"Are You Really That Stupid?" Moments - (r/AskReddit)

our /oscar etic my planet reddit what's the most are you really that stupid thing you've ever heard I'm late but my mother once years ago said cats are cold-blooded because they like to lay in the Sun we immediately said what no did you go to school four or five months ago she doubled down on this stating the exact thing for the exact reason I told her I you cold blooded because you like to sunbathe she still thinks cats are cold-blooded someone in my freshman year college class professor do you think dinosaurs existed professor there seems to be a lot of evidence in favor of that conclusion what do you think someone I don't think they did I mean how do we know they were called dinosaurs they could have been called anything in high school when this girl found out prisoners used to be sent to Australia she said that stupid they could just swim back to Europe to be fair anyone who actually manages to swim from Australia to Europe deserves to live eh thanks for the silver stranger in high school during global studies we were talking about South America and this chick asked which country was Africa even being told it's a separate continent and shown on a map she continued to argue for 20 minutes saying it was a small country in South America when I worked at a call center and someone said queue for cucumber to me quakin bur thanks for calling customer support you are currently number 43 in the queue camber edit this comment got me my first reddit silver heart unexpected thanks : ever hear of those shitty free online IQ tests my friend took one of these but the one she took was even worse than the regular ones it was obviously not a valid IQ test and probably made by either a 12 year old a drunk person or a drunk twelve-year-old anyways one question was what is your favorite food out of these four which was already a really bad question I didn't think it would get worse until I saw what do you think of the phone I don't remember the fourth option but out of I love the iPhone it's good technology and what an iPhone the smartest choice was what's an iPhone ridiculous your IQ is higher by being ignorant of the world around you anyways to the main point she got a high score and put it on her resume I unfortunately can't find the IQ test TL DR girl takes shitty inaccurate online IQ test gets a high score puts it on her resume pretty sure I'd immediately reject anyone who put their IQ on a resume real score or not they're either idiots and trying to compensate or hydrate or they're really proud of that score and you probably won't hear the end of it from a customer how do you type a capital for alt + f4 girl I used to date was convinced that used cars came with insurance we went out to look at cars for her one weekend and on the way to the first lot it came up in conversation she absolutely did not believe me to the point that it was almost an argument salesmen told her the same thing so she demanded we go to another dealership we visited four dealerships that day and all of them told her the same thing relationship didn't last much longer but earlier this year she was pulled over and arrested for a litany of offenses including a DUI but surprise she had no auto insurance you have to write her and asked if she was driving a used car I was driving with my mother on a pitch-black night my mother said the stars went out because there was no moon for them to reflect off of love you mom the idea that the moon is a gigantic disco ball four stars seems pretty fun I work at an animal shelter and a woman asked me if we had any dogs that didn't poop I told her no all dogs poop so she asked about carrots yes but we can only match them with the humans that don't prove either is this something you're in the habit of doing I knew a guy in high school who thought in Asian women only that the urethra vagina and anus were arranged horizontally something like late comer euro for a comma vagina comer anus common leg he was stunned when we went over female anatomy during our senior year that's the second comment I seen here where someone thought Asians have horizontal parts I'm wondering where this is from honestly it's a very old racist joke that's been around forever presumably these guys were told this as a joke one time and never questioned it blowing balloons up with my own air no gas et Cie with my wife prior to a party wife no no no don't blow the balloons that fall to the floor blow up the floating balloons me look of disbelief what you need to use helium for that wife no you are just not bothering that's what it is dude stop being an a-hole just blow helium for her can your lungs not create that all you have to do is go hehehe when you do it my sister's friend who is 22 believes that why you fly in an airplane once you are in the air you just levitate there and the earth rotates under you when the plane is over the destination the plane lowers again and that's what happens she wants to be a teacher a woman once asked me if an article was really hot because Mexico is south of us and it's really hot and other countries are south of us and they're really hot - this woman was 40 years old well it is a desert my friend thought due to time zone differences between the u.s. and the UK you could place a bet into the UK on an NFL game that had happened in the US and cheaper system because it hadn't happened yet in the UK a previous co-worker of mine thought that when looking at images of hurricanes what she was