The most extraordinary case of ignorance you have witnessed
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I'd say B+ for knowing that potassium is found in bananas, if it weren't for 'honey I shrunk the kids' I'd probably still not know that fact.MasochisticMuse said:
I was in my C&E class and we were talking about public facilities and this one girl in our class DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A PUBLIC LIBRARY WAS. Our teacher then had to carefuly explain what it was and where they were usually located, and since she had seen one near a school she seemed to believe they were schools. Omg I loled so hard for such a long period of time that I got kicked out of the class.
Oh yeah half our class is was unaware of who Gorbachav was and what the Berlin Wall was, they also didn't know China was Communist and they didn't know basic geography.
Oh yeah half our class is was unaware of who Gorbachav was and what the Berlin Wall was, they also didn't know China was Communist and they didn't know basic geography.
Man, he didn't even ask the best question:socialmenace42 said:
"Does the earth go around the sun, and does it take a year to do so?"
50% of polled americans got it wrong...
A blonde girl in my class asked my teacher why we don't just build more oceans if global warming is a problem.
This one is funny, though: Today in Introduction to Physics, my teacher asked, "Now, here's a question to see how much you know about acceleration. What is the most well known form of acceleration?" (The answer is gravity). Now, I knew the answer, but my friend, sitting next to me, had the best fucking answer ever. Normally very quite, she shouts out, "The car from the Back to the Future movies!". Entire class could not stop laughing.
This one is funny, though: Today in Introduction to Physics, my teacher asked, "Now, here's a question to see how much you know about acceleration. What is the most well known form of acceleration?" (The answer is gravity). Now, I knew the answer, but my friend, sitting next to me, had the best fucking answer ever. Normally very quite, she shouts out, "The car from the Back to the Future movies!". Entire class could not stop laughing.
My face/palm moment was in English class; we were reading Romeo and Juliet, and in the scene where Tibalt asks for his rapier, a girl looked up all horrified and said, "He's going to attack Romeo with a cheese grater?!"
...yes, of course that's what a rapier is.
...yes, of course that's what a rapier is.
During a blackout, someone in our class (we were at school while it happened) said, "Why don't we just plug the projector into the wall? That has a light."
Fucking blackouts! How do they work!?
Fucking blackouts! How do they work!?
My boyfriend told me story about a girl in his biology class. They were talking about how trees and plants get water from their roots to their leaves. The teacher asked if anyone knew and this girl who is a very devoted christian replied with 'because God simply made it that way'. Everyone laughed, even the teacher.
It is a well known and rather obvious fact to most people living in the city of Montreal that Montreal is in fact a great big island in the middle of the St-Laurent river with 3 million people living on it. The western tip of this island city is called "the West Island" and its mainland rural satellites towns are known as "off island communities" for very obvious reasons.
One day there was traffic on the bridge from my "off island community" and I was late for a class at my "West Island" college. Upon arrival I excused myself for being late because "of traffic on the bridge" and the girl next to me goes: "what bridge?"
"The Ile-aux-Tourtes, to get onto the island"
"What island?"
"The island of Montreal"
"Montreal's an island?!"
"Yeah, hence how we're in the West Island"
"Oooooooooooohhhhh!!!!!!"
I'm really not joking. Higher education doesn't make you smart.
One day there was traffic on the bridge from my "off island community" and I was late for a class at my "West Island" college. Upon arrival I excused myself for being late because "of traffic on the bridge" and the girl next to me goes: "what bridge?"
"The Ile-aux-Tourtes, to get onto the island"
"What island?"
"The island of Montreal"
"Montreal's an island?!"
"Yeah, hence how we're in the West Island"
"Oooooooooooohhhhh!!!!!!"
I'm really not joking. Higher education doesn't make you smart.
A girl in my ninth grade geography class asked me if electricity was alive. I'm still wondering how that thought randomly popped into her head...in geography class even...
Oh come on! There's no way that everyone they talked to was that stupid. I could answer most of their questions, and I would have realized that the map was f'ed up. I would have said Ukraine instead of United States of America, mostly because I'd think it would be cheating.socialmenace42 said:
Sophomore year of high school, I remember I was in a natural sciences class and this guy 2 rows over from me honestly did not know that the moon was what you saw when you looked into the sky at night- he thought it was still the sun, but that it routinely was in a cycle of every 12 hours or so would get brighter and then dimmer. When asked about the Moon, he thought the Moon was where Mars actually is...
Honestly, wasn't a particularly "stupid" kid or anything. He just didnt know, it was absolutely astonishing that he had just, apparently, never learned ANYTHING about the solar system or astronomy, even on a basic level in all of his 16-17 years (at the time) of life.
Honestly, wasn't a particularly "stupid" kid or anything. He just didnt know, it was absolutely astonishing that he had just, apparently, never learned ANYTHING about the solar system or astronomy, even on a basic level in all of his 16-17 years (at the time) of life.
Scenario: Religion class, Grade 9.
Teacher: *in the middle of a discussion about Hitler*
Student: "Excuse me, but what are we talking about?"
Teacher: "We were talking about Hitler."
Student: "Who's Hitler?"
I then proceeded laughing to myself for the rest of the class. Lucky the teacher was nice or she would have booted my ass out.
EDIT: Fuck, that last sentence I wrote was terrible. Good lord.
Teacher: *in the middle of a discussion about Hitler*
Student: "Excuse me, but what are we talking about?"
Teacher: "We were talking about Hitler."
Student: "Who's Hitler?"
I then proceeded laughing to myself for the rest of the class. Lucky the teacher was nice or she would have booted my ass out.
EDIT: Fuck, that last sentence I wrote was terrible. Good lord.
Uh, you seem to have completely misquoted me and the guy I quoted. No worries or anything, just work on making sure you type outside all the [quote ] sections.th3xile said:
"Which is bigger, the eight inch, or the ten inch?" I was asked this once at my work. No, they weren't kidding.
Ever see one of those artist's representations where a star's gas is being sucked spiraling into a nearby black hole? I think a couple IQ points were pulled right out of my head and sent swirling away into the singularity of stupid that person represented.
Ever see one of those artist's representations where a star's gas is being sucked spiraling into a nearby black hole? I think a couple IQ points were pulled right out of my head and sent swirling away into the singularity of stupid that person represented.
At a Drivers Ed meeting not to long ago "Are police considered emergency services?" Someone in the crowd asked.
