Rage-Inducing Moments of Ignorance and Stupidity

[Liam1390]

I have quite a few of these from high school.

"Is Peru an animal?"-Spanish class
"What do you mean you don't believe orange shouldn't be worn on Saint Patricks day."-Contemporary Issues class
"Your name isn't Irish"

Me-"You know, you shouldn't leave your knife in the pot sink."
Dumbass-"Why not?"
Me-"You might cut yourself or someone else because the water isn't clear"
Dumbass-"They should be more careful"
Less than a minute later he cuts himself reaching into the sink.-International foods

Some from college-

"San Francisco had a gold rush?"-Advanced Pastry Arts
"Why can't I use a spring form pan for cake batter, what the hell is it used for?"-Baking II
And one I heard a lot in beginning courses- "It's not my job to do it."

I also have a few more from college, but they involve some terms and methods that will take a while to explain.

 

[Del-Toro]

It was a couple of years ago in my AP US History Class and there was a group of kids who kept arguing the whole class about how Roosevelt let Pearl Harbor happen to fight Germany. And they kept saying that if it wasn't for the US then Hitler would rule the world. Their main argument for why the Soviet Union got to Berlin was that because the US was coming in from the west then Hitler had to move all his armies over to stop us. I basically told them to look at timeline and that by D-Day, the Soviet Union was already kicking ass towards Berlin

In fact (if I recall correctly) 90% of the Wehrmacht was fighting the Soviet Union throughout the war. 90%. That means the Allies only had to fight 10%, can you imagine if the reds hadn't cleaned Hiter's clock? If it was so much trouble dealing with just that little bit of the German forces...
Well thank god for the soviets I suppose.

 

[JanatUrlich]

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. IS THAT HITLER ON THE FAR RIGHT? I can understand confusing communism and socialism, since they're on the same side of the spectrum but HITLER IS ON THE FAR RIGHT, A FASCIST, ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM. HE HATED SOCIALISTS.
/rage

Not to mention the two on the left and center were communists, not socialists.

Well the Nazi Party is also called the National Socialist German Workers Party, so it is quite easy to get confused. Hitler sort've was a socialist by description.

 

[The DSM]

In a Class someone said

"Whats a subamarine?"

My friend facepalmed and said "Fucking idiot...." Really loud.

 

[MetalDooley]

Some years back I had just gotten my lower lip pierced and was asked by this African guy I worked with if I got it done because I wanted to "turn gay"

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

My girlfriend unfortunately.
I was describing bioshock to her (a non gamer) because she takes an interest in my games and wants to know what they are about.

So anyway if you know the bioshock story line i was about 10 mins here

"So rapture, under the ocean, discovers adam, a gentically mutagenic substance from sea slugs that changes your DNA to allow you to do extraordinary things"
"Unfortunately this made the people mad with the power of gods, i mean who wouldnt want ALL the abilities, and so the adam addiction began, now people have so much that they have basically lost their minds, everyone sane is dead..."
Her: "Wait wait wait, this isnt real is it?"

NOOOOOOOOOOO "facepalm"

someone on youtube
"Evolution says we evolved from monkeys we see today"
NO IT DOES NOT FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE!
It says we share a common ansestor, not we come DIRECTLY from the exact same monkeys there are today.

 

[MattZero]

Today the PETA group was out and about again. Now they normally don't bother me that much, I don't agree with them, but to each their own. Today I was cornered by a girl who was trying to convince me to swear of meat. Now I was raised on a farm so there's no way that's gonna happen so I was just trying to get away without being rude.

Girl: Don't you care about the cruelty the animals suffer?
Me: Not really.
Girl: How can you not care?
Me: It's just nature. Predatory animals eat other animals. Humans are generally much kinder in our kills than other meat eating animals anyway.
Girl: Can you at least eat Kosher meat?
Me: ... Are you kidding?

Kosher meat requires the animal to be conscious when they cut it's throat while normal slaughtering practices involve a process that renders the animal unconscious. Kosher meat is generally considered more cruel to animals than regular meat.

Now just being uninformed (even about something that is a major issue of the cause you're supporting)... not rage inducing. When I politely explain why you're wrong in an attempt to help you with your cause and you get mad at me and tell me I'm wrong? Now I'm pretty ticked off.

 

[Riven Armor]

Ahh, anti-religion nutjobs are so cute when they try to sound important

You might want to look up what monotheism is. I'm not anti-religious, I'm anti-stupidity. Monotheism breeds ignorance and stupidity like no other. Polytheism is far less deluded, as the majority of them utilise the gods as personifications of aspects of their lives (the earth, death, skies, wisdom etc.), while monotheistic groups see themselves as images/tools of their respective gods. The religion isn't flawed, the people who mindlessly abide by them for no good reason are.

Given that the thread title, how do all monotheistic religions compel their followers to "feats of stupidity" and why is it that you specify monotheistic religions? Are their polytheistic companions immune to this flaw?

As I said above, monotheistic religions (main cases in point being Christianity and Islam, since Buddhism is actually a great religion) cause idiotic acts due to fear and blind faith. Sure, it's not the case in every person, but the very nature of monotheism drives an (easily manipulated) system that often causes grief and stupidity. An example of flawed religion ruining lives is Ireland - and that's the SAME religion, just a different denomination.

Polytheism isn't entirely immune, but they are far, far less frequent. As I said, polytheistic religions tend to have the gods as representations of things in life, rather than an omnipotent, unimaginable being that "made us in his image/as his tools".

I fail to see how believing in animist spirits or Shiva and company is supposed to be more or less defensible or foolish than believing in one deity. We know what polytheism is, but all you have provided in support of your opinion is conjecture.

