Things that left you baffled

[Saltyk]

So I just watched some recent stuff over at TGWTG. Namely, Nostalgia Critic's review of Sailor Moon and Sage's Top 20 Worst Number One Songs. Now, something caught my attention in Sage's video. He mentioned something in passing. Something with a caption assuring me it was real. So, I looked it up.


Okay, I couldn't care less about Miley Cyrus. But... Why? Just why? Smells Like Teen Spirit is one of Nirvana's most famous songs. I love the song. It leaves me baffled. I seriously don't know what to say to this. I couldn't believe it before, and now, I don't even know what to think. I think this overshadowed the rest of Sage's video for me.

And in that video, literally no one even seemed to know the song. Which I'm pretty sure is a crime in some countries.

So, that left me completely baffled today. What about you? Got anything that left you in shock? Or maybe that video I just posted left you in shock.

I think I'm gonna go listen to the real song, now.

 

[shrekfan246]

Pick a random thread from either Gaming Discussion or Off-Topic around here and chances are at least one post on the first page would qualify.

Sometimes entire threads just leave me scratching my head in wonder.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Eh, this song has lost all meaning and importance to me over the years (if it had any at all), Rebecca Black could sing it and I wouldn't even care.

OT: Recently I'm baffled by the amount of gnats flying around at dusk in my neighborhood. There's just thousands of them fucking everywhere hovering up and down. It doesn't help that I'm living right next to water either.

 

[piinyouri]

(Majority of)Borderlands 2 forum posters.


The game is already about to snap in two from the immense strain increased numbers is putting on it, and people asked for MORE levels.


Apathetic people.

Westoboro Baptist Church

Cicadas. Get the fuck off my porch you clickety clackety shits.

 

[Zhukov]

I once encountered a person who did not believe that fish were animals.

She would not be convinced otherwise, come hell or high water.

"A fish is not an animal, it's a fish!"

I mean, how does someone like that survive to reach adulthood? It's like denying that leaves grow on trees.

 

[Stasisesque]

I once encountered a person who did not believe that fish were animals.

She would not be convinced otherwise, come hell or high water.

"A fish is not an animal, it's a fish!"

I mean, how does someone like that survive to reach adulthood? It's like denying that leaves grow on trees.

Are you sure she didn't just mean a fish is not a mammal?

Although, according to QI she's on the right lines. There's no such thing as a fish, they do not have a common ancestor.

 

[Zhukov]

I once encountered a person who did not believe that fish were animals.

She would not be convinced otherwise, come hell or high water.

"A fish is not an animal, it's a fish!"

I mean, how does someone like that survive to reach adulthood? It's like denying that leaves grow on trees.

Are you sure she didn't just mean a fish is not a mammal?

Although, according to QI she's on the right lines. There's no such thing as a fish, they do not have a common ancestor.

No, she meant animal.

I asked her if birds were not animals as well.

"Of course not, they're birds."

Apparently something is only an animal if it lives on the ground. I asked her where flightless birds fit in this plan and she got offended and accused me of trying to embarrass her. Which, to be fair, I kind of was.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

How people don't see that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are bad for race relations and probably shouldn't be spokespersons for their race... that baffles the shit out of me.

On a lighter note, a lot of different bird types hang out in my back yard. Why? I have no fucking clue.

Here's a list:
Owl (unsure what type), Bald Eagle, Mallard Duck, Mottled Duck, Fulvous and Black Bellied whistling duck, blackbirds, bluejays, cardinals, moorhen, ibis, heron, falcon (unsure what type), spoonbill, green parrot

And there are a few other animals:
Otter, rabbit, possum, racoon, siamese cat (mine), frogs and toads.

I once went out on the porch out back to get a drink from the outside fridge and saw a bunch of mallard and mottled ducks in a circle quacking at four fulvous whistling ducks engaged in what seemed to be a duck fight club. There was also an assortment of blackbirds on the telephone/power lines and our clothesline egging the ducks on... I probably shouldn't talk about it.

 

[Astoria]

Surprising people's levels of stupidity just keep baffling me. For instance one of those annoying Facebook things going around was try to name a country that doesn't have the letter e in it. People were saying things like New York and Minnesota. Seriously people, not only are they clearly not countries they have the letter e in them! Just...how do people that stupid survive!

 

[Thaluikhain]

No, she meant animal.

I asked her if birds were not animals as well.

"Of course not, they're birds."

Apparently something is only an animal if it lives on the ground. I asked her where flightless birds fit in this plan and she got offended and accused me of trying to embarrass her. Which, to be fair, I kind of was.

Well...in fairness, that used to be true, or rather, "animal" had a different definition that was still in use until relatively recently.

 

[Wickatricka]

I once encountered a person who did not believe that fish were animals.

She would not be convinced otherwise, come hell or high water.

"A fish is not an animal, it's a fish!"

I mean, how does someone like that survive to reach adulthood? It's like denying that leaves grow on trees.

Are you sure she didn't just mean a fish is not a mammal?

Although, according to QI she's on the right lines. There's no such thing as a fish, they do not have a common ancestor.

No, she meant animal.

I asked her if birds were not animals as well.

"Of course not, they're birds."

