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[dr3upmushroom]

Feel free to PM me the next time he does, more than enough people have explained how wrong he is.

Yeah, it's kind of odd, every time it has happened I always wonder what he's thinking.

And in both cases (the GAF poster and my family members) I think what really strikes me about the situation isn't that it's a dumb thing to think. It is kind of ridiculous not to know how you're being taxed if you work, but it's a common misconception and plenty of people are ignorant of plenty of other aspects of government.

The thing that makes it one of the dumbest things I've ever heard someone say is the repetition. You can verify how we're taxed with a minutes-long Google search. It was bad enough when I had the initial argument with the family, but it still comes up every now and again. At this point I just let it go and endure the "Hur hur, remember that time you made up that crazy phony tax system" comments, but it's sort of amazing and insulting that they could spend five minutes of the hours a day they spend on their phones to research this.

Much like with the people who doubted Obama's citizenship I think that when people stick to a faulty belief that adamantly it becomes borderline frightening.

 

[bjaelke]

A German friend of mine asked me if the official language in Denmark was Dutch.

 

[Arjen]

Another one.

American-Where are you from?
Me-The Netherlands.
American-Oh cool! I have a friend in Denmark, maybe you know him.

 

[Kabouter]

A German friend of mine asked me if the official language in Denmark was Dutch.

You guys should get on that, that'd make things a lot easier.

 

[rdrr gnr]

A German friend of mine asked me if the official language in Denmark was Dutch.

The language spoken in Denmark is Danish. So, he's wrong, but is there a reason this is particularly stupid? I might be missing something.

Another one.

American-Where are you from?
Me-The Netherlands.
American-Oh cool! I have a friend in Denmark, maybe you know him.

Well, I know Denmark is not part of The Netherlands, but if I can defend my ignorant countrymen for just a moment, that doesn't sound egregiously ignorant. At least not from my own skewed perspective. I confused Norway with Sweden in a post a few days back and felt pretty ashamed, but it's not as bad as calling Europe a country.

 

[Monocle]

I remember a recent thread here on GAF where someone got all riled up when I suggested that reading books can improve your life. That's about as far into Derpland as I want to go, even as a visitor.

Then there's all the examples of people who say things like "The most important thinker who ever lived was Jesus." J-Crizzle seems like a chill guy, but let's not get crazy now.

"It's just a theory."

Haha yeah.

"Only America is free."

Wow at people who actually think this way.

"Transformers is a great sci-fi series."

I THOUGHT YOU WERE ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS

 

[Deleted member 1235]

my friend was still asking me more than 2 years after I moved to amsterdam 'how's your german coming along?'

I'm not sure but I think at a certain point it turned into trolling. It must have, I don't want to think of the other options.

Also, this exact conversation I overheard between 2 secretaries at work

"how do I do this inane computer function"
"I have no idea i'm not a rocket scientist"
"nobody is a rocket scientist"
"brain surgeons are"

It gave me a giggle fit while I was trying to silently fix the computer 1 cubicle over.

Because people made fun of Christianity but he wasn't allowed to troll My Little Pony fans.

That's possibly the saddest thing EVER posted on Neogaf.

I'd anything a bronie posts is the saddest thing ever posted on neogaf. But the religious persecution bit is lol.

 

[FillerB]

The language spoken in Denmark is Danish. So, he's wrong, but is there a reason this is particularly stupid? I might be missing something.

Well, I know Denmark is not part of The Netherlands, but if I can defend my ignorant countrymen for just a moment, that doesn't sound egregiously ignorant. At least not from my own skewed perspective. I confused Norway with Sweden in a post a few days back and felt pretty ashamed, but it's not as bad as calling Europe a country.

To make you feel better: atleast Norway and Sweden are actually neighbouring countries which have plenty in common which each other. But thinking that the Netherlands is a province or city in Denmark is, to put it into perspective, like saying you're going to visit Florida while pointing at Texas on a map.

Which is incidentally also the dumbest thing I ever saw a friend of mine do while he was sober.

 

[rdrr gnr]

my friend was still asking me more than 2 years after I moved to amsterdam 'how's your german coming along?'

