Frustrating Times People Didn't Understand Basic Stuff

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Eric Lund
Nov 21, 2021 11:00 AM EST

Once you get down to it, it becomes pretty clear why things are in the state they are. We live in a world where on any given day you just might hear someone say the dumbest thing you've ever heard. Things get especially hairy when people have vastly different preconceptions about the nature of reality. What's worse is when people say absurd things in complete seriousness, cause that means their gonna be defensive about their misconceptions.

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    Smile - maiafinch 2 days ago O 2 S My aunt once argued with me that H2O was was not two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen, but a word on its own-maybe spelled Aitchtwooh? I was never clear on that. "It's just another word for water it doesn't stand for anything." I was 13. I still get mad remembering it.
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    Font - ponywearingdrmartens 2 days ago A couple years ago, my dad and I went to this burger place nearby to get takeout. They were having a promotion that day: 40% off chicken sandwiches. Great deal, so we got two. The woman was ringing us up and told us we'd be getting 80% off. We just kinda stood there slackjawed... my dad's pretty nice so he tried to gently correct her mistake and she was having none of it. It's two sandwiches at 40% off, so that's 80%. It was such an egregious mistake we wer
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    Rectangle - edging_but_with_poop 2 days ago You need to clean out the lint trap in a dryer. I frequently come across people in their 30s that can't figure out why their clothes take so long to dry...
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    Font - dosta1322 2 days ago I was watching a sunset at the beach with a friend when she asked me why the ocean doesn't extinguish the sun when the sun goes under the water. She was young, but an adult. Had a short conversation about the sun, the earth, and the rotation of the earth.
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    Font - superdonkey23 2 days ago Saw someone with an Alaska plate while on vacation in Tennessee, told my mom it must have been a long drive for them to get here. She responds, “LOL son you can't drive here from Alaska it's an island!" The 4 other family members in the car agreed with her, and I just had to sit there realizing everyone I was with was dumb as s' 't. I was around 13 at the time.
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    Smile - NeonMoth229 2 days ago Some third graders I knew thought you could become President by killing the former one. They thought John Wilkes Booth became President by shooting Lincoln.
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    Font - sarabichat 2 days ago S An insane amount of people don't know and absolutely refuse to believe that the Sun is a star.
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    Font - Panhead09 2 days ago When I was in high school we read Jekyll & Hyde and it was brought to my attention that, #1, the fact that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person is not revealed until the end of the story, and #2, most of the people in my class did not know they were the same person either.
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    Smile - BingBongSplat 3 days ago Basically anytime I see someone else attempting to drive in a roundabout
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    Font - Ultorex 2 days ago About a year ago I was talking to a colleague about, well, you can guess. At some point she said conspiratorially: "So Bill Gates is donating all this money to fund research for Covid medicine, but do you know what I would like to know?" She made a meaningful pause. "How did he get all this money?" When she didn't start laughing, I asked if she didn't know that Bill Gates was the founder of Microsoft. She did not.
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    Font - ThatGuyFromOhio 2 days ago 2 S I was in a small town (i.e. tiny town -- not even a traffic light) convenience store. The candy bars were marked 3 for $1.00. I picked up two and headed toward the checkout. This store did not have an automated cash register, just a drawer. At the cash register, the cashier said, "Those are 3 for a dollar." I said, "That's OK. I only want two." Cue disturbed look on his face. "I'm going to have to charge you extra." "OK," I replied. He thought for a moment,
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    Plant - discostud1515 2 days ago I once made out with a girl, nothing else. The next day she called me, crying asking if she could be pregnant. We were both 22.
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    Font - im_sanely 3 days ago · edited 2 days ago Two girls in front of me in line at a subway on my college campus (these were in fact college students mind you), one pointed at the veggie patties they have behind the glass counter and asked her friend what they were. This girl then said in a super southern accent, "Those are that vegan chicken right?", and the other said "Yeah, turkey." The first girl agreed and moved on. I'm still confused to this day. Another was my friend in college who asked
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    Font - BRUHSKIBC 3 days ago Had to explain to a 21yr old that a hysterectomy was not reversible. This was after he told me that his fiancé would just "get a hysterectomy and then have it reversed when they want to have children." They both attended private religious schools their entire education.
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    Font - LalionneEcossaise 2 days ago On 9/11, when I arrived at my office, coworkers were discussing what had happened. Someone mentioned attacks on both coasts. I was surprised to hear that, as I hadn't heard anything about the West Coast being affected. Turns out they thought D.C. was in Washington state.
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    Font - Dangercakes13 2 days ago Went to a middle school where the teachers did the "group well-performing students with students still having some struggles" approach and I had to sit next to a total assh - e for half a year (not because he was having trouble with grades, there's no shame there, he was just also an assh e) but the thing that really hit me was that he just refused to accept the concept of time zones. Thought I was making them up. I even showed him a time zone map that came with o
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    Font - Ristique 2 days ago S Working for a finance company and a customer asked me "why am I being charged interest on my loan?" I remember 90% of our lunch time chatter was how much people need to learn financial literacy in school lol.
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    Smile - SantiagoandtheMarlin 3 days ago S I heard a guy once complain that the suppositories he was given were so big he had to cut them in half to take them.
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    Font - MoMoMospeechtherapy 3 days ago E When I lived with my old roommates. I was choking on some food, and immediately I started trying to cough and put my hands on my neck (universal choking sign O) They looked at me and stared blankly, asking, "What is it? Are you hot?" They're in their 20s...
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    Organism - SandyInStLouis 2 days ago e My mother was in her 40's when she learned the Civil War was NOT between North America and South America. She looked at me and said “You mean we fought ourselves?" A
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    Human body - imaginary-handle 2 days ago The amount of Seattle drivers on my right at a four way stop that signal for me to go first is absurd.
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    Font - ModernEnkidu 2 days ago "You mean a wooly mammoth isn't a dinosaur?" Said by a friend, who has an MD, is complete seriousness. I couldn't talk for a second.
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    Font - decanderus 2 days ago Someone recently had to explain to me what having your tires rotated actually entailed. I thought they just spun your tires really fast to see if they were wobbly? I don't drive so I had no clue...
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    Rectangle - raspberrylama 2 days ago My best friend didn't know that Clint Eastwood was a real person, she thought it was just a name of a Gorillaz song. Love her to death, my beautiful fool
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    Font - softball1111 2 days ago OBGYN here. I once had a young patient in labor who thought her belly button was going to dilate and that was how the baby was going to come out. To which I politely replied "no my dear it comes out the same way it went in".
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    Human body - IncognitoDragonfruit 2 days ago My cousin who lived with me at the time brought a friend over. That friend thought Cambodia was a city in Illinois.
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    Rectangle - AnnoyedGrocer 2 days ago Explained to my friend in grade 12 (!) that both hands are actually doing something when you play guitar. He thought one hand just held the guitar up while the strumming did the rest.
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