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i once saw a white girl getting an elephant tattoo, her boyfriend said "did you know elephants are considered sacred in india?" the girl looked at her boyfriend and with an annoyed tone said "i know! this is why i am getting this, i am part native american" so...... 1) she thought indian only means native american 2) she thought elephants are native to america
We really need to stop calling native americans "Indians" in school. I was maybe 10 when I learned they were supposed to be called Native American and not Indian
As a twin, I can confirm, no, we're not brothers, yes, we feel each other's pain instead of our own, yes, we have gotten ourselves mixed up, yes, we like exactly the same food, yes, we hear each other's thoughts, and no, no we weren't always twins.
As a kid I thought that people who didn't speak my language were mentally translating every conversation into my language. Took until late elementary school or so to figure out that people actually think in other languages.
And this is why I can never have a job in customer service if I was ever asked "what are you're potatoes made of?" My immediate response would be "ground up leprechauns"
I don't care about dumb questions as much as I care about annoying and rude customers. I work in a thrift store and am a supervisor but a lot of times they have me working as cashier. A couple days ago I was closing supervisor and my cashier called me up front. In Ohio we have a tax free weekend for clothes and school supplies up to a certain amount of money (I think $20.) So I came up to help the cashier because she forgot we have to go through line by line and hit a button to take off the tax instead of hitting one button at the end. I had also just gotten off the phone with my store manager who told me a girl she plans to hire as a cashier might be in to pick up papers. So I'm trying to relay all this to the cashier. I knew a lady came up behind the customer the cashier was ringing up and I was going to get to her in a minute after I finished relaying everything to the cashier. But before I could finish this lady says "can you ring me up?" I automatically said yes and went to open our other register. Then this b**** says "I was wondering why you weren't." My hackles are already raised now but I'm trying to be professional. This lady was asking me when our senior day is, how much of a percentage off and how much change would she save. Asking what color was on sale and what would the next color be next week. I told her we weren't supposed to say because it's company policy that goes against the "it's fair to everybody." I don't think she liked that I said this because she then just kept complaining about our prices and saying how could poor people afford us and a bunch of crap that was just annoying and all she bought was one dress. After I gave her the number of corporate (which you'd think she knows since she told me she used to work at our company and was talking crap about how much the CEO gets paid) she was saying "well I hope you tell your manager too cause I think you guys are too expensive." Finally she left. Now I did text my store manager so she couldn't say that I didn't relay her message. The next day I'm talking to the other cashier and she said that lady comes in once a week and does this. Ooh this makes me so mad. Like you ain't got nothing better to do than complain to the people who don't make the rules. It's cool though. I hope I am in the next time she does this because I'm gonna get passive/aggressive with this lady. Like "you say you ain't poor and can afford us and compared us to another thrift store so then why are you buying from that store and taking away from the poor people? What do you consider poor to be ma'am? If you mean indigent then we do got programs and vouchers that help those types of people. If you mean people on a fixed income guess what? I see all those people coming in here and praising our prices, particularly when they can buy a trendy item like Victoria's Secret in good and sometimes new condition for less than $10 (our average on most clothes not on sale is between $4.59-5.99.) I myself make just enough to be above the poverty line but not enough to be middle class so does upper lower class count as poor because boy do I wish I could shop here, I'd probably spend a good $50 or more if I could. But our store policy is you can't shop at the store you work at."
My reaction would be to proudly exclaim that my potatoes are real ones, that grow in the ground, not like that fake factory stuff that everyone else sells!
The moment where this happened for me is when I had to convince a 16 year old girl in a history class that WW2 wasn't "some fantasy like LOTR" as she put it and that yes Hitler was real and not a comic villain. Then she cried when I informed her that yes human beings actually did the holocaust. In a later class she got curious and asked me questions and found out yes indeed the WW1 was real and was the reason that WW2 is called WW2.
I guess she just didn't want to believe that human begins actually did the holocaust, so she just convinced herself that it wasn't real. I can understand her. I myself can't actually process what horrors happened there.
I think that was a coping mechanism, her brain was unable to process such awfulness being done by the same beings she is, so it reverted to calling that "fiction" over all, she probably very sensitive, and her coping mechanisms kick in even at the most mildly dark things, at least to modern society's standards
I used to get frustrated at these little issues, but now I find these quirks rather humorous, and the different channels have their own brand of quirkiness.
