There is a group that goes around calling themselves vegetarians but they just don't eat red meat. They might have a person like that show up commonly.manic_depressive13 said:
Most stupid personal question you've been asked?
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I was under the impression that they were just confusing pescetarianism with vegetarianism. Either way, people who use incorrect terminology are idiots and so are those who humour them. If I met a vegan who ate eggs I'd set them straight. I wouldn't ask every subsequent vegan I met stupid questions.Toy Master Typhus said:
I take it that weren't actually Australian though? Once when my sister and her high school class went from our country town to Perth to compete in some dance/music ... thing, kids from the city (probably 13 year olds) genuinely believed that people in rural Australian had no electricity or cars and that we rode horses or kangaroos.Infernai said:
As for me stupidest question is probably "Why don't/won't you play football?"
Background for why the question was stupid:
I played Australian rules football when I was little. My dad signed me up to play for his old team when I was 7 and he became the coach. I hated it and I eventually told him I wanted out after 2 years.
One guy join at the some time I did and stayed playing. Fast forward to 15 year old me running into him at high school. All he cared about was why I stopped playing 6 years ago. He just wouldn't accept that I didn't have fun as an answer. Granted asking once isn't stupid, but every time I ran into him he would again ask why, at the age of 9, I could do something so outrageous as stop playing football.
There are some really stupid ones, but I remember this as being one of the most stupid.
So there's a guy I've been acquainted with for the better part of 14 years (lives across the street from me, in the same neighborhood for 14 years. I say it again because it's important later). So one day I teach him how to drive stick and he invites me to hang with his friends for a old school LAN party. So we both grabbed all my pc bits from my house so we could port them in one trip.
When we were crossing the street, he asked me this with a straight face: "Is this gonna be weird for you, hanging out with all white people?"
So you understand the layered stupidity of the question, understand that our neighborhood is not ethnically diverse, at all. It has not been the entire time my family's lived in it. There's like an Asian family and us. I literally had to point out to him that we live in what is nearly an all-white neighborhood, so "who else was I going to hang out with?".
What made it worse, he responded "Oh, OK" with the tone of "Oh, well that makes sense!". In 14 years, knowing right where we both live, it never once crossed his mind that this might be the case. Who exactly did he think I've been hanging out with all this time??? The Secret Society of All-Black Friends?
So there's a guy I've been acquainted with for the better part of 14 years (lives across the street from me, in the same neighborhood for 14 years. I say it again because it's important later). So one day I teach him how to drive stick and he invites me to hang with his friends for a old school LAN party. So we both grabbed all my pc bits from my house so we could port them in one trip.
When we were crossing the street, he asked me this with a straight face: "Is this gonna be weird for you, hanging out with all white people?"
So you understand the layered stupidity of the question, understand that our neighborhood is not ethnically diverse, at all. It has not been the entire time my family's lived in it. There's like an Asian family and us. I literally had to point out to him that we live in what is nearly an all-white neighborhood, so "who else was I going to hang out with?".
What made it worse, he responded "Oh, OK" with the tone of "Oh, well that makes sense!". In 14 years, knowing right where we both live, it never once crossed his mind that this might be the case. Who exactly did he think I've been hanging out with all this time??? The Secret Society of All-Black Friends?
PFFFFT hahaha! That made me laugh quite a bit.Nathan Crumpler said:
OT: When I was 12, me and my sister decided to dress me up as a boy, just for fun. So once dressed, I went to my parents to show them how I looked.
Mother: (Name Here), are you gay?
Me, Um, no?
Mother: It's okay if you're gay. You know I have two gay sisters and some cousins-
Me: Mom, I'm not gay.
I'm still not quite sure why crossdressing=gay to her.
I'm British and currently residing in Turkey. I get "So you're a Christian?" a lot, simply because I'm white and Western, they make an assumption about me.
It drives me nuts.
It drives me nuts.
Not directly to me, but I was in the room, "Uncle Michael, is Nathan a boy or a girl?"
I'd give benefit of the doubt, but the kid's like 7.
My hair isn't even that long -.-
I'd give benefit of the doubt, but the kid's like 7.
My hair isn't even that long -.-
"Seeing as your half-Asian and half-English, is your penis half shriveled up and half normal?"
Well, considering one time I drank too much scummy cider and Fosters, they found out the answer to that question.
Well, considering one time I drank too much scummy cider and Fosters, they found out the answer to that question.
"Can you speak Australian to me?" ~ Asked by, what I think was, a southern middle-aged tourist when I was visiting New York City.
