What's the dumbest thing you've ever heard or overheard someone say?

[Erttheking]

One person on the Bungie forums

"Halo 4 should just be Halo 3 with updated graphics."

...I am not kidding oh yeah and another guy in direct response

"THIS MAN IS A GENIUS!"

...if this is why people don't like Reach then I'm more and more ashamed to be considered part of the Halo fan base. Like Yahtzee said "Nothing quite ruins a good thing like knowing you share your opinion with mindless little tits."

Nostalgia, it makes you say stupid shit.

Also something my teacher told me about in my Physics class about a speech given somewhere else

"There's no gravity on the moon"

"Then how do people stay on it"

"Heavy boots."

Do I need to remind the retard that the boots could weigh a fucking ton and it wouldn't mean jack if there's no gravity!?

 

[crudus]

Girl I thought was pretty smart: Can you get pregnant from having oral sex?
My response: *stare unblinking*

This one didn't happen at school, but at the Zoo:
Fully grown man: *points at tiger* "Look kids, a Lion!!"

50 percent of people have below an IQ of 100.

A lot of things, but recently someone I know claimed they don't believe in dinosaurs.

When asked why, they simply answered with "I just don't."

My mind cannot comprehend such stupidity.

I think people can believe whatever they want. I can't comprehend why he/she couldn't come up with a reason to not believe they existed. How do you throw around such a word like "belief" without something to back it up?

 

[ThunderCavalier]

For a moment I thought this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqi0DwNLJdM[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqi0DwNLJdM

would be the dumbest thing on the thread.

Then I read many things, in particular this:

My mom is a teacher of science for 9th graders.

You want to know what one of her students asked her?

"How many moons does the Earth have?"

...I weep for humanity.

My friend, allow me to join you in the weeping.

 

[Vault101]

SNIP

No, A-levels or equivalent allows you to go to university. We technically finish school in the UK at 16, where we do tests called GCSE's. From here you can go to college, to learn a trade/do A-levels, or some schools have the option of staying an extra 2 years to do the a-levels there. Many people will leave school and get jobs at this age too, or start an apprenticeship.
Your a-level grades, or equivalent qualifications, give you points, and most university courses will require a certain number of points to get in, but they usually also need relevant subject choices from a-levels too! It's a surprisingly different system to the one in the USA, I've had many confusing conversations with Yank colleagues trying to find all the differences!

ohh right that makes sense

I guess essentially its generally the same thing..highschool up to a certain point, then do the subjects that allow you to go on to university (if your so inclined), before you did exams and got a score..score determined what you could get into an uni, they have changed it since I wa slast at school, but I imagine the basic principle remains the same

before in Australia (and I imagine other countries too) it was the cut-off point that you were allowed to leave school, thease days however they've put all kinds of restrictions on it so you essentially have to be DOING somthing..aprentiship or whatever, like you mentioned (I think before once you hit year 10 or age 15 you could just leave..no questions asked, but that was a long time ago)

I dont know why but I was just curious for some reason

 

[The Crazy Legs]

This one political/religous belief that annoyed the hell out of me.

Me: World War Two was started by Adolf Hitler, a maniac who was genocidal. He was an evil man! The Holocaust was one of the worst events in history!

This other guy who I later saw reading Mien Kunf (or however it's spelt): Hitler didn't deserve all this hatred towards him! Besides, the Holocaust was fictional; just something to promote America's fightng in Europe!

Now, I know this might be really cruel of me to say, but WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS GUY?! He was a senior in high school: top marks in history class! How can you make this connection?!

 

[Erttheking]

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Oh look guys, a self demonstrating article. Someone talking about how he hates scientifically inaccurate bullshit before going off about scientifically inaccurate bullshit, INTOLERANT scientifically inaccurate bullshit too. Did not recopy due to there is a very good chance that post could lead to moderator retaliation, you'll have to hunt it down.

 

[McNoobin]

Guy: "Hey I have ADD and ADHD, shut up"
Me: "You... you can't."
Guy: "Dude you don't even know!"

There were many moments where I had to explain how soccer was more popular than football and baseball.

I know there's many more hilarious moments where I just couldn't even believe what I was hearing, but sadly I can't quite recall them at the moment. :/

 

[CrustyOatmeal]

i was talking to this cheerleader type chick in our high school math class

GIRL- "can you loose a finger from an infected paper cut?"
ME- "thats how i lost the tip of my pointer finger" *i show her the back of my right hand with my index finger bend to look like it was a nub from her angle*
GIRL- "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

i was shocked that she would scream in the middle of class and i showed her i was just bending my finger. at this time the entire class is looking at us and her reaction is to slap me across the face. i was laughing so hard i was tearing up

lucky for me the teacher was one of the football coaches and all he did was laugh a little and then continue on with the lesson as if nothing had happened

 

[ChaplainOrion]

Some kid on Xbox live: "Aren't all the Nazis Jews?

