In life, not everyone is blessed to have a prowess in studying, logic, hacks, etc. However, there are also people who just make you think twice about their thoughts. Or are they even thinking at all?
Even if you don’t mean to judge them and everything, at some point, you just can’t help but make a weird and awkward face once those people speak. These people from the Reddit Community shared their stories of someone being the oddest.
1. Doubled Part
I work in vet med, some clients are shy about talking about their dog’s genitals, and some don't care and will start yelling about how their "cat's arsehole is crammed up with poop."
The dumbest thing a client has said to me in that regard is that their dog "is licking her arse, but like the front part of it."
So I asked, "Oh, so her vulva?" And she replied, "No, her front arse." I don’t know if this dude was afraid to say the word vulva.
He might genuinely think female dogs have two arses (plausible, my brother thought his dog’s vulva was "some weird growth") or something else entirely, but it's an inside joke in our clinic now.
CuteBloop
2. Not A Believer
I had this conversation, and it’s kind of frustrating. Well, I was visiting family in Russia - came back to the US, and had "Have you been to Asia in the last month" or something on the health form.
Of course, I said yes and was asked "where." I said, "Russia," and got told that's in Europe, don't be stupid. I just shrugged and went where he told me, not going to fight, getting home quicker.
Before, people said, "Russia is Europe. Everyone lives in the West, which is Europe." I was way beyond the Urals in a backwater town my cousins had decided to live in so there.
HotRabbit999
3. New Transportation
A few years ago, I got a job offer in Japan and decided to take it. Some friends from my then office threw me a farewell party.
The girlfriend of one of my co-workers came along and told me that she’d always wanted to go to Japan and that her number one thing to do there would be to take a camel ride.
My co-worker and I just looked at her to see if she’d explain more— maybe there was a camel cafe she’d heard about or something. But no, she just honestly thought camels were a common mode of transportation in Japan.
isntitprettytothnkso
4. Laying Eggs
My coworkers and I were having random conversations. I remarked that it’s odd that we associate rabbits with EGGS for Easter.
I jokingly said we should make it an Easter platypus because, unlike rabbits, they lay eggs. Then someone overheard this and said, “Wait... no, rabbits DO lay eggs.”
This turned into a two-minute argument over whether or not rabbits lay eggs. And then, when she finally accepted that she was wrong, she was so irritated.
To the point that she asked all of her coworkers if they thought the same as her. To the best of my knowledge, she’s the only one.
USPSA-Addict
5. I Was The Dumb One
This requires some backstory. I went to a really prestigious New England private school on a scholarship for high school, so most of my classmates were insanely wealthy.
I was waiting for a class to start one day, and the guy sitting behind me was complaining to a friend that the milkman was late that morning, so he didn’t get to eat breakfast.
Well, like any normal person, I turned around and asked him what he meant by “milkman.” Apparently, the town he lived in (very wealthy) was serviced by a local dairy, so they got fresh milk delivered every day.
I must have been looking at him like he had three heads because he proceeded to ask me in complete seriousness: “Well, where do you get your milk?”
And the worst part is that because my middle-class friends weren’t in this class with me, I ended up looking like the weird one for getting my milk from the grocery store!
WoopsieDaisiee
6. Language Context
I have a BA in English and an MA in international Literature. Last year, during Christmas, we were with the in-laws for dinner (extended family, so with all the uncles, aunts, and cousins; their family is huge ), and I got talking to one of the uncles.
My fiance and I had recently bought our first apartment and were looking at buying furniture and the like for our move in January - Uncle Dearest was telling me about an auction website.
At some point, he stopped, looked at me, and then first translated the word 'auction' into our native language and then made sure to explain the entire concept to me at length.
This is the very same man, though, who took one course in wine tasting and, at the next family gathering, decided to show off his winetasting chops by taking a sip of his glass of wine and twirling it thoughtfully.
Then, proclaiming that, ah, yes, he could tell that they mustn't have uncorked it entirely right. He could definitely taste a hint of cork in there. No, absolutely. There was definitely a cork-flavour.
