31 Experiences Someone Had With An Extremely Dumb Person

‘I recently taught a college student how to add four numbers together’
31 Experiences Someone Had With An Extremely Dumb Person

We are, despite recent efforts, still mostly a modern, educated society. Sure, things slip through the cracks, but in terms of baseline knowledge? We’re leaps and bounds better than the people of the past who thought light bulbs were the work of the devil, etc.

Sometimes, though, you meet someone who seems to have absorbed absolutely none of the last few centuries’ worth of knowledge. Someone with so little electrical activity between their ears that if you listened closely, you could hear the sea

An AskReddit thread requested stories of these true dum-dums from people’s lives, and the stories are awe-inspiring — in the worst of ways.

didujustcthat . 12y ago A girl in my school was using a calculator on a test and typed in the math problem in wrong she then proceeded to type syntax error as an answer.
Shireling 1 12y ago Back in high school a guy named Kevin was arguing with me, and anyone who would listen, saying that STD's are prevented by having sex. After about a minute of explaining to him what STD meant I decided to just say let's agree to disagree. But he didn't let it go. Не pulled out a $50 bill from his wallet and bet me that he was right. After he looked it up the crowd mentality forced him to pay up. TI;dr dumb high school student bet me $50 that std's are prevented by having sex.
 . 12y ago My psych class. One girl asked Is eye color a behavior?. Not really stupid, more wtf, but she also said she wanted to have a pet baby. Not wanting a pet, or a baby. A pet baby human.
PappySmearf 12y ago I knew a guy who shot up peanut oil to slow the flow of blood to his brain to keep him in a constant state of being high. He's dead now (not from the peanut oil, drug overdose a few years later).
RugbyMonkey. 12y ago I recently taught a college student how to add four numbers together.
Snort Cigs . 12y ago I know a guy who got a composite score of 4 on his ACT. I know, it sounds impossible. I thought it was too, but I was at his house when his mom got the mail with his score on there, and I saw the piece of paper myself.
calzenn 10 12y ago The guy who wound up wanting to fight me because I was explaining to him that calamari was Italian for squid. Не insisted people do not ever, ever eat squid... The delightful conversation with a man who insisted all zebras in Africa are extinct, although I had just returned from there with photographic evidence from just two weeks before.
1gracie1 . 12y ago I had to explain to a girl that penguins were not fish. I had to explain to another girl who | told this story to why the first girl was not correct.
CookieJarvis 12y ago Brother's girlfriend: Did you know Poland was the only country not affected by World War II? Hitler wasn't a bad guy, they just gave him the wrong job. I like cows; they're cute and they have big eyes, but I don't like horses. They're big and they look like cows. Wine that comes in plastic is fancier than wine that comes in glass bottles, because plastic has more technology. As my brother is cooking her a filet mignon, she looks at the steak in the pan for a minute before asking, Is that the whole fish?
Up_from_below 12y ago A girl in my class believed that Neanderthals ate ice and cheese. Bonus: she didn't know eggs came from chickens. She thought they were manufactured in a factory.
_GnoHomo_ 12y ago | worked with this girl last summer, who was beyond dumb. At first it was amusing, but then it just got really sad. We were talking about Nelson Mandela being really sick (this was in june) and she said well | sure hope she'll be ok, her music is so good She thought WWII was between America and Africa. She thought potatoes could only grow in America and when asked what her boyfriends name was, she said I can't really pronounce it - so I just call him Mike. Не spells it like MICHAEL
immorganyourenot • 1 12y ago I know a girl who wrote a paper about how polar bears only live in Poland.
FloydPink24 . 12y ago | saw a guy try to plug a 3.5mm headphone jack into a USB port once. Not accidentally or anything - he actually spent a good minute working it out.
Mouthpooper . 12y ago A girl in class said wait... I thought pork chops came from chickens? My friend had it made into a T-shirt.
kjbrasda 12y ago Edited 12y ago Almost forgot about my college roommate. She once missed the first three exits to a city because she forgot where she was going. She once told me she would never breastfeed her children because it would hurt too much to poke the holes. When asked how she thought animals nursed their young she said, well, don't they just gnaw the ends off? Edit to add: she also got into a drunken knockdown fight in the street with another girl over a gay guy.