There was this tv show on today and a very intelligent guy.... He was extremy smart and answered over 100 complex questions correctly. Even about the location of certain cities... was asked the following question by the host: "which continent has the most ice on the surface?" "Asia" "Er...What? "Asia, I said Asia! " "Asia, this is your final answer. The time is up!" "Oh wait....Ups" Everybody makes mistakes.
@@joelblake5310 i thought you meant he said UPS (as in the United Postal Service). He actually just meant to say “oops,” as in an expression of regret or remorse.
In college after I told some people I am from Brazil a girl asked me "oh, that is in Spain, right?" The state in Brazil I am from is larger than Spain...
There's a lot wrong with this. For some reason the first thing that came to my mind was, Brazil is a former Portuguese, not Spanish, colony. The second was, you know they're not even in the same hemisphere or continent right? The third is, those two countries don't even speak the same language.
I was blown away that Brazil has 210 Million people. Yet I know nothing about it and they seem to manage to stay out of all stupid wars and global conflicts.
@@nope53926 Because they have so many conflicts and problems on their own. Brasil is also worldwide known for their soccer players and coffee production.
My mom doesn't understand that once I send in my school work, I can't do anything else to effect my grades. I send in my work. That's it. I can't do anything else.
Probably mistaken for geometry, and geometry is still more than “just shapes”. Then again, it technically is, but that’s like saying math is just numbers.
The girl that thought that was surprised hitler died 75 years ago was like, literally a character from family guy. Brian dated a lady who's introduction was saying "someone needs to go stop that hitler guy"
I was going to a funeral in Chicago with best friend and his little sister and we arrive and somebody mentions how nice Chicago weather was at the time and his little sister pipes up with the question, "we are in Chicago? I thought we were in Illinois". Keep in mind we are from indiana so it was relatively local geography.
Love the "Imagine the average person is stupid. Imagine half of them are dumber than the other. Now imagine half of them lack logic." Aspect to this askreddit.
I hate this quote because, quippy as it is, that's not how averages work! That quote is describing the median (the number in the middle), not the average (all the values added together, then divided by the total number of values present).
Whenever you see a warning sign about something that seems super obvious keep this in mind: someone had to do that thing enough times for a company, government, etc. to actually put a warning up.
“How many states in the United States?” “51?” “What’s the fifty first state?” “I don’t think there is a fifty first state.” “Then what made you say 51?” “I don’t know.”
Dang I had a girl in my science class who asked "if we're descended from gorillas then why are there no blonde gorillas?" I get her confusion but I think most of the kids started laughing at her. Poor girl never escaped that "dumb blonde" label.
1:40 This reminds me of the greatest brain fart I ever witnessed. The guy wasn't actually stupid, he was normally very smart, but he was just out of it this one day. Dude spent 5 minutes insisting that Mexico is North of Canada. Like NA goes Mexico, Canada, USA. He argued this for like 5 minutes and it finally clicked when he tried to draw a map. He goes quiet for a moment before sheepishly saying "I'm not good at Geology."
Also geography isn't taught very well in my opinion. I know how volcanoes are formed but I used to think there were 56 states, Russia was hot, and there were 5 continents.
I mean, if you thin about it since the earth is a globe hes technically right, depending on where your point of reference is you could say that mexico is north of canada.
@@dondraper2344 ...No, it's really not. If you put a map on the wall upside-down with Antarctica at the top, Mexico is still south of Canada, because you've only flipped up and down, not north and south.
That time my little cousin was walking into the road and my mom said "Hey stop, you'll get hit by that car!" and he replied "Scientifically it's a truck."
7:33 dude this exact same thing happened to me and we weren’t allowed to open up the window because “it would circulate hot air” and a few kids (including myself) passed out from heat exhaustion since we lived in a desert and that is why I hate summer camps
I used to think passing out was really serious and you would like, need an ambulance. Untill I started experiencing 'simple fainting' and the doctor said the main worry would be me hurting myself when I fell over.
My best friend whose house I stayed at for a week or so, they had a glass of milk they poured powdered milk into it. They said, “I get more milk in my milk” or something like that. I’ll never forget that day.