Also I love the guys who ask for the time while wearing watches. If you're actually wearing a purely decorative watch we're not going to get along
Also I love the guys who ask for the time while wearing watches. If you're actually wearing a purely decorative watch we're not going to get along
Reading the OP's story reminded me of the stupidest question I've been asked. My parents work for the Swedish Embassy, so I've moved around a LOT. Lived a lot in Africa.
I remember several times when I've been asked: "So, like... do you hunt lions?" or "Do you live in a hut?", "Do you ride an elephant to school?" or "Do you have giraffes in your backyard?".
-_-
Yeah, I ride my elephant to school from my mudhut and hunt lions using my giraffes.
I remember several times when I've been asked: "So, like... do you hunt lions?" or "Do you live in a hut?", "Do you ride an elephant to school?" or "Do you have giraffes in your backyard?".
-_-
Yeah, I ride my elephant to school from my mudhut and hunt lions using my giraffes.
"Are you from England?"
NO. I am NOT fucking well from England *****. Just because I speak English properly and don't speak like you doesn't mean I'm English you fucking bogan.
(I'm Australian)
NO. I am NOT fucking well from England *****. Just because I speak English properly and don't speak like you doesn't mean I'm English you fucking bogan.
(I'm Australian)
Oh wow, way off xD they look stangely alike. Although I knew the art style didn't look right at allsaintdane05 said:
"Do your parents have offspring?"
She meant to ask if I had siblings, but instead asked me if I existed.
If you want to emigrate to America "trough" the proper channels then you can sit tight. The backlog of people trying to get in is huge. Even if you have other ways (such as being a rich investor or joining the rest of your family in the US) the process can last up to 7 years.
I know have read that if there is a company hiring you then you can finish it in less than 2 years.
It's a matter of acquiring citizenship and paying your taxes and you're as American as everyone else. 95% of the population is not native - they are all immigrants and offspring of immigrants.
She meant to ask if I had siblings, but instead asked me if I existed.
Huh, no. Jim Sterling has dual citizenship, he mentioned it on a PODTOID, and he was born in the UK. I am actually considering working in America and acquire citizenship when I eventually finish my degree in Engineering.DrgoFx said:
If you want to emigrate to America "trough" the proper channels then you can sit tight. The backlog of people trying to get in is huge. Even if you have other ways (such as being a rich investor or joining the rest of your family in the US) the process can last up to 7 years.
I know have read that if there is a company hiring you then you can finish it in less than 2 years.
It's a matter of acquiring citizenship and paying your taxes and you're as American as everyone else. 95% of the population is not native - they are all immigrants and offspring of immigrants.
Once, a girl noticed I was left-handed and asked "Is it hard to write like that?"
YEAH, I just CHOOSE to write this way because I just LOVE getting lead all over the side of my hand.
Oh, and multiple people, upon finding out that I am a triplet, have asked (while totally serious) if I can read my sibling's thoughts.[footnote]Answer: No. And shut the hell up.[/footnote]
YEAH, I just CHOOSE to write this way because I just LOVE getting lead all over the side of my hand.
Oh, and multiple people, upon finding out that I am a triplet, have asked (while totally serious) if I can read my sibling's thoughts.[footnote]Answer: No. And shut the hell up.[/footnote]
I have dyslexia so this pissed me off.
Guy: Dyslexia is like a disease righ? .... How did you catch it?
Me: Faceplam. .... It's a learning difficulty not a disease and I didn't catch it since I was born with it.
Guy: Dyslexia is like a disease righ? .... How did you catch it?
Me: Faceplam. .... It's a learning difficulty not a disease and I didn't catch it since I was born with it.
though this didn't happen to me, something similar to it happened to my friend in high school. he was asked to come to the front of the class and do a problem, when he started writing it differently, one of the girls(who was already pretty...let's go with obnoxious), called him out on it. he told everyone he was dyslexic. now, when he corrected it later since the teacher showed him exactly what he misspelled, she shouted out that he was a liar and was standing around pointing at everyone making big scene.i don't think anyone talked to her for the rest of the class after that.Jamieson 90 said:
OT: a couple of friends and i were standing in what's basically the main building of our college waiting for what called the game room to open(yes, it's exactly what it sounds like), and we were talking about what games some of us like to play and others don't. we were interrupted by a passing group of other people who basically went; "you guys play games? that's so immature and they rot your brain." at which point one of my friends, let's call him...bob, asked "what do you do for fun?" their answer? "we go out and get drunk on the weekends whooo!" yeah.... not quite a personal question but still...