I'm not sure but I think at a certain point it turned into trolling. It must have, I don't want to think of the other options.

Also, this exact conversation I overheard between 2 secretaries at work

"how do I do this inane computer function"
"I have no idea i'm not a rocket scientist"
"nobody is a rocket scientist"
"brain surgeons are"

It gave me a giggle fit while I was trying to silently fix the computer 1 cubicle over.



I concur, anything a bronie posts is the saddest thing ever posted on neogaf.

They may just be Mitchell & Webb fans.

 

[Regulus Tera]

"I love you."

 

[rdrr gnr]

To make you feel better: atleast Norway and Sweden are actually neighbouring countries which have plenty in common which each other. But thinking that the Netherlands is a province or city in Denmark is, to put it into perspective, like saying you're going to visit Florida while pointing at Texas on a map.

Which is incidentally also the dumbest thing I ever saw a friend of mine do while he was sober.

Yeah. I know that for a European that's probably embarrassing, as it should be for an American as well. I just understand how that mistake could be made by an American given the composition of Europe, but that doesn't make it any less wrong. Plus, having a European mistake Florida for Texas doesn't sound like the worst thing to me.

Wow, I'm defending ignorance. marrec, you bastard.

 

[Coal]

I worked with a girl who said that a jellyfish was a plant. I swear, I tried to argue it with her but she wasn't having it.

 

[Hanmik]

I was at a party..

Me: What are you drinking..?
him: a drink with 120% alcohol..?
Me: WTF..?
him: yeah I know, but it is true..
Me: how..?
him: I mixed 40% vodka, 40% whisky, 40% gin and cola..
Me: bye...

 

[Amir0x]

any time i have to suffer an argument about how homosexuality is wrong because 'we weren't made that way' or because 'they can't get pregnant', and I follow it up with 'so if you're in a heterosexual relationship and you decide to never get pregnant, that's wrong?' and then the answer is some variation of "for the Bible tells me so"

that's probably on average the dumbest thing I have to consistently keep hearing in this backward ass country

 

[Arjen]

any time i have to suffer an argument about how homosexuality is wrong because 'we weren't made that way' or because 'they can't get pregnant', and I follow it up with 'so if you're in a heterosexual relationship and you decide to never get pregnant, that's wrong?' and then the answer is some variation of "for the Bible tells me so"

that's probably on average the dumbest thing I have to consistently keep hearing in this backward ass country

I had a debate over gay marriage in the states. Oh boy...i kind of whished i kept my mouth shut that time.

 

[Hanmik]

ohh... just remembered another oldie but goldie...

My Wife´s friend: I just got a crazy phone bill ..
My Wife: How big was it. ?
My Wife´s friend: One thousand four hundred kroner.
My Wife:. wow. fourteen hundred kroner..
My Wife´s friend: No not that much money.. One thousand four hundred kroner.
My Wife: yes I just said it.. fourteen hundred kroner..
My Wife´s friend: No not that much money.. I just told you. One thousand four hundred kroner.
My Wife: Bye..

 

[Amir0x]

I had a debate over gay marriage in the states. Oh boy...i kind of whished i kept my mouth shut that time.

i got really angry at work once because these two people were viciously attacking homosexuality, to the point where they were being openly crude to a gay coworker of mine. As a supervisor, I came down really fucking hard on the two, and threatened to fire them for harassment if they continued. But not before I stupidly entered a debate with them over the reasons for their point of view. I eviscerated them, of course, but their answer after their stupid illogical bs was "the Bible says so. Right here in the Bible! If Jesus says it's not ok, it's not ok!" Me: "But Jesus never sai-- you know what, this ends now. If I see you being disrespectful to a coworker like that over sexual orientation or skin color or whatever, I will have you fired. We have zero tolerance for that here."

Later they complained that I was disparaging their religious beliefs in this "debate", which was probably true... only incidentally. Because their religious beliefs were causing them to be hateful scumbags.

 

[rdrr gnr]

Got into a debate about evolution with a highly religious, though tolerant and "intelligent" friend.

