Redditors Share Wildly Stupid Things They've Heard People Say

We like to think that as humans we've come a long way in the intellect department. But every now and then we get a sobering reminder that there's a ton of work to be done. Reddit user u/Vinyl_Bun_Buns has managed to serve up one such reminder after asking r/AskReddit followers to share the dumbest sh*t they'd ever heard someone say. The baffling and ridiculous responses (many of which we've included below) really make us want to pour money into education. Prepare to facepalm.

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Text - r/AskReddit + Join u/Vinyl_BunBuns • 13h What's the dumbest thing you've ever heard someone say? 1

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Text - Adron-the-survivor • 7h A girl in my class asked why do farms exist if she gets her food from the supermarket.The teacher had such a disappointed face and everyone looked at her and wondered how did she pass the all the way through the 8th grade Reply 1.1k ...

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Text - TheKurosawa • 8h A customer once argued with me that "19 and older" (what our sign said) was different than "19 or older" (what I said) and that I should let them into the club. Technically yes, when you're talking about a group of people, you can nitpick and say that there is a subtle difference in the phrases. However, this customer was 18. Reply + 3.7k

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Text - GingersaurusRex • 11h "If you could adopt a child from a third world country, which country would you choose and why?" "I would choose Alaska, because it's really cold there." -A member of the prom court being asked a random question on our school's live news show that was being broadcasted out to every homeroom. Reply 6.5k ...

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Text - Diabotus • 12h Wait how could they castrate a 8 year old? He wouldn't have his balls yet! - My friend, a 18 year old male who vastly misunderstood what people meant when they say "your balls dropped". No, I don't know how he never noticed that he had balls before puberty. Reply 1 5.3k ...

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Text - 000Rohit • 7h some girl once told me that it was impossible for me to be vietnamese bc vietnam was a war and not a country. this happened while in college smh Reply 7.8k ...

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Text - metaknight95 • 9h My mom frantically called me one day and said she had seen a piece of the sun fall off while taking a picture of the sky. She was incredibly adamant that it was indeed real and that the picture would prove it It was just a glare Reply 1 16.8k ...

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Text - isntitprettytothnkso • 8h 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 ca

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Text - shartmonger • 8h 1 Award Inlaw father is looking at the sky, pondering how NASA puts all that stuff up there without hitting the stars. He was a teenager during the space race. You'd figure it would have come up in school. We just shrugged and acted like we didn't know. Reply 2.9k ...

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Text - -jroc_ • 7h The moon is much better than the sun because it's up at night illuminating while the sun is up during the day when it's allready bright. Reply 7.6k extralyfe • 3h I worked with a guy in his 40s, and one day, he asked me if I knew that the moon didn't produce light. I was like, yeah, it reflects sunlight, though. he was shocked, because he said he had just learned that the day before. this guy went to college and started businesses and shit. 1.7k ...

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Text - emilov98 • 7h 2 Awards My sister panicked whilst on a plane and asked if she could open a window as she was feeling really hot - the guy in the seats across from her lost it, it made his day Reply 15.1k ...

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Text - Mawyjello a• 11h You have vertigo? Isn't vertigo that place where the planes get lost? * Reply 15.0k ...

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Text - -nope101 • 8h 1 Award "Was ww2 the cold one or the Asian one" Reply 15.5k

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Text - The OnlyKaiser • 12h "China is it's own continent because the people who live there are called 'Chinese!." '.. .Uh.....and we are Oklahomans. Did I II miss the memo where we became a continent?" Reply 12.6k •..

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Text - thtguyjosh • 8h I knew a girl who said "what's the big deal about Obama being elected president? Our first black president was Martin Luther king.." Reply 1 2.1k MemeShaman • 5h My boyfriend had a coworker who asked if we'd ever had a Democrat as president while Obama was in his 2nd term. He legitimately thought it had never happened.

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Text - jfix-incd • 12h Friend shared that he thought women were like chickens, one day a month we would sit on a toilet all day and lay an egg Reply 10.0k Pm me_baby_pig_pics 9h 5 Awards I knew a guy in college that thought women kept a tampon in all the time like a plug, then once a month when we got "full" we'd take the tampon out and empty our periods out, then put the tampons back in to plug it up again. I learned this when a classmate was complaining that her period was supposed to start ov

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Text - DivineRainor• 7h Co-worker at my last job during lunch: Him: "The moon landings obviously didn't happen" Me: "Thats awkward I was bouncing lasers off the mirrors we left there at Uni." (Physics Graduate) Him after pausing: "Theres loads of ways they could have got there, aliens could have plonked them down" Man literally believes in aliens but not the moon landings and is a manager at a large company Reply 1 1.7k ...

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Text - Waffle_Ambasador • 7h When I was like 13 I told my friend that there was such a thing as a Liger. They had successfully mated a lion and a tiger. His response "you idiot, tigers ARE female lions" .... We took the argument to his mother to settle it. She took his side. Reply 16.7k ...

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Text - TooMuchBreathing • 12h Blue Fire is cold * Reply 20.3k ...

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Text - FrankieMint • 12h 1 Award "It's been proven that if you dream about falling and hit the ground in your dream you will die in your sleep." Yeah? If someone dies in their sleep, how do you know what they were dreaming? * Reply 24.5k ...

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Text - blakingpowder • 13h That chickens have no brains. Not that they are stupid. That a chicken literally does not have a brain. Reply 19.3k •..

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Text - mordeci00 • 12h When I pointed out to a coworker that a person who actually was modest wouldn't brag about how modest they are: "How would people know that I'm modest if I don't tell them?" Reply 10.2k •..

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Text - DeinBesterFreund • 9h "There are 3 types of asians: Chinese, Japanese and Asians." Reply 10.9k •.. Jayesspurr • 6h Hank Hill voice So are ya Chinese er Japanese? 1.0k ...

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Text - Catezero • 12h Yall really gonna make me remember the time my coworker thought willy Wonka was a real person and wondered how much money he was making on Nerds and Gobstoppers Reply 7.7k ...

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Text - acatherinee • 10h In 8th grade this girl, dead serious, asked, "how did people breathe before there was electricity?" Reply 6.2k ...

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Text - joeyjojo-shabadoo • 7h watching star wars in high school with some girl says, " when did this happen?" I said it was made in the 70s , confused on what she meant. she said " no, the space war, when did we have a space war?" me n my buddy almost died Reply 740 ...

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Text - USPSA-Addict • 13h O 1 Award 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 that she asked all of her coworkers if they thought the same as her. To the

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Text - schnit123 • 12h "If you're an atheist, that means you're not allowed to use the Roman calendar because it was invented by Christians." Reply 3.7k

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Text - Wickedflame77 • 11h Is the forth of July on the 14th or 15th? My ex boyfriend asked me that. He has no excuse, he's from California. Reply 5.1k

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Text - Ruzekandatwater • 12h I was boiling some eggs and was talking to my sister on what it pain it was because I could never peel them good. She then asked me why I didn't just peel the eggs before boiling them

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Text - lazynumber60 • 13h 7 Awards At a sushi place in Dallas, a large middle aged man at another table shouted, "God damn those Japs don't fuck around with their guacamole!" Reply 11.8k ...

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