When I was in science class in 7th grade the teacher asked the class "why does water bubble when it is boiling" the entire class sat in silence. Until I, the quiet kid, after a minute of no response said "the water gets hot and turns to a gas" I thought to my self "no one must have felt like answering" but then a girl sitting in front of me turned to me and said "how are you so smart"
3:30 I once found a story on one of these threads from a young girl who woke up in the middle of the night, saw her identical twin sister in her room, and while half-asleep and confused began attempting a conversation with what turned out to be her window reflection. Didn't quite mistake herself for her sister, but close.
I remember girl in my elementary school failing the "nature" class (mix of biology and geography). The teacher wanted to give her a last chance, and asked what a sparrow is. Teacher even thrown a hints "is it a fish, bird, reptile, mammal?". She replied "reptile". Everyone was a mix sad shock and feeling sorry for her. But after years I learned that there is no big biological reason to divide reptiles and birds that way and it is mostly historical split. Of course, back then, and in the lessons there was a clear distinction between those two, so she still was dense.
I have ADHD and am on the spectrum, and sometimes have problems with mixing up words that sound similar. I've learned to laugh about it. the funniest moment for me was when I was in High School during my Sophomore English class. We were reading Julius Cesar, and the topic of JC having "falling disease" which was Epilepsy. A classmate near me raised a hand and said "why would having epilepsy prevent you from being an emperor?" and my stupid ass smugly said "Well, how could you rule a country if you're falling asleep all the time?!" there was a brief moment of silence, and then the teacher said "Amy... That's Narcolepsy." LOL! I also had a teacher that called me an idiot for thinking the Titanic sank in 1912 (the real date) instead of 1914.
Don't feel bad! I'm visually impaired, have permanent double vision, and I'm dyslexic. When I was 25, I was looking for a printer that produced clear pictures, for my job. I was sitting in the meeting room at work, using the full sized computer, and scrolling through long lists of printers. I rolled past one with a description that I thought said, "Great for all your pornographic needs!" I did a double take, and tried to scroll back up, but hit the wrong button on the mouse and the page zoomed downwards. I scrolled back up and looked and looked and finally found the printer again. It said: "Great for all your photographic needs!" I burst out laughing and my boss ran in the room and asked me what happened? I explained the situation to him and he walked back to his office shaking his head! 😆
When home computers were new my mum used to demand our help all the time. We'd say, "Stop clicking" so she'd click it another 20 times 'to prove it wasn't working'. The hard drive would be growling away as it attempted to open 50+ documents. She never listened. Then again she was only treating the computer the same as she treated us lol.
Ah, the things I hear as an Australian... "That's not a real country. You're actually from New Zealand." "So water flows backwards there, right? Like, rivers go backwards instead of forwards?" (That's definitely not how hemispheric water rotation works, kids) "Do you speak English there?" And, of course, the classic: "Do you ride kangaroos?" Mate, if you can find a way to ride a kangaroo without getting your bones pulped and your organs ripped out I will personally crown you as Australia's first ever King.
Ohhhh.... This is not a studip question if you think about it. At what point does for example youtube reach a point of beeing completely self-explanatory? When is it not? I have read so many articlrs about which factors turn something complex into something self-explanantory. Its still a bit difficult to grasp the true meaning of it. What was the teachers answer?
2:50 i can kind of relate to this one. when you are overwhelmed sometimes you dont think things through because youre just trying to get stuff done so you can have a chance to collect your thoughts.
TLDR at the end: Used to be friends with a guy, J, that was a complete moron. Went on a camping trip with J and 2 other friends. Like 50 miles from the nearest town. J goes to leave early the next morning. About 20 minutes later he comes back asking if we have any oil because his oil light on his car came on. I told him to pop his hood so I could check the oil level. Only a bit of tar on the tip of the dipstick. "Dude when was the last time you checked your oil?" J wouldn't answer. Just demanded we look for some oil. None of us can find any oil so J demands one of us drive him into town. He had pulled crap like this before so no one wanted to. It was 4th of July weekend so we suggested he ask if any of the other hundred or so campers around had some oil. Nope, in J's mind, out in the boonies equaled the movie Deliverance. So he wasn't going to talk to any strangers. Big argument ensues, now he's threatening to sue us if his car explodes because we wouldn't go get oil for him. We double check our cars and I manage to find a half a quart of oil that had slipped under the back seat. I slammed it into his chest and told him to get the F--- out of there. Two months later the motor on his car did blow up on the I-5 freeway. 110K miles on it! Turns out the half quart of oil made the oil light turn off so he thought it was good enough. Engine seized 30 miles after the light came on again. TLDR: Idiot doesn't check his engine oil.... ever, even after being told to. Engine explodes prematurely.
