The Stupidest Thing You've Ever Heard

[WiMoTj]

I'm gonna have to go with religion.

 

[Yarggg]

"When's Oktoberfest?"

 

[Snor]

anything religious! one of the many stupid ideas my friend has from time to time when his brain shuts of for a few minutes: hey hey! i got a great idea! lets make a bike....for two persons! (he was genuinely excited) i was like....dude....that already exists...it called a tandem

 

[WiMoTj]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

"Hey, look, it's a horse-riding-game!" - little girl watching Legend of Zelda: TP-trailer where Link rides on Epona.

"Whe shouldn't buy this game, it contains spiders." - grand/parent commenting on the PEGI symbol for horror, a spider.

"Teacher, why can't I go into my house?" - completely brainless classmate using Google Earth.

Sportsjock: "NHL 10 is the best game ever, it's so innovative."
Me: "What's so new and innovative about it?"
Sportsjock: "Well... the fights are more realistic!"
Me: Mhm... Say, have you tried out Braid?
Sportsjock: "Yeah, it totally sucks."

I can't com e up with much more at the moment.

 

[Keepitclean]

You have proven nothing except natural selection is possible. Natural selection is the changes within a species, while evolution is the changing of a species entirely. I concur that gravity is a theory, that Copernicus had a theory, and all other theories you have mentioned. These all equally available for discussion and descent. THAT is the basis of science. Not saying that one theory is correct simply because there is no evidence against it. There is no supposition in fact. Fact must be fact, beyond a shadow of a doubt, and until that moment it is highly debatable. This is my qualm with evolution, there is NO debate. Everyone who believes in a theory outside of evolution is considered to be a lunatic, and that is a saddening blow to the credibility of science, and no better than the repressions committed by the ancient Catholic Church. In battling the enemy that is ignorance, you must be careful not to fall prey to the enemy of Arrogance, and the scientific community has not maintained that caution.

Edit: Also, can we attempt to maintain an air of civility here? We are both educated gentleman, and I will not fault you for your opinion or say your statements are the stupidest thing ever. Please show me that same respect. Let us communicate on an intellectual level without debasing ourselves with ad hominem attacks, eh?

In science it's not what you believe, but why you belive it. The reason people who belive in theories other than evolution are considered lunatics because they have nothing to back up why they believe what they believe. The reason there is no debate about evolution anymore is because no one hase come up with a theory that better explain the diversity of life.

It seems that you have a problem with the idea of speciation.

A species is defined as a group of individuals that can interbreed to produce fertile offspring. When organisms are too gentically different to interbreed they are different species. A prime example of this is the population of salamanders that live around the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
2:30 onwards will tell you about the salamanders.
Specieation has been observed. Do you still have any problems with evolution? If you do please say more than "it's just stupid" and base it on actual evidence.

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Finally, I have moral complications with mindset that evolution creates. I won't go into them here unless specifically requested to, as they are a completely different topic and contain some polarizing material. Suffice to say I believe evolution to be too unbalanced in its principles to be a correct standpoint for general motivations.

Please, share these moral complications. I'll take a guess.

If there is no creator there are no rules or reason to follow them.

 

[asmidir]

From my 14 year old sister: "Halo 3 is not only on the Xbox 360, you can also get it on the Wii"

I shit you not.

and.

ME: "Hey sis, what weighs more, 100 kilograms of bricks or 100 kilograms of feathers?

Sister: "The bricks do"

Me: "What, no they both weigh the same."

Sister:"No, bricks weigh more than feathers."

Me: "Seperate they do, but they both are a hundred kilograms."

Sister: "Yeah but the bricks weigh more."

She is 14 and our parents are freaking scientists. W........T.........F.

 

[Shadowfaze]

A vegetarian lad told me: "Its ok to eat fish because they are not alive." i laughed so hard, he just looked sheepish. He really believed it.

 

[ZydrateDealer]

Anything religious people say is fucking hilariously stupid XD

This.
I hate to flame, but honestly, seeing as religion is one of the few places left where people are not only allowed to be, but are encouraged to be incredibly fucking stupid, lie through their teeth, knowing pull shit reasoning from their ass and tick off a list of logical fallacy, it's no wonder religion is a goldmind for dumbfuckery.
My favorite thing is when people say that their god never lies. If they have a bible on them, I open it to the very fucking begining and show them that the first horrible evil act of satan is to point out that god lied. lulz ensue.

I couldn't agree more with you also have you seen the advice the bible gives people, I had a pocket bible forced into my hand at high school looked at the 'help for this' section for lulz and read the help for homosexual feelings...that soured me on religion because it was an angry rant about how it's wrong, that's gonna mess with the head of some confused young christian!
What boils me up most about religion is the way it's followed fanatically by an unquestioning bunch of idiots who'd rather have faith in an imaginary friend than themselves!
Phew that felt better lol

 

[Stormz]

Today in one of my classes a girl said that evolution wasn't real because bumblebees are fat so they shouldn't be able to fly....I'm DEAD serious. My mind almost exploded from the logic in that statement.