Alas, the wine had become undrinkable, so they had to grab a different bottle and try again, more carefully, with the cork this time.
EXCEPT. A lot of wine bottles in my country, especially from grocery stores, do not have a cork - they have a twist cap (which makes life infinitely easier, in my opinion).
They ended up taking his glass of wine into the kitchen, opening the fridge door, rummaging around a little bit, and then giving him back the same glass, to which he happily proclaimed that this was indeed much better!
CrazyBrieLady
7. Strong Belief
Someone close to me believes the vaccine for Covid will actually be a chip. I had read that before, but hearing it from someone I know was a wild experience.
I was talking to someone, and they said Oxford had made a vaccine or was in the process of doing it, and then this guy drops this bomb of crap, “Don’t you guys know the vaccine is a chip?”
I. Was. Dumbfounded. My facial expression had never changed so quickly. I asked how he could possibly believe that to be true, and he had the audacity to say, “You would know it if you went to a Christian church.”
I was livid. I asked him if he had any idea how other people made fun of those who believed that, and he said, “I know. But they are naive.” Just when I thought he couldn’t say anything dumber.
I’m usually a person willing to argue with people when they are wrong, but this was a lost cause from the beginning. It was pointless.
He’s always like this and just doesn’t change his mind, even when you present him with evidence. I just left. No matter what I said, he’d still believe the vaccine is a goddamn chip.
StrawberryFinch_
8. Bunch Of Ignorance
Back in school, we had a fireworks ban because of a drought. This dumb witch got mad and said it was stupid. She was insisting it was pointless.
Because the fireworks weren't going to spontaneously combust, so there's no point to the ban. Sadly, many people agreed with her.
The same girl later told me that my job (documentary filmmaker for first responders) didn't exist because she knew that it was illegal to film first responders because her dad was a fireman. She also said birds don't poop and have to be fed seltzer, or they'll explode.
FullMeatJacket
9. Vegetarian Or Not
I used to work at a drive-through coffee shop. Someone came through and asked what vegetarian options we had when it came to toasties.
One of the people I worked with there at the time suggested a couple of things, and then the guy who was ordering said, "Do you have the cheese and onion one at the moment?"
To which my colleague replied, "Yeah, sure you want that one?" The guy said yes and headed on through. Obviously, we had headsets on to communicate with the people making orders and with each other.
And then, this colleague piped up over the headset and asked the whole team, "Wait...onions are suitable for vegetarians..?" You can imagine I had questions, but needless to say, if that ain't the dumbest thing I've ever heard, it's damn close.
CyphusS
10. Way Too Different
Someone in a Trader Joe's in the USA commented on my accent and asked where I'm from. I replied with 'South Africa.'
She proceeded to ask, 'Oh, South Africa? Where is that?' And thinking she was making a joke, I sarcastically responded, 'Oh, just south of Mexico.'
She then continued on to very seriously ask me about the weather, the political situation, and if we also have substance issues in Mexico.
It slowly dawned on me that this lady couldn't work out that South Africa is in the south of Africa.
RaeDeclin
11. Odd Question
It was a class in my sophomore year. The lecturer was going on about humans' brain function while consuming different media.
After a while, the lecturer said, "There are some who suggest that we use our brains more when we watch paint dry than when we watch TV."
When suddenly, a hand was raised from the middle of a class. The student then proceeded to ask, "How about if we're watching paint dry.. on TV?"
At the moment, it was the dumbest thing I had heard, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that question was really valid.
redfarts420
12. The Sunset
Used to do ocean rescue in North Carolina (beach lifeguard). Here’s a late-day exchange between a middle-aged couple and myself; “Does the Sun always set over there?” The wife asked.
So I replied, “In the West?” “Yeah, over there behind the dunes.” The husband followed. “Uh, let me confirm that for you,” I said.
I proceeded to call my supervisor over the radio and ask him to confirm that the Sun always sets in the West for some patrons over our county’s emergency services radio band.
