37 Jaw-Dropping Moments When People Heard Statements So Ridiculous, They Couldn’t Keep Quiet
The sky is blue because it’s reflecting the color of the ocean. There are many things wrong with that, starting with the fact that WE ARE IN KENTUCKY.
That men have one less rib than women because, you know, god made Eve from Adams rib so, naturally, ALL men have one less rib. (Just typing this makes me feel stupid.)
I once had a professionally licensed Chiropractor in the State of California – San Luis Obispo (Hi Laura!) tell me that the Sun is a Planet. She could not be swayed in her opinion, so I purchased a National Geographic map of “Our Solar System”, had it framed and made a gift of it to her. That ended our association.
That wearing a face mask mid pandemic meant that I support the Taliban/the suppression of women in Afghanistan and want it the same in my country.
Grade 11 Law class in high school the teacher was talking about different bills the government implemented in history, bill of rights for example
30 minutes into the lesson the girl next to me raises her hand and asks the teacher “who’s this bill guy we’ve been talking about”
The whole class burst out laughing and the teacher was struggling to keep it together as well
Fellow student in a philosophy class.
“Evolution doesn’t make any sense. How could monkeys evolve into humans in 2000 years since creation?”
During a foreign language class, when learning the names of different countries… Someone stopped the lecture and asked why this language we were learning, made up names for different countries. Why can’t we just use the real names like Germany, Japan etc. Total silence. Then 10 minutes of the entire class trying to get this person to understand that Germany is not the name of Germany in German. That all these country names they know are all English “made up” names for those countries. They did not comprehend.
Confounds me to this date as this person was not from an English speaking country.
Went to a friends house and saw his carbon monoxide detector by an open window. I asked him why it was there. “The smoke detector said ‘get to air,’ so I moved it so it would stop going off!” I don’t know how that guy’s still alive…
My ex wife and I had a one hour argument – her insisting that 10:30am was in the afternoon. Started with her saying “we need to go at 10:30”. Me: “I thought you said it wasn’t until the afternoon?” “It is in the afternoon. 10:30. You know… later on.” ME: “Afternoon doesn’t mean later on… it means AFTER… NOON!” (arguing ensued). I still think about it all the time.
A flat earther say Australia isn’t real , that it’s just made by the media to cover the fact the earth is flat .
A professor at Belmont once told me that cars could never run on electricity, because there are no electric components of a car.
I wasn’t sure where to go from there.
Once when I took a class trip to Washington DC we went to a museum and saw a reenactment of something featuring George Washington on a big screen. While we were watching it I heard two girls from the front row. One of them asked the other, “Is this real footage?” And the other then replied, “No, if it was real it would be in black and white.”
conversation i once had with a grown woman:
her: ‘the sunset is pretty this morning’
me: ‘you mean sunrise’
her: ‘oh. what’s the difference?’
i thought she was joking. she was not
“Well, just listen better!” That was said to me by my teacher… im deaf
‘It’s really weird how cows developed udders so humans could drink their milk. How did that evolution come about?’ – my brother, forgetting that baby cows exist
Followed by ‘oh, well that understands it’ when our mum explained
In the 1990’s I went into a store in Canada (where I live) with a $100 American bill. I bought a bottle of wine for about $13. When the woman working the register worked out the exchange rate (about 13%) she said ‘oh, you get $100 back’ and handed back the American $100 bill to me and said ‘funny how that works’
Back then I took it and left snickering… but I would correct the situation now if that happened, which I’m guessing never would again.
SIL believed up to a very late age that meat was taken from an animal that was released back to the paddock to re-grow the missing piece. Then the cycle repeats
A friend’s boyfriend asked “What’s roast beef made of anyway?” He was also a restaurant server. I told him “it’s beef. Roasted”. Cue surprised face then he laughed at himself. He wasn’t the brightest.
