What's the dumbest thing you've ever heard or overheard someone say?

[Vault101]

hmmmm on a comments section on a blog discussing violent videogames

"Well "gamers" are just being selfish..wanting their entertainment at the cost of others"

and

"well...shouldn't we ban it?..."just in case""

 

[rapidoud]

''African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that's not a race. Your ancestry is from Africa and now you live in America.''

He has somewhat of a point there, it isn't a race, and it's not like I walk around saying I'm English-Australian because my ancestry is from England but then they shipped people here.

Although he is a moron for thinking America is a country.

The knowledge that someone, somewhere out there can't locate England, Scotland, Ireland, or Russia on a map, I mean, it should be common knowledge.

 

[him over there]

I heard this classic on a bus:

"They should have a Blockbuster, but like for books."

?!?

Coupled with your avatar that made me laugh hysterically. Now I'm cleaning soup off my keyboard.
OT: Probably when I heard that "Ice is a different pokemon type because ice and water are different elements." Not as dumb as most people's quotes in this thread but something. Probably would have been better without the context of pokemon.

 

[War Penguin]

This one didn't happen at school, but at the Zoo:
Fully grown man: *points at tiger* "Look kids, a Lion!!"

Haha! It's a giraffe!

No, you idiot! THIS is a giraffe:

Get your facts straight!

OT: I overheard a girl talk about Madagascar then her friend asking, "That place is real?"

This girl is in college.

Dear god...

 

[vrbtny]

Are you sure your sister was just not being utterly awesome?.... or developing a army of triffid eating ladybirds.

It's entirely possible knowing my sister.

Well, if she is, get a warning out! The world will need to develop a weapon to defend our fictional trees.... also defend ourselves from enormous great big ladybirds!

 

[GodofDisaster]

This event occured about a month ago, on a Friday night at my University flat, it was after my next door neigbours set the fire alarm of due to burning burgers. So we all had to leave the building. This I can forgive, I mean everyone makes mistakes when it comes to cooking, it's the conversation that followed between the two girls who burnt the food that pissed me off, but I also found it funny.

Girl 1: Oh my God, am so embarrased, I can't wait to post this on Facebook.

Thinking to myself: Wait what? you just set the alarm off, and you want to post it on Facebook, what is it with people wanting to announce their failures on the Internet?

A long time past and the security guards came down, to inspect the girl's flat, eventually they were allowed back in and so was I to my end of the flat.

Then this happened, now keep in mind these girls where in the same building.

Girl 1: When didn't you check on the frying pan.

Girl 2: I thought you were suppose to, I even sent you a message on Facebook.

They were in the same building, I mean come on now.

When I did get in to my room, I burst in to a fit of laughter. Now I did talk to them when we were waiting for security and they're nice people but Christ are they thick.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Are you sure your sister was just not being utterly awesome?.... or developing a army of triffid eating ladybirds.

It's entirely possible knowing my sister.

Well, if she is, get a warning out! The world will need to develop a weapon to defend our fictional trees.... also defend ourselves from enormous great big ladybirds!

It's okay, according to smokeyninjas friend, trees aren't alive so we should be good!

 

[rapidoud]

"But this only has three carbons"
A student looking at a picture of a hydrocarbon diagram of methane.
Which had four carbons.
That same student also came out with the brilliant observation "The clock is going backwards"
It wasn't

Doesn't methane have one carbon and four hydrogens?

No mate, Hydrogen can bond 4 times >.

Also, god damn captchas, if people can write bots to read these then they could read a paperback book from geosynchronous orbit.

 

[lizards]

your first problem is being suprised, as much as we live in a time that is focused on education most people are still very dumb

 

[rapidoud]

oh god, so many... so, so many...

When I was working: I worked at a Foodland Supermarket, and I had a customer come up to me and ask 'Where do you keep the big Macs?'.
I then had a 5 minute conversation with the guy saying we didn't sell Big Macs, nor any pre-made burgers. I honestly couldn't tell if he was just trolling or being sincere, but he seemed really disappointed in the fact we didn't sell Big Macs.
yeah...

Poe's Law.

 

[undeadexistentialist]

you know, I looked at this thread just expecting to see some funny stories but with no particular examples of my own, until I remember this little gem;

At my previous summer job working in a coolstore, I had a fellow employee who I'd place at about 30-40 years of age with at least one child, try to convince me that Robert Pattinson (the actor who played whatshisname the 'vampire' from twilight) was actually descended from Dracula. I wish he was trolling

 

[Hal10k]

"But this only has three carbons"
A student looking at a picture of a hydrocarbon diagram of methane.
Which had four carbons.
That same student also came out with the brilliant observation "The clock is going backwards"
It wasn't

Doesn't methane have one carbon and four hydrogens?

Are butane and propane really so different? Must we separate our hydrocarbons based on the arbitrary number of carbon atoms that they have? What if your little 2-carbon molecule came up to you tomorrow and said "Daddy, I want to be octane when I grow up!" Would you have the heart to tell him "I'm sorry, Ethyl, but you just don't meet the chemical distinctions for that classification."

I dream of a society where all hydrocarbons are granted the same privileges, where we need not restrict the rights of our molecules based on their atomic composition. I dream of a future where 1-carbon and 4-carbon molecules may walk arm in arm, and still call each other "methane".

Thank you, and good night.

 

[Oilerfan92]

Go over to fstdt.com (fun dies say the darndest things). It's a website full of comments made by religious fundamentalists, racists and conspiracy nuts (though mostly religious nuts) that are just as, and often more insane/scary then the things said here.

My personal favorite is one person saying that "if evidence/facts disagree with the bible then the evidence/facts are wrong".

 

[Some_weirdGuy]

its been a while since highschool, but one that i particularly remember was:
'What was Hitlers last name?'

captcha:
Novelas pownss

 

[werty10089]

"What degrees is it?"
"Negative Seven."
"Negative seven in the morning or in the afternoon."
-My twelve-year-old stepsister.

 

[Uber Evil]

"But this only has three carbons"
A student looking at a picture of a hydrocarbon diagram of methane.
Which had four carbons.
That same student also came out with the brilliant observation "The clock is going backwards"
It wasn't

Doesn't methane have one carbon and four hydrogens?

Are butane and propane really so different? Must we separate our hydrocarbons based on the arbitrary number of carbon atoms that they have? What if your little 2-carbon molecule came up to you tomorrow and said "Daddy, I want to be octane when I grow up!" Would you have the heart to tell him "I'm sorry, Ethyl, but you just don't meet the chemical distinctions for that classification."

I dream of a society where all hydrocarbons are granted the same privileges, where we need not restrict the rights of our molecules based on their atomic composition. I dream of a future where 1-carbon and 4-carbon molecules may walk arm in arm, and still call each other "methane".

Thank you, and good night.

That is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen, my good sir.

 

[mrhateful]

People who thinks knowing some fact equals intelligence. That really pisses me off but it pisses me even more off when someone else acknowledge it as intelligence.

 

[CRRPGMykael]

Any kind of religious or historically/scientifically inaccurate bullshit just brings my piss to a boil. Also, people accepting gays way too much. It's like, ffs. When you think about it, it's really a mental condition and not a "choice of life" or "personality trait" as many describe it. And yeah, whatever, if they wanna get married so fucking much just let them, but BY FUCK, don't let them adopt children (mindfuck).

 

[Jmurray21]

One I heard in class, when talking about how a utopia project, was

"Money doesn't grow, its value doesn't change".

Of course that's how it works. That's why inflation is a lie and coke still costs five cents