Stupidist things youve heard people say

[Scow2]

My parents celebrate Good Friday. But every year they serve fish on that day. I kid you not they said

"Oh but fish isn't meat."

I paused and said "Hand on, let me go ask my vegetarian friends."

The "No meat on Friday in Lent" for Christians isn't about vegetarianism - it's about abstaining from what is considered an overindulgence, such as RED meats. Yes, it's a silly, obsolete tradition (Meat's now dirt-cheap), but meh - an excuse to remember to get more fish in ones diet!

On the subject of vegetarianism, though - While my dad was at lunch the other day, the girl in front of him ordered some sort of sandwich or salad, with the stipulation, "No meat, though. I'm a vegetarian". When the Cashier repeated what the ingredients were, she said "Yeah, that... and Bacon." Cue the inevitable "Bacon's a meat."

Her response, "No it's not! It's a spice!"



... on second thought, I can totally get behind that. (And yes, I do know where bacon actually comes from, and can point it out on the pig)

 

[Canadamus Prime]

One man once asked me: "How long does it take to upload a video on Youtube?"
Me: "This is the most stupid thing I've ever read."
He: "Why?"
Me: "This is the second most stupid thing I've ever read."

That seems like a fair enough question to me. Not everyone is tech savvy. Certainly the average layman probably doesn't know the ins and outs of how the Internet works.

I still don't get it - how long does a video take to upload onto youtube?

Not sure if serious. In the event you are serious, anywhere from 10 minutes to a couple of hours depending on the size of the video file and your Internet connection.

 

[gyroscopeboy]

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.

The thing i think is stupid about Sales Tax in the US, is why don't they just add it on to the price? I was confused as hell when i visited, trying to work it out at the checkout whether i had enough spare change for a burger or not.

Australia has a Goods and Services Tax, but it's built in to every price for everything.

 

[gyroscopeboy]

Anyone who uses the term "african american" to describe themselves eventhough they were born in America. Your just American regardless if your black. If your African born and come to America, then your an African American. Overall the term is stupid, in the UK we dont say a person is African British.

actually I thourght it was a completly valid way of identifying somones racial lineage, like white people being called "anglo saxon"

"black people" doesnt sound as good

Although following that "anglo saxon" logic, black americans would be denoted as just 'African"

 

[Dangit2019]

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?"

As a Texan, it works exactly as you think it would. Everything has about an 7-8% sales tax. How somebody could live here for so long and not know that boggles me.

 

[General Twinkletoes]

"Isn't Slovakia in Germany? You know, the place with the Slovakians"
"Silk comes from dolphin blubber doesn't it?"
"Do we eat turkey at christmas because it was Jesus' favourite meal"
"People say dolphins are mammals, but they live in the sea so they're fish"
"sharks are mammals too aren't they?"

There are a number of people out there who firmly believe that the human eye cannot tell the difference between 30 fps, 60 fps or 120 fps (fps = frames per second or framerate) when it comes to watching videos or even playing videogames.

There's such a minor difference between 30fps and 60fps that it's hardly even worth the argument...

The only flaw is that 60fps will sometimes dip to about 50, while 30fps will sometimes dip to about 20, which is when there it starts to become annoying.

And no, your eye cannot perceive anything over 60. It definitely can't perceive 120fps. If you think it can then I can guarantee it's a placebo effect.

Oh yeah? [http://frames-per-second.appspot.com/]

Set the motion blur off and background still for the best effect. The difference between 30 and 60 is definitely noticeable. Just because you can't see the difference ingame doesn't mean others can't.

 

[BloodyPandaGirl]

Not the stupidest thing I have heard, but this is the first thing that came to my head.

My friend was texting her friend, and her friend asked her "You just laxing out?" and my sister replied "Ohh you mean laxatives? No, I don't take them haha"

 

[SlaveNumber23]

I was at a soccer game a few years ago with my friend and he was eating a cup of hot chips. The cup had "one, two, three" printed on it and my friend read it and asked me: "what the fuck is two?" (pronouncing the 'o' as 'oh' instead of 'oo'). It took him a good couple of seconds before he realized.

"What's Germany?" - Justin Bieber

I love that video, "...we don't have that in America."

Also, every single thing this guy says:

 

[Lonewolfm16]

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Wait. You guys dont add tax to the shown price?

Why the hell not?

We in the Netherlands don't want to practice maths whilst in stores, so we just have the price (say, 5.00) on the label. The actual price would then be 4.75~ ish, but the stores add the tax on that, so you can just go buy stuff without having to count out how much it'll actually cost you. Which is kinder, faster, and smarter if you ask me. You can see on the receipt how much it would have costed if the tax was not added (the 4.75).