It took him a while to respond, but I could hear laughing in the background when he did. “Yes, Guard 0-3, I can confirm the Sun does indeed always set in the West.” Me to the couple, “Yeah, I guess it does.”
Wife: “Well, we wanted to watch the sunset. Is there a beach here that faces the Sun setting?” I figured if I had asked that over the radio, I would have gotten reprimanded, so I told them to call the Coast Guard office nearby and check. I loved messing with the USCG boys and gals.
potablepotents
13. Human Anatomy
My friend told me that people close their eyes before they sneeze so they don't fall out. He was dead serious. I was dumbfounded.
I tried explaining to him that maybe eyes don’t fall out because they are connected to muscles and just can’t get out of the skull that easily.
Then he said, "If they are connected to muscles, how can they still move?" and looked at me with a smug face. I still don't want to believe he said that. He was 13 when he said that, and he was home-schooled.
Obamobile420
14. Not Smart After All
We had this kid in high school who was known for his academic prowess. I don't think this bastard ever got anything less than an A+ and was in every advanced class that was offered.
He was our local Einstein. One day, my friends and I were being goofballs during lunch, and I made some joke about scaring some girl and making her pee her pants.
This kid looked me straight in the eyes and said, "Girls can't pee their pants." The way he said it felt judgmental as if I was the idiot in this situation.
This led to a five-minute conversation where we all realized that he was dead serious about this claim. I felt really bad. Here is this smartest guy I have ever met, and he seriously believed it was impossible for girls to pee their pants.
He thought there was something down there that blocked the urine. This was my life lesson on the difference between being really good at studying and having knowledge.
BoxOnWheels
15. Not Your Ideal Guy
I was dating this guy who was definitely not the brightest bulb in the box. We both bartended at the time & my neck & lower back had been really bothering me.
I also have very long hair (it seems unrelated, but just wait for it). I was complaining about a muscle spasm I was having & he asked, dead serious, “Do you think it’s because your hair is so long it’s pulling on your muscles?”
Same guy, second story, my Dad was joking around with him & said, “You need to relax. Every time I see you, I can smell the fear.”
He responded, again dead serious, “What...what does fear smell like?” I’m proud to say not only did I not marry him, I also did not procreate with him.
kveach
16. Impatient Karen
A Karen substitute teacher once said to a kid that he shouldn't be playing shooting games because it's against the school’s guidelines and influences school shootings.
She was in her 20s in college. In my school, no one gives a damn if you play shooting games or not. The security guard didn't give a damn.
She called them because the boy wouldn't stop playing the game. Literally, no one cared. Only she did. It was so irritating to witness.
We had to deal with her again when one of my teachers was off for two days, and she was writing down people’s names who were and weren't working. When my teacher came back, she didn't give a damn and threw it away.
pphead_42069
17. Pointless Views
To preface this, I’m an Australian. I went on a holiday to the US a few years back and went on a cruise around the Caribbean.
About halfway through the cruise, I started making some friends with the American teenagers on the boat. Anyway, one of them asks me a silly question.
“Do you have pizza in Australia?” This, for some reason, turns on a light inside all of the other’s heads. Another one asks, “Do you have mobile phone reception in Australia?”
Another asks, completely seriously, “Is it true that you ride kangaroos to school?” It’s unbelievable how geographically sheltered Americans are.
Borgun-
18. South Water
So, a co-worker’s dad was visiting, and we were sitting in the breakroom at work, which had a picture of our other facility on the wall.
His dad says, "So that's the restaurant just south of the dam in the picture?" The co-worker says, "Now, how the hell do you know which way south in a picture?"
The dad says, "Because that's the way the water is flowing" (there's a river in the picture with a dam). A co-worker argues that water doesn't necessarily flow south.
To which the dad replies, "The heck it doesn't! Spit up in the air and see if it doesn't come south and hit you in the face!" Oh gosh.
nogudyousirnaym
19. Sudden Blindness
My sister woke up one morning screaming that she couldn't see and was blind, and literally ran into a wall and knocked herself down.