I was talking about how long our species has been around and common ancestry.
He tells me he doesn't buy it.
I tell him the evidence is overwhelming.
He says he doesn't know as much as he should and was open to learning more.
I recommend Dawkins' book on evolution: Greatest Show on Earth.
Tells me that "that Dawkins guy believes aliens created life on our planet from crystals."
I tell him that probably wasn't Dawkins or he was taken out of context.
He tells me it was.
I said it wasn't.

Then I said, fine, and recommended a book by Coyne. Which I think fell on deaf ears, given I probably lost credibility by mentioning a book written by a guy who he thinks believes in aliens.

 

[Arjen]

i got really angry at work once because these two people were viciously attacking homosexuality, to the point where they were being openly crude to a gay coworker of mine. As a supervisor, I came down really fucking hard on the two, and threatened to fire them for harassment if they continued. But not before I stupidly entered a debate with them over the reasons for their point of view. I eviscerated them, of course, but their answer after their stupid illogical bs was "the Bible says so. Right here in the Bible! If Jesus says it's not ok, it's not ok!" Me: "But Jesus never sai-- you know what, this ends now. If I see you being disrespectful to a coworker like that over sexual orientation or skin color or whatever, I will have you fired. We have zero tolerance for that here."

Later they complained that I was disparaging their religious beliefs in this "debate", which was probably true... only incidentally. Because their religious beliefs were causing them to be hateful scumbags.

I usually tend to stay away from religious debates with people i don't really know, it usually ends badly. Thing is gay marriage is legal here for about 10 years, it totally slipped my mind that it's still such a big issue in other countries.

 

[Cipherr]

I must have been about 14 years old. Its unfortunately a racist ass well known statement, but while over a friends house his mom was talking to one of her friends in the kitchen while we were on our way out the door and said:

"My son already knows, 'if she cant use your comb, don't bring her home'."

Terrible shit now that I think on it. We are still friends today, and he didn't turn out racist due to any sort of irresponsible indoctrination (not sure if thats the word I'm looking for here, I just woke up :\ ) thankfully.

 

[bjaelke]

The language spoken in Denmark is Danish. So, he's wrong, but is there a reason this is particularly stupid? I might be missing something.

You're missing the German part. My friend was talking about two neighboring countries that have very little in common.

You guys should get on that, that'd make things a lot easier.

Pass.

 

[Ragnamith]

Friend: Hey have you heard about Operation Blackout?

Me: No, what's that?

Friend: It's tomorrow. Anonymous, that internet hacker group, they're gonna turn of almost all of the internet tomorrow.

Me: <realised this guy hasn't got a clue of what he's talking about> Oh. Really? How are they going to do that?

Friend: They're going to attack all the big internet servers at once. There is like 30 of them in the world. They're gonna shut them down.

Me: <thinking he might be confused with Internet Exchange points> Oh you mean like the one in Amsterdam?

Friend: No The Netherlands doesn't have one.


what the crap u_u

 

[MrPing1000]

Friend of mine thought the star sign Cancer was called 'Crabulus'

I'm using this from now on.

 

[rdrr gnr]

I'm using this from now on.

Haha, I missed that post. That's brilliant.

 

[TheContact]

"I didn't come from a monkey!" then stormed out of class and left

This was some girl in my English class many years ago when talkie about evolution.

 

[Septimius]

50% of Americans believe humans lived at the same time as the dinosaurs.

Just the statement alone could qualify as the stupidest thing I've ever heard, and then you have half of the US citizens not just asking it, but seriously believing it. It's worse than fan death.

 

[surly]

When I was at uni I worked part-time for Argos calling up customers to arrange deliveries. One day I said to a lady on the phone, "would you say that your house is hard to find?" and she said "my house is hard to find" then the line went dead for a bit while I waited for her to elaborate, then she said "oh, I thought you wanted me to repeat what you said. No, it's not hard to find."

The first time I went to America, I checked into a motel and the lady said "I'd recognise that Cockney accent anywhere", so I told her I was from the Midlands and she said "oh, do you know the Bartram family from Devon?".

 

[SelfCon]

"On the menu, it says the meal comes with chilled shrimp. Does that mean it's cold?"

My girlfriend's sister asked a waitress this question after I'd already explained it to her. I guess she needed a second opinion.