NicolasCagelsMyHero . 12y ago I know a girl who genuinely believes that gorillas and giraffes are not real and the ones at the local zoo are just people in costumes.
 12y ago We had to watch the movie Defiance in my english class and afterwards this girl put her hand up and asked, Is Jewish a country? Later on after after watching Defiance (which is about three Jewish brothers in Nazi occupied Europe) for the SECOND time she asked, Wait.... Were they brothers!? I wanted to throw a stapler at her.
Ulimm_ 12y ago Had a classmate in 8th grade who legitimately thought that the ocean had no bottom. Our teacher showed a diagram of the deepness of the ocean, and she just couldn't grasp it. | don't know how you get all the way to 8th grade without learning that the ocean doesn't just drop off into nothing...
masterwes0 . 12y ago A girl from high school physics, If the speed of light is 3*108 m/s, what is the speed of dark? and later that year, If China is 12 hours ahead of us, why didn't they warn us about 9/11? I can't make this stuff up
lax_bro16 . 12y ago I have posted this before, but in freshman biology class we were reviewing the subatomic particles, and the teacher asked a girl to list them. She responds with Protons, Electrons, and Decepticons and could not figure out why the class was laughing at her.
spoonclaymore 12y ago Looking over a test | took in college one of the girls in the class with me was amazed that I got an A. She said, that test was so hard, I failed it! I asked her if she studied at all. She said no, and she told me she was drunk when she took the test.
tfielder . 12y ago Girl in my astronomy class: So if I went out into space could I like push the stars around and knock them into eachother and stuff? Teacher: No, they are incredible massive objects Girl: But they look so little!
pastnastification3 12y ago I was around 8-10 (or whatever the normal age is when you know your own address) and I just made a new friend and she invited me over to her house to hang out. I planned on dropping by after taking my things home so naturally I asked for her address. She grabbed a paper and pencil and started drawing 3 houses. She pointed to the middle house and said I live here. TLDR: never talked to her again.
Diet--Coke e 12y ago Edited 12y ago This girl saw double cheese burger on a restaurant menu and she got all excited, thinking it meant DOUBLE CHEESE burger (extra cheese). She was confused when there was two patties in the burger. ... That girl was me. My boyfriend still laughs at me.
 . 12y ago This girl, at the age of 22, took an electric fan and threw it in a bathtub to clean it. The apartment lit on fire. She was surprised.
phibulous1618 . 12y ago This isn't close to the stupidest thing she said, but it's the only thing I can remember. Girl at my high school admitted in class to pouring an entire jug of antifreeze on her windshield to melt the ice.
Banzai502 . 12y ago Probably a girl from my high school history class... Two classic quotes of hers are Where was the Berlin Wall, Sir? and Did hitler not like Jews?.
SnipeyMcSnipe . 12y ago Edited 12y ago A co-worker of my dad's, whom I've met a few times. She was a middle aged woman and she believed that there were huge black lines on the ground separating each of the states in the US. You know how they show the state borders on political maps? Yeah, she thought those were really there.
Mox_au . 12y ago One of my wife's girlfriends. Someone told her a riddle about a train travelling north at a certain speed etc, to which she replied, oh you can't fool me, because I know that north is up points to the sky
A kid I knew in fifth grade, Stevie. One day the teacher is walking throughout the classroom and his shoe gets stuck on some red sticky stuff. Не looks at it, sees a short trail, and follows it back to Stevie's desk. Не looks inside Stevie's desk and finds sticky red goo covering a piece of sticky red paper with Good Humor written on it. Yeah, Stevie brought a popsicle back from lunch and put it in his desk so that he could eat it later...
Awk_Ward1 12y ago My college roommate was, without a doubt, the dumbest person I have ever met. She was writing a paper about segregation could not grasp how separate but equal was a bad thing despite 2 people trying their damndest to explain it to her. After nearly half an hour my other roommate and I just gave up and left the room. I still wonder how she passed that class. And she once asked what the difference between legal and illegal was. She wanted to know which was the bad one. This girl now teaches elementary school. Her poor

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