Really stupid questions and/or statements

[Solo]

Have you ever heard a question so stupid it made you want jump out of a window. Being in public school I have a lot of these moments. Here is one I heard today.

Some girl in spanish said," Today is election day isn't it? That means they're not going to know who won until like a month 'cause the timezone differnece, right?

After she asked this I really wanted to yell at her. I still can't belive anyone would say that. She was right next to me and the look on her face was so serious it made me want to cry :cry:

Something else I heard was last year in English. We were talking about Romeo and Juliet and a girl yelled out "Do peanuts grow on trees?"

:banghead: I can not stand my school beacuse of the stupid people that go there.

[crule81]

My mantra is: "Stupid questions get stupid answers."

[Nighthawk]

Have you ever heard a question so stupid it made you want jump out of a window. Being in public school I have a lot of these moments. Here is one I heard today.

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:banghead: I can not stand my school beacuse of the stupid people that go there.

Hang in there. It gets better after you get out of "general population" high school. The intelligence level stratifies quite a bit in college, and you are spared most of the complete morons. If you can get into an intellectual profession with minimal outside contact (i.e. customers), it stratifies even more. High school, in my opinion, was about as bad as it got.

[booyalab]

Some girl in spanish said," Today is election day isn't it? That means they're not going to know who won until like a month 'cause the timezone differnece, right?


:rofl:
I think that's cute

[SheepDog]

My mantra is: "There are no stupid questions. Just stupid people."

[sbw]

solo, you sound exactly like my 17-year-old brother (INTP/high-school senior). And like me when I was in high school...and probably many others in this forum. it does suck. we know, and we sympathize.

Scott

[Birdsnest]

I keep telling myself that nobody is really that stupid, they just haven't had the "opportunity" to learn something.

It sounds nice anyway. And then election day came and went. Why is it that just the well educated college towns vote one way, and the rest vote the other way?

[Almaviva]

"Do peanuts grow on trees?"

Maybe the context is weird, but how is that a stupid question? Every other kind of nut grows on trees, right? (But a peanut is actually a legume, I think?)

[Birdsnest]

Peanuts are unlike any other plant and are not that simple. They flower above ground, and fruit/root below ground.

http://www.aboutpeanuts.com/every.html#anchor179156

[Sam172]

I got asked:
"how do you spell 'and'?"

honestly...this guy had forgotten.

More often than not though, some proletariat asks me what one of my commonly used words means. They don't even understand the words i'm using to explain it. It's enough to make me go clinically insane and beat my head against the tree of woe. Thankfully there are usually a few likeminded people, whom can slightly redeem the situation by explaining in laymans terms; without offending the commoner too much by using derogative sarcasm (as I have a habit of doing if someone doesn't meet a level of intellect ¬_¬)

[shaytana]

My sisters husband and I were blowing up balloons for my sisters baby shower. We had about half of them done, covering the floor when he asks me "So are these going to float or what?" ... I am sure you can all imagine the look I gave him as I answered "I dont know about you, but I dont exhale helium."

and this one time, I forgot how to spell sure. I had to ask someone.

[Melody]

i forget how to spell 'a' everyonce in a while
and ask my professors

and there like
'a'

and im like aha
clever
spelled just like it sounds

[file cabinet]

I know I forgot how to spell "link" once.. there are other words I've forgotten as well but I can only remember the time I couldn't remember how to spell link.

[Solo]

I've never really cared much about spelling. I think the important thing is knowing what you are talking about.

About the peanut question it wasn't so much the question(I still think it's dumb) but the way she said it and the timing. Maybe I can cut the girl who asked the question a little slack because peanuts are a trickier than the other nuts.

[Chill]

My favorite stupid question is "Do people in Hawaii hate Americans?"

[Tranzors]

Have you ever heard a question so stupid it made you want jump out of a window. Being in public school I have a lot of these moments. Here is one I heard today.

Some girl in spanish said," Today is election day isn't it? That means they're not going to know who won until like a month 'cause the timezone differnece, right?

After she asked this I really wanted to yell at her. I still can't belive anyone would say that. She was right next to me and the look on her face was so serious it made me want to cry :cry:

Something else I heard was last year in English. We were talking about Romeo and Juliet and a girl yelled out "Do peanuts grow on trees?"

:banghead: I can not stand my school beacuse of the stupid people that go there.

And this is why this forum is awesome. Rants like this. :D

[Sackanaka]

My favorite stupid question is "Do people in Hawaii hate Americans?"
You know, being from Hawaii, I think the answer could in fact be yes, and it's because of this very question having been asked.

[heeroyuy]

Just remember: There are no stupid questions, but there are lots of inquisitive idiots.

