19 of the dumbest things people have actually uttered aloud
We regularly hear people bemoaning the dumbing down of society, such as when a video of teens failing to work out how to use an old dial phone goes viral, or when someone on TV says “soz” instead of “sorry, or even when Mark Francois says anything – anything at all – about the rules of the EU.
Not all of those are fair examples – not you, Francois – but when Mad Madrigal asked Twitter to share dumb things they’d heard, she got some replies so bad, they’re making us fear for the future of humanity.
What is the dumbest thing you have heard an otherwise normal person say? I’ll go first.
“What language do they speak in England?”
Can anyone top that? 😏
— 😈 Mad Madrigal 😈 (@LisaColemanAus1) July 25, 2019
Here are the best – or worst – of the replies.
1.
"Does the printer need to be on to work?" https://t.co/YqrMTjvcx6
— ITMFA (@WitchesPlease) July 25, 2019
2.
Witness on the stand: "…and that's when he tried to kill me."
Otherwise very intelligent lawyer: "And did he succeed?" https://t.co/jL0FyA3bXR
— Manderson (@mrickanderson) July 26, 2019
3.
I work at a clinic, and ask for identification info all day, every day. This one time I was checking a patient's file and asked him his date of birth.
– "99", he said.
– "..full date, please"
– "1999", he replied. https://t.co/3DtFGpeqe8
— Void Witch 💚 (@danceanddestroy) July 26, 2019
4.
There ain’t no bones in tuna 😂😂😂
— Quizi Cheese Pumps Are Us 🧀🧀 (@Quizical123) July 25, 2019
5.
On a cruise ship "do the crew sleep on board?"
— Janice Hough (@leftcoastbabe) July 25, 2019
6.
Someone arguing that Salah is an Egyptian but not an african https://t.co/1DAVDvmPXo
— Qwadjo Excel (@Afarnoexcel) July 26, 2019
7.
Midway thru watching The Guns of Navarone with a college freshman, at the end of the Greek wedding scene where the SS arrested the commando team:
"Was this Hawaii?"
"No, we managed to hold Hawaii. This was Greece."
"I could tell it was an island from their clothes."@morgfair https://t.co/zXMq818XEn pic.twitter.com/1ApWpua9rD
— Survivor (@wmcarterelliott) July 26, 2019
8.
What date is the 4th of July this year?
— Gary Doner Esq., CPA (@GaryDoner) July 26, 2019
9.
Years ago I called my bf (on a landline at his house) and when he answered, I asked if he was home. 🙄 🤦♀️
— Shine Bright 🌞🌟🌜 (@xmillrunner) July 25, 2019
10.
An American tourist in Australia asking her husband if the moon they could see above was the same moon they had back in the States.
— Margaret Morgan ✒📚 🎬 (@Monocotyledon) July 26, 2019