 

[MercenaryCanary]

"But this only has three carbons"
A student looking at a picture of a hydrocarbon diagram of methane.
Which had four carbons.

Wait.
But I thought the prefix "meth" meant that there was only one.
Shouldn't there be only one carbon and four hydrogens?
I'm going off of a chemistry course that I'm taking recently, so I might be wrong though.

Anyway, the stupidest thing I've ever heard?
Well, that's simple.
"I think Donald Trump would make a great president."
Why. Just why.

 

[direkiller]

What party is President Obama in? Along with "What's the difference between Republicans and Democrats?'

These were adults in their 20s and 30s.

Had something like this:
The guy was complaining about the census saying it was unconstitutional. I pointed to article one and he said that's not what it means.

 

[Nouw]

Someone in Spanish class asked if a beach had to be connected to the ocean. I find it quite sad that she lacks common knowledge yet spends much of her time on facebook. But you can't live life without being happy right?

I don't see why that's that dumb.

Explained in a post earlier. "My memory is shaky but I think you're onto something here. Miscommunication and ambiguity can be a cause of dumb statements." I really should have put speech marks in there.

Snip

It would have been incredibly ironic for the book to be Fahrenheit 451.

 

[Insanity72]

I didn't actually hear this but my friends told me about it. They were in Geography and one girl asked "Is France in Paris?"......and no she is not dyslexic.

This one didn't happen at school, but at the Zoo:
Fully grown man: *points at tiger* "Look kids, a Lion!!"

Something similar to this, but it was at a wildlife sanctuary, some guy came into the Platypus area with 3 kids and said "Look at the Echidna"

If you are not familiar with Australian Marsupials

This is a Echidna

Spoiler

and This is a platypus

Spoiler

 

[Spawny0908]

This is from 2nd or 3rd grade. It was so stupid I remember it to this day. One day a boy asked me "How do you spell 'a'"?

There aren't enough facepalms in the universe...

 

[Supertegwyn]

For a moment I thought this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqi0DwNLJdM[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqi0DwNLJdM

But she's so cute lol.

Do they really teach this in 3rd grade? I live in Europe and I bet more than 90% of the people doen't know its Capital. I didn't learn any capital in School, I just know them because I have a map in the room and enjoy looking at it.
While I don't question that girl stupidity, I really think that that question is hard for a 3rd grader.

But if they really teach that in US schools I must say I'm surprised.

That person was in the 5th grade, and I bet you that more than 90% of the people know it's capital. Seeing as though I have been to Budapest, and a lot of people in Budapest know that Budapest is the capital of Hungary.

 

[alandavidson]

Any kind of religious or historically/scientifically inaccurate bullshit just brings my piss to a boil. Also, people accepting gays way too much. It's like, ffs. When you think about it, it's really a mental condition and not a "choice of life" or "personality trait" as many describe it. And yeah, whatever, if they wanna get married so fucking much just let them, but BY FUCK, don't let them adopt children (mindfuck).

Um... what?

I'm not even sure where you're coming from on the gay bit. What's wrong with allowing homosexuals to adopt?

 

[Naeo]

Any time I overhear someone talking politics, there's often a bunch of stupid, ignorant bullshit flying out of their mouth. "Well, Obamunism this and socialist that" or "the damn conservatives are trying to kill the poor people so the rich people can build houses out of them" and so on. Broad, sweeping generalizations and countless factual errors left and right. Also any time I hear someone saying "Evolution is wrong. Now, Intelligent Design/Creation Theory, on the other hand..." At least, when they try and justify ID/CT as some sort of "scientific theory" (if you think ID/CT is scientific theory or should be considered as such in any serious light, you don't have a damn clue what science actually means). Though what takes the cake was the one day in my philosophy class in high school when someone two years above me (he was at the time a senior) asked "Is Europe a monarchy?" Said person is currently at the US Naval Academy.

 

[Crazm]

I've got one that's an absolute classic.

There was this time when me and some of my friends were at a party. I don't know how we got onto the subject, but we were having a discussion about who was the biggest nerd in the group.

One girl in the group claimed that she was the biggest nerd out of all of us. We rather doubted that, as she wasn't really he nerdy type, so we decided to test her.

My friend: "What is this song?" *plays Final Fantasy victory song on phone*
'Nerdy' girl: "Oh, sure I know that one! It's from Star Trek, right?"

Need I say more?