40 Overconfident People Saying Dumb Things Shared In This Online Thread

If you wash your hands in the hot water you don't need soap. Hot water will kill all germs

I had just moved into a new place and had a roommate told me that women who get raped while drunk deserve it.

I told a guy a few hours after a terrible date (needed to calm down) that it wasn’t going to work between us. Two days later I get a text saying he had a long hard conversation with himself the day after the date and, long story short, he didn’t think we were compatible to date right now.

Completely confident that it was his idea. Just gonna let him think it and be glad I never have to deal with again.

A coworker of mine once told me that any animal could reproduce with any other animal, that DNA wasn't important and that all sperm was the same.

She believed this because she once saw a litter of diseased, deformed puppies and had decided that they must be half rat.

The earth is flat!

“Two years from now, spam will be solved.”

Bill Gates 2004

"This bacon is so raw, I can still hear it mooing!"

(For the record, the bacon was precooked.)

An adult told me that the sun isn’t a star.

I once drove past a car park being demolished with my mum in the car. The demo crew were spraying the structure with water to keep the dust down, my mother, bless her insisted they were doing it to soften the concrete.

i have diagnosed ADHD. my friend once told me i didn’t have it and was lying because i didn’t bring fidget toys to school

My roommate once told me we were in South America. We live in Canada.

I was in a high school history class and we were talking about Freud. Our teacher asked if any of us knew what penis envy was. One student who was straight faced and way too confident answered “it’s when one man is jealous of another man’s penis size”. Comedy gold.

A friend once told me that all cancer was a completely man made phenomenon.

"I thought the turtle would eat algae. That's what my koi did."

The baby turtle was kept in a small glass bowl without algae. It also didn't have UV light, and was fed shrimp, the turtle equivalent of living on desserts. I got it a perching spot in an aquarium, UV light, water heater/thermostat, and real turtle pellets.

This person otherwise comes off as fairly bright, and sustains himself with his own businesses. The differences between fish and reptiles apparently didn't really hit him.

that i'm stupid for checking reviews on products before ordering them.

Not sure if this counts, but one time my little brother walked up to me and awkwardly asked “is the cat dead” as he held our cat, who was purring…

One time I was sitting with a patient, he was bit by a dog, his leg was torn up pretty bad, he couldn't even walk. As I finished bandaging him, he said "it's fine, I can walk" and he got up, and fell on his face

Pigeons are fat because they are pregnant.

Cuba is in Asia.

My grandmother always believed whenever we saw a rain clouds in the distant she would be upset(being a farmers wife) because she thought the clouds were sucking the water out of the ground. My mom set her straight but I don’t think she believed her though