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

I was playing with my kid and this older man goes, “You know, you’re not a real parent until you have 2 kids.”.

Someone once told me they don’t drink water because ‘it makes them thirsty.’ I’m still trying to process that one.

I knew a woman who, well into her 20s, thought that "quarter past/ quarter till" on the clock was 25 minutes because an American quarter is $.25.

Someone told me they thought eyeglasses were scams because they were supposed to be "corrective lenses" but they never saw anyone's eyesight get corrected from using them their vision only got worse and they needed stronger and stronger prescriptions.

Boss handing me my paycheck: "Don't spend it all in one place."

Me: "So, don't pay my mortgage?".

"Why do you think your husband is taking so long to find a new job?"

Said to me by my therapist 3 months after my husband got laid off.

She is 60 and has never had to search for a job. She had no idea what the job market is like in the past few decades. I lost it.

During COVID I worked at a heavily conservative employer, 90% or so of the employees were ardent Republicans. When the antimask thing started I tried to reason with them, I would email scientific papers, and videos of studies to them but they were ignored. Then the antivax fun started and things got worse, but even then I tried to explain how vaccinations worked but it didn't help. I was the only one who wore a mask and I did so until I was vaccinated, and I was ridiculed the whole time for it.

Late into COVID one of the loudest antivaxers, who was recovering from it, after nearly being hospitalized, was spit balling about how if only there was something we could take that would prepare our bodies for it ahead of time and I just started hitting my head against my desk and kept my mouth shut. I gave up. I decided that humanity is too stupid to be reasoned with, and to let natural selection sort them out. You can't help people who don't want to be helped. You can't reason with close-minded people.

Oh, her and her husband have long-term health issues associated with their long illness, I don't believe she can work anymore, but I don't keep up with her after she left. I never got COVID, along with any of the vaccinated employees who hadn't already gotten it. There were even employees who knew they had it and came in anyway, despite one of us being treated for cancer....

Redpillers insisting that you have to make 6 figures to get a relationship.

If that were the case humanity wouldn't be making nearly as many babies as we are.

When I was 19 I was homeless for like a week with no job, no money, just the clothes on my back and sofa surfing until I moved in with my best friend. While I was looking for a job and staying at a friends house for the night my friends sister went to me and told me to just rent a place. Yes Beth but please explain how I am meant to do that with no income and £5 to my name.

"Anybody can become a millionaire, it's super easy, you just start with about $10k and invest here and here, then buy this and take those profits and invest them here and there, ya go!"

Yep, everyone just has $10k lying around waiting to be invested. Also, investing is always profitable and never fails, the market never crashes, and nobody loses money - K Pal.

"Well, if there wasn't any money in the bank account, why did I still have checks left?"

The stuff I had to explain to people when I worked for a bank would boggle your mind.

They should take down those caution deer crossing signs, deer shouldn’t be crossing there.

Many years ago, I was having dinner with my in-laws. My SIL asked if we were going to join the family for the annual 4th of July stuff in Faith, NC. I replied, "I don't know. It depends. Are there still confederate army reenactors marching in the parade?" At which point, she went on a crazy diatribe that began with "the Union soldiers did horrible things to plantation owners..."

If I never see my in-laws again, it will be too soon.

Russia wouldn't be aggressive if they were let into NATO.

“We never use that insurance so I cancelled it.” An $85/year plan to cover $10,000-40,000 emergencies.

Dad explaining why he was disappointed i was moving into another apartment, instead of "sticking it out and saving up for a house";

"When I was your age, I'd just gotten out of the Army, was working 3 jobs while going to school, and had a house"

Sure dad, it's not 1985 anymore.

I had to explain to a customer that in order to return a product for a refund, they had to literally RETURN THE PRODUCT. He wanted a full refund on something he'd installed and was still installed at his home. The argument was:

"I want a refund"

"Sure, bring it in and we can"

"How can I when it's already been installed?!"

"Then we can't refund it unless you bring it back in."

"HOW CAN I BRING IT IN? IT'S ALREADY INSTALLED!!!"

Repeat that about 5 times, before he asked to see the manager.

In a wild twist, the manager didn't help him anymore than we did. I love working retail.

A substitute teacher in 4th grade kept sending me back to my desk to correct a paragraph they has us write because “there aren’t two Bs in the word probably.”.

Someone tried to argue me “Aloha” was Spanish for hello…..

I once overheard a nepo baby complain that their “hardship” was only being able to vacation in Europe twice a year instead of three times because their parents were cutting back on expenses. They said it with a straight face, like it was the same as someone stressing over rent or groceries, and I remember just sitting there thinking, “Wow… we really don’t live on the same planet.”.