I think her logic was because sensible people run around when they can't see, I guess? Gosh, I was so bothered by her constantly doing that.
She had terrible hygiene at the time. Her eye boogers had finally glued her eyes shut overnight. Five seconds with some water flushed them out.
lnamorata
20. Distinctive Appearance
One of my co-workers saw another coworker for the first time and said, "I didn't know white people could have curly hair."
To me, she said, "I don't like the way I look. I have a mole on my face. White people don't get moles." I then showed her my moles, and she was shocked.
She's also said some bad stuff about other people, but I wasn't there for it. I think she doesn't get out much. It was too odd and quite irritating.
i8adonut
21. Silly Reason
Last night my friends and I were shooting the crap on ps4. 2 of them were going out and owning a car together, and the girl had completely lived up to the crappy female driver stereotype.
The guy tells us about her mishaps and says that she got a warning from the insurance company for speeding on the motorway.
Apparently, she was going 87 in a 70. She tries to justify this with the most hilariously dumb statement I've ever heard, "I thought the fast lane was for going fast."
I had a laughing fit for 5 mins straight. She tried explaining that she thought you could go as fast as you wanted in this lane, and she's so stubborn it took a solid 10 minutes to get her to admit she was wrong.
VacuumSucc
22. Empty Can
My old roommates back in California have a friend who is about as smart as a pile of rocks. Her name is Lisa. Lisa has had many stupid things come out of her mouth.
Like telling her ex, she couldn't get pregnant if she was on top. (She got pregnant, so that's on both of them for being stupid).
Or she turned the AC down to 60° because she was saving money only using 60% of the power instead of 75% that it was at.
But the dumbest thing she ever said was at Subway. She walked in behind us. Each of us ordered our sandwiches. Then they asked her what she wanted.
She looked really confused and asked, "Is the six inches bigger than the foot-long?"
She tried to defend herself as to why anyone would be unsure of this. She said, "Six inches says how big it is. The foot-long doesn't."
baylithe
23. Geography Confusion
My fiancé is afraid to fly, and I want to go to Alaska. So I said we could drive there, and this family member said, “You can’t drive to Alaska!”
And I was like, “Why not?” And she said, “How are you going to get your car there?” I was so confused! She’s said, “It’s an island!” We went back and forth as I explained it’s not an island, and I would just have to drive through Canada.
She said, “Canada?! It’s down by Hawaii.” it turns out that because the US map in schools has Hawaii and Alaska in a box in the lower left (and doesn't show all of North America).
She thought Alaska was an island in the Pacific and always wondered why Alaska was cold and Hawaii was warm. We all had a good laugh.
She texted about 20 of her friends, and 14 of them thought the same! This very smart girl is going to school to be a doctor. Uhm…
Cat727
24. Not A Magic
I used to do merchandising at grocery stores. My coworker said a lot of dumb stuff, but I will share my favorite one. I swear I couldn’t forget about it.
We use schematics with the layout of the shelves on one page and the list of products and their SKU numbers on the other.
The pages are stapled together, so I pulled them apart so I could see them side by side. I was just doing things quietly and focused.
My coworker came up to me and said, "How did you do that?" I replied, "Do what?" She said, "That" (pointing at the two papers next to each other.)
I said, "I pulled them apart?" *Making the pulling something apart action with my hands. Then she replied very emotionlessly, "Oh, okay, thanks," and walked away. I'll never forget it.
wittysnhere81
25. The Boss
When I was 15, I worked at a pizza place, and the owner was an idiot. We got into a screaming match, arguing over the fact that goldfish need to come up for air.
His rationale was, “Why do they come up to the surface and blow bubbles when I come to feed them.” I spent the next 10 minutes lecturing a 40-year-old jerk and business owner.
That fish have gills and convert oxygen in the water, and they come to the surface when he feeds them because he was feeding them.
He almost fired me until the co-owner walked in and told him not to argue with people smarter than him. That was fire, man!