Had this argument more then once in my life: "Fish is not vegan, because Fish are animals too." Why do so many people think that fish is not meat. wtf... I get it if some people don't know stuff like that some gummy bear brands use animal products, but fish? Seriously?
So the proper term if you eat vegetables and fish is pescatarian but since most of these people did this diet in 2006, they didn't google and learn this. I legit have told like 12 vegetarians they weren't actually because of the fish. Eggs sometimes get lumped in that
Don't judge me please but..... Like there's different types of alcohol? Like ik it can be strong or weak but.... What's the difference between rubbing and drinking?
@@aperson1218 They’re different chemicals. One is ethanol (drinking) and one is isopropanol (rubbing). Drinking rubbing alcohol will kill you. The body can’t handle it like ethanol. And no judging. It’s a valid question.
I once had an argument with a guy who said any basketball shot you take has a 50/50 chance of going in. His reasoning: it can go in, or it can go out. So to him that's obviously 50/50. I asked him if I stood somewhere in Ohio and shot at a hoop in Alaska, is it still 50/50? He said I was being ridiculous. That was my f@cking point, of course, but the idiot missed it. The saddest part is that this occurred at a party, and I then appealed to the mob to try to convince this fool he was wrong. Literally everyone at the party agreed with him. I felt like it was a bad dream or there was a hidden camera somewhere. Finally I announced, loudly, that everyone there was a f@cking idiot, and left.
Tbf...you’re using a logical fallacy where you’re exaggerating the situation and then mocking the results. If you’re standing in the driveway shooting hoops and you’re not a particularly good shooter, then yes, realistically each individual shot has a 50/50 chance of going in. Sounds like you were being a pseudo-intellectual to try and make people feel stupid. If you examine NBA players shooting percentages, you’d notice many players do actually end up around 50% for a career so it isn’t an entirely unfounded observation.
@@fieryjalapenos4442 I believe thats called Reductio ad absurdem and while its true he did use that I do believe its a tall claim to make that all shots are 50/50 on the premise of "it can go in or out" alone. I think it ignores many other factors and I dont think an amateur on a professional court (he didnt specify) would make near anywhere close to 50/50 on shots from say the free-throw line.
@@TheBeatlesShow Religious people can be against vaccines because it is basically saying that you don’t think God created humans well enough and that we have to interfere with His creation in order to be healthy.
I once saw a couple getting into their vehicle in a parking lot, they set the alarm off and couldn't figure out how to stop it even tho the engine was running, aftwr a few min they just drove away with the alarm going off and I thought " what a couple of dumbasses" Come to think of it I may have witnessed a couple stealing a car from a parking lot
Gamestop employee here. My district does not put live controllers or other expensive console accessories out on the floor. Customers constantly (falsely) assert that it's illegal to have empty boxes (display boxes) on the wall if we don't have the item in stock.
God, how much time you got? When I was in Year 7 (6th grade I believe) I was in a class full of ACTUAL incompetents. My Primary school had been really good at teaching AND keeping our interest. So coming into this new class, the whole school in general was daunting how many stupid people there are. People surprised that UK was an island, is the one that comes to mind first.
@@adamchmielewski6162 wouldn’t surprise me. Funny thing is, I’m pretty sure the girl who said it is currently in my class, which is top of the year for every lesson.... me and the guy next to her have explained more than once common sense stuff to her.
I thought I had a super power where "I can see 2 of everything with my eyes." Until explaining this at 10 and my friend said "I can do that too, like when you cross your eyes?" I was so disappointed to find out it was a normal thing
I asked my university roommate why he had the temperature up so high in his room. I was like a mild sauna. He replied, "haven't you heard of room temperature?" He thought room temperature meant keeping the thermostat at body temperature 98 degrees F. Hey buddy, if you're reading this, I don't think you're stupid. That was a stupid idea, though.
