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People have been sharing the times they’ve been shocked by a grown adult’s stone cold ignorance – 17 proper jaw droppers

10.

‘Explained to a 30 year old how gravity worked because she seemed fully convinced that Australia was upside down.

‘“But I’m on the top!” Australians don’t base their situation by checking where you, Jane Bloggs, are! “But on the maps and the globe, we’re at the top!” Earth is in space, dummy, there’s no up or down! “What?!”

‘Fucking fuming.’
-coldestclock

11.

‘I worked with an adult man in a serious corporate job who genuinely didn’t believe anything about ancient Rome was true because “how could anybody really know what happened so long ago?”

‘Really nice guy, but oh my god.’
-BigDumbGreenMong

12.

‘I know a teacher who’s a head of department. They told me there are 20ft spiders. When I disagreed they Googled a ‘photo’ with a huge spider hugging the side of a house, and told me it was ‘true because it was on Google’.

‘Fucking hell. Our poor kids.’
-Fattydog

13.

‘Girlfriend at the time, Dux of the school went on to a career in finance, looking at an anatomical diagram showing muscle groups and their names, in humans and across species.

‘For the cow one she was flabbergasted that they had muscles: “But where is the meat?”.

‘I hope that didn’t mean the only reason she wasn’t a cannibal was that she thought humans were meat-free.’
-mdmnl

14.

‘Took me ten minutes to explain to my roommate a couple of days ago how it’s possible for my nephew to be two years older than me.
Tbf I imagine a lot of other people would struggle with this concept too.’
-AerieDapper6384

15.

‘In A&E, I asked the father his kid’s DOB and he didn’t know so he took his shirt off and had me read it off his bicep…🫣🤮, haha…I have a million of these. People are stupid.’
-Illustrious_Study_30

16.

‘My brother referring to baubles as “ballballs” was weirdly endearing but he was an otherwise intelligent bloke in his 30s at the time’
-schmoovebaby

17.

‘>When have you been shocked by a grown adult’s ignorance?

‘Spent an hour on various UK subs this morning. Didn’t take long.’
-dcarsc

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