"We All Thought He Was Joking..." People Are Recalling The Dumbest Thing Someone Has Ever Said, And I Honestly Have No Words
Although it's totally normal to say silly things every now and then, sometimes, someone says something so bewildering that you literally stare in confusion. So when Reddit user Parlemagazine asked: "What's the dumbest thing you've ever heard someone say with absolute confidence?" over 3,000 people shared their experiences. Here are some of the top stories below.
1. "My neighbor said, 'Too bad your solar panels will be making less electricity now that Daylight Savings Time has ended.'"
— vacuum_tubes
3. "At a petting zoo: Child (pointing at animal): 'What's that?' Mom: 'It's a deer; you can tell by the ears.' It was a kangaroo."
4. "My cousin has said some belters over the years:"
• "He thought Australia (we're in England) was at least two days in front of us, so he thought he could travel, watch the cricket, and call home to tell us the results and bet without losing. Took nearly an hour to explain his errors and the 24-hour clock.
• When NASA said they had found signs of water on Mars, he literally thought it was actual signs saying 'water this way.'
• 'The moon landings are fake.' He's been to Cape Canaveral and also has the Saturn V Lego. I think he's starting to believe the flat Earth BS, too.
• His mates convinced him camels laid eggs. Years later, when some of us found out on Xbox chat, he denied it and said it was all lies. Then, he later said, 'Anyway, it wasn't camels, it was donkeys!'"
— SlowlyCatchyMonkee
5. "You're from Alaska?! How do you speak such good English?!"
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7. "One of the reasons I left teaching is because I was working with a student after school for an extra math session. He told me that half of 50 is zero. I thought I had misheard him, so I asked him to repeat it, and he said, 'Half of 50 is zero, right?' I corrected him and moved on. Later, in the teacher's lounge, another math teacher told me, 'I know exactly what he did. He split the number in half vertically. Half of 50 is five, and the other half is zero.' That's when I knew I had to leave teaching for a while. There was no way I could think like that, and I felt like I could not help my students anymore."
9. "As kids, my sister pointed out that she could see the moon (it was sunny and daytime). My stepdad says, 'It's not the moon. You can't see that during the day.' And my mom goes, with so much matter-of-fact confidence, 'When the sun goes down, the moon comes up.' My sister and I looked at each other in disbelief, then we looked back at the moon that we could clearly see and just shook our heads."
— hme4
11. "Pasteurized milk is from cows that are let out to a pasture. I'm weak; I couldn't correct them because I was so shocked. I think I said something like, 'Are you sure?!'"
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— Julienbabylegs
13. "A guy from work told me (a woman) that women can't feel it when they have kidney stones because the stones just fall out since they can push out babies through the same hole."
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"My own father told me (a mother of three) that my mom didn't need surgery when they tied her tubes because when a woman has a baby, her organs come out with the baby, and the doctors tie the tubes and then put them back up there."
— anon_opotamus
15.
"I was at my very racist grandfather's house one night a few years before he died. I don't know how it came up or what we were talking about in particular, but we were on the subject of Egypt. I must have mentioned something about Egypt being in Africa because my grandfather laughed and, very condescendingly, told me Egypt is not in Africa. I don't remember where he thought it was, probably the Middle East, but I told him Egypt is definitely in Northeastern Africa. He eventually told me to go get his globe (he was rich and had very old-time decor). I got the globe and immediately pointed Egypt out to him. He then said the globe was wrong."
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