Once in high school we where talking about how gravity works with a globe and a toy boat, a girl said “but if the boat goes down to Australia it will fall”
I was in an Environmental Science class my junior year of high school and there was this one girl in there who was talking about something geography-related (can't remember exactly what). I had been kind of zoned out while trying to get my work done and, all of a sudden, I zoned back in to hear one of the dumbest things I had ever heard in all my 17 years of living. I shit you not, this girl didn't know that Japan was an island and she genuinely thought that Africa was a country. And, to make matters worse, she was African American, so she got even more stares than she normally would have because of her comment on Africa. I get that sometimes people have brain-farts or are just tired, but she actually thought that Japan wasn't an island and Africa was a country. She was very surprised to learn otherwise. P.S. once in middle school, there was a kid who thought that Texas was spelled with a "k" (Tekas) and another one thought that it was spelled with a "c" (Tecas). Sometimes I really can't believe just how fucking stupid kids in my age-group can be
So you are more intelligent than them... It will never get any better. Well probably not. Maybe if you go for a career in engineering or something equally complicated. But thats kinda exhausting in the long run. Everbody has strenghts and weaknesses. Dont be mean, just enjoy it secretly.
@@waynemarvin5661 hmmm...i think thats an onesided view upon this topic. Intelligence is not the most important factor in life. And I sorta wished I had noticed way earlier. I think having a good support system is more important. Those simpler kinds of people usually have a good heart and get jobs like waiter/waitress or refrigerator repair person. Which is a hard job. And they interact with more people than an software engineer or a writer would, and have therefore a strong impact upon society. Maybe they even pay more taxes because they dont "waste" time with college or university and stuff. I am the academic sort, because this is the right path for me but its not something which would give everbody joy.
@@cinemaatrium3863 thanks, I wanted to say something, I actually read this a while back but I didn't know exactly how to explain it without making a long time consuming explanation about social economical issues and the poverty penalty. The way I think and process information I sometimes get too caught up. But you sum it up well, thank again for speaking out. 👍
Worked at an ice cream factory in Canada 10 years ago, saw employee working in the gluten/nut free product section of the plant sneakily eating Reese's peanut butter cups that he hid under his sterilized work clothes. Caught an hour or so into his shift by the floor supervisor. Contaminated $35-$40K in product. Claimed he didn't know peanut butter cups contained nuts.
I'm assuming the company fired him or moved him to another company site on lower wage? I don't blame him for packing snacks, but he should have thought it through when in a gluten/nut-free facility.
My brother was born on my 2nd birthday. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve told someone this and got the response “So you have a twin brother?” Yea, mom had a hell of a time pushing him out. He was huge by then... and hairy.
One of my trainees decided he didn't need to be trained because he knew everything. He used old filthy plain water and a dirty mop to clean the bathroom. He was real proud and arrogant about it afterward too. .....dumbass.
Oh boy, buckle up, I'll let you decide which is the worst. 1. A girl I went to high school with who thought it was funny that she got an "F" in physics because they, "both start with the same letter". 2. The girl I had freshman Spanish with, who totally believed me when I said I had four kids, ranging in age from 3-11y/o. Did you catch the part about me being 15y/o?!?! 3. The college roommate who claimed she "didn't know how to clean", and then proceeded to use the floor mop to wash the sides of the shower, bathtub, and FUNKING TOILET BOWL/SEAT. 4. The girl I worked with in a home for women with developmental disabilities, who, after one of the residents had vomited on the carpet, used the vacuum to clean it up. She didn't tell anyone, or change the bag, so for the next few weeks, EVERY SINGLE TIME someone used it, the house would smell like the most rancid mixture of puke, curdled milk, and death warmed over. 5. Most of the residents at that same group home were quite a bit overweight, especially those with Down Syndrome, so they needed to be put on a strict diet because it was really unhealthy for them to be that heavy. Well, one day, as my boss and I were getting ready to serve a dinner of what was supposed to be burgers, baked fries, broccoli, and a apple, I noticed that in addition to that, there were THREE different canned veggies, fruit cocktail, and canned peaches out. She made every woman take a serving of each thing regardless of whether or not they wanted it because, and I shit you not, "Vegetables, and fruit cancel out the fat in the burger, and fries", but ONLY if you ate a lot of them with butter, because it "activated the enzymes in the veggies", making them burn more fat. I just want to reiterate that this woman was my flippin' boss!!!! So yeah, I could tell dozens more, especially now as a teacher, but these are the ones that stand out. And I'm not gonna lie, the fact that they all ended up reproducing numerous times, makes it all the more troubling, that's for sure.
