And the stupid question award goes to.......

[Steve Dark]

I was on Xbox live, waiting for a game to start and the other players were talking too much (as people are want to do). After I inform them of this, they notice my British Accent and ask me the beautiful question: "Are you from England or from London?"

*facepalm*

 

[PasDeChat]

Ah, one of my favorites:
"So, like, is our DNA a circle, too?"
When discussing prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

 

[blankedboy]

"You know the nintendo Wii, is it made by Nintendo or playstation?"

I lol'd extra at the image of a PlayStation trying to put together a Wii...

...yes, the nintendo wii is made by an unrelated console.

Normally I say that there is no stupid question, but a few of these are unforgivable.

A playstation is a grey box that people played low-res games on in the 90s. A grey box can't make a white box. The Wii can't be made by a console, because consoles don't have ARMS.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

I was on Xbox live, waiting for a game to start and the other players were talking too much (as people are want to do). After I inform them of this, they notice my British Accent and ask me the beautiful question: "Are you from England or from London?"

*facepalm*

Facepalm indeed

 

[Ago Iterum]

"How do you make that backwards b?"

The stuff of legends.

Hahaha! I saw that. That was brilliant.

I got my own anyway. We convinced a stupid girl in my class something absolutely ridiculous, and she though she'd ask the teacher...

Stupid girl: Miss, did the Nazi's invent chicken soup?

Lol! We also convinced her something funny about dinosaurs, but I can't remember what it was.

 

[quack35]

"Are there such things as dick freckles ?"

 

[ManiacalZManiac]

"How do you make that backwards b?"

The stuff of legends.

w00t

 

[gigastrike]

"You know the nintendo Wii, is it made by Nintendo or playstation?"

I lol'd extra at the image of a PlayStation trying to put together a Wii...

...yes, the nintendo wii is made by an unrelated console.

Normally I say that there is no stupid question, but a few of these are unforgivable.

A playstation is a grey box that people played low-res games on in the 90s. A grey box can't make a white box. The Wii can't be made by a console, because consoles don't have ARMS.

That's a good way of putting it.

 

[Clashero]

Well, the time I lived in America, being an Argentina, I got asked lots of questions like:
"What is Che Guevara?", "Do you ride a horse to school?", "Do you have any airports there?"

Another one: we are given a map of South America. Argentina is the second largest country on the map, and takes about 30% of the space. "THERE IS NO ARGENTINA HERE!" said one of my classmates.


And my favourite: the school was showing its political correctness by calling all of the foreign students by region of the world they came from. So, Africa first. No problems there. Then Oceania/Australia. Still OK. Then Asia. All the Koreans got up, along with my Indian and Pakistani friend. American response: "DUDES, you're not Asian!". Then the Caribbean and Central America. Just 3 or 4 students. Then Europe. Of course, I stay in my sit and applaud the 10 or so students, when a girl behind me goes "Man, get up! it's your turn!"

Which reminds me of another question asked in that same school: "What's the capital of Europe?"

 

[Steve Dark]

i do remember hearing a lady ask the shop assistant how much a bar of chocolate is in poundland (a store in which everything costs a pound, for all non UK users)

Been there, done that. While looking round Poundland I said to a friend "I wonder if everything in here is a pound..." It's at that exact moment I see the giant red sign RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME which says "Yes! Everything here is a pound!" in large bold letters. I then notice how there are 50 of these signs around the store, and how the same words are written on every object you could fathom.

On the plus side I got a pretty swish hip flask from there.

 

[Tyr-Elhaz]

not really a question, but I had a guy tell me, in all seriousness, "Dude, this bannana has a shell." (he had never seen an un-peeled bannana before)

 

[hopeneverdies]

My band director: We can no longer have students fundraise money to put into individual accounts because of an IRS issue.
Some parent: How much do we have to fundraise to pay their fees?
And she asked this about 5 times.

 

[Kell478]

I hear alot of these. Probably my favorite one right now is "Do you have an extra cigarette?". My response, if I really want to get into it with this person, is "No, my pack only came with twenty.".

Another favorite of mine is when they ask for a cigarette and I give them one. The next one always gets me. "Do you got a light?". I go with the classic reply "Yea so give me the cigarette back and I'll just go ahead a smoke it for you too."

This one I'm pretty particular on. The key word in the question is "spare". "Do you got any spare change?". No not any spare change. I have change. Just not any spare change. The cashier didn't give me any spare change. She gave me the exact change. Now if the person asks "Do you have any change?" I'll give it to them. And one time a cashier did give me extra by accident, and wouldn't you know it Mr. Gotanysparechange is right outside. I just handed it over to him before he could ask. He knew. Somehow they always know.

This is a great thread!!

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

"Where'd you go?"

As I walk out of a restroom.

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

In [b/]AP[/b] Psychology Class
"If you meditate hard enough can you float?"
"Can you REALLY dig to China?"
"If you put a stick in one ear will it come out the other?"
To be fair, in her head it would.

 

[PirateKing]

"If the sun is so big, why does it look so small?!?!"

yeah i was at the mall with a girl who i liked (yes...she was blonde) when she uttered this question. I tried pretty hard to contain my laughter.

A much older person, who I am related to, once stared blankly at me when I explained that the sun is a star.

 

[JC175]

I was at the vet's with a friend one time, buying some food for my dog. While I was talking to the receptionist, he was checking out the sample nametags on a little board, and reading them to himself.

"Jack...Fido...Chlow? Who the fuck would call their dog "Chlow"?"

I looked over, mildly interested. The nametag said "Chloe."

Needless to say I laughed for about 3 hours straight.

 

[ae86gamer]

I'm half Mexican so I get this a lot. "Do you speak Mexican?" I wanna punch people in the face when they say this. Its Spanish. Not Mexican. Spanish is a language. Mexican is not a language.

I'm also half Japanese so I also get this a lot. "Are you good at math?" No. No I am not good at math. I hate math and it hates me.

 

[purplemonkey666]

in 8th' grade science we ere going over the moon landin and this girl asks "So when do you think man will ever land on the sun?"

 

[Aptspire]

in an old Sonic game, Dr Robotnik asks Sonic
"How did you get here so fast?"
I was like: seriously?