My Dad is well known for his dumb questions. The type you could easily answer yourself if you sat down and applied common sense for 2 seconds, so telling him about anything can lead to many dumb follow up questions. But that has to do with spontanity, certainly not with stupidity.
But since I don't remember the good ones well enough, here's someone else:
"Is it true they abolished hell? Am I glad about that"
Yes, that was earnest. She's crazy naive, it's like talking to a small child. Here's the thing: She's not even christian. She's living in a country where religious people are a minority, and christians are the majority of that minority. She couldn't name 4 of the 10 committments and isn't a registered member of church.
Even the most faithful people I met don't believe in a firey hell or anything anymore. Apparently, the pope said something about abolishing limbo, since hell was never mentioned in the bible in the first place (no idea if it's true, I don't care about horribly written fantasy books and their fanclubs...). But if you have no bonds to christianity whatsoever, live in a strongly atheistic country and don't understand enough to distinguish limbo from hell, how can you believe in it?
And to bash religious nutjobs some more: They were on the street with signs that said what kind of stuff gets you into this hell... wheter abolished or not. Homosexuality among it. So a lesbian he harshly attacked tried to make a point how love isn't controlled by gender. Him: "But it can't be that a man would take an animal to..."
Pretty sure the debate was about homosexuality two seconds ago... where did that come from?
"But it's exactly the same thing!"
This is why people walk away from you.
"Do you think there's a mouse in my shoe?" was also kind of stupid. "It's your shoe, man, I don't know. You've been here for one hour, we don't have mouses here, and you've been in a train for the past 3 hours. I think you would have noticed that during the past 4 hou...
wat. What? WHAT? It's even alive???"
Yes, that happened. This guy is special... says plenty of stupid things. He's an intern (unpayed) who's travelling 3 hours to us and 3 hours back every day, and never gets anything to do, because... he can barely fetch two different people their coffee. We don't really know why he's here.
True conversation:
Me: "What did you do before?"
Him: "I worked at a bakery"
Me: "What did you like about that?"
Him: "... I dunno."
Me: "... what made you quit? Getting up so early?"
Him: "Na, liked that."
Me: "Then... why aren't you working there anymore?"
Him: ".... .... ... I didn't like it there."