 

[Crazy]

The most idiotic? "You are wrong."

 

[Togs]

My flame shield is made of concrete and asbestos for this one but every line I hear in support of "faith" or "superstition" makes me despair a little- most frequently I hear them from otherwise exceptionally intelligent people who seem to be willfully ignorant of the flaws behind their tired arguements, and when I point them out (politely I might add, loosing your cool is loosing an arguement as far I as Im concerned)they get angry and defensive.

Look mate, you started it I was just defending myself, if you get that worked up by what I have to say maybe you should try and wokr out why.

 

[McMullen]

So many to choose from...

On an MSNBC comments thread many years ago: "Most scientific evidence shows the world was created in 7 days."

Michelle Bachman: "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence." Then why the hell are you saying it? And Ford, not Carter, was president too.

George W. Bush saying the jury is still out on evolution, and then, during a different event, saying that we need to find more effective antibiotics as bacteria become resistant to the old ones.

The entirety of What the Bleep do we Know?. Yeah, not much, apparently.

 

[xXGeckoXx]

"Rock music is the word of the devil"

It is; THAT'S WHY IT'S AWESOME!

 

[Daffy F]

Also, a girl tried to convince me that she'd once been bitten by a venomous snake she found in her back garden.... I live in Scotland. Seriously.

It could have been an Adder. They are both venomous and live in Scotland.

 

[Daffy F]

"When's Oktoberfest?"

To be fair, It begins in September...

 

[Athol]

Working at a gas staion, car pulls up to a full-serve island. I approach the car (in uniform).

Customer: "Hi...do you sell gas here"
Me: "...yes"
Customer: "Do you know how to pump gas?"
Me: Oh fuck my life "yes"
Customer: "Oh thats good." Drives off.

 

[Jamie McLaughlin]

"BrionJames:
I don't know if I really buy bisexuality. Someone who gets romantically involved with someone of the same sex is a homosexual, so vis a vie technically anyone who considers themselves bisexual - is also a homosexual, sometimes they just like to have relationships with members of the opposite sex. Again technically speaking, bisexuals are homosexuals.


Orangeban:
Alright, I've seen this one before, the only way to beat it is to play the same game.

Someone who gets romantically involved with someone of the other sex is a heterosexual, so vis a vie technically anyone who considers themselves bisexual - is also a heterosexual, sometimes they just like to have relationships with members of the same sex. Again technically speaking, bisexuals are heterosexuals.

See, that was literally just a Ctrl-V of what you said, but with the sexualities swapped round. Do you realise how if you say one, the other must be true, and therefore they cancel each other out? The mistake you've made here is assuming that homosexual means, "Has sex with people of the same sex." No, that's wrong. Homosexuality is actually an exclusive attraction to members of the same sex.



BrionJames:
I suppose that's true. I was stating my opinion on the matter, as well as making an observation on the definition of sexuality, whether it be homosexual or heterosexual. The Merriam Webster dictionary gives 2 definitions "homosexual 2 ENTRIES FOUND:
1) homosexual (adjective)
2) homosexual (noun)

1ho·mo·sex·u·al
adj
\ˌhō-mə-ˈsek-sh(ə-)wəl, -ˈsek-shəl\
Definition of HOMOSEXUAL
1
: of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another of the same sex
2
: of, relating to, or involving sexual intercourse between persons of the same sex
- ho·mo·sex·u·al·ly adverb", neither of which say anything about "exclusive attraction to members of the same sex". So, referring to your post, I'm not wrong, in fact from a technical standpoint, I'm right."

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I can't really choose a favorite but I have these ones...
My sister: "Are Griffons real" Ah, youth.
My dad: "I don't understand how something of that magnitude could happen without us knowing about it." We were walking out from seeing Cloverfield. Dad, I love you, but *that* was a serious derp moment.
In fact, most people who think found-footage films are real tend to drive me mad. My dad wasn't even the worst of it; the following is the WORST of it:
This can't be word for word but this is basically how it went.
On the subject of Paranormal Activity (the movie):
Friend: "Can you believe that acutally happened?"
Me: "No, I can't, because it didn't."
Friend: "Yes it did."
Me: "No it did not, it's just a movie."
Friend: "No it isn't, those people actually died."
Me: "No they didn't, they were on AOTS for an interview last week."
Friend: "Those were just the actors."
Me: "The actors who look exactly the same and have the same name?"
Friend: "Yeah! The movie was actual footage police recovered from the house."
Me: "How could they 'recover' the footage? The chick ate the camera at the end."
Friend: "They still had the computer; remember, they uploaded the film to their computer."
Me: "Then how did they upload the final scene? THE CHICK ATE THE CAMERA!"
*sigh* I didn't find anyone who thought Apollo 18 was real (thank God), but if anyone tells me that a found-footage movie is real again, I'm going to flip over a table.