Stupidist things youve heard people say

[Black Reaper]

In my school,a passtime among bored students in computer class is checking a tarot site which answers shit with accuracy you wouldn't believe(that is,with 1 word),still,the site is a waste of time since it only answers obvious stuff you already know,and i treated it as such,and so i asked:
"Which Inferno Divider is better?,C or D"
To which someone replied"dude,you need help",i gave him the silent treatment after that,since he was one of the stupidest persons i have ever seen(this was his 4th time on this year),and was also a bully,and i am a constant target of bullying(which i like to call trolling),you do the math

He said stupid shit all over the place,so much i (thankfully)barely remember any of it,but of what i remember,that takes the cake,since he was insulting not only me,but also anyone who has ever played as Ragna

Another related story:
When people ask me where i live and such,i often(read:always)answer with blatant lies,like that i live on another planet rich in kriptonyte(is it written like that?),which i sell for a living,and that i go there daily via Inferno Divider,the same asshole from above actually believed me when i told him,but not in the sense that he actually believed the story,but in the sense that he thought i believed it,i was made fun of the whole semester

Granted,it was a bad joke,but he didn't understand the "joke" part

I often find myself thinking that i am surrounded by idiots,but sadly i cannot think of any more examples

 

[Spakka]

"What weighs more, a ton of feathers or a ton of bricks?"


Beware that the metric tonne is a measurement of mass, rather than weight. In this case the feathers may have the same mass but because they displace more of the Earths' atmosphere they will weigh less. A blimp can have a mass of one tonne and have a negative weight.

Umm what?

1) There is no such thing as a negative weight.
2) Lift doesn't 'destroy' weight, the helium inside is just less dense than the surrounding air, and so the average density of the blimp is lower than the air around it, allowing lift. Cork floats on water does that mean it has no mass?

3) No the feathers will have the same weight, if of course you make the mistake of assuming that one would be measuring the volume of space the feathers take up, and so include all the air then you would be measuring it wrong. The feathers themselves would have the same weight as the bricks...



As for the general thread: The post I quoted above.

 

[Unia]

Anyone who uses the term "african american" to describe themselves eventhough they were born in America. Your just American regardless if your black. If your African born and come to America, then your an African American. Overall the term is stupid, in the UK we dont say a person is African British.

actually I thourght it was a completly valid way of identifying somones racial lineage, like white people being called "anglo saxon"

"black people" doesnt sound as good

The one that gets me is people calling themselves/other people African American when they're Dominican or Jamaican or otherwise dark skinned but wholly unconnected with Africa.

At the risk of a dumb question, why *are* white people referred to as Caucasian? All people of that ethnicity can be traced back to Caucasus mountains?

Some gems I remember hearing in highschool:

"Can masturbation cause STDs?"
"How come people in Africa are black? If I gave birth in Africa the baby would still be white."
Uhhh...where to start. I really couldn't fathom how anyone could stay so ignorant. Scary part is this girl was old enough to breed.

 

[Gritimo The Odd]

I used to work as a customer service rep for a cell company, and i would get asked this question at least twice a week. "Why isn't Canada part of our Nationwide calling plan?" Usually pointing out that they were serperate nations usually cleard that up quick but occasionally id still get asked why Canada was considered a foriegn country even though they are our neihbors, to which i asked if they wanted the long or short verion of the explanation. long version covered the various differences in laws and fees each country had and how our company billed according to the those laws, while the short version was. "Because we didn't win that part of the Revolution"

 

[Supertegwyn]

My (immature) mate was banging on about a porn film called "Nailin' Palin",

What's so immature about quoting Jon Stewart? He didn't like the vice-presidential debate so he thought it would be more interesting if they competed in porn movie names. He called them Nailin' Palin and ridin' Biden.

Out of my depth here, no idea who Jon Stewart is... nor the tone of your post... I am going for jocular... my favourite porn movie name is "shavin' Ryan's privates". lol?

He's a comedy central news guy. Same with Stephen Colbert. They essentially look at real news stories and make fun of them. They also make a lot of japes at republicans.

Oh we have that, it's called have I Got News for You all though that is pretty non-partisan. We also have Radio 4, which is great but the comedy has a wild left wing bias. All good stuff though. Interesting, nice one for the reply.

Have I Got News for You is quite different from what Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart do. They are mildly similar, but I wouldn't consider them the same genre of comedy.

