Even the smartest person ever is going to slip up and say something pretty dumb from time to time. Whether it’s because you haven’t had your morning coffee yet, or because you aren’t really paying attention, you’re bound to have those moments.
So it was pretty easy for redditors to think of things when they were asked, ” What’s something you’ve heard someone say that was so incredibly, mind numbingly stupid that you’ll remember it the rest of your life? “
“Why Mexico’s Independence Day isn’t the same as the US’s.”
I’m not going to fault any American for not knowing that other countries’ independence days aren’t on the 4th of July. It’s not like they grew up anywhere else.
“Once when I took a class trip to Washington DC we went to a museum and saw a reenactment of something featuring George Washington on a big screen.”
“While we were watching it I heard two girls from the front row. One of them asked the other, ‘Is this real footage?’ And the other then replied, ‘No, if it was real it would be in black and white.'”
I’m not gonna lie, the fact that she was so confident about it is pretty great.
“Hank Johnson, a senator from Georgia, testified that he was worried about all of the troops being sent to Guam, because the island may tip over.”
Oh my. It’s real . I, uh, I’m pretty sure that’s not how islands work…
“My friend once turned around to me and said ‘I don’t believe in oxygen.'”
I have way too many questions about this. But I don’t really think there’s a point in asking any of them because… what?
“A guy I knew thought that bones were made of wood.”
Okay but could you imagine if he was right and bones really were made of wood? We’re all actually just weird, small trees that can walk and talk for some reason.
“Met a nursing student who more or less believed the cure to cancer was ‘pretending like you don’t have cancer.'”
The old “fake it ’till you make it” trick works really well for confidence, but not so well for life-threatening illness. I seriously hope this nursing student chose a different career path.
“A sous chef who made more money than me, a line cook, sincerely thought leaving a lid on a pot makes bringing water to a boil go slower because it ‘holds the heat down.'”
I… I just can’t believe chefs like this exist .
“One of my best friends was convinced that Sweden and Finland were the same country and that Iceland didn’t exist.”
This reminds me of when I was in grade school and this one kid thought the city of Paris was in the Caribbean.
“At KFC one woman was surprised to learn that Buffalo wings were made of chicken, she actually thought that buffaloes had wings.”
See, I don’t totally think that assumption is dumb. Except for the fact that if buffalo really did have wings, they’d be a lot bigger than chicken wings.
“A professor at Belmont once told me that cars could never run on electricity, because there are no electric components of a car.”
I wonder if that professor’s still around and how they feel about today’s electric vehicles.
Also, cars have batteries??
“A girl in middle school thought that trees flapping created wind rather than the other way around.”
I desperately need to know how she would’ve explained how wind exists in places that don’t have a lot of trees.
“When I moved to Texas from Hawaii multiple people asked me how long the drive was.”
Well, it couldn’t have been that long. After all, Hawaii’s right there on the map, next to Alaska!
Multiple people asked this. Multiple. We’re doomed.
“A flight was delayed due to snow on the runway, a woman complained saying ‘damn it this happens every year, why don’t they put a roof over the runway or something.'”
Sure, they could do that. Might not be able to get a plane out of the runway then, but sure.
“I had a friend that thought that a rat was the female of a mouse and vice versa. It took me and hour to explain they are different species.”
This is like how some people think all dogs are boys and all cats are girls. Like, no?
“A woman in my office asked another woman if ‘The Martian’ with Matt Damon was based on a true story and the other woman said she wasn’t sure.”
I feel like, if people had actually made it to Mars, we’d know about it.
“My friend was waxing poetic about wanting to be a teacher. She said ‘I want to be the one teaching them that there are 24 letters in the alphabet!’ And yes, she did go on to teach.”
I wonder which two letters that friend forgot about.
“‘How do dogs in China learn Chinese.’ He was under the assumption that dogs just naturally spoke English.”
I feel like if a kid said this, it would be really cute. But if an adult said this… we’d have a lot more questions.
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Because dogs, in fact, can’t speak any language.
“Mice lay eggs right?………right?”
I don’t know who needs to hear this today, in the year 2022… But mice, in fact, do not lay eggs.
The idea of mouse eggs is actually kind of creepy. And gross.
“Coworker couldn’t figure out why Alaska was cold and Hawaii was hot because ‘they’re next to each other on the map.'”
I want to say I’m surprised, but I’m actually not. I mean, those two states aren’t actually connected to the continental U.S., so they kind of have to stick them off to the side somewhere.
“Substitute teacher told me the moon is bigger than the sun and that’s why it blocks the sun during an eclipse.”
I’m not even going to try to make sense of this comment because it literally makes no sense. From a teacher, too!
