What is the dumbest thing you've heard anybody say?

[JohnT]

A couple of more:

asked of a Chinese TA in my stat 101 class: "How long did it take you to learn to speak American?"



Asked by my roomate, in all earnestness: "Who did we fight in the Revolutionary War?"

"What language do we speak?"

"WTF does that have to do with anything?"

Me, in response to a hot chick in her convertible at the drive through window at Wendy's, back in my high school days:

Her: "Are you working hard?"

Me: "No. Are you?"

[Arrian]

When I was a kid, visiting Lake Tahoe, I had a brief - but memorable - conversation with another boy my age:

Him: where are you from?
Me: Connecticut
Him: what state is that in?

Ok, probably not THE dumbest thing ever, but people who lack the most basic geographical knowledge of their own country are one of my pet peeves.

-Arrian

[Spiffor]

At a family dinner :

Me : "do you want some sauce ?"
My grandfather : "No, don't have the time"

[MrBaggins]

DNA is information.

[SlowwHand]

"Which came first, the chicken or the egg" is, to me, a stupid question.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Spiffor
At a family dinner :

Me : "do you want some sauce ?"
My grandfather : "No, don't have the time"

That makes sense.

[MrBaggins]

Oh yeah... the second dumbest thing I ever heard anyone say was that they were going to go 'Bison Wrestling'.

How I heard that from what I later found out to be 'Basketball Training', I'll never know.

[Tiamat]

I get this one about once a week. People will call the office and ask for a specific person. It goes something like this.....


Caller: Hi, is Sue in?

Me: Yes but I'm sorry she's on the phone right now, can I take a message?

Caller: Do you know how long she's going to be talking?


Do you know how many times I've just really wanted to say WTF do I look like a mind reader to you? Maybe next time I should tell them yes she will be on the line for 2 minutes and 25 seconds would you like to call back then?

[faded glory]

"Hello is this the 1800 helpline"

"Absolutely.....ill get help ; you wait here"


*i go back to watching the super bowl

[MrFun]

Another dumb statement:

"Racism, homophobia, and sexism do NOT dehumanize the targeted groups of people."

[nationalist]

I went to high school with this girl named Audrey. She was very attractive, but VERY stupid. Here are some of my favorite quotes:

"You mean Hitler was in World War II?"

"I'm 100% sure that Mexico is a state!"

The guys at school always used to say that Audrey was given a mouth for one reason, and that reason wasn't to talk.

[Peacemaker]

Just look at my sig

[MrFun]

Another dumb statement I heard:

"English is the only language spoken in the United States, so why not make it the official language?"

[Imran Siddiqui]

In my international relations class there's this one poor dolt who is such a bleeding realist it makes me want to puke. Anyways, he consistantly says things like "Well, if Belgium tries to overrule us in the UN, we'll just invade and kill them all" and "You don't **** with the US or we'll nuke you, it's just that simple" etc.

That isn't a realist, that's just dumb

--

Being President of the Association for International Relations at Rutgers, I have this one woman who is really dumb.

In our Russia debate she said, "If Russia discovers oil in Siberia then they won't need to fight in Chechnya"

In our North Korea debate: "Why don't we just make them trade?"

My g/f knows this guy in her law school. He thought Washington DC was in Delaware (Maryland anyone?), and that the Ivy League included NYU, Duke, and Stanford, but not Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, etc.

And there was this one woman in our Causes of War class who thought Hitler and the Holocaust was WW1 and WW2 was when Israel was fighting the Arabs and the Russians came into the war (WHAT?!) and we fought the Russians... so dumb...make my brain hurt.

[Immortal Wombat]

"More and more of our exports are coming from abroad" - GWB

See my sig for two more pretty dumb ones, but I didn't technically *hear* either.