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

[williamjg]

my friend the now legindary MARTIN RICKETTS asked the question:
"how hot is a dog?"
after sighting a hotdog stand. Quite truley the stuff of leginds

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I hate it when people ask "Did you get a haircut?" when it is blatently obvious I did.

It's worse when they ask a full week after you have it done.

In Airports "Did you pack this bag yourself sir?" after hearing this 3 times in a day i finally answered with "No. I have a magical elf that appears every time i travel to pack my bag for me..." Ask a stupid Question, get a stupid answer (Love the Ronnie Johns, Chopper Quote)

Use the Billy Connolly method.

"No this nice man called Muhammad at our hotel offered to pack it for us, he put in a present too! If you listen closely you'll hear it ticking, I think it's a clock. Oh there he is, the guy with the turban. Hey Muhammad! Over here!"

-Change names & descriptions as you see fit but that was (pretty much) what Billy said.

 

[patronscorn_v1legacy]

The most stupid question I have ever gotten is by an old friend from my previous school asking "WHY is new york in England?"

I will also like to add that my best friend clearly thought that Mel Gibson was afro-american.

 

[Oopsie]

French people asking me for directions in french.

They don't seem to grasp the concept that not every nation in the world has french as it's native language.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

Me: "I'm going to Kill You!"
Nick: "Physically or Literally?"

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I come home (with friends) from the footy, drunk, in my team colours, yelling and singing my team song.
Mum: "Oh did they loose?"
Me: ...... :|

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Me: "... Yeah my console just RRODed"
M$ Employee (in that annoying indian accent): "Is it connected to the power supply?"
Me: "No I expect it to run off pixie dust..."

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My Phone rings
Me: "Hi Mum" - proceed to have conversation
Friend who has been sitting next to me the entire time: "Who was that?"

 

[jh322]

One of my classmates in my chemistry class asked if it was possible to drink hydrochloric acid *face-palm*

to which my teacher replied: "yeh you can drink it, it'll kill you but you can drink it"

there was a thirsty girl,
alas she is no more,
for what she thought was H20,
Was H2SO4

also...my ex girlfriend, upon spilling a glass of water, "...does water dry?"

 

[Unknower]

I once barged in to my parents bedroom at the middle of the night and asked them were my brothers employed.

It was pretty weird. I hadn't even taken any mushrooms either.

Not a question however the dumbest statement I ever heard was after I had lost approximately eighty pounds, my cousin claimed it was unhealthy to be too thin (which I most certainly was not; I was 174lbs at 6'4") and that being overweight is more healthy. I was too dumbfounded to even blink.

?

But being overweight is more healthy than being underweight! At least you get enough of vitamins and stuff.

That is, if you're not horribly overweight.

 

[Inarticulate_Underachiever]

When my brother looked out a window, saw the snow and then asked me "why is it white outside?"

 

[-bladerunner-]

When you hurt your self some one has to say "ARE YOU OK".
I know they mean well but come on.......

No i'm not okay you fool! This is so common and normally it's blindingly obvious whether your okay or not.

 

[WrongSprite]

"How do you make that backwards b?"

The stuff of legends.

I heard of that, it truly is the stuff of legends. There were some people, strangely enough, trying to defend that person on some website I saw.

Would have made sense to put this in my original post, but here it is.

Spoiler: Screencap lol

So they tried to defend this guy you say?

Yeah, apparently they decided "It's not his fault, it's because the human brain works in a non-linear way so it might appear to him as a backwards b!" which is obviously complete bull, especially since there's a "backwards b" in backwards.

I think the point was that "backwards" is a word, so the mind would read it as letters, while the other thing is kind of an image, so you might not be thinking in letters. Not that i'm defending it or anything XD

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

"Where is the Berlin Wall?"

Said someone in my A level history class. I kid not.

 

[Mockingjay]

so what, prey tell is the stupidist question you have been asked or heard? something along the lines of
"whats the time?"
whilst your standing near Big Ben
or being asked
"did you see that?"
in the cinema
common, i know theres alotta stupid people in the world. whats the stupidist question youve ever been asked?

Back when I was a child and very naive I asked a vicar: 'Does god like cheese? Is that why he named his son Cheesus?' true story. Haven't been to church since.

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

"Do you like me?"

Believe it or not, I actually saw a topic this dumb on a respectable forum.


Seriously though, there's also "should I leave the forums?" and any variation thereof. Take your drama to facebook, people!

 

[Northover32]

i wish my comment was a little higher on the list but if anyone wants to laugh like like hell go here http://bash.org/?top most ppl probably already heard of it. its filled with dumb questions.. soo funny

 

[Zetona]

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?"

Of course...just land at night time!

The worst of heard is "what is sex?" from a fellow classmate in the ninth grade. The teacher had said "sax" instead, which sadly explains everything.

 

[Kukakkau]

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*

Reminds me of one I got - "where's that accent from?" "Scotland" "hmmm....what states that in??"

My sis did one I will NEVER let go - "do fish come out less during the rain because they hate the water?"
And one from my mum recently while im holding my new phone - "has your new phone not arrived yet??"

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

One of my classmates in my chemistry class asked if it was possible to drink hydrochloric acid *face-palm*

to which my teacher replied: "yeh you can drink it, it'll kill you but you can drink it"

there was a thirsty girl,
alas she is no more,
for what she thought was H20,
Was H2SO4

That's sulfuric acid.

 

[HydraZulu]

Oh god. I volunteer to go to public places and educate people about snakes. It would seem that snakes emit some sort of field that makes otherwise intelligent people become complete idiots when they get within 50 feet of snakes. Therefor, I have heard many, MANY stupid questions in the mere year and a half that I have been volunteering.

This is the most recent of these stupid stories. Warning, kinda long-ish:
I was sitting at our group's table at the Minnetonka (MN) Community Center, for the Minnetonka Kid's Festival. This lady comes up with her son, and we start talking. The kid DESPERATELY wants to touch the amelanistic cornsnake that I am holding, but his mom keeps pulling him back, and telling him no, knock it off, and stuff. This I do not like, and after several minutes of this, I get annoyed, and this is what happens-
Me- "Just out of curiosity, why aren't you letting your son touch the snake?"
Lady- ".....Well...Don't snakes pee through their skin?"
(Joke's over now, you can stop reading, but I'm going to go on, for the hell of it)
Me- "...Noooo. Snakes pee through here."
*I flip the snake over, and show her where snakes really DO pee from*
Me- "Snakes are actually very clean animals."
Lady- "Ohhh. Ok."
*The lady lets go of her kids hand, and the kid rushes up.*

When everything was over, and they were leaving, both the kid and the lady had smiles on their faces...And I got a new story.

 

[-bladerunner-]

Every time I get called to my parents' laptop I get a dumb question.

"How do you make it so that letters stop being big?"

"Did you check Caps Lock?"

"Yeah..."

"Did you try pressing Shift again? It might be blocked."

"No... OH IT WORKED, THANKS"

And I hardly suppress the urge to ki... I mean, to answer "well no problem, thanks for wasting 40 seconds of my life".

Or.

"Did you put the paper in?"

"Yes, I did."

"ARE YOU SURE?"


No, God damn it, there's white, thin sheet of material in the printer, AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A SHEET OF PAPER!!

Or, playing my Nintendo DS:

"What are you doing?"

...Gaaaah.

Lol the printer thing made my day thanks very much 8D
"Are you asleep?" asks my brother to my mum who is lying in bed with the covers pulled over her and eyes closed, then "Why isn't she responding?"

 

[Vilty]

i think i win this one for my... do you like me question .... i got like 70 reply almost all of them saying no