There are moments in life when someone says something so bafflingly wrong that your brain briefly stops working. Sometimes it’s actually a grown adult confidently asking if the moon is turned off during the day, or someone trying to microwave metal like it’s perfectly reasonable.
Whatever the situation, these encounters tend to stick with you forever, not because they were malicious, but because they were so spectacularly clueless that you almost have to admire the confidence behind them. And when people online were asked to share the exact moment they realized someone was genuinely unintelligent, the responses did not disappoint.
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#21
Edit: I’m aware of the redhead thing. My husband is aware as well. It’s that she was concerned that no one would KNOW he has red hair.
My mother in law told me I needed to let the surgeon know my husband has red hair because they need to tell the anesthesiologist he would need more anesthesia. My husband has a full head of hair, a beard, and lots of body hair.
She also told us we couldn’t do a destination wedding because no one could take off all week to drive to Florida to go to the Virgin Islands. Her friend took a cruise out of MIA and went there, so she assumed that to leave the US to get to the VI you had to drive to Florida first. Because that’s what her friend did.
She told everyone my husband works at a call center. He is a senior director of analytics and AI at a fintech.
She said my brother in law and I have basically the same job. He is a mechanic at a pork processing plant. I am a manager of pilot training at an airline.
My mother in law told me I needed to let the surgeon know my husband has red hair because they need to tell the anesthesiologist he would need more anesthesia. My husband has a full head of hair, a beard, and lots of body hair.
She also told us we couldn’t do a destination wedding because no one could take off all week to drive to Florida to go to the Virgin Islands. Her friend took a cruise out of MIA and went there, so she assumed that to leave the US to get to the VI you had to drive to Florida first. Because that’s what her friend did.
She told everyone my husband works at a call center. He is a senior director of analytics and AI at a fintech.
She said my brother in law and I have basically the same job. He is a mechanic at a pork processing plant. I am a manager of pilot training at an airline.
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20points
#22
They told me they didn't believe the Artemis 2 mission happened.
Known this person my entire life. Only recently has she been anti-science, conspiracy theory, anti-vaccine, flat earth nonsense.
Coincidentally it started when she started dating the most roided out criminal cop I've ever met. I don't know him too well but it doesn't seem like a coincidence that her distrust in anything logical started the same time she started dating this dude.
Known this person my entire life. Only recently has she been anti-science, conspiracy theory, anti-vaccine, flat earth nonsense.
Coincidentally it started when she started dating the most roided out criminal cop I've ever met. I don't know him too well but it doesn't seem like a coincidence that her distrust in anything logical started the same time she started dating this dude.
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19points
#23
I was playing a*******s creed: Origins, and mind you I went to college for history, my older brother comes up to me, sees some of the ancient Greeks in togas on the screen and asks me who they were, I say “Greeks” or “Ancient Greeks” something like that… and he is in disbelief, jaw dropped and everything, he replies “wait, Greeks actually existed”? Mf thought Greeks were only mythological characters because his extent knowledge of Greece is “Greek Mythology” he thought the actual society of people were myths.
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19points
#24
Caught up with an old school friend, who was always very ditzy, and got chatting about other past classmates. They asked if this one kid was still “quite tanned”. I replied that yes, they are still black.
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19points
#25
Had a psychology class once at a technical school and the teacher gave us an activity. Basically you've crash landed in the desert and have fifteen items that we had to rank in order of importance. After we ranked them individually we had to group up and agree on a ranking. One woman in my group was convinced the compass item was of the most importance because you could "point it at the ground and it would find where water was." Even after the teacher explained she was thinking of a dividing rod she wasn't swayed.
18points
#26
Called my doctors office after an encounter with a bat, wanting advice about whether I need a rabies vaccine. The call screener asks me what symptoms I have. I explain that I have no symptoms and that rabies is always f***l after symptoms occur. She tells me that she cannot schedule an appointment if I cannot name my symptoms.
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17points
#27
I took up an extra task at work, asked my predeccesor to explain something. She ordered an insane amount of product. "Hey, you're ordering 5 times as much as i think we need. Do you happen to know our budget?" "There is no budget." "There must be. Whats our limit this month?" "THERE IS NO BUDGET" I asked the same question 3 times and she just got louder every time. That woman was insanely dumb .
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15points
#28
When someone thought the moon was just a light in the sky, like a lamp, that was a solid moment of realization for me.
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14points
#29
When my former step dad told me you could see China from the Pacific Coast with a strong enough telescope while trying to convince me the horizon isn't real. Discovered he's a dumb a*s flat earther that day.
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14points
#30
A coworker did not know that WW1 happened. They knew about WW2 though. And yes, I am still at loss as to how they made it so far without connecting those two dots.
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13points
#31
When a member of Congress asked if a, "small camera" swallowed for a colonoscopy could be used for a remote gynecological exam to assess pregnancy. 🤦🏼♀️.
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13points
#32
A conspiracy loving coworker once said, "You know, the average person is carrying around 20 to 30 pounds of p**p in their body."
To be fair, he certainly is that full of s**t, but the majority of people are not.
To be fair, he certainly is that full of s**t, but the majority of people are not.
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12points
#33
Classic case of mansplaining a simple concept.