I work in high rises as a maintenance man. I had a lady get angry that her wifi/internet wasn't free because "the internet has always existed. We just learned how to pull it out of the air". I was speechless.
"Demi Lovato is just a Bi girl!" - my mother having an outburst after I ask her if she would support me if I came out as non-binary. She went on an entire rant about how you can only be either boy or girl. She also freaks out anytime I mention "gender-neutral" and tries too hard to enforce "femininity" on me. And she thinks that being en-by affects your sexuality sooo
A conversation between my English teacher and my classmate “where’s New Zealand? “we’re living in New Zealand right now.” “I thought we lived in aotearoa.” “They’re both the same places.” “Oh.”
My dad grew up in New Mexico, went to college in Eugene, Oregon. He said he lost count how many times people asked him how far from the U.S. it was when he said he was from New Mexico. This was in the 50's.
Every single day while working at a dollar store, where every item is one dollar: "Can you do a price check on this item?" Retail in general. Just...retail. Grade school, teacher asks "What are the three states of water?" Kid answers: "Hawaii, Canada, Mexico." A beautiful double-fail.
I got into a character debate with a fellow who insisted a woman couldn't be bisexual if they liked men. Not 'only', as in had liked a man at some point.
1:33 Haha opposite with me! I was struggling with a Geometry assignment and asked my step-grandfather for help. He was like "I don't know the location of countries that well." Took a minute, but he realized his mistake xD
Lol, I also live in New Mexico and whenever I would be out of state/country I would occasionally be asked where I am from. Its sad to say but about 8/10 times would be me explaining how New Mexico is part of the US. Most of these times I would be in the US...
My own personal contribution, from literally just last night. Mom: Have you checked the tread on your tires recently? Me: Well, I think I told you I had one replaced last year, and both of the other ones look good. Mom and Dad together: .... Cue five minutes of well-deserved humor about me driving around on three tires for the last year.
Me, I once ripped a paper, supposedly for essay or sth I don't remember, in half in elementary school, because the teacher said sth along the line of "split the paper into two" and i did exactly that, took me looking around my classmates using their pen to realize that what she meant was to draw a line in the middle with the ruler and split the space into halves.
Explaining to a bank customer who’s had a credit card for 10 years but has had it maxed out the whole time that she can’t “just get her money back” just because she’s been making payments for so long 🙏🤦🏻 No Lady, it doesn’t get paid off just from making payments for a long time when you keep maxing it out every time you have an extra $5 available
Boss, "how does this program work?" Me, "I don't know, I've never used it." Boss "seriously, how the hell do you not know how to use it?" Me "Uh, you don't and, supposedly, you use it all the time."
I worked for a guy who actually had this belief that when you shoot a target with a gun, the bullet actually comes back into the gun after hitting said target. I had no idea where he was getting this. He made arguments like "because you can't create energy, the bullet has to return so there's no breaking of physics." At one point, I even wondered if he'd mixed up the meanings of "from" and "to" (he was not a native English speaker, in all fairness). Eventually, I finally found out that what made him believe that was that this was his interpretation of Newton's 3rd Law of motion. The one-liner version of the 3rd law we all learn in school is "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Well, in his mind, this means that if one action caused the bullet to come out of the gun, the equal and opposite reaction should cause the bullet to go back in. This former employer of mine has loads more stupid things he has said or done -- so much so that any time a stupid conversation occurred; even if it was a repeat of a prior discussion topic, I would record it to a text file while the exact word for word dialogue was still fresh in my mind -- but this one makes me laugh more than most of them. Others fill me with rage.
i work at a small store that serves food and stuff. there are two sizes for pizza so we literally list the larger one as “16-inch pizza” on the menu. but i’ve been asked WAY too many times “how big is the 16-inch pizza?” like ??
