Really Stupid Things You've Heard/Read Someone Say

[Ambient]

She wasn't joking.

 

[Demongeneral109]

"So how did your boyfriend get you into gaming?"
Oh, and... some members of my family believe that magic is real but science just doesn't want you to know about it. So. Yeah. That happened.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke

I met this girl in high school that had a phobia of sex... even though she never tried it.

Technically a phobia doesn't have to be something you've encountered before. A phobia is an extreme, irrational fear - calling it out on a lack of logic only lends credibility to its existence.

OT: A friend and I were in class one day talking, when he went quiet for a few seconds. I could see the gears in his head were turning, so I asked him what he was thinking about. He then turned to me and said, with an utterly straight face;

"D'you reckon sheep know anything about Star Trek?"

Maybe he was making a "Do androids dream of electric sheep" joke?
and for my contribution
I had someone ask me in high school "what's an earthquake?"

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

"I'm just trolling." I'm sorry i think it sounds stupid and before it became the thing everyone said, i found it stupid as hell.

Though actually it is when people use it all the time to hide the fact they constantly say or suggest stupid things.

Also this: "Twilight is a better series of books than the Night Angel Trilogy."

oh and any number of the homophobic comments people like the 'one million moms' spout.

 

[Harkonnen64]

I knew a girl who thought hamburgers were made out of ham, because ham is in the name. This is the same person who thought paleontology was completely made up and fossils are manufactured and placed by scientists.

No, really...

Granted, this was back a few years in middle school, but honestly...

 

[Armorat]

My 8th grade english/social studies teacher informed the class the recent Colorado drought was caused by "all of the water evaporating out into space through the hole in the ozone layer." Worst part was most of the class just bought it.

 

[Dr Jones]

Oh, and... some members of my family believe that magic is real but science just doesn't want you to know about it. So. Yeah. That happened.

Hahaha, Oh man! That made me laugh! It's just such a cute and innocent thought >.>, Science as an entity that wants to hide magic, oh the cuteness.. It could be a cartoon! Call Nickelodeon!

 

[TKretts3]

Oh, another thing, my Grade 8 teacher actually told our class that, "... only white people can be racist."

 

[ThoughtlessConcept]

Everything I read, everything I hear, every day.

 

[Demonjazz]

From the ramblings of Landover baptist church."Demons are working with the Hasbro and Nintendo companies so that they can infect the minds of young children.That will become junior satnist and will take over the world"Also on spreading the religion in gaming"We are persucuted for our religion just the same as in the old days.But we don't even have to have any pain inflicted to us."Don't forget more crazzines."And we spam the good word everywhere and if we have some one who doesn't accept we won't leave them alone until they do.And then we will check up on them and if they percusute us we report them for discrimantion against our religion"

 

[Demonjazz]

Also anybody with more than three exclamtion points at the end of their senteces in the great words of Terry Pratchett"Multiple exclamntion points are a sure sign of mental illness"

 

[Kasten]

@Airrazor7 I lose my faith in humanity from stupid people regularly, it's just that I have a beautiful girlfriend who's intellect and abilities brings it back, and good friends who I can look up too, without being looked down at.

I do lose faith in humanity. Then I get it back.

 

[Ctmnt08]

I teach history. Back in March we hit the section on labor relations in the United States and my students generated the following dialogue gem:

Me: OK guys, today we'll be talking about unions. Can anyone tell me what a union is? [points to student with raised hand]
Student 1: You mean like the Soviet Union?
Me: Well, no, I--
Student 2: [no sarcasm] No, he means the credit union.

*sigh* God bless 'em, at least they were trying.

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

My mom once asked me if the Berlin Wall and the Great wall of China were both meant to keep the Communists out.

No, I'm not kidding.

 

[eevangoh]

My mom once asked me if the Berlin Wall and the Great wall of China were both meant to keep the Communists out.

No, I'm not kidding.

Well, the Berlin one kinda was, you know.

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

My mom once asked me if the Berlin Wall and the Great wall of China were both meant to keep the Communists out.

No, I'm not kidding.

Well, the Berlin one kinda was, you know.

Technically, it was meant to keep the communists in.

 

[MasterMasamune]

I recall meeting someone who thought Poland wasn't a country until World War II. Seriously.

 

[General Twinkletoes]

Why think that people 200 years ago are so much wiser than people now?

I can't comment on others opinions, but I find the idea that they could set aside their differences and create a new country to be quite grand. In the age of enlightenment, the petty squabbles of men and their individual ideologies took a side step to a vision which benefited everyone at the time. Compromise, and the ability to see the larger picture is a wise thing. In today's political world, we are so polarized between two opposites that barely anything get's accomplished outside times of crisis. .

Wait, wait wait wait.

"In the age of enlightenment, the petty squabbles of men and their individual ideologies took a side step to a vision which benefited everyone."
"I find the idea that they could set aside their differences and create a new country to be quite grand"

Slavery would like to say hi. That vision sure as hell didn't benefit everyone, they didn't set aside their differences, and I would hardly have called it grand when a large portion of the population was treated like dirt because of their skin colour. If america were to go to a third world country, kill all the inhabitants and make a country there, would you think that's cool?

"We can't set aside our differences now"
"Compromise, and the ability to see the larger picture"

What about the little thing known as the war of independence? If australia wanted to break off from england, we wouldn't go to war with them. I don't think having a war counts as compromise.
And anyway, I'd prefer discussion between politicians rather then a full blown war.


I think you don't remember them how they really were. The founding fathers had slaves, were racist, misogynistic. George washington used his fame and money to get sex. They are not the saints that everyone remembers.

 

[eevangoh]

My mom once asked me if the Berlin Wall and the Great wall of China were both meant to keep the Communists out.

No, I'm not kidding.

Well, the Berlin one kinda was, you know.

Technically, it was meant to keep the communists in.

Which in this case is the same thing, actually.

 

[eevangoh]

I recall meeting someone who thought Poland wasn't a country until World War II. Seriously.

Not as retarded as you think it is, dude. It actually wasn't a country until 1917, and then it stopped being a country again in 1939.

 

[Kasten]

My mother once theorized life might have existed on the moon in the past, and yelled at me about how I was being scientifically irresponsible for saying that the Moon could never have supported life as we know it, and that there might have been a whole bunch of life and activity on the Moon at some point.