Esass1
26. Just Do Your Job
I don't know that it's necessarily the dumbest, but it's the one that pops most easily into my mind when the subject comes up.
In the military, there was a guy in my division who was...not all there. He was brilliant at his job, but who knows what happened to the rest of his grey matter.
Anyway, a few others and I was having a discussion about Mardi Gras, and he suddenly butts in with, "Oh, Mardi Gras! You mean that party in Orlando, Georgia, right?"
We all looked at each other in silence for a moment before one of us said, "Orlando is in Florida, not Georgia. And Mardi Gras is in New Orleans, Louisiana."
He replied, "Shut up, I was never good at geology!" and he quickly stormed off. That became one of our top 3 stories to use when explaining to people what he was like.
wodahseht83
27. With Brains Or Not?
I could tell so many stories about this dumb girl who went to school with me. She was so dumb that she'd struggle to pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel. I don't know how she even made it through middle school and into high school.
We'll call her Amy. She decided that my newly dyed dark blue hair was my natural hair color. My natural hair color is brown.
Anyone could look at my hair and figure out that I used hair dye, but Amy somehow came to the conclusion that my brown hair turned dark blue naturally.
In Animal Science, we were doing a class dissection on a sheep's digestive tract. Before we started, Amy raised her hand and asked, "Mr. Gull, is the sheep still alive even though it doesn't have its digestive system?"
Mr. Gull was as baffled as the rest of us. A buddy of one of my buddies told me this one. Back in middle school, their ninth-grade English class read Romeo and Juliet.
A kid shouts out that Romeo and Juliet died at the end, and Amy is the only one that gets pissed. Her classmates were so baffled by her.
Raging_Utahn
28. The Destroyer
I was talking to a coworker about extinction events, and then we started talking about dinosaurs. It’s one of the topics that I have always wanted to dig into more about.
I made the point that if the dinosaurs never went extinct, humans may not have evolved as we are today.
He responded with, “Yeah, ‘cause how would humans build roads when dinosaurs are just gonna keep stepping on them.”
That was his thinking... humans wouldn’t have evolved because we would have been able to build roads. We just stared at him, and it was an awkward silence.
jacobc1596
29. From The Future
I moved from the USA to Thailand two years ago. Talking with my mom, she said, “So, you should know who wins the Super Bowl before us since you are 12 hours ahead, right?”
I thought she was making a joke, but then I realized that she seriously thought that to be the truth. We had a long conversation about the concept of time.
We also tried to explain to her the events happening in the present, which ultimately really only led to confusion from both sides.
dfisher4
30. Pour And Drink
Back when I was in high school, I was in ROTC, and there was this one dumbass jock in the class with us who was drinking a soda one day.
Enter marine vet sergeant major, big and bald, take darn from no one, but super sweet. No drink is allowed in the class, so the sergeant major tells the dumb guy to pour it out. Well, the first thing he asks is why, which is fudge up number one.
When told again to pour it out, the homeboy starts chugging. Well, everyone knew he messed up, so the sergeant major yelled, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I SAID POUR IT OUT, NOT DRINK IT.”
Dude says, the dumbest thing I've ever heard, "I poured it down my throat." Lmao, at this point, he gets dragged out and yelled at across the hall for 5 minutes. Unfortunately, he was the too cool to care type. Or it was just too stupid, so the yelling didn't do much.
Portal2TheMoon
31. The Human Logic
There is an episode of "What Would You Do?" A show where actors cause a scene or controversy in public to see how people react.
They put an actress in a restaurant playing an openly lesbian waitress, and this old guy at a nearby table said something that made us puzzled.
He said, "Gays can't reproduce, so they will just die off eventually anyway." Like dude? Where do you think gays come from? STRAIGHT PEOPLE LIKE YOU
surprisingsocks
32. Sun’s Heat
When I was 17, a mate and I were invited to a BBQ by some girls we knew. We went over and were hanging out in the sunshine for a bit, and I asked when they were going to put the food on.
The host says the burgers are cooking, so I take a look at the BBQ, and there are some burgers on the grill just sitting on top of aluminum foil.