 

[Thaluikhain]

"What weighs more, a ton of feathers or a ton of bricks?"

Beware that the metric tonne is a measurement of mass, rather than weight. In this case the feathers may have the same mass but because they displace more of the Earths' atmosphere they will weigh less. A blimp can have a mass of one tonne and have a negative weight.

Umm what?

1) There is no such thing as a negative weight.
2) Lift doesn't 'destroy' weight, the helium inside is just less dense than the surrounding air, and so the average density of the blimp is lower than the air around it, allowing lift. Cork floats on water does that mean it has no mass?

3) No the feathers will have the same weight, if of course you make the mistake of assuming that one would be measuring the volume of space the feathers take up, and so include all the air then you would be measuring it wrong. The feathers themselves would have the same weight as the bricks...



As for the general thread: The post I quoted above.

Yeah, I think "weight" has been confused with "buoyancy" there.

This will probably cause a shitstorm but the stupidest thing I've seen a lot of people take seriously (that's not a conspiracy theory), is the whole rape culture thing.

A lot of the explanations of it I've seen come with the idea that rape isn't taken very seriously in society. You have to wonder what planet they're living on when they make statements like that. Seriously rape is considered too dark to be in most movies or games meanwhile senseless murder is OK.

Right, so women having between 1 in 3 and 1 in 6 chance (depending on where they live) of being raped at least once during her lifetime, in which case the rapist/s face single digits percentile chance of being convicted is because of how seriously society takes rapes? The odd hundred thousand used rape kits being stored for years in the US instead of actually tested is because how much people care? The constant victim blaming and support for the rapists shows how seriously society takes these issues?

You sure picked the right thread to make that sort of claim.

 

[Euskalduna]

Anything that has ever come out of the mouth of a Men's Rights Activist.

Such a thing exists in the first place? Oh for...

 

[101flyboy]

"Being gay is a choice."

 

[Luna]

Anything that has ever come out of the mouth of a Men's Rights Activist.

The irony is strong in this one.

 

[Euskalduna]

Anything that has ever come out of the mouth of a Men's Rights Activist.

Such a thing exists in the first place? Oh for...

Not so much existing. More like "Thinly veiled excuse for paranoid, antisocial dickheads to spout whatever sexist garbage they can and try to claim the moral highground at the same time"

Sounds about right.

 

[Calibanbutcher]

Anything a feminist or other liberal has ever said, well not everything, like please pass the salt, but everything besides that.

Anything that has ever come out of the mouth of a Men's Rights Activist.

Somehow I disapprove both of these comments.


On topic: See quotes above.

 

[Mersadeon]

Ok, just to chime in on the whole "Men's Right Activist" and "Feminist" topic:
Yes, there are places in society (and I talk specifically of the small subset of society that I live in, namely Germany) where one gender is discriminated against. However, I just can't stand people taking it too far. I would be ok with a "Men's Rights Group", if they weren't just radically stupid. There are things where men are discriminated against. Not as much as women, but there are places. Example: being a kindergarten teacher. Try that as a male. You will get more than one disapproving look and even a few people asking if you are a paedophile.
Discrimination is happening on both sides, and just because women have been discriminated against far more extreme in the past does not give anyone the excuse to turn it around.



Back to topic: I was listening to metal in school on my MP3-Player. A classmate took one of the earplugs (and didn't even ask), and after about 3 seconds she yelled "you are a Satanist, aren't you?!" Ok, sure, the text wasn't exactly uplifting praise of Jesus Christ, but come on girl.


Edit: Just remembered one that I personally didn't here. My then-girlfriend was on a student exchange in America (where else...) and was asked "do you guys have electricity in Germany?".

No, we bend and weld the metal of Volkswagen and other famous german car companies with OUR BARE HANDS.

 

[TopHatsaur]

'We're still at war with Germany, right?'

'Jesus was born here in England, weren't he?'

 

[MrBenSampson]

When I was 13 and living in America, I mentioned to one of my classmates that I was born in Germany. Her first question was "do you love Hitler?!"

Another golden moment was when I told my classmates that I'm Canadian. Several people asked me to say their names in Canadian.

 

[Mersadeon]

Two from the same guy in school: He put a piece of paper on an overhead projector and asked "WHY IS IT NOT PROJECTING?"

And on the topic of global warming, he said "The oceans are rising because the earth is crying!". He even drew a little picture of it.