Stupidist things youve heard people say

[PoolCleaningRobot]

Some guy on this very website tried to tell me tools were not important to humans as species. And by tools I mean everything people make, like the computer he was using to argue with me.

Also I work in technical support at my school and laughed yesterday when someone called my boss because they didn't know how to log onto Yahoo Mail because their homepage was changed

 

[Daniel Harvison]

"You can't live off of $30 million"

In his defense, he is kind of a dumbass. And it would take a dumbass and poor spending choices to lose that financial security.

That, right there, deserves to be immortalized for the ages.

 

[Coffeejack]

In confusion and disbelief: "...But...I thought Europe was a country."

 

[Daniel Harvison]

I heard this while in a takeaway restaurant waiting for my food to be cooked:

"How big is a 10" pizza?"

I did a literal double take. Like... seriously?

In Australia, when you're ordering a pizza from say, Pizza Hut, they will list the pizza sizes in inches. Why, I don't have a clue, apparently just because you live in a country that uses the metric system apparently doesn't mean you should actually use it in product descriptions. Subway does the same thing, and it just frakkin' annoys me.

Point is, there are situations where that's actually a legitimate question.

 

[danon]

Hehe reminds me of this http://theoatmeal.com/pl/senior_year/science

 

[Flames66]

Also, "What do you mean this game is $5.25! It clearly says here it's $4.99!" We're in Texas, by the way, and this guy didn't look like a foreigner.

That seems like a reasonable question. Though I'm over in England here, maybe currency works different in Texas?

OT:Said it before, say it again... "Is Indian a religion?"

Oh, well, if I would have noticed this guy was from outside the US, I'd be fine with it. I try to be reasonable with people. (Although it's still weird; it would be almost as if he just set foot in the US and the first thing he did was run to the nearest videogame store to buy a cheap game).

Okay, there are some states here in the US that don't charge tax. Places like Oregon or Montana or Alaska don't charge sales tax. So if an item is advertized at $4.99, you only pay $4.99. The rest of the US, though charges sales tax; 8 cents or so per dollar (and by that logic, I realized the item this guy was complaining about was probably like $5.40). Of course, the cost of living is higher in those sales-tax free states.

In this region I'm at, the only neighbor states are New Mexico and... a lot of Texas. And Mexico. He had a Texan accent, though.
He COULD have been from Mexico because they don't charge taxes there. But again, it's not like he just came to the US to buy a cheap game and only that.

I dunno, it was kind of a silly question to me.

I would have had the same reaction. Depending on what mood I was in I would either say "in that case I don't want the item" and leave calmly, or I would berate the person for deceiving me about the price.

 

[Farson89]

Some guy on this very website tried to tell me tools were not important to humans as species. And by tools I mean everything people make, like the computer he was using to argue with me.

I think my brain just melted.

 

[Vhite]

"Isn't Slovakia in Germany? You know, the place with the Slovakians"

Well, we are their pet nation so it kinda makes sense. And to keep national pride (which does not actually exist), Im gonna correct you by saying that we are Slovaks, not Slovakians.

 

[Lynx]

When America tried to call pizza a vegetable. I know, I know. They really meant the tomato paste. Which is funny, considering that tomatoes are actually fruits.

 

[Evil Cabbage]

I've been asked this multiple times: "What's a Democracy?" It's rather frightening - these people are subject to compulsory voting next year!

 

[Powereaver]

Ive certainly heard the whole conversation of Person 1 - Oh no Person 3 left his phone behind.. what do we do! Person 2 - CALL THEM! ... bahahahahha... although to be honest.. id probably think the same thing immediately too!

 

[RedDeadFred]

Was at a party. We where talking about Holocaust. After avail some blonde girl in her early 20'ts leans over and shouts over the voices!

"Who is this Holocaust dude? He sounds like a real prick."

Is one of those moments when words seems inadequate.

Please tell me she was really drunk and just wanted attention so she decided to yell out something stupid. I don't want to believe that someone could actually be that idiotic.

OT: When I worked as a cashier I had many people say stupid things to me. The most facepalming moment was this:

I am packing her bags and setting them in the pick up area. She bought a lot of potatoes and those took up the entire pick up area all on their. Logically, I set her more fragile and squishy groceries on top of them.
Her: What are you doing?!
Me: Bagging your groceries....?
Her: You can't set the bread on top of the potatoes! It'll be squished!
Me: Wait you mean the bread will squish the potatoes?
Her: No, the potatoes are going to squish the bread.
Me: How.....?
She did not have an answer.

 

[Tyelcapilu]

"A GIRL WITH A VAGINA WTF"
Actually happened- from a teenager. Not a 6 year old.

 

[YamiVKD]

I work experience guy at work said when asked to number in Roman numerals,
"I can't do Roman numerals I'm not from Africa"

 

[Mr Companion]

"What's Germany?" - Justin Bieber
"I didn't know the world was round!" - Random Host on The View
"What's the point of studying history they're all dead anyway" - A girl on the school bus several months ago
"Who's Kurt Cobain?" - Girl on facebook who had a Nirvana shirt on in her Display Picture.

There are much worse ones but they all compound into one now.

Because breeding is really easy. Perhaps we should make GLados run logical reasoning tests on people before they are allowed.

 

[RedDeadFred]

My (immature) mate was banging on about a porn film called "Nailin' Palin",

What's so immature about quoting Jon Stewart? He didn't like the vice-presidential debate so he thought it would be more interesting if they competed in porn movie names. He called them Nailin' Palin and ridin' Biden.

 

[PunkRex]

"A car can't make sound in a tunnel."

My brothers old girlfriend once said this and was so damn adament about it, DESPITE my bro driving her home and rolling the windows down when they drove through a tunnel. He even beeped the horn... she just got mad... it was kind of embarressing... and hilarious.

The reason she claimed to be an expert was that she worked in a garage for a few weeks.