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40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
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40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group

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Headaches are a very common symptom when it comes to being sick. Everything from the common cold, influenza, and migraines to various infections, injuries and even more lethal stuff can cause one. Under the right (or not so right) circumstances.
But there’s one thing that causes a headache that is 100% unavoidable, because it can catch you off guard like a slap in the face with a fish that’s just been ejected from the sea. And that is stupidity.
Folks online have been sharing their biggest, most headache-inducing moments of being told something so profoundly stupid that it was immediately obvious.
And we thought it would be great to pass on the headache on to you, our dear reader, in a curated list below. Scroll down, read, enjoy it (the list, not the headache), and leave some upvotes and comments!
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#1

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
A mutual friend suffered a miscarriage. My coworker told her, “Everything happens for a reason. God must have wanted this to happen.”
406points

#2

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
"I don't want to take the vaccine it will make me sterile."
"You are 65."
391points

#3

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
"Why should I be responsible for my son's late fees?"
I dunno, lady. Maybe because he's 12 and can't get a job yet? Also there's the matter of the letter you and he signed when he got his library card that says you're responsible for any fines on the account, as his parent or legal guardian. Just a shot in the dark.
353points

#4

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
I have seizures and I had somebody ask me if they were contagious. My cousin was right next to me and elbowed me and whispered for me to start coughing. By the way, my cousin is blind and when I started coughing she chucked her cane behind her fake panicking that she suddenly couldn’t see and the guy ran away so he wouldn't “catch the seizures”. My cousin busted out laughing when she heard him run off saying she wished she could see his reaction and that it must have been priceless. I explained what it looked like to her and she fell onto the ground laughing. She’s just as evil too when people ask her dumb questions about her being blind as she had someone ask her today if it was deadly even though she was born blind.
347points

#5

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
"I went to Spain last summer."
"Where is that? Mexico?"
My eye twitched so hard that I thought it might fall out.
340points

#6

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
"The government wants you to think we're running out of oil, we're not because it comes from bones. We could extract it from chicken bones".
I was fascinated by how he had interpreted fossil fuels and then come to the most hilariously wrong conclusion.
310points

#7

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
A work colleague coming in the day after a visit to the zoo telling us that panthers aren't really pink.
296points

#8

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
While standing in the middle of Disney World and staring at a foldable paper map of the park in her own hands, my sister in law goes, "Why doesn't this map tell me where I am? These maps usually have a little arrow that says something like 'You are here' so you know where you're at."
285points

#9

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
“Evolution is b******t. If I threw a million people off the Empire State Building, *not one of them* would evolve wings!”
Yeah, Randall (his real name because f**k him), that’s not evolution, that’s magic. Now go back to getting drunk after church and driving your kids home, and when you come back to work, don’t forget to f**k another 18 year old server on the tables after close. Don’t worry, I’m sure your wife will never know. Idiot scumbag.
272points

#10

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
Actually a doctor. So hear me out.
September 18th 2021, my mother unfortunately passed away. Her and I both had Covid, as we lived together and unfortunately her body couldn’t handle it. This lead to anxiety, panic attacks, stress, and guilt. I felt like it was my fault for my mother's [passing]. Anyway, to the doctor. I decided in December that I couldn’t go on the way I was. I was never leaving my boyfriend's house. I chose to go to therapy in seek of some help with my issues.
When I got an intake appointment, I had to see a doctor there to prescribe, what I expected to be an antidepressant. The moment I sat down, I already had a weird vibe from him. He was quiet, his tone was dull. We started going over my charts and why I was there, etc. and I told him everything he needed to know. I told him about my guilt, and a prior issue I had even before my mother's [passing]. I have a phobia of vomiting, so I brought it up. This doctor told me to just “throw up”, and i would no longer be afraid. He then proceeded to say that I was a very anxious person who is “on the spectrum”. and finally, the KICKER, he told me all my loved ones would go to hell.
Needless to say, I walked out of there sobbing my eyes out. I called the place to file a complaint and thankfully—haven’t seen that man since.
267points

#11

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
One of my ex-coworkers was convinced that the sun and the moon were the same thing. He thought it turned around at night and became the moon. He was astonished one morning when I pointed to the moon in broad daylight. I thought he was going to have a panic attack. Luckily, we were sharing a joint behind the warehouse and he calmed down a bit. He still didn’t fully understand and kept glancing at the sky for the rest of our shift.
232points

#12

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
"If I wear a mask, I can't breathe"
228points

#13

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
There was an advocate on TV for science education for women.
She said "Not enough teenage girls are studying science, we need to turn this around 360°."
212points

#14

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
A girl once asked how [illegal substances] were sold. I told her the black market. Then she shouts in front of everyone. “Wow, that’s SO racist.”
207points

#15

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
"If Earth is spinning, why my front door is always facing east?"
200points

#16

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
The first person I dated after my amputation, freaked out over it and said to stay away because they didn't want to catch what I had, as if amputations due to cancer are contagious. This was right when Myspace had started getting popular, and texting costed you like, 10cents per text.
199points

#17

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
A colleague of mine thought jellyfish were a myth.
196points

#18

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
Went to make dinner reservation for “a quarter to 7.” The hostess on the phone said they didn’t have anything available at that time but has a table available for 6:45.
196points

#19

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
"Why did the attorney withdraw from my case?"
"Because you didn't respond to our emails and you failed to appear in court."
"But I don't check my email."
B***h, you hired us by email.
Second favorite: "They never saw me driving, though."
"Ed, you were passed out in the driver's seat next to an empty bottle of vodka, covered in your own urine. They're gonna suspect you were driving drunk."
"Yeah, but who saw me driving though?"
191points

#20

40 Times People Encountered Someone So Blatantly Stupid, They Just Had To Share It In This Online Group
Fellow in my class said Ketanji Brown was not suited for the role of supreme court justice because she's a "woman" and is "soft" thus she will "get too attached to cases".
187points
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