"That's Advanced Stupid": 46 People Share How They Were Baffled By Someone's Sheer Ignorance

That Tylenol causes autism.

They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people who live there.

At a family event and walking in on my near 30 cousin arguing adamantly with her late teen and early 20s sisters that women pee put of their private part hole which is why she removes her tampon to pee. Sisters arguing no it's a smaller one above. She refuses to believe this. They see me, guy who went to med school a while and worked in hospital administration, and the sisters ask me to explain it to her.

So I draw it out on a piece mail my aunt had laying around. She looks around dumbfounded. Gets up and goes into the bathroom. About 2 minutes later we hear a loud "what the. No way"

She came out to us nearly unconscious from laughing.

When I worked at a law office, I overheard a bunch of the lawyers discussing their salaries (all in the 6 figure range) and they couldn't understand how anyone could survive on less than $60k. 

They were paying me $30k. .

I was taking a zookeeping program. One of my classmates (they were vegan or vegetarian or something) said they wanted to one day build a zoo where they would only feed the animals plants and tofu. We were like... how can you be in this program and not know that many animals need meat to survive? Eventually we convinced her and she was like "fine but I'm getting the meat from a grocery store so no animals have to die for it." There was a lot to unpack that day.

All the idiots in 2020 fighting against the use of face masks saying Covid wasn't dangerous for them.

The masks aren't there to protect you, YOU are the risk.

I heard a woman say that New Hampshire was hotter than Florida because New Hampshire was higher in elevation. She reasoned that it was closer to the sun.

When I joined my company, I wrote my bio for the website that said (among other things), "Charlie has 15 years' experience ..."

Five years later, we redid the site, and since I was in charge of writing it, I changed my bio to say "20 years experience"

One of the VPs, who'd been with the company longer than I had, sniffed and said, "Oh, so suddenly you have five more years of experience?!

Not wanting to be rude, I could only stare at her dumbfounded. I thought these MBAs were supposed to know basic math but apparentlu not.

“When I heard all scientists saying the same thing, that’s when I knew it was a conspiracy.”.

My old boss once said, ‘Just buy a house, renting is a waste of money.’ …on my $14/hr salary.

'Just manifest it'. Like rent really cares about my vibes.

Local farmer was pulling out the old windbreaks planted during the dust bowl to plant more beans and corn. His reasoning was “we haven’t had any dust storms and don’t need them anymore”.

Was representing a client against their employer years ago. The employee was claiming the employer breached their contract.

The employer states emphatically at one point, in response to my question about if he recalled the parameter he's accused of breaching, with: "I put her contract through the shredder so it's not even valid and I can terminate her whenever I choose"

He legit thought if he tore it up like in aovie it just goes away.

While in a study group for chemistry final, one of my classmates looked at me in amazement when I pulled out 3 spiral notebooks worth of notes. She asked me, “why don’t you use an iPad? It’s easier than carrying so many notebooks.” Which I politely responded by saying,” I don t have enough money to buy myself an iPad.” She then quickly asked why don’t you ask your parents to buy you one?” I then had to explain to her that I was paying my college tuition through grants and scholarships, and by working 32 hr shifts a week at a fast food restaurant to make the difference. She then proceeded to say confidently in front the study group, “I thought that only happened in tv and movies”.

Executive board member voting to give Executive director a 10% raise every year for five years. I objected after five saying I didn't mind giving them a 10% bonus but raising their pay buy 10% per year was a little much. The board member told me the Executive director was only getting 10% of their salary once a year and it was the same as a bonus.

I had to explain to him the difference between a raise and a bonus. He was the president of our board.

When I was having an asthma attack as a 6 year old, the teacher I told said, "just breathe." 


This wasn't something she was saying to calm me until help came. She refused to let me go to the nurse or go inside (we were outside on the playground during winter). She was basically saying, "if the problem is that you can't breathe, then breathe! See? I'm doing it.".

Any kind of vaccine causing any kind of mental disorder/disability. .

"Raising a child isn't that hard."

- A woman who was financially secure enough to hire a long-term live-in nanny and maids also had her mother move in with her to help with childcare.

One of my college professors said “you can’t work for a corporation and be anti-corporation.”

My brother in Christ there are no other jobs.

“I can’t stand the word empathy actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage, but it is very effective when it comes to politics".