I pointed out that nothing is lit, no fire at all, not even coal. She says there's no need because the sun heats the foil so much it cooks the burgers.
My friend and I argued with them that this was pure nonsense and she wouldn't have it. We left after that. It was just so dumb we were still squinting in disbelief when we went to a burger bar to get something to eat.
MengTheMerciless
33. Inside Out
Having this moment is one of the most stressful and weirdest times. I spent all day one day trying to convince a weird buddy that standing on the outside of a building does not mean that you are inside that building.
After a few hours of going back and forth, I realized I should test his freaking logic. I put my back on the outside of the brick wall of his house.
It was nowhere near a door, feet in the grass, and said, “Tell me to my face that I’m inside your house right now.” He said I was.
TheJesseClark
34. No Product Knowledge
I just walked by one of those folding tables at a wholesale club where they try to get you to sign up for a credit card. Man, they were talking a lot.
The cash-back rate was something like 3% for restaurants, 2% for gas, and 1% for everything else. The girl working the table engages me and comes out.
She then said, "You'll be earning a total of 6% on all your purchases!" I tried to argue that it didn't work that way, but she started getting angry with me for challenging her. I just walked away. You can't argue with stupid.
mrdogfather
35. The Obvious Spell
I may be late to the party here, but when I was in school (around age 14/15), I was in geography class with a friend of mine. I thought everything was going normal.
We were preparing a presentation on some 3rd world country (don't ask for specifics; I really can't remember). It was pretty quiet, and my friend put his hand up and said, "Sir, how do you spell HIV?"
I wasn't sure if I was shocked at how stupid the question was or if he thought he shouldn't ask me because I might not know either.
loosewire95
36. Different Kind of Bread
I was helping a cashier bag when I worked at a store. We were limiting the amount of essentials one family could buy due to covid.
This couple starts putting their stuff on the conveyor belt, and the cashier sees that they put two loaves of bread on there.
One regular loaf of white bread and one of those half loaves of sweet cinnamon raisin bread. The cashier held the loaf of cinnamon raisin bread.
She looked at the woman and said, "Sorry, we're limiting bread to one loaf per person right now." This woman looks the cashier into the windows to her soul.
She then says, "That's not bread." The cashier and I exchanged a quick, flabbergasted look to each other, and unfortunately, she acquiesced and let the woman have her loaf of not-bread. I still think about this.
levilee207
37. Weird Knowledge
When I was 18 years old, a woman in her 40s in our small town decided to tell everyone I knew that I was pregnant. I didn’t know where it came from.
It was causing a lot of confused and frustrated conversations with my friends and family. I found out who this person was and confronted them, asking why they would make this up and spread it around.
She said it was because she heard from a very reliable person that I was drinking water at the local pub. I didn't know what to say.
I just told her that I'm not and asked her to please stop. She refused and continued to tell me that I must be pregnant because this very reliable person wouldn't lie to her about my drinking of water at the pub.
DrunkCrowdAdvice
38. The Zoo
From a coworker who was always high. He was talking about how he was watching the Jurassic Park movies while eating wings.
Halfway through eating, he came to the realization chickens are descended from dinosaurs. Therefore, he was not eating chicken meat but dinosaur meat.
But only chicken counts as that. Goose or duck don’t count as dino meat; it's just chicken. So he started going on a rant that dino chicken nuggets are actually dino dinosaur nuggets.
This same man thought since a mule is a crossbreed of a horse and a donkey, he could breed a horse and a giraffe to get a "girose" or "horaffe."
Then he can say he legally owns a giraffe and can ride it into battle because no one wants to deal with an animal with a long neck.
Batcow2106
39. Building AI
My Aunt, a nearly 50-year-old woman, was convinced she was making robots. It was Microsoft Excel and Access. She's had some really stupid statements over the years, but this one takes the cake.
She schedules job interviews for some companies I've never cared to learn about. One day, she told my dad she was getting ready to sue the company for "age discrimination."
