30 Really Stupid Things People Overheard
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Friend: "I've always wondered how goats grow into deer in the wild but stay goats at the farm.
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I had this friend I met for lunch once after not seeing her for a while. She said, "I never see you. I miss you." I told her that I've been working a lot and that I've worked 9 days straight. She goes, "HOW? THERE'S ONLY 7 DAYS IN A WEEK!"
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Substitute teacher told me the Moon is bigger than the Sun that's why it blocks the Sun during an eclipse.
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"How do dogs in China learn Chinese?" He was under the assumption that dogs just naturally spoke English.
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At KFC one woman was surprised to learn that Buffalo wings were made of chicken, she actually thought that Buffaloes had wings. Also, a couple of people thought that islands float.
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One of my college roommates wandered in while we were watching JAWS. It’s the final 15 minutes. The shark is tearing the Orca apart. It comes to the scene where the shark heaves itself up on the stern, and the roommate says, “It’s pretty neat how they trained that shark to do that.”
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A flight was delayed due to snow on the runway, a woman complained saying, “this this happens every year, why don’t they put a roof over the runway or something?”
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New girl at work. She was horrified that we eat the eggs that come from our chickens. She insisted store bought were normal good eggs. She then really blew my mind when she said she doesn't eat chicken, so she only buys "hens." She about had a panic attack when I explained hen is just lady chicken. Very sheltered.
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Met a nursing student who more or less believed the cure to cancer was "pretending like you don't have cancer."
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Fellow student in a philosophy class. "Evolution doesn't make any sense. How could monkeys evolve into humans in 2000 years since creation?"
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A professor at Belmont once told me that cars could never run on electricity, because there are no electric components of a car. I wasn’t sure where to go from there.
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A girl in middle school thought that trees flapping created wind rather than the other way around.
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A flat Earther said Australia isn’t real , that it’s just made by the media to cover the fact the earth is flat.
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Grade 11 law class in high school, the teacher was talking about different bills the government implemented in history, like the bill of rights for example. 30 minutes into the lesson the girl next to me raises her hand and asks the teacher, “who’s this bill guy we’ve been talking about?” The whole class burst out laughing and the teacher was struggling to keep it together as well.
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The sky is blue because it’s reflecting the color of the ocean. There are many things wrong with that, starting with the fact that WE ARE IN KENTUCKY.
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That men have one less rib than women because, you know, God made Eve from Adams rib so, naturally, ALL men have one less rib. (Just typing this makes me feel stupid.)
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'It's really weird how cows developed udders so humans could drink their milk. How did that evolution come about?'
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Coworker couldn’t figure out why Alaska was cold and Hawaii was hot because “they’re next to each other on the map.”
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A friend's boyfriend asked "What's roast beef made of anyway?" He was also a restaurant server. I told him "it's beef. Roasted." Cue surprised face, then he laughed at himself. He wasn't the brightest.
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SIL believed up to a very late age that meat was taken from an animal that was released back to the paddock to re-grow the missing piece. Then the cycle repeats.
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I had a friend that thought that a rat was the female of a mouse and vice versa. It took me an hour to explain they are different species.
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My mom at an A&A / Long John Silver combo restaurant. "What's the difference between #2 on this menu and #2 on the other one?" Me, "Ones fish, the other is chicken." Her, "I know but what's the difference?"
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