seeing was the ocean swirling and not clouds she had a bachelor's degree can you imagine how fucked we would be as she was right I asked her what she thought happened once they made landfall all I got was a blank stare I once heard a girl say that she doesn't believe in miscarriages edit another good one is that if she asks is something blue ting free she asks is that gluten meaning the exact opposite she also says she is going to become a Navy SEAL she is not in the Navy we were out of state and she said oh wow wild cows they were not wild cows does she think a miscarriage is just the same thing as an abortion like it's done on purpose or just that they don't actually happen there are myth I remember sitting in a world Civ class in high school and a girl in my class asked how people outside of the US lived since they were in a desert the teacher tried to have her clarify which desert s to which the girl responded with the one outside the US she was convinced that every single nation outside of the US was comprised solely of desert sand that any major cities she had heard of that says London Paris etc were actually US cities flesh it out and I'd probably buy that as of RPG freedom land cuz everything else is hot sand well in a really long car trip with my parents we were discussing countries we'd like to visit my mother said she'd like to visit Japan to see the Great Wall of China my dad and I don't let her forget my 22 year old niece said she didn't want to see a female gynecologist because she would turn into a lesbian after the doctor examined her there's always a 50% chance of rain think about it it will either rain or it won't so that's gotta always be 50% this is why I always play the lottery either I win or I don't that's 50% I haven't won yet though which is somewhat surprising given the US yer and lucky buy two tickets 50% plus 50% is a 100 percent chance of winning someone once asked me and my twin sister if we don't mistake ourselves for the other one I like to think she was joking but I don't think she was posted this before but my grandmother was an identical twin her sister passed away before I was born she didn't like to tell stories from when she was little but she did tell me one mistaken identity story she was in their bedroom one night when they were really young and saw her sister through the window she started talking to her sister to see why she was outside at night then she realized it was her reflection my grandmother had mistaken herself for her to win my best friend has actually accidentally called me by her own name so I can at least see something like that happening during a color war trivia game at summer camp we were asked her name places the Olympics has been held someone mentioned Athens and the girl next to me started to lose her mind laughing I asked her why and she responded isn't Athens that place from Harry Potter ten stroke ten edit I love that this turned into a Greek economy discussion thread the internet works in mysterious ways what place from Harry Potter did she think she was referring to as cubben I did my waiting 12 years of it in Athens I had a customer yell at me that their doughnuts were supposed to be buy-one-get-one-free instead of half price I had to explain how a one stroke two plus one stroke two was one never understood it and just sneered whatever at me and had me cancel their order sure my mistake I can refund you the $3.00 and 99 cents and ring you up with the correct discount dot okay with the discount your new total is three dollars and 99 cents edit I regret my choice of three dollars and 99 cents to illustrate the technique when I worked in fast food I had a couple that wanted me to apply to senior citizen discounts to their meals because there were two of them could not get them to understand that the discount applies itself to the total order so they very cleverly decided every time they came and they would order and pay separately they shall have their two discounts and no one could stop them funny thing was ordering that way made their total come out of since more expensive than if they had just ordered the two meals on one ticket so I got my cheap satisfaction someone in high school thought she couldn't get pregnant because she never did anal only piff sex when questioned about it it made perfect sense to her because the vagina isn't where the baby is come from she thought women pooped out babies while in high school sex ed I heard a student ask the teacher if I pee inside her she won't get pregnant because it'll kill the sperm teacher said something like first of all no that doesn't work second who would let you pee inside them second who would let you pee inside them someone in the back sheepishly raises her hand my friend wrote on the title page of his high school essay essay yeah sound it out edit some background it was in the hallway before class started that I noticed it's in his hand probably stared for a good 10 seconds trying to figure out what it meant then it hit me like a good friend I stayed silent and let him hand it to him we're Saudi Arabia on his map map of Africa where's Jamaica then still the map of Africa ok so there was this mother that I once met I'll call her Karen so Karen is your typical MLM mom she's in like three of them including an essential oil one one day her son gets sick instead of getting cold medicine or whatever she feeds him essential oils of course he gets sicker so the school goes to treats him right after hearing about this his