Share the Dumbest thing you've ever heard.

[Kurt]

While getting a massage, I was sharing my recent trip to Japan with the masseuse and made some quip about her putting me to sleep through a combination of her skills and my jet lag. She asked what jet lag was, which was already a little odd to begin with, so I explained that because of the different timezones, my internal clock was all messed up because my sleep schedule whiplashed during the trip. After many a blank stare, I eventually came to the root of the problem: she actually thought every place in the world experiences daytime and nighttime at the same time. So either she doesn't understand how spheres work, or else she's a flat-Earther.

I've met people who thought every country experiences winter and summer at the same time of year, but I've never actually met someone before this masseuse who thought the entire world experienced daytime and nighttime at the same time.

Scary part is I've had too many people not understand time zone. When I was married my wife didn't understand why I had to get up early or jump on calls at night to talk to my team in India.

 

[silentkisser]

As I scroll through TicTok, I keep finding videos of Americans who are so clueless about....well...everything. From some who didn't realize Canada was another country, to those who couldn't find Australia on a map. Then, there are the huge number of flat earthers out there. Now, I know that what I'm seeing is probably the 27th person that's been asked these questions, and they're only showing the stupid answers (it's like when the news covers an event, like Gay Pride, and instead of talking to a normal looking person, they interview the Leather Daddy power bottom type). But, the fact that these people have lived into adulthood makes me realize that human's have probably stopped evolving because we let the dumb ones live....and maybe even thrive...

 

[A_Good_Man]

years ago in the days of FAX machines....dating myself here.
I received a fax from a Dr.'s office with some very confidential medical test results for a cancer patient. I called the office and wanted to let them know about it so they could correct the wrong number and make sure the other office received it, trying to do a nice thing. (I'm not a Dr. btw)
The lady who answered happened to be the same person that had sent it to the wrong fax number.
Instead of thanking me, she was angry and told me to fax it back at once because it was confidential.......I had to explain how a fax worked, but she just kept getting angrier.. I hung up and shredded it...yah we had shredders back then too

Many years ago came home from work and checked the message on the (tape) answering machine. A woman's voice said: "Hi, it's me. I'm not home from work yet, obviously but, if you make supper tonight, I promise to make it the next two nights."
It was a wrong number. Maybe they all went hungry.

 

[kherg007]

The fact Obama hasn't tried to ban guns is proof he's planning to ban guns.

This is the corollary to those satanic child abuse rings alleged in the 1980s:
"The fact that there is no proof of a satanic child abuse sex ring in fact proves the existence of this satanic ring and reveals them so powerful that they have destroying all the evidence."