I think the dumbest things I've heard were probably from some bigoted racists, like WBC, or A nice (true) story from a teacher of mine, who said something like :" So these students were doing a basic maths test, in order to finish their carpenter study (he was filling in there) and they had trouble answering the question: 'how many square meters of wood go in a 2x3 wooden board ?'. Some answered 5. some answered other dumb stuff, one even answered with 6000, because he used the zero key on his calculator wrong."

If you can't do basic maths, you have no place in this society. Even people who are not smart at all should be able to do 2x3. That's age 5 work.

Since America has the whole, "world-class idiots" stereotype we figure that a little extra math practice in stores can never hurt.

 

[Anathrax]

News show about one of the 6 gazillion Egyptian Riots:

"I was standing at the gates of _______ and I found... sorry for the choice of words here... 300 pounds in someone's butt"

Seriously. It happened.

 

[Lonewolfm16]

I once met a girl who didn't think wolves were real. She knew what dogs were, but didn't know dogs were descended from wolves. She just thought they were creatures from faerie stories, like well... faeries. Also she thought that the map was only of half of the earth. Apparently she never saw a golbe.

 

[VoidWanderer]

I was a having a religous discussion about my alternate views on the crucifixion of Christ, when the man I was speaking said this gem.

"Jesus is man's sin made manifest!"

 

[sadmac]

Anyone who uses the term "african american" to describe themselves eventhough they were born in America. Your just American regardless if your black. If your African born and come to America, then your an African American. Overall the term is stupid, in the UK we dont say a person is African British.

actually I thourght it was a completly valid way of identifying somones racial lineage, like white people being called "anglo saxon"

"black people" doesnt sound as good

The one that gets me is people calling themselves/other people African American when they're Dominican or Jamaican or otherwise dark skinned but wholly unconnected with Africa.

 

[maninahat]

One man once asked me: "How long does it take to upload a video on Youtube?"
Me: "This is the most stupid thing I've ever read."
He: "Why?"
Me: "This is the second most stupid thing I've ever read."

That seems like a fair enough question to me. Not everyone is tech savvy. Certainly the average layman probably doesn't know the ins and outs of how the Internet works.

I still don't get it - how long does a video take to upload onto youtube?

Not sure if serious. In the event you are serious, anywhere from 10 minutes to a couple of hours depending on the size of the video file and your Internet connection.

Is it a silly question? I mean, I can figure out for myself that bigger files obviously take longer, but I only wanted to know how much longer. If you don't happen to know what the upload rate of something is, or how long youtube takes to process an upload, then for all the layman knows, a thirty second video could take six hours.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

One man once asked me: "How long does it take to upload a video on Youtube?"
Me: "This is the most stupid thing I've ever read."
He: "Why?"
Me: "This is the second most stupid thing I've ever read."

That seems like a fair enough question to me. Not everyone is tech savvy. Certainly the average layman probably doesn't know the ins and outs of how the Internet works.

I still don't get it - how long does a video take to upload onto youtube?

Not sure if serious. In the event you are serious, anywhere from 10 minutes to a couple of hours depending on the size of the video file and your Internet connection.

Is it a silly question? I mean, I can figure out for myself that bigger files obviously take longer, but I only wanted to know how much longer. If you don't happen to know what the upload rate of something is, or how long youtube takes to process an upload, then for all the layman knows, a thirty second video could take six hours.

That is kinda what I said. It's not a silly question.

 

[SadisticFire]

Hmm.. Ton of things I've heard has been pretty stupid, but the most recent one I can remember would be, "just don't use periods." in the response of a kid complaining about sentences. It made me giggle, this is a Sohpmore in highschool, legitly believes periods are optional. His paper didn't use any grammar. I think the US education system isn't...very good..

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

>snip<

Wow, I cannot believe that he can even function as a human being, he must just be some genius satirist, out to show the way society now holds up in admiration the stupid.

I hope so, I really do. Because if he is genuinely that challenged by simple things then we as a nation could be in serious bloody trouble.

I had a girl tell me evolution meant we where direct descendants from trees.

Yep, we're screwed.

 

[Mister K]

Anyone who uses the term "african american" to describe themselves eventhough they were born in America. Your just American regardless if your black. If your African born and come to America, then your an African American. Overall the term is stupid, in the UK we dont say a person is African British.

actually I thourght it was a completly valid way of identifying somones racial lineage, like white people being called "anglo saxon"

"black people" doesnt sound as good

Hey! Not every white is from one of the saxonian countries.

 

[xbox12345]

I have heard lots of stupid things from my family my grandmother believes the moon landing is causing natural disasters now, she also told me not to kick waves because it would make them angry and they would take me out to sea.