And much like the idiots in that twitter screen cap, she also was surprised to find out the titanic wasn't just a film

 

[Septimius]

The first time I went to America, I checked into a motel and the lady said "I'd recognise that Cockney accent anywhere", so I told her I was from the Midlands and she said "oh, do you know the Bartram family from Devon?".

I was in NYC some months ago. I came into a guitar store, looking for an effect, and I started talking to the owner. He asked me where I was from, and I said "Norway". He then asked "Maybe you know Billy Troyani? American bass-player". Out of instinct I just said "no" because it was a rather farfetched question.

I then said "the only American bass-player I know is a guy in his 50s with glasses and his hair back, playing an old Fender bass." "That's Bill!"

Turned out I knew him. Played with him some years back. The owner of the store invited me to play at his blues jam in the village. I guess not all such questions are stupid.

 

[Trent Strong]

GAF is like 90% Scandinavian. (Not saying that's a bad thing. It's just surprising. Also, I'm probably way off on which countries are part of Scandinavia. It's probably also wrong to say that countries are "part of Scandinaiva" or something. Northern Europe can get pretty confusing. Who speaks Dutch? God only knows.)

 

[zoukka]

GAF is like 90% Scandinavian. (Not saying that's a bad thing. It's just surprising. Also, I'm probably way off on which countries are part of Scandinavia. It's probably also wrong to say that countries are "part of Scandinaiva" or something. Northern Europe can get pretty confusing. Who speaks Dutch? God only knows.)

Every scandi country speaks their own language pretty much.

 

[Blue Ninja]

There was this one girl in class that would ask the most stupid questions. Unfortunately I can only remember one of them. "Does the earth rotate faster when the wind blows hard?"

A girl in my class once asked me, dead-serious, when the first human landed on Mars.

I just sat there, dumbstruck.

 

[Antioch]

When I was like 12 or 13 my teacher told the class that the earth is about 3000 years old. At the same school I got into a debate about the world's population, I said it was a bit over 6 billion, everyone else was treating me like an idiot and said it was about 120 billion, their argument was "you know there a like a billion people in China, right?"

Another conversation from that school was one I had with another guy about Easter, it went a little like this:

Him: I don't believe in the Easter Bunny
Me: Well it's not like you believe in Santa Clause, right?
Him: ....Why not?

Keep in mind he was also like 12/13 at the time.

my friend was still asking me more than 2 years after I moved to amsterdam 'how's your german coming along?'

Sort of similar to something someone said to me.
He was telling me what a shit hole he thought Amsterdam was after he went there on holidays. Except he didn't tell me like he was making conversation but almost like he was trying to insult me. Turns out he thought that Amsterdam is in Germany (I'm German).

 

[JGS]

50% of Americans believe humans lived at the same time as the dinosaurs.

Just the statement alone could qualify as the stupidest thing I've ever heard, and then you have half of the US citizens not just asking it, but seriously believing it. It's worse than fan death.

I found a 30% of Texans for that stat. It sure would be nice to see if half of the US believe that because KY must be a neutral zone for that high of a number - & we have a poular Creationist museum.

 

[Wazzim]

I was spelling a word to someone. It went like this:

Me: "J"

Her: "J?"

Me: "Yeah, J. The letter after I"

Her: "You mean G?"

Me: "No, I mean J. G, H, I, J"

Her "I don't know what you mean!"

Me: (drew a J on some paper)

Her: "Oh, that one! I totally forgot about that one, I never use it".

She was 26 and in full-time employment.

SmokyDave wins.

 

[Kozak]

I took this from my iPhone.

Spoiler

Yes, she did mean EVERYONE that is not muslim.

After this, I knew that this friendship was over.

That doesn't seem so bad..I don't know the context behind it but sounds like she was offended by something?

 

[JessicaPadkin]

A man was once trying to chat me up, and the conversation went something like this:

Him: So what kind of men are you into?
Me: Er, I like intelligent men.
Him: Yeah, but they don't have to be real geniuses, do they? Like that guy in the wheelchair... you know, who used to be Superman?
Me: Do you mean... Stephen Hawking...?
Him: Yeah.

Stephen Hawking and Christopher Reeve are(/were) the same person. Mind blown.