I was talking with a friend over coffee a few days ago and on the topic of astrophysics some random dude began *unprompted* explaining why the Earth was round?? Completely unrelated to our topic, so of course I look confused due to the lecture (inaccurate by the way, as they insisted the Earth was round due to the shaping of the Earth by ancient civilizations) and attempt to dismiss this stranger, to which he goes "well, I tried to tell you, but I guess you didn't want THAT sort of conversation".
What sort of conversation? Are you implying that our conversation - which had nothing to do with the man and was not initiated for his enjoyment - was too simple for him?
I quickly called him out for his inaccurate and uncalled for "explanation", to which he got defensive and eventually left... cool, I was out of f***s to give anyhow, have a nice day.
I was talking with a friend over coffee a few days ago and on the topic of astrophysics some random dude began *unprompted* explaining why the Earth was round?? Completely unrelated to our topic, so of course I look confused due to the lecture (inaccurate by the way, as they insisted the Earth was round due to the shaping of the Earth by ancient civilizations) and attempt to dismiss this stranger, to which he goes "well, I tried to tell you, but I guess you didn't want THAT sort of conversation".
What sort of conversation? Are you implying that our conversation - which had nothing to do with the man and was not initiated for his enjoyment - was too simple for him?
I quickly called him out for his inaccurate and uncalled for "explanation", to which he got defensive and eventually left... cool, I was out of f***s to give anyhow, have a nice day.
12points
#34
When I showed them that their impression of an event that happened was completely incorrect, and they responded that it doesn't matter and the fact that they found it believable that they were right and I was wrong was somehow just proof that they could have been right, so in a way they're still right.
Buddy I showed you the video of exactly what happened.
Buddy I showed you the video of exactly what happened.
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11points
#35
When they constantly contradicted themselves and jumped through logical hoops in an argument just so they could win. They didn't understand that I still remained unconvinced and now I no longer respected their critical thinking skills, but hey, at least they got to call me an idiot 64 times.
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11points
#36
We all know that correlation does not imply causation, but I swear to the almighty god that every person I've worked with in my field the last 20 years are weapons-grade incompetent if they have an MBA. I don't know what it is, but they have zero common sense or critical thinking skills.
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10points
#37
Wife's cousin's girlfriend was trying to tell us all about how she is shifting into a tech career and is in classes at her local community college. For 10 minutes she tried to explain to me that I (a senior software engineer) was wrong and that HTML is indeed a programming language.. no matter how many times I explained to her that it was indeed not..
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9points
#38
I was told I should meet this "brilliant" and "talented" marketing genius at a company that we had just taken on as a client.
When I did get a meeting with her to discuss our project with the company we sat down in her office. She was in mid conversation with her assistant and they were fervently discussing the work done by a Mexican astrologer on a Spanish language network was far superior to any astrology work done by anyone in the US. "It's like Mexican Coke is better that US Coke."
After introductions, she interrupted our chat several times to "dose" herself with essential oils with drops on her tounge.
She checked her phone several times and got annoyed by one of the messages. She dropped her phone in an empty paint can she had under her desk. I asked why she just did that, and she said it "calms the phone down."
She claimed to be a bestselling author, but it was just a self-published book, about 90 pages, on Amazon. She said she had sold thousands, and then said she had stacks of boxes of the book in her rented storage locker.
Everyone in the company had a copy in their office. I borrowed a copy, read it in one day. It was complete gibberish. No coherent structure, no real practical information. It was just paragraph after paragraph of the same sounding motivational junk about "going for your dreams." The author picture was really good though.
She was really respected and looked up to as a young super successful entrepreneur of the future and a role model within the company.
Our conversation didn't really go anywhere as she was very distracted and had leave for a meeting soon.
In the six months I was assigned to this project I only saw her a few days a week, and was "out of the country" for several months at a time. I asked someone at the company about her constant absences, and he said, "hey, she's one of our company's rising rockstars." As soon as I heard the word rockstar... I knew.
When I did get a meeting with her to discuss our project with the company we sat down in her office. She was in mid conversation with her assistant and they were fervently discussing the work done by a Mexican astrologer on a Spanish language network was far superior to any astrology work done by anyone in the US. "It's like Mexican Coke is better that US Coke."
After introductions, she interrupted our chat several times to "dose" herself with essential oils with drops on her tounge.
She checked her phone several times and got annoyed by one of the messages. She dropped her phone in an empty paint can she had under her desk. I asked why she just did that, and she said it "calms the phone down."
She claimed to be a bestselling author, but it was just a self-published book, about 90 pages, on Amazon. She said she had sold thousands, and then said she had stacks of boxes of the book in her rented storage locker.
Everyone in the company had a copy in their office. I borrowed a copy, read it in one day. It was complete gibberish. No coherent structure, no real practical information. It was just paragraph after paragraph of the same sounding motivational junk about "going for your dreams." The author picture was really good though.
She was really respected and looked up to as a young super successful entrepreneur of the future and a role model within the company.
Our conversation didn't really go anywhere as she was very distracted and had leave for a meeting soon.
In the six months I was assigned to this project I only saw her a few days a week, and was "out of the country" for several months at a time. I asked someone at the company about her constant absences, and he said, "hey, she's one of our company's rising rockstars." As soon as I heard the word rockstar... I knew.
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9points
#39
A college educated couple, one with a Master’s degree, watched Mermaid:The Body Found and thought it was real.
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8points
#40
My MIL got to 100 whilst all the time believing that thunder was the sound of clouds banging together.
8points
