her to look them up on the produce code Rolex. Instead she insisted they couldn't be that as they weren't oysters but couldn't tell me what my mushrooms actually were! She asked me why they'd be called oysters mushrooms if they're not oysters. While I sympathize with the question on an intellectual level I wasn't about to Wikipedia dive about the etymology of mushroom naming in the checkout line. The cashier was so adamantly dumbfounded that my fiance had to get a manager to check us out.
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 2 months ago
Having worked in a retail pharmacy most of my life, I can sadly say I find none of these outside the realm of possibility.
I AM A LOLLY SNEK (she/her) 2 months ago
On year six camp i was gonna go outside for a little bit because i felt like walking around. One of the people i was sharing a room with said "Dont go out there, it's to cold. You'll get sick". I tried to explain to her that my mother, who i told her had a medical degree and was a certified doctor told me that the cold does not give us colds. "Then why are the called colds?" "Because they were named hundreds of years ago when they thought the cold made people sick" "Well i believe my mum not yours" "Mine literally has a medical degree" "I dont care". This same person believed blood was blue and could not be swayed.
Neb 1 month ago
Cold itself does not give you disease, but low temperatures can increase the likelihood of getting sick. The body is not as effective at fighting a virus when cold air enters the nose and upper airways. Basically, getting cold slows down your immune system reaction, so getting cold and getting sick afterwards is not totally unrelated.
Load More Replies... DeoManus Argentem 2 months ago
I'll admit, I was 35 when I went to Home Depot (US home improvement store with a garden center) looking to buy pickle seeds. Sad part is, I've grown all kinds of herbs and veggies since I was a kid and even as an adult now have set up an entire bedroom as an orchid conservatory (grow lights, fan, humidifier, etc) - so I love gardening! Didn't start an argument, but I spent a long time looking for those pickle seeds before it finally hit me, lol!
Neb 1 month ago
Considering yesterday in shop I found regular cucumbers named "Persian pickles", I am not too surprised. Granted, that shop had "cutted" pork and "beef banana flank" so...
Load More Replies... Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 2 months ago (edited)
Had to set a Hulu account for a client, she wanted the no ads plan. She calls me the next day saying her shows have ads. After questioning, I found out she was referring to live tv shows having commercials. I kinda had to explain the difference between live tv and streaming
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 2 months ago
I knew a social worker who believed the earth was flat. I laughed in his face.
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