Supposedly, the company was making them build robots. She said, "People our age (my dad) don't need to be learning to make robots. That's what the young people are for."
At first, we thought she was joking around, but she wasn't. After some probing, she finally revealed what she meant by "robots."
The company was providing free classes to learn Microsoft Office, and my Aunt apparently wasn't doing well in the training.
ferretatthecontrols
40. New Menu
In a bar job, I was taking orders and running drinks. This woman asks for a rose, and we only have one on the menu, so I get her that.
She calls me back over after a few sips and asks. "Is this rosé flat?" I told her it was open that day (which it was) and told her if she didn't like it, I could get her something else.
There was a bit of back and forth before she finally said, "It got no bubbles," I was confused at this point, so I asked if she meant a sparkling rosé.
She then proceeded to tell me all rosé is bubbly, and she, in her whole life, has never asked for a rosé and had it be a "flat" one.
Now look, I know a lot of people don't know all that much about wine, but surely you would know that rose isn't sparkling, right??? RIGHT???
Saturnine15
41. Nothing But Dumbness
That babies breathe through the skin on their heads. My ex's friend was being deadly serious when he told us not to put a hat on our baby because it would suffocate him.
He believes the baby breathes through the lungs, just straight from the head skin. The dude had a 5-year-old, too. It was so weird and dumb.
That snakes don't have bones. She believes they're like worms and refuses to believe that they have bones. She also thinks they are vessels for Satan.
That thunder is the sound of clouds bumping together. When we argued with her, she tried to prove herself right by Google searching and then claiming Google was wrong when she couldn't prove it.
WimbletonButt
42. Hands In Space
I went on a date with someone who couldn’t understand why standing on a mountain and putting your arm in the air wasn’t “putting your arm into outer space.”
When I explained the atmosphere, they said, “Okay, so where is the atmosphere line?” When I tried to explain that the atmosphere was a gradient, I thought they’d get it.
Suddenly, they went back to the “Okay, so putting your arms up on a mountain is the same as putting them into space” argument. I saw this person later share a meme about high school math being a waste of time.
[deleted]
43. High Brightness
I will never forget the look this girl gave me and how ignorant the interaction was. I was riding the school bus into my hometown after school to go to the library.
It was really bright that day, and my eyes were overly sensitive to sunlight, so naturally, I was squinting. The girl asks, "Are you Asian?" (I am about as white as you can get.).
I responded, "No, I'm squinting." She looked at me as if she was trying to figure out how to send a rocket to the moon and said, "Whaaat?"
So I explained that it was bright outside, and I was squinting because of the sun being bright. She proceeded to drop her jaw in pure idiocy and repeat her "Whaaat?" statement.
I just told her never mind and left her utterly amazed at the new ethnicity she learned that day. I'll never forget that face. Such stupidity ran through her brain.
g3odood
44. Different Seat
When Star Wars Rogue One was having a premiere at the cinema, my friend and I booked tickets to see the movie at Theatre X.
One of our friends wanted to join us, so I told him which seats we had at Theatre X and that he could buy a seat next to us. He agrees.
Days go by, and the premiere comes. We're getting ready. I asked another friend to come with us to Theatre X. And he basically said, "I'm actually going to Theatre Y because that one is closer to me, but I'll meet you guys there!"
Awkward silence. I ask him if he realizes that it doesn't matter if he has a seat next to us or if he's going to a different theatre altogether. After a brief pause, he just says, "Oh, okay."
Bengoris
45. Her Theories
In high school, we discussed how wind emerges. One girl, known for her 'weird' answers, claimed that 'the air is being pushed by the waves from the sea, causing a breeze and then wind afterward.'
Then, our professor did not want to direct her. Then she was asked how waves arise, and she just stated something like, 'idk they're just there.'
Three weeks later, she failed to point at the US on a labeled map, first pointing at Russia, then at Brazil, then to some country in Africa.
Finally, she said that she didn't know and that it was really difficult. Besides that, she was a really nice person, but her answers just sometimes were too hilarious.
mrsubidubi