About 5 years ago, I saw my friend and his sister walking down the street outside my house, and we got chatting. It was a very hot day, so I invited them in for a cold drink. When I got the ice cube tray out to ice the drinks, my friend's sister said "How do you cut the ice into such smooth cubes to fit in the tray?". Thinking she was joking, I laughed. But she was dead serious. So I said, in disbelief that I was actually having to explain this to a grown adult, "You pour liquid water into the tray and then freeze it". She looked at me like I was speaking an alien language. 10 minutes of agonised explanation later, the truth finally comes out. This woman, in her mid 20s, has absolutely no idea that ice is, in fact, frozen water!
In college I had a sophomore in my intro to business management course who said during the end of the class that she doesn’t understand why we have farms when food comes from stores, and that farmers are greedy for hoarding land. We sat her down as a class, those who didn’t have another class to rush off to, and explained basic supply chains to her, including how oil is used for the plastics for packaging and such. She swapped majors the following week and didn’t attend the rest of that week’s classes. Worst part? She was there on a scholarship. How the absolute fuck…
One time my school miscalculated [ Underestimated ] how well I would do in advanced classes and put me in normal classes. At first I thought I was just put at a normal level, then I realized how stupid the class was, the majority of the class couldn’t do multiplication or division. This was in 7th grade, not only the stupidest thing I ever seen, it’s also one of the largest miscalculations and just shows how much people underestimate me.
I was in the advanced class in 7th grade and most of the kids in my class weren’t even that smart. Obviously they weren’t stupid, but they were people you’d expect to find in the normal class. I heard that the normal class had kids so stupid they couldn’t do basic multiplication. I’m in 8th grade now, and it’s the same thing this year.
Not necessarily a person, but an ideology I find weird is that some people say non bianary people are also trans, but also say there are infinite genders that people are born as. Those things are kind contradictory lol
We had a receptionist years ago who the bosses had hired more for her “front office appearance” than anything else. One of her jobs was to address the mail and FedEx deliveries. She called me up and asked if Alaska was in the United States.
I once had a customer tell me that they bought something from Amazon and had them refund it as a gift card, but then asked us why she was still charged on her statement.
Worked with a guy for three years and he tells me he’s going on vacation. He says he is fifty four years old and this is the first time he is leaving the country. He was going to Hawaii.
Man, I met someone who actually believed the universe was only 2000 years old. Until that day I thought people like that were just fictional characters in jokes.
One time in one of my brother’s high school classes, the teacher asked the class something along the lines of, “What is your favorite US state,” and after someone said, “France,” she said, “How did you even get this far in school?”
I work at a dollar store. we sell 'dummy security cameras', the ones that are just a plastic casing with a blinking red light, literally says 'DUMMY SECURITY CAMERA' on every side of the box. Guy brings it up to me and says 'is this USB?' I said 'you mean does it plug into a USB port? No, it's battery-operated.' He looked confused and said 'How do you get the video out?'. Basically walked up and said 'Hi, I'm a literal dummy'. But hey, if it worked on him...
So, once when I was younger the teacher asked my class to draw what we thought a politician would look like, and then asked us multiple things about what we drew (hair colour, gender, etc) and one of the questions he asked was, ‘What skin colour does your politician have?’ To which a girl in my class replied, ‘Normal.’ The teacher asked her and she meant white. But just the look on everyones faces like 😳
I was reaching for the right words to describe the 90-year-old widow of an Italian New Zealander to indicate she wasn't Italian and the 70 something I was talking to suggested 'normal'! Just as I said 'British New Zealander', the main European group here. Except the lady who said normal was of German descent! Insightful of old monocultural New Zealanders' perspectives.
My Story: I was helping him with physics HW or something. At one point I'm practically doing the whole thing, I ask him "What's half of 5" He takes 30 seconds to figure it out, I presume he's attempting to use a calculator, He goes "0.15?" If you've ever seen the meme where someone is thinking and the dial up internet sound plays over it, couldn't be more accurate to say that's how I felt as I sat there speechless.
I feel you, man. But I only write with my left hand, everything else I do with my right one. So anyways, I broke my left arm when I was in middle school and wasn't able to write for a few weeks. The teacher said I was pretending to not be able to write because I could still use the spoon, type on a keyboard etc. with my right hand. So she forced me to write anyway, and when it obviously came out terribly - I got a bad grade. My mom had to personally call her and explain that I wasn't pretending.