 

[mil6es]

On gametrailers OT forum ( I was young)

got into a discussion about countries history's with another poster and he was convinced that Washington D.C had more history than London....

 

[silentspork]

Also, a huge pet peeve of mine is people who don't understand how the tax system in the US works. A couple years ago I got into an argument with my uncle at a family dinner after he told everyone a story about how he was offered some huge raise but he declined since he did the math and the raise would have put him in a higher tax bracket and his take-home pay would have actually been less. I don't really want to explain it, but for anyone unfamiliar this is impossible. I spent awhile trying to explain this and my uncle and a few other family members were being super condescending, "What do you know, you work at a hardware store" kind of stuff (I was about 19 at the time). Why people can't be bothered to study how they're taxed for five minutes I'll never understand.

I don't really want to call them out but there's a GAFfer who somewhat infamously occasionally claims that he knows someone who ended up making less after being placed in a higher tax bracket and then disappears when people explain that it's impossible due to how the US's tax system works.

My father did this to me the other day, he was really embarrassed that I corrected him (but I wouldn't have done it if it wasn't in private). He's a small business owner too, it was.. surprising to say the least.

 

[Pie Lord]

I had this conversation with a college student in Pennsylvania after she overheard me mention I was originally from the Chicago area:


"Chicago, is that the state where Detroit is?"

"No, Chicago is a city..."

"So Chicago is a city in the state of Chicago? That doesn't make any sense..."

"No, Chicago is in Illinois; there is no state named Chicago."

 

[dejay]

A guy in the second last year of high school thought that we lost an hour every day during daylight savings - like every day was somehow 23 hours long.

 

[mescalineeyes]

fan death.

oh god, haha, I forgot about that!

 

[crazygambit]

I took this from my iPhone.

Spoiler

Yes, she did mean EVERYONE that is not muslim.

After this, I knew that this friendship was over.

What am I missing here? To say that non muslims will never understand everything about muslim culture seems like a pretty logical statement to me (a non muslim, who has some notions about muslim culture, but certainly does not understand everything about it).

Certainly not a worthy contender for the dumbest thing I've ever heard somebody say.

"Is there a bone in your penis?"

4th grade sex ed class. Fun times.

Since you can actually, you know, BREAK you penis, it's not an incredibly stupid question, especially for a 4th grader.

 

[Septimius]

Oh oh! I remember a good one! So, these marginally smarter people than this one incredibly dumb girl were trying to point out how stupid she was by quizzing her. The entire conversation ended up being redonkelous.

"Do you know what the capital of USA is?"
- "New york!"
"Haha, no. USA doesn't have a capital. It has states. You know what a state is, right?"
- "..no"
"Like Las Vegas!"

EDIT: They're not American, though, but that doesn't really make it better. They went on to quiz about capitals in Europe, and they couldn't even say that Madrid is Spain's capital. They were certain it was Barcelona.

 

[Pie Lord]

Oh oh! I remember a good one! So, these marginally smarter people than this one incredibly dumb girl were trying to point out how stupid she was by quizzing her. The entire conversation ended up being redonkelous.

"Do you know what the capital of USA is?"
- "New york!"
"Haha, no. USA doesn't have a capital. It has states. You know what a state is, right?"
- "..no"
"Like Las Vegas!"

These people weren't American, right? Right?

 

[Septimius]

Managed to somehow delete the last sentence of my previous post. No they aren't. Doesn't really remedy it, though.

 

[oneils]

"Need you to shred these documents but before you do, make copies in case we might need them for later."

ahahahahahaahahahahahahahaah! oh man!

 

[Pie Lord]

Managed to somehow delete the last sentence of my previous post. No they aren't. Doesn't really remedy it, though.

Yes, but it makes me slightly less ashamed of my country.

 

[Boss Doggie]

The Neogaf poster who literally cried "religious persecution" to Evilore...

Because people made fun of Christianity but he wasn't allowed to troll My Little Pony fans.

That's possibly the saddest thing EVER posted on Neogaf.

Okay I wanna see this!

 

[cvxfreak]

But why did she say that?

I say that all the time.

Because she's xenophobic, narrow minded, inexperienced internationally and relatively uneducated to boot. :/