[cloakable]

More often than not though, some proletariat asks me what one of my commonly used words means. They don't even understand the words i'm using to explain it. It's enough to make me go clinically insane and beat my head against the tree of woe. Thankfully there are usually a few likeminded people, whom can slightly redeem the situation by explaining in laymans terms; without offending the commoner too much by using derogative sarcasm (as I have a habit of doing if someone doesn't meet a level of intellect ¬_¬)

:rofl: I can feel the respect you have for 'commoners'. It radiates from your post. I find myself in complete agreement, though. Apart from the derogative sarcasm part. That I do as often as possible.

[SheepDog]

I had someone tell me to "stop using big words" when I said that something was 'ambiguous' last week.

[lauriep]

My favorite stupid question is "When do the deer turn into moose?"

[Dunearhp]

I know I forgot how to spell "link" once.. there are other words I've forgotten as well but I can only remember the time I couldn't remember how to spell link.

This happens to me occasionally. A word that I use all the time suddenly looks strange when written down. I have to check it with a dictionary. It is often a short or very common word.

I think it is a sort of mental tick, a little like deja vu.

[Slider]

in my honors history class in the 11th grade a girl asked, "Is Germany in the British Isles?"

and in ninth grade geometry a girl asked (right before we were about to take the test): "is this test gonna be on math?" geezus christ. cheerleader . . .

[Solo]

in my honors history class in the 11th grade a girl asked, "Is Germany in the British Isles?"

and in ninth grade geometry a girl asked (right before we were about to take the test): "is this test gonna be on math?" geezus christ. cheerleader . . .

:rofl: Those are gonna have me laughing for days.

[ohnoaninfp]

What about Jessica Simpson? She is notorious for stupid questions. I can't believe that she though buffalo wings were actually made out of buffalo.

[INTrPosr]

This truly occurred. During my teenage years, my best friend and I were looking at some old snapshots that belonged to his parents. My best friend made the comment, I did not know that things were in color back in the 30's and 40's. I thought everything was black and white. :blink:

Now, clearly as INTP's you are believing that he was referring the the still pictures. But, in all honesty he was referring to the actual real world and life. I just looked at him and began to laugh. Needless to say, I am unsure who was more embarassed, my friend or his dad at the moment, for having helped bring such a moron into the world. :rofl:

[ohnoaninfp]

lol.

[jimkopelli]

Just remembered one...
Some high school english class... we were bored and discussing things you could do with paper money (other than spend it, you know, like George Washington The Mushroom and All Debts Tender and Private)... and one guy asked what the words were on the back of the dollar bill... you know, on and around that little Illuminati pyramid... and wanted to know what they meant. I told him I didn't know what they translated out to, off the top of my head, and told him that they were written in Latin.
He grew somewhat indignant, and said that since this was an english speaking country, they should be written in english. Then he continued... "Why are they in Latin? That's dumb! We're not Lattish!"
He ended up leaving without his dollar... hmm...

[Boneca]

I actually had an assistant high school teacher say this in biology class:
He was showing on a chart where the blood vessels left and entered the human heart, while explaining that oxygen-rich blood is red and oxygen-deprived blood is blue.
I of course assumed he meant that the oxygen-deprived blood was blue on the chart, but I eventually realised that he actually thought that about half of the blood in your body is blue. Really!
I suggested he tried cutting himself...

[Slider]

My anatomy teacher told us that too; I think its a pretty common misconception.

[Almaviva]

I had a chemistry teacher who was actually a math teacher learning chemistry as she was going along. She said that the air has "trace amounts" of nitrogen in it.

[ohnoaninfp]

There was this one time my family and I went to Maine. My brother had a gold coin in his hand. I asked him what kind of coin it was, since the New Hampshire toll tokens are gold as well. I happened to have a quarter in my hand at the time. My brother said in a snotty tone " It's a big shiny quarter! Here, I will trade my big shiny quarter for you big shiny quarter!" I realized it was a gold dollar, and of course I traded "quarters" with him. About a minute later my brother realizing his mistake said " Umm I am going to need that back." I of course refused he should learn from his asinine error. Of course my dad intervened and my big obnoxious brother got his dollar back and I got my 25 cents back. Man, my brother, What a dumbass!

[jimkopelli]

My anatomy teacher told us that too; I think its a pretty common misconception.
Darn you, Magic Schoolbus! Mrs. Frizzle lied to me!

[Claverhouse]

There was this one time my family and I went to Maine. My brother had a gold coin in his hand. I asked him what kind of coin it was, since the New Hampshire toll tokens are gold as well. I happened to have a quarter in my hand at the time. My brother said in a snotty tone " It's a big shiny quarter! Here, I will trade my big shiny quarter for you big shiny quarter!" I realized it was a gold dollar, and of course I traded "quarters" with him. About a minute later my brother realizing his mistake said " Umm I am going to need that back." I of course refused he should learn from his asinine error. Of course my dad intervened and my big obnoxious brother got his dollar back and I got my 25 cents back. Man, my brother, What a dumbass!

He was probably playing with your mind. :ph34r:



Claverhouse :ph34r: