“What’s the stupidest thing you’ve heard someone say that you still think about?” – 17 idiotic statements for the ages

We’ve all said something stupid at one point or another. Hopefully though, these blunders seamlessly melt away into the mists of time, never to be mentioned again.

This isn’t always the case though. In fact, some mistakes can linger forever and end up living rent free in a person’s head. Humble-Blueberry4571 wanted to hear about these faux pas, so they put the following question to r/AskReddit:

‘What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever heard someone say that you still think about to this day?’

Get ready to face-palm yourself senseless with these top replies…

1.

‘My boss hired my assistant because he was good at kissing up, despite my protest that he was dumb as a bag of wet mice.

‘One day he looked at me and asked: “One quarter, and one quarter, and one quarter, and one quarter, how much is that?”

‘I finally got to fire him a month or two later when he came to work tripping and couldn’t figure out how to get out of the bathroom stall.’
-cheesepage

2.

‘We were watching the Leonardo DeCaprio adaptation of Romeo and Juliet in the English class that I teach. Before we had started I had explained what an adaptation is and the whole activity was for them to compare and contrast the play with the film. On the second day of watching, one student sits up and blunts out

‘”wait is that Leonardo DeCaprio?!”

‘I said yes.

‘He said “How is that possible?”

‘I said, “What do you mean?”

‘He looks super confused and says “I thought you said the play was written in the 1500’s?”‘
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3.

‘The woman who told me that she signs her signature differently every time so that no one would be able to forge it. Like… I didn’t have the heart to explain to her why that was counterproductive.’
-TheLittlestChocobo

4.

‘My co-worker said he drinks an energy drink late at night so he can feel energized in the morning. My other coworker asked him “Doesn’t that make it difficult to go to sleep?” To which my Energy Drink co-worker took a second to think about it and responded “Actually, now that you mention it…”’
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5.

‘Long before cell phones were a thing. A friend asked me how I had such a good sense of direction. I said “Easy, sun rises in the east and sets in the west.” He responded “Since when?”‘
-dullgreybathmat

6.

‘”I don’t worry about the price of gas going up, it doesn’t affect me because I only ever put $20 in at a time”‘
-thewhitedeath

7.

‘She said the moon is a hologram that aliens just project into our night sky for… reasons?

‘no, she could not explain tides.’
-mewmeulin

8.

‘Rivers only run from north to south (because it could only flow from the top of the map to the bottom).’
-Derp_State_Agent

9.

‘To this day, I often hear people say that they can’t make more money because it would bump them into a higher tax bracket, and they’d actually make less.

‘It gets infuriating trying to explain that you are only taxed at the higher rate past the threshold. I gave up and just nod along.

‘I don’t have the patience for the room temperature IQ crowd. 🥲’
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