Yes, monotheistic beliefs ruined many lives in Ireland. On a different note, a polytheistic religion, Hinduism, played one of the two parts in the civil war that led to the formation of Pakistan - an incredibly savage conflict. Other notable accomplishments of polytheists over the years include regular, government-mandated human sacrifices and sati, just to name a few. Yes, monotheists did wage war with the Crusades. Some of them practice honor killings today and others still fall victim to opportunistic televangelists. Yet I hardly believe you could argue that over the checkered history of belief systems over history (including, of course, atheism) that one's storied excesses have a clear moral advantage over the others'.

 

[MattZero]

I fail to see how believing in animist spirits or Shiva and company is supposed to be more or less defensible or foolish than believing in one deity. We know what polytheism is, but all you have provided in support of your opinion is conjecture.

Yes, monotheistic beliefs ruined many lives in Ireland. On a different note, a polytheistic religion, Hinduism, played one of the two parts in the civil war that led to the formation of Pakistan - an incredibly savage conflict. Other notable accomplishments of polytheists over the years include regular, government-mandated human sacrifices and sati, just to name a few. Yes, monotheists did wage war with the Crusades. Some of them practice honor killings today and others still fall victim to opportunistic televangelists. Yet I hardly believe you could argue that over the checkered history of belief systems over history (including, of course, atheism) that one's storied excesses have a clear moral advantage over the others'.

You guys have a huge argument going and both have fairly decent points, but what about the nonviolent and totally vanilla varieties of stupid? Both monotheism and polytheism suffer from this because the individual people who make up the body of the faith are like this. Riven is right, you can't say one is less stupid or more moral than the other.

In India they let traffic back up for twenty miles if a cow stands in the middle of the road because cows are holy animals in Hinduism and it's forbidden to harass them in any way so you can't honk your horn to get them off the road.

If a deck of cards falls in front of my Christian friend and three of the sixes fall across each other she freaks out and will scramble the cards up to get rid of the 666.

Another friend of mine spent $350 dollars three separate times trying to preform a Wiccan love spell that clearly had no effect the first time.

Or better yet I live in Kansas so I got to be right in the center of the firestorm of this state damn near banning evolution in science class even though that part of the curriculum is already optional in a lot of high-schools and if you don't want to hear about it or just want to get a period of straight A's without taking any tests you can opt out of about a month of the biology class that is a required to get a diploma.

Religion is so personal and subjective it's not something that is possible to measure using someone else's faith as a comparison.

 

[G-Dragon]

well, all the 12 year olds on yahoo answers who ask about whether or not they should have sex, and anyone who thinks that Hannah Montana, wait let me change that, anyone who thinks anything related to Disney now (except the pixar things) is good

 

[LordFisheh]

We were discussing Australian wildfires in my Geography lesson, and Hotgirl McMoron pipes in with an insightful question;

"Sir, are there trees in Australia??"

D:

 

[Jinx_Dragon]

I love asking people "When did the war of 1812 take place?". Out of 5 friends I've asked, none have answered correctly. And two of them are honor-roll students.

Also, my friend thought that the KGB and KKK are the same thing.

I had this question asked of me on a trip of Mammoth cave and was dumbstruck that a question like this could even be asked. There was nothing I could do but give the answer, 1812, as sarcastic as possible. The guide didn't like that, which makes me wonder if he has actually had people who didn't know this answer.

 

[Twad]

Every single thing our prime minister Harper and his lapdogs are doing (and not doing) to our country (Canada).

This isnt politics, its something much, MUCH worse. Almost like a monarchy.

 

[Hazy]

Some moron in my physics class:

"Is the sun hot?"

In all seriousness, not a joke. How did I end up in a class with these people?

Edited: Thought of a lulzier one.
I know a kid who sits one row, and one table to the right in front of me in Physics class.

He once said that it took 4 years to reach orbit.

RAGE was had.

 

[ejb626]

"I'll bet you Sarah Palin is smarter than me and you combined"
God damn this guy was stupid I ended up punching him in the face and getting suspended but it was totally worth it, and I was only suspended for a day.
Some of his other gold
"I'm smarter than you, I saw your report card"
So I got a few Cs, I'm lazy, what's your point?
The funniest thing is when we got in an arguement he'd always turn to the people sitting near and try to get them to reinforce his retarded opinion like "Dude, isn't Sarah Palin smarter than me and him combined?" And they always agreed with me making him look like even more of a dumb ass.

 

[Abengoshis]

"Why don't we make spaceships out of helium" says someone in my class. I assume he thought the helium would keep "rising" through the atmosphere......*facepalm*

 

[rekabdarb]

A 15 year old in advanced classes had NO F&%$ING IDEA what communism is. Really? Thats like going "Hitler who?".

technically it'd be adolf who? =D

 

[drbarno]

OT: Ive had so many Push/Pull door moments its not even funny. Seriously, Stupidity sometimes follows me around.

That's happened to me alot as well, as well as trying to open locked doors that even have the some message that says locked on them.

I have had some random guy go past me onc and had a go at me becuase he thought I called him a twat. I didn't say anything but that's the first thing that popped into my head afterwards.

 

[Otterpoet]

Not surprised in the slightest. A friend of mine was teaching Shop class and instructing the students on the safe use of the air compressor hose.

"Do not point this at one another or yourself," he says.

A hand goes up.

"Yes?" my friend asks nervously.

"Sir, I done used ta put my dad's air compressor in my mouth and it didn't nuthin' ta me... heh-heh-heh uh-yep!" (And no... I'm not joking about the idiot laugh)

Sometimes the gene pool's filter needs to be cleaned out