Poll: Have you Ever been Dumbstruck by something you saw?

[Evil Smurf]

This is kinda juvenile, but the first time I saw some of the more developed girls in my class in bikinis blew my mind. I remember thinking "holy shit, massive boobs!"

I was 14, what can you expect?

 

[Girl With One Eye]

I was recently dumbstruck by how awful The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct was. Seriously I can't believe that some poor soul has actually paid full price for this abomination.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

Honey. Boo. Boo.

I just... I just...

Brain =

Seriously, 90% of TLC's programming sends me into mental convulsions.

 

[Creator002]

Working in customer service gives you moments like these a few times a week.

"I want to go from Watergardens to the city." (To clarify, I work at a call centre giving public transport information for Victoria, Australia.)
"OK. Anywhere in particular you want to arrive in the city?" (This line and the next, super important for this story.)
"No."
"Alright, there's a train leaving Watergardens at 2 o'clock arriving in Southern Cross at-"
"No, I want to arrive in Parliament. You're useless."

Then there's the time a woman openly urinated on a pregnancy test in Safeway. Thank God I don't work there.
Seriously, what are they thinking?

 

[Aesir23]

Honey. Boo. Boo.

I just... I just...

Brain =

Seriously, 90% of TLC's programming sends me into mental convulsions.

This, just this.

Just wandering into the living room while my mother watches that is enough to leave me stunned for a few moments. It doesn't help when I remember that TLC stands for "The Learning Channel".

Also, is it just me or does anyone else feel vaguely ill when that family cooks something for a meal?

 

[wooty]

Every day in work I'm usually left standing there wondering, "why can't people turn their brain on sometimes?".

Case in point, having me have to do two jobs because the guy they decided to promote to run the stock and supply can't read and can barely speak fucking English. Its been 3 months and I'm still dumbstruck by that move.

 

[Angie7F]

Me too. Everytime I go to work, it amazes me how much s@@t has hit the fan since the last time i was there.

Also, if you live in tokyo you see a lot of crazy stuff on the street, so I never run out of things to dumbstruck me.
My most recent was when I got off the train in SHibuya and realized that the train had stopped in a totally different station than what I was used to.
Just over night, they switched a train line from a old station to a brand new subway and boy, I was sooo lost.

 

[krazykidd]

Well there's this thing that's gonna happen this week where a lawyer, a college educated person with a degree and a license to practice his trade is going to go before the Supreme Court of the United States and argue that gay marriage should be banned in the state of California because gay\lesbian couples can't have accidental pregnancies, and that's his entire argument.

There is so much stupid in that argument that I just can't even find words for it. Attempting to figure out how the hell that even makes any sort of sense just makes my brain shut down and not function for a bit.

This is funny . Okay i'll follow that logic :

Guy: but they can't have babies the natural way!
Court: and hows that?
Guy: BY ACCIDENT !
Court: /facepalm

 

[JLML]

What makes me dumbfounded? Well I can't really think of anything off the top of my head (most things that make me dumbfounded are far too random to keep track of) but one thing that consistently breaks my mind is this: Thinking about how many alternate universes can result from one single event.

[spoiler = Lets take a simple event such as waiting for the bus.]There are 10 people waiting at a bus stop. There are 3 benches with 2 seats each. there are also 3 buses that stop at the stop. For simplicity's sake lets assume that no one will arrive at the stop and no one will leave except by bus. Also, lets leave out the randomness of a bus's schedule and rule out most of time as a factor and leave it in 3 sets coordinating with each bus stop.

Aaaaaand my brain just broke trying to figure out how many universes result from seating arrangements on the benches when it realized that if a person gets up from the benches to get on a bus a seat opens up and any one of the 4 people standing could either sit or decide to keep standing. [/spoiler]
If anyone can figure out how many different universes can result from that scenario you win the internet.

There are in total 6 seats. There are 10 people that could be sitting in any one of them. For the first seat, that brings us to 10 possible outcomes. For the second seat, we now have 10x10 possibilities. In other words, just counting the possible combinations of people sitting on the benches bring us to 1000000. There will also be 4 people standing. That brings us to 1010000. For the first bus, any combination of people could get on, but this takes time to count, and got to be somewhere else. Maybe back later to finish it.

May have failed completely, but whatever.

Captcha: What is your level of education? Well, technically speaking it's not on the list (different system) but equivalent to high school. Except. . . technically failed it.

 

[FFP2]

The most recent one for me would have to be the so called "Harlem Shake" bullshit that is making the rounds.

Most of the time they are not even doing the fucking thing. Even the creator of the real Harlem Shake got upset by this.

I know it's Youtube but come on. It's disrespectful to pass off something that was created in '98 as something so stupid.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

OK,

OP: that video just made my eyes water up and my brain lock up. I will log off now.

I seem to have witnessed the latter half of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's NBA career, and he seemed like a nice enough chap.

I have forgotten all about him since then.

Now, this video... just hit me right between the eyes, and it went tumbling in my brain.

That guy is sixty-five years old now. I never thought about that.

Sixty-five years.

And he drops in the water like a cinder block.

I really need to go for a weep and a hug now.

 

[D-Class 198482]

The Badend 1 to the Crooked Man.
Look it up, that bad ending left me sitting there saying nothing, naughty thoughts running through my head whilst I look mortally disturbed.