The most extraordinary case of ignorance you have witnessed

[deleted_by_strongbad]

First I have to agree with the sentiment that bipolar is kind of a weird thing, and I can understand people with no interest in psych or medicine not knowing what it was.

To those of you who hadn't run across bipolar, are you not from the USA? I just ask because I am, I grew up in small towns (we moved around a lot but stayed rural), and knew a lot of ignorant and just plain stupid people. The vast majority of them at least thought they knew what bipolar meant because during the late nineties till about 2005 it was pretty hip to say you were bipolar. Not to mention every minute of every day the television and radio are full of pharmacological ads for drugs to medicate everything from "restless legs" disorder to our previously discussed manic-depressives.

 

[TrevorGruen]

Damn Ninjas i was gonna say fox news, oh well it is pretty obvious.

I would probably go with how the other day at school (im a HS freshman) i was in my Psychology class and one of the students actually asked our teacher "Mr. *****, when is now?" I realize he probably meant what time it is, but it just sounded so ungodly stupid.

Either that, or it's a rather profound philosophical question. Considering it was a Psychology class, I would give him the benefit of the doubt. It is pretty freaky when you think about it; what exactly is now?

OT: A girl in my History class who said "The Berlin Wall? That's the one in China, right?"

Not what is now, when is now. And yeah it is psych, but if you knew the guy you would be less likely to beleive he was that philosophical.

 

[Tomster595]

10th grade history class. The teacher was talking about the gold rush and about how all this gold was found in the ground in the American West. This girl raised her hand and asked how the gold got there. We tried to explain that gold was just naturally there but she wanted to know who's gold it was and why they buried it.

Another time in this class the same girl wanted to know why boats couldn't really go up rivers before steam engines came about.

EDIT: Oh, and also, Health class. We were discussing pubic lice and the teacher says that pubic lice are commonly referred to as "crabs." Some girl seriously asked if they were real crabs, just smaller.

 

[zega frega omega]

10th grade history class. The teacher was talking about the gold rush and about how all this gold was found in the ground in the American West. This girl raised her hand and asked how the gold got there. We tried to explain that gold was just naturally there but she wanted to know who's gold it was and why they buried it.

Another time in this class the same girl wanted to know why boats couldn't really go up rivers before steam engines came about.

EDIT: Oh, and also, Health class. We were discussing pubic lice and the teacher says that pubic lice are commonly referred to as "crabs." Some girl seriously asked if they were real crabs, just smaller.

Ha. This just goes to show we shouldn't bother educating women or even let them speak.

/irony/

OT: There was actually a case on this very site. It was a thread that went something like "Is anyone else bothered by the blurring of gender roles?" I lol'd all the way through, and the last sentence is the bestest: "How are we going to teach our children to be th leaders of men and defenders of women?" and I was like ROFLMAO.

I won't lie, I partake in some good-hearted misogynism with a girl I know (don't worry, she's cool about it), but I got the sense the poster of the thread wasn't kidding.

 

[SpaceCop]

Fairly recently an acquaintance of mine said that brushing your teeth with Jack Daniels, a la that song by Ke$ha, would be less bad for you than using "sugary toothpastes." That was pretty special.

Still. That doesn't really hold a candle to, say, kindly old Mr O'Reilly intimating that Stephen Hawking would be unable to explain why the sun goes up and down, or why the tides come in and out:


And the O'Reilly Factor is the most-watched cable news program in America. Isn't that exciting?

 

[Timedraven 117]

Welll i dont consider it ignorent i do say it is funny. well my friend told me that his mom went through the hid under your desk when a nuke goes thing when she was a kid and the teacher said go under your desk put your head between your legs then a kid interjects and said "And kiss your ass goodbye!" loudly when he told me that i had a good chukkle. And here is some tue ingnorence in my 8th gradew englesh class we were learning that some indian words were used by colonists for new animals and plants, well this kid asked to me and another kid and he is 14 what a moose was!

 

[redisforever]

I was playing Company of Heroes a few days ago, and this guy was yelling in the lobby about how all Germans were stupid because they lost World War 2, because they had bad technology and stuff. We then all proceeded to humiliate him with our knowledge of the war, and he quickly left the lobby.

 

[Canid117]

I knew a girl in sophomore french class who legitimately thought that the capitol of Canada was France and that the capitol of the United States was (I shit you not) America City. She was not joking, she was serious, I have no idea how she managed to tie her shoes that morning.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

I really can't remember anything spectacular, I tend to block those things out of my mind as a natural defense mechanism. I do remember this one girl who was in my year at school who did on many occasions produce some true gems of ignorance. But I really don't remember any of them to tell them accurately enough. Let's just say we had many a laugh in history classes at her expense. English classes too.

 

[Timedraven 117]

DragonBorn 96
Having a convo about the Illuminati and the credibility of the whole "infiltrator" idea and how he blames them for every famous person who died, even Micheal Jackson. After a long-winded argument he said "Well i'm right and your wrong because *Name which I forget* says so." I proceeded to stand up without a word and leave. My god that really made me angry. Quote.

Bob Barker? but serouisly no i am joking, and good for you not to puch him in the face in hopes of fixing his contradicted idea.

 

[easternflame]

Well when people say they haven't seen star wars but even worse, they don't know who darth vader is

 

[Stickyreiss]

When news reporters spell a URL and say "backslash" I die a little bit inside.

When people call a magazine (ammunition) a clip.

And before anyone tells me I'm racist, I have to deal with this on a daily basis.
Many blacks, especially the young ones do NOT know how to leave a tip or conduct themselves in a respectable manner in public. To be honest, that describes most kids these days.

 

[Vicarious Vangaurd]

When people call a magazine (ammunition) a clip.

Just to make sure, you like putting clips in your Garand right?

OT: When Steven Hawking said information stored in black holes is lost forever as the hole evaporates. Hah, how quaint of him to think that.

 

[nicholaxxx]

Once a girl in one of my classes interrupted the entire lecture (10th grade Language Arts, by the way) to ask this one, very important, earth shattering question:

"so is the moon like, made of rocks?"

Needless to say, we were all devastated by this individuals act of brilliance, and her uncanny ability to make us all peer into the darkest depths of our souls and say "yes. Yes the moon is made of rocks, isn't it?"

She went on to fail that course and all of her other courses, and I could never understand why...

 

[brainslurper]

Well, I hate to bring this up again, and I don't agree with the stereotype that All Americans are stupid, but this is just so worth watching:

We are not all stupid. Just the republicans.

 

[ThongBonerstorm]

I work security at a College, and you'd be surprised how maybe people come up to our desk and ask us where room 'TBA' is...

...on that same note many have asked where the basement is...

 

[Wintermoot]

Fox News, its like if ignorance had its own TV station!

 

[brainslurper]

A few of us were having a religious debate once and some guy I used to work with said "without the bible, how would world leaders know right from wrong?"

The Tea Party. 'Nuff said.

Have they actually even done anything yet, or are they just disgracing the name of the revolutionaries?

they have compared obama to hitler more times then i can count...
you can try to explain that hitler was a white supremacist who tried to rid the world of all "impurities" and obama is trying to make health care accessible to all social classes...but then they will just say you are an elitist. not that they would know what that means

 

[Not George Carlin]

"I win again, as usual." - Jack Thompson