mom said and I quote don't give him that the big farmer chemicals will make him immune to the essential oils and they never think of the big essential oils company one of the people high up in one of these companies nearly killed his kid with them the kid got burned badly his skin came off in sheets so they stuck him in a tub but figured since he wasn't in a whole lot of pain he'd be fine then they pulled him out coated his burns in lavender oil and prayed over him they posted this live on Facebook and people were saying you have to take him to the ER the kids ended up in shock that's when they finally put him in the car some people turned CPS on them thank goodness because that was really duct up my wife was telling her sorority sisters about how she was allergic to wheat one of the girls responded with why don't you just eat white bread instead then um what do you think it's made of white when I was in high school history class this dumb as a brick girl asked our teacher who was from the south but we weren't even remotely close to the south still no excuse if she'd ever owned a slave related in my high school history class the dumb as a brick girl told our black teacher that if I had a slave I wouldn't want him to be black because I wouldn't want people to think I was racist that's like 11d Ches thinking that too bad she's actually playing backgammon this middle-aged woman I work with at a fast food place was drinking a glass of super sweet tea when these words came out of her mouth my doctor said that I may have diabetes I don't understand how I never eat sugar look at this tea do you see any sugar in it I only put the sugar in it disappears so I don't eat it me while watching a semi friend do ten separate ATM transactions why are you taking out $200 from the ATM in $20 increments you are just adding up the $2 and fifty cents fee semi friend it all adds up in the long run me no shit it adds up to you wasting money semi friend no trust me it adds up maybe they thought they were getting 2.50 instead of paying it it was explained to him over and over for months he still just argues that the money adds up in the end phone customer can I pay with cash over the phone me edit this was more than 10 years ago before cryptocurrency existed I was working at a call center making reservations for a dinner and show type place if they reserved online or over the phone they had to prepay I asked this customer if I heard them correctly and she varied that yes she would like to pay with cash over the phone there was nothing but seriousness in her tone I informed her she could pay with cash at the box office however over the phone I could only accept a credit card I did not laugh at her or make her feel stupid but inside I was dying sure champ just read me off the serial numbers of all the bills puts phone down and walks away while discussing taking a girls trip and going on a cruise my friend once said I think it would be pretty easy we could just get a cruise out of Dallas everyone paused her husband then broke the silence with that is our marriage summed up into one sentence works with someone who would say it's Friday somewhere unironically on Tuesdays edit since this is being brought up we had them F shifts only at the time which the co-worker was working so this wasn't a situation where they were talking about a shortened week or having Tuesday as their own personal Friday I think I found my new catch phrase world history class in high school this girl really asked how we won the American Revolution when the Germans had airplanes I had to remember to breathe I think she is the one who has to breathe voluntarily explaining to co-worker that Africa is a huge continent with dozens of countries and no you can't drive there from America drive to Alaska get a car ferry to Russia drive down through Asia to the Middle Eastern get to Egypt max for five hours drive small problem is there are no roads near the RUS board teacher in middle school was playing a cassette tape for the class that was a bit distorted so she attempted to improve the audio by adjusting the antenna in my communications class in high school it came to my teachers attention that a few people in the class which had about 15 students didn't have a basic grasp of world geography so he pulled up an interactive world map on his computer and connected it to the projector okay so this is where we are this is class responds with North America okay and down here cursor is hovering over South America - girls expressed confusion over what it was so he told them it was South America next he moved the cursor over Africa and both of these girls in unison with full confidence blurted out East America later in the lesson one of the girls said that she thought North Korea was in the center of the u.s. and that's why we have so many problems with them my main concern was that I was in the same school district as them for all 12 years and I wondered how the same system that worked for me had completely failed to work for them I mean it's hard to get people to learn if they don't care and then sometimes once they do care they're too embarrassed to admit they don't know so they just kind of go along assuming they aren't the ones that double down on stupidity North America was always at war with East America thanks for watching subscribe for three videos a day [Music]

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Length: 18min 43sec (1123 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 29 2020