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The Stupidest Things People Have Ever Heard Someone Say

"Reddit user JasperMidnight asked: 'What is the stupidest thing you’ve heard someone say that they were 100% serious about?'"

People say the craziest things.

Sometimes I stand in silence, my jaw on the floor, after I hear a person speak.

I hate to call anyone dumb, but let's get real.


Redditor JasperMidnight wanted to hear all the things we've heard that left us in shock, so they asked:

"What is the stupidest thing you’ve heard someone say that they were 100% serious about?"

Sometimes I want to faint when I hear people speak.

Leo Lives! Then Dies!

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"English teacher here. Once, while showing my class the Leonardo DiCaprio version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' I had a student staring at the screen in utter confusion for half the movie before she said, 'How can he be in this movie? He died on the Titanic.'"

BlakeMP

Turn Around

"At one of my first jobs as a graphic designer, a client called me into his office and pulled up a photo he took. He then asked me if I could turn it around. No, not rotate it, but turn the viewpoint around. He wanted to see what was behind the camera when he originally took the photo. God, I have so many stories from that job."

HerNameIsRain

Change Direction

"A guy I work with said that a football referee runs over the distance of a marathon during a game. I pointed out that a football game was only 90 minutes long and that the marathon record was just over two hours so that would be impossible. He said it was possible, because a football referee 'changes direction a lot during a game, and it all adds up.'”

tommyhashbrown

Time Zones

"Someone I know argued with me that I do not live anywhere near Canada. He got pretty nasty about it too."

"When I showed him proof he said 'Well I only know Texas.'"

"I live right outside of Detroit, Michigan. Closer to Canada than I am to any other state."

"I have also had a few people argue with me that I do not live in the Eastern time zone. I guess they know better than someone who actually lives here."

msspider66

BRO!

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"'Yeah bro, it says carbonated because they removed the carbs' while standing in line at a drugstore. Best eavesdrop of my life."

sigmaswan35

Carbs aren't the issue we make them out to be.

They are our friends.

Back then...

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"I was on a date at an art museum. The painting tag said who it was made by the title and made Circe 1600 and she said 'Do you think the earth was even around back then? You just never really know.'"

hi_im_watson

Every Thanksgiving

"I was stationed in Germany in the late 80’s-90’s. Every Thanksgiving multiple dudes would be perplexed as to why the Germans didn’t celebrate. A dude once told me he was excited to celebrate the 4th with the Germans and asked if they did fireworks. I love you my brothers, but some of you are dumb."

420stoner332

"When I was in Germany on a rotation they actually put on an incredible fireworks display for us. So did the Afghans (who used flares from their lil lookout thingies around the fob) when I was deployed. I was astonished and then extremely touched in both scenarios."

LavishnessFew7882

Really Real.

"When I was a kid (and on and off when I was older, until after it was decommissioned) my dad worked at a nuclear power plant. I was mentioning this to a college-aged coworker at one point (I think I was telling a story about taking your daughter to work day or something) and the coworker stops me. 'Wait, those are really real?'"

'I stopped talking, at a loss for words. I then had her repeat what she wanted to know. 'Nuclear power plants are actually real things? I thought they were made up for like The Simpsons.'"

bestem

Thanks, Mr. Murphy

"In college, my teaching assistant in my dinosaur class insisted that roadrunners weren’t real and laughed at me for suggesting it as an answer for a bird that runs fast. But the real dummy was me because I’ve seen one in real life and I still said oh ok."

natsugrayerza

"In grade 6 my class read a poem about ptarmigans where every word starting with 't' was changed to 'pt'. The teacher said that ptarmigans were made-up animals. I countered that they were a type of arctic bird, so he sent me to the school library to find evidence."

"I came back with an encyclopedia and turned to the entry for Ptarmigan and he read it out to the class and told everyone that teachers don't know everything and they should never be afraid to speak up. One of the best teachers I ever had - thanks, Mr. Murphy!"

TheMightyGoatMan

Multiplies...

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"'Blueberry muffins you buy premade don't have any blueberries in them. Blueberries cost too much. They dye bleeds blue because they have the same texture and use them.' He has 'explained' it to multiple people multiple times."

By0z

BAD

"Maybe too obscure but anyway I was the radiation safety office for our lab group many years ago and was telling one of our more truly brilliant (not being sarcastic) PhDs that his badge came up hot, meaning his technique was BAD and he was going to have to be retrained and he said, 'It doesn't affect me, I'm done having my children.' Like being careless with radioactive isotopes can only affect your gonads and not, IDK, give you f**king cancer."

feliciates

Some people really need to think harder before they speak.

This piece is proof.

Do you have any stories to add? let us know in the comment below.

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