Apparently something is only an animal if it lives on the ground. I asked her where flightless birds fit in this plan and she got offended and accused me of trying to embarrass her. Which, to be fair, I kind of was.

Well you had every right too lol. Did she never go to school or ask any questions ever? Just don't know anymore...

OT: Yeah I don't really like to pick out flaws in people. Learned that you'll be a lot happier that way.

 

[Kenbo Slice]

I find it baffling that a bunch of people on my Facebook talk about how proud they are to be a redneck. Now all these people posting it are kids who don't even live in the country, they live in the suburbs. Also, I dont think they understand that 'redneck' has a negative connotation behind it.

 

[Flatfrog]

No, she meant animal.

I asked her if birds were not animals as well.

"Of course not, they're birds."

Apparently something is only an animal if it lives on the ground. I asked her where flightless birds fit in this plan and she got offended and accused me of trying to embarrass her. Which, to be fair, I kind of was.

Well...in fairness, that used to be true, or rather, "animal" had a different definition that was still in use until relatively recently.

Yes, it sounds like she was just using the common rather than the scientific meaning, but these days I think most people would be expected to know the difference.

We do have the useful word 'beast' which covers the same ground as 'animal' used to. And the bible has 'creeping thing'. I'm a big fan of these anti-classification words. 'Oblong' is another good one - a rectangle that isn't a square.

I remember getting into a big argument online years ago about non-Euclidean geometry with someone who refused to accept the mathematical definition of a straight line as the shortest curve connecting two points - 'A straight line is not a curve'

 

[dementis]

How teachers at my Catholic primary school would teach us about the likes of Norse mythology or the Greek pantheon like they're just kids stories but when I'd ask why they're god is real and the Norse weren't they couldn't give me a straight answer and would say something along the lines of "Because God is real and they aren't". I became an atheist around that point in my life, made Catholic school rather irritating I must say.

So to sum up, it baffles me how people who worship their god of choice can completely disregard all other deities.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I find it baffling that a bunch of people on my Facebook talk about how proud they are to be a redneck. Now all these people posting it are kids who don't even live in the country, they live in the suburbs. Also, I dont think they understand that 'redneck' has a negative connotation behind it.

Not that unusual, people play acting at being something they'd not like to be stigmatised as.

 

[Nosirrah]

I once went out on the porch out back to get a drink from the outside fridge and saw a bunch of mallard and mottled ducks in a circle quacking at four fulvous whistling ducks engaged in what seemed to be a duck fight club. There was also an assortment of blackbirds on the telephone/power lines and our clothesline egging the ducks on... I probably shouldn't talk about it.

Just ignore them, and pray they don't come after you. The duck mafia is brutal.

captcha: you don't say! captcha knows too. Don't mess with the ducks.

 

[RyQ_TMC]

Every other Cracked list leaves me baffled. The rest blow my mind.

OT: A few days ago, when the "lab-grown burger" news made the circuit, a friend of mine (nearing the end of his PhD in molecular biology, important for the context) commented on Facebook about the vegetarians who were saying that they would eat the burger, as it's more ethical. He thought this statement was funny.

You see, to grow the burger they had to supplement the medium with fetal bovine serum. Which is produced by slaughtering a pregnant cow and taking blood from her fetus. And that doesn't sound like a procedure vegetarians would deem "ethical".

Almost immediately after he posted, someone chimed in to explain in how many ways my friend was wrong. Started off with saying "if you were a cell biologist, you would know..." (and I remind you, my friend has studied that stuff at university level for 7 years now), then launched into an explanation of induced pluripotent stem cells which sounded like pulled straight from a popular science TV show. It seems he thought my friend was claiming that the method used embryonic stem cells.

So yeah. I understand that in the Internet age, everyone thinks they're an expert on any given subject and science seems to be a particular favourite. But what baffled me is that not only was he wrong, he was massively arrogant about it.

 

[shirkbot]

Humanity leaves me baffled on a daily basis, but that's not always a bad thing. Sometimes they've done something exceedingly confounding, but incredibly heartwarming.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Why people enjoy Transformers.

Why people at my school were suprised that I don't like Transformers, that I don't Megan Fox is that hot and why I use reviews from *FUCKING* MOVIE CRITICS to determine if I should go see a movie.

Why people think that "voting with your wallet" is stupid.

Why people cared so much about prom and started crying towards the end, even though they are going to the same college as their friends.

Why people instantly attack a person doing an analysis of sexism in games.

Why those same people doing the analysis only focus on games that are either outright sexist/use sexist tropes, and completely ignore the games that gamers(who I consider to act and behave similarly to the guys at The Escapist, as that's what I think true gamers are) considered to be "games of the year"(which don't suffer from those tropes, which means that not every designer resorts to using tired tropes, and that gamers appreciate, and like games that don't use "damsel in distress" tropes and the like over ones that don't).

Why people are amazed that I don't like jokes at my own expense.

Neon Genesis Evangelion.

And I think that's about it.

EDIT: "Harrison Ford to Replace Bruce Willis in The Expendables 3"

...

Does Harrison really need the money that bad?

EDIT 2: people who let their daughters(talking about ~11 year old ones) wear those really short jean shorts.

I mean...what sort of message are you sending by wearing that? I'm pretty sure it's